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Main reason I bought a disk based ps5 is because of the games I already have not because I plan to buy a ton of disk based ps5 games (although I did buy a few). I play pc games on my gaming laptop too and it is far easier for me to be fine with download only because that is the way it has been for a decade+. It would bother me a little but I do think a mostly diskless future is in the cards for consoles too.

Mechu posted...

depends on how obtrusive said ads are

This.

I do not mind an ad here or there, but if you are going to play 15 ads in a 10 minute youtube vid, or plaster them all over the pages I want to view then I am going to block them.

GTA 5 has only been a thing for 3 generations already because of their online component, doubt they care about the 5% that might have a problem with always online.

Not really a loss when the government is for sure going to come in and take care of it...

Worst is when you go to read some news site, and it is like pls turn off ad block, only for it to overwhelm you with ads down both sides and ads every few paragraphs. And websites wonder why so many people use adblockers. I would not mind getting rid of ad blockers if websites were not overrun with ads.

Sure, im almost 40 with no plans for kids and my brother is 35 with pretty much the same. Not really close enough to any of my cousins to really care what they or their kids are fans of (if that is what lil cousins means)

I keep mine in my room and not the bathroom so nope.

Not sure I would accept any of those unless I was truly desperate or something especially if I had White house aspirations..

From US house of reps I would considering Mayor of NYC and certainly state senator downgrades in status. Gov would be an upgrade I guess at the loss of much of her national political spotlight. I would hold out for Schumer to retire, unless there is a clear replacement already being groomed.

They realized that plenty of people are willing to pay more than what they are charging or all of the streaming services would not raise their prices what seems like every year or 2. It is starting to get worse than Cable TV considering how many services there are now.

Had my washer break last week, and had to do research on laundromats only to find that there was like 1 fairly close by but thankfully I got it fixed pretty fast. I feel like they are way less common now because it is something that most people expect to have in their apartment unit or at least have access to in their building these days when they are paying thousands a month anymore. idk if they are found more in very large cities but my town of like 20,000 did not have one and would have had to go to the nearest city, and they only had like 2 or 3.

300 sexual encounters, or 300 encounters with different people every time? She states in the like second paragraph that it was not all men, and then says while meeting most on dating apps she does have a group of regulars. Not that it matters even if the really number is like 70 guys in a year that is not something I would touch with a 20 ft poll even for a 1 night stand. And would no way in hell be someone I would be willing to be in a committed relationship with.

Master_Kazuya posted...

mEnTaL hEaLtH

I fucking hate the mental health excuse. If a house is on fire, you put the fire out, and THEN you can examine what caused the fire.

I do not understand how you are trying to compare a house on fire to guns or gun violence at all, but maybe I am just stupid.

In the US men are often screwed over still when it comes to custody, and from reading the article it seems like the UK laws are even worse. Doubt it play out like normal considering they both can hire entire teams of lawyers but w/e.

I will not take either side as it is 2 people richer then hell who will likely pawn their kids off on a staff of nannies and sitters because they will routinely have better things to do then be an actual parent. Only real loser of any of this is the children and that is unfortunate.

The quote in the first post mentioned the police were with school security. Kinda sounds almost like some school official with the authority to do so wanted the stadium cleared because they were likely forced to be their due to some legal/insurance requirement the school had and they wanted to go home, like most people who had worked all day probably would want.

10th grade, playing flag football did not find out until we got back inside.

StealThisSheen posted...

I googled and a bunch came up from just this year and last, so I'd say with a lot more frequency than the alternative of "X's life was ruined forever," like certain people in here are trying to argue.

I feel like the biggest issue is that the false accusation is going to be loud and public the "victim" is going to scream it from the rooftops and post it all over social media. Any investigation is going to be downplayed and quiet and same goes for anything that happens to the false accuser. No one will remember that the person was eventually found innocent, only that the accusations were front page news so they had to be true.

