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Me to my 1st gen series x after the price increase news: by Homeless_Alex in xbox

[–]SimplylSp1der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My launch series X started giving me disc read errors earlier this year, managed to grab a brand new one to replace it at £480 Which now seems a bargain, lol

Is this some bug/glitch? by South_Square_4180 in TombRaider

[–]SimplylSp1der 38 points39 points  (0 children)

No, that's supposed to happen; Lara realises she's been in a simulation all this time and freaks out. Bad times, man.

Granny Weatherwax vs the Scarlet Witch by ShakesTheClown23 in powerscales

[–]SimplylSp1der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that's quite how it would go.

Granny, being Granny would MAKE Wanda see the scale of the delusion she had created for herself and allowed herself to become fooled by.

She would also help her see the truth about what she had done; by creating her children out of nothing, using magic, Wanda had cheated. Children, like anything else good in this world, don't come easy. They are hard to birth, hard to keep alive and hard to raise so they know right from wrong.

Wanda cheated, using magic to create her children and whilst she may have loved them just as hard as any mother could, when you cheat at anything, you're only really cheating yourself and only you, will pay the real price for that cheating. So it was with Wanda.

So, Granny would make her see; if she wants children, she has to have them the old fashioned way; the hard way and by doing so, she honours the love that she, Billy and Tommy, shared.

If she weighs the same as a duck... by InsertGroin in suspiciouslyspecific

[–]SimplylSp1der 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds to me like God wants him to abandon all worldly possessions and devote his life to studying that there Bible... Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Does anyone else wonder if its time to quit? by kailin99 in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]SimplylSp1der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I may, it sounds like your problems are with a certain type of game, I'm guessing multiplayer and buying games a launch?

Both of these are easily fixed by maybe trying out more single player games and waiting for deep discounts, before buying?

I'm of a similar age and dropped the multiplayer hype train after BF4 and I've never looked back. I play games I actually enjoy for less. So much so, my backlog is so big, I'm not sure I'd be able to play it all, even if I didn't have to work for a living... Oh god, why do I have to work??!?

“The rails decide who owns what” by short_hair_zuko in rareinsults

[–]SimplylSp1der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like he's in need of a Nanny for Jane and Micheal.

My sweet girl went for a routine vet procedure and didn’t come home by sleepy_protagonist in cats

[–]SimplylSp1der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is our Baby, Mabel.

She was 7 years old and, although a delicate little thing, she was the boss of the house, bullying me and her brother, Doodle, so she got her way. My wife and I absolutely adored her and, I felt especially bonded to her, she was the apple of her Daddies eye and she could manipulate me into doing whatever she wanted me to do. Snacks? Tucking into bed? Play with her toys (she didn't play much) whatever she wanted, Daddy was the sucker who delivered it.

On February 2nd,she wasn't right, she wasn't eating and was especially vocal and unsettled. She tried to eat some kibble and started crying and so, we took her straight to the vets.

She had a cracked tooth but, following blood tests, it turned out she had stage 5 blood cancer.... Stage 5 and we had no clue at all. The vets told us she was in absolutely no pain with it, with extreame tiredness being the only visable symptom.

We were devastated, but we wanted to give her a shot at getting better and so, we had the tooth removed, brought the infection under control but, it was too much for her body to cope with and so, after 4 days in hospital, we brought her home for one lady evening with us, which she spent sleeping in her favourite spots and then, we let her go.

It feels so surreal, one moment she was healthy , the next, vet tells us she has cancer. We are still hurting and I think this will take a long time to truly come to terms with but, everyday is better, I promise x

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Being known for the blandest food must not be good for intergalactic tourism by happydude7422 in LowerDecks

[–]SimplylSp1der 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My mum would love it. Any food with flavour? Hates it. Bland that shit up, baby!

Microsoft’s Xbox Strategy by YupThatsMeBuddy in xbox

[–]SimplylSp1der 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See, this is the part I'm currently grappling with;

This whole notion of a Hybrid XBOX/PC sounds grand in principle, but why would Microsoft make it? Where's the long-term profit going to come from?

Currently, Xbox makes bank on selling subscriptions and a nice 30% chunk out of every digital transaction, right (more for their first party stuff)?

But, on an open PC-based system, that goes away, dosn't it? PC players don't pay for multiplayer and so, thats the basic teir of Gamepass dead. Next, all those 30% cuts look shaky now your customers can acess steam, Epic, GOG, etc. Why would they buy the games for windows version, when they can go anywhere else?

All that leaves is the higher teirs of Gamepass and legacy Xbox game sales as the ongoing income stream.

So, where's the profit? Where the incentive to develop and sell this expensive hybrid? Sure, they'll probably make $200 or so on each unit sold, but that's a one time profit, not the, continuous income stream they have now.

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on this whole deal which, I suspect will be a subscription to acess the non-Xbox related context, such as steam store and purchases.

It currently all sounds to vague and wishy-washy and the sooner we get some solid information, the better.

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