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Lammasu posted:I love how American gamers have achieved such Roman Emperor levels of decadence that screwing around on your computer for 10 minutes in exchange for free game pass is considered a waste of time. Using money to avoid tedium is how money is generally spent after basic needs and small wants are met, yes
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Professor Beetus posted:Having spent a couple months seeing if this poo poo was worth it, I think you people have no concept of how much time you are actually wasting on this bullshit. If you have a job, pets, family, hobbies, prepare food, go to the gym, sorry, it's not decadence to realize that it's a waste of loving time to give free market research to microsoft in exchange for like 1/100th of a dollar per minute It was mentioned earlier, but this is just a skill issue. Lmao, why do people get so worked up about others giving up their mindshare for imaginary microsoft bucks?
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Aug 15, 2023 06:42
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Not having to spend time to save money is like the entire point of having money. But over here, in non-USA, there isn't that much MS Rewards stuff anyway. Only the ones you see on the Xbox.
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Aug 15, 2023 07:29
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True. Why waste my gaming time to do menial poo poo? 
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Aug 15, 2023 08:13
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I’ll admit the game pass quests might not be worth the hassle. But you can easily do the bing activities while making dinner/tv ad break/walking ur dog/on the can
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Aug 15, 2023 08:33
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those where you have to play a game and get like 250 points are pretty solid imo, sometimes getting me to check out random games, plus 50 points per achievement per day isn’t too shabby either. Far cry from financing me game pass but takes a decent chunk off those games that I do buy. I just can’t keep those streaks going, I keep forgetting to open the rewards app 
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Aug 15, 2023 08:54
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Yeah i gave up in the streaks once they split the points between the 2 apps, I'll just collect whatever towards the end of the month generally works out for 3 free months every year
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Aug 15, 2023 11:20
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Beat Gears of War 1 Remastered, was pretty good but man did it get a bit tedious in the back half between the game not giving you much in the way of good reason to change up your weapon loadout once you find an optimum one(particularly since you basically always want one of the assault rifles on you, and of the others it basically comes down to whether you prefer the sniper rifle or shotgun since the boom shot and torque bow* both have crippling ammo supply issues since they can't get refilled by ammo boxes, only from enemies dropping them) and the fact that dealing with anything besides basic Locust enemies(Berserkers, the Corpser, the Brumak, Seeders, Kryll, General RAAM) ends up being an obnoxious time wasting gimmick rather than something actually fun, from my recollection both 2 and 3 are better about both of those points Also not sure if it was like this in the original 360 version or it's just an issue with the remaster but the AI in this was incredibly jank at even the best of times *the torque bow has such a great concept behind it but in actual execution it's honestly pretty awful, it's just so clunky to use for rather mediocre results
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Aug 15, 2023 12:08
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Why am I still waiting on my Xbox UI update. I have been forsaken.
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Aug 15, 2023 12:41
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John F Bennett posted:Why am I still waiting on my Xbox UI update. I have been forsaken. they saw you were playing Redfall and realised you'd accept any old poo poo
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Aug 15, 2023 12:42
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They passed me over too, don’t know what I did. Maybe too much halo
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Quantum of Phallus posted:they saw you were playing Redfall and realised you'd accept any old poo poo hosed up if true.
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Aug 15, 2023 14:11
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Game. Pass. Update. COMING: Today: Everspace 2 (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S) Aug 17: Firewatch (Cloud, Console, and PC) Aug 18: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Cloud, Console, and PC) Aug 29: Sea of Stars (Cloud, Console, and PC) Sept 5: Gris (Cloud, Console, and PC) GOING: Leaving Aug 31: Black Desert (Cloud and Console) Commandos 3 – HD Remaster (Cloud, Console, and PC) Immortality (Cloud, Console, and PC) Nuclear Throne (Cloud, Console, and PC) Surgeon Simulator 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) Tinykin (Cloud, Console, and PC)
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Aug 15, 2023 14:35
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Tinykin was a goty contender for me. Love its whole deal. Excited to muck around with Everspace 2.
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Aug 15, 2023 14:42
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External Organs posted:Tinykin was a goty contender for me. Love its whole deal. Yeah Tinykin rules. Thanks to whomever reco'd that to me in this thread. First game I 100%d in a while. And my kids loved it too.
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Aug 15, 2023 14:52
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It was me. You’re welcome.
