You’re me.

Can NASCAR die off too? That’d be so great if we could just stop the madness.

I don’t even mean the drift. They’re just shitty controllers in every way. They focused on portability, which is terrible for comfortable controllers.

I don’t own one, but I’ve used them enough to know I hate everything about their feel. Buttons are terrible.

I hate everything about them.

They got so close to perfect with the GameCube, and it’s been a steep ride down into hell ever since.

Wii U’s controllers were ok, but the confusion about which controller worked for what was a mess in general (ie what needed the gamepad vs what could be played with a regular controller or wiimote even), and their idea to switch the button placement and joystick placement on the right was just objectively wrong.

Seeing this image just reminds me how far downhill Nintendo has come in controllers. Joycons are just SO bad. Sure the Pro ones might be tolerable (never touched one) but the default being a joycon is just absolutely pathetic.

They still don’t get a list of items you bought. Is running a request for payment, it’s not billing a list of stuff.

Halo 1 was the first game I ever played online. I played a lot of it.

But I was a very different person then, and replaying it now reminds me of how stupid I was (because I got into a clan that was very based on that kind of person) and the internal ick just his a fever pitch and ruined the game for me.

I never played 2 since that was on Vista and I never went back to it after finally getting Win 7.

After that the series just felt tainted to me. When I first tried it on a console it was really weird with the control setup. I was very used to hundreds of hours on Perfect Dark with the default controls. Having a second stick and rearranging what hand controlled what bent my mind in knots for a while. But it ended up making more sense that way (as you can easily tell by how much it caught on- not saying Halo pioneered it, but it was my first experience with it).

It’s not rebranding the service. That’s still called Pay. You merely process Pay payments with the Wallet app.

This is definitely a weird mix of nonsense and confusion, but that’s where we are now.

Personally I wish it never became it’s own app in the first place. Why didn’t they just rename it instead of making a separate but functionally almost identical app.

Looks like GO with a new UI.

I’m guessing there’s more to it, but that’s what it looks like.

Discord.

I saw at least 2, maybe 3 other comments mentioning CS2, so you’re not the only one. Unless you were talking about it elsewhere in these comments and that was you.

I was beginning to think there was another OG stream game I hadn’t heard of.

There’s never been a CS2. Other than a version of the name of the set of Adobe programs (ie, Photoshop CS2)

CS 1.6 is the popular one. That version is about to turn 20 as well.

You’re probably thinking of Counter Strike: Source, the name they gave it when they released it built on the Source engine.

Then there was the current one, Global Offensive.

However, there’s a new one about to be released that I think is still being called CS2. Not sure if that’s the final name or not, I haven’t been following it very closely. But I think it’s due to release this month. Or sometime soon.

I played cs 1.6 at a few LAN parties, but didn’t own it. I didn’t actually join steam until after CS:S had been out a while. I actually bought a hard copy of it.

What is cs2?

It doesn’t apply to texts. That’s fine with me though, I’ve only sent like 3 actual texts from a smartphone. I started using GrandCentral before it became Google Voice, and at that time I still had a dumbphone.

The only complaints I have are that for one, since it did register as a voip, for some arcane reason that I don’t understand, done systems don’t like that and will force you to enter a number with a traditional service. No idea why it matters to them at all.

The other complaint is that for another reason that is literally unexplainable, they never implemented RCS with it, so it feels like texting back in the 00s.

Google made the RCS standard, yet in the app they designed from the ground up they didn’t implement it. That’s a wtf for me. Maybe because it’s still usable by dumbphones? If be more than ok with dropping support for those if it means the majority of the world gets a better experience.

I’ve never heard of a phone that had them on by default.

Wait, there’s more than just the Facebook ones?

I remember immediately disabling them after they came out.

Satellite Internet is shit. Even the musk one of us actually any faster needs to fail simply because he would profit from it, and he deserves just nothing but depression.

Don’t assume that’s when it will be available. We had the fiber line dug in through our neighborhood back in March, but they’re still laying it in other areas nearby, and apparently they are waiting to turn it on until they’re done with all of it, which is supposed to be done sometime this fall, according to the original plan announced before they started any of it, sometime last year. If there’s been any delays since then I guess I’m stuck waiting longer.

And since I’m stuck at home due to a major medical issue (hopefully should only be a problem for another year or so), once it does become available I will still have to convince my parents that ditching our cable connection and using online streaming to get all their channels and ad free streaming of anything not currently broadcasting along with Internet that’s literally 40x faster than what we have here now while AT THE SAME TIME saving like $80-$90 per month is worth it. Mom in particular is so hesitant to have to learn anything different that I think she’d rather still pay the higher amount just because she’s used to it.

It’s sad that I will never really know about it. Because for some reason they never made Voice compatible with it. I only have 2 people I really text at all, and I use my voice number for everything, not my carrier number. I use the carrier number only for things that won’t accept what they say it’s a voip number. Even though that shouldn’t have anything at all to do with their end of sending a message. I don’t understand why they even check for that. It’s not much of a problem, almost everything uses an app of some kind, I basically only get to see the actual texting app when the pharmacy says my medicine is ready to pick up. Voice number seems to work for pretty much everything else. (and by Voice number, I’m referring to Google Voice if you’re unfamiliar)

They’ve been pushing using a browser to access your conversations for quite a while now. Are you just not looking at the screen when you open it, or what?

Who is bringing a PC into a discussion about mobile cross platform apps? Many apps have the option, but I don’t think anyone primarily thinks of anything but being able to work across iOS and Android.

Plus it seems once it works outside of Apple’s fortress, it can find a way to work on a non mobile device. It’s kind of in the DNA.

I played that like a billion years ago. I don’t remember much about it now, story wise, but it was fun.