Um, Aktuky...

President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo’s failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.

In approving a recommendation Thursday by the Administration’s top economic officials, the White House decided to put the tariffs into effect about April 17, less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is scheduled to begin a visit to the United States aimed at easing trade frictions.

The tariffs will be targeted to bring in as much as $300 million and designed to punish such firms as NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Oki Corp. by either pricing some of their goods out of the American market or by forcing them to accept substantial losses on U.S. sales.

I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren't as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.

Sega even had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000. It was only released in Japan though.

I've owned 15 of the consoles listed. Doesn't seem like I've been through that many of them!

Tens of millions of us voted against it and did our best to convince those around us.

On the whole, we deserve what we’re getting. We asked for it. I just hope the rest of the world doesn’t forget that so many of us tried.

Literal millions of us (myself included) voted "correctly" for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we're still getting fucked.

Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

Eh, I voted third party. Why? Because my vote literally doesn't matter in my state, since Trump took it with >20% margin. Votes only really matter in like 8 states because the rest have enough straight ticket voters to secure the election for one of the candidates. And in those 8 or so states, the misinformation was real, so it's understandable that many people didn't know what they were getting with their vote, they just voted based on whatever smear campaign made them hate the other candidate more.

IMO, the fault here lies w/ Kamala Harris for running a mediocre campaign promising the "status quo" when most people wanted real change. If she ran a more interesting campaign with actual plans regular people could understand, maybe she could've cut through the noise and reached enough people to win.

jokes on you if you thought this was about this term, it's about his first term.

Belgian postal service is suspending all deliveries regardless of value.

And to top it off, if the tariffs went away in 3 months, would they lower the price back down?

I think, if I understand US law correctly, not a legal choice to publically traded companies.

Why would they take a hit for something the US population voted for themselves? That makes no sense.

Why would they make less money just so someone else can pocket some of it? Raising prices is the only and proper business decision to this.

"When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!"

— Sgt Johnson, Halo 2

I'm my day that wasn't far from the truth. We don't need quality games machines but they're a very nice luxury.

Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don't need the new one.

I mean, there's that too.

A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.

My PC is not a "gaming" PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don't have the newest and shiniest doesn't mean I don't have tons of fun games available. And I said 'if you need a console at all'. If you are determined to play video games and you don't want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there's eBay (though that's loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can't do that to, or get homebrew set up.

Don't just keep it on a shelf "in case". Don't store it. And for the love of anything good, don't just discard it.

Reduce. If you think you've reduced "enough", find something else to reduce.

What is wrong with ps4 or ps3? Are the games not good because they are aged?

I do most of my gaming on ps1 and wii, and a bit on PC.

Is there a cfw yet or other homebrew? Or we just at the start and they've just found the door in so far?