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anonumos posted:I bought both the cataclysm and Pandariav expansions as digital downloads, what, two, three years ago? Time flies, my friend. That' wasn't two, three years ago. But even the first expansion, Burning Crusade, back in 2007 you could buy fully digitally. World of Warcraft has always been very progressive about that kind of thing, being an online game and all. And EA used to sell their Battlefield 2 expansions "Euro Force" and "Armored Fury" released back in 2005 via their EA downloader service. Retail versions were simply a code in a DVD box.
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In-store game selection for PC has been pathetic since like 2005 so I'm not sure what rock you guys have been living under. Steam ate brick and mortar's lunch on this.
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Mar 24, 2018 10:34
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I can't speak to any of the xpacs afterwards, but if you bought Cata or MoP on physical discs, they were completely blank except for like a 12MB install for bnet, to download your actual content.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Pandaria was new about six years ago, Cata was eight or so God. How many expansions have there been since Pandaria? I haven't played anything in the 4 years since I got married (it's not my wife's fault, life just got complicated).
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anonumos posted:God. How many expansions have there been since Pandaria? I haven't played anything in the 4 years since I got married (it's not my wife's fault, life just got complicated). Two, Warlords of Draenor and Legion. The next one is Battle for Azeroth, likely to be released later this year.
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Mar 24, 2018 13:45
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anonumos posted:God. How many expansions have there been since Pandaria? I haven't played anything in the 4 years since I got married (it's not my wife's fault, life just got complicated). I played the hell out of Vanilla and BC and then cut the cord. Great decision.
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Mar 24, 2018 14:47
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anonumos posted:God. How many expansions have there been since Pandaria? I haven't played anything in the 4 years since I got married (it's not my wife's fault, life just got complicated). Two since pandaria, with a third this year
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learnincurve posted:I dunno, as an adult with kids I get pretty irate when groups of teenagers hang out in McDonald’s with one brown bag between them and pretend to drink from a empty cup and hog all the seats while being Loud and Obnoxious . Do cops not run lingering teens out of parks where you live?
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In some neighbourhoods people call the cops on teenagers, especially non white teenagers, literally waiting for the bus. Where are they going to go? The arcade?
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Mar 25, 2018 12:40
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They can just go to the mall, even though some malls are increasingly strict about teens loitering around with no adult supervision later in the day. (And of course the whole 'malls are slowly dying' thing) Or they can hang out at...uh...the library? Sure, the library. That hotspot of teen activity.
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Doom Rooster posted:I can't speak to any of the xpacs afterwards, but if you bought Cata or MoP on physical discs, they were completely blank except for like a 12MB install for bnet, to download your actual content. There is a reason for this. Blizzard changed the file structure of WoW in Cata, so all previous physical releases were useless and DVDs can't hold 30+ gigs of data to replace the older stuff. And converting the old stuff wasn't doable seeing it runs on potato machines which couldn't handle it. So digital installs it was. The boxes are only there for show these days, for collectors who want to keep them on their shelf with the rest of the series.
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Haifisch posted:They can just go to the mall, even though some malls are increasingly strict about teens loitering around with no adult supervision later in the day. (And of course the whole 'malls are slowly dying' thing) Amazon Books is the happenin' place in town.
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Mar 25, 2018 20:36
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happyhippy posted:The boxes are only there for show these days, for collectors who want to keep them on their shelf with the rest of the series. gamers.txt
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Inescapable Duck posted:In some neighbourhoods people call the cops on teenagers, especially non white teenagers, literally waiting for the bus. Yep, this happened to me several times when I was 17. I took the bus to during the summer, the bus stop was on the sidewalk out front someone's house, and the police just conveniently kept showing up to ask me why I was hanging out there. Fucker living there kept calling the cops on me, and I'm about as white as they get. We weren't even allowed to hang out at school after a certain time for "liability reasons." Not literally involved in sanctioned basketball practice with a coach present? Get out of the gym, kids. Not in an office hours session with a teacher? Nope, out of the library with you. It's no wonder kids get into trouble when you remove any potentially healthy or non-disruptive means of entertainment for them. 
