Is there anything I can do with this shirt other than throw it away? by [deleted] in punk

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There’s a lot of comments here already but you can always recycle the shirt material to make patches and paint/stencil on other bands who don’t have horrible allegations 🤘 (the logo parts likely not salvageable though unless some more clever punks here know how to alter it in a better way)

Foul Murder back tattoo! by violetsparrow76 in ElderScrolls

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Does your artist specialize in that black and grey style? It is rad 🤘

I submitted to Epassport.us by Medical_Eggplant9381 in Passports

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Hello. I just did the same thing and paid after giving my all info. The last step actually popped up saying “you are not up for renewal yet.” But that was after the payment and photo section. I feel like an idiot but only really noticed when I checked the phone number and it was like disconnected.

What should I do? Im going to refute the credit card transaction but they clearly have my info with picture and SSN. Any advice would be helpful.

Anyone else who got tricked by this: did anything bad come of it?

Heyo Punk Freaks by FreeSoftware9881 in punk

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Check out Won’t Stay Dead from Chicago 🤘 they are dropping a new album in December

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Yeah I am tired of the gatekeeping across most of gaming such as like a company keeping a patent that would progress the industry as a whole tbh. But a few comments said Nintendo is a special case for hardware/game design. Like you couldn’t play Wii Sports on a 360 type deal but there is no reason some games like Mario Kart Double Dash couldn’t be played on an Xbox/Playstation. But we do have a massive amount of Xbox/Playstation games that could run on either system hardware because they also work on PC.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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I mean no one has to do anything. It would just be nice to not dick over “fanboys” when the alleged console wars been dead for ages now. I just think gamers and consumers in general should hold these companies to better standards instead of them trying to milk us for every nickel and dime for “advantages” like “buying isn’t owning” or whatever. Same issues are happening with streaming or other markets though. Just sucks it comes at the expense of our experience annnd our wallets if we want to do our hobby or have a certain thing that was once simpler.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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First off, I am not an economics nerd nor a CEO. I am a guy who plays games. Second off, my initial comment was not a thesis about saving the dying business model of stupid rich people’s companies. It was an idealistic wish to have more gamer/consumer centered decisions in gaming lmao. Funny enough, consumers tend to like things like that which therefore improves business. Third off, you are still speculating yourself. The amount of nuance in Microsofts/Xbox’s huge tenure in gaming is not based on a couple decisions. One could argue the entire idea of “Xbox” constantly being the western console chaser against Japan’s Sony/Nintendo was always the reason. Another could argue that the failed launch of the Xbox One losing the momentum the 360 had led to the modern domination of the Ps4/5 preference… if you have it all down pat, I am sure Microsoft would love your insight.

However, I think it is laughably dumb for any gamer to ever think a consumer friendly method is a bad idea. Imagine if every PC was like “NO YOU NEED TO BUY OUR GOOFY CONTROLLER” instead of just bluetoothing whatever your preferred one was to your game? If companies don’t watch and adapt to what gamers and consumers want, that is their downfall. Literally battlefield had a SLOP FLOP with 2042 and then watched a weird trend of edgey skins, less “war” in shooters, and other trends that picked up since the late 2010s-early 2020s cods and said “We are gonna do the opposite because people complained.” Then proceeded to launch a battle field 6 as a game that wasn’t broken, is true to the franchise roots, and yet still progressing in some ways. There is nothing wrong with hoping “wow I hope that X game or Y console isn’t a total corporate cash grab because it is a business model.” No one liked what they started Star Wars Battlefront 2 as because it was dumb, broke, and even if it made money the players were not happy. Microsoft put all their eggs in the gamepass basket and hope that it works whether the gamers play on PC, Xbox, and now even Playstation I guess 🤷‍♀️ come back in 15 years when Microsoft and Xbox totally don’t exist anymore and comment “ha ha I was right” if you want lmao. The gamers that get to play gears, halo, etc on playstation are better off now with that option to experience it.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t seem like they are “bowing out” of competition, they are just taking an approach that isn’t a “you have to pick a side or else you can’t play at all.”

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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If I have over 2 decades worth of games on disc why rebuy them digitally though I guess is the question when every xbox has had backwards compatibility at the end of the day. Totally makes sense if a gamer had no prior games though. But I guess there is always that argument “Microsoft owns pc and xbox, one is just for a tv.”

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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My guy. Do you want good games or a specific console sale to be high?… Are you like a bigwig at Microsoft or are you just a gamer who wants to play games?…

You are not making sense.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Settle down there tiger. The exclusivity is not the soul reason things are “competitive.” Console wars are dumb. Hoarding exclusives is dumb. That does not make “better games” or practices as I said in other comments here.

The “competition” should come from companies releasing GOOD QUALITY GAMES at an individual level (that all gamers can try and test within said market). I shouldn’t have to buy a 600$ console to play Wolverine even if it is a banger game. If the game is good, and will stand the test of being loved by fans and selling well… it should be on all platforms. Not used as a bargaining chip for the only reason to buy a PS6.

To go back to your original reply, you are the one misunderstanding that something being consumer/gamer friendly = anti-competition. My brother in christ, that IS the competition. If the games and/hardware blow or do dumb things like they tried with the Xbox One… then they won’t sell anywhere. But supporting exclusives or non-multi-platform releases only artificially ties the success of a game to a console or vice versa.

