The thing that bugged me about buying physical games especially on CDs is when the CD has a scratch and that scratch many prevent you from playing the game.
I'm afraid of putting ANY liquid near any of my PCs.
You need to ground yourself when before any computer/console up with a screwdriver to prevent the static from building up.
Fair point there but gaming is heading in a digital direction(which I don't support either but the train has already been set in motion...).
A driveless Xbox is just a ridiculously underpowered, overpriced PC and nobody will by that. You might as well get a gaming PC - even a budget gaming PC runs circles around any console.
The thing I learned from having animals around me since I was a kid is that they can sense your emotions and intent. If animals don't sense any kind of fear they don't tend to react very aggressively but if they sense any trace of fear they tend to bite out of instinct. They also tend to dislike people that hate animals for obvious reasons - Most animals tend to follow me around nowadays and crawl onto me/hide behind me.
After what I have been seeing from Bethesda since Fallout 76 came out, I'm not too positive about anything with Bethesda. I love my Elder Scrolls but I don't think Bethesda has it in them to make a properly functioning game anymore. It's always the Modding community that increases the longevity and popularity of their games and with the way they have been treating modders like criminals...
I troll a lot too but not the malicious kind of trolling - it's more the mischievous kind of trolling where everybody is dying of laughter. Even the person being trolled can't stop laughing.
Nowadays, I wait until a game launches before I make any decision on purchasing it. If it is one the Epic Games Store, that game is automatically blacklisted from my buy list.
Fortnite and Apex Legends the only extremely successful game in that category I can remember. The rest have been trying to replicate that success and they fail miserably at it.
To be honest, compared to how often I play AOE, I don't play that much AOM anymore so I can't quite remember XD. They are both practically the same game with one or two tweaked features so it's down to opinion.