What? Why’s it more expensive than Walmart? Do Dollar Generals sell electronics and appliances? Or do Walmarts not do that in the States? Lol

Maybe it’s AC? Or haven’t adopted solar well?

Can’t you make your Steam friends list private?

That detective looks like she’s loaded on (at least) a ton of caffeine!

How many Oz in a Wizard again?

So then a TB must be about…a metric shitton?

LOL…yes. should’ve been an Eighth, but we don’t have a coin for that.

Your math is right. I was just thinking of a Byte as $1.00 and going from there. Then remembered that bits are smaller, but they shouldn’t be $1 because a single bit is not very powerful. But making it worth $1 or $0.01 would make the math messier.

But yes. Two bits are a quarter is probably the best compromise! Lol

Well…up until recently

A kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then.

A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That’s a lot of dollars.

(And it’s actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more).

It’s crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we’re buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!

EDIT: Math fail. Let’s say TWO bits are a quarter…lmao

I grew up with many of these games!

I remember going to pick out PS1 games. Spyro the Dragon was the one I put the most time into.

On the Genesis, I also remember picking “Streets of Rage 2” simply because I liked Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and I thought it’d be the same kind of game. Best decision I made about a Genesis game!

This is the first time I’ve heard that definition. It seems like a niche definition that can easily result in misunderstandings

Completely agreed. We don’t need to make single-player experiences dependent on any external infrastructure.

I’m not missing your point at all. In fact, I addressed it quite clearly in my previous comment.

I think you’re actually missing my point, or purposely disregarding it. You don’t take “the customer is always right” to mean “the customer can do no wrong”, do you?

Archiving things that generally aren’t for sale!

I dunno, for the last 15 or so years in my part, it’s seemingly been industry standard to run on a skeleton staff.

The fun thing about retail is that not all “customers” are paying.

As well, paying doesn’t give customers a right to a retail employee’s time. And not every retail employee’s job is to help customers.

So yeah, customers can be a distraction.

As much as I like a curated experience in games, I’d totally be up for an open world game like GTA (sandbox mode, not story mode) with NPCs powered by LLMs

There are so many distractions at work. In this case, it’s the customer asking stupid questions! Lol

Whether physical is more expensive or digital is discounted, it should’ve been like this from the start!

Keep in mind that video games are cheaper than they have been for most of history. I get that they want to raise prices. But it never made sense that physical and digital games were the same price.

Aside from not wanting to go through the effort of switching cartridges/discs (which is great for more passive/“permanent” games like say Animal Crossing or Pokemon maybe), I never understood the appeal of digital games for consoles. It feels like getting less for the same price.

They’ll still have devs. Maybe fewer devs and no junior devs.

…which will suck for the company when they do their next round of layoffs.