The games don’t drop in price, but the consoles do. There’s even a chance the price could go down for the holiday season, even if it’s something miniscule. This launch price is the early adopter tax.

“But I haven’t seen you in over a decade!”

I said, SAME. OLD!

Unfortunately, I use some software that’s Windows-only, and can’t be bothered to set up a VM or anything

Same here. My accounts still exist, but I only ever access it now through old.reddit signed out. I still read info from a few communities, but never comment.

$100 could be a week of grocery money too. $50 for a frugal individual, even.

It’s a large market. Nintendo of America might even bring in more revenue than Nintendo of Japan.

Maybe Nintendo of America doesn’t want international prices to be higher than international ones (adjusting for currency exchanges) because they’re worried about Americans ordering them from elsewhere (losing NoA sales). And Nintendo in Japan doesn’t care because Japanese gamers will pay anything for the next Nintendo console, lol

I imagine it’s easier to catch uploaders than viewers.

It’s also probably more impactful to go for the big “power producers” simultaneously and quickly before word gets out and people start locking things down.

Canadian here: What’s the difference? /s

Not sure how related it is, but in Canada, I’m seeing HDD and SSD prices generally being “on sale” for the regular prices from last year (same specs and everything!)

I don’t drive. Where I live, you can really only “not drive” in cities. And even then, it can be hard at times.

At the same time, I live within reasonable commuting distance of multiple friends and family members. I can walk to a few of them. I don’t need to be closer to my community.

I might want to retire someplace quieter, but I like being able to hop on a train or a bus to get to somewhere fun, or to be able to walk across the street to a store if I need something. Heck, I can even easily get takeout if I don’t feel like cooking – I don’t even need delivery.

Yeah, and bathroom suggests that there are baths or places for bathing.

Water closet really is the right thing to call it!

Yup. I use whatever feels best, which is usually American words, British spelling (except for the -ze instead of -se for words that end in a “z” sound).

Also, there are our own Canadianisms, like “washroom”.

200,000,000 KRW is something like $200,000, to give some context to others.

MMOs are probably a good indication.

I think researchers (or just casual investigators) studied MMOs to see how people might react in a plague situation (I want to say WoW, but it might’ve been EverQuest).

They ended up discarding/writing off their findings because they figures that there wouldn’t ACTUALLY be trolls who’d go around spreading the virus on purpose, and also that because the virus only had negative effects, no one would be doing actions that would nearly guarantee infection.

Of course, 2020 showed us that we really should’ve been looking at what people do in MMOs…

I think a professional headline would usually just lack the comma there. Headlines typically have weird phrasing (due to their terseness), but they’re generally still grammatically sound.

I think “HackerNews owner hacked” would be a headline, rather than “HackerNews owner, hacked”.

“Have I Been Pwned owner pwned” seems to be on par with “Headline English” to me

It feels awkward to me. I don’t think it’s grammatically correct. To me, it doesn’t add any clarity, especially when the comma could’ve been the word “got” or something, lol

Why is there a comma in the, title?

Yeah,.there are plenty of instances where I’m adding a new URL for a password because the app and the website are too different from each other, or the app changes its login paths…

Or heck, sometimes it’s close enough, and with my password manager on my phone, I don’t have it auto fill – I have it auto-suggest. So “Probably a match” and “Exact match” have the same path to entry.

…did you think there were perfect people in the White House before this? Or at any point in your life? Haha

(Maybe as a child would that make sense…)