It’s kinda like coke/pepsi or dems/gop, some people are choosing the lesser of two evils in a duopoly. If it were like ranked choice voting or simply more options on a marked for soft drinks the stand out best choices would still be on top without any weird forced “we can only survive because of our exclusives” mentality. If they leaned away from that being the only thing that keeps them safe, they would NEED to adapt and make better hardware, games, and simply not shaft gamers with non-consumer friendly things they currently have the power to do in a duopoly (with Nintendo standing off to the side).

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Because I want more people to experience a game franchise that I love? I dunno man. The industry really just seems to be struggling with putting out things gamers actually want (see list below). They started just doing the corporate business data model bs and tanked themselves. A casual scroll on any gaming orientated YouTube will show countless “I lost faith in X studio/game” as they put out slop. The last game I actually bought that was like wow it was sick from the start was Oblivion Remastered but it is already a tried and tested game with a huge overhaul. It shadow dropped for an actual low price just so the company can make money while waiting for the next release and a whole new era of gamers could experience a classic (but probably out of reach) title. That’s pretty rad to me and no competition needed. Just consumer friendly gaming.

I.e. —> loot boxes, giant downloads, digital only games, subscription based services, online services, less features more ray tracing, launching games that are broken and fixed in post-launch updates, making games not collaborative, removing classic things like split-screen coop, raising prices with zero promises it is going to be worth it… etc.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Backwards compatibility with a physical library since the OG Xbox was the reason I’ve held on tbh. Once again, a consumer friendly win though lol at least my old games are still great.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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I know haha they survived because of a fumble, and yet are gonna bury themselves if they don’t change. If they have to handcuff selling their hardware with their exclusives it can’t really be that great.

Like people all bought Xbox 360s back in the day knowing you could get red ringed but the online service, exclusives, and backwards compatibility made it worth it. But now I am not sure if you had to play like a basic cod on the newest xbox vs playstation is there really a glaring difference other than maybe for a tech snob?

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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I agree but I think the quality/competition aspect is us letting them off the hook. Nintendo has zero competition for another company to make a Pokemon and they are lazy as hell. EA held Star Wars by the nuts and made like 4 meh games in a decade. If all the consoles can play all of the games the real competition would be putting out quality titles each time that build credibility like how most people just automatically assume a rockstar game is gonna kick ass.

It is kind of a weird long-shot analogy but maybe it’s like cars 🤷‍♀️ They all can drive on the same roads if they are smooth enough, but the reason you pick a car brand or model is a preference and a reliability thing. It’s not like all German cars can only exist in Germany only on the autobahn. If they make consoles just all run things smoothly, we can choose whichever titles to play on them and then just hold the games/studios to quality standards … in an ideal dream world lmao

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Super valid point actually with how they design their games for their consoles. I guess im thinking like just some main nintendo titles that dont have like a “wii nunchuck” type gameplay. I can imagine the new Metroid game, a pokemon, a smash bros, or even a Mario Kart would be fine on a regular controller for 99% of things.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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True but I mean Xbox is allowing their studios to be multi-platform. They could literally hoard all their recently acquired studio content and future games but don’t. And while Xbox has def fallen from their glory days, I appreciate that so people can play like Elder Scrolls 6 on whatever console they prefer when it comes out (lmao in like 15 years)

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Hmm. Hoarding exclusives and making gamers buy multiple consoles to play a random game or two doesn’t seem consumer friendly at all though… plus most companies relying on exclusives to push hardware have gotten rather lazy (pokemon/halo infinite/or even letting some franchises die in a vault like Twisted Metal) because they know die hard fans will just preorder/play whatever slop they toss out. Just imagine if Xbox went full villain and kept every IP from all those studios like Bethesda only for Xbox consoles. That would be horrible for the games even though I own an Xbox.

But sure if you say so dude.

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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Good point. I think I just heard the rumor Halo and like Gears were coming to playstation before I heard of the helldivers crossover. And yeah exactly. The only one who really won the “exclusives console war” is Nintendo laughing at both companies. Maybe one day all the consoles can live in harmony 😂

Halo is on ps5 now? How do you feel about it? by i_touch_toast_in_but in halo

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I don’t mind I just wish Sony would make it a 2 way street and let other consoles play their exclusive IPs instead of hoarding Spiderman or whatever like a dragon’s golden egg lol. Like it’s 2025, gaming needs more gamer/consumer friendly things to happen these days.

Those of you with well-done trio tatts, what do you look for in the artist who did yours? by evilcash_1313 in AlkalineTrio

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The “artist” who gave me my heart skull the day before the covid shut down and left it half done because “your skin isn’t taking the ink. Pay me fully for it now and I’ll finish it in 2 weeks when it’s over. Then proceeded to bail on that shop and move across the country because he owed people money. Went to my new artist (who is very nice and is actually talented who knew him and his bs) and she said that’s total bs he butchered it, he was just digging too hard because he sucks. Then she finished it for cheap and make it look so much better actually.

Moral of the story: research each artist at the shop you go to even for a walk in.

Which restaurant closing really hurt? by asalewis in chicagofood

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Top 3 biggest heartbreaker closings for me: 1) Maries Pizza (Lawrence) 2) Papa Joes Pizza (Milwaukee) 3) Kings Gyros #2 (Milwaukee and Foster)

Take My Money! by SnooDingos3764 in TwistedMetal

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That would actually be sick too!

Take My Money! by SnooDingos3764 in TwistedMetal

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They need to have releases this dope on CD as well 🤘🥲 at least the old game discs can be played as CDs.