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A Blu-ray release would still be giving money to Amazon, since it's their production, though...?

bad school districts often pay more per kid than good districts

Do you have a source on that?

Property taxes paying for schools is a remnant of redlining. More affluent districts with nicer houses end up with more funding per student, and "bad" areas where minorities live because of literal centuries of economic disadvantage continue to get shafted.

I think we should ditch property taxes and replace them with much higher state-level progressive taxes that are distributed so that every public school student gets the a good education.

gameplay didn't evolve

Massive understatement. The PS5's biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the "upgraded" versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to "This is just a really nice PS4."

How would you even do that? Marketing is tied up into every single purchasing decision we make. The colors and fonts on the packaging; the perceived value or luxury of the store you're buying it from; the placement of the products within that store; the price of the product itself. All of these signal things about the perceived value of the product and influence what people purchase.

If he can pull off half of what he's promised, it might be enough to get me to move back.

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, "Look! It's so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should've been!"

...So I'm putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.

I'm paying for the insurance, but the nearest in-network provider taking new patients is a 90 minute drive. Is that a cousin to "You can't afford healthcare"?

The real move is to say your name and phone number at the start and end of the message, that way if they need to pay it again because they didn't record the info quick enough, they don't need to listen to the entire message again.

... for now. Trump is going to move on to white people who disapprove of him eventually.

I booted up KotOR on a whim last week, started the character creator, said "Oh, that's right. This was based on 3E rules," and promptly noped out. I don't have the time or patience to relearn 3E's complexity.