Man I remember buying my Voodoo card and installing the patch for Quake. The intro alone was just...I literally stared at it for a good minute. Then playing the game with FASTER framerates and such detail (back then). I was hooked. And of course Blues News was one of the main reasons why I did that. Thank you, Blue. Da man.

This is on the Xbox game pass FYI. That game is almost half the cost of the pass alone.

It's on XBOX game pass so I'll give it a go.

Simon Says wrote on Mar 11, 2025, 12:56:
Incredible how a single manchild's malignant narcissism will mean hundreds of millions of US citizens will needlessly suffer in the name of his extremely insecure ego. Not to mention the collaterals all over the world.

I call it now, either you get rid of him and the ideology he preaches, or you are all going down with him the same way narcissist cult leaders ( like among others, Jim Jones ) make their followers go down with them instead of facing their insecurities.

His sugar glass fragile self-esteem is more important than all the world's people, you're playing with nuclear fire, remember that when you think he has the launch codes for the nuclear arsenal, pure madness.

I couldn't agree more. I still don't really understand how he won, although the dems not having their shit together at all until a few months out certainly helped pave the way. If the GoP doesn't come together and impeach him then I don't really think we'll have a true democracy (or republic, etc) again. Elections will REALLY be rigged, from the people running them to the machines, etc. Or they just won't leave office, period. And in 4 years Trump will have all the military cultists in place to make sure they don't step in. These are stunningly scary times in this country.

How was asking for chat not to devolve into the trash that is the majority of Internet forums somehow "defending them"? Putting words into mouths, much? He literally said NOTHING, either way. SMH.

"This has prompted us to reevaluate our approach to feature and content rollout, focusing on steps we can take to bring the game to a better state while maintaining steady delivery."

SMDH. So after ~12 years, you are going to reevaluate your approach. Yeah, right. What an absolute shit show...only Chris could pull this scam off for so long. Not that I care one bit about the game. I guess it's nice to give developers and such jobs, at least...

You don't know much about what's been going in politics lately, eh? She died because the radical religious SCOTUS appointees overturned Roe and then the red states starting adoption heinous laws around abortion and the care for mother's when they are pregnant. In Texas, (not just Texas) women are DYING because the doctors can be prosecuted for "killing" an unborn baby, even if the mother's life is at risk. Politicians are now deciding healthcare, for women, and it's literally killing some of them. Why do old white men who aren't even in the medical field playing life and death with women's reproductive rights? Ok ok I know the answer. Religion, of course. The scourge of society.

Man, Blue and Frans....I've been here since close to day 1. I still come to this site literally every day for the past 25+ years. I wonder how many days I've missed. Can't be many. Frans, thank you so much for helping Blue out, and what about Ant! That dude has been providing us tidbits (well more than that) for how many years now. Cheers to Ant as well.

Ubisoft...the creator of so many good/decent (a couple great) CO-OP games. This one...nope. Single player. Why not provide both? I won't touch this as 90% of my gaming for the last decade is CO-OP with my friends. You have the model set in stone...you've been doing it forever. SMH.

It's also on the Windows Game Pass, so if you weren't sure about it go give it a shot. Assuming you have the pass, of course. I didn't play the first one but I might give this is one a go as not being sucked into too many other games right now.

No Co-op. Seriously? Ubisoft, of all developers/publishers, to boot. 90% of my gaming is with friends and this would likely be something we'd dig into for weeks.

Huh, I don't believe I've heard of aphantasia, or if I have it's been decades and I simply forgot. I too cannot visualize objects in my mind. I can remember what they look like (my old house, etc.) but I don't see it in my head at all. Now I'm curious to look into this more as well. Sometimes I have fairly detailed dreams (I think?) but usually it looks more fuzzy or blurry and lacking any real detail. I remember people in my dream but not really any details about them at all from imagery.

I know several people who work for SWA, and trust me, their antiquated shit has caused plenty of issues for them as well. Some crazy stories...(not just about old Windows clients, but really, really old booking software and luggage routing issues)

Crazily enough, if these Windows computers had been in Azure or AWS, they could have been rolled back easily enough and would have limited the disaster significantly. So yeah, you'd have the Cloudstrike agent running in the cloud, where you could roll those machines back and then you lock down the "dumb" terminal in the airports, etc. For those super important clients you take the extra steps...no one cares if my machine gets bricked on a Friday. I can still do at least 85% of my work with a phone. (Teams, email, OneNote, blah blah) It wouldn't be fun by any means, but it would be doable in the short term.

I'm just happy it has more than 2 player co-op! I typically game with 2 or 3 other players and 3 of us really enjoy this series, so I'm sure we'll give it a go.

He's lucky he wasn't arrested for what he did. He knew it was a minor he was sexting.

I've seen Home Free live twice. Great shows...definitely my favorite a capella group for sure.

Sucks for those employees laid off but 9% is actually not bad considering how many redundancies they probably have in certain areas. Leaves me hope they can turn the hot mess that is AB around.

Happy Birthday, Franz! Thank you for everything you've done (and still do) for Blue.

If you have a friend or two, I totally recommend giving this game a go. It's a bit addictive and you learn a ton through each mission. Surprises await and yeah...lessons will be learned. Super worth it (in COOP)...certainly to try it out.

"HURRAY ! More mega-corporations! this is what gaming needs."

Eh, pump the brakes there big shoots. Activision's REVENUE was ~7.58 billion in 2022. Microsoft's NET INCOME was almost 80 billion. This is mostly a few drops in the bucket for Microsoft relative to their overall valuation. What it does for them (or what they want) is to grow their Xbox Game Pass subscription substantially. Plain and simple. The game pass, IMHO, is already a great value and hey, if they put more games on it, including CoD, Diablo, etc....an even bigger value for me.