A console seemed like a stupid idea since forever. I never bought a new one, that would be a waste of money. Meanwhile game after game on sale for the pc.

And yet: I have 2 ps2’s networked with harddrives, a modified ps3 and ps4, a couply of modified wii’s and ds machines.

If it was more than $100 I wasnt buying. Several I got for free. We had our NES and SNES back in the day for about $20 (mid 90’s).

Seems fine to me. I have no issue with it. Seems the same as everything else really. I go from docs, to word, to writer and it makes no difference. Or calc, cells, and excel. Whatever.

Do you often struggle with numbers and letters?

Cool. Which means you emji means nothing to me, I have no idea what you are saying with it or why is is there. Did your keyboard suggest it then?

You told a joke, yes?

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)

From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

I hope the formatting works if you are on mobile.

emotes sparingly, but emojis are awful in forum discussions. Always have been.

But now its either one of two things: the keyboard is just recommending them and people click them so they are meaningless, or AI added it. Either way, they are annoying and pointless. That is what words are for.

I see emojis, I see lazy and/or AI.

Thanks for posting, will check out. Interesting project to use Krita underneath.

Easy on those emojis though. Almost didn’t read, we don’t need more of those.

I was astounded the other day when I visited a town that had a nice busy grocery store. It was like what I imagine the 70’s were like. They had 20 lanes OPEN with cashiers quickly and efficiently ringing up items, much faster than I could, with baggers neatly and efficiently filling the bags. There were no waiting lines because everyone found a cashier lane to walk right up to as the last person was finishing up.

It was ten times faster than a self checkout.

I rarely see that anymore. Its usually one lone cashier and a bunch of people waiting for a self checkout machine.

Grabbing all your groceries from the shelf

They will do that if I want them to. They will have it all ready to go.

Loading everything in your trunk

They will do this too

Putting away your cart

They send someone out to collect the carts, yes.

Why don’t you mind doing all these things for free, but do mind scanning your items?

If they want me to actually ring up the items and determine how much I owe them, I am fine with it, but I am going to charge myself whatever I want to. I mean it became my job, so I am going to do it as I see fit.

Seems like the most reasonable part of the transaction they might want to be involved in.

Why don’t you mind doing all these things for free, but do mind scanning your items?

Lol ok.

Not really a problem just a fact. There is a reason they dumbed the game down on the controller release.

But yes if you enjoy lumbering through a game I guess that’s your choice.

Gotta love steams haptic touch pad controllers, best of both worlds. Gives everyone a chance to play all the games.

Nah. I would just play a different game.

And I am plenty old, lol.

funny, thats what I just replied to someone before I saw this.

Cool thing is I am right. Controllers suck in FPS, particularity half life. You cant shoot fast, or shoot and move, or aim really. Thats why they dumbed the game down on the console releases.

Just robs the fun right out of it. Quick action and sharp focus make it a fun game.

When they put it on the console they dumbed it down, added aiming and lock, and even changed the levels to make them easier. It was much harder to do some of the moves with a controller.

You can turn around or aim instantly with a mouse. Cant do it with a controller.

Again, Awful. I find it awful. Horrible way to play FPS games. Especially half life. When it was converted to controller they even changed the levels to make it easier to do several things.

But that is just like, my opinion, which is why I wrote it. Do whatever you like.

Ever played it in VR? That section at the beginning is quite the sea sickness! Even though it too is horrible in its own way, its fun.

I can’t stand FPS on controllers. It completely ruins the game by making quick actions slow and cumbersome.

For example: Half Life and Half Life Decay for the PS2. They had to dumb it down for the controller, adding target lock and auto aiming. Once that happens, whats the point of playing at all.

The haptics on the steam controllers help somewhat, but nothing beats mouse and keyboard for these games.

Controller? Why? That sounds awful.

I guess bug fixes and new lighting are alright. Wouldn’t make me bother playing it again though.

Half Life original is worth going back to every now and again, it is so much better and a maasterpeice, but the Black Mesa version should be commended. They changed quite a lot, not just “remastering” the original. It too is a good game.

Nah. I am already annoyed.

Or they are just stupid. Do they think a television contains small people?

Its hard for me to imagine people this dumb.

But don’t get me wrong, they clearly exist.

Painfully hard to even read. I guess when you are the boss you just write however you want.

I wouldn’t mind seeing more. Oh well, the site wants a paid subscription to view more? LOLOLOLOL. No way in hell. The internet has gone to shit.