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dex3108

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dex3108 Don't listen to the haters. I have the Arctis 1 Wireless and it's fine. They're comfy enough so i can wear them most of the day for work and the mic is way better than the one in the laptop/tablet i use and the one in the headset work supplied. The fact i can use it on my PC/Switch and PS4 is a bonus too.
I had SteelSeries Siberia 150 before these that i just used as headphones because mic was broken. i liked them so now that they worn off i decided to stay in SteelSeries family. I also wanted to cut the cord so these ones looked like good choice. razer released similar ones recently (Barracuda X) and only other one in this price range was Xbox Wireless Headset. So choice was obvious. they are comfortable and sound nice. i also have DTS Headphones X and it is nice in games.
 

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Stone Ocean

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also SEGA can fuck right off with this fucking bullshit:

These companies don't make sense. Jack the pricing up everywhere aside from select South American countries and for some fucking reason make the pricing in Brazil 2x better than they were doing 2 months ago. Did JP devs start liking Brazil again or what

"Thanks but also fuck you for screwing everyone else" is a very weird feeling to have, I gotta admit.
 

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There's a MS rewards quest for Sims 4, so I tried downloading it on PC (I figured it wouldn't work, usually these quests are console only), but I still wanted to try. Long story short, I had to reinstall the EA app because it got stuck downloading the game and was unable to cancel or finish, not even after app/PC restart. And the quest didn't work.

Here's another funny story. There are usually sets of quests called "punch cards" in MS Rewards too, complete them all, you get a bunch of points. EZ.

So I do this one in the desktop rewards site and it launches/does a search in the xbox app PC. It applies search filters like 'newly added games', Bethesda's catalogue or EA's, etc. For some weird reason, going to the rewards site, clicking in the link that opens the xbox app and does a search is much faster than opening the app and browsing by hand.

PC launchers, huh...
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Mivey It takes dedication and a stubborn attitude. lol
It's not designed for substantial apps. It's designed for little mobile type apps and games like Angry Birds.
It's also far too fragile and the Store Database breaks far too easily.
How they manage to get 98% through a large update then roll it back again and again is quite the feat of engineering.
Having to use tools like RunAsiTrustedInstaller to fix a store that is supposed to be easy to use is a joke.

It's a bit of an omni-shambles and i avoid anything store related on Windows like the plague.
 

ScreamingTrees

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I know it's a meme but that notion is rather outdated, lots of seriously good headsets have come out in the last couple of years including wireless ones. That Arctis 1 is fine, so are Astros and I like my Xbox Wireless (after fiddling with the equalizer) for its price. Heck, Bang & Olufsen is now selling one for 500€, the available choices and overall quality has increased significantly.
I only just got a headset recently as I needed one for working from home. Work gave me some crappy €20 USB thing but I bought an Arctis 7 set instead that I use the odd time for coop games. Usually I stick with a set of sennheiser headphones when I'm playing.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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I wish Valve would just let my verify my age so I can view or buy adult games... Why is it so hard. You can upload a censored ID to verify your age for Google Services.... so that would work I guess...
If it helps, It's also available on itch and you get a DRM free version and a Steam Key too.

 

Kyougar

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How does a company with a million times the revenue and employees of Valve not mange to get downloads working. They can write operating systems, but having reliable downloads is something that just eludes them?
I'll never understand how the Microsoft Store is as useless as it is.
After working for 7 years for the Microsoft Support... I have no idea why MS is so shit at integrating their software in their own operating system.
We had (selfwritten) pdf files detailing how to fucking uninstall some MS software, some of those even needing MS or 3rd party software to get rid of them (or even just making a clean reinstall)
 

toxicitizen

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It's so good to finally have FFI & FFII on Steam. You know my expectations for these releases were pretty damn low for me to be so delighted that they bothered to include a scanlines filter lol. Like, I was hoping for one but I honestly didn't think they'd bother. And with the font swap trick I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. I mean, a pixelated font would be nice but I can live without it. It's a shame about the missing bonus content but I can't say I really care all that much about that.

