It's an eight year old smartwatch. I feel like most of the target audience already has a newer model.

Not allowing to ship out paid orders is not forgivable no matter the situation imo.

Oh, Russia is mad that another country is making illegal claim to territory they see as their own?

Slava Ukraini. Crimea isn't the only thing Russia's going to lose now that the entire world knows their military is a husk.

It's the same as when Elden Ring dropped. Even people who never played Souls games prior were picking it up because it was just a complete, solid open world RPG.

I've never played Baldur's Gate before, but I'm probably gonna pick 3 up to play with my roommate in splitscreen.

In the U.S. circa 2016, so many kids were just finding pirate streaming sites for movies and such during class on school computers. I imagine it's similar elsewhere for students who've finished their work and are bored, but boy, now they have the knowledge of how to get countless other types of media for free.

Piracy is a service problem. The goal shouldn't be to indoctrinate our youth to avoid it, it should be to stop releasing subpar, overpriced products.

This is the U.S., we quite literally can't uphold values to save our lives. Hollywood studios aren't going to pause shit.

It's also the name of the best feature of the 3DS. What the fuck, Nintendo? Why don't we have it on the Switch?

Probably because

1. The n-word is dropped in a less interesting section of the rant that could feasibly be skipped
2. It's not a hard R
3. We don't know the race of the author
4. The t-slur comes way earlier and is seen on multiple occasions, perhaps prompting a comment prior to finishing reading.

Considering the whole point of a corporation is limited liability, I can't imagine the whole "individual execs will get in trouble" thing is going down well for them. I'm sure nobody wants their encrypted chats handed over to the government, either, especially as governments have been backtracking rights for pretty much everyone.

Fuck the Online Safety Act, it's gross overreach.

I've been playing Asphalt 9 recently, and I've started hitting the walls they throw in after tens of hours in which my options are to hope for lucky draws, wait for timers to reset, and watch ads, or pay.

It's a legitimate shame, because the game is actually super fun, but the horribly predatory monetization is effectively a guarantee that I'm never spending a dime out of spite and I'm gonna quit once I get all the Xbox achievements, which is what I originally gave the game a shot for.

Edit: did I mention that the only ways to get many cars are loot boxes? I can't finish certain sections of the career mode right now because I don't have required vehicles, so it's become a game of juggling the activities I can actually do at any given time.

I wish they'd just let it through already. The way it looks, nothing changes for PlayStation gamers, Nintendo gamers get access to CoD for the first time since in years, Activision's back catalogue goes to a company that's way more likely to use it for something other than cool easter eggs in Black Ops games, CoD gets more accessible overall by being a part of the subscription, and Sony's complete market dominance gets another blow that once again forces them to compete and improve their platform.

If anything, I wish the FTC had been this aggressive when it came to the Zenimax purchase. All that really did was give Microsoft the ability to make those games Xbox-exclusive (establishing a pretty scary amount of western RPG dominance) and plop them on Gamepass.

The equilibrium would be fine if they never made the mistake of annoying their users. I got tired of pop-ups, animated desktop stripper ads, random loud audio, drive-by malware and fake download buttons, and most recently, interrupting my videos and games to show me 30 second ads. It's that kind of overzealous creep the led to this problem on their end.