Busy Wednesday was busy. X___X I did read everyone's replies earlier; I'm just now responding in turn.
@NintendoByNature Was that The Jailer? Didn't have any glitches with him thankfully. He was enough of a pain as is. XD
@ThanosReXXX The main issue with Tiamat was that I shouldn't have tried fighting him/her/it so close to my bedtime. I initially engaged them just to see what I was up against and then intended to quit for the evening, but it turned into a "just one more time" loop until I won the fight. XD
I probably spent a good hour struggling with that glitch; to be fair, some of that was just me becoming familiar with the fight (and thus dying), but over half of that time was definitely falling/reloading.
^ This was repeating in my brain ad nauseum.
The Wii is a family Wii, not belonging to any one person, ever since Christmas of '08. My asking was more to see if anyone still used it, and apparently they (rarely) do. My dad doesn't touch video games though, so I doubt he's ever used it. XD The old Pac-Man strategy guide I found in their house years ago tells me that things used to be different....
I wasn't ragging on Wii Sports BTW; I've gotten some enjoyment out of that game too! I was more poking fun at that Hannah Montana shovelware.
I'll try and fit that Darksiders documentary in at some point, though I'm not sure when. Thanks for the link!
@NEStalgia I don't mind a reasonable challenge, which Darksiders provides. With your description of III though, I'd probably like it a lot less. Challenging games are good, just not the throw-your-controller kind...which is why I've avoided Souls. I play games to relax and lower my stress levels, not raise them.
As for the Hannah Montana game....My sister was really, REALLY into the show way back when. She'd religiously watch it. She mainly played the game because she liked all the shopping; she at least recognized that the musical bits in it were garbage. I did try it a couple of times when I was bored and just didn't see the appeal. The controls during the songs were iffy about registering the movements. Plus, unlike most of my species, I dislike shopping unless it's a bookstore or (to an extent) a game store.
I normally dislike using the gaming terms "casual" and "hardcore" as the exact definitions vary from person to person, but my sister is (almost was) what I'd call a very casual gamer. She still has a DS Lite that she breaks out on family vacations and maybe once or twice a year besides. Some of the games that she has for it are from me (such as Super Mario 64 DS and WarioWare: Touched!) because I no longer wanted them and thought she'd enjoy them. The last DS game I believe she bought was the original Style Savvy at an out-of-the-way Walmart a few years ago; Trendsetters had just come out on the 3DS at the time, and I had been telling her about the latter because I thought it would be a game she'd enjoy (and upgrade for). Sure enough, she indeed enjoyed it! Besides that, she sometimes plays (mostly bad IMO) freemium mobile games on her phone.
To be fair, she doesn't have a ton of time to game or even follow her normal YouTube channels lately due to the sheer amount of her college workload and the fact that she's in the middle of a practicum at a local early childhood center. I'm proud of her for keeping her head afloat and staying on top of her work, but the amount of hours she's putting into her degree and eventual transfer into a four-year program from the two-year she's in is insane. It's cases like her's where I wish that full-time students were actively paid for their work.
@NintendoByNature In a sense I feel your pain, but that's mainly because pizza is one of my favorite foods. I crave it at least twice a week but am actively trying to eat a lot less of it! XD Now if only I had a better handle on my love of chocolate everything....
@ogo79 A bit late with the pineapple reference there, my friend. Now all you've done is bring the topic back to the front of the line, whereas most of us, including the pineapple fans, had already moved on.
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As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
So the latest provider audit wrapped up after 3 days, and daaaaang. Some of us were sent the prelim report before the exit tomorrow morning, and all I know is there’s gonna be major pain and disciplinary action. We regressed and they’re coming back in 6 months instead of the hoped 12. I won’t get into the weeds, but I think this goes without saying; proper and concise documentation of services provided is key to justifying your service and existence in the health field.
Just sayin
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@Tyranexx i don't think it was a boss really. More like a mini battle with some darknut type guys. I've also noticed some sounding glitches in the switch version. Twice now half of the sound in the game works. For instance, wars sword makes noise but throwing something or pressing a lever to move a platform makes no sound. Not game breaking obviously but it's still kinda messed up. When it happens I just hit save and jump back in and its usually ok.
