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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Annoying and potentially expensive. The thing about region locks is, sometimes games were market specific. So the game only had one or two region variants available at all. As a result, you’d have to buy a region specific system to play them. I also seem to recall the possibility of bricking a system or disk/cartridge when putting it in the wrong region system so there’s that. From a collection standpoint, if you only wanted to buy the systems and games and not play them, it was probably expensive but fine. Import fees and scarcity of special edition consoles may possibly have been extra pain points in the event that you had to have that region specific variant of a game or console.
















  • They have mics, cameras and speakers in them with an AI that interjects on its own and spies on all your apps.

    I wasn’t going to buy them before I read the article, but I’m certainly not interested now.

    I like the idea of AR as an aid for disabilities or in certain practical applications in science and industry but they aren’t marketing this to warehouses, nuclear plants, or automotive assemblers. They’re marketing it to influencers and randos. No thanks.