“Daddy, why can’t we eat dinner this week?”

Listen up sweetie, Daddy had to leave his job because they wanted him to use Claude to generate a spreadsheet. It was the only way to destroy our billionaire overlords from the inside. You’ll thank me when you’re older, now keep packing your things, we have until Friday before the landlord calls the police to forcibly evict us.

Sony has rigged the game though, and you’ve bought into it.

Your physical discs are only as good as your ability to download the game files and day-one patches from their servers. For the average user, there really is no benefit to having a disc.

I hate it, but Sony made the choice for us as far back as the PS3.

Might not have been true, but has definitely been the narrative pedalled to young people for years.

There is always some career that kids get pushed into with a promise of “jobs in demand” and “guaranteed salary”.