I’m a big fan of their DuchesS which is a recreation of the second OG Xbox controller (controller S). Especially with backwards compatible OG Xbox games.

https://hyperkin.com/duchess-wired-controller-for-xbox-series-x-s-xbox-one-windows-10-11-black-officially-licensed-hyperkin.html

I’ve considered the Duke recreation though.

Am I going to have to get a bumper sticker saying I don’t support that shit? Dammit.

America first is literally just progressivism. Help America, then help everyone else.

The Republican “America first” has always been fucking over everyone so nobody notices they’re fucking over us as well.

My thoughts exactly. I’m a console gamer. So a straightforward all-in-one box is great.

The NFL changed their kickoff rules to force more return attempts, making it more exciting since before it would just get kicked out the back and spotted at the 25. This has been pretty much unanimously accepted as a positive change.

He thinks anything new is woke and bad. Change is bad. Go back to how things were. Etc.

Tangentially related, he made an appearance at the Commanders stadium. This is notable because it’s D.C.'s team, he asked to have the stadium named after him, it was a highly racist mascot before being changed which right-wingers still complain about, and he got booed at his appearance this last weekend.

Not really. Withholding compensation only impacts those with the least amount of outside money. In other words, the most corrupt would be able to leverage it against the least corrupt.

I think it’s bullshit that “keep the government open” hasn’t been made permanent yet. Same with paying our debts.

Maybe before. But it’s gotten pretty damn good at detecting anomalies and issues. And every time a human QA validates the info, it gets better.

I’d still leave it to a human to fix the code though. I suspect that letting AI write the code would make it unworkable for people in the future. But maybe it can write code in a straightforward way to be managed. I don’t know. It’s advancing pretty fast.

From a tech POV, that makes a lot of sense. Use AI to find the needle in the haystack. Then let a person validate. That’s probably one of the better uses for it. Although I don’t love AI for any of the broad reasons to not like AI.

I dropped my Premium plan when they upped the price. But even before I was waiting until they had a sale before subscribing.

My religion explicitly says that fetuses aren’t people until their first breath. Does that mean abortions aren’t murder as long as the mother is Christian?

I don’t know what’s worse, that Microsoft may have given them the go-ahead or that they did it knowing Microsoft would be too scared to say something.

That’s a normal complaint. I thought Reach was peak esthetic for Halo because it was big recognizable variations in armor.

After that they made intricate armor variants that largely go unnoticed because they just look like a mess.

I never got the complaints about Manchin. He had morals and was left of everyone in the GOP ,and he was in a seat that pretty much could go any further to the left.

Fetterman can eat a bag of ducks though. He’s literally just appealing to Republicans like he’s about to flip.

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What hasn’t been working? Giving talking space to right wing extremists and withholding context instead of unbridled information due to fears of being considered partisan. But I doubt that’s what they’re going to be fixing.

The right-leaning news station is about to embrace right-wing tabloid journalism.

Are there any news stations that are actually unbiased and honest, even if it means they will be labeled as having liberal-bias? I have to listen to actually liberal/left biased content to get full context without sugar coating things for the sake of appearing unbiased.

The good: Gunplay was the best of new 343’s Halo games. They made the Prometheans fun to fight. Warzone was the only good thing to come out of 343’s multiplayers. The lootboxes which could be earned was better than infinite’s paid season passes and expensive armor cores. They also had probably the only good iconic anything from the 343 games in the Guardians. On top of that, they had the best villain of the 343 games (evil Cortana).

The bad: They brought back Cortana after a amazing send off. The Didact never appears again despite having a teaser at the end of 4. Half the story is you playing a random Spartan chasing John for being “suspicious”. The team dynamic isn’t great and is leaned into. Warden Eternal SUCKS. And then he sucks again. And again. NO SPLIT SCREEN, AT ALL! No real Firefight, but none of 343’s games have had real Firefight.

Anyways, infinite sucks and I wish it didn’t exist. I’d rather have had a Halo 6 close out the Promethean story and do more with the Guardians.

Thanks! I actually just bought one of the those that are delisting soon a couple nights ago. So that makes me feel better. I’ll have to go through this first list tonight.

It absolutely isn’t a legal defense. You’re right.

I’m saying it should be legal. Starting now, since digital is a standard. Nintendo needs to put it out or let people share it. They can have 10 years (or the highest of 5 years from now/10 years from when it was last available). Something like that.

The TV movie standard of everything being available should be the video game standard.

I think there’s a difference between unavailable and limited availability.

There are some old games that may never come back. In many cases, there’s no agreed owner. Imagine if something became public domain after a short period of no use (5 years, 10 years maybe).