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It's on steam. Sega Genesis Classics. I have the Xbox version and play through Shining Force every few years. Great games, and a testament to the era of poor graphics but good art. I remember renting Shining Force for like 4 weekends in a row praying nobody got it during the week and overwrote...

Last one locally closed during Covid. Not everything was great, but everyone could find something good so wasn't bad for big family dinners. Strangely their chicken noodle soup was actually pretty good, which was a bizarre find since soup wasn't usually my buffet go-to. I'd kill to go back just...

I'm not railing or preaching against anyone. The problem is the discussion of the symptom or individual behavior doesn't address the core problem. But discussion of the core problem causes dissonance, perhaps, and that discussion then starts to be how that person is railing on others or...

Already answered if you care to go back some. Basically, educate, understand, discuss. Participate in the social aspects of society, not just hide away rationalizing and justifying things to appease ones personal comfort in the face of a society that creates cognitive dissonance as a byproduct...

I thought it was pretty bad in a fun way enough that I started paying attention. Mediocre but competent would be worse. They actually killed a main character by having him wander into a pillar of tortured souls in hell and oops himself into a fatal wound. Comedy gold, really, but unintentional...

Being completely forgettable usually falls into the "bad" category.

Keeping in mind, this discussion started because Roku is trying to highjack input feeds to advertise directly to people who may be avoiding it by going straight to another device and not using their interface. So the brilliant solution to just ignore smart features and avoid looking at your...

Literally the learn to code meme? Don't like the direction society is going, just learn to code, bigot! If you can personally avoid some if the annoyance than the problem is solved and you don't have to care anymore. Nihilism is a helluva drug.

You're right. You're not going to do anything. No arguement there. It's a demoralizing situation, and I have great empathy for the demoralized. But that doesn't mean one should accept demoralization as perhaps you have. The thing that bothers me is people who have enough wherewithal to...

There isn't a solution. That's not how any problems work, much less complex societal ones. That said, it would go a long way if people were even able or allowed to see things for what they are and given a chance to debate and understand the things society is going through. Most people I...

Yes. Anyone paying attention understands how we got here. The promise of new tech is alluring, and now society is grappling with the questions of whether it was worth it and whether tech companies lived up to those promises. My concern is there seems to be an attitude that even if the promises...

You could explain why the story was good, or fine. You could say that you understand if others didn't like it, but it's not something that bothered you. You could even say something dumb, but true enough, like that everything is subjective. Instead, your counter argument to someone who believes...

No. Sorry you have bad taste, but shit is shit. I mean, there are thousands of absolutely shitty books and movies made every year, so I don't see the point in generalizing them as somehow inherently higher quality or meeting higher standards. And like books and movies and TV, despite a lot...

You've missed the point or three, sir. Going back a generation or two to fix things... Just need a time machine....

Having quick resume on Xbox for a game that is always live and logs you out due to inactivity. Why am I not surprised. Finished the campaign. What a shit story that managed to highlight every bad design decision. Running around a pointless open world back and forth isn't compelling. Given a...

Yeah, you just end up with a broken smart interface that is still aids. I want the modern upscaling and processing, too. Which means modern TV's still need software and processors to work. Sure, people can get updates on a thumb drive, but again it's the consumer having to go out of their way...

Interesting theory. Could you expand on it? Also, was just thinking the other day that people shouldn't care about micro transactions and cash shops in games. Just don't pay for stuff if you don't want those things! An no complaining, because a game designed without mtx is literally no...

Even when I want to use smart features they suck and are missing random apps (in favor of a ton of useless obscure shit). Look online to find your brand of TV didn't make a deal with specific apps, so still end up using three different devices to access the 4 apps you actually care about. Until...

Recommendations on a good OLED or similar picture quality that doesn't have smart or spy features?

I'm doing shadow imbue, with dash and twisted blades. Lower levels when shit was harder I would dash in, hit a twisted blades, dash out, let the return damage the group. Now, with the thing where twisted blades circles it's easier to just stand around.

My favorite recent invasive data collection stories have been where people's cars collect data on their driving habits that the car companies make tons of money selling the data, including to insurance companies that use it to increase people's rates. There's a great PKD short story about...