I do not like the idea of politicians, especially someone as high up as the President going to disaster site. The manpower required to provide security for them could be used way better somewhere else.

this is clearly a stunt because he does not want to be seen with Biden.

anti-hero at best villain at worst

my biggest issue after playing 3 trying to go back to 1 and 2 is the weapon limitations they had for each class.

I would not care, because there is no doubt I have been charged double for something at least once going through the normal checkout. I try to keep track but it is not always easy, and it is impossible to read the recepts last I checked.

That is horrible, not only is it evil to force someone to work that much overtime, I sure as hell would not want someone like a doctor treating me in any way that has been that overworked.

they added more dlc? Last I played was the trunks DLC, thought they said they were not doing anymore.

Says I need 1270 more days just for 5000 despite my acc hitting 20 years old last month so idk.

I like 4 more, but that is probably some nostalgia. I started playing FF games with 9 and it has always been my favorite. I then worked my way back through the other PS1 games and the re releases of the classics and 4 jumped out as being similar to 9 due to strict classes and very medieval world.

I remember Anthology (the game for ps1 that had 5 and 6) being super hard to find/expensive at the time so it was one that took me awhile to decide to buy, so they were the last of the classics (outside of 3 that I did not play until 3ds or something) that I played. I was always more interested in the Fantasy more than the steampunk like worlds more so 9 and 1 - 5 are ones I gravitated to more, 6 while more medieval than some of the later ones still went a bit to steampunk for me sometimes.

Is this a renamed version of the original or is this something new? I did play the original back in the day as one of the many online games that runescape friends/clan mates tried out but I do not think I played that long. I did go back a few years later but its been 7 - 10 years at this point.

Do not think I have had most/mega stuf. I pretty much only buy double but regular is good once inawhile and that goes for golden as well, the only other flavor I like.

I do not remember the online stuff being to much of a pain in the ass, but then again I can not seem to find my FF9 guide in the stack that still is sitting next to my desk with the rest of them to see what exactly was omitted (I do remember writing in it quite a bit thou). I was also fortunate enough to have cable internet pretty early on and I was in 10th grade in 2001 and almost certainly had it by then so maybe I was just not inconvenienced by it.

I have enjoyed it well enough so far, took a break from it awhile back and been meaning to go finish it before something else catches my eye in a month or 2 like starfield or something. I think I am about halfway through if going by the number of elements I have unlocked is any indication.

StealThisSheen posted...

And yet, by law, in many gun loving states, pointing a gun at a thief would make it legal for the thief to then pull a gun on you, citing that they fear for their life.

Even the staunchest stand your ground states would toss out any self defense claim if it took place while you were committing a felony. Not sure were people get the idea that someone in the process of stealing a car is going to be able to defend themselves with a gun if the victim shows up to try to subdue them at gunpoint until the police arrive.

Intent? no, willingness? yes, if the situation arises that may require you to use deadly force.

Easy my cat already does not give a fuck about me.

To many of these stories have the same storyline of I was 16 at a party with a bunch of people 21+ drinking and/or doing drugs. While it is horrible if everything she is alleging is true, I feel like someone needs to stand up and ask what these kids are doing going to these parties in the first place.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Everyone was so hype about cord cutting and look where we are now. Just like always-on Internet and mass storage for consoles sounding awesome at first before giving to way to microtransactions, obscene update sizes, and abusive DLC that ruined the good aspects.

Just run your own Plex server and you-know-what to add content to it, I say.

You were saving money in the early days cutting the cord because you could probably do with only having Netflix, Hulu or Prime, maybe 2 of the 3 at most, but now every network has there own and it is insane.

We still have cable because my 65 year old father uses it and my mother sometimes as well, but on top of that we have Disney, Hulu, Prime and Paramount+. I do not know the breakdown of the TV portion of the cable bill or the current prices of the streaming service levels we have off the top of my head but it would not surprise me to learn the streaming services come close to costing as much as cable.

After executing it with extreme prejudice I am moving to a country that does not have monsters like that living in it.

It will be a worse experience. Any time a site has an ad blocker detector that I have come across I whitelist the site only for their ads to be so over the top I just do not bother with the site my concern is that youtube will follow that path.

