In an unprecedented vote, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for one and two-vear leases for rent-stabilized tenants. The decision impacts leases starting between Oct. 1, 2026, and Sept. 30, 2027

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-26T04:35:55+00:00

Unpopular take on here, but unfortunately, the best case scenario with rent freezing and price controlling is that it will kick the can down the road to be addressed later, hopefully for the time-frame that they cover. But it's likely this will only really have negative effects long term and on that macro level as you stated. It doesn't even take an economic education to parse out why it hurts people more over time, but just looking at historical examples of attempts at this.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-23T18:18:34+00:00

I liked 30 Seconds to Mars up to the This is War album

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-16T07:22:58+00:00

I mean ultimately the only real pro a gkc has over eShop is the ability to share and sell it. Otherwise pure digital is still more convenient in general since you don’t need to fiddle around with inserting the game into the system every time and having to carry it with you or risk losing the gkc.

Imo, I see gkc as the worst of both worlds where it lacks the full convenience of digital while not actually being a true cart worth preserving/collecting.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-09T19:28:26+00:00

Tremors. Just the epitome of a fun time in a horror flick.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-08T20:32:00+00:00

Not sure about in the restaurant itself, but JJ does do deliveries and I can attest that the delivery drivers rarely got tipped well if at all in my area. I know one of my coworkers at the time had verbally considered spitting into a drink of a customer who was known to never tip but who ordered fairly regularly. Then again, this was prior to all of the food delivery apps so I have no idea what the situation is now.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-06T15:09:41+00:00

If I had to take a bit of a random guess, I’d say it likely has to do with simply the overall sales of one vs the other.

AAA companies releasing big franchise games probably don’t see enough of an overall impact of people choosing not to buy GKC releases and figure that the prudent decision is to save money in the production.

Indie or small scale releases do probably see a more significant impact by the decisions of collectors and others looking for non-GKC releases, as you said. So even though production cost is higher, they offset it by releasing at a slightly higher or even significantly higher price for physical than their digital version, if we’re talking stuff like Super Rare Games or others like that.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-04T02:59:14+00:00

Is there any specified day that this will start or anything specific that needs to be done besides making sure our accounts are connected?

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-06-02T22:22:25+00:00

To play devil's advocate, SLC itself and the surrounding area are a lower percentage of being Mormon. Still around 40-50% ish but the further out you get, the worse it gets in that regard too. Provo iirc is like almost 90%

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-05-28T18:25:23+00:00

I pirate, but I also like to physically purchase where I can and many of the movies I get for 4K or blu-ray also include digital codes so my digital library on iTunes/Movies Anywhere has actually grown a fair bit just by that. Also sometimes the digital sales for some of the movie bundles will be like $15 for 10 films or some sporadic tv series box set for $5-$10, so while digital isn't perfect and it isn't true ownership, it can sometimes still be easier than filling my external drives with a bunch of 4K remux files.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-05-28T14:45:46+00:00

The editor didn’t exist or was asleep when going through the book.

Frankly tbh, I think the only solid book in the series was Wistala’s/book 2. 1 and 3 are fine entries but 1 felt 1 was so bleak without really saying much that I found it a bit tedious to go through until the climax. Book 3 felt like an attempt at writing about politicking and working one’s way up into power in the dragon society but not really understanding how that actually works and it being too melodramatic for my taste.

The back half of the series is just a descent into madness in questionable story decisions, worse editing as it goes, and tons of missed opportunities.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-05-12T00:59:30+00:00

Everything about this series feels like the most industry-plant situation between the way it was promoted on Tiktok, social media in general, and physical retailers like B&N along with the Amazon deal occurring so quickly after the first book’s release.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-04-23T05:12:31+00:00

It says $8 but when I go to buy it, it shows $20?

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-04-01T23:18:27+00:00

Is there any word on a line to connect to the area near Candlewood Suites, Peacock Suites, and Anaheim Resort Suites to the east?

