“You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.”

That’s the future we all wanted. Going to work all day so robots could sit at home and play games.

I often have to kill it because it refuses to load things on new tabs.

I do use a VPN extension with it, so it could be that, but the result is the same.

You mean the slopomatic made up looking article that ran everywhere despite looking as genuine as a three pound note? The one with real “it’s true my uncle works for Bill Gates” energy? That article?

They’re doubling down. It’s a special CPU for more AI slop.

Grrr, there’s the real target!

Oh, you mean the bits in between Gwent.

It’s pretty one note. Put up shield. Roll around. Hit enemy. If shield gone, reapply. Works from the start of the game to the end. Except ghosts because you need to use your magic on showing them to make them vulnerable.

But if they sold you a pair that lasted for decades, you wouldn’t need to buy any more.

I’ve moved onto earbuds. Earfun Air for a staggering £22. The sound genuinely isn’t bad either, I’ve no idea how you can even make them for that. Slavery, probably. Still, £22 is £22.

You think the average person will buy a more expensive box that doesn’t play COD, FIFA, etc?

“oh no, anyway” says man who’s country’s primary export is oil.

Does 10/10 mean it’s got RAM and drives accessible without needing to disassemble the whole fucking thing?

Nice to see both aren’t soldered onto the motherboard, but we’ve still gone backwards in the last 20 years.

Many had a premium rate phone line, and it was just a tape so if you were stuck near the end you’d have to listen to the end and potentially pay many times the game’s cost.

“I want my country back…”

Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.

I died sitting in an uncomfortable chair. I’ll have to pick it up again when I’m in the mood.

Hades. Hate roguelikes. Quite enjoyed that.

Sure, but I don’t really want to share a reality with people who do.

It’s making them not right.

Well they’ve just seen what happened to the last guy. They didn’t want the job themselves…

Well there is a plan, it’s just “make them in countries where you can still have slaves”.

They do that anyway, but usually prices going down.

e.g. yellow stickers going on things that will expire soon.

You’ve not lived if you haven’t watched two pensioners fight to the death over a 20p pack of Greek yoghurt.

The UK was constantly bribing car makers to stay, and most of them still fucked off.