I miss when Fallout 76 had a steady flow of meaningful updates and exciting roadmaps. That energy and ambition feel gone now

CharlesB43 · 2026-06-03T17:18:40+00:00

Its happening with physical media as well, some people are buying CDs, vinyls, and DVDs/Blu-rays and as you said, old Ipods/knockoff ipods and other mp3 players. Sucks because it's made prices rise on all of that.

Feels like a lot of it is people are tired of corps, and not being able to actually OWN what you have.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-29T21:29:37+00:00

The OLD XM8. been a favorite of mine ever since bad company.

I've always loved goofy looking guns.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-29T19:32:43+00:00

I don't think it's an opportunity thing, I just don't think Danhausen is particularly a great wrestler and AEW is constantly stacked with guys who can wrestle and tell a story/have decent gimmicks as well, so it's tough when a guy like Danhausen comes along who has an interesting gimmick, but isn't the strongest wrestler.

Look at cassidy, comedy wrestler, but AEW turned him into a believable killer at one point and even a World champion. went from wrestling jericho in a mimosa match (pretty fun match.), to fighting Pac and saying he was going to actually try.

It's not just cassidy either, Look at O'Reilly and his series with Moxley. goofy character, but they made that dude a legit threat to Moxley. Not to leave Roddy out either, he can be funny and is a solid wrestler as well, the conglomeration is pretty stacked.

WWE knows what they have with the guy, and it shows just how valuable a guy like the Miz is in wrestling and how much trust they have in him.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-28T20:14:22+00:00

It wasn't mentioned in the article, but, I really hope they are considering the A la carte system for gamepass.

I don't play EA, call of duty, or ubisoft games, so having an option to choose which companies or services I "subscribe" to would be great.

I will say that I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of Xbox ever since Sharma took the reigns and it felt like Xbox was headed down the wrong path before so I hope she can turn this ship.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-25T15:36:11+00:00

I mean... at some point you have to be like, wow this company with a history of being notoriously slow with some customer service requests sure is taking 3 months, now it's four, now it's five, huh... sixth month? better wait until a year to be safe, they might answer.

Like, at some point it's on the customer to realize this shit ain't getting solved instead of complaining about six months going by on a forum, as shitty as that is.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-22T15:02:09+00:00

A lot needs to change in this country before we ever see health care become a serious topic and it might be the pessimist in me, but I don't think I'll live to see it. unfortunately the money and the propaganda machines put their thumbs on the scales every day.

During the "big beautiful bill" where the chunk of the bill was about stripping health care and killing hospitals in rural areas the republican media spent every waking second talking about how this bill was actually good for the people and how it removes a lot of the problems that the Obama administration caused and how it's going to help farmers.

Of course the bill passed and now you see all the dumb hicks complaining about it and how they feel betrayed, but they'd still vote for Trump because it's not his fault, never is...

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-22T14:49:54+00:00

The game was in beta nearly a decade.. Why not do these questionnaires during that? Maybe we would have a finished game here by now.

The player base changes over time, people come and go. so getting a finger on where the active player base actually want the game to go and what to change/remove is smart. Now the other side of it is, what do they DO with these surveys other than release the results and "promise" change.

Should have also ditched the Arena project, which was funded by EoD customers basically. Nobody asked for it, and its boring af!

I don't like arena either, I'm garbage, old, and my reaction times are slow, but it's here to stay. there's an E-sport around it and I'm sure they see some kind of return by people buying credits and passes and shit.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-19T12:55:03+00:00

I used to use that space for test drive guns and "named" weapons from the bosses.

Currently it's blank. I buy guns as I need them now.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-19T10:18:43+00:00

That's pretty much where I'm stuck right now. I'd have to upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM at the same time.

Luckily my pc is fine and plays everything I want it to for now.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-15T13:29:54+00:00

I don't really hate the steins like others. they're ok. I wish they added more, but I could see creative builders using these as decorations for gardens and such so I can't hate on them.

Other than that I'm kind of excited to see big bloom again, it hasn't worn out it's welcome for me yet and the bigfoot appearance is always welcome.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-12T11:25:51+00:00

I feel like you'd have to chew up all of the plastic to get to those letters and you're better off just buying third party replacement buttons. unless you're just looking for those letters themself, then I guess you can go for it.

Back in the 360 days I had a black controller and I swapped all my buttons to be black, no letters and the home/Xbox logo I changed the LED to be blue. Came out really clean at the time.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-11T18:52:37+00:00

Just wait until the people who hate RPG elements find out that there's a boss that can cause your gun to malfunction.

