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You can buy musical instruments for that price software or hardware synthesisers, for example.

But that’s exactly the point, I’d rather pay double, triple, quadruple for something I know I’ll use for hundreds of hours (a monitor, a new keyboard, a Steam Deck) than 80€ for a game that will last me 12 to 30 hours (I only play offline story-based games).

Even if I considered game X, there are decades worth of games availabe for under 10€ that I would rather get now or buy a Humble Bundle while waiting for a sale.

The issue becomes of all publishers start to follow Nintendo’s model and not dropping the prices much.

1. The medium games came in were more expensive

2. The gaming audience was much smaller

3. Games were only sold in stores

4. If you add all the season passes you’re paying the same or even more with further microtransactions

5. Games in general now have a longer shelf life

AAA games in my country have been 69,99€ since the PS3 launch and now they’re asking 79,99€. It’s true development costs have ballooned, but I just don’t think that’s a good price/time ratio and rarely do I buy games over 15€. I really don’t mind waiting a couple years.

There’s already commercial projects like that. Where you can have the OG voice actor to speak the other languages, thus not needing to cast more voice actors.

The VR modes of 7,8 are exclusive to the PlayStation and the one for 4 is an exclusive game to the Meta Quest.

The way torrenting works, you’re getting different parts of a file from different people, while at the same time you’re also sharing the little parts you’ve received so far with other recent downloaders.

Seeders are people that already have the full file and are spreading (seeds) for other users to download through the same torrent.

Leechers are those that are currently downloading the file but still have not finished.

The term “Leecher” is also used to call those that delete the torrent as soon as it finishes dowaloading. It’s good practice to seed it (upload), at the very least, for the same amount you downloaded.

You don’t mention your age, so it’s hard to grasp any straws.

Try stretching immediately before and after work and also before you go to bed.

Drugs are not legal in Portugal. It’s decriminalised up to small amounts (ie personal use), which is different.

My understanding is that:

If you get caught with a couple of joints (or any drugs), they are confiscated, you are identified and you might have to pay a fine, do community service or go to an addiction consultation.

If you’re over that limit, but not overly, you get the above + go to court and will likely receive suspended sentence and will have a criminal record.

If you get caught with a truckload (obviously for distribution), if it’s your first offence you’ll likely also get suspended sentence, such is the state of our justice. If it’s not your first offence, you’ll likely do jail time.

They could press a button and make the Steam versions available again, but they obviously also want to port it to the new consoles, and there lies the issue.

I’m seriously questioning if you’re a bot because you’re throwing keywords and expressions you do not understand.

You’re complaining of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) articles. This is clearly not that.

Those pages ask the same question multiple times even in organic forms of how you randomly type it into a search engine. Just close any site that starts wit something like: “Don’t you hate it when your remote doesn’t work? If you press the button on your clicker and nothing happens, you need to open it and repair the buttons. If you need to fix your remote, start off by checking the batteries…”

Journalism should not be “here’s all the info in one paragraph” and be gone. However, a good lead should reply to 5 questions: What? Who? How? Where? When?

But this is not a news piece, this is a fluff column about old tech. You can just hit Wikipedia for easy-to-read digested info (I do that frequently).

For all the shit ways journalism has gone to, and the ocasional misteps The Verge has done (their pc building tutorial, go watch it for a giggle) this actually a cool column.

Last I read they are also sticking it to Spez by continuing to report on the shit Reddit has been doing.

Long-form journalism predates google by a few centuries.

Out of the 15 paragraphs, it says it uses sound in the 3rd and explains the mechanism in the 4th.

I agree that they should’ve put it in the title or the lead, but this wasn’t a news pice, it’s a monthly column focused on analog buttons. The first 2 paragraphs rightfully contextualise the hardware to an era most of us don’t know much.