I would go so far as to say it may be worse.
For example, there are certain people on Lemmy who hold very strong opinions on subjects and try to shoehorn in that opinion even where it is not appreciated. There are even more of those sorts of people on Reddit, but they are diluted by a much larger user base that knows how to act right.
There is innovation in every Nintendo system.
The Wii U had dual screen and asymmetric games.
The 3DS had a 3D screen, a couple AR games, and Street Pass.
The Switch is the first console with a docking station and being able to dynamically change the graphics settings without having to restart running software.
The Switch 2 has multiple mouse controls.
All of them are a bit gimmicky, none are totally original, and most of them did not really catch on, but you cannot fault them for trying. What innovations have there been in PC, PlayStation, and XBox? VR headsets and DLSS?
No one sold me unlimited PTO. Upper management decided to switch to it and never trained employees and managers on how to optimally use the policy. Everyone knows traditional PTO, from working at other companies or the same company before the policy, so that is what we fall back on.
I don't understand what you mean about "getting my work done". I have an infinite amount of work I could be doing. Every week, my manager expects me to complete about a week's worth of work. Taking PTO is an excuse for me not to hit that quota.
I suppose there could be a policy where I need to get 6 days of work done in 5 in order to earn a day of PTO, but I would start looking for other work if that was expected of me.
I am curious why you like unlimited PTO.
I have had "unlimited PTO" on several different teams and the way it always works is that my manager decides on an amount of PTO that I get (negotiable). I then have to track that amount over the course of a year and have to discuss with my manager if/how much I can roll over. The only advantage for me is that my manager is likely gave me a larger PTO pool than corporate would. The disadvantage is that my manager and I cannot just open up the timesheet system and see how much time I am currently "owed" so it is up to me to keep track and take it for myself.
I hate the conspiracy theory that big pharma could cure cancer but they are covering it up because cancer treatment is such a profitable business. This makes no sense if you remember that big phara is a bunch of companies each of which is trying to maximize its own profits. The first company that can cure a cancer will make so much money, the Ozempic racket will look like chump change.
Not every company out there makes cancer treatment, so why don't the companies outside the cancer racket cure cancer?
Well, only companies that specialize in cancer treatments could find a cure. If that is the case, why would a company want to be a small part of the cancer treatment market when they can have a monopoly on the cancer curing market?
Well, only the company that has the market leading treatment for a cancer can cure it. If that was the case, they would still want to cure it and sell the same amount of money as 10 years of treatment. Insurance would still cover it because it is saving them money in the long term and is, technically, better for the patient. It would immediately make the pharmaceutical company an obscene amount of money. Sure, once they cure all the existing cases, their revenue will fall off, but by that point, upper management will have cashed out.
I am not sure if you can do it on a Switch, but I recall the 3DS having a feature where you could pull patches and DLC from one console to another. Not even close to what you were suggesting, but it is something.
Do any software stores support creating a local package mirror? I suppose you can make one for GoG by periodically checking for new game versions and saving the installer to a backup.
According to the box photo on the GameStop site, it does not say that it is a key card.
Nintendo has said that, for now, all first party games are games on cart, though not for games that Nintendo is only the publisher/distributor for (see Pokopia).
It is a manufacturer suggested retail price. If a store wants to sell it for more or less, it is their right (and I am not aware of Nintendo having a Minimum Advertised Price policy).
The issue is that it is just an upgrade. The biggest difference between the Switch 1 and 2 is just better graphics/frame rate. With only a few exceptions, both systems play the exact same games. Why would a customer pay $450 (minus a small trade in credit) for a Switch 2 when they already own one or more Switch 1s that play the exact same games the exact same way, except a bit uglier? Nintendo customers tend not to obsess over graphics quality (if they were, they would be playing on PC or PlayStation).
There are a handful of games that take advantage of the Switch 2 mouse controls and now there are starting to be more and more exclusives, so there will be a stronger case to upgrade, but for the first year, it was kind of weak.
Remember, only shop on Bandcamp Fridays, when all the money goes to the artists. The corporate owners are not playing nice with the employee union.
The bigger issue is not just how bright the headlights are, but how high off the ground they are. On a small sedan, it makes sense that the headlights are just below the level of the hood, any lower and they would be scraping the ground. If you take the same hood-to-headlight arrangement and put it on a pickup truck or SUV on giant wheels and then lifted, those headlights are no longer pointed at the ground but are now pointed into the cabins of sedans and the faces of shorter pedestrians.
I would, if given the opportunity. I assume that by preordering, the game is automatically added to my account and maybe even installed on my system on release. That way, if I see an interesting game, I can mark to play it when it comes out without worring about release dates or forgetting about the game while waiting for it to release. Unlike a paid game, I am not out any money if the game is not as good as advertised.