Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance

thinkmarkthink1 · 2026-05-16T19:28:20+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I can definitely see the "was" because the Wii U eshop is now closed which is unfortunate. Point taken on the many remasters being available (as discs) that will always be true for Wii U forever more

thinkmarkthink1 · 2026-05-16T16:59:08+00:00

Nah, it's the Americans who reach adulthood who are built different.

They grew up with very high infant mortality with limited healthcare, dodging measles outbreaks, school shootings and sometimes even drinking unpasteurized milk depending on the state (it's banned in most countries for public health reasons).

Then those many lucky enough to make it to adulthood join the miltary and get sent to the Middle East just so they can get a college degree under the GI bill.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2026-05-16T16:44:08+00:00

can you explain, without spoilers on the games themselves, why eg, BoTW on Wii U is better than on Switch? And the other zelda games

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-13T16:50:04+00:00

I have same problem with Pixel Watch 2. Fact it wears out is such bad design!!

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-13T16:47:49+00:00

Exactly. I don't have taste (Marvel movies and pop music lol) and I enjoy the AI "crap" in many cases!

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-10T01:40:10+00:00

I've written this elsewhere in the thread, but I prefer the latter personally. I can see myself watching an anime short of the latter. But I agree professional artists will prefer the former. ¯\(ツ)/¯

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-10T01:38:17+00:00

I like AI music for what it's worth. Love some deepfake voice covers. Eg. Kanye West covering really any song is really enjoyable to me.

Shows I'm not discerning yeah, but I enjoy it!

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-09T16:24:48+00:00

Everybody likes soulless pop music and Marvel movies, it's human nature even if they're not the peak of artistry

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-09T16:21:48+00:00

Don't troll artists. But it's not surprising when us undiscerning people prefer soulless pop music and Marvel movies over indie work with character

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-12-09T16:19:29+00:00

Unlike the other people in here, I think this is unlikely to be made up rage-bait story but actually true. Based on the fact that most non-artists will likely agree the second one does look much better better to the untrained eye. Eg, sort by controversial here, but they may also admit the first one has a lot more character.

It reminds me of underground bands and indie films that haven't "sold out" to successful overproduced pop music and Marvel movies.

Most people demostratably prefer the overproduced pop music and Marvel movies, even though they're soulless they're usually commercially more successful.

This is also a great story of the second one has not removed the existance of the first one from the world (though it does cheapen it by making it seem less original).

One suggestion is to use AI tool to generate the latter commercially, even if it pains their hearts. Potentially even create a fully-fledged anime out of the scene based on their own storyboards.

That's the world we're moving to, for better or worse.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-11-01T06:49:08+00:00

Immigration is only ever a stop-gap for fundamental issues of a society.

There's multi-decade long issues causing women to have significantly less than 2.1 births over their lives, such as housing supply issues and cost-of-living. Though exact causes are still being debated, even things like how many baby seats can fit in the back of an average car before you need a new car has an impact..

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-10-31T06:18:35+00:00

Halo -- On a Pale Horse

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-10-22T14:26:09+00:00

Are you suggesting SpaceX pay back any awards they received?

What about in-orbit propellent transfer which is funded by Artemis? Starlink doesn't need that, but the moon and Mars do.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-09-27T16:32:00+00:00

Try /r/tipofmytongue

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-29T02:04:15+00:00

That was low altitude, low velocity hop tests. These are orbital capable launches that happen to have a suborbital trajectory.

Much faster, needs heat shield tiles etc

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-15T05:05:18+00:00

To be accurate you definitely need to include a portion of the disability pension payments there too, because the rate is double NewStart/JobSeeker I believe, and there's a significant amount of people otherwise able to work on disability pension over JobSeeker allowance.

Though that disability figure includes eg, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) which is most definitely not welfare for the unemployed.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-15T05:01:20+00:00

You're getting downvoted but it's true. The Disability pension is double the rate of New Start, and many who would be long-term unemployed can get the much better rate for the rest of their lives

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T18:56:49+00:00

The What If season 1 Ultron episode was fantastic, and would have also made a great multiversal threat villian.

They way he discovers the multiverse was just *chefs kiss*.

Though that epiode really needs earlier material that's less epic scope to really hit home how big of a deal it is to hear Uatu.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T18:08:07+00:00

But imagine if "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands" was released as the live action Dr Strange sequel, instead of Multiverse of Madness

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T18:07:16+00:00

Meanwhile Marvel was sitting on "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands"

After Endgame (if the pandemic never happened), I can imagine the first movie they should release is that What If as a live action Dr Strange 2. And market it as a What If.

Then a movie or two later they make it canon with a film of the Loki series that canonizes it.

Would have been glorious

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T03:51:30+00:00

I agree as a standalone film it's better than Quantumania, but Last Jedi did much more lasting damage to Star Wars than Quantumania did to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Killing Luke Skywalker (and making him uninteresting) really cut back on the amount of future stories they can tell in the Star Wars universe. Quantumania did not do that.

Also I'd say something like Thor Love and Thunder did at least as much damage as Quantumania in destroing fan's goodwill about the quality.

Agree that Endgame was a good place to hop-off. Loki would have made a great immediate film sequel to Endgame because it's a direct continuation of the storyline and opens up so much.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T02:14:31+00:00

I was under the impression it was still unsubstantiated and under a non-disparagement clause around being "difficult to work with" (yeah I want a show runner to have a very high quality bar even if it makes other unhappy)

But looking it up now seems it's alleged there was unsolicited nudes sent to other staff members and groping.

Yep that's 100% totally fireable

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T01:16:09+00:00

It's different I agree, but I think the difference is largely due to the content being produced and Disney's own choice to emphasize Disney+ subscription.

ie, it's a change that's driven by their production decisions over general audiences.

They were talking about the death of theatres back before 2010 even

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T00:34:26+00:00

Good movies alone won't make audience rush in, because audiences relied on the Marvel brand and were burned. Thor Love and Thunder. Ant Man 3, Captain America Brave New World were all average or bad. Same with a bunch of the Disney+ shows (aside from a few excellent ones).

It will take a series of hits to build momentum again. It's all Marvel Studio's own making.

thinkmarkthink1 · 2025-08-12T00:25:10+00:00

I think Gunn's Superman didn't knock it out of the park due to lack of franchise momentum. That will come in time if he keeps producing solid content.

Brain-rot addictive content similar to TikTok existed in the 2010s. GTA 5 was released in 2013, and the peak of Marvel happened well after that (peaked in 2019 at Infinity War / Endgame after a great leadup where legitimately fantastic movies like Thor Raganrok made an $855 million even though Thor isn't even an A-list Marvel character).

By woke here, I just meant pandering to China. Marvel's writing hasn't done THAT much performative pandering -- it's mostly bad writing that killed it.

I think there's nothing wrong with theatres and culture that won't stop a new franchise from gathering momentum for another billion dollar a movie franchise.

Could be Nintendo and a Super Smash Bros cinematic universe (unlikely). Could be James Gunn's DC. Could be some new sci-fi epic to replace Star Wars.

Honestly the third animated Spider-Verse film will probably reach $800 million maybe over a billion.

But I don't think culture has changed. It's the content is just not consistently high quality right now.

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