Show 263 of "New Report, Old Report" w/ NY sports radio’s favorite caller, Al from White Plains! What Knicks win means, NFL finally gives Sorsby penance, and is any MLB team that good?
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Without physical games:
- Midnight launches are dead
- Collectors Editions lose half of their value
- You can’t share, trade, or sell your games
- You can’t buy used games
- If there’s a server outage, you’re shit out of luck
- YOU OWN NOTHING
I’ve been a longtime proponent of owning your own physical media, if that means my kids grow up playing my old N64 games and all PlayStation games I have on ACTUAL DISCS, so be it. Sony can get fucked in 2028.
I doubt many people are going to read the 55-page report "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday" put together by Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee so here's how it ends
I’ll be around for almost 20 more presidential elections, and at this stage of the world and humanity, I don’t think we’ll ever do better than this one.
Every American should be outraged by what Trump has done to our nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a once-in-a-generation moment to unite the country has been turned into another vehicle for division, propaganda, and political gain.
We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 – watch to see how.
DHS cut this quote off one sentence early. Here’s how Roosevelt actually finished the thought, same speech, 1915:
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
He also said he wasn’t talking about naturalized citizens (“some of the very best Americans I have ever known”) and that “any discrimination against aliens is a wrong.”
Teddy Roosevelt’s descendants asked Congress to protect his legacy. Trump’s admin answered by perverting TR’s words to push their anti-immigrant agenda.
The Mexico-England game is going to be incredible and it's also an incredible sports media story:
Mexico is the second-biggest draw on Fox (as they've said repeatedly) and that the numbers will be insane on Spanish-language television. England is a massively popular team in the States. That game is Sunday night at 8PM ET -- the most-watched night of content.
The viewership is going to be out of this world for a non-USMNT game.
Sony is currently charging $70 for God of War Ragnarok digitally. It is $32 at Wal-Mart. The game is 4 years old.
People will no longer have options after 2028 and will HAVE to go directly to Sony’s digital storefront and pay whatever PlayStation says.
Let's say the PS6 is a digital only console (pretty much guaranteed now) and 20yrs after it's release you wanna get a game for the PS6 but they've shut down the store just like they did for the PS3/Vita. What are you going to do?
You can't go to a gamestop, a pawn shop, a flea market, ebay or whatever. This is planned obsolescence in its' final form. PlayStation now has 100% control over how you buy and play a game.
Your boy wanna sell you a game for cheap? Can't do that, gotta buy full price on PSN. Wanna give your boy a game to check out? too bad, he's gotta buy it for $70 on PSN.
This is terrible for videogame preservation and consumer rights
quoting @Seth_W19
"since Thursday the Yankees are hitting .094 vs opposing starting pitching.
Jim Abbott was a career .095 hitter. He didn't have a right hand"
Fascinating that Big Tech has convinced many that digital is the way for everything, when just losing wifi sends everything back to 1990 lol. You may have “bought” games, movies or shows on your favorite streaming service, but you don’t OWN it. It can all go away if they want to.
I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.
Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.
The backstory of the relationship between Kawhi Leonard and Raptors ownership is essential to understanding why this trade — and ongoing NBA investigation — is so fascinating:
The AA team looked into the swirling accusations around Matt Miller.
@BrendonKleen14 and I spoke to 7 people and learned..
- Miller was the commissioner for 91 leagues this past season.
- Many people were paid in the days/weeks leading up to his crash
- ESPN employees were contacted about Miller's payment issues.
- People had issues collecting services promised to them as far back as 2017.
ESPN had no comment on our article.
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The people you think are smartest are actually the dumbest idiots in the world lol. I’d rather play my PS2 until family and friends toss it on my grave than give PlayStation more money for games they can take away with the flip of a switch
PlayStation is ending production of physical game discs for all new games, starting January 2028.
From that date, new games will be available in digital formats only.