"Don't like $70 games? Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon's Dogma 2 publisher Capcom says wait 5 years"

Full headline: "Don't like $70 games? Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon's Dogma 2 publisher Capcom says wait 5 years and they'll all be $5"

"Price reductions are always on horizon... unless it's a Nintendo game"

That gets a hearty "No shit, Sherlock" from me. I've been doing that for twelve years now, and I've had very little problem with it at all. If a game that used to be in the $50-$100 range falls to the $5-$10[1] range, that's way more palatable to me than if it was, you know, still in the $50-$100 range, even if it takes five-plus years to get there. And some games hit that threshold within a fraction of that "five years" figure. But even then, that's not a guarantee that I'll definitely buy it.

With that said, though, I'm not sure what Capcom is actually on about, because as of right now, six year old Monster Hunter World is still $29.99 USD on Steam, and that's just for the basic "base-game" level shit, with the actual full game (i.e. including all DLC, presumably) still at fucking $69.97 USD. (It is, admittedly, currently on a Steam sale, for the moment, with the "base-game" at $9.89 USD and the most expensive "full game" version at $24.77 USD, but still.) Also, there are literally 200 separately listed DLC items on the Monster Hunter World Steam store page, almost none of which are on sale, that total a whopping fucking $508.27 USD, though most of that dumbfuckery is probably rolled up into the "Master Edition Digital Deluxe" shit with the $70 USD price tag. In any case, I have not bought any version of Monster Hunter World as of yet. Maybe if that "Master Edition Digital Deluxe Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" version ever hits sub-$10, I might bite on it.

Also, though it is no longer the case now, Monster Hunter World originally shipped with fucking Denuvo, same as just about every other Crapcum game these days (the newer of which are still infected by that shit), so I don't care if the game costs $700 or $70 or $7 or $0.07 or $0.0007, I will not knowingly/willingly buy anything with that shit infesting it.

[1] - For only a very rare few games would I be willing to buy even at the initial "$20-$30" range that I noted in that 12 year old post there. For me, now, today, with 99% of games, it's "either get down to $5-$10 or less or else continue to fuck off."

"How Microsoft is Supporting Blizzard E-sports! | Castle Super Beast 272 Clip"

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For me, honestly, regardless of whatever topic they may be talking about, what makes these videos worthwhile to me are the times when they say something really (intentionally) silly and dumb which causes them to have a laughing fit.

As for the topic of the video... ... ...rather than supporting it, I personally would be pleased if Microsoft actually destroyed whatever (fak)e-sports shit there is surrounding Blizzard games. Like, just utterly annihilated it. Prevented it from existing. Directly caused it to no longer be a Thing™ at all. Because, for me, the mere existence of bullshit (fak)e-sports is simply yet another nadir of the modern video game industry.

Well, the real topic of this video was about how PR flacks use PR-speak instead of actual language to fail to discuss things.

"Alex Jones' lies about the Sandy Hook shooting may have finally caught up with him"

"The far-right conspiracy theorist agreed to sell assets to pay off some of the enormous financial debt he owes to families of the shooting victims, whom he's lied about for years."

"The move also could see him lose ownership of Infowars, the far-right platform from which he's peddled lies that the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a 'hoax' perpetrated to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights."

Good. To fucking hell forever with Alex Jones, literally or figuratively. I will be so glad when this asinine motherfucker is finally relegated to the obscurity of history forgotten, and the sooner that happens, the better.