Because the Senate passed it via reconciliation to avoid the filibuster, if the House rejects it, it goes back to the Senate to be re-formulated into something more acceptable to the House.
We’ll know more when the House votes on it. It may be House members will demand certain things be added or removed.
But then whatever changes have to be re-voted on in the Senate, so she’d have a SECOND chance to vote “No” while still voting “Yes”.
For those who missed it:
https://www.newsweek.com/big-beautiful-bill-donald-trump-lisa-murkowski-vote-2093246
“Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the “One Big Beautiful Bill” to the Senate for further work.”
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/07/senate-passes-big-beautiful-bill-00434918
“The vote was 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined Democrats and voted no.”
For point 1, this sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
You buy a Nintendo console, Nintendo says you broke the rules and bans that console, now non-Nintendo games won’t work on it because it’s banned from reaching online services.
“2124-4508”
I’m going to spoiler tag all the Nintendo legal-ese because it’s A LOT.
It boils down to this console is banned from logging in online. So a couple of questions:
Do you HAVE to be online to play Switch 2 games?
If the ban is correct for user violations, why ban the hardware? Why not ban the account?
You’re unable to connect to an online service and you receive the error code 2124-4007 or 2124-4508.
You receive the error message “The use of online services on this console is currently restricted by Nintendo.”
What to do:
This error code indicates that the Nintendo Switch console you are using has been permanently banned from connecting to the internet due to a breach of the user agreements.
A breach of user agreements may include, but is not limited to, activities such as:
Fraudulent or unauthorized transactions
Violation of the Code of Conduct
https://accounts.nintendo.com/term/eula/AU
5 Nintendo Code of Conduct
When using the Nintendo Account Service, you must comply with the Nintendo Code of Conduct and ensure that your Nintendo Account is not used in breach of the Nintendo Code of Conduct. The Nintendo Code of Conduct prohibits all illegal, harmful or otherwise inappropriate conduct, including, but not limited to, the following:
Illegal, harassing, hateful, defamatory, embarrassing, offensive, obscene, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable actions performed with the Nintendo Account;
Soliciting, accessing, storing or distributing prohibited materials;
Providing any incorrect or false data when registering or using the Nintendo Account;
Submitting false reports (either in a game or through an online service) regarding other users or content;
Making, sharing or playing unauthorised copies of games, applications, software, add-on content, music, images, videos and other content available via the Nintendo Account Service; making new versions of Digital Products or other content available via the Nintendo Account Service (“derivatives”);
Using cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorised device or software designed to modify the Nintendo Account Service or any part of it or using any unauthorised User Device or any unauthorised modification of a User Device; attempting to derive source code of the Nintendo Account Service;
Gaining unauthorised access to any of Nintendo’s computers, hardware, equipment, servers or networks used to support the Nintendo Account Service; hosting, intercepting, emulating, reverse engineering any part of the Nintendo Account Service or redirecting the communication protocols used by Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Account Service, regardless of the method used to do so;
Engaging in any commercial or advertising activity, or arranging meetings using a Nintendo Account;
Selling, trading, assigning or otherwise transferring a Nintendo Account to another person or entity;
Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that infringes the rights of others, including any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy rights, portrait rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights;
Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that contains personal information (including photos, images and videos) of any third party without their permission;
Selling, trading, assigning, licensing, or otherwise conveying virtual property for real money or for funds credited to a Nintendo Account, where “virtual property” refers to any features of games or other content that can be traded with other users for free or for in-game virtual currency;
Fraudulent activities performed in relation to the Nintendo Account Service (in particular in relation to transactions in Nintendo Shopping Services).
I kinda had the opposite experience, I had been a PC gamer for years before the Xbox came out, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Aliens Total Conversion, Hexen, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Unreal…
By then I had kind of burned out on FPS, so when I heard about Halo I was like “I dunno… another FPS…”
Then I played a demo in the store and was like “Shut up and take my money!”
Speaking of consoles here.
Valve really operates in a different market from Microsoft or Sony, but what hurt them was a couple of things:
Repeatedly skipping Gamescom essentially told Sony “Yeah, we don’t care about Europe.” And the sales numbers show it. Sony owns Europe.
No differential between console and PC. Launching the same game at the same time on PC and Xbox doesn’t incentivize people to a) buy games on Xbox or b) develop games on Xbox. Why bother if it’s on PC the same day?
Focusing on digital vs. physical takes games out of stores. On a recent trip to Target they had a nice big Playstation section and a nice big Switch section. Hey? Where are the Xbox games?
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/target-not-selling-physical-xbox-games-anymore.1679241/
He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?
Every piece of news on the Switch 2 made it sound less and less impressive.
I’m the opposite of you, I pretty much buy EVERY console and I’m skipping the Switch 2 for now.
If you absolutely need to entertain the 7 year old, get a Switch OLED. It’s a better deal.
There are worse things…
There are 3rd party Switch 2 games? 🤔 I thought it was all 3rd party ports of Switch 1 games…
How is Doordash cheaper than UPS? Or USPS? Or virtually any other shipping method?
From the Wiki:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elden_Ring_Nightreign
“released for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on May 30, 2025. It received generally positive reviews and sold 3.5 million units.[1]”
So, first, it doesn’t matter how many concurrent players it has, it sold 3.5 million so it’s not a flop.
Second, it was released on 5 platforms, you are looking at concurrent players on Steam only.
Having to replace or pay for all the stolen art assets will do that…
I love that they are clearly clam digging. Clearly in the Pacific NW.
You have not lived until you have taken a dog clam-digging.
“WAIT, WAIT… HO HO HOL’ UP… You’re saying ‘I can dig… ALL I WANT… and… and… there’s FOOD at the other end???’ WE’RE CHASING FOOD IN THE DIRT??? OMGOMGOMG!!!”
I’m 9 years older than my kid sister. We had an agreement, she doesn’t date anyone older than me and I don’t date anyone younger than her.
We both married people in that range.
Internet Creepieness Rule:
Your age / 2 + 7 is the low end limit.
Still too much given BL3 and pre-sequel.
I’d consider it at $40. See you on Black Friday!
I blamed it on Altair growing up in the desert. Not a lot of opportunities to learn how to swim. :)
I don’t think she even knows what she wants. If she didn’t want it to pass, she had her chance to kill it.
Republican is going to Republican I guess…