China pays a ton of money to have movies have parts take place in China, and they are a huge market when they are finished, or atleast thats how it worked before covid with things like the first Walberg Transformers movie. And if you take money from China I am fairly certain the contracts require you to make them look like the good guy. I remember watching a pretty indepth video on it a few years ago.

I have never been the biggest going to the movies person, with Covid it just made it easier because they decided to just release some without a theater release. Over the years thanks to streaming etc we can also expect movies to show up on streaming services much quicker than in the past when we had to wait 9+ months for them to run through theaters and come out on dvd/blueray or vhs (for us older people)

Big blockbusters still make a ton of money so I do not see theaters going away totally but I do so them maybe become more of a premium experiance similar to like going to see a play, or some sort of sporting event.

not that I disagree but Fast shoulda ended when Paul Walker died.

Yes I believe in castle doctrine but I understand that some states take it way to far, You should be legally allowed to defend yourself from anything a reasonable person would perceive as a threat period.

Yes I would hope people try to give verbal warning to scare the person of and/or try to assess the situation before taking action but in the real world that may not be something that can be done 100% of the time and I am also aware of that. Shooting someone in the back even after breaking into your house should imo not be something protected by any kind of self Def, or castle doctrine protections.

Anyone trying to get into my home, or that has already gotten into my home with some sort of theoretical good intention like saving me from a fire I would expect to make that very loudly and clearly known well before they have a chance to get themselves shot.

Never been to one, but I would guess the celebs that sell signatures and/or photos at cons are mostly on hit wonders that their only income anymore is running the con circuit and getting paid to sign things that are not worth the paper they are printed on because that is all they do.

Not to sound like a stupid question but does she (or other twitch hot tub streamers)do nude shows on onlyfans? Never really understood the pools/hottubs w/e it is thing on twitch, its like you are trying to be a camgirl but not willing to go all in.

Does Xbox sell 3/6/12 month cards for discounted price per month? I have only had it a few times and paid by the month on my PC. Just got a year of ps+ Extra for my PS5 when it was on sale and even full price you pay like 60% of the monthly price paying a year at a time.

Proud? no, Happy to be American and not born in one of the 100 - 150+ countries that have far more problems that we do? Yes.

this tweet kinda makes it sound like the guy does not actually believe that is what is causing the smog yet turning on the weather anywhere in the north east and we are all having the same problem.

It depends, so given between those choices yes. Should you be allowed to shoot someone on your lawn stealing your lawn gnome or a box off your doorstep hell no, but if someone is in your house and you are there with your family it does not matter what they are there for, that is a threat to your safety period end of encounter. You can not sit there and say they are just there to steal from you, you have no clue how a criminal might react getting caught in the act during a home invasion.

$20k is not even enough to pay off my student loans. $2 million, and maybe I would consider it, but it would certainly have to be life changing money and $20k does not even come close to life changing.

While I understand that this is a problem for real people, I feel like this is a less of a blame Netflix and more of a blame the people that gave out their Netflix info to anyone who asked, or did not change their password regularly if they did share it a little.

AmericaTheBrave posted...

Jesus Christ, how old are you guys? 60? If you're between 25-40 like I assume most of CE is, that's way too young to have so many dead family members.

I am 37, I would say early to mid 30s is about the time a lot of people start losing grandparents depending on how old they were when they had your parents and how old your parents were when they had you.

Lost both sets of grand parents (3 out of 4 were when I was an adult and 2 of them were right before covid and about a year into it)
1 set of Great grandparents that were still alive until I was around 20
1 Great aunt who the family had stopped talking to about 5 years ago
An uncle about a year and a half before Covid, days before Christmas
and recently 2 cousins who were both younger than me, one to suicide and one to cancer.

That is not counting other relatives I never met, because I know both of my grandmother's sisters died not long after her. Also an uncle when he got hit by a car but that was even before my dad was born that we all knew about but never really talked about. My mom is 1 of 7 children so I can imagine there will be some more over the next 10 - 15 years because a few of them or their spouses have health problems that I can see catching up with them.