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You get to save $10 so Nintendo can later take it off their marketplace, and remove your access to the game.

The shitty part is that I don't think physical games are even exempt from that problem. Excluding whichever Switch 2 games are use the "key card" option versus "memory card" (key card basically just being a transferrable download code), we see games like Tears of the Kingdom being nearly unplayable without the day 1 patch. Or other games like Splatoon 3 that simply don't include the full game on the cart and prompt you to download launch-day content after booting it up.

Neither of these games will be very playable even with physical cards once the Switch eShop servers go down for good.

We can only hope the current standard of backwards compatibility lasts indefinitely so all digital stores can basically be like Steam going forward and keep their content available across all future generations. But even that is a stretch when who even knows what the state of CPU architecture will look like in 15-20 years.

American sports fans literally don't know any other chants besides "Let's go (Team Name)! clap clap clapclapclap" for domestic games, or "U-S-A! U-S-A!" for international ones.

We don't know tariff cost yet

Well, "fine."

"Your sister" and "Bad poosey" are lines that still stick with me despite still being in "book territory" at the time.

A lot of the other things, like some very important dropped characters, made the experience that much worse. They really bungled up Dorne, because they left out half of the Dornish.

I haven't read the books but I did enjoy season 1.

My main concern though is that the show is being run by the same fuckups who ruined Game of Thrones, so it would not surprise me if they end up just really biffing the conclusion.

Maine's not really what I'd call progressive, they're with New Hampshire as being pretty centrist.

But I think they've been written off by the Republican leadership at this point. New England is too close-knit (especially as we see the US becoming more fragmented by the day) and the rest of the New England states lean progressive, so I think the Republicans see it as a losing battle.

Sadly, the legal interpretation of copyright says you own the plastic, but not the data it contains. It sucks but it's not just Ubisoft.

I feel like it's just going to be round 1 of Canada and Mexico all over again. The pause for them didn't make a difference. He said "let's make a deal", Canada and Mexico made a deal, and then 30 days later the tariffs began regardless.

No one is making deals this time because everyone knows they won't affect the outcome. What is affecting the outcome is making threats. So either he just stubbornly waits it out, getting nothing in return before they happen anyways, or he chickens out and walks it all back.

The only thing I did recently was buy a replacement device for one I had that was crapping the bed and would need to be purchased soon anyways, but decided to buy something now before it completely died just in case prices sharply rose in the next few months.

Other than that, nothing really. I am putting away as much money as I can in savings, avoiding large purchases/being generally frugal, and taking good care of my things so they last as long as possible. Life's not perfect, but I'm making as soft a cushion as possible in case things do get worse.

Not to say the future is set in stone or that we shouldn't be worried, but even the Great Depression only lasted about a decade, and it's still crazy to me just how quickly the last one went by. I have a place to live, enough money put away that I could probably last it out that long one way or another if I was laid off tomorrow, and a generally supportive community around me where people look out for one another.

But I'm lucky, I know not everyone else can say the same, so I hope you're all doing alright out there.

For what it's worth as well, I would bet that there are different points during the year where substantially more devices are sold than others. Holidays, launch days, back to school, etc. probably see the majority of new devices purchased, while the rest of the year would be a steady trickle.

I don't think it's building materials that is the question, but rather the multi-million dollar machines that are often designed and imported from elsewhere.

Those fancy Bosch assembly lines your widget factory needs will be hit by that 20% tariff coming from the EU, even if the building they sit in is made of American brick and lumber.

It's no different from Hades 1. It was exclusive to PC and Switch at launch, then released for other consoles 11 months later. If it worked out for that game, I don't see why it wouldn't for this one.