MudMan

In the way you spitting in the ocean hurts the landmass of Africa.

It's been a single generation, as I remember it. At least if you were born in the 80s/early 90s.

The average age to have a first child has skyrocketed and, particularly in some parts of the world, the idea of an extended family is no longer a thing. The support network has frayed a TON and the level of demand on parents has gone up at the same time.

And nobody seems to acknowledge it, honestly. At least outside bad faith fascistoid tradwife peddlers. But this isn't about traditional gender roles, it's about telling all parents that they need to constantly monitor their kids for two decades and simultaneously cutting them off from any source of help during that period (unless they're filthy rich and can pay for dedicated labor to replace that support).

It's not practical at all.

Cool, very free market liberal and stuff. It's just that... you don't sue companies to affect their stock. That's entirely separate from the legal system and not civil liability at all.

So hold on they prioritize profit over quality, but the result isn't "low quality"?

I mean, charitably I could separate design quality from technical quality and accept you were only talking about the latter, but it's a big concession.

"Needs to die" and "needs to change" are very different things, and we're all estabilishing that there is a lot of worthwhile stuff coming out of that side of the industry right now. If you think you're being misunderstood I'd happily hear what the correct interpretation is supposed to be, but I'm going to politely say maybe it's because you presented your point in an imprecise, hyperbolic way for effect, not because we're twisting what you said.

There is a deluxe edition with some cosmetics that you can buy as a bundle or as a separate pack.

It's not much, but hey, I don't mind cosmetics in general, so you tell me where you draw the line. It's mostly horse armor, but I thought that was a bad thing.

The persona games get weird, because they typically get at least one re-release and it's hard to keep track of what is availble where. I can tell you if you google "Persona 5 DLC" there are people explicitly asking how to avoid cashing in the bundled DLC items that trivialize chunks of the game by being overpowered, though.

It's not meant to be, man.

I remember being a kid, back when people had kids early and grandparents were both still around and healthy enough to help. I used to spend full weekends at my grandma's, or at friends' places or with aunts and uncles and other relatives. And a bit later kids would get together and roam the streets in packs.

We made it so kids only get to hang out with their parents and must be under constant supervision and it's an entirely absurd proposition.

What's the civil liability of "going against the desire of their users" these days?

I mean, if you want to have a chat about antitrust measures in that space I'm game, but it's waaay above my paygrade and has nothing to do with this particular thing pretty much at all.

I am very confused about what you're saying there. So AAA produces great games but also is bloated, exploitative and low quality for the sake of profit.

So which is it? I mean, it can be both, but then I'm not sure where the "AAA needs to die" thing comes from. Presumably AAA should make more good games and less bad games, which seems like a completely different thing to say.

Neither would Mass Effect or DA:O, those had purchaseable cosmetics and preorder bonuses. So did Dead Space, incidentally. In fact there were some cross-brand cosmetics between Dead Space and Mass Effect, IIRC. Definitely Jedi Survivor. Persona games often have small cosmetic DLC, too.

Often with this stuff, "AAA" becomes "games I didn't like" more than anything else.

It's in a bundle with the other actually useful features like upgradeable storage or wired headphones, in my book.

I agree that I'd like more innovation and variety. Every single phone out there it's just some variation on the exact same thing these days. Ideally you'd have a choice of any combo of those features to fit your preference, but that's just not a thing now.

I do not, in fact, see what you did there.

You need a small camera to put it on a small bezel. But also, you need a small camera for a small punch hole, which is something that all flagship devices actively try to follow.

It's clearly true that the camera removes screen real estate if the screen of the Xperia 1 and the screen of the other phones have the same aspect ratio and size (the Xperia 1 is on the small side of modern flagships, but... yeah, they do), so the difference is between having a screen with a 2/3 mm bezel above it or having the exact same size and resolution screen with a hole in it. The screen is the same, one of them has a hole in it... so the hole is taking screen away.

And even if that wasn't the case and the screen was getting smaller, the hole is in the middle of your image. A smaller uninterrupted screen is better than an image with a hole in the middle. I don't understand how that is debatable, unless one is, you know, a bit of a moron. Yet here we are.

Now, I will give the notches that at least they poke from the top of the screen, so one could make the argument that the image isn't supposed to go over the line of the notch, and instead that space is for notifications and images should be coded to stay below that line. But of course then you have a WAY bigger "forehead" than any notchless phone would, and that still doesn't hold with the fact that most modern notches and punch holes are very clearly designed for the image to wrap around them in normal media viewing.

I do concede that most morons do not seem to care about the selfie camera, but hey, most morons also do take selfies, which is something I can't really wrap my head around. Then again, if truly nobody cared, then the industry wouldn't have spent a ton of money engineering under-display cameras and all sorts of flip cameras before deciding the compromises weren't worth it.

It's just a thing people have learned to live with on their least important device, like non-replaceable batteries, fixed, overpriced storage and lack of connectivity. The industry decided that was the weirdly enshittified trendy thing and consolidated around it and a lot of people find it annoying, just... not annoying enough to do anything about it. Welcome to the 21st century, I suppose.

Weirdly, you may have sold me on the 1 VII better than the guy telling me it's good. I may need to anchor myself into the sensible choice even at a premium before the enshittification train leads to a single design (two, if you count foldables that turn into a shitty tablet in exchange for being exceedingly frail and expensive).

Yeah, we had to stop giving my dog balls in the house because he'll roll them under furniture on purpose and then whimper helplessly at the easily reachable ball-under-furniture until you get up and go "help" him get it back.

I have to assume he finds this fucking hilarious and fully appreciates the irony of making his human play fetch, but it's all bulky plushies now, so joke's on him.