100% this

I have a Boox Palma 2 - their cellphone-sized thing that doesn’t have a cellular radio. I love it. They’re more expensive than kindles, though, since they’re not subsidizing their cost with ebook sales. I haven’t actually tried jailbreaking a kindle so I can’t say how good an experience that would be, but you could probably pick up a kindle of some description on the used market for dirt cheap to try it out.

Run software they don’t approve of. Like alternate reading apps that don’t need you to pipe everything through an Amazon account, read formats they don’t support, etc.

This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.

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It’s fucking stupid. Most EU countries charge VAT (value added tax) on pretty much everything you buy. It doesn’t change based on where the product is made or anything, so it is a level playing field, therefore I don’t know wtf Cheeto is attempting to achieve here.

Just fuck off already, Bobby.

Honda is better off without them.

Burn Stellantis to the fucking ground.

We wouldn’t want to offend the Führer when he attends the game, would we?

around the nanosecond it gets released

Number of people surprised by this turn of events: 0

I can’t see both the republican house and senate torpedoing their own guy, no matter how shit he is.

Now they’re sought after for the crunchy CCD style.

The reddit posts are absolutely useless without the comments.

It’s Balatro Time.

Another live service ™ bites the dust.

They get to reuse so many of their existing assets for each release, I think that really helps them streamline their development cycle. Like, they’re gonna be reusing the Hawaii setting from Infinite Wealth for Pirate Yakuza, which will be out in a few weeks, pretty much exactly one year after Infinite Wealth.

I’m OK with this approach. Not every game needs to take 8 years and 100 million dollars to make.

This sounds like how the federal government is operating from the top down as of this year.

I have played all of the mainline games in the series in the last year, plus Ishin. It’s hard to pick a favorite, and the way they handled the transition to an RPG with the Ichiban games was very impressive. I think my favorite might actually be Ishin. I really enjoyed the feudal Japan setting, and it was a refreshing change from the usual Yakuza setting.

I will also add that the best thing I ever did to enhance my enjoyment of these games was to play them on easy. It allowed me to progress at my own pace and just enjoy the story and the side stuff without getting frustrated by massive boss difficulty spikes, although there were still a few boss fights that took a lot to beat even on easy difficulty.