the same reason hollywood keeps remaking and remaking and rebooting and remaking every movie from 1980 to 2000 and beyond. it doesn’t matter how fucking godawful the final product is, the nostalgia draw will guarantee funding

at least the video games are the actual video games from our childhood (i assume)

i was just saying you can pay $X now, or $X+whoknowshowmuch later.

it is true that the price of tech has historically gone down as technology advances, however, right now AI demands all the supply, which providers are only too happy to provide for. supply down = demand up = price up

at the end of the day it makes absolute zero difference to me whether you buy anything or not. do you

the best time to buy anything tech was 12 months ago. the second best time is right now, before prices get even worse, which they 100% will

now i just need a 300TB hard drive…

i think i’ve had at least 10 or 15 external hdds since the early 2000s and have only had one die on me before i retired it to upgrade to a larger capacity