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The Nextlander Podcast 218: A Chair Made of Kirby

🕑 Added 2025-10-09 00:07:00 +0000 UTC

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Christopher Davis

I recently needed a new office chair, and went to the store to find the best one. Comfiest by far was a la-z-boy model. I too was amazed they still existed, but also just impressed with the chair. Sitting in it now.

csl316

"They'll call it machinima" had me laughing out loud.

Daniel F (fds)

For the Game Pass question, I’ve been an uninterrupted subscriber of PC Game Pass starting from the beta days. At first for free for over a year through some Dell code giveaway deal, then actually paying my $5, $10, $12, and now turning to $16.5 starting with November for me. I still have fond memories of playing my first game to the end on the service, The Outer Worlds. Felt like cheating the system, or being treated like a game reviewer / influencer with your free keys and such. My main issue is just not having enough time or energy to really take advantage of all the games that I genuinely would like to play, and are readily available to me there, yet I just never get around to it. Got a terrible backlog on Steam too, of all I already picked up on sales. In the end, many months have gone by with me having played zero games on Game Pass, despite the active subscription. Until now, I did not feel too bad about the waste of it. With this newest price hike, I think that has changed. I now plan to treat it like Ubisoft+, subscribing for a single month at a time, returning only when I have the time to actually make use of it. It would feel somewhat fitting to cancel right after I finish The Outer Worlds 2, for a while. I still think it’ll remain a good deal to return eventually every now and then, only not continuously. Primarily I aim to spend under $120 a year on it to show their greedy bean counters the error of their ways, how they were and would’ve made more money if they kept the price more reasonable.