THE SLOP-CYCLE: Sony's PC Delays and the CEX Monster
Sony is out here holding back the good stuff, keeping the prime rib in the vault while the rest of us choke on digital scraps. They call it an "exclusivity window" but we all know it's just a way to make sure you buy the same piece of slop twice. First on the console, then on the PC, once the juices have properly settled and the profit margins are sufficiently marbled.
And then you have CEX. A collection of monsters that drink vampires. You take your half-eaten, half-played game to them, hoping for a few pennies, only to realize you're just feeding the machine. It's a cycle of trading processed meat back and forth until nothing has any flavor left. The games are the meat, the consumers are the teeth, and CEX is the grinder.
This is the modern gaming experience: waiting for the delayed release of something you already saw a YouTuber play, then trading it in for a discount on a new piece of slop that will be just as broken as the last one. It's a closed loop of consumerist decay. We are all just organic detritus spinning in a vortex of delayed patches and predatory trade-in values.
The meat knows. The spiders know. Everything is just one big, slow-moving transaction of mediocrity.