Odin's Son

Here to stir up the Xitter. Ready to strike the match and watch everything 🔥.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.

I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.

28 items. $64.50.

Added every single one back to the cart just to see.

$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.

In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.

Just needed the same things we always needed.

They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.

Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.

Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.

And it shows.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@kangarooifyu @TSN_Sports 🤣

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@spaceghost

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@Codiak25 @Okami13_ Lazy?

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

He now wants the historic Cherry Trees that were gifted from Japan in 1910 REMOVED, along with the bike path so he can build a golf course.

Guy's! HE'S PLANNING ON CUTTING DOWN THE CHERRY TREES. THE FUCKING CHERRY TREES OF DC.

This better not happen.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@Darth_Peachez @optipersona I game with friends from my hometown (5k people) and one of them has fiber, but another is out in a nearby village and he definitely takes hours to download. Another plays on Starlink and his downloads aren't fast. Internet needed to be treated like a utility a long time ago.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@superclark1134 @Bennieeexyz More Chasing Amy with Banky and Holden, yeah?

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@SaltedWithFire @Bennieeexyz Given that your name is that of a shadow dragon that took over Mithril Hall, I would guess that making a Critical Role reference here would be understood. D&D has become more mainstream and so did most nerd franchises.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

Fingers crossed for the alien invasion today. #WelcomeToEarth

[GamesNosh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GamesNosh]

I'm talking to people - Sony is currently being inundated with emails and messages behind the scenes from smaller publishers and devs voicing their displeasure over the end of physical games.

I'm actually kinda shocked just how much internal backlash there has been to this.

Doubt it'll make a difference, this was apparently a decision made by the money men within the last two months, is 100% influenced by component costs & manufacturing (AI ruining everything again)

They know nobody will buy a $1000+ PS6

They have calculated that the only way the PS6 makes business sense for them right now in terms of margins is to kill both the retail and resale market. Furthermore, they figure people are invested enough in the ecosystem that they're locked-in for life.

They fully expected a huge backlash and took it into account, but they think the anger won't amount to much in terms of real financial losses and are willing to take the PR hit.

Of the 15% of the current PlayStation audience that buy physical, they expect only 2-3% of people not to move over to fully-digital upon being forced.

The money saved by getting rid of the retailer cut, and lost on the reseller market eclipses that 2-3% and makes up for their miniscule profit expected per PS6 sold. (they will not sell it at a loss, but are willing to only make as little as $50 per unit sold)

The only way they'd ever reverse this decision is if the 2-3% of physical audience they expect to lose is instead around 8-10%+

As much as i'd love to see everyone come together and somehow force their hand with a mass boycott, I doubt it will happen.

They have been wanting to kill physical since around 2020, the AI RAMpocalypse has forced their hand.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@DanFriedman81 @Gambenoo Of course it does. You're talking about the difference between 720 and 1080 or maybe even 4K through streaming.

That's why I bought the 4k version of the Matrix.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@DanFriedman81 And that's why I built my own NAS to run Jellyfin or Plex and I have ripped my movies to drives.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

Gas prices falling suddenly is not a sign that the administration is in control... it's a sign that they were price gouging us to begin with.
#wakeupamerica

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@omgsidewalks They forgot about the reason behind the French Revolution.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

RED ALERT: U.S. Supreme Court blocks all the pending state-level lawsuits against Bayer over "Monsanto" Roundup / glyphosate harms.

SCOTUS ruled that since the federal government won't recognize any link between glyphosate and cancer, therefore no American has any right to sue Bayer in state court.

What a total clown show of injustice.

So as long as the federal government can be infiltrated and controlled by pesticides / herbicide corporations, the people of America have no access to functioning courts. The rule of law is dead in America.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@DummiWubz @mcsquared34 I mean, how ethical is it for Walmart to employ people that are still forced to rely on government aid, paid for with tax dollars, just to survive?

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@grimcity @mcafeenew @RedLivesMatterQ I love how stupidly gullible the right wing voters are.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@Koko47798658 @OrevaZSN We dont need a super intelligence to solve our problems. We just need zero millionaires.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@renaldafeen @amelia_tweetz Or raise taxes on the wealthy to balance the damn budget. They can pay their fair share.

[Odin's Son @DaBigThorbowski]

@amelia_tweetz Same with unleaded fuel.