4th April 2025, 7:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 4th April 2025, 7:17 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
You know what?
....
Never mind.
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-price-trump-...1851774438
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-preorder-pri...1851774764
The Switch 2 looks like it's going to be dead in the water. I'm certainly not going to be buying one when I have to seriously consider if I'll be able to afford BREAD in a year's time, and certainly not at $600.
It looks like Trump broke the world. Literally everything I think or do now has Trump as a direct factor in my decision making process, including just trying to enjoy my silly video game hobby. I have a friend who's recently married a Canadian who now is worried they can't bring their spouse into the US without a risk of arrest and deportation or worse. An orange man is now a direct third wheel in their relationship!
And yes, I'm using "Trump" as shorthand, because it's the whole damn system. Even the major news networks have been scared into early compliance, not willing to say what needs to be said about the administration any more. It's all a nightmare.
The only positive news is that this party and their policies and their destruction of both the bread AND the circus that normally keeps us placated is likely going to result in some real riots, not peaceful protests like we're used to. Trump may meet his end being drawn and quartered at the hands of a hungry and undistracted mob if he doesn't reconsider what he's doing.
....
Never mind.
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-price-trump-...1851774438
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-preorder-pri...1851774764
The Switch 2 looks like it's going to be dead in the water. I'm certainly not going to be buying one when I have to seriously consider if I'll be able to afford BREAD in a year's time, and certainly not at $600.
It looks like Trump broke the world. Literally everything I think or do now has Trump as a direct factor in my decision making process, including just trying to enjoy my silly video game hobby. I have a friend who's recently married a Canadian who now is worried they can't bring their spouse into the US without a risk of arrest and deportation or worse. An orange man is now a direct third wheel in their relationship!
And yes, I'm using "Trump" as shorthand, because it's the whole damn system. Even the major news networks have been scared into early compliance, not willing to say what needs to be said about the administration any more. It's all a nightmare.
The only positive news is that this party and their policies and their destruction of both the bread AND the circus that normally keeps us placated is likely going to result in some real riots, not peaceful protests like we're used to. Trump may meet his end being drawn and quartered at the hands of a hungry and undistracted mob if he doesn't reconsider what he's doing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)