Sometimes I feel like a guy who’s broke trying to rationalize why having money actually sucks when I defend my choice of Xbox One instead of PS4 (I actually also own the latter, but game almost exclusively on my XB1) - still some ugly feelings left over from the Great Console Troll wars of 2013-14.

Why should games increase in price with inflation?

Oh one other tip for you guys. Over Encumbered doesn’t cause you to walk slow,it drains your AP while you move normally. This is good as you’ll rarely be too far away from a table to scrap things, maybe some dungeons they are rare. It’s a drag but better then the alternative.

Tips I can offer:

Woof, I seriously set myself up for the commentariat backlash.

Uuuuh no. The spoiled mommy and daddy’s kids always come out to play when something like this comes up.

Buy rechargeable AAs and get over yourself (all xbox AA haters/idiots). You can buy the rechargeable pack (as mentioned in the article) or better yet use standard rechargeable AAs and have even more freedom. (Amazon Basics or Eneloops are today’s go to brands, just get the standard ones that have more charge cycles).…

I’ve been using the same four rechargeable AA batteries since the Xbox 360 era. Spent maybe $18 for the kit, it’s all lasted me more than ten years, and I don’t have to worry about battery disposal. When the two in my controller die, I just swap them with the two full ones waiting in the charger. You, too, can be…

When I was a teen in Holland there was this elderly black bus driver. He was frickin awesome! He always wore this fedora hat, which added extra points for him being that much more classy.

One day I was walking home during summer, cause you know, I didn’t have much cash like almost any teenager did and he drove by,…

Wow, Jason. I thought your game-delaying days were over. You must be a glutton for punishment.

Jason Shreier? Reporting on a delay? Uh, the death threats and anti-semitism are about to flow like water.

The Xbox Game Pass has been a great reason to keep playing my Xbox. $10 to play Sea of Thieves and ReCore last month. My wife and I now have 25+ hours into State of Decay 2 for this month. As long as MS keeps adding old and new games, Game Pass continues to be a crazy deal... not sure how they aren’t losing money from…

Wouldn’t you rather just be able to buy what you want? I think cosmetic MTX in $60 games are never going away, but they feel far less predatory when you can just go to a shop and pick whatever skins or hats you want rather than rolling the dice in hopes you’ll get that rare Junkrat outfit you’ve been craving.

*sheepishly raises hand*

All of the skins from the Anniversary event have leaked already. There are links on the Competitive Overwatch subreddit, and here’s a direct link to images of all for anyone curious.

“Horton, Here’s a Poo!”

Yeah but at least Sony and Microsoft’s digital purchases have always been tied to a singular account. Nintendo fragments their purchases between accounts and occasionally locks them to single systems.

The easiest thing is to do what Nintendo used to do, have a console repair training program for electronic shops that want to repair systems. Charge a reasonable fee, give the shop stickers that say ‘Authorized and Certified repair shop’ for them to put on the doors/windows and set up a zip-code search and part of the…

Negative Thought: This is why people make fun of millennials.
Distortions: Overgeneralization.
Positive Thought: It’s good that someone found a way to cope with a problem.

As other people have said, that would be a free speech violation, and stores already have a similar policy (by their own choice, not by law), anyway. The stores could refuse to sell M-rated games to adults who are with kids if they *wanted* to, and the accounts could be banned if the developer *wanted* to (though the…