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Never in my life did I ever thought that my 3ds would be "worth" almost double the price I bought it for.
I'm really bummed that I missed out on the 3DS craze until it was too late to pick one up on the cheap (if memory serves, they were at their cheapest (for new units) in the months leading up to the official announcement by Nintendo that they were being discontinued). It's not that I'm usually a snob about new vs. used, but for a portable game console that's literally a 100% hands-on device, yeah, I wanted new.
I know with a bit of sneaky fiddling you could pack just about every game ever made for the damned things onto a single aftermarket cart and I always wanted to mess with the 3D gimmick just to see what it was like. That and there were some really good games on the system too. But by the time I'd realized all this, Nintendo had already announced the console's imminent demise and prices had gone through the roof by then.
There was a brief moment when I could have gotten a new one with no gay decorations on it for original MSRP, and at the time I couldn't quite justify the purchase so I passed on it. I'd be more sad about that if not for the fact that I haven't touched my Switch for months. The 3DS would have suffered the same fate, I suspect.
For example, take all those pokemon figures put them on a their own shelf and position them so they look like their fighting (bonus points if you take time and effort to decorate an environment for them).
Spending hours or even days giving meticulous attention to detail to make a genuinely aesthetically-pleasing display from figures like these is one of the defining attributes of someone who is
not a consoomer. For a consoomer, the only practiced technique is "cram as much as I can fit on every shelf to maximize how much I can show off in one photo."
Europoors stay losing lol. SMS is a terrible standard though, unencrypted and easily spoofable. It makes sense to differentiate between those and iMessages, not that normies would care about privacy
Fun fact: SMS originally worked by piggy-backing messages up to 128 bytes (160 7-bit ASCII characters) in length onto other "traffic control" frames transmitted by the network (i.e. otherwise wasted/unused bandwidth), queued at the absolute lowest priority the network could give it (which is why although SMS was "fairly quick" most of the time, messages could be delayed for minutes/hours or even just dropped entirely during high-congestion periods).
Implementing it required no hardware changes, only a software update in supporting devices. This means it literally cost the telecoms zero ongoing costs to provide SMS to their customers. But the cunts cheerfully charged per-message for it anyway until Android and iOS started shipping data-only chat applications.
Before this was posted yesterday just thought soylent was some random drink that people made fun of. But nope, not only is it a "meal replacement" but it's a freaking subscription service?? wow Life really does imitate art.
Wew lad, wait 'til you meet the (thankfully stillborn) Juicero:
In case you don't want to watch the most entertaining 42 minutes of consoomer product destruction ever committed to video, in summary: the Juicero was a press with always-on DRM. It required an internet connection to function and would not operate in any capacity without it (not even manually). It refused to squeeze anything except for the juice packs furnished by their (mandatory) subscription service -- $40 per week for 5 single-use packs on top of the $400 machine itself (which you could not buy separately without the subscription service).
Naturally they didn't
call it DRM; ostensibly the requirement to phone home for every single pouch was for "safety" -- ensuring the pouch wasn't expired or recalled -- but it was obviously DRM. Proprietary, single-vendor lock-in, subscription required, active effort to prevent third-party consumables from being used, etc.
I continue to be astonished that this fucking thing ever got the green-light. Even Google invested in this farce.
The best part is when the inevitable shutdown came (even consoomers aren't this fucking stupid -- Soylent at least doesn't require a god damn $400 machine and mandatory subscription) they actually offered a 100% refund for anyone who returned the units themselves because they were sold way under cost and were worth more than the sale price just for their internals and whatever materials could be salvaged from them. If you watch the linked video for the teardown, you'll see it's an astonishingly (competently) over-engineered machine.
