Hahah, any Lego game was about the most painful of the things to play when my daughter was young. “Hey, you have <insert character>, who’s special power is to go over there and do <insert power>, go over there and do the thing.” “No.” “We need you to do that so we can get further.” “No.” “Well swap with me so I can do…

The one we used to go to nigh on 20 years ago had an FM transmitter setup and you’d just tune into the station on your car stereo.  And we’d go with the friend who had the biggest subwoofers.  

We have a little more of a console war going in the house. I had the PS4, but my daughter was all, “dad’s a nerd, I don’t want to play videogames” until her friends were all on XBox, so now she too has an XBox. And then the wife bought a Switch for the sole purpose of playing Animal Crossing. At least we don’t have to…

I probably came closest with either the NES or SNES as I got the NES whatever Christmas they were fully available because my dad wanted one. I got the SNES as a sorry-we-got-divorced birthday present, but I don’t think it was on release though. But going back to the SNES, I started asking or buying consoles around…

Same scale/chord, different mode maybe? Somebody get Kirk Hamilton in here to deep dive this shit since I’m just regurgitating things I’ve only kind of badly learned from his podcast.

We just found a way to pirate live football. Sure it’s a dude who lives local (my wife wants to watch her hometown team, not where we actually live) watching the game OTA and then pointing his phone at the TV to stream it to a private Facebook group, but we’re not paying anything extra for it, damnit. :P

I love hearing folks’ stories about this kind of stuff. It’s a gameplay loop that doesn’t appeal to me, but I get excited hearing about others getting excited. My goal now is to just get through Heavensward without getting sidetracked and leveling anymore combat classes.

That is neat, I did not realize.  

And that’s the thing. Xfinity doesn’t advertise the “unlimited” option. They just expect you to go over and pay the extra $10/50GBs or whatever it was. It took me calling to cancel some stuff before one of the CSRs mentioned it.

Good, everyone should buy it everywhere. I’ve never bought anything on the Epic store. Can you buy it separate or is it like Steam used to be where you can only buy it as DLC?

Ah, I see, thank you. I will probably just stick with the USB for now then. But at least now I understand how it’s supposed to work.

I don’t know if it’s universal, but Xfinity gave me a “deal” to bypass my data cap for $20 a month. I took it because it’s still cheaper than paying for the overages when I mess up and go over, and while on one hand I feel dirty for paying it, it gives me the peace of mind that lets me just stick it to them and do…

Whelp, here we go, now it’s stuck in my head:

And name-brand tuna at that.

Hmmm... no still, and to clarify, I can use the controller to get around in Steam Big Picture so it’s connected, just Remote Play doesn’t seem to see it.  

Have you used the DS4 Bluetooth with the RemotePlay app, because for the life of me I couldn’t ever get it to work? The laptop would pair with the controller, and I could see it in Device Manager, but the app wouldn’t ever see it. I’m not sure when the last time I tried was though, maybe they’ve updated it. Now I’m…

Well... and a decent PC, and a functional desk, and a chair that doesn’t suck. :P

Am I the only one that sees that ES6 title card and somehow my brain instantly turns it into Myst instead?

The problem is that I dislike roguelikes... and visual novels. I still haven’t played Pyre, even though I bought it, because I dislike visual novels... and single-player NBA Jam!? I guess maybe. But I love Bastion and Transisitor so I’ve sworn to play everything Supergiant makes, eventually.

I want to be a couch gamer. It’s more comfortable. It doesn’t hurt my hunched over back. I’m getting some variation of carpal-tunnel from M+KB so controller feels so much better.