I don’t remember exact details (I think he was involved in Xbox hardware) but back in the original Xbox days I worked as a contractor at MS for a number of years (although never on the Xbox team.) and I still know a number of current and former Xbox and Bungie people from that time.

A co-worker of mine recently bought a new Prius that ended up back at the dealer for some sort of vague “Hybrid System Failure” with under 2,000 miles on the odometer.  You wouldn’t think a Toyota would have that type of problem...

Cleared all four Divine Beasts and around 80 shrines but never finished the game here.  I figure I’ll go and finish it at some point, maybe try to find the rest of the shrines, but doubt I’ll ever 100% it.

Lost.

I actually used to know the person who had Master Chief.  He was on the Xbox team, and I believe he had to relenquish the gamertag when he left Microsoft.

The Handsome Collection is currently selling for all of $6.02 on Steam, so I can’t imagine they would be able to charge much for it if anything.

My guess would be that they’ll either scale the enemies accordingly or let players start level 30 characters in TVH if they’ve beaten normal mode at least once.

Back when I was growing up my parents had an Aerostar Eddie Bauer edition (a 1993 model I believe) and the interior of this one reminds me of that car.  I think this one even has the same dark blue/beige paint scheme.

They raced Indy cars at Daytona once in 1959, resulting in two deaths (one in a test session a couple of months before the race, one on the last lap of the race of itself.) They haven’t been back since.

Probably more Dead Cells (Switch version) since the 1.2 update was released for consoles yesterday. Also been playing Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ again recently (still terrible at it after 220 hours) and one of these days I’ve been meaning to finish True Vault Hunter mode in Borderlands 2 on my Zer0. Also thinking…

Not quite sure what they’re going for here.  Even as a VW fan I’m pretty sure I’d rather have a GTI.

Rather obscure now, but I enjoyed Looney Tunes Space Race on Dreamcast.  Don’t think it ever made it to any other platforms though.

One of the most unusual boxes I’ve ever seen for a video game was the one for The (Even More!) Incredible Machine, which came in a rather weird looking angular box that probably served mostly to take up too much shelf space, but which looked pretty cool. I had it back in the day when the game came out, but wish I had…

The first Borderlands gave me motion sickness relatively quickly, but I have been able to play 70+ hours on Borderlands 2 without issue. I’ve been told that doing things like increasing the FOV setting and disabling things like head bob can help a fair bit.

On a recent trip to SoCal I was able to rent a Challenger R/T for a few days (much to my wife’s chagrin) and in addition to the usual driving I had the chance to drive it down to San Diego and back. It’s a pretty fun car to drive around for a few days as long as you’re not responsible for maintaining it, but I’m not…

Not sure what to play.  Just put a new RTX 2070 into my desktop PC but it’s pretty CPU bound until I upgrade the rest of the components and I’m also waiting on a new monitor.  In the meantime I’ve recently picked up the first Risk of Rain (I’ll probably get the second at some point but wanted to play the first one…

I don’t think there’s any way to do a Disney trip and not be exhausted at the end of it. That said, if we are going to WDW we will always include at least one “off day” in the middle, which usually ends up being something like a beach day.

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I’ve been a Disneyland annual passholder for a number of years now, and back in 2016 my wife and I got WDW annual passes for a year (which worked out quite nicely when there was a technical conference relevant to my job at the time being held there.) Disneyland and WDW are very different experiences (Disneyland is the…

Not true.  All the usual means of payment still work, but if you’re staying in a Disney hotel you can use the MagicBand to charge your purchases to your room.