@ReaderRagfish I'd take that over today's obnoxious "Youtubers" in a heartbeat. I have no idea who watches that stuff or why. Remember kids, tubers are dangerous parasites!
Speaking of Youtube.....@ThanosRexxx and @rjejr would appreciate this. I don't really watch TV. Occasionally live events or special things at holidays or such is really all I watch. I don't even do Netflix...I'd never use it, games fill that role, but I did sign up last year for Youtube TV. For $35/mo it was pretty much basic cable when I'd have never had basic cable...it was nice getting TV for once without watching it through a haze of static (pre-HD), or without it stopping, stuttering and black-screening every 45 seconds (post_HD world) with OTA antennae. So last night Google pushes out an email: Good news, we've struck a deal with Discovery and are adding Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, some other network I don't care about, and Oprah Network! Also we're raising your price to $50/mo because of this.
Wait, WHAAAT?? That's a 43% price increase, overnight, because they just added a handful of channels I couldn't care about even if I were paid to?!? WTF is that??
The price point was the whole reason for it to exist versus other services. Now all the TV services start at $45, and go into the 50's for anything decent. I really can't imagine people watch that much TV to justify this pricing with all the entertainment available today. It now mimics old cable, but with less channels in all markets. I thought people were sick of cable pricing? I'm not sure how while Netflix services are competing to LOWER prices, and music services have had no ability to raise prices for 15 years, frequently compete for sale pricing/group pricing/annual pricing, and can only charge more for the small niche of audiophile quality tiers (Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz for CD quality uncompressed, Qobuz higher still for high-res audio above CD quality.) How is it possible that TV is the only thing that they can infinitely ratchet up pricing and people gladly seem to pay it? The least entertaining and worst quality product of all the services, overloaded with advertising? It doesn't make any sense to me that pricing goes UP rather than down on the dinosaur ad delivery system....while prices go down on on-demand services. I can't figure out what the market is for that.
I also can't figure out how HGTV is the most popular thing on television. It's literally a 24/7 infomercial for the construction industry, home improvement stores, and real estate agencies. How are people watching this in droves....and paying heftily to do so?!?!
And now they want to move gaming to this same audience that GLADLY wants to pay $50+/mo for infomercials interrupted by ads every 10 minutes?
So...just like that, I go back to having no access to TV programming of any kind other than NBC which I get intermittently with constant dropouts, with a coax cable just plopped across the yard to an antenna... games and music will have to do.
And this is complaining from someone currently subscribed to 4 different music services......yet all of them combined come out to about the price of one month of TV, now. And that's with 2 audiophile tier ones in the mix. (I do intend to drop one of them, and it was looking like Spotify was to be the unlucky one since Apple seems to have a lot more content for the same price, but worse connectivity....but then Spotify just sweetened the pot with including the budget $6 Hulu tier (with ads) free....so it's hard to pick again. Notice, again....music is offering MORE value and/or cut pricing to compete (though the artists are cut out of money making which is bad as well), while TV just keeps ratcheting up pricing every time it adds something like it's a governmental tax. And for some unknown reason, people seem to be paying this....
yeah, I don’t like the way cable companies have to do theirs pricing either. I only ever watch less than 8 channels really. 4 cable news, a&e, syfy, and hallmark mystery, sometimes amc.
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@NEStalgia I "cut the cord" just over a year ago, raging against this machine is how I spend way too much time these days on Twitter. The streaming service industry can be it's own class on the failure of capitalism, competition lowers prices. So many $25 services a couple of years ago, not it seems like all of the main ones are $50 - PS Vue, Hulu Live, YouTube Like, DIRECTTV Now, FuboTV. There are still a few cheap ones out there like Philo, and Sling is cheaper, probably b/c no sports, but the idea of cheaper streaming a la carte is dead. If I watched TV I might go back to cable.
Only cable is too stupid to capitalize on the growing discontent with cord cutting. Rather than getting cheaper they are charging $20 monthly rental cable fees for boxes nobody wants. And $5 fees for local channels we can get OTA. So they're a mess too.
