Different times is all. Features were the craze until late 90s made them commercially viable. Evangelion changed everything. In this day and age it absolutely would.

Pittsburgh?

They crushed it with Watcmen. And I have full faith in Gunn. This should be good.

Nope. We only want to highlight games that are based on moves that are derivatives of John Williams original compositions.
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"John Johnson Jr", cool. Including it in your name makes sense to me. But introducing yourself to me just as "Junior" as a 52 year old man feels... Weird.

I've seen more than one trans story where they didn't realize just how lonely it was going to be as a man compared to what they knew. There's a genuine problem unique to men here, but yes, everyone is suffering from the digital disconnect issue. That's a separate problem entirely though.

Expand it a bit though as most folks just think about it from a dating standpoint. Men suffer moreso from a lack of social supports in general. Parents say toughen up, you're a man. Friends don't want to "hear you whine". A large portion of men just have no connection to the world beyond output.

Are you trapped in 1980? Do you need help finding your way back to 2025?

Listening back while editing my podcast I'm very guilty of this. I'd put money on it being tied to how they/I process work in a logical means. Effectively "[start transmission] [thought] [end transmission]". Brain works in binary and abstracts very well. Humaning? Less well. 😬

You're like the least Midwest Midwest guy I know, lol.

Just food network all day

Beautiful. Send it my way again. It's called an excuse to stay inside where it's warm

Well, we got 30-40 years on this planet to see if that ever comes to fruition. I think plugging into HDMI 1 and just leaving it on that device is more than enough for folks that want it. Changing the TV feature set seems the wrong way to go IMO. Know plenty of olds and they just use YT TV or antenna

If there was a market, it would be niche, and not at Walmart, and miss it's market. But if there was money to squeeze, someone would be squeezing it. It's just not feasible to run a profit on that in this climate while other TVs do more things for half the cost. It's not now capitalism works.

I don't think the solution is dumb TVs. I think the solution is the Apple-ification of TVs. You add a top layer that just presents minimal options as it manages features in the background. That's the closest people will get to "back in my day when it was easy".
I also think it works fine now..?

I think old folks who "just want something that works" want the 80s/90s experience of paying a couple bucks a month for cable, and pushing channel up/down. Cable is hundreds now, and is just as confusing if not more than streaming stuff because it's all text instead of big pictures.

Not saying there's zero people who would buy. But like when Disney bought Star Wars and forgot Tron existed for 3, why make millions when you could make billions? I do think you're grossly underestimating how much money they get from both selling sales data and for pushing ads though.

Consumers at large only care about price, and size. Everything else is a bother they're willing to endure to control those other two aspects. Then you add in the fact physical media is dying and suddenly you have a TV that can only play things made before 2020. That's a losing bet for all.