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gettin' a lot of bots today. world's going to fuck !

so my mom's shitty ex boyfriend was the person who set up the old internet, right. apparently, for some fucking reason, his set up had her paying roughly 170 fucking dollars a month. meanwhile, when i set it up, the same company wanted to charge us 70 bucks a month until this time next year, in which it'll get increased to 85 bucks a month. so somehow for now we're paying less than half the price we were paying (roughly 41% if i did my math right), and even when the price goes up it'll still be about half the fucking price. if memory serves they ran a credit check so like, maybe his dogshit credit has something to do with how much more we were paying? like the guy very much just drank most of his money away and then spent thousands of dollars on shit he couldn't afford because "he works hard, so he deserves it". which, side note but he was a maintenance guy who spent most of his day dicking around on his phone, hard worker my ass. like i'm not saying working a job where you barely do anything is bad, but it DOES make it so that it's bullshit if you try to act like you're such a hard fucking worker y'know. god, one of the worst things about him is that he always acted like he was the only person on earth that had problems, i fucking hate people like that. like, you might not believe it from my presence online, but i don't really complain a lot in real life. the other morning when i went to burger king to get food, it came out cold and i just ate it that way because i didn't wanna bother the worker. whenever somebody needs a shoulder to cry on, i'm there and i'm quiet and i only say things when i think i can make something better, y'know? i wouldn't consider myself a positive person or anything, but i try my best to keep my negativity to myself irl and i have a pretty good understanding of the fact that a lot of people have it harder than me. life's too short and painful to make it worse for other people by constantly bitching and moaning over every little inconvenience and perceived slight, y'know? it's also too fucking short to be constantly blaming people for things that are either your own damn fault or nobody's fault. god, i couldn't tell you how many times my mom's told me "well i WAS gonna get ready to go out but then you went into the shower and now i can't do anything all day and it's your fault, actually", and i fucking get that she has unmedicated ADHD but past a certain point i feel like you could just pop your head into the bathroom and say "hey, hurry up, we need to get going" y'know? im sorry mom, i just don't think it's anybody's fault that you lose motivation and energy easily, much less my own. god i need a shower

so like, there's a very small chance that the switch 2 doesn't get a price decrease, right? it's overpriced and while the nintendo diehards who'd buy anything with their logo on it are gonna get it no matter what, i feel like it's gonna be a lot like the 3DS where the sales are pretty decent at first because there's always gonna be Those People buying it because it's a nintendo product, and then that shit's gonna fall off a cliff dramatically. i think the price drop would most likely be somewhere in the 50-100 dollar range, and honestly 350 wouldn't be that bad y'know? i think best case scenario is 300, since obviously they wouldn't price it lower than the switch 1 and 300 in this day and age would honestly be a pretty slick price.

and like, the thing is that to my knowledge (and correct me if i'm wrong), console manufacturers are pretty much always making the consoles themselves at a loss and they make up for it with game sales. that's why emulation handhelds and handheld PCs either use cheap phone processors or they charge prices that are fucking exorbitant relative to historical dedicated handhelds. if you want a good comparison of both archetypes, look at the anbernic store and see most of their emulation handhelds that usually run either linux or android going for 50-150 dollars, meanwhile ayaneo's handheld PCs tend to range from 700-1500 bones.

the steam deck is able to fit in as a nice middle ground still above the original switch but below the switch 2 (at least, the base model is). i have no direct proof of this being their thought process, but i'd posit that this is possible because even if the base model steam deck isn't the most profitable thing on earth, they also get a cut of every game you buy on it since they fucking own steam, which pretty much rules the digital PC game market with the only real competition being either astroturfed bullshit (which is to say, the epic games store and all those pissant little developer specific stores), primarily focused on indie games (itch.io), and basically steam but without the DRM and a heavier focus on older games and preservation (gog), 2/3 of which are perfectly valid platforms but also just hold less of a market share due to having more niche focuses.

this got away from me but Grod do i hope that the switch 2 price goes down. i really, REALLY hope i'm right in thinking that most people aren't gonna go for this shit. and i also sincerely hope that there's enough of a backlash to the game cart bullshit that they just go back to using normal fucking cartridges that you can directly play off of, even with the price in mind that could very well be the most egregious thing of this whole launch. i guess we'll wait and see

saw 3 cute doggies on my walk to the pharmacy today. life is good

imagine being one of those ww2 soldiers issued meth and you're ADHD so it just kinda makes you focus real good and just being so incredibly confused when you see how everyone else reacts to it

i was productive today! i went outside and got breakfast for me and my mom, set up the new internet, i picked up my meds from the pharmacy, i took some boxes that've been clogging up the living room out to the garbage, brought up some stuff that's been sitting in the trunk for a while, and the only thing that's left of my laundry is to wait for it to dry and then bring it back upstairs! good shit!

my mom put me in charge of everything internet related with the understanding that i'd be paying for it as soon as i got a job, meaning i was able to make my own name and password! i decided to name it after kame house because yknow. kame means turtle, im turtle, i live here. also i like dragon ball. so yeah

just finished setting up the new wifi. thank god, my data gets borderline unusable at times

setting up internet 2day, the best plan was surprisingly cheap so i just got it. 70 bucks a month for gigabyte internet speeds isnt bad, even if it's gonna increase to 85 next year. i mean, by this time next year im probably gonna be the one paying the internet bill, and i dont mind spending money on shit i care about y'know? anyways im gonna have to pick up the new router or whatever from their store in a little over an hour, no big deal y'know

ok so at this point we're all in agreement that latinx and folx or whatever was stupid, right? elon musk ass way of referring to people, i swear

really hoping enough people protest the bullshit options of the switch 2 that the price gets lowered and the physical game carts are actually fucking used as game carts and not essentially just overpriced passkeys to digital only games. like, the switch 2 is a handheld system, it very well could be played by someone in an environment where they just Do Not have internet access for extended periods of time. what the fuck's the point of a physical copy if you have to download it onto your ssd anyways?

450 goddamn dollars??? jesus christ i hope that price goes down at some point. i get that it seems to be moderately high end hardware that's still completely portable, but god damn dude if that isn't probably the most expensive a nintendo console's ever been. i feel like $300 would've been a really good price point for this, especially since that's what the switch 1 was priced at. hell, if you wanted to keep it up with inflation it would've been $390, which honestly would've been more reasonable than $450. god, i guess i just fucking hate how expensive everything has gotten. i wasn't old enough to remember this but i was alive back when you could buy a gamecube for 50 fucking dollars. i was alive when you could buy a wii for 100. factoring for inflation, if the switch 2 was priced like the wii was in 2009 it'd be just shy of 150 dollars. i get that That low is pretty unreasonable since the wii was extremely dated hardware by then and as such was a lot more economical to produce, and given how cyberpunk 2077 apparently runs fine on switch 2 this is apparently higher end than a PS4 pro, but holy shit dude do i wish i was actually financially independent back when you could get an actual fucking games machine for 100 dollars y'know. im rambling at this point. oh well.