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I play one Star Wars RPG on my phone along with a few low-key games like solitare, freecell, bubble shooter games, etc. No console or PC games.
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It's Grand Theft Auto V for me. Exclusively.
I've played the story mode maybe 3 times before getting tired of it. I was never an online gamer, given I always got my @ss handed to me by 12-year olds who have nothing better to do than play games endlessly in their free time. It's only within the last 3 years or so that I've looked at the game's online component. This time around...it stuck.
It's my understanding that the online portion of GTA was originally terrible, but it had gone over many refinements by the time I started playing it...so there was plenty for a newcomer to do. There's griefers, there's modders, but I still get enough enjoyment out of the game to put up with it.
As a kid and until my early 30s, I was a huge gamer...then I quit cold turkey for maybe 10-15 years. Except I always made an exception for new entries in the GTA franchise. And like I said, I even stopped playing the latest for a number of years after having gone over the story mode a few times. The online mode still captures my interest enough so that, after 3+ years, I'm nearing a billion dollars (honestly earned money, no cheats) and have set a goal of reaching that. But my interest is slowly waning, and I suspect that once I've achieved that goal, I won't play it nearly as often.
GTAO is the only game I play, but if I lose interest, I may switch over to Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm not sure if I'll have to upgrade my hardware for that however - it's a bad time to be looking into video card replacements.
And if I stop playing GTAO and I don't get into RDR2? I'll probably be out of the gaming world altogether once again. Which might not be a bad thing.
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during lunches I like to play minecraft. when I have spare time on the weekends I like to play dying light
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Asphalt 8: Airborne by Gameloft
My favorite game ever! And the only one I'm currently playing.
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What was your first thought when you read that news?
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I was thinking the same thing.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Nothing, zero.
Maybe, good for them ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I realized how glad am that I don't play video games.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: I don't play video games Have you tried Candy Crush? Please click [CANCEL] to continue not playing video games.
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Randor wrote: Candy Crush Actually, that's one of the several items that are immediately uninstalled when I get a new machine.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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very surprised. 68.7 billion all cash. Wow, MS has some serious money at their disposal.
Microsoft saved Minecraft, so hopefully, they can save the games that Blizzard and Activision have created.
I mean, come one, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone,....
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I hate the whole idea, but ... could they please buy The Expanse TV series and make the rest of 'em? Pretty please with sugar on?
Or would they just give it a Ribbon and stick the Roci in the middle of the screen and call it a new series?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Mike (Prof. Chuck) wrote: What was your first thought...
Money-grab!
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1. Less competition now.
2. Bobby fount a way to get more money while his company was on a decline.
3. Some of the games could be saved, because many talents were leaving the company, and now it could be stopped. Maybe.
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Honestly? "What is Activision Blizzard?" ...
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you are kidding, right?
it's like asking "what is porsche" or "what is australia"
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No, I'm not kidding. I know a Canadian finance company called Blizzard and Activision vaguely makes me think of VR goggles or something.
However from the discussion above I'm assuming it's a computer games company. As per a thread elsewhere in the lounge today, I don't play them (occasional sudoku and 2048 aside) so have never had any reason to come across them.
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So the old rivalry Halo vs. Call of Duty is no more... they are owned by the same company!
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Activision is a trigger word to me that causes a flashback to Pitfall on the Atari 2600.
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My first console!
Phoenix, Pitfall, PacMan - The three big P's of our time
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so upgraded to Windows 11 and now Sling TV works in Brave but no longer works in Edge and Chrome, LOL.
I also didn't like the placement of the task bar. I like it on the right side of the screen. So I had to hack that.
Otherwise, It is still winders. Everything else seems to work.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Have you tried Doom? BTW, Thank you and all the other early adopters for testing it out. From what I've read so far (here), there are more complaints than accolades.
When it includes a 'must have' feature, I'll consider the move, otherwise I'm happy with X. My current PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements so for now, I'm just a spectator anyway. Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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It's odd to say this but Windows 10 is my last version of Windows. I love the mac hardware (and have tried pretty much every other laptop and found them wanting), and MS in their infinite wisdom simply don't support non-TPM systems. VS Code runs nicely on macOS and all my code from hereon in will be cross platform.
So sorry Microsoft, you've decided my future is macOS. And given almost everything is web-based these days, I'm actually looking forward to simply living in iPadOS one of these days.
(But congrats, and I hope it works out well, and I am very curious as to how it is. I worry there's still lots of win95 holdovers poorly wrapped (or simply linked to) by a thin layer. That makes me sad)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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