The head mod of r/EnoughLibertarianSpam wedged this into my brain years ago:
The whole idea of free market forces is that corporations will be motivated to be good based on reputation alone, which assumes that reputation can't be falsified.
mindbleach
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Oh man, y'all are in for an extremely 2014 riff on the entire movie.
Am I Gay? A journey of self-discovery with Shang.
There was a version with each image separate but Imgur deleted it because Imgur is a hollow shell of itself after whoring out yet another community for money in a naked act of stage-two enshittification.
Don't recall mentioning price as an obstacle.
The fact people are buying expensive-ass phones is an obstacle to any console trying to be a cell phone or vice-versa. Phones already play modern-ass video games. Any new iPhone is surely more capable than a Switch. Who's going to be swayed into buying some custom Sony bullshit just to access an entirely separate wallet vacuum?
If Sony was going to release a handheld, it'd just be an under-powered PS5 variant, as a Nintendo Switch knockoff. AMD would be happy to provide appropriate chips.
Look at this thing and tell me any great deal of innovation occurred.
Why, did they add a week-long quarantine in baggage check? It's an airport. The whole point is to show up and leave. Even if the wait lasts longer than the flight.
If your ass in there longer than 24 hours, the wifi should be considered an apology.
It's the chonky one in the middle.
Why's it need to be temporary, anyway? It's an airport. Nobody's sticking around.
Genuinely as hard as "bring back the NGage." Nobody wants to buy a smartphone that's also a console platform. There's no three-year contract required, and AT&T doesn't get to micromanage the dashboard, but it's still two wildly different commitments for no sufficient benefit. It means being stuck with a wonky smartphone on a longer console lifecycle and overpaying for a console with all the limitations of a smartphone.
By contrast - this is a controller with a screen in it. That's all. Why wouldn't they sell that? What's the downside, for them? You buy another accessory priced well beyond its material costs, you provide all the electricity and electronics necessary for it to do anything, and they don't care if you ever play games on it. It's not lashed to the success of yet another online store. It's not even a vehicle for recurring subscription fees. It's a dongle for another toy. They have no incentive to force it to catch on. If it doesn't sell - they'll just stop.
The theme song of dipshits falling for "virtual real estate."
Yeah it's only a creeping error that's making English harder and search engines worse. Fuck me sideways for politely highlighting the difference in a thread about language.
Honestly, dumb as this sounds, they can't lose. It's not a platform. There's no infrastructure. It doesn't even do cloud streaming, for some reason; it is 100.0% dependent on your hardware and your network. If Sony went bankrupt tomorrow, this gizmo would still work. If the hardware's sold at a comfortable profit and they're not gambling anything on its success, why wouldn't they launch this ridiculous object? They don't care if you don't buy it.
It's not a handheld. It's an accessory.
... which is still an absurd abuse of power, made clear by treating inanimate objects as persons. Literally lumps of clay.
"Forfeiture" is how cops excuse stealing cash. They can just take it, and make you sue to get it back, because there's no presumption of innocence. You were not charged with a crime. Your money was. And that's different, somehow, because go fuck yourself.