Apparently you didn't see Drag Me To Hell, where Raimi did go back to his roots -- and with great success. It's an awesome movie.

I too liked the Silent Hill movie. I found it captured the look and feel of the game, and enjoyed that they weren't so bound by canon in the adaptation. I've never felt like I was so trapped in a fever dream before in a movie. It was like a European art film masquerading as a Hollywood movie -- maybe that's why it worked for me.

Better to have one and not need it, than to need one and not have it.

How much would like to wager that eventually there's a mule (or ox, or something) hooked up to that thing? (It's cool regardless.)

The most useful element.

Why is this effectively any different than the guy who can't watch his RCA Selectavision discs because no one manufactures the player anymore? Hello?! It's dead tech. You lose for making a bad bet. Buy a set of patch cables and port your crap over to your new system and suck up the generational loss like we ALL had to before the digital age. Or, buy new stuff from a more reliable vendor. Now, excuse me while I go listen to my 8-track!

Load them with porn.

Hotels.

...but didn't Apple successfully pull this off twice?

And for even greater reliability, the Pen.

I mean, not seriously, but what about it?

I had those symptoms the last time I had the flu. Am I a duck?

Arresting officers literally have a checklist that they use to fill out their reports. They try to hit every bullet point they can, and they tend to trump up charges. This is why the reports always sound identical -- because "slurring" and "staggering" are terms recognized within law.

Consider that many cops were once soldiers, who honed their skills in Iraq -- utilizing basic Fascist tactics and protocols, like occupying people's homes, holding without cause, and warrant-less searches. I trust the police to be honest no more than I trust an employee of Best Buy to be honest...actually, less.

You sound suspiciously like my father. ;-)

Progress doesn't slow, but people do. My father still gets by with his 8086, because he can still run the antiquated version of AutoCAD he never grew out of. He became, I'm afraid to say, comfortably numb.

(In full disclosure, I still do most of my writing on an Apple eMate 300 -- because it has a terrific battery life and does what I want it to do.) I'll wager you a peso that in 2019 computers won't look ANYTHING like they do today. Because just when you think you've reached the perfect solution, something new and better comes along.

You neglect to factor in the time value of innovation. It's arguable that since it took this long to achieve where the Amiga was that we've actually lost well over a decade waiting for PC's to catch-up. Imagine where we might be now had we started innovating from the Amiga on? Imagine what computers will be like 10 to 15 years from now. Who'll be talking about "primitive purchases" then?