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Aug 15, 2023 15:20
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The Kins posted:Game. Pass. Update.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Of all the games to not put on PC Game Pass, they choose Everspace 2? It maybe already is? PC version has been out for a few months iirc
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Aug 15, 2023 15:47
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Yes the Windows version of Everspace 2 is already on Game Pass (PC). The new Xbox version is launching straight to Game Pass. Also +1 for people to try out Tinykin before it leaves. 
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Aug 15, 2023 17:09
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I am downloading tinykin (via old dashboard). If it’s not good then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room; and then I do not forgive.
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Aug 15, 2023 17:29
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quote:EVERSPACE™ 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with worthwhile exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience a thoughtful sci-fi story, set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils. "worthwhile" exploration is a funny way to put it, is that supposed to contrast it against the practically infinite, procedurally generated space games like Elite: Dangerous or NMS?
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Aug 15, 2023 17:54
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Hell yeah I was halfway through fire watch when they took it off gamepass a few months ago.
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Aug 15, 2023 17:56
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Crafty posted:I am downloading tinykin (via old dashboard). If it’s not good then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room; and then I do not forgive. It’s only a good game if you have the new dashboard.
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Aug 15, 2023 17:59
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Crafty posted:I am downloading tinykin (via old dashboard). If it’s not good then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room; and then I do not forgive. If you don't like Tinykin we don't want to talk to you anyway
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Aug 15, 2023 17:59
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Is Everspace 2 better with KB+M or controller? I had it on my PC play later list but couch and controller is appealing
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Aug 15, 2023 19:29
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The Kins posted:Game. Pass. Update. firewatch is the best walking sim not called what remains of edith finch and if you've somehow not played it by now, do so imo
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Aug 15, 2023 19:39
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Firewatch it on YouTube
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Aug 15, 2023 19:41
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John F Bennett posted:Why am I still waiting on my Xbox UI update. I have been forsaken. Huzzah, I finally have it! I guess it's really just the same but slightly different.
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Aug 15, 2023 19:44
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Am I imagining it or isn’t there a way to make it so games will download from one Xbox to another on the same network instead of going through the whole download process again? I have 2 Xbox one Ses and 1 series x on the network. I’m going to be replacing one of the One Ses with another series x that I just picked up but Jedi survivor is 130 gb or some poo poo and I’d rather let it local copy instead of choking my bandwidth all day that’s an option. Fwiw I have gigabit Ethernet through the house but lame rear end Comcast 500mb service to the outside world.
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Aug 15, 2023 19:58
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Copy to external drive and then copy to Xbox?
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otter posted:Am I imagining it or isn’t there a way to make it so games will download from one Xbox to another on the same network instead of going through the whole download process again? https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/enable-network-game-transfer-xbox-one This Xbox support article says it is possible. Never done it myself. You have to enable it on the host and then the clients can connet and pick out games and apps.
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Aug 15, 2023 20:07
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otter posted:Am I imagining it or isn’t there a way to make it so games will download from one Xbox to another on the same network instead of going through the whole download process again? When I upgraded from XB1 to XSX, I just moved my external drives to the new Xbox and everything worked flawlessly. A few games updated to higher res textures and insisted on being moved to the internal drive, but that's it.
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MikeRabsitch posted:Is Everspace 2 better with KB+M or controller? I had it on my PC play later list but couch and controller is appealing I used controller on PC.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:firewatch is the best walking sim not called what remains of edith finch and if you've somehow not played it by now, do so imo A correct post!
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John F Bennett posted:Huzzah, I finally have it! I got it too, feels good man. Tinykins is fun, I like doing kick flips on the soap
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Aug 15, 2023 23:08
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I already purchased my copy of Tinykin but I feel sorry for the future game pass users who will miss out
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I don't think the main mechanic of Immortality works right. I say "think" because they never explain it to you so maybe it's supposed to be janky like that. Also, it is one of the most pretentious pieces of media in history. Despite all that its strong performances made it an enjoyable experience for me.
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Aug 15, 2023 23:16
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With immortality I find it's all about that Ah Ha moment where you see the other character for the first time and the mystery gets deeper. I certainly enjoyed playing it and would recommend to anyone that likes FMV games.
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Aug 15, 2023 23:24
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Immortality starts out as an interesting sendup of seedy 70s exploitation films and concludes as what can only be described as a David Lynch movie written by someone with a 75 IQ.
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Tsietisin posted:With immortality I find it's all about that Ah Ha moment where you see the other character for the first time and the mystery gets deeper. I don't even like FMV games and Immortality was my GOTY. So many woah moments.
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