Original sin: AI edition

Timothée Chalamet will have the slightest a hint of a British accent

Martin and Waldron did some good work here! Especially when compared to the other D+ writing we’ve been getting lately…

Ah, sorry. It stands for “Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price.”

In the U.S. the law doesn’t allow a manufacturer to require that retailers sell their product at a particular price, but they’re free to “suggest” one so that’s how we ended up with the MSRP.

It doesn’t carry any real weight, but it generally serves to anchor consumer expectations for a product’s value. (It also gives retailers an easy metric to compare sale prices against.)

The MSRP for Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges in the mid-80s, adjusted to today’s U.S. Dollar, would average around $150-200.

I don’t think games should cost that much, but we stuck with the $60 price point for literal decades so it’s not completely unreasonable for someone to talk about raising prices.

(I also write this while having only bought one game? two? In the past year.)

Both films my family had no desire to pay theater prices to see, but if it’s available at home & there’s nothing else going on? Sure, why not?

BTW, in both cases we were disappointed. Those scripts could have used a lot more work before going into production. #thanksChapek

Cool article. It looks like they only tested this with wasp faces, though — still inconclusive as to whether the wasps around my yard hate me personally.

This is why they want us to return to the office.