I'm a fan of melee rogue style combat and not ranged. Sadly the most effective builds for leveling and finishing the campaign so far has been built wround flurry hitting 360 and being stationary. So, just standing in place. Which is boring and dumb so I don't do it and instead have cobbled...

Yeah, totally agree, it's just fine that giant corporations are pushing their advertising into every aspect of our lives because half the time I barely notice it. And when I do notice it, well, it isn't terribly intrusive. Once it gets to terribly intrusive then boy, err I mean non-gender...

This game looks washed out. Some areas aren't even all beige and look like decent art, but still washed out. Pale like the game is sick. D3 was sometimes a bit too saturated and neon, but this is worse. And decently calibrated OLED so not shitty TV. Am having enough fun that it's been worth...

Google Podcast is discontinued. Motivated me to get a better, third party app, so no problem. But why is there a podcast being downloaded right now after I uninstalled the Google Podcast app and when I click on the notification it doesn't bring anything up because the app is uninstalled. Where's...

This is an April fool's joke, right? I don't play the games, but I'm so confused...

I did that with my mini fridge. Frozen turkey wasn't thawing. Turned it to the lowest setting over night. Long story short turkey juice everywhere and was a bitch to clean. Probably would have been okay with a proper container, but felt pretty warm (temp monitor shorted out in turkey juice).

Sheeeit, the only good pho place locally is up to nearly $20 and their service is terrible, constantly closed at random times, yell at you that it's cash only and no sharing. Amazing pho, though. Not saying that makes it worth getting McDonald's. Only that everything is dumb and we're all...

I'm confused... Help customers feel seen? Nothing helps a woman be seen like big ol titties!

I have good public employment insurance (I've been told). My insurance covers a free checkup per year, where my doctor will ask if I have any complaints. If I say no, I'm out the door. If I want tests or labs or even longer than a 20 minute appointment I pay the normal price and the word...

We like it. Chunks but also a bit blendered in. Pumpkin is good with red and massaman. Butternut good with all imo. Butternut is weird because as you add spicy it gets sweeter sorta too, ends up being surprisingly complex.

But what's the point? I guess to play older games one already owns? Series X seems underpowered to try to pretend it's a direct PC competitor? I'd love if they sold an Xbox that was more a higher prebuilt PC that was more open to mods and Steam, but as is I'm not sure I see the point.

Came home to curry yesterday which was a nice coincidence. Butternut squash curry is almost my favorite now.

Accusing someone of knowing nothing about a game, but bandwagoning to do what exactly? What's more likely, whatever weird conspiracy theory in your mind about people out to undermine the game for some unspecified resson, or someone like me on a game forum looking into a game I was interested...

Because it's not directly about the existence of the cash shop, but how it was handled. And then the "I don't understand why gamers are annoyed, must be retards or a conspiracy" reaction from the people who seem to not mind defending a giant gaming corporation as long as they get something at...

That sucks. I read about that bug, but was on Reddit so I assumed it was disinformation. Would be nice if you could mess around on a second slave slot in the mean time, or even just easily restart your game. Good news is if you have to fight and kill all the NPCs at least performance will...

First, I'm not calling everyone NPCs. I quoted someone directly and then referenced specific behavior, noting it was a weird thing I kept seeing over and over on places like Reddit. So, no need to generalize to try to, what, I don't know, some kind of blanket general dismissal of what I...

The main encounter system in Dragon's Dogma 2 is actually good because the side stuff in Elden Ring was sometimes "garbage" is an interesting cope. Dragons Dogma 2 heavily touted interesting and challenging exploration. A lot of people seem to be saying that exploration is a bit basic and...

One of the reasons I waited. Among all the distractions and deflection and noise the game just sounded a bit mid. One review I read made it sound like the "exploration" was just running from one point to another an having randomized groups of mobs attack every minute (like he was timing it hah)...

Why do people think accusing someone of not playing the game is some big gotcha for things that don't require playing the game? It's the lame gamer version of idiots who say you can't have opinions on politics unless you voted or can't criticize their shit kids if you don't have kids yourself...