The Old-Fashioned Gamer

Your post count indicates you’re not new here, but you’ve got to be new if you’re surprised this group hates to see peopleenjoying WWE. It took me a lot less than 42 posts to learn that.

First Xbox 360 model required you to buy a separate WiFi adapter that plugged into a usb port. Later modes (Slim and E) had modem built in. i was in the same position a couple years ago, but instead of going wired, i went the other way, A couple years ago, I was having problems with my 360 gaming. I went through a couple 360 consoles very quickly, a new modem kept me from connecting the 360 to the wireless network, Xbox 360 network went through a couple lengthy outages and I couldn’t play digital games offline because I couldn’t sign in to XBL and I had neglected to do use the license transfer option. At that point, I owned around 600 Xbox games, most of them digital. For those that don’t know, you can’t just copy X360 & PS3 games to a usb drive and move them to a new console. You basically have to redownload every digital game and start over if you replace the console. i thought about going wired to speed up downloads, but instead decided digital libraries on a 15 year-old console that had been retired years earlier was just too much trouble and went physical. Started buying up x360 games. Wasn’t cheap or easy. I had gone digital fairly early, so most of my physical 360 games were games that had never been released digitally. But it was fun. I’m a collector. I mostly target new or cib/mint copies of games and I go after limited/collectible editions whenever possible. Turns out, I like collecting for the 360. Currently, I have about 700 games on my 360 (mostly on a couple usb drives). I have all my XBLA games installed since they are digital exclusives. I also have digital editions of xBLA titles like Minecraft & Life is Strange. They got physical releases, but retail editions of XBLA games can’t be installed to the HDD and there are usually some small benefits to playing games from HDD. But by and large, if a game is available in a physical edition and the physical edition can be installed to HDD, it’s the retail edition that is installed and waiting to be played. Kind of a shame. I spent a lot of money on digital games over the years. But it turns out I enjoy x360 collecting an awful lot. i do hedge my bets. Last year, I refurbished a 360 and made a bunch of mods (added green led lights, turned up the fan to better regulate temperature, replaced the thermal paste with a better grade, etc.). Decided to mod the console to play emulated games, if necessary. Haven’t had mich interest in going that route so far, aside from NCAA Football Revamped and a couple XBLA titles that got delisted before I got to them. But it’s an option if I ever lose access to my purchased XBLA titles or lose my physical collection in a move or something. Console is also now region-free, which is great for playing some Xbox 360 games that are region-locked (mostly some of the Cave shooters only released in Japan). Mostly I did it for the region-free. Really dig the Cave shooters. There are also some import limited editions I really like (Bayonetta: Climax Edition) and a couple import complete editions with dlc on the disc instead of the code the US edition included. i don’t normally put this much effort into gaming, but I’m a much bigger fan of the 360 (& PS3 & Wii, for that matter) than anything that’s come after.

No argument here. Wrestling’s not a profession you get into if you want to be a responsible parent or spouse. Sherri probably wasn’t any better or worse than a few hundred (few thousand?) male wrestlers. Lol, she was probably still a better parent than Flair, though that’s a really low bar. Flair boasting on camera about how many women he slept with (the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary) was really slimy. I can’t imagine doing that on a show I knew my kids would probably eventually watch. I’m of the opinion that most people in the business are either immature or some variety of scumbag (usually several varieties of scumbag).

Competition for worst tattoo in the NBA may be over forever. Lol, first photo I saw of it was taken close up… and I thought the lettering said “Dade One” or something like that. Didn’t realize until later that lower portions of letters are on black, not red. That had to be painful. Apparently, the tattoo artist used some sort of numbing crème, but still….

Lol, she was going on live tv high or drunk. Why wouldn’t he fire her? Also, they covered Sherri’s firing in a minute or two at most. She was in WCW for a couple years, so I am assuming there’s plenty we don’t know. Maybe they tried to get her to go to rehab and she refused. Who know? I don’t. You probably don’t. We must have watched different shows, because my takeaway was that Sherri was an very gross person (stripper, basically gave away her child, longtime addictions to too many substances to list, apparently wasn’t too worried about hurting someone when she worked matches “in no condition to perform”). Eric is at fault if he honestly didn’t find out why she left WWE. I’m skeptical that’s true. If it is, he kinda deserved what he got out of her,

I think of that line frequently while reading the board….

