Not in any way defending Nintendo - seriously, fuck them, I will pirate their entire catalogue and not feel one iota of guilt.
But, what mix of those 87% of games no longer commercially available fall into one of these three categories:
- yearly releases of game franchises (e.g. FIFA/NFL/NHL/NBA ‘94, ‘95, ‘96 etc.)
- unofficial releases (e.g. bootleg Christian NES carts)
- impossible to re-release 1:1 due to music licensing issues (anything with EA TRAX, Vice City/San Andreas etc.)
So I guess what I’m asking is, what percentage of those games aren’t economically viable to resell, or are stuck in licence limbo?
You need to also account for 40+ years of inflation to boot. $400K is a lot now. In the 2060s, probably not so much.
Seconding this opinion; I really wish non-commercial vehicles were prohibited from defaulting to black/white/silver/grey - being back the skittles colour palette!
Apparently (this is like 2nd/3rd hand and I could be misremembering) - BMW motorbikes are ‘Beemers’, while BMW cars are ‘Bimmers’ (rhymes with dimmers).
A reverse Robin Hood; a “Robbin’ the ‘hood” if you will..
I think you’re getting confused by the terminology; this is an explanation from the Wikipedia article.
The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and the steering wheel in the vehicle and are, in automobiles, the reverse of the terms right- and left-hand traffic.
ETA: So the red areas have left-hand drive and right-hand traffic, while the blue areas have right-hand drive and left-hand traffic.
Decipher #158
deciphered in ⏱️ 1m 21s
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https://decipher.wtf
A relatively quick and easy one after bombing out on my last attempt.
You can always just use a PC (or older handheld, like a PSP maybe?) as a stand-in emulator if an EverDrive is currently out of the question - although I think there’s something just right about playing on native hardware whenever possible.
There’s probably a whole swathe of JRPGs I’ve never even heard of that you could experience too (if that’s your thing) - but those tend to be pricey.
I had a SNES that generation, so my knowledge is a bit sparse but my two cents to try out would be:
Aladdin, Comix Zone and the Streets of Rage series.
Might be worth looking into getting some form of flash cart to load ROMs onto - especially for titles which are super expensive due to relative rarity!
Harry spent 10 uninterrupted years at the Dursleys, much longer than anyone else - and very few people would have started with the same level of antagonism towards Harry as the Dursleys (due to Petunia’s childhood jealousy).
I’m sure regardless, they would have ended up horrid people regardless - but perhaps much less so.
In my own head-canon, I have a visual of a knock coming to the (adult) Potters door one rainy evening in the future. Harry opens the door to find a drenched Dudley, head lowered and shoulders slumped, with a Hogwarts acceptance letter scrunched in his fist. His daughter is a witch!
Horcrux Harry isn’t that bad of a theory IMO. 🤷🏻♂️
Foot fetish guys would have a field day with this one..
You’re not wrong, there are a number of videos from Louis Rossman (right to repair advocate) on YouTube lambasting LG for doing this very thing on their high-end G-series OLED TVs; including defaulting to opt-in to marketing and providing PIR data after an automatic update.
It’s hard but not impossible, as even ‘retail displays’ run an OS in the background to control input switching, image settings etc.
Honestly the best thing to do is buy whatever TV you want (we have a couple of the LG OLEDs in our household), and don’t ever plug them into your network (or WiFi). Otherwise, with updates OS and apps become sluggish, with more ads crammed in.
Instead, use a seperate media player (e.g. Apple TV if you’re already on the iOS ecosystem, Nvidia Shield or similar for Android, HTPC if you’re so inclined etc.) - they’re more powerful, arguably more secure & private, and portable between displays if/when you upgrade.
You’re partly right; looks like both vinyl and CD sales are down YOY: https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/10/vinyl-sales-fall-compared-last-year/
That article singles out cost of living as the likely culprit and I’m prone to believing that; although I think some of the labels are getting a tad too greedy with some vinyl releases also (I think Taylor Swift has been called out as particularly egregious?).
I’ve never been much of an audiophile, growing up with cassette tapes, minidiscs and 128kbps MP3s - they all seemed perfectly fine. Video on the other hand, I constantly notice between quality Blu-Ray, overly compressed rips and streaming.
It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!
Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).
So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.
I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.