mbritton444.bsky.social
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Lolol. Finally logged in. Added to cart. It put me in the queue, because of course there’s a queue.
Presumably I got to the front od the line.
“Please log in.”
“Oops you can’t log in. Dummy.”
It’s not even a sale price. I’m done.
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I wouldn’t expect them to invest in infrastructure improvements for rare events like console drops…but if you’re going to implement a feature like this…invest. in. adequate. infrastructure.
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Oof. BB still hasn’t gotten their crap together on Drops? They’ve had this feature too long to not be able to properly support it.
Drop went live. I clicked it. It lagged a solid 10 seconds before pulling it up. Then it refreshed itself, lagging again, and logged me out. Now it won’t let me log in
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Mega Man 1-6
NES
Famicom
PS2 Legacy Collection
PS4 MMLC (Digital)
Xbox MMLC (physical for statue)
3DS MMLC
Wii Eshop
3DS Eshop (individual titles)
Switch MMLC
My Arcade Micro Player
Not full collections but also:
Mega Man Powered Up
Mega Man 2 Iphone Port
LRG Wily Wars ReRelease
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Uh oh. I’m going to make this show my entire personality, aren’t I.
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Side quest into story dragons, that was accidental. But they chose to let that mission unlock back to back dragon fight side quests.
And they just have different elements. Attacks are the 90% the same across all of them.
4 (5 technically) dragons in 2-3 hours of gameplay wasn’t super engaging
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This only really bothers me if, by accident or design, I fight the same thing several times in a row / within a short period. Like DA: Veilguard. I fought a sidequest dragon. Then did a double dragon story boss fight. Then got two new back to back sidequests to fight dragons.
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<gunfire sounds>
<empty clip sounds>
007, not panicked at all “Alexa, more bullets, 9mm”
<10 seconds later a drone arrives with several boxes of ammo>
“Alexa, add 9mm bullets to my Subscribe and Save, delivered weekly. Use my Prime Visa so I get 5% reward points on every purchase.”
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To trust - at our insistence, no less - is now completely untrustworthy without adding in significant mental labor.
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TBH we did kinda set ourselves up for that. We taught people that Google can teach you anything. Then Google became The Nonsense Machine. They did what we told them to do and now we’re like “no, not like that!”
How do we explain to distrustful people that the thing they finally decided
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True. A “don’t feed the trolls” mentality has gotten us nowhere except that we now have lots and lots of trolls. Classic DnD trolls are fought with fire, not by ignoring their attacks. “All that’s requires for evil to win…” and all that.
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Oh, really? Say less!
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Sounds really good! Since it’s being blended i might toss cooked red lentils in for extra protein. The family will never notice. :)
I wonder why they say to wipe out the dutch oven before adding the soup back, though.
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I can’t in good conscience help you in this endeavor
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Reminds me of a friend who had a rescue Rottie. Massive windstorm caused a week+ long power outage in the middle of the summer. His Rottie was so accustomed to A/C that it spent the whole week staring at the vents, with the occasional WOOF like “TURN ON!!”
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You make good points!
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Eh, sure. Why not. <crosses fingers it doesn’t decide to mutate inside me>
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If you haven’t played MGS by now, I wouldn’t bother. Or don’t tell anyone if you do. Gamers(tm) won’t allow you to not like it.
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The Matthew McConaughey AI commercials are absolutely laughable too. “Without AI I would allow people to dress me like the kid from Big Daddy” or “without AI how would we know to not eat food in the rain?”
Really solving the worlds major problems.
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really Babe Ruth that ball into the stratosphere.
The ball itself traveled a solid 5-10 feet.
The BAT, however, traveled BACKWARDS at mach speed and bashed out one or two of my front teeth and bloodied my mouth real good.
Luckily I was young enough that they weren’t permanent.
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Or if you prefer a personal story.
At ~6-7 y/o my cousin and I were hitting a baseball around. He launched one into a massive thorn bush. Irretrievable without significant pain and blood loss, and our only baseball to boot.
What we DID have was a BASKETBALL.
I was next, so I did my very best to
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He then “kneed” the hell out of the door several times. His prosthetic tore his pants, dented the door, chewed up the paint.
It didn’t break the lock.
He turned to walk away and almost fell. Looking down, his foot was turned 90 degrees.