“Janky, sleazy, and dumb” sums up my feelings about Splatterhouse too, lol. But, yeah, it”s a lot of fun. PS3 era has a lot of janky, unpolished games that I nonetheless like an awful lot. Ninja Blade, anyone? I mean, you ride a motorcycle straight down the side of a skyscraper into a giant parasite’s open mouth. If that’s not your idea of entertainment, I don’t know what to tell you. I own physical copies of Splatterhouse for both PS3 & X360.

Finished Singularity over the weekend. Really enjoyed it. The time mechanics are a lot of fun and the offbeat, high-concept storyline is very interesting. Game has a “Russian BioShock” vibe to it that I dug. Pity it sold poorly and Raven Software got reduced to a Call of Duty support studio. Been playing second-tier Xbox & PS3 games lately & having a blast. Lollipop Chainsaw, Shadows of the Damned, Ninja Blade, El Shaddai, the Sherlock Holmes games, Afro Samurai, etc. That generation has a lot of slightly janky games that never found an audience but are great fun.

I feel like every joke and gad in that trailer has been done in a few dozen other movies. And most of those movies weren’t good either.

Our company president went on a rampage and fired most of the people who didn’t want to be here anyway (quiet quitters, culture warriors, people who wouldn’t come back to in-person work, the “all big companies are evil” set, etc.) so now those guys and gals suddenly care about their jobs and want me to intervene on their behalf I mean, if I was going to do that, I would probably have done that last week when our prez pulled me into a meeting about some of the bad actors in my department. Beyond that, well, my typical response goes something like “well, ordinarily I would, but do you remember that time when you went on social media and called me a moronic chud for supporting my employer? No? How about that time when you wished death on a coworker for voting Republican? Not ringing a bell? How about when you…..?” I’m really curious what people expect to happen when they run to social media to bash their employers, clients, coworkers, etc. I mean, I know Gen-Z’ers don’t believe in consequences, but some of us older folk still do. Anyway, company is better off today than it was last week, so I am content for now.

He apparently tipped off other bettors that he was going to leave a couple games early, so they would know to take the under on his stat prop bet. i’m guessing “other bettors” means his bookie.

I’m intrigued by the idea of Abolute, but somewhat pessimistic. I’m more of a Marvel & DC fan than the indies, but I don’t buy much Marvel and DC these days. Previous attempts to lure back big name creators largely fizzled out, though I enjoyed the books. New 52 had a lot of great books by writers and artists I’ll follow, but it ultimately didn’t make a dent in the industry or change DC’s trajectory. it’s high on my radar though, Early Ultimate Marvel and Wildstorm’s DC era are a couple of my favorite things about comics over the last 30 years, so if they can channel that….

I rarely watch AEW but I’m all in for the Perry-Punk feud. That is where they’re going with this, right? Edit: Lol, that wasn’t meant to be a pun, but it is so I’m leaving it.

Fan base seems pissed over this and I can't say I blame them. Pope may well turn out to be the guy, but it doesn’t seem like he was on anyone’s radar earlier in hiring season and it’s quite a turnaround in 24 hrs. UK fans started the day thinking they would probably get Scott Drew. At lunchtime, it was rumored UK was offering Dan Hurley $100 mil for eight years. Nope. Dinneritme talk was Billy Donovan. Nothing came of that. So they end the day hiring Pope and his 0 NCAA tourney wins and one season in a power conference. i’m not a UK fan and don’t have mich of an opinion either way about Pope, but he really feels like a guy, not the guy to me. You’re Kentucky. Money isn’t a huge issue, so you don’t have to rush to hire a guy. I just don’t get it. Neither does fan base. Good luck to Pope, but I think he’s going to have to win right away and do a heckuva sales job to win over alumni. i am impressed by Drew turning down Monopoly money because his wife didn’t want to uproot the family (their kids have spent their entire lives in Waco) and because the family prayed on it overnight and concluded God didn’t want them to go to Lexington (lol, there’s a joke there).

Best thing about today’s eclipse is that it will be over in 8 hours.