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    We have, but we haven’t been living for multiple generations with all of the vaccines that today’s children have on the CDC-recommended schedule. The number of recommended vaccinations has exploded — especially since liability protection for vaccine makers went into effect in the ‘80s.

    I have a feeling that the priorities with a new Switch model would be less heat and better plastic (to avoid the bending and cracking we’ve seen).

    I played The Lion’s Song on PC a while back. It’s divided into four episodes. The first episode was excellent, and the second episode was pretty good. But the third episode went so far off the rails that it soured the entire experience for me. The decent fourth episode couldn’t begin to make up for that train wreck.

    It’s a big deal because the lack of cross-play is an oddly anti-consumer stance from a company that was so pro-consumer at the beginning of this console generation. They’re not willing to play nice for the sake of their customers, and their customers are being negatively impacted by their stubbornness. One example is…

    “We’re hearing it. We’re looking at a lot of the possibilities. You can imagine that the circumstances around that affect a lot more than just one game. I’m confident we’ll get to a solution which will be understood and accepted by our gaming community, while at the same time supporting our business.”

    If Sony is going to go the streaming route (even partially) for their next console, then Microsoft has a major opportunity. They could double down on their push to give gamers the most powerful console on the market. “No Streaming Required” could be their slogan.

    I too bought a Wii U, but I don’t consider it a waste of money. It was good for a couple of Mario games, a few Zelda games, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (a game I absolutely loved). I’d lump it in with the Dreamcast as a console I love even though it was technically a failure. (And the Wii U has a…

    Microsoft really needed Halo 6 for this year. Maybe they were putting all of their eggs into the Sea of Thieves basket, but we know how that panned out. Hopefully we’ll at least get a Halo 6 teaser trailer at E3. A Gears of War 5 trailer would be nice too.

    I take an all or nothing stance on timed exclusivity. I think it can be beneficial to have timed exclusivity for an entire game. It allows a developer to focus on just one platform, and that’s something that can have excellent results (as we saw with Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox One). But I don’t like timed…

    Scalebound didn’t look all that great to me, but maybe that’s because dragons just aren’t my thing.

    I still love my Xbox One even though it doesn’t have the most exciting line-up of games. I still have quite a backlog for it, so I guess you could say that the lack of quality new games on the platform is kind of a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

    I tend to get more excited about the 360 games on offer because I can keep them permanently. I’m probably going to let go of my Gold subscription when it runs out and any Xbox One games I had with that subscription will disappear with it.

    I’m wondering if this new multiplayer component is going to incorporate cross-play. If it is, then to what extent? Will there be Xbox One/PC and PS4/PC cross-play but no Xbox One/PS4 cross-play?

    I agree. I love Amy Acker and I love Fred to a degree, but it was as if Joss Whedon was completely smitten with Fred by season 5. “Winifred Burkle. Go.” is the worst line I can remember in the entirety of Buffy and Angel.

    I’m not sure how well I can answer your question. I’m not a financial advisor.

    Under my TAY post about loot boxes, somebody responded to me with an idea that I think could work to mitigate the negative impact of loot boxes without getting rid of them: no duplicate items. If you want to obtain every loot box item in a game, you would know exactly how much money you need to spend in order to do…

    You’re right about the benefits for owners of 1080p televisions; but for me, those benefits just aren’t worth $500. If there were some way for me to upgrade my current Xbox One to that level for, say, $200, then I might consider it. But for $500, I would want a next-gen Xbox — not an upgraded version of the current…

    Maybe it would be time to upgrade if I had a 4K TV. But since I’m going to be using my 1080p TV for the foreseeable future, I’m fine with using my regular Xbox One. Games like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Gears of War 4 look great on it. No real reason for me to upgrade.

    I didn’t realize how good I have it with my Xbox One. Check another consumer-friendly box for Microsoft. It seems weird to me that cloud saves aren’t standard across all current gen consoles.