|| Battle Beast ||. A friend had it when it was new and the art style always stuck with me.

Happened to me with Banjo Kazooie. I got to Grunty and found it needlessly hard, extremely boring, and decided that the fun bit of the game was done. I didn’t need to see the ending.

I think we’ve found one of those mythical people that reply to questions people ask online with “I don’t know”.

I’ve had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I’ve got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.

Is this thread really for you then?

You’re allowed to swear here and MDs weren’t proprietary.

UMDs were though.

A hardware upgrade for hardware that wasn’t designed to be upgradable?

Cool, I’ll adjust the number of Xboxen I’m buying by the same percentage.

0 * ~0.8 = 0

Jokes aside, the old prices weren’t close to a compelling proposition. These consoles have been out for ages and I still haven’t seen much in the way of reasons to buy in. I love my 360, had lots of fun with my Xbox One X, and even the original Xbox had some good stuff (I loved Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Sid Meier’s Pirates, Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell, XIII, and various others). I’m still waiting on why I should give the slightest shit about the Xbox Series X/S and they’re rapidly running out of road.

That’s unfortunate. Expected, but unfortunate.

I like gaming. That like is not strong enough to extend to that price point.

I was thinking the same - i hadn’t realised that it ever went away (as I don’t play the genres traditionally associated with in game ads).

You think Fury Road was primarily green screened?

The majority of what was done was compositing. The stunts, props, etc. were real. The crashing war rig was real, for example.

It’s one of the things I thinks makes Furiosa worse - much less practical.

A bit of Nazism, as a treat.

The old price was too high for me. The raised one made me roll my eyes.

The fact that we don’t treat food as a strategic resource and instead it’s a capitalist instrument is wild to me.

Put money in, get food out ❌

Put money in, get food and MORE MONEY out 💯

Similarly I gave up trying to keep up with the ever evolving mail server requirements. I’d wake up to find my emails weren’t reaching people because Google and MS had strongarmed some change into place again.

These days I just use inbox.eu for my email.

Bought some back when I lived in Scotland and Somerfield had a deal on multiple blocks of cheese. Didn’t finish it.

Speaking of propping things up - Wensleydale were propped up by Wallace & Gromit.

*$80

BioShock Infinite took long enough and the finished product was significantly less interesting than the previews. This looks like it’s going to take twice as long. I don’t see that working out.

That makes sense for me. Weekends are often consumed by catching up with various errands and chores, as well as hopefully at least something fun. During the week loads of us work full time. Sure, there’s time in the evenings for some of the year, but for a decent chunk of it darkness sets in before work is over.

Fitting in an hour of being in nature, three times per week? That’s a big ask, I suspect.