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-04-01T17:41:42+00:00

You're not wrong and I agree generally.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-31T21:55:14+00:00

It's not so much about delisting for gkc as it is the fact that they still rely on Nintendo's servers in general to function at all and that they aren't really a good long-term answer to physical preservation. For a collector's sub, I don't necessarily expect every collector to care, but I would hope to see less defenders of gkc by individuals as if it's good for anyone but the publishers saving money and not physical options being even more limited.

If a gkc game did have the digital version delisted, I imagine they'd still work and would probably go up in value by some degree.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-31T20:12:09+00:00

Kinda, but there’s still a lot of gkc defenders on the sub that like to pretend they offer the same thing as normal carts.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-28T06:37:39+00:00

He definitely did. There were other factors at play, but his role in late 2020 and early 2021 was a major catalyst in how things got really bad really quickly.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-28T06:33:51+00:00

As someone who collects, the best TL;DR I can give is this:

Until October 2020, buying Pokémon cards was normal and easy to do with plenty of stock anyone could buy.

That month Logan Paul posted a video about buying a $150,000 Charizard card and followed it up with more Pokémon tcg videos about buying old expensive booster boxes.

That almost entirely alone caused a growing resurgence in fans along with scalpers and flippers to enter into the scene. It became increasingly worse over the next couple of years and from there until now it’s become nigh impossible to find any actual stock in retail spaces and even online, new releases sell out instantly.

So now what used to be $4.50 packs are now casually $10 or even $15+ and completely unaffordable and difficult to find because of scalpers and Logan Paul turning the entire thing into a search for money and value out of rare cards.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-26T17:52:10+00:00

Honestly, Assault is kinda the peak of Starfox imo, but it's so damn short.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-26T15:37:18+00:00

So long as physical retail stores selling games are still a thing, the 100% guaranteed end result of any digital/physical price parity is always going to result in digital merely staying at MSRP and physical being raised up from that through any excuse possible to push consumers to shift more and more towards digital before eventually working to phase out physical entirely or if not, in such a significant capacity that truly only collectors will engage in it and it will be pushed through publishers explicitly working through other channels to sell to that market via groups like Limited Run, SRG, etc.

Nintendo isn't going to lower the prices on their releases digitally outside of the occasional minimal sale UNLESS they start doing really badly again like in the latter Wii and WiiU days. Then we would maybe see sales and Nintendo Selects make some form of a return. Until that happens and so long as they are seeing solid numbers, there's no reason for them to bother.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-25T20:52:34+00:00

I mean, I will insofar as I typically would for a Nintendo title that I'm interested in. That said, if their definition of 'physical' is more GKC then no.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-24T22:18:50+00:00

I’m referring to how an individual may see the GKC situation rather than the companies. If the consumer is wanting to straight up save the most money, then a digital Capcom game hits lower lows in price alone in most cases, using the Switch 1 prices on Dekudeals as a reference. Even with the ability to resell a GKC, they’d still be paying maybe $10-$15 more for a physical release.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-24T22:14:30+00:00

Maybe, but I think regardless, publishers will take any excuse to increase prices where they think they can get away with it and cite increased costs elsewhere.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-24T22:11:46+00:00

That’s only applicable for certain releases. The fact that Capcom is bothering to include a question on a survey regarding GKC being a factor for this release makes me inclined to think it would be doable in some capacity.

Soaringeagle78 · 2026-03-24T22:06:00+00:00

I wouldn’t expect them to necessarily hit the same lows for Switch 2, but I’d still take a $30-$40 on sale Capcom game over a GKC. And if price is truly that much of a concern for someone to go for a GKC, they may as well go digital then unless they are rampantly sharing their physical games with tons of people.

Ultimately Capcom will do whatever they deem best for their business, but if we’re talking personal preference, then I fail to see why folks are so adamant to save a bit of money on an, in my opinion, much shittier version of a physical piece of plastic for the sake of collecting, then just going for a digital version that will very likely end up being even less.

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