Interesting to see Jamie Harrison on the last panel.

Replace “games” with “executives” and the sentence makes complete sense.

I wish that was actually the case but we all know marketing works like gang busters on gamers looking for their next fix. It it wasn’t they wouldn’t be hiring psychologists and paying them mid to high six figure starting salaries.

Am I the only one that never tightened them?

Twenty years I’ve been working in tech, had a few papers published, got a patent.

Still have imposter syndrome.

Remember when conservatives complained about poor people having refrigerators?

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-your-world-does-segment-highlighting-poor-americans-ownership-refrigerators-other

Yeah I remember getting all excited the day we had a TV with a RCA/AV jack and thought, damn I’m going all kinds of hi-def now!

It’d love to be called not burdened with a completely unrealistic software development plan.

I’d love to have a 67 Mustang GT Fastback as an EV with dual motors.

I mean fuck all these poor people who can’t afford a Wenger backpack and Miele appliances amirite? And a whole two things on that list, impressive.

Again, the Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness still holds but planned obsolescence where shit, even good shit, falls apart more readily than before.

Sure there could be survivor bias as you state but I still own a crap ton of stuff inherited from the 50/60/70’s that’s holding up much better than today’s cheap plastic junk and items that are literally designed to fall apart, including your dewalts, deltas, milwalkees, mikatas. Not saying that planned obsolescence wasn’t a thing back then, it certainly was but it’s a fuck ton more prevalent now than it was back then and repairing, something that today’s companies are actively fighting consumers against makes it even worse in today’s throwaway culture.

That and I still think that the OP of this conversation thread is a bit of pretentious dick.

Okay, show me a list of high end products that last with our society of corporate planned obsolescence.

My friend just picked up a 50+ year old joiner and drill press that still works like a boss. Meanwhile, my Delta drill press that I’ve had for less than a decade has already started acting up.

I’ll grant you that higher priced items will last longer than the harbor freight stuff, the Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness still apply in this day and age, but it’s not anywhere near the build quality and maintainability that things used to be, at least that’s what I’ve noticed.

As a more progressive guy who owns solar panels, drives an EV, and been moving over to plant based meat substitutes a few times a week, yeah, I do miss the era of the old cars, they had style along with their absolutely crap gas mileage.

Don’t miss the overt racism that went along with it of course.

As a required reviewer on a lot of things, I envy that bear so, so much.

Saying you should be able to clone and own your AI girlfriend still sounds very wrong.

Ugh. One of the things that I hate about the state of AZ. Seems like the entire state are full of these kinds of assholes that leave carts in the parking lot. Whole fucking herds of carts all over the parking lot with the cart return less than 40 yards away from them.

I just loudly bitch to my wife when I see someone leave a cart in the parking lot now and make sure they can hear how much I think they’re lazy, assholes.

So much insecurity in their own shitty beliefs.

Yup. Been plenty of studies to show that increasing lanes only alleviates traffic in the short term and long term only makes it worse. Better to spend money on trains and busses that actually work and get people where they need to go with minimal hassle and a reasonable cost than to do this crap.