That is the correct translation.

What I’m saying is, it shouldn’t take up space by default.

If YOU want to install it, great. You can spend 30 seconds installing the driver. Why force 99.99% of users to take on bloat, when they’ll never use it. Same thing with additional languages. If you speak other languages, great. You install them on your device. No reason I should have French installed on my device.

Now add the same idea with every bit of software. The OS itself should be bare minimum. Then you can add to your own installation.

My PC has 16gb of ram, but it won’t run Windows 11.

It won’t run Windows 11, because I refuse to install such a rubbish invasive AI laced OS.

I watch a Rerez video where he looks at force feedback flightsticks. These sticks came out around the year 2000, and use ports that modern PCs just don’t have.

He tried plugging one made by microsoft into windows 11. This stick was made 26 years ago. It just worked. No setup. No drivers. Just, 26 year old stick.

The reason? They’re still including drivers from Windows ME into Windows 11.

This is one very niche example, but the 300kb or whatever a driver size is, is being preinstalled in all windows 11 instalations. And Windows 10, and Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

I’m gonna guess you can count on one hand the number of people using this flight stick on Windows 11. It only works with a handful of games, because it only ever worked on a handful of games.

Why would this be included by default on Vista or later?

Imagine how many thousands of other files are like this. Taking up space, without a reason.

Well how about 256gb?

Gamestop knows they serve no purpose in the gaming world anymore. What’s the point of buying physical, when it’s just a disc with the game version 1.0, and manditory day 1 updates? It makes it essentially a digital download with ewaste.

Ebay on the other hand has a future still existing.

Right now gamestop is a glorified novelty shop with a video games and pop culture theme. They know that business plan won’t last.

Ebay on the other hand, I can’t see any reason why they would be interested in anyway in this lowball offer.

Yeah, I’m hearing they’re selling an “Ultimate” version. Which is $100, and thats the only way to play single player.

I grasp what you’re saying. You’re not grasping what I’m saying.

I’m saying as the price point came down through the 90s to $60, the amount of gamers went up.

And as $60 in the 2000s was worth less, gaming exploded in popularity again.

As it cost less, more people bought in. As costs rise, less people will buy.

A combination of high price tags, and low quality games caused the entire market to crash in 1983. To the point where video games was considered dead as disco.

We’re nowhere close to that point right now, but this is the first time in 40 years they’ve reversed direction. Games have gotten cheaper over time, and the industry grew. Now they’re making games more expensive. What is the logical outcome of that decision? If low prices make line go up, then high prices make line go…where?

I mean…you don’t have to say that. It was implied the moment it happened. Cruelty is the point.

NES games were $80. Thats why most households usually only had 1-2 games.

It wasn’t until resell shops came around that everyone sold their games, and bought 2-3 used games with that money.

Video gaming was unaffordable in the 80s too. I think if you compare lifetime sales of most NES games to most modern games, you’ll find the trend was that if your game wasn’t mario, it didn’t sell all that well on the NES. Even Zelda in the early days had a rough start.

Whereas these days, the industry has grown so much due to keeping prices relatively stable for 40 years. So now consoles sell more, games in general sell 10x more.

Prop that price up and watch the sales fall.

Gaming is unaffordable? Yeah. GTA 6 is going to be $80, digital only, with single player locked behind a $100 price tag.

Yeah. Gaming IS unaffordable.

My question is…how are they still in business???

I mean, I get it, but…unless you work for Epic, I’m not seeing how Epic would have sny say at all in how much you get paid.

That’s Jerry “The King” Lawler. A professional wrestler from the 1970s, best remembered for two things. The first is the time he went on Dave Letterman in the 80s, and slapped Andy Kaufman. And the second thing he’s known for is doing color commentary for the WWF as other people wrestle.

In 1993 he was still a wrestler, and WWF had advertised him for something called “Survivor Series”. Which was an event you pay money to see where a team of 4 wrestlers fights the other 4 wrestlers. Well he had to be replaced on show, as he was dealing with legal issues in his hometown of Memphis.

The legal issues came about because he began having back and forth discussions with two 14 year old white girls. (Their race will be of note later). He asked them to meet at a local hotel. Stories differ if they had sex, or if he wanted sex but they refused, but the common thing all accounts (except for Lawler himself who denies everything) is that regardless of how things turned out, Lawler showed up expecting sex.

When the girls went to the police, and said he raped them, he wrote a letter to the police and to local media stations. It’s important to note that in Memphis he was (and still is) considered to be a huge home grown celebrity. Only surpassed by Elvis.

In the letter he wrote to local media and police, he begged them not to dirty his name on a national level. He said he was too important to deal with these legal issues, and that they weren’t even true.

I won’t use the language he used, you can use your imagination which word he used, but he essentially said that these two girls were sluts and that they were “lovers of black people”. Again, not his actual quote. Use your imagination.

