From the Axios article this one is based off;

**Reality check: Haberman and Swan didn’t need audio recordings. Bob Woodward pioneered contemporary historical political journalism by including dialogue in his books that was reconstructed from the memories of people in the rooms where things happened.

**The big picture: Audio recordings or not, the speculation about them, and the extensive coverage of the book’s juicy excerpts, mean more buzz, more book sales … and the making of a classic.

It’s marketing

I was really hoping to get a steam deck when I got a job after a string of job losses. This sucks so fucking much. Can barely afford the bread, and can only wish to attend a circus.

Nah, that’s just what the typical ‘superior white race‘ looks like.

It really is a shame. I regularly buy their games (without discount) within a month of PC availability, I just can’t help myself. I do so much extra work to minimise spoiler damage just because the game I want to play has a lot of people playing it.

I hate console gaming; or at least the 3 main titans. Microsoft will get my praise on this front alone. Arguably XBOX tanked their brand as a console provider when they did simultaneous PC releases for their 1st party titles, but I adore it. I’ve put in over 15 hours over the last couple of days on Forza Horizon 6.

Meanwhile I had to dance around Spider-Man 2 story/gameplay videos for over a year because I just couldn’t play it. I did this dance because I knew I would play it eventually.

So now if there’s a Sony IP I’m interested in I’ll know to either not bother or just watch story beats on YouTube.

Good job Sony; I’m never going to buy a PS, and now I can’t buy your games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I passed a station that was over $5.50 on my way to a $5/gallon pump (it was just a block away, thank goodness for 7/11). I imagine that average is going to go WAY up.

We destroy our land and will never reap the ‘benefits’.

Maybe it’s a California thing, but growing up there was a lot of back and forth about how you could get put on the sex offender list for urinating in public. That wasn’t the case. So if someone said that’s the reason they were on the list, it was never the full story.

To be clear, I’ve never done this, it was just some weird cultural zeitgeist when I was growing up.

It’s also beyond ‘good Samaritan’ due to the whole ‘pulled her towards his car’ aspect. It also reads as someone trying to discipline someone outside of their care. Imagine you’re a teen trying to jaywalk and this random guy turns his vehicle around, grabs you, and tries to drag you towards it.

It definitely gives of ‘I’m only on the sex offender list because I pissed in public’ vibes.