And this has nothing to do with the remaster but I kinda hate that I have to come up with names for my characters since there's no default. So this is what we end up with. Behold, the warriors of light:

 

Valdien

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Does Windows 10 sometimes reboot instead of shutting down the computer or am I losing my mind?
I've got the same problem, lol. This happens randomly on my end on a weekly basis. I shut my PC down once I'm off to bed, and have noticed it restarting instead. It might be an app or peripheral causing it, but can't be bothered figuring it out because W10. :p
 

Amzin

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It's so good to finally have FFI & FFII on Steam. You know my expectations for these releases were pretty damn low for me to be so delighted that they bothered to include a scanlines filter lol. Like, I was hoping for one but I honestly didn't think they'd bother. And with the font swap trick I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. I mean, a pixelated font would be nice but I can live without it. It's a shame about the missing bonus content but I can't say I really care all that much about that.

And this has nothing to do with the remaster but I kinda hate that I have to come up with names for my characters since there's no default. So this is what we end up with. Behold, the warriors of light:

Some real Nuklear Power comic energy there :minos_hd:
 

Tizoc

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It's so good to finally have FFI & FFII on Steam. You know my expectations for these releases were pretty damn low for me to be so delighted that they bothered to include a scanlines filter lol. Like, I was hoping for one but I honestly didn't think they'd bother. And with the font swap trick I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. I mean, a pixelated font would be nice but I can live without it. It's a shame about the missing bonus content but I can't say I really care all that much about that.

And this has nothing to do with the remaster but I kinda hate that I have to come up with names for my characters since there's no default. So this is what we end up with. Behold, the warriors of light:

Child go read some actual friggin literature, and j aint talkin about game.of thrones, i mean actual literature
Because if you did
You would have named them after discworld characters (Death doesnt count ya lazy bum)
 
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Yoshi

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Medieval Dynasty's full release is on September 23. They plan to increase the game's price on August 15.
New price will be: EUR 29.99 | USD 34,99 | GBP 27,99 | CNY 189
As of now, we are starting our very last Steam sale before Medieval Dynasty 1.0 Full Release. So take advantage of this unique opportunity and grab the game at the pre-release price together with a 20% discount! Don’t wait too long though as this sale ends on 9th of August.
 

C-Dub

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How does a company with a million times the revenue and employees of Valve not mange to get downloads working. They can write operating systems, but having reliable downloads is something that just eludes them?
I'll never understand how the Microsoft Store is as useless as it is.
Microsoft made the Windows Store to eventually do away with “legacy” (their word) win32 apps, only for it to be a piece of shit that is now a legacy Windows 8 feature as a Windows 10 albatross.

It’s hard to fix how fucked and broken it is from a technical perspective, but the optics of closing it down and building something from scratch is just as (if not more) damaging than going on a decade-long journey to fruitlessly fix it. So persisting with what they’ve got is what they‘re doing.
 

Yoshi

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How does a company with a million times the revenue and employees of Valve not mange to get downloads working. They can write operating systems, but having reliable downloads is something that just eludes them?
I'll never understand how the Microsoft Store is as useless as it is.
You'd think a massive company like Microsoft would learn from their mistakes after GFWL.

Then comes the Microsoft Store.
 

Ge0force

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It's so good to finally have FFI & FFII on Steam.
I'm currently playing the PSP remakes of FF1+2 on my Vita, but imo these games haven't aged very well: annoying random encounters, weak story, tons of useless backtracking, no clue where to go next and 95% of the battles can be won by spamming standard attacks.

I remember enjoying the remakes of FF3+4 so I'm trying to keep playing (my plan is to play all FF games up to 12) but it's not easy for me...
 
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toxicitizen

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meanwhile at ubi:

its even funnier



the good old gif applies
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ubisoft can stay on the EGS for all I care. I've never seen a company be so consistently shit when it comes to their PC presence. Like, even Koei Tecmo and Square-Enix have their moments. Ubisoft is just always UGH.
 
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