brucoe

One thing I'm noticing is how difficult it is to get used to the controller. I know some of you have been using them for some time and are quite comfortable with them, and I assume after some time I'll get used to it as well, but wow, it's really frustrating. The other day, I was trying out Destiny 2, and only going through the tutorial part of it, but man I was supposed to shoot some guy, and I kept trying to center him and couldn't get the target on him, shooting the side wall instead. He probably just stood there and laughed at me the entire time.

2 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

It's not the asshole approach if giving him the refund opens up some crazy can of worms. Imagine having to refund everyone that is unhappy with the direction the game is going on? Even then, if you make an exception for him, are they going to make the same exception for everyone that claims a medical issue? Are they going to all for doctor's notes?

 

That's just too many questions and no company would/should have to ever put themselves in that situation.

It could have also been done quietly as well. Not everything requires a marching band and a parade.

I assume the game pass stuff is only good for the time that it's offered on game pass (meaning, you don't get to keep those games forever)?

I installed the system yesterday, and now I'm going through and buying games (and it looks like the Xbox game sale just started today, so no complaints here).

Some of the suggestions mentioned I picked up, but I also picked up Destiny 2 because I've always wanted to get into it. I was kind of on the fence for Elite Dangerous, and I still haven't made a decision on that one. I love the fact this sale started the day after I set up my console.

I feel kind of bad for the guy who brought this lawsuit because his reasons are valid (even if his legal complaint might not be). Unlike the complainers who are upset about the costs of the game, or the ones who complain because it's taking so long, the developer literally changed course in development and is no longer creating the type of game he originally sold to the public. The plaintiff was expecting a game that he'd be able to play, but because of his ailment, he literally can't compete in that new type of game. For PR reasons, they should have just worked with him, but they took the asshole approach instead. And yeah, they're legally allowed to do that, but it's caused people, like me, to think there's no way in the world I'd give money to an entity like this.

The plaintiff didn't sue the company because of the amount of money. I get the impression that he's not suffering a financial burden but sued more out of principle than anything else. But I still feel bad for him, which is never a justification a court has ever used for deciding in one's favor.

3 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Ok, who is U.S. Person 1???

I'm putting my guess on Bob from Accounting.

1 minute ago, TheLeon said:

I also just bought an Xbox One S, and I don't really plan on buying games for it. It came with a code for Rare Replay, which was one of the few non-Game Pass games I would have bought. 

@brucoe Sunset Overdrive is included in Game Pass

Oh, that's cool to know. And I think we bought the same bundle, cause it sure sounds like it. Was thinking of buying one of the farming games, cause, well, I'm an old guy, and that's what old guys do when we're not chasing kids off our lawns.

6 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Sunset Overdrive

That looks awesome. I knew it was going to be a high learning curve the second the trailer had me try to figure out my date of birth. Nonstop action AND remembering my birth date. That's awesome.

So, was thinking of buying an XBox One, and then just bought one during the Prime Day sale.

So, any advice on games I should be looking out for? I figure if it's on PC, I've probably already got it, but any Xbox specific games out there that I've been missing out on?

The amazing part of this whole shit show is that it will be considered water under the bridge in a few days, and we'll already be onto something equally ridiculous and repulsive he's said or done that shows there's no hole deep enough to cause him to stop digging.

On 6/25/2018 at 1:05 PM, Wild said:

Roseanne is already trying to the couch and water bottle apology tour, with the tears and everything. Didn't her agent tell her that you have to lay low for a while before you try to rehab your image?

To be honest, she has a very short window to she needs to rehab her image. If the show launches without her, and it does well, she's forever gone. She needs to gain forgiveness (whatever that means) and then bounce back onto the show right before it's going to be taken off the air for ratings so she can "save" the show by returning after her "rehabilitation".

On 6/21/2018 at 9:03 AM, Rodimus said:

I know the fans wanted Kathleen Kennedy gone from Lucas so they boycotted Solo by only seeing it once. Looks like they chose to view it as Star Wars Fatigue. I guess they will get the picture after the next star wars.

It's not just that. I suspect a lot of the problems of the Solo film were twofold: First, people were really pissed at Kathleen Kennedy and her attack on fans as some bizarre approach at serving the customers. When she did that, I just shook my head and said, yeah, that's gonna end well. Second, the whole allure of Han Solo is his mysterious background. That's the ONE character you DON'T want details filled in. People imagined his background, and they were happy with that. Any attempt to provide more information was going to get immediate responses, kind of like if someone decided to change any part of the story we do know about Solo, like maybe having the bad guy shoot first when we all remember him shooting first. Think of it this way. I always imagined that when Solo met Chewie, it was probably an awesome story. Seeing it kind of ruins it for me because I'm always going to assume it was a lot more awesome than Disney is going to make it.

5 hours ago, number305 said:

If this was a regular Fallout game I would already have it paid for.  I can't buy a multiplayer version of fallout tho.  I don't believe them when they say they are going to keep jerks from ruining the game.  If it gets great word of mouth after it is out for a few months maybe I will jump in.

I'm in the same boat. I have zero desire to play a game where ANYONE has the option to gank me just for the fun of ganking me. If I wanted to be ganked, I'd step outside into the real world where real gankers live.

It took them long enough. For the longest time, it seemed pretty obvious to me that the "mental illness" involved with the state of being transgender was the amount of backlash such people received from non-transgender people who treat anyone different as complete trash.

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

Not surprising. Italy had that famous incident of shouting racist things at their own player on their national team because he's black.

Surprise racism and racial attitudes continues to shock me no matter where I am when I experience it. A few years ago, I moved to Marshall, Texas to teach at Wiley College (an HBCU where The Great Debaters was about and filmed). Some random guy at a gas station struck up a conversation with me (cause I have military plates) and when I said I was professor at Wiley, he started in about this black guy here and that black guy there in the most racist diatribe I'd ever heard. But he assumed because I was military that I totally was on his side about the whole thing. The amount of hatred coming from this random guy shocked the crap out of me in a town where one of its largest employers was the demographic this guy seemed to think was horrible enough that he'd bring it up in conversation.

Yeah, employers have gotten really bad at actually communicating with those who apply. And they've always treated it as if they're the rock stars with the jobs and everyone else just has to do as they feel. I'm not all that upset that the ball is in the other court now. And I think far too many people are trying to treat this as an age thing (ridiculing millenials) when it's really not connected to that.

People are quite capable of producing all sorts of cognitive dissonance. In the end, if you're overweight, you're overweight.