Fucking buy the game already. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played.

It’s worth full price. Very, very few games are worth the full price.

I’d buy this game again on Steam if I could.

Debating finally picking up Hellblade II since it’s 75% off. This holiday I’m planning on playing Hi-Fi RUSH so I might hold off since I’ll be busy with that game. The spouse and I are also considering playing Jedi Survivor (if it’s cheap enough and we’re happy picking up two copies) or Clair Obscur. With these games lined up, I’m on the fence for Hellblade and probably will wait.

I thought that was the intent of the reboot trilogy. At the end of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, she is hardened now and gets her second pistol. But I played that once back in 2018 so I don’t remember exactly how that game went with themes.

You can by opting out of the current machinery of music.

I buy CDs and digital music on Qobuz and Bandcamp, and immediately archive it. Instant high quality lossless FLAC. Upload it to my own server and I can stream it on the go if I want. But for now, I also duplicate the effort by syncing the local files to my smart phone. I have complete and total authority over my music purchases. The simple time is now.

On another note, I’ve been thinking about resurrecting my iPod Classic or possibly my iPod nano. The rectangular yellow one. Loved that thing.

Same here. It’s a tight-knit, pretty small community for now. If it ever grows much bigger, it’ll be a lot harder to recognise users.

We just need more persons out there commenting and posting (not bots).

Take a salt tablet, cowboy. Get back in that saddle. If it still hurts, chug some Pepto Bismol. We got work to do.

I can hear this GIF. Seared into my brain from when I was a teen.

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I had the same problem too. Many years ago in December the final weeks when businesses are slow, I painstakingly went through and edited every single one of my accounts one at a time and changed emails. If there was a legacy thing I couldn’t access or a system that wouldn’t let you change your email, then I discarded it. How do you eat a dinosaur? One bite at a time.

Through my investment in time, all my accounts are managed via the method I commented above. I own my email, and I control how I get contacted.

I’ve been off Gmail for years and deleted all my Google accounts. Here’s how you can do it, too.

Step 1: Export your emails from Gmail into an EML file.

Step 2: Sign up for a new paid email provider: Tuta, Mailbox.org, Proton to name a few.

Step 3: Import your emails.

Done.

Optional Steps (that I recommend):

1. Buy your own domain name (e.g., YourSurnameEmail.com)
2. Set up your email provider to use your Custom Domain name. Or alternatively, sign up for a service like Addy.io and use your domain name there to create alias emails.
3. Go to your domain name manager and add the settings your email provider tells you to use. This will enable your domain name to serve emails.
4. Start sending and receiving emails using your own custom email address that belongs to you.
5. Don’t like your email provider after a few years? Simply find a new one. Change your domain name settings to point your domain name to your new email provider. All your email addresses stay with you and you NEVER have to change email addresses again.
6. Swap every email login you have to use a new alias email. For example, facebook123@yoursurname.com for Facebook, random.word123@yoursurname.com for some web site login, Steam123@yoursurname.com for Steam gaming, etc. Save all credentials to your password manager.

With this, you now have a unique email address for every single service, and all those alias email addresses forward your email to your actual email address. The benefit is that no one knows your real email address except you. Bye bye SPAM. When an alias email gets leaked or sold, you’ll know which company failed you. Simply swap to a different alias email, and disable the compromised alias - all SPAM stops.

Any interest in idle games? If you’re up for a cozy and relaxing one, you can try Idle Slayer which is free. Play when you want, easy game, incremental progress. I play it on occasion on Steam.

Old man wearing loaded diaper that smells like pig shit calls reporter “piggy”.

Man I would’ve been pissed if I saw this, and hadn’t finished Hades. What a spoiler!

I think the “A” picture is from one of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians movies. I recognise that sword.

Loved this phone. I had the Nokia Lumia 920 in yellow. Fantastic user experience back in the day, but unfortunately no apps.

Working through some more Pokémon Legends Z-A, with a sprinkling of Cyberpunk 2077 here and there.

This one along with the diversity wall mural at the FBI being painted over with gray paint.

The bundle is nice, but if you only want Wavetale, what you gonna do with all that Gunk?

My pleasure! Overall it’s a fantastic console - just not the right time to buy if you want exclusive first-party games. There’s hundreds of ports and idies though! We only purchased one because of upcoming tariffs, and somehow my spouse got in the retail lottery draw to purchase one right when the console launched. Had the console in our hands maybe two days after launch day. Ideally we would have bought one when the console hit about two years old and there were more games to play. But to me, it’s not a big deal since we’re patient (and we have other consoles and PCs anyway).

So far we have Donkey Kong Bananza and the upcoming Pokémon Legends Z-A game (it’s in the mail).

DK Bananza is excellent. It’s no Astro Bot or Super Mario Odyssey, but it’s a damn good game, and incredibly fun. I’d give it an 8/10. Pokémon… I’m optimistic it’ll be good overall. I’ve avoided spoilers so I’m looking forward to playing it once I finish my Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough.

Edit: Completely forgot about Mario Kart World or Tour or whatever it’s called. This one’s alright overall. Think I like Mario Kart 8 more, but I’ve been playing that once since it debuted on Wii U.

Edit 2: The console itself is very premium. Build quality is leagues better than Switch 1. Performance is very good and it handles games well. We play docked on the TV and my spouse plays it in handheld sometimes. Significant improvement over Switch 1. Would recommend it in the future once there are more games for it. We play PC, PS5, Nintendo, and Xbox.

You mean there’s another way?!