We've been saying that Game Pass was the platform for a really, really long time. As soon as I heard about a rumored HDMI stick with Game Pass it hermetically sealed the deal. Both of my consoles are broken, and I don't use them enough to go through the process of repair - the amount of value I get from Game Pass, and I wouldn't even say it's the main place that service lives, is profound. The end of ZIRP means the end of certain forms of corporate psychosis - big companies actually have to make money, and in the same way that Minecraft lives everywhere it doesn't make sense to own some of the things Microsoft owns now and just… hoard them. But this has now officially gotten weirder than I expected, and I do wonder exactly how much history we'll be expected to live through in this bizarre and pregnant now.

As close to 10:15 as possible, I'm gonna spin up the strimm for some fuckin' Helldivers 2. I played a bunch of it last night with the same people I'm gonna be playing with today - ThatBronzeGirl and Lord Balvin, of the Balvino Clan. This is very, very much what I want to be doing with my leisure time, and hopefully when Durty Dwab gets back from Vancouver he will agree. Ask your doctor if Stream is right for you.

(CW)TB out.