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Sundae posted:Yep, this happened to me several times when I was 17. I took the bus to during the summer, the bus stop was on the sidewalk out front someone's house, and the police just conveniently kept showing up to ask me why I was hanging out there. Fucker living there kept calling the cops on me, and I'm about as white as they get. We weren't even allowed to hang out at school after a certain time for "liability reasons." Not literally involved in sanctioned basketball practice with a coach present? Get out of the gym, kids. Not in an office hours session with a teacher? Nope, out of the library with you. When people call the cops for stuff like this are they legitimately afraid kids are up to no good, or is it just a nice legal form of harassment they're doing out of boredom or hate?
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Baronjutter posted:When people call the cops for stuff like this are they legitimately afraid kids are up to no good, or is it just a nice legal form of harassment they're doing out of boredom or hate? They are afraid of the kids because they are boring and hateful
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Mar 25, 2018 22:27
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And they wonder why teenagers stay inside playing video games all day.
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Mar 25, 2018 22:29
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Yak Shaves Dot Com posted:They are afraid of the kids because they are boring and hateful If the woman named, I poo poo you not, Tweefie, on my local Nextdoor is any indication, this is accurate.
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Baronjutter posted:When people call the cops for stuff like this are they legitimately afraid kids are up to no good, or is it just a nice legal form of harassment they're doing out of boredom or hate? It's both in at least most cases. I'm going to guess that they remember the days when anti-loitering laws still existed. You know, the times before they were struck down as being too vague as they had a tendency to be very selectively enforced against anybody that was the "wrong" type of person. Riding the bus is also associated with dirty poors and I shouldn't have to look at my window and see a dirty poor at any time of the day, ever. This is a respectable neighborhood.
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I mean, it might not be a major reason why so many teenagers are socially maladjusted and alienated from society, but it can't be helping.
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Mar 25, 2018 22:46
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Baronjutter posted:When people call the cops for stuff like this are they legitimately afraid kids are up to no good, or is it just a nice legal form of harassment they're doing out of boredom or hate? https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/976934239890558982?s=21
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Best of nextdoor is the best thing on twitter https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/976963620083937280
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Inescapable Duck posted:I mean, it might not be a major reason why so many teenagers are socially maladjusted and alienated from society, but it can't be helping. They aren't though, that's just some bullshit made up by Boomers who spent all day hanging around whatever the gently caress there was to do in 1963 as a middle school student.
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I work in Retail myself, and the poo poo I've seen my company do in the past 2 years to shoot themselves in the foot is hilarious. Just in the past few months I've seen such gems as dumping our entire stock of bathroom towels to replace them with the exact same thing with a different SKU, or loving up entire advertising signage runs and just having stores re-print them on our lovely laserjet. They also had us clearance and dump our entire inventory of brooms & mops only to replace them with the exact same thing with some parts colored blue. And apparently someone at Corporate has a massive hardon for that awful LaCroix sparkling water, because they keep putting it on every new food presentation. Whenever they do that they send us piles of the poo poo, we've got about an entire pallet of it sitting back in our warehouse. Shockingly enough, in Rednecksburg Indiana nobody buys this poo poo. Every year they do a huge "organic & gluten free" presentation, we're lucky to maybe sell 25% of it. The rest just sits there, then gets marked down, then when it still doesn't sell it's off to the food bank.
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Baronjutter posted:When people call the cops for stuff like this are they legitimately afraid kids are up to no good, or is it just a nice legal form of harassment they're doing out of boredom or hate? people who move to or live in the suburbs on purpose generally hate their neighbors and want as little as possible to do with them and messes with people who grow up in that environment
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:SelectaVision is the video format if you think laserdisk was too convenient and mainstream. Rated PG-34 posted:loitering: the grand crime of existing w/o spending money Caganer posted:Playing the long game.
