A 19 year old today would have been 8 when the 360 was replaced by the XBone, and may have kept playing on one for a few years beyond that. It wasn’t quite that long ago when that generation was still current. Perhaps these particular kids / child labourers are so young they think the “retro” cutoff line is the start of the pandemic.
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Yes, EU policy is clear. Foreign companies deliberately undercutting European business to monopolize whole sectors is only ok if they’re American, not Chinese. Amazon good, BYD bad.
Gaming PCs really ought to have some sort of extra processing chip on the motherboard just to run all of the fucking launchers each with own their special account and DRM and whatnot.
All kneel before the newly crowned king of the nepo babies
Surely the French would say butter and not olive oil, right? Maybe olive oil is the Italian version. Although to suggest that Anglos would use any garlic at all seems too kind.
I’m reminded of this cliché: European writers discuss class but forget about race, North American writers discuss race but forget about class.
What book is this image from? It definitely speaks to the massive problem with fragile masculinity in American media - it would be interesting to see what else is said about it.
Bill Clinton statue in Kosovo
Train derailed by wayward car on tracks
Needs more superlatives, that’s what makes writing good.
Oh yeah, in the US they’re still using paper signatures and click-clack machines from 1982.
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True, and I just checked Burnout 3, the other game OP mentioned, it’s from 2004. These are both Playstation 2 era games. These games aren’t just older than any teenager, they’re also older than the Xbox 360 the teenagers supposedly found. Who knows whatever it was they actually found, or are actually playing.