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I really can't decide if I'm going to get one.

The hardware isn't fantastic
The design is awesome
Almost no knowledge of available games (this thing is super expensive just to play rehashes of old atari games)
Looks primed for emulation

There's a downside to every upside i can think of sticking me right in the middle of buy or don't buy

@CreepinDeth are you getting one?

I got out of the word on the snes, completely skipped flashback, maybe i'll get to play it this time

A coworker handed me his daughter's laptop saying that it ran really slow. Looking into it the thing only has a 32 gb hdd (meaning under 30 useable) and runs windows 10, and came with office 365.

Windows 10 ver 1703 can get to 24 GB (windows 10 says minimum space 20 gb) + 1 gb for office + hp bloat and you're looking at 27ish gigs of drive space used...

Disk clean up saved about 500 mb of space and the computer still wanted almost 3 gigs worth of space before it would let me reset the pc both from windows or from hitting escape after turning the computer on.

Still not enough space to do anything... This time I ran disk clean up in an elevated command prompt and there was the option to select windows update, which was good for 16 gigs...

I'm guessing that streamlines (for lack of better term) the winsxs file at the cost of not being able to revert to past versions and / or kills restore points?
I tried it, and it ran for a while but would never finish. It seemed too good to be true!


Any windows gurus know a good way to gain some space? HDD is integrated on the board and this thing is almost netbook sized, meaning there's no easy upgrading. (that's a lie, i can remove the wireless nic to free up a pcie slot that could potentially house an ssd - all at a cost that would not be justified when weighed against the value of the device.

There's no docs, pics, movies, applications (outside of office, and minecraft - which combined is just over a gig) and everything that's usually stored on a hdd isn't here, apparently the user is a firm believer in the cloud.

I played one game for a few minutes, the others I just started up to get the badge... deffly liked the idea though

It's on my wish (eventual backlog) list!

Playing as Alfred looks like it'd be cheating...

I've started working on some of these... Steam came up with a cool idea

BV's already called out the duration of the honeymoon period, one month. In one month they'll be sitting on opposite ends of the couch in their sweatpants, her with Cheetos in her hair, him with his hand in the waistband...

I just purchased a bunch of Skylander Supercharger vehicles for $.79 each, a Paulette Amibo for $1.98 and a 6" Metroid figure for 7.49 from Toy's R Us last night. The deals are 40 - 60% off but there are also markdowns in the case of the skylanders and the paulette toys where were marked down to 2 and 4 dollars then discounted on top of that. Originally I'd heard there was wasn't going to be future shipments to the stores, but according to one of the workers there's a liquidator involved helping move old stock. (I saw a lot of winter clothing, fleece throws, easter baskets, etc.) My local Toys R Us didn't have a lot of empty shelf space, but there was a lot of the same thing spread around.

Manage expectations though, do go in expecting legos at 60% off and you'll be ok. The worker I talked to said they were still receiving trucks, I may be making a weekly pilgrimage

it happened in the 16 bit era, kinda piggy-backed off of the popularity of Out of the World.

absolutely

you just cost me $40.00....

@BLUEVOODU did you get all the extra games and stuff for it?

I've bought two of the snes minis, praying for another nes mini (supposed to come out in june) and bought those archival cases for the one i didn't open. Unless this turns into an AT Games dollar store kind of thing I'll do similar for it.

still waiting for a pso multiplayer...

i'm terrible at the game but i'll play. I've got about 14 minutes of play time out of this thing since i bought it.

@BLUEVOODU What's wrong with giving Google business? should we hate them for ousting Yahoo?!

yup, Parker played it until he got hooked on fortnite. It's rarely seen play since and I've yet to pick it up

That's cool, although is the arcade cabinet part really necessary? Its not a dealbreaker by any means, just seems like a way to push msrp up.

Someone should be sure to mention when they set a release date or when preorders open up.

Sega Genesis Classics will release for the Xbone or PS4 May 29th for 29.99 and if you preorder from GS you'll get a double sided poster featuring Golden Axe and Streets of Rage.

