There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.

Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.

But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.

Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.

This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.

Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.

It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.

The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/bungies-lawyers-have-to-use-fan-videos-of-old-destiny-2-content-in-court-because-well-it-doesnt-exist-in-game-anymore/

Blueprints here:

https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1894-1914-electric-man-perew-american/

The mechanics were all in the cart, it pushed the figure forward rather than having it pull the cart.

Still, a neat bit of kit!

See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”

HDR still trash.

Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.

I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.

It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.

Set #1:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000

Calibration:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000/settings

Set #2:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled/settings

I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…

Yeah…

“Even playing in HDR…”

Maybe that’s part of the problem? HDR implementation on my Samsung sets is garbage, I have to disable it to watch anything. Too bad too, because the picture is gorgeous without it.

HDR On:

HDR Off:

The ones that were SURPRISINGLY good were the Gex games. Looks like they’re getting a remaster too.

https://youtu.be/PXr2cRbo6Go

Don’t get me started on Xfinity “10G”.

https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/xfinity-10g-internet

You’ll shoot your eye out!

I can’t tell you how nice it is to see this variation on the story instead of “studio behind hit new game shuts down.”

$95 for a case with no disc in it. No thank you.

Surprising nobody.

That makes sense then!

I mean, the Marvel stuff has all been gigantic and proves you don’t need sex scenes. In fact, the one Marvel movie with a sex scene (Eternals) did the worst.

This came up, I want to say last year? In regards to movies and TV shows as well.

Aha - 2023:

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208435267/sex-teens-tv-movies

“Looking for ‘nomance’: Study finds teens want less sex in their TV and movies”

I was set to buy it tonight, imagine my surprise to see the “physical” edition: a) is $95 and b) has no disc, digital download only.

Yeah, no thanks. $95 saved!

TBH, I can’t remember the last time I turned on any of my consoles for anything other than 4K movies.

This generation has just been awful for games, the Covid drop just never recovered.

Will look at Avowed, but not feeling great about it. Dumping games in Jan/Feb generally is not a good look (OTOH you get the occasional Hi Fi Rush instead of Forspoken).

I’ll wait for reviews. Hasn’t been a good one since 2.

I reviewed it when it came out, I thought it was fine, but the strength is more in the story telling of the cutscenes than the actual game play.

The game itself is pretty repetitive and once you get a feel for it, it’s actually a little dull.

Levels are either a) in daylight or b) in the dark, and either c) against the infected or d) against militia groups.

So if your currently playing in the daylight against militia groups, the next level will be in the dark vs. infected, and then it alternates.

The story is top notch though.

Source?

“Operational issue”. Yeah, it stopped operating. ;)

Hard to take it seriously when he would have been, what? 3 years old 9 years ago? ;)

External drives are cheap. Got one working on the Steam Deck.

I just couldn’t get over the janky-ass animation. All the problems inherent in Andromeda were present in 3.

https://youtu.be/Ye0Rl16elKo

Less about EA, more about Bioware. EA has proven they aren’t shy about murdering studios, so why keep Bioware around when their last good game was, what? Star Wars: Old Republic? 2011?

There hasn’t been a good Mass Effect game since 2, so I wonder why they even persist in this.

Worked for EA…

I 100%ed the game and as I was reading your review I was like “Wait, something’s off… this isn’t the game I played on PS5…”

Then I saw:

“A huge caveat: I purchased this through the switch store, and it should have absolutely not had a switch release!”

Oh… yeah… Oh no. Now it makes sense. Yeah, the game was never intended for the Switch and compromises were made.

Sub in literally any Nintendo franchise and it’s the same problem, but Nintendo fans don’t care.

If you’re into retro-gaming, Starflight and Starflight II were both excellent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight_2:_Trade_Routes_of_the_Cloud_Nebula

Run through Google translate:

"Destiny 2. Anyone up for a team?

Good people of the Fediverse. Anyone up for a game of Destiny 2 (not too addicted) to play a few games and/or create a team?"

I don’t play Destiny 2 anymore, but good luck in your search!

The spinner is pretty vital for a lot of old Atari content. Pong/Breakout/Warlords with a joystick is super hard.

Energy drink isn’t operating in the same tech space though.

“Xbox Prime”

Bullshit. Microsft backed away when challenged over naming a product “SkyDrive”, there’s no way they’d step on Amazon’s dick like this.

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-skydrive-onedrive/

Might as well say they’re calling it “iGame” or “iBox”.

The Series S is so underpowered it can’t run backwards compatible games enhanced for the Xbox One X, it can only run standard Xbox One/Xbox One S games.

Let that sink in for a minute… the last gen Xbox One X is more capable than the Xbox Series S.

Yes, series X and S games can’t be played from external storage. You have to move them to the SSD.

Where you might be being tricked is that it WILL work for OLDER games, so if you’re using it for backwards compatible versions, it will work fine.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/whats-the-point-of-selling-external-hard-drives/dc0c20dc-0c00-4f32-9aa6-b9b194a3e90c

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/using-an-external-usb-drive-with-an-xbox-series-x-or-s/

USB drives are good for storage only, you can’t actually play the games from there. You have to move them to the SSD to play them.

Well, not ALL consoles. The PS5 uses a standard SSD slot. Pretty easy to get at too. Easier than the Steam Deck.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/

Probably harder making sure you get the “right” ssd than actually installing it.