May not matter in a few years anyway, these new kids, after millennials, may never get cable TV, they'll just stream their phone to their TV. Or not get a TV. 5G is getting us closer to not needing cable, 6G in another 5 years maydo away with wires entirely. Until then, this old man is just watching whatever he can for free. Well free after the internet bill, still paying the cable company $50 a month for that. 😝
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I used to be watched AXN for CSI Miami, CSI New York; V Channel for America's Next Top Model cycle 7 - 11; Star World for America's Next Top Model cycle 13 - 24, Britain's Next Top Model, Canada's Next Top Model, Asia's Next Top Model, Australia's Next Top Model; NHK world Japan for some Japanese programs; Animax for Animes; Cartoon Network for Codename: Kids Next Door, Xiaolin Showdown, Powerpuff Girls; Nickelodeon for Chalk Zone, Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom; Playhouse Disney for Handy Manny.
But i almost never watch TV anymore since the programs quality become even worse and for entertainment, i can always access from Youtube.
@rjejr There's a lot of things I would blame on, well not capitalism, but what we call capitalism today which is in actual reality much closer to Fascism (which for some reason everyone has accepted that Fascism refers to an authoritarian police state/dictatorship, not to the reality that it's a colloquialism coined by Mussolini to mock the "facile" that private business exists detached from state in his National Socialism....i.e. it has nothing to do with authoritarianism beyond it's reference to total governmental control of the economy while pretending it's private enterprise.)
But the streaming industry is bizare in that the market itself appears to be willing to sustain increasing prices for a decreasing quality product, supplanted by a variety of other products. I'm convinced I could sell these people $300 horseshoes, but only if they buy them in cases of 100.
Sling, weirdly is still $35 if you take Blue AND the sports package..... It's really weird they can still offer that pricing. I just noticed that, it has most of what I want...maybe I'll drop Google now and join into Sling at Thanksgiving if pricing remains the same. No ABC/CBS...but I wasn't watching those (for now) anyway. They comically offer a free indoor antenna for that if you sub for the year. But then why is Google so expensive.
I really don't get who's controlling the pricing on this stuff. How is this all being sold in 1980's style cable bundles again rather than a la carte? It makes no sense that business model exists at all. Let alone succeeds. Though Disney buying everything probably relates somehow. And every year there's a new competitor in the field, and consistently, they're MORE expensive, not less than the competition. And they SUCCEED!!
To be fair the local channels are one of the most expensive parts I think. That's why Sling has NBC & Fox but no ABC (DISNEY!) and CBS...those charge fortunes. But yeah, Cable is really missing the ball here...everyone fled their pricing to streaming. Streaming just copied their pricing now...and now they're all charging the same price. Comcast sells it's voice remote as its main feature now. It's absurd. And why is streaming now more expensive than cable? (Then again, half the streaming channels are owned by NBC Universal which is owned by the cable monopoly....coincidence?)
Unfortunately OTA is less and less an option. The signal is so weak here, and it keeps getting worse. I used to get at least NBC OTA reliably...now it cuts out constantly.... I suppose neverending EM interference with cell towers and such messes up OTA signals more and more. So it's either cable/streaming or the TV is simply a monitor for BD players.
Well, the kids may be streaming from their phone...but they'll be paying $100/mo to Google or DirectTV or Hulu or whoever to do it. Cable by any other name 5G is a joke through and through. They SELL it like it's big. They sell it because China is making it the core of their world. But China decides who is in their world and who isn't and anyone outside the city is condemned as an unperson. It's different here were anyone with the money to get out of a city does. And there's no way those 300yd UHF transmitters are going to reach inside most homes. Not going to happen. "5G" means "5G on the highways and some shopping areas, 4G everywhere else" Maybe 6G will be a thing. The problem now is no longer bandwith, it's concurrent usage capacity (which is a physics problem, thus no real solution can exist other than more and more and more towers), and range (another unsolvable physics problem for radio waves.....not enough LF bandwidth exists for the usage.) We're going to need something a lot better than 1920s radio for a wireless internet future where more and more a gigabit just won't be enough... Just don't tell AT&T. They think they already have 5G running.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait.....you only play family friendly video games....but you pay to watch CSI the graphic murder forensic procedural?!?!?! What planet is this? Where am I? Who are you people?
