Question Of The Week: subscription services

It’s time for Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire interesting discussion of enjoyable topics.

This week’s question: subscription services such as Kindle Unlimited, Spotify, Netflix, Thrive Market, and Xbox Game Pass are an inevitable part of modern life. If you have a subscription service, which one is your favorite?

No wrong answers – and bear in mind that “subscription services all cost too much and I hate them all with the fiery consuming heat of a thousand cores of a thousand stars” is a perfectly acceptable answer as well.

For myself, I think my favorite subscription service is Nintendo Switch Online. Like, I’ll pay for a month of Netflix when they have something I want to see, and I used to have Xbox Game Pass, but all I ever actually play on Xbox is Skyrim, Starfield, and Halo 1-3, so there was no point in keeping it. But Nintendo Switch Online lets you get the classic Mario and Zelda games from the NES and SNES era. Given that Nintendo’s attitude towards its legacy properties tends to veer between complete indifference and wrathful litigation, it’s good that Nintendo offers a relatively affordable way to get to them legally.

-JM