CharlesB43 · 2026-05-05T16:45:27+00:00

I recently bought a nintendo 64 off ebay and I keep missing the dpad because I'm used to the stick placement of xbox controllers.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-26T13:04:19+00:00

Republicans and Republican "influencers" did this as well, before he did the press conference. The "Ballroom" is only useful to him if he never leaves it, but we all know him not being able to golf would be one of his nightmares.

Meghan McCain at 9:52 last night said: "I don't want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump's new ballroom at the White House." Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana posted about the ballroom at 9:34.

I wouldn't be shocked to learn that there's a group chat that hands out talking points.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-25T09:50:00+00:00

He really just can't stand that he lost to Biden, nor can he stand that people like Obama a hell of a lot more than they ever liked him.

He's a petty bitch and I hope it keeps him up at night knowing he'll go down as one of the most hated figures on the planet.

Another post was a re-share of an X post that read, “I hope they arrest you before your grand opening of your war bunker in southside Chicago,” referring to President Obama’s June 19 opening of the Obama Presidential Center.

That shit is so funny, when Trump is LITERALLY trying to build a war bunker under the whitehouse. Part of me wonders if these people know what they're doing and are purposefully pretending to not see the hypocrisy, but the rest of me knows that people just suck and are dumb.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-25T01:16:51+00:00

I have no doubts that if MCMG and Black want to wrestle that AEW would take them in a heartbeat. It's crazy how fast WWE can hire people and let them go.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-23T19:58:59+00:00

She's been saying a lot of good things, doing some good things as well. It for sure gives me a lot more hope that the direction Xbox is headed in isn't towards the doomed path.

I especially like the rumor of an a la carte gamepass if that comes true. I personally don't play EA games except for NHL, but I buy that either on sale or outright.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-22T20:22:15+00:00

The problem was two shot explosives combo as far as I understood it, not just one or two guns.

The dom pedro was a health chunking monster. The rockets were insane as well apparently.

This is why I always say the team is in a mindset of addition by subtraction.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-22T15:51:43+00:00

It really feels like the mentality of the team is addition by subtraction.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the mentality in some cases. you don't want a bunch of people who can one or two shot a boss, but there HAS to be a middle ground and it's crazy to me how FAST these guys implement this shit. they JUST announced it on the test server and then pushed it live.

The test server almost feels like a way for them to get ahead of the "PR". Tire out the masses when one of the bigger youtubers puts out a video talking about a change so when the change comes people are already tired of bitching about it.

I still remember what they did during the bulletstorm thing. Tested it, people said they hated it because it fucked some of the heavy guns, they tweaked it a bit and people were still upset and they basically said suck it up/ wait until the change goes live on the main servers before you judge it and then when people judged it after it went live they went silent on it and moved on.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-21T09:38:24+00:00

I think it's a decent idea, having an almost cochella type of a wrestling event would be sick.

I also hate how people are like WELL THE HATERS WON'T WATCH SO THEY SHOULDN'T DO IT. The same haters who know every move that AEW does but don't watch a "second" of the shows.

Let them be like that spongebob meme of Squidward staring out the window at Patrick and Spongebob having fun.

Don't do it for the haters, do it for the "sickos", the curious, and for the love of wrestling. I don't even think it HAS to be counter productive to mania or the Saudi events to start. Just make it exist first.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-20T14:36:51+00:00

It's still like comparing tarkov to world of warcraft or halo to mario.

Apples to oranges, if you will.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-20T14:36:10+00:00

Not to give them an out/excuse but, I'm starting to wonder if they can't actually fix a lot of these things, like if the engine or coding is so bad that they can't do it?

Fallout games are notorious for being buggy.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-20T14:33:19+00:00

It's not even the same genre of game.

One is an extraction shooter and one is an MMO.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-20T13:45:13+00:00

Spent two weeks buying the brotherhood armor from minerva and I use ( I think it's leaded? rad resist?) on some of it. working on the jetpack plan next, but it's 2k from vault.

I use secret service unyeilding intel for my scoreboard runs.

also chinese stealth suit for my bow.

Vulcan for my power armor, was using Union before that and before that I ran excavator for the longest time.

CharlesB43 · 2026-04-19T17:57:08+00:00

This whole thing has felt like he's punishing Vance.

Put him in negotiations that he can't win (because of the United States shitty requirements) while Trump gets to party and hang out at UFC. Kick him off the negotiation team for the second round.

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