FWIW, Miami and NY are great shows, I liked those as well. Particularly Miami since it was a little less routine and with a little more unique twists. I never liked the original (Vegas) show...they tried to make it more of a horror/suspense series wrapped around a police procedural rather than the other two that are more straight forward mystery/procedurals. Law & Order used to be great, once upon a time (the original), though it loses something if you're not familiar with the US legal system since it focused on the court part a lot, and then Sam Waterston turned it into his political soapbox instead of a crime drama and it went down the toilet.
@Morpheel Oh, I know they're popular in the mainstream. But if I were to rank the liklihood AM of all people would actually watch those shows, I'd rank it slightly under "the sky is actually made of candy but is going to crack and fall on my head".
@NintendoByNature So, you're just temporarily off the pizza, right? If so, then we might be able to tone it done a bit until after Easter, or whenever your fast ends. Just give us a head's up. And don't worry about the religious connotations: as long as we don't dive in too deep, it's okay to mention it. We'll understand, even though not all of us are religious, like me. I do hope you don't have to go through the whole 40 days, though...
On a side note: even I don't eat as much pizza as you might think. I can't speak for the others, obviously, but I talk about it WAY more than I eat it. Probably once a month or so. I've always found that certain foods tend to keep their tastiness much better, if you don't eat them every week or more often. Then it just becomes samey...
Me, I really like to look forward to getting whatever food I'm into at any given point in the day/week/month, and then REALLY be able to enjoy it when I finally do. And so, variety is king, far as I'm concerned.
@Tyranexx Wow, was that your first real text wall?
And don't get me started on "one more try" evenings. Luckily, I usually had those on weekends, so I could at least get enough sleep afterwards without having to be worried about getting up too late for work the next day...
My "one more try" nights usually lasted to well in the night/early hours of the next Saturday or Sunday, after having started around 9 or 10pm. Sometimes, I only noticed how long I had been going at it with the retries, because the sun was starting to rise, so that'll give you some idea on how long my sessions lasted sometime...
I just hate losing, especially when it's unfair, and when I play a game, I always want to make some decent progress, so I can at least switch off my console, knowing that I've actually managed to achieve something that evening. Still being stuck in the same level/world that I started in, just doesn't cut it for me.
@ogo79 Mashed potatoes are for babies and the elderly. Real men just cook or bake 'em whole and then chew their potatoes...
@NEStalgia Nah... I'm old school. I positively HATE this modern, disposable society where it concerns crap like Netflix and other on-demand services, that only cost me more money than I would ever want to pay for any video service, considering the series/movies I would like to watch, and the number of different services I would have to subscribe to, in order to be able to do that. In that respect, I agree with @rjejr. It's all getting WAY too expensive, and all these services are creating their own niche entertainment, instead of working together to bring just a smaller number of more diverse packages, that might interest more people, and also be a bit cheaper.
No, I'll just watch TV. I use commercial breaks to go and get something to eat, drink, or go to the bath room for a short pit stop. And I can still rewind or fast forward on my set top box, so I'm not too bothered by commercials either way. And whatever I'll miss because it's not broadcasted for whatever reason, I'll just download for free, if I really want to watch it anyways.
Personally, I also feel that with real TV, your more a part of the actual world, instead of an on demand world that's WAY too individual. Much like all the idiots walking around on the street with their faces glued to their smart phones, instead of looking around and actually noticing the real world they're living in.
Oh, and I actually have high quality HD TV from my cable supplier. Although, cable: nowadays, it's all iTV set top boxes anyway, so TV over internet, basically. 1080p, 60fps and all that. It's almost like heaven for some of those people that also demand the same from all of their games...
@AlohaPizzaJack Damn, you still have AMC and Syfy? Those two used to be some of my favorite channels, but the responsible parties decided to pull both channels from the roster in my area.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@NEStalgia You forgot to tag him, or was that on purpose?
And like you, I was hugely amazed at him mentioning watching CSI, what with all the blood, guns and violence. Jaw dropped to the floor moment, for sure...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
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