Blackmist

My strict diet of bread, cheese and highly processed red meat means I don't need to worry about washing vegetables.

Checkmate, healthy eaters!

They could easily do so on a console or game streaming service, just give you like 2 hours and then switch it off.

I think Sony actually do that as part of one of the PSN tiers.

But I think the main driver behind no longer doing demos is that when they started analysing it, they found it mostly reduced sales. A lot of people were no longer interested enough to buy it after playing, at least not at full price. I gotta admit, back when demos were common on the front of magazines, there were very few that I actually purchased on the basis of the demo. The ones I did buy, I'd have probably got anyway, like Metal Gear Solid 2.

I think it was Netflix that went through a period of releasing movies in cinemas and putting it on streaming on day one.

It was such a resounding success that they no longer do that.

I guess MS has deep enough pockets to not realise their folly yet. PSN Premium/Extra isn't as good value from a consumer point of view, but it also hasn't killed their own console. What that cannibalises is the "wait for a sale" people, who would likely have paid £20 for a game a year or two down the line. I think that's a more manageable than losing all the day one £65 sales.

It can't be worse than those Chris Pratt ones, can it?

Well she is British...

Oh come on. They can now sell their overpriced crap tariff free to Vietnam, which I'm sure is just filled with wealthy people desperate for an oversized SUV, rather than a bunch of towns that still haven't recovered from a devastating war.

That's bound to cover that shortfall, right?

Twice, I'd imagine.

Oh look, new money was old money all along.

Guess even they are cashing out.

Doubtful, but if anything mine would be more accurate. Fewer calculation steps to lose precision on. I think most spreadsheet software fudges floating point precision anyway. A computer programmer may accept that 0.1+0.2 is not 0.3 but an accountant or mathematician would not be having it.

I think she was just shit at maths tbh. As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that's not the case at all.

When I went to Tenerife, the chip and pin machine said "numero secreto correcto" and I'm still not convinced Spanish is a real language.

We had computer classes where we had to learn about spreadsheets.

To do a number plus ten percent we had to put in A1+A1*10/100

I did A1*1.1 like a normal person.

She then went round to make sure everyone had put it in correctly. Got annoyed at me and changed A1 to something else to expose my folly.

Was visibly annoyed when it showed the right answer.

Halo predates BF2 by nearly four years.