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The lady that used to fo ours charged about $80. How much is turbo tax these days?
Yeah, move on, be happy $80 is cheap.
I will settle on my impressions, probably in a podcast. For now I am unresolved on it. But here are some notes. SPOILERS AHEAD EVERYONE.
- I don't think they dwelt on the emotional drag of his wife's malady to give sufficient currency for his action to take the job.
- They undercut, then never resolved something that happened early on, when the friend on the radio did not realise she was still on and said."... no he has no idea about it at all"
- As a result I never trusted her, which took away any emotional link they were trying to develop between the characters.
- They built up the grand consiracy pretty well, then deflated it and sort of ended it by going "Oh well, I guess that's that" They set up so many opportunities for a grand let down -- a great end would have been she was in on the conspiracy (and that it existed) and that the helicopter was not coming back for him and he burnt up as fast as a Malibu holiday house.
- Then when you do go, well that was a waste of time, and at least hit on her to see if the relationship can go somewhere she's like "Nah I got shit to do, call me maybe"
So I guess in a nutshell that's my problem with the narrative. Then from a gameplay perspective -- it's a walking simulator.
So I felt like when you go to a fine restaurant, because it looked like a top notch meal with plenty of craft and thought, but when I was done I was like -- that's it? No desert?
How about discord? They make it easy and the way I see it it's the primary mode or game streaming? I'm not even a casual expert on the mater though.
There was a lot of stuff going wrong with gamespot by the time I left. I think when they blew up the Unions that was the final straw.
As a joke I tried to get us all to go and flood the GGD a few years ago and start posting actively as a troll, I think on AC helped out. Joke was on us, it was completely dead. Like tumbleweeds rolling thorugh, stray dogs and shoeless bloated children staggering around asking if we had seen a moderator, and surely the moderators were real and would come back...
Looking at today's gaming news I posted I wish I could build a tunnel back to the 90's for refuge.
That could be the pain meds and tequila talking.
I wandered onto internet fora somewhere between Star Wars the Phantom Menace showing in cinema's and the launch of the GameCube. I first started reading GamesRadar a year or two prior, but ended up at Gamespot and a Eurogamer a while later. I made an account at Gamespot back when posting something actually took what seemed like several minutes and a lot of people still used their actual names. I always stuck to the GGD, although I ended up with the Virtual Underground quite some time after they introduced Unions. I thought that the whole idea of user created boards was a bad idea as it would drain quality forumites from the main boards.
Yup. Now you made me check the place out again darnit. I'm too melancholic of a type to look back at such things! I looked at my user account and it says I joined 24/02/2003, but I was there before, only all of that data has been lost in time. Browsed through the list of users I followed or who followed me. Man it's really been a long time.
edit: I've also made more posts here at the VGPress than that are recorded at GS. Huzzah for commitment.
I don't think all these Steam Deck-like handheld pc's will put a dent in the succes of the next Switch. Those handhelds aim at a very specific niche of the market, being people who are big enough into PC gaming to want such a device and who aren't such snobs as to put up with the 'inferior' hardware for the benefit of portability. If anything, I think small form factor PC's with Valve's own operating system will pose more of a threat to actual home consoles. That and Nintendo could easily dominate for 20 more years on household name alone.
It looks like Square Enix is planning to brings the Final Fantasy 7 remake …
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/gaming/gaming-platforms/latest-nintendo-switch-2-leak-hints-at-power-beyond-expectation/ar-BB1rkSQo?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles Apparently Released Into the Wild Early
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nintendo-switch-2-release-early/
Gears Of War and Hellblade 2 among Xbox games coming to PS5 in 2025 says report
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/13/gears-war-hellblade-2-among-xbox-games-coming-ps5-2025-says-report-22347809/
Welp. I will probably not have the patience for it.
I got lost a lot in Firewatch.They charge me like $200 these days.
maybe? I've used discord a couple times, but I really have never understood it. In all honesty, I've never really taken the time to understand it either, but the idea that I have to take time to understand it is makes me not very interested.
I completely agree. Steam decks are going to have about the same effect on the Switch 2 as PCs currently do on consoles. Plus, it's not like they haven't already existed for 3 years now, or however long it's been. The portability is only one advantage that the system had.That said, I don't see the switch 2 steamrolling everything like its predecessor did. I think it's going to do well, and outsell its competition, but it's not going to be contending for the best selling system of all time.
It'd be interesting to know the division of switch owners by age. I'm thinking that all adults who got one would be real gamers, so will eventually upgrade (unless they get a Steam Deck). There'll be an age bracket of kids who have now 'outgrown' gaming, but these should be replaced by kids who were too young during the Switch's lifespan. The only market I could see Nintendo really losing is that of parents who bought their kids a Switch and don't see the point of ever upgrading that.
It's actually not as difficult as I initially thought. I was playing it wrong. Once I raised a few levels and figured out the timing for blocking and getting the extra hits in battle, it became much easier.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/13/nintendo-switch-2-rumours-name-exact-reveal-date-a-catch-22351911/
This Thursday
The potential reveal date was leaked by industry insider Nate the Hate, and was backed up by Verge senior editor Tom Warren.
That’s according to the previously reliable Podcast Nate the Hate, which claims that a reveal trailer planned by Nintendo will focus on the Switch 2 hardware, with a software showcase coming later in late February or early March.
“I can share with you that Nintendo Switch 2 will be revealed in the coming week… I have been told Switch 2 will be revealed on Thursday, January 16… just a few days from now,” they said.
“I’ve heard that the reveal itself is going to focus almost exclusively on the console itself. There is not going to be any presence of games. There could be a game shown running on the screen, depending on how the trailer is put together, but software is not going to be a focus.”
The two-part reveal plan would align with how Nintendo showed the original Nintendo Switch, and match with what VGC has been told
Nate the Hate speculates that Switch 2 could launch in May or June of this year – which matches with what VGC has heard from its own sources – and that a new version of Mario Kart could be available at launch, followed by a 3D Mario released during the holiday period of 2025.
Third-party releases will reportedly include Final Fantasy 7 Remake. According to Nate the Hate, Ubisoft is planning to release Assassin’s Creed Mirage for Switch 2, and Konami will port Metal Gear Sold Delta.
Update: Eurogamer has corroborated the January 16th reveal date, as well as info that the reveal will be “a focus on the much-leaked console itself, rather than a deep dive into its software line-up”.
http://www.thevgpress.com/#!/forumtopics/the-big-nintendo-switch-2-thread_3718.html
Made a Switch 2 thread for Thursdays reveal
Yeah it was one of the least appealing part of the game. They wanted no HUD evidently so pulling up the map and compass constantly, which took you out of the game, was in my mind a lessor alternative.
The streaming part is really easy, but yeah I also have not invested the time in figuring out the forum like chat side of it. It must work, millions of people use and prosper from it. I use it for the podcast which is really quite usefull and easy. I was hoping that in the unlikely event this place falls apart technically (like browsers banning unsecured sites) that would be the alternative, as that is where most community forums have ended up. But not sure what the feasible adoption rate would be ... I may have to set up a forum at gameunder if that happened for all us old timers who cannot figure out discord or don't want to rely on the whims of corporate overlords.