It looks like everything I bought off of Steam several years ago... no real reason for me to jump on it other the convenience.

I think my next phone will be some flavor of whatever Google is doing.

I really like the idea of an ecosystem like Apple and Amazon have created but they both are too rigid. Apple is pricey and Amazon excludes too much. Alexa was an awesome concept but the fire phone never flew and the tablets are so constricted...

Google is taking the ecosystem idea to a place where its starting to work best for me. It has it's home brand but others are allowed in the mix. The cloud drive, the office suite, no stupid shell, on top of allowing other brands...

A Link Between Worlds - I flew through that game.

It just came out at the perfect time when I had nothing else to do. It was great... so much like the SNES Zelda game, but in many ways an improvement.

Going pure soundtrack I think @CreepinDeth in on to something. Pro Skater 1 had some cool stuff, Goldfinger, Dead Kennedys and Primus off the top of my head, but Pro Skater 2 doing Bring the Noise and Guerilla Radio (and some other really cool stuff) really pushed it past it's predecessor. After #2 the fad died out for me, so I don't remember any of the other games.

Aside from all that we're forgetting the obvious - The earlier guitar hero / rockband games - i mean that's all they really were was a sound track and scontroller.

I don't know about soundtrack but the using Cage the Elephant's "aint no rest for the wicked" for the intro to Boarderlands was as good as anything I've seen, definitely up there with Breaking Benjamin in Halo

@CreepinDeth 69' RS/SS is my most favorite car out there.
I would also kill for a 1969 ZL-1

super Mario wii was awesome couch coop until someone got mad, at that ALWAYS happened. it was a much harder game with people

red dead redemption 2
black ops 4

I tend to jump into and out of other hobbies as the mood strikes (or finance allows). I've collected comics, cards, 80's toys, and of course video games at one point or another but have only stuck with the games. I'll grab something if I find it in the wild or if I hear about some milestone (haven't bought a comic in years but just recently got action comics 1000, for instance) but I'm not actively doing any of it.

I was big into cars and skydiving until I had my first child, then that had to go away, nothing is cheap in either of those hobbies. My brother recently showed me a picture of a 94 camaro i'd built waaay back in 2000 that someone was selling on Craig's list and it almost made me cry. Last I heard the car had been wrecked and went to the scrapyard, so i was pretty happy something i made was still running. It was my first big build, and the first time I got to use Nitrous Oxide. Skydiving was awesome. This place i used to go swore they owned that plane from Point Break (it was the same type anyway, I never bothered finding out for sure) . I was about 5 jumps away from my USPA liscense before I unexpectedly had a kid with a waitress i really didn't know...


Now after keeping the kids and ditching the waitress my hobby landscape is much different! I work and play Soccer Mom, and help with boyscouts. Now there's a lot of camp, hike, fish, play in the woods type of stuff going on... pretty much highschool all over again without the beer.

How's the UI? My biggest complaint about android devices are their UI. Amazon puts such a shell on top of android it's hard to call it android. Samsung has straightened up a lot, but it still can't touch Apple. If my kids use my phone on a car trip or something I have to spend 10 minutes reorganizing it. there will be apps scattered out all over the place. i'll have to slide three screens left to find my gmail app and two screens right to find the internet browser. I find Bixby completely useless and sliding down from the top does two different things depending on how you slide, which the phone (or my fingers) sometimes has a hard time determining which its trying to do.

@BLUEVOODU

I'll continue to give it a shot. I bet Mario rabbids, golf story, bomberman etc. would be fine. Zelda and Xenoblade will have to be reserved for at home play

@mastermario

I'm down. pick a weekend and we'll do it

for me it's a novelty, for my kid he plays rec room a lot. I've got a lot of other games for it but he really enjoys rec room. I've not found anything that really does it for me, but to be honest i'm having more fun right now collecting and buying for my kids. HP did send me a new headset so I'm pretty satisfied with how they handled the warranty claim.

Technology wise I think they should focus on weight and making wireless sets. The headsets aren't heavy but they're not exactly like wearing glasses either... If you wait you won't miss out on anything