Well that sure is funny because everything used to be fully custom.

they got burned on N64 because the carts caused the price to be high. However, the lesson they learned was that high-end graphics weren't worth the cost. Literally all of their systems use dated technology. However, they are brilliant when it comes to marketing. Also, they will sue the shit out of you for anything.

This is just one of the problems with using cutting-edge hardware: component prices are not always consistent. In extreme cases like this, Microsoft now finds itself with it's back against the wall. They want to rake in the cash with console churn (buy all your old games again) but they are now finding out that making cutting edge hardware is quite expensive. MS and Sony are both left with poor options while Nintendo has consistently used under-powered hardware and focused on marketing to boost their profits.

I expect there to be some "creative" mistakes made in the next gen consoles, except Nintendo, they will keep milking the Mario brand/franchise and suing people until there is no more Nintendo.

I've already discussed that possibility here: https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....

I love that Yamaha makes both motorcycles and musical instruments, too very closely related industries! It does both very well, by the way.

If they had any evidence (even circumstantial evidence) of corruption in a voting machine company then the government could have used the FBI to raid the office/warehouse/wherever to obtain what they needed or used an third-party intermediary. When it comes to real matters of national security, judges will sign off on just about anything.

Your mental gymnastics do not pass the smell test.

Acquiring possessions without the knowledge or consent of the owner is called theft. How can you be so obtuse?

(My daughter keeps joking she is going to take the day off from work the day GTA 6 comes out, apparently that's a meme now. I keep telling her she definitely IS NOT. Her Xbox account is actually my hotmail account, pretty sure I can change the password...)

Nope, not until March... :-(

Did they have a warrant signed by a judge spelling out with specificity exactly what evidence they had probably cause to believe was on the phone? Or was it a fishing expedition to try to manufacture charges to punish someone who hurt their little fee-fee? Judges tend to frown on fishing expeditions.

In my experience, the majority of people showing up for the No Kings rallies are in fact... baby boomers, who are genuinely afraid of a fascist takeover of government. The true Trumpers are usually the younger incel man types. Most women don't really like the guy who bragged he could grab them by the pussy any time he wanted to.

According to Information Theory, the phrase "DHS lied" contains 0 information, because it does not tell us anything we didn't already know. The same argument applies to the phrase "Trump lied".

How does the government intend to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt that he destroyed evidence on the phone when they can't prove there ever was any evidence on the phone in the first place???

The economic argument is simple: providing no help while maintaining positive deniability by insisting you do have a customer service "agent", is the cheapest way of providing pretend customer service!

Turn out AI chatbots get paid less than human beings. Who knew? Could be worse. Back when my Sony DVD player stopped working, the only way to get it serviced under warranty was to talk to the bot on their customer service 800 number, which, lo and behold, refused to understand what I was saying even after I repeated it literally a dozen times. I bet that cut their customer service costs way down, as in nobody ever managed to send a defective unit back for repair! It also cost them at least myself as a customer, I'll never buy anything from Sony again.