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And just like that we were guaranteed another price increase.

They already put ads on Prime Video now and charge $2.99 a month to remove them. Expect it to be higher in a few months if they have to pay this.

Practice your sleight of hand movements. I’ve figured out how to make it look like I’ve just scanned one thing but moved two at both Walmart and Kroger self checkouts without any alarms going off. Helps a lot with my getting my employee discount for having to run a register.

First they’ll have to split the functionality of every program across multiple programs, then they’ll shut it down.

It used to be this place where people would post funny stories or how to make crack in a microwave. Now it’s all politics and sexuality talk.

That’s true. It didn’t get to be a multibillion dollar industry due to our frugalness.

Same. Also Gow Ragnarok. I came up with a term called “And then” gaming for it. “Go way out of the way to get a magical cup for me”, AND THEN go slay this boss, AND THEN, ad nauseum until you’re 3 hours deep into a multi branching side quest that you don’t even care about anything anymore. I couldn’t play the first GOW without my wife watching or it would be a fight but in Ragnarok the endless AND THEN side quests had her scrolling on her phone instead. We didn’t start enjoying the game until I just stopped playing the side stuff. I don’t know why 1st party Sony stuff is doing AND THEN missions to pad the game out but they need to stop.

Xbox (not sure if PlayStation has or not) just officially dropped support for last gen and all development moved to current gen. Three years into the generation. They haven’t even gotten to see what the current systems can do yet so I don’t think pro models are needed. That doesn’t mean that they won’t do it though but it does show us all that we might as well ride out our last gen systems until the pro models drop going forward if they go this route.

It’s making the game tedious for me but I’m so far into it I might as well power through at this point. Especially when those drawn out side missions branch out into multiple paths that are just walking to a location and killing random enemies. I’m passing on the next Final Fantasy because of this one.

You don’t have to beat them but you can miss equipment etc. The side missions are so hit or miss that you can do one that’s multi-tier and longer than a main mission and just get material or something that could have been bought from a vendor for 100 Gil. Then sometimes the side mission could be 10 minutes long and you’ll get a special weapon or equipment that’s more powerful than what you have and can get for about 10 main missions later.

Most likely the case. I’m not convinced a pro is coming though, a slim definitely, but not a pro. It’s just not needed.

Finishing up FF16. I’m on mission 44 of 49 but they throw 10+ side missions at you in between each main mission so it’s probably going to be a while before I wrap everything up.