Essentially he was saying that he would never have sex with these two girls, because they had black boyfriends, and THAT was beneith him. At no point did he say having sex with 14 year old girls was something that he was above. Just that it would ruin his reputation and that he was too big of a celebrity for that information to get out.

To this day, I will never understand why pro-wrestling fans never shunned Lawler. I will never understand why they never shunned Stone Cold Steve Austin. It took them 60 years, but they eventually shunned The Great Moolah.

Funnily enough, they shun David Arquette. A 90s actor, who as far as I can tell did nothing wrong. I’ll admit he shouldn’t have won the title, but he did nothing wrong.

Basically the parents buy this elf doll. They put it somewhere on in their house. Then they tell their kid to be good for all of December, because this little elf is in your house. The elf is watching everything you do, and reporting back to Santa. But you can’t touch the elf, because when humans are around, the elf has to stiffen up, and pretend to be a doll. If you touch the elf, or move him, he doesn’t like it, and will tell Santa to skip your house on Christmas. So it’s a big deal that elf on the shelf never be physically touched or picked up at all.

Then when the kids leave the room, the parent moves the doll while the kid is away. The kid comes back, see’s the doll moved to the other side of the room, and when the kid asks about it, the parent says “Hmmm? No, I didn’t touch him. He must have just moved over there when we left the room. Don’t touch him! He wants to be over there now.”

So the idea is, you now have this magical creature who runs around seemingly with Toy Story rules, except touching him ruins Christmas. Then I come in and IMMEDIATELY grab him, because all I see is a toy. In my mind I was just happy to play with my niece and was instead met with a full on breakdown.

Because my creatures are mostly dead after 2-3 battles in the wild. So you go out, have a few battles, and then cafe to rest. I’m over here at level 23, and still getting killed by level 9 creatures over a few battles.

I seem to be the opposite.

poke OW!!!

Ok, I just gotta poke here, and…OW!!! Oh, right. I forgot about that.

Ok, just one last adjustment, and… poke OW!!! Oh that’s still a thing. Right.

I’m 42. Back when I was a kid, I noticed certain trends. Old people would tell me “Don’t take up smoking…” I’d notice they seemingly HATED smoking. Hated paying for cigarettes. Their lungs were seemingly nonfunctional with how hard they coughed at a moments notice for no reason. I saw no benefits, and everyone smoked when I was a kid. They all hated it, and they all said not to start.

I figured there must be some wisdom to those words, and now as an adult, I’ve never been addicted to smoking. I’m better off for it.

When I was a kid, all my dads friends told me not to start drinking. When I looked at their lives, I saw a bunch of sad pathetic losers, whose wives seemed to despise them. Their kids didn’t respect them. They seemingly had no control over their own lives with how much they drank. One of them was so drunk that he pissed his pants, sitting on his couch, and he didn’t even know he was doing it. Many of them said “Don’t start drinking.” And looking at these losers I figured there must be something to it, if being an alcoholic leads you to this.

And throughout all my life, extremely elderly people will have a random various health issue. And while suffering through whatever that health issue is, I’ll be told by an elderly person “Don’t get old.”

I’m unclear what to do with this information. Are they suggesting suicide? Am I reading the situation correctly, or is there a fountain of youth I’m unaware of?

Weird that you’d use a racist pedophile for this meme.

Soooooo, back in 2016 I had never heard of elf on the shelf. I come over to my sisters house on Christmas Eve. I have a 4 year old niece. Whenever I’d come over, I’d grab the nearest toy and start playing. I think you can see where this is headed.

I hug my niece and right near the door is a little table. On it, I see this little doll. I grab it and say “Oh, hi (her name), you wanna play?”

Usually when I do that in my funny voices, I get smiles, and clapping and giggles. Not this time.

IMMEDIATE banshee screaming, followed by full waterworks. I have no idea what is going on. I know I did something, but I cannot piece it together.

All of this within a few seconds. My family is now screaming NOOOOOOO!!! and my sister WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???

And my niece is now on the floor wailing. Full on crying like I killed a cat or something.

Meanwhile I STILL don’t know what is even happening in this moment. I know I hugged my niece, picked up a doll, and now everyone hates me.

Finally my brother in law sees the scene and saves the day.

“Heeeeeey, it’s ok! Uncle doesn’t live here! It’s powers can only be affected by people who live here?”

And my niece stops crying.

“So Christmas isn’t ruined?”

“No! Christmas is still happening just as normal. Everything is fine.”

My niece gives me a dirty look, and runs off to her room. Then my mom explained what just happened. And now I get it. Would have been helpful to know BEFORE I came over…

And thats the story of how I was the villain who killed a childs Christmas for 45 seconds.

I have hated Elf on a Shelf ever since. Stupid fucking concept. Plus it normalizes mass surveilance. Though, I guess the same is true of Santa Claus. And the Easter Bunny. And God. And The Tooth Fairy.

Though, to be fair, The Tooth Fairy might not actually be engaging in surveilance. Maybe she just has a tooth sensor installed in your pillow. It was never made clear to me the logistics of The Tooth Fairy.