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Yeah that is the only issue when it comes to buying the console now, you would need to be sure it was all in working order and how you needed it to be otherwise you would face spending money and being without. 

*Looks down at his beer belly* Uhmmm nope, can't say I do. 😛 I do have a smartwatch though (Galaxy Watch 5 Pro) so it does keep me somewhat active by getting me up and going at times.

I don't have any specific fitness tracker on my phone but it does have a built in fitness tracker with the health app that I have on my phone and one of the features it has is to track how many steps you make each day. I find this useful if I am honest so that I can try and get my 10,000 steps in on the day if I am feeling up to it and I can keep track of that with my phone. Usually most phones have a built in health app that have a lot of good features for fitness. 

I'd be okay with the hardwire as how I have my set up I am already hardwired with my Xbox so I would just switch that hard wire out to the OG Xbox and then be able to take it from there. I don't think I still have many games left if at all now though, just the console so I would have to grab some games if I was able to if I wanted to check this out again. 

This is the first time I am hearing of this game. Was it a really popular game? Doesn't seem to be one that was really out there it seems with me not hearing about it. It does sound interesting though with the telekinetic powers & abilities instead of guns, especially since most games now tend to use things like guns. 

16GB is the minimum nowdays. Used to be 8GB and now it's not. When it comes to gaming you really need 32gb 🙂 even so when I'm in gaming like MSFS2020 it's using 22gb if not more. 

It has gotten a good amount of looks, but most listen for a second while I fish for my phone and start laughing while it plays.

It was just Pong.
Final Fantasy is one. I took this from Wikipedia:
"Though often attributed to the company (Square) allegedly facing bankruptcy, Sakaguchi explained that the game was his personal last-ditch effort in the game industry and that its title, Final Fantasy, stemmed from his feelings at the time; had the game not sold well, he would have quit the business and gone back to college."

I would say that social media has very much so impacted society more than gaming has. You always get the whole video games are violent and they are the reason for what the youngsters do not when they commit crimes and such but it's not always the games that are to blame but what they see said and shared on social media that ends up impacting society more. 

I would like to see a video game based around things that someone goes through that is normally not even noticed because they suffer in silence a lot of the time. Such as people who suffer with anxiety and depression, maybe seeing a game where you go into the life of someone who suffers with these things and you live their life with those issues so you can see from their perspective how it feels. Have things happen in the game like it would in real life that would increase the anxiety or depression of the character in the game. I think that would be a good way to show people what some go through on a daily basis.

Ninja Theory did something like that with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, except it was schizophrenia and psychosis they portrayed rather than depression and anxiety. However, as someone who does suffer from depression I believe it isn't the sort of thing I that would translate into a video game very well. It's not the kind of mental illness that alters one's perceptions or everyday, immediate reactions and behaviour in a way an interactive experience and role play can really show in an engaging way. People who are depressed function perfectly fine like anybody else, they just feel different doing it all in a way isn't apparent from the outside. Suicide or attempted suicide is obviously depression at it's peek, but it's not necessarily something that plagues people who suffer from depression every day. Nor do we spend our time just sitting a dark room crying, it just isn't that obvious.
 
I've heard music that really captures this very well, check out Falling in Reverse, for example:
 
 
 
There are also plenty of movies and TV shows that get it as well (There's a lot that as don't as well). There's even some video games through specific characters that capture it well (Like Kate Marsh from Life is Strange), but making it the primary focus of a character and thier story in a video game is something I just don't see working because of the interactive nature. Unfortunatly, you just can't feel what depression is like through a controller no matter how hard a developer might try. Despite it being something that a person can't really know unless they've been through it, it is still one of things that's easer to understand from the outside by observing it from the outside. Nor is it that difficult, it just take a little patience, tolerance and understanding.
 
I genuinely apricate that you want to understand better through video games what it's like, but simple research is a better to learn. The late Chester Bennington talked about it, and he's spot on.
 
 
It is like having the energy to yourself depleted. Not enough to kill you, but enough to rob you of your will. Many days I wake up I just want to do nothing, say nothing, and most of all, be nothing. Getting myself out to go the the shop and buy milk isn't a chore, it's a goal. Not because I need the milk, but because it's more than I would normally achieve. I don't necessarily want to kill myself, but would be OK with laying there and dying. If that happens, so what.
 
That is what's it's like. Debilitating, but also kind of dull. It's not something that works as an interactive narrative. What would the game mechanics be like? A QTE to get out of bed? A fetch quest to the fridge because you really should eat something, it's been 8 hours? Sorry, but only way to make it work would be to go completely over the top which kind of defies the point.

Yeah, I think this came up another discussion in another part of the forum - the movie looks very good and I'm also looking forward to it as well.

Good choice!
First I'm hearing this one and it's absolutely hilarious!

This one. It has made me laugh more times than I can count.
 
 

What shade of purple are we talking - dark/light or just any shade?

I can get where you're coming from in terms of the family dynamics in Everybody Loves Raymond. I just happened to start re-watching a few episodes last month and I do remember a lot more about it now.

I used to watch it all the time as well before I went to school in the mornings and then later on in life on the Boomerang channel.

When I think back to my childhood and I think back to what I used to watch, the first cartoon that comes to mind for me is Tom and Jerry. Me and my brothers used to ensure we had Cartoon Network on every week day at 6pm to 6.30pm so that we could watch Tom and Jerry. We used to have tons of fun watching it. It's a shame they don't make them anymore to be honest as I feel they would be really good even now. 

There are some valid points here and I also think that a lot of gaming conferences with traditionally physical interaction like E3 have been heavily impacted to the point that most of the major gaming companies no longer use E3 to showcase their new offerings and instead host their own events.
I mean, to be fair - most of us where cooped up in our residences for the better part of a year so gaming was one of the only ways to entertain ourselves.

A computer at the bank. I would go into my own account and add several digits to my account balance. That may sound greedy, but when you only get a tiny little bit every month from disability, every penny counts. So anything I could get could change my life.

Hyped for it! I played the last one that was on GamePass and loved it. I am not a baseball fan at all, but the games have been interesting. I am the same with the Madden games and even NBA 2K series.

I would say in terms of COVID and gaming companies, it would have definitely been a sales that would have taken the biggest hit. With people losing their jobs due to the pandemic they would have definitely been trying to hold off on any kind of spending that was not necessary at the time. I also think with the whole work from home mandate that was going on for a while at the beginning of the pandemic and when COVID was at it' worst, a lot of games ended up being delayed due to that meaning game companies were slow on releasing new games compared to before COVID. 

I would say that social media has very much so impacted society more than gaming has. You always get the whole video games are violent and they are the reason for what the youngsters do not when they commit crimes and such but it's not always the games that are to blame but what they see said and shared on social media that ends up impacting society more. 

It is a shame that there are not more places around like there used to be for PC gaming. Xbox Game Pass for PC is about the only reliable one now that I know of and all the others seem to have just disappeared. It's a shame as people usually want to be able to have a choice of places to use and not just have the option of one place or nothing. 

I missed quite a few if I am honest due to my parents not being able to afford to get us every new console. Unfortunately I missed out on the NES and the PS2 when they were released. I guess the one I was most upset about missing was the NES and I would love to be able to get hold of one just to be able to play it because I was never able to. Another one I missed out on was DreamCast but I was able to play that a few times because a friend had it, me and my brothers just never owned on ourselves.