Yep. Also, in the early days, most file storage was done in the physical game disk. Once they moved to optical, that cost went away as well.

And you're right. For example, Assassin's Creed Shadows reportedly cost over $250M to make.

JFC

I remember saving up to buy a NES game. Usually 40-50 bucks thanks to chips. That's like 100-125ish today but you got the whole game, didn't need subscription or pay to win BS.

250 million to make a game is INSANE.

Shit I spend $515 a month on coffee.

But I have absolutely no bills of any kind. No debt. House paid off. Car paid off. My biggest expense is property taxes and insurance which have also gotten outta control.

I wouldn't know the difference by looking at them myself but I bet my daughter and grandsons would.

It is crazy what the evolution of the cell phone has been. In 96 when moving to Chicagoland and going to work for a Motorola cell phone supplier, they were dominating the market with their flip phone and shortly after the little star tek. Then they decided China had a bigger emerging market and moved there.

Then Nokia was kicking everyones ass with their cheap little simple phone. Then the Blackberry with their keyboard became the rage, on and on.

I took it he was teasing me for my $6000 dollar 50 in plasma purchase in 2004. LMAO

Sure, it wasn't updated real time and accessible on a device that fits in your pocket.

I just find it dumb when the gap in generations and technology skew towards people being vastly different like they were just naturally go-getters/smarter/etc.

If everyone had iPhones 70 years ago, lots of people would have been glued to them 70 years ago. And if kids didn't have smartphones these days, they wouldn't just be sitting around staring at the wall.

Some people want to make it some divisive thing that it's not. Social media is rotting a lot of people's brains for sure and devices distract some people from being productive, but that spans across generations.

I feel this not so simple a stat.

I think some generations, including people over 60 are working MORE these days and some younger age groups much less in a "don't let life pass you by" mindset.

Work to live and not live to work.

Well at least they weren't driving the train while reading the newspaper. But even that, since the tracks keep it going in the right direction is much safer than driving a car while looking at a phone.
My Challenger is 17 years old now and has a handsfree system to marry to your phone. Do new cars not have that where you can talk hands free?

Oh, I am typing this from my Dell laptop in between interacting with the outdoors, etc. :p

Me too, in fact I got bumped into yesterday by a young lady looking at her phone, even when I tried to step out of her way.

That part is funny, but I see them more and more driving down the highway with their phone leaned onto the center of their steering wheel while they read it.
A couple days ago a lady was driving really slow in the left lane and when finally went around her, she was doing the same thing.

Yeah, us old people are the problem by gosh! Heck, I don't even turn on the radio anymore as I don't need the distraction. o:-)

The technology already exists. Newer cars can already use it. There will be a day when you can't use your phone while driving.

I hope that day comes soon!

It is out of control around here, not sure about there and how your state has handled it.

Old people think they still are, hence the joke.

Self-driving car tech will probably have taken over before that point

Not all old people do....

If you go up there whatever you do don't mention drugs, not even Tylenol.