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I asked why: “we didn’t think about it”

I have Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz ringing in my ears: “IT’S YOUR JOB!”

Probably distracted by all the side fumbling.

Windows 2000 Pro?

Samsung and Google? Two companies well known for maintaining tech long term rather than getting bored within a few months.

I don’t, because if that happens either others will have done a more thorough job (because it’s something they care about - I have my own obsessive areas that I’m the one doing that stuff for), or if they haven’t then I have much bigger problems to deal with (e.g. war in Europe).

I am thoroughly confused by both your replies now. I haven’t got a platform they sell games for, AFAIK, but I had one. This generation they’ve failed to provide enough to get me to buy anything from them.

I had Xbox game pass for a while (I converted XBL time for a token amount) but once it ended last year I couldn’t see any reason to pay the asking price. I’ve been waiting on this generation but it looks like it’s not going anywhere interesting.

I don’t have a Windows PC though?

I’ve got an Xbox One X, and have had since 2018. I’m still waiting on a reason to care about the current generation of consoles.

Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.

How have we still not mastered animating arms?

Something bubbles up from a few decades back:

“I mean, it’s a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit.”

The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

A “pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre” category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.

No love for Washing Machine Emulator?

“Our community” feels a bit monolithic. It’s like saying “film watchers” or “readers”. Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.

Manchester United: 3

Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You’d hope that they’d just automatically stop asking if I’m old enough to view store pages, right?

I’m tickled that the code hasn’t been digitised and the scans are only just barely high enough resolution to make out the text.

I remember it dawning on me and making me grin. “Is that, oh it so is!”