There was always something eerie about VHS, wasn’t there. The distortions and horizontal bands, which came and went, were basically horror effects (THE RING would never work with a cursed Blu-ray). Faces would suddenly fall apart and quickly heal again, texts seemed threatening, like they were brimming with anger. It often made you feel you had accidentally tuned into the secret signal of some subversive world.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe I’ve witnessed the rise and fall of DVDs.
Nintendo’s sales haven’t been what they hoped for or expected, so all the executives got together and made the decision to cut their salaries in half to ensure their employees still get paid. They say it’s the fault of the executives that the products aren’t selling well, not their employees, so it isn’t fair for the employees to have to take the hits for that.
Why are there people who don’t like or respect Nintendo again?
I DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR A SWITCH IM TRYING I SWEAR IM TRYING
I feel like it’s worth saying that this is from a few years ago, when Satoru Iwata was president of the company, before his passing, and taking a pay cut was largely his idea. (Most of the directors at the top took a 20 or 30 percent pay cut, while Iwata cut his own salary by half.) They are doing much better now but, unfortunately, although he was involved with the prototyping and development of the Switch – the Wii U is essentially an early version of it – Iwata did not live to see its launch, which has been a massive success and is currently the fastest selling console of this generation. They had a great idea and just needed more time to execute on it.
