You do make some decent points, but the console has one major aspect that PC simply does not have: convenience. I install a game and I’m playing it. No settings to tweak, no need to make sure my drivers are up to date, no need to make sure other programs I’m running are interfering with the game, none of that. If I get a game for my console I know it absolutely will work, with the exception of a simply shitty game which happens on PC too.

The other thing I wanted to touch on was the cheap games. That’s just as relevant on console nowadays. For example, I’ve been slowly buying the Yakuza games for $10-$15 each. That’s the exact same discounts I’ve seen on Steam.

For backwards compatibility, it depends on your console. Xbox is quite impressive - if you have an Xbox Series X you can play any game ever released for any Xbox all the way back to the original. Just stick in the disc. With PlayStation, it’s just PS4 games that the PS5 is backwards compatible with. Sony needs to do better. And with Nintendo… lol.

Yeah, with a PC you can do other things than gaming. For most of that you can get a cheap laptop. There are definitely edge cases where a powerful PC is needed such as development, CAD, AI, etc. But on average a gaming-spec PC is not necessary. I’m saying that as a developer and systems administrator for the past 14 years.

Along with paying for multiplayer I get access to a large catalog of games as well as additional games every month. Yes they’re inaccessible if I stop paying, but that’s not really a big deal. Even all that aside, I pretty much play single player games anyway.

Also, when a game comes out I know it’ll work. No driver bugs, no messing with settings, no checking minimum and recommended specs, it just works. And it works the same for everyone on the platform. I don’t have any desire to spend a bunch of time tweaking settings to get things just right, only to have the game crash for some esoteric reason or another.

I mean, for the price of a mid range graphics card I can still buy a whole console. GPU prices are ridiculous. Never mind everything else on top of that.

I’ve been discovering positive and negative sensory overload. When my girl slowly scratches my scalp, I get the best positive sensory overload. Mid-sentence, I’ll just stop abruptly if she starts.

The Machine?

Every day I’m spuddlin’

With a side of ‘); DROP TABLE Orders; —

Cool cool cool yeah, let me just do that and live out of a cardboard box. We get jobs because of this thing called money. Handy stuff, it lets us obtain things we need to live.

You want people to dedicate their working lives to making change? Find a way to enable that while also earning a livable income.

Ah, the classic sad onion.

If only there was a way to prevent a person from getting measles. Hell, mumps and rubella too!

Ah - it’s $1000 CAD. That’s where I was mistaken. USD it would be about $200 cheaper like you mentioned.

The Apple Watch Ultra already costs that much, doesn’t it?

Canada, for one.

Or from a country where an IP address does not equal a person in the eyes of the law, and therefore you cannot be charged for copyright infringement based on IP address alone.

I voted for him because I actually agreed with his platform. I thought it would be in the best interest of Canadians - and then he got elected. Did some things that he promised, sure, and he handled steering us through Covid better than a lot of countries out there. But I couldn’t in good conscience re-elect him. Identity politics make a mockery of our political system, but every politician is doing it these days. Our economy is in the shitter, housing too because our economy relies on housing, and while he’s doing something about it it’s not enough.

No. Dine upon the flesh of the rich. Consume their nutrients so that you may absorb their power.

Google search results are literally the only time I read Reddit content these days, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that regard. They’re going to lose so many views if they block their content on Google.

And for Canadians, SimpleTax.

Their greed made me put on my eye patch years ago. And since then I’ve only convinced more to do the same.

Screw these greedy bastards.

Bedbug is frankly a misnomer. They will go anywhere people are inactive for periods of time - beds, couches, chairs, benches… any and all furniture.

Oh, and vehicles. You can get them from an Uber, a taxi, or a bus too.