This. Rumor has it that the next Xbox may also go discless, but I wouldn’t be as angry about that because the rumor also has it that the next Xbox will support installing other stores like Steam. Making it no different than a Steam Machine in practice.
Yeah, small town community always sounds warm and fuzzy until you end up on the outside.
A while back, I knew of a family that moved into a house in the center of a town near where I grew up. A couple and two kids. The town had a big clock with a bell that rang hourly. Even in the dead of night. Right across the street from their house.
The family asked the town if they could silence the chimes between sunset and sunrise so that they and their kids could sleep. The town said no, the chimes are a local tradition.
The family then brought up state noise ordinances that the town’s clock was violating. The town still refused. So they petitioned the state, the state got involved, and made the town silence the clock at night. The locals threw a fit.
The family didn’t last long in their new house after that. But they were at least lucky enough to have the means to pack up and move somewhere else.
The less lucky are stuck. They get to spend the rest of their lives as the local “problem”. A skewed nail to be hammered down. I’ve known enough people where any utterance of their name is met with a cautionary “you shouldn’t associate with them”, even when it’s been so long that no one can tell you why. But it’s often the case that those are the people most worth knowing.
I don’t really shave, to be honest. Trim the weeds occasionally with some scissors, but it’s too much upkeep to keep the coinpurse smooth.
Now that’s the entrepreneurial spirit! You’ve got yourself a deal.
To shave my balls or yours?
You still could not pay me enough to put any electric razor near my sensitive bits, no matter how it’s advertised.
This is where I am as well. I think of scroll direction as the way I move the “camera”. The direction of the wheel is the direction of the frame.