ArugulaZ

Ooh, ooh! There's a song for that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kjBNy5AlNQ

But they can't sell you more shit if they didn't have planned obsolescence baked in!
(It's a little sobering realizing that technology is old enough to be, you know, OLD. Nothing about this is novel to anybody anymore. We're way, way past being impressed by two lines batting a dot around.)

Not so smart to buy, it would seem!

The Reuben is up there. A delightful combination of creamy (Swiss), hearty (Rye), salty (corned beef), sweet (Thousand Island dressing), and tart (sauerkraut). Those are like, the Power Rangers of sandwich ingredients. When they combine, the end result is unstoppable.

Those things aren't like the K9 unit in the C.O.P.S. cartoon, or even like Goddard in Jimmy Neutron. They're terrestrial drones. Comparing them to dogs is either incredibly generous to them or incredibly insulting to the dogs.

(Steve Huffman can be seen in the background, tightening his strap-on and applying a generous amount of lube)

Hardware wise, that's been pretty much the case forever (example: Atari 5200 is a consolized Atari 400 computer), but it's that simplified interface and the instant gratification that makes the distinction between the two. On a game system: insert game. Press start. Play game. On a computer? Tons and tons and tons of loading and file management and updates and passwords and downloads and accepting EULAs and Oh God now it's crashed and I have to start the damn thing all over again.

Game consoles satisfy that urgent need for "ME GAME NOW." At least, they used to. In the olden times, you could start a game in the time it takes for you to drop a quarter in the machine and press 1P. Now, it seems like game companies do everything within their power to delay that dopamine fix on consoles... which is uncomfortably close to the gaming experience on computers. "Another cut scene? Gee, great. It's not like I started this video game to play a video game."

Vaguely related: why the hell was it so hard for me to start Borderlands 3 on my Xbox? It's like, dude, I don't need your annoying third party service. This is still a game system, not a computer, right? Just... just let me press start and start the game without signing up for some other crap.

You know, when Marie Antoinette said stuff like this, her words were immediately halted by the "shing" of a guillotine. ♫ Just sayin'! ♫

@match
Keiko Jr.: "I don't care that I look like this! You still have obligations to your wife... intimate obligations!"
Miles: "Nope nope nope nope..."
(opens airlock)
Miles: "...nope nope nope whoooooa..."

Remember when that living scrotum Rupert Murdoch used "refrigerators" as an example of a luxury expense on his news network, Listen to Everything the Decaying Billionaire Tells You? A fridge was a luxury expense in 1890, when you were born, but not now.

Once again... THEY DON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES BOOMERS DID. There are no savings to spare when the price for everything has been artificially inflated. Maybe stop gouging them with a financial ice pick, and they'll have the money to save.