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As it turns out, not a lot.

Have you ever considered public speaking?

If you have, don’t.

I see what you mean. There’s definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there’s something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it’s the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they’ve been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can’t live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.

Not that I’m trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don’t like Universes Beyond.

It’s finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won’t be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there’s no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won’t brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn’t even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.

I really hope there comes a day where all this nonsense builds up and finally ends with “algorithms” imploding on themselves.

An unrealistic hope, but a hope nonetheless.

I’d rather see Chrono Break revived.

Or just buy it.

Or a good old USB stick!

But they’re ✨ sophisticated ✨

My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.

Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she’s finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.

More like 1M an inch

StarFox, but it’s a couple of rogue F-22 pilots. Or fuck it, Star Wolf.

Computer infrastructure is the front lines now

A couple years ago my in-laws were downsizing after retiring and they asked if I would possibly have any use for their ancient desktop PC (at least old enough to have shipped with Windows 7).

I installed Debian on it and it’s running Jellyfin, qBittorrent through Gluetun, Calibre-web, NextCloud, and Pi-Hole containers, with plenty of room to spare. I’ve also got some services running on Raspberry pis (back when they were cheap). And an external 4TB hard drive connected to it acting as a NAS. No hardware transcoding or 4K video on Jellyfin but that’s no big deal for me.

All that to say yes, you can absolutely self-host on repurposed hardware. Any old PC you’re looking at is no doubt newer than mine.

As the parent of an autistic child, I’d much rather him be alive and autistic than killed by a completely preventative means.

Of course, that doesn’t even matter because vaccines don’t fucking cause autism.

Reams of research didn’t stop him from continuing to push all his bullshit about autism.

That’s why I’m not as worried about RFK as I probably should be. All these goals involve introducing wide-reaching regulations, which is completely at odds with this entire administration.

They’ll be fine being part of the “base package.”

In case you needed more proof that AI is a bubble.