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Zero_Grade posted:I picked up a Laserdisc of the original Clash of the Titans for a buck at a library sale. I have absolutely no way to play it but it's kinda neat to have. Now imagine a laserdisk that instead of a laser used an actual physical needle to read the grove on the disk but then also that made the disk so fragile that the whole thing had to be kept in a giant plastic shell almost as big as a pizza box. And then imagine that the picture quality was worse than broadcast tv and you have the amazing technology of selectavision. I think it might literally be the worst video format ever released commercially. (no, I guess DIVX was worse, and those aren't even fun to collect)
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think it might literally be the worst video format ever released commercially. (no, I guess DIVX was worse, and those aren't even fun to collect) I actually have a few unopened DIVX discs that I bought when it was clear the tech was going to fail. I mean, it was always clear, but... yeah. DIVX was an incredibly stupid thing that I still have a hard time believing actually happened.
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DIVX was DVDs designed to expire, right?
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Mar 26, 2018 15:21
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whydirt posted:DIVX was DVDs designed to expire, right? It was a DVD where you had to pay every time you played it after the first time.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:26
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whydirt posted:DIVX was DVDs designed to expire, right? Basically, yes. You would get a rental period once you first played the disc, but could pay to "unlock" the movie for ownership. They were also almost all pan and scan and had little to no extra features.
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Mar 26, 2018 15:28
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“What if we had movie rentals that gave consumers the joy of extra clutter and waste?”
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whydirt posted:DIVX was DVDs designed to expire, right? DIVX was the one where you had to have a machine hooked to a phone line and it'd charge you 5 dollars every time you watched the movie and also the player cost 100 dollars more than a regular DVD player and also only best buy sold the disks and also they didn't support widescreen or menus of extras.
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did they ever release those disks that had a layer that would physically rot/cloud with exposure to oxygen? I remember some company talked up that concept as a single watch disk but I'm not sure that ever actually hit market. A disk with a dye layer that would start to erase the disk a few days after you opened the package.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:did they ever release those disks that had a layer that would physically rot/cloud with exposure to oxygen? I remember some company talked up that concept as a single watch disk but I'm not sure that ever actually hit market. A disk with a dye layer that would start to erase the disk a few days after you opened the package. There was a christmas themed romcom that im pretty sure came out using the technology as like a test market kind of thing but I dont think anyone else tried.
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Capitalism is the worst.
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Barudak posted:There was a christmas themed romcom that im pretty sure came out using the technology as like a test market kind of thing but I dont think anyone else tried. Jeez this is bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay The Disney organization announced in 2003 that it would issue some releases on Flexplay ez-D discs. Discs were test-marketed in Austin, Texas. One grocery chain dropped the discs in February, 2004, saying "It didn't turn out to be an item that our customers were looking for."[4] The first Flexplay disc to receive national consumer distribution in the U.S. was a 2004 Christmas movie entitled Noel, which was released "trimultaneously" to theatres, to cable TV, and to Flexplay disc. Reportedly theatres were angered at the simultaneous release, and as a result the movie actually received screenings in only a few dozen theatres.[citation needed] As of 2005, Flexplay discs appeared in Japan under the 48dvd brand name, and were also used in 2006 for the Japanese release of Mission: Impossible III.
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boner confessor posted:people who move to or live in the suburbs on purpose generally hate their neighbors and want as little as possible to do with them and messes with people who grow up in that environment No, they live out in the country and commute for thirty miles for anything they need. And the only time I have ever wanted to call the police over kids hanging out is on the little poo poo that zips around on his dirt bike through the alley next to my house.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:DIVX was the one where you had to have a machine hooked to a phone line and it'd charge you 5 dollars every time you watched the movie and also the player cost 100 dollars more than a regular DVD player and also only best buy sold the disks and also they didn't support widescreen or menus of extras. Circuit City, but close.
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whydirt posted:“What if we had movie rentals that gave consumers the joy of extra clutter and waste?” This already exists for carryout food, and you also have to cook the food.
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