[–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

The economy as it stands is a house of cards built on promises no one keeps but enough people believe.

I have never claimed to be an expert on anything but the moment you let the fate of something rest on the guess of how much it will cost if everything goes the way you think it will, when the other half of the room hope it goes the other way seems mad.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 weeks ago

    They want to annihilate the second hand market, so every copy sold is through them. Trading in your old games you don't play to buy the next one is a staple of console life for many, but Sony doesn't get a cut of the second hand games sold.

    CeX is the place to go to get games near me, seeing as Game got swallowed by Sports Direct and hollowed out leaving Smyths, Argos and supermarkets the place to buy new games. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft would love CeX to implode but it won't happen whilst there are a steady stream of console gamers trading in the latest games to pick up an older one they never played or a random movie.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I loved Wanda Vision and Agatha All Along. Stargate SG1 is one of my favourite shows.

    I don't see a "new" series or reboot working. They'll dumb it down and go for mass appeal to tick boxes that the people that actually would watch multiple series of it will not stick around for and the rest will come for the first few episodes then the next hit thing will be out.

    At that point you've alienated your fanbase and made generic sci-fi. I hope I'm wrong but these are same people that canned a new series that would have given the original show closure and opened the door to something new.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Which I have, burns dead dinosaur goop, stereo I fitted myself. No touch screen, great MPG.

    Petrol prices are hurting right now but the cost to get an electric car, the charging infrastructure and everything that goes with it is something I can't justify right now.

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    More and more stores are putting in those stupid turnstyles or electronic gates so you can't just go back the way you came. Leaving the only way out via the tills, that are closed and gated so you have to push through the self checkout, lord help you if you stuck a coin in the trolley, they don't have what you came in for and now you got to get through a till with an empty trolley so you can get it back.

    It's even worse with the shops that have an opticians or chemist in them that you can't get to thanks to the one way exit gates.

    Aarrgghhh.

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