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Possibly, I'm not invested enough in their films or the franchise to notice that stuff though. I guess that makes me part of the joke!

Nintendo are vulnerable to attack from lots of different angles because they are different and successful. Some of the criticism is justified, some isn't. Their (some would argue previous) competitors in Microsoft and Sony are too irrelevant in the console gaming space for anyone to care this much about what they do.

"I...am Steve (Jobs)."

It gets even worse if you separate users by age groups. Younger people overwhelmingly go for iPhones.

I thought that film was at its best when it was essentially mocking the franchise in a very meta way. When it tried to get serious it just fell flat, the story was uninteresting and the action scenes (particularly the choreography) were so much worse than the older films.

Comedy:

• Wicked Little Letters (2023)
• Strays (2023)
• No Hard Feelings (2023)
• See How They Run (2022)

Family friendly:

• Elemental (2023)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Drama:

• Broker (2022)
• The Wandering Moon (2022)
• The Melchior Trilogy (3 films, all released in 2022)

I'm just going by the definition provided by the article. The dramas I chose are not really uplifting or feel-good in a conventional saccharine way, so I apologise in advance if they don't work for you. I personally find that style of film to have a much more positive effect on my mood, though, particularly over a few days as I reflect on it.

If you really want to fixate on club names for some reason, you can take in Wrexham AFC, AFC Bournemouth, AFC Wimbledon, Barrow AFC, but I don’t see the relevance myself.

AFC stands for Association Football Club lol

A nickname? You just said it was a widespread term for football. The other person is asking you why, if it was so widespread, almost every single professional club throughout Europe went with football instead.

Too close to home?

3 years of updates for flagships is not great.

Also, one of the upsides of Sony devices retaining critically endangered features like the headphone jack and microSD slot is that they appeal to geeks, which generally leads to to good custom ROM support. So it's 3 years of updates from the manufacturer but you can often stretch their lifespan out a lot longer.

What’s all the processing power even for

Gaming and the camera are the least niche use cases I can think of.

I agree that the future is bleak. I also agree that it makes life more difficult for those of us who don't conform to this "I own nothing and pay a subscription for everything" lifestyle that people seem to be blindly moving in the direction of. I don't pay for Spotify or any other streaming service (not that they even have all the music I listen to, I always hate it when people justify their existence with the "iT hAs EvErYtHiNG" line), I have my own music collection that I've curated over decades which is entirely offline. It won't fit on a smartphone unless I pay a ridiculous amount of money for a model with tons of storage or convert my entire library to inferior quality. Ultimately it's not a deal breaker feature for me so I do use a modern phone without external storage. I am fortunate that I own an MP3 player and multiple older phones with microSD support, including an XZ1 Compact which is what I currently use for portable music instead. It would be more convenient if I could just have everything on a single device like I used to, though.