My hype was already at a low for GTA VI and I found that it could get lower.

Have you thought about doing a software emulator?

Or is it that you want the console experience in the real world and real hardware?

One point against that is the pricing on some games, especially the more popular games. Go to a local retro store or check eBay and you’ll see some of the prices can be insane for some games you may want. I’m talking $100+. I remember one retro store having a game that was $200, but this was one of the more rare ones like Pikmin for GameCube. I’m not too familiar with N64’s catalogue, but I do remember some extreme pricing on some games like this. The stuff that’s under the glass counter. I want to say Conker may be one of those.

I don’t think anyone can give you an answer yet since the game has not officially released so no one has played to say whether it’s a good game or not, let alone if it’s worth the price they want.

Spy X Family is a good one too

A VPN is kind of like sending a letter through the post office using someone else’s address. Like if you put the grocery store’s address on it and then stuck it in with their outgoing mail.

It gets your letter there and the post office doesn’t know your actual address, they think it came from the grocery store. Likewise, the person receiving your letter thinks it came from the grocery store too.

And the VPN handles it in reverse by taking a letter from that person and even though it gets to the grocery store, it gets delivered directly to you and no one else except you and the grocery store know that’s not actually your real address.

For privacy, this is great at protecting you from websites you don’t want knowing your real IP address which can reveal things like your exact location in the world, say Facebook. You want to use Facebook to talk to granny but you don’t want Facebook knowing your real public IP.

Some people also use them for tricking websites into thinking they are elsewhere. When you subscribe to a VPN service, they often show you different servers around the world and you can choose to appear like you’re in the UK even though you’re in the US. A site like Netflix may show Rick and Morty only to UK residents so you use a VPN to trick them into showing you shows like that.

Starfield. I mean, I didn’t really, really enjoy it, but it was fun to me. It has issues I can’t overlook, like wish we had more factions and more NPC settlements. Player created settlements do not fill that void no matter what they add to the game. Hundreds of systems and only like 5/6 of them have major settlements that you can visit for actual quests. Aligning with the pirates is cool but then you’re only left with the Spacers as the only true enemy faction which sucks. I hate going to some world and there being friendly pirates. I wanted a firefight, not walk around and hear NPCs talk about being tough.

Bonus is Crackdown, the newest one with Terry Crews. I’m a big fan of the first game and semi liked the second, but the newest felt like a better return to the original without the dumb zombie invasion. Wish we had more gangs and all that. But open world mayhem as a supercharged cop is so much fun to me that I still go back and play the original in an emulator.

I had a similar but less severe experience when I was younger too.

I was standing at the refrigerator looking for something to eat when one of those fuckers ran out from under the fridge and ran up my leg under my pants.

+1 on all roaches dying.

Their computers are crap too. At least the cheaper end ones that people fall for.

Oo a $200 Windows laptop!

Yeah, don’t. It should be illegal to sell those pieces of shit with Intel Celeron, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC soldered storage running Windows 11. You’ll be using 80% of CPU sitting at the desktop, 60% of RAM, and 20GB of free storage after removing the bloat of Windows 11.

I don’t know about their higher end computers, but I always hate when someone brings me one of these pieces of shit and asks me to help them set it up.

I am also reminded of trying to get support for one of our HP monitors at work. We bought 400 of the same model monitors for our offices and one of them ended up going out. A director had two of them sitting side by side on her desk and one of them started going out. We hadn’t had these things for a full year when this happened.

Contacted HP support and they wouldn’t do shit for me until I formatted Windows to “confirm” it was the monitor despite me already saying I’ve tried multiple computers, other cables, even HDMI and DisplayPort, and even going as far as different power cables and outlets…no. HP “support” said they wouldn’t honor their warranty unless I formatted the computer. I lied and told them I did just so I could get the warranty I was owed. Still wasn’t good enough. They needed to see the receipt and the receipt needed to have the serial number on it. wtf…we bought these in bulk. This isn’t fucking CVS where the receipt is the length of a new movie’s red carpet with all the serial numbers. “Sorry, can’t help you.”

Fuck HP.

It better print money at that price lol

Gtfo with $2,195

That’s insane for a pair of glasses.

lol glad we could prove them wrong

Unfortunately I don’t think they care. They have long had the numbers and can visit any public forum and see the way we talk about this or check out any popular gaming channel.

They don’t care.

That you will own nothing and you will be happy we don’t care how you feel about it.

Hell no, fuck Windows 10 too. It’s what started a lot of the bullshit we’re dealing with today.

Looks like something straight out of the LEGO magazines I used to obsess over as a kid.

Thank you!

I love these shots. It doesn’t seem like we get a lot of views of the landscape from its side like this.

I do too, but even with it disabled, I still don’t open some messages.

Just opening it is enough even if the other person doesn’t know you did.

I legit don’t care which way it goes as long as they quit changing the clocks. It is so disruptive for that week.

Just put them one way and leave it that way the whole year.

I still remember my group of friends in elementary school back when Pokémon was getting very popular.

One of the kids was so genuinely nice, a bigger kid who was obsessed with both Star Trek and the Honey I Shrunk series of movies. But he would talk about Star Trek a lot more. One day he was talking about it, probably a new episode of New Generation and one of my other friends turned to him and said, “Can you shut up about Star Trek? We’re all into Pokémon now. No one cares about that crap.”

You could just see the look of sadness on that kid’s face. I hate that I didn’t speak up for him. Everyone else went silent too. Then he started talking about Pikachu and trying to relate to Pokémon instead of what he wanted to talk about :/

He was just excited and trying to connect with the people he felt close to…

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