He laugingly shouted “ANYONE GOT AN ALLEN WRENCH?”
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Not “ate shit” per se, but…
Worked with a guy that had an above the knee leg prosthetic. He accidentally locked the keys to a storage room IN the storage room. After a few minutes of trying to do the old credit-card-lockpick trick he got frustrated and was like “watch this y’all”
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NGL, English won’t help you there. He never really interacts with people at school. I’m leaning towards the latter though.
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100% continue
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I had one a few months back WITH a time and a place. I arrived and noone knew what I was there for. Turns out it was VIRTUAL. I was told that it’s a system limitation and to assume all future visits are virtual unless they explicitly call and tell me to arrive in person.
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Barb done moved several street signs and hacked Google Maps just so Max will only play with HER hot wheels gift lol
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Yes! The row machine is really fun to me, but it will really teach you some hard limits you didn’t know you had lol.
Also I’m not sure why Bluesky took 3 days to show me your reply. Sorry!
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I’m an elliptical main. The low impact suits me and the sweat is real!
But!
Fair warning, it somehow doesn’t translate 1:1 to treadmill/running gains. Doing (X) distance at (X) speed on the elliptical then the same distance/speed on a treadmill will humble you lol. Different muscle groups maybe?
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LRG*
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It’s impossible to tell how much of the shifting is preferences vs the tornado of issues making digital just…easier.
But I will continue to do physical as long as it’s a viable option, even if it’s just through LR
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Like Target / Walmart.
Even at the console level - as reasonable as it is for the digital console to be cheaper, it will naturally sell more based on price, which automatically increases digital sales. But those don’t necessarily reflect preferences but economic realities.
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I just feel like it’s a self sabotage / self fulfilling prophecy situation. Obviously there’s going to be a decline in physical on the very nature of digital even being a thing. But also, maybe don’t lock them in a tiny prison like Best Buy, or make the person with the display key impossible to find
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Target/Walmart have solid stock but you may or may not find a worker to unlock them.
Best Buy has a joke of an area for you to “browse” and locks 95% of the copies in a prison at the front.
I used to go to stores and just browse. Now, 90% of my purchases are from Amazon.
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I’m very curious (and didn’t see it in the thread) what the data looks like for say Amazon, where the purchasing experience is virtually the same as 10 years ago, vs Target/Best Buy/etc that have made it incredibly difficult to buy physical media there.
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WHAT DID YOU DO WITH ALL OF MY BLOOD BECAUSE CLEARLY YOU DIDNT TEST IT FOR IRON!
Sorry for the book in your replies lol. I hope your test results are perfectly fine!
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Side note: initial test was for restless leg possibly caused by low iron. Dr did blood test and said they would refer me to the heme dr IF their test showed low iron.
Got the referral, so I assumed anemia. Heme dr found nothing.
WHY DID YOU SEND ME THERE AND CAUSE ME SO MUCH STRESS!
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At that point I’m like “omg AM I anemic? Do I have cancer and they just haven’t told me yet?
No, I’m fine.
But what if…
No! I’m fine!”
And I am fine…not even anemic, in fact! Thankfully!
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She really was so sweet. She even went through the waiting room praying for people who looked like they were having a rough time. I don’t fault her for not knowing what I was there for.
But three times in a week being treated like a cancer patient when I was <most likely> just anemic…
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“Great! How are you?”
Her, in a “you’ve got cancer but i’m here for you” tone:
“That’s such a blessing to hear! Every healthy day is a gift!”
As I turn to go sit in the waiting room she holds out her badge that has a “faith” sticker on it. Pointing to it, she says “This is all you need, honey!”
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Thinking “NBD. Just a folder. They send it to everyone!” I opened the folder and there was a whole full page of “SO YOU’VE GOT CANCER? THAT SUCKS BUT WE GOT YOU!” info. <anxiety intensifies>
Show up day of…the extremely lovely, so kind, and generous receptionist ask me how I’m doing.
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Yeah that’s not a great feeling. I recently needed a blood test to check my iron. The heme doctor they sent me to works out of the local cancer center. The new patient pre-paperwork was sent to my house in a big “YOU’VE GOT CANCER BUT WE’RE GONNA DO OUR BEST” folder.
(spoiler: i dont have cancer)