Okay, I looked it up and there is still a lot that is different. With PS NOW, you can only stream games to PC for starters. You can’t download them. And there aren’t any PC exclusives.

I don’t have a PS4, but you are saying you can get access to a Game Pass service with over 100 games, Online play, ability to play dozens of PC games, and the ability to stream games to your phone without needing to have your console on, all for $10? That doesn’t sound accurate at all.

O lord. One of my former students was obsessed with this group. He would hang around my classroom after school just to steal my AUX cord and blast this music. According to the roster for this upcoming school year, I have the kid again. He will be pleased to know that his favorite band has now invaded my eyes as well…

Since Ari already picked the HALO theme, I’ll pivot to another title screen gem: “Icarus” from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I can listen to this song (and pretty much any other song from the OST) for hours and hours, which is why it makes me happy to find that someone uploaded a five hour loop of the theme to YouTube:

I have yet to win any team-based match, which means this will be pretty much impossible for me to get. I don’t understand how people can luck into having competent teammates ~5+ times in a row. That, and not get jaggied off the map thanks to forty blob people jamming into you at the same time. It’s a fun game, don’t…

Hmm. Maybe proper grammar and clarity are exclusive to the Xbox version?

You tried grabbing that rope ...once? Coward. I tried four times, hard quit the game, and had a glorious fifth attempt. I Googled walkthroughs for that rope boss. I emailed the devs.

OMG DUDE. Stop being so wrong about everything. Game Pass Ultimate literally gives you GOLD and Game Pass for Xbox and PC. They are going to throw xCloud in there at no additional cost. Please read. 

You act like you can’t buy a game when you have Game Pass. Again, you don’t know what you are talking about. 

Everyone is rightfully calling you out. Also, with this subscription, you get to play Game Pass games on your Xbox and PC. I don’t think you thought this through very well. 

Very dumb comparison. Also, if anyone saw the last Marvel movies, they would obviously expect Spidey to be a character in a game called Avengers. Why is this hard for you to follow?

“Did I just see Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla gameplay?”

I don’t know if you are dumb or just a fucking idiot, but you aren’t paying attention to what a lot of teachers are doing right now if you think they are doing nothing. And you certainly don’t seem to understand testing, the realities of the American K-12 populace, or data.

There are so many words in the English language, and yet all I can say is fuck DeVos.

I’m thinking they’re thinking that we can probably just cut the number of teachers in half and have twice the amount of students enrolled in virtual classes.

Sadly, you are right. It’s definitely the underfunded schools’ fault for not being able to meet the needs of students that are still being sold as privileges.

I agree with you completely. As I said to my colleagues, this (academic) year has been strange, but next (academic) year will be a demonstration of insanity. 

Ugh. I know.

As a public high school English teacher, I would love to hear what social distancing looks like in a classroom of thirty-five students in a 30ft.x30ft. room.

I did not enjoy Outer Worlds very much. It started off alright, and then it just... never went anywhere. The sidequests were a waste of time and the game didn’t feel like it rewarded my play style at all (stealth, sniper, assault rifle). The combat was a joke a quarter of the way through the game, and all of the side…