My wife says “My first husband, and he died 25 years ago…”

If your primary gripe is combat, you need to understand it’s not a combat game. It’s an exploration/survival game.

Seriously though, in W11 it’s super easy to disable this shit.

Start Menu:
Personalization > Start > “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” (OFF)

Lock Screen:
Personalization > Lock Screen > Change from “Weather ‘and more’” to “None”.

Search:
Settings  > Search  > Permissions & History > Turn it ALL off. Cloud, Work/School, etc.

Seriously though, in W11 it’s super easy to disable this shit.

Start Menu:
Personalization > Start > “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” (OFF)

Lock Screen:
Personalization > Lock Screen > Change from “Weather ‘and more’” to “None”.

Search:
Settings  > Search  > Permissions & History > Turn it ALL off. Cloud, Work/School, etc.

"WARRIOR NEEDS FOOD! BADLY!

WIZARD SHOT A FOOD!"

I saw a TMobile ad the other night offering 4 “free” iPhones and I’m like… “WTF do I need 3 extra phones for? Just give me a fair deal on ONE phone.”

Set up an Apple account using the company info, not yours. Problem solved.

You mean like… buying ammo online?

I did it for fun for a few years, had press credentials for PAX, that was probably the biggest “pay” I got.

Still worth it.

Streaming bootlegged games is a fast track to legal trouble. I don’t blame Nintendo at all here.

Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy

Origins was such a boring game. Hackneyed, utterly predictible plot, graphics that looked like the previous generation. There wasn’t really much there to like, and then the next games were worse.

Not sure how we even got as far as Veilguard…

Not sure how this is a crime… breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

What law is being broken here?

If his fake bands are being paid for bot clicks, that’s a problem for the platforms to figure out. They need to examine their TOS.

Not sure how that would work…

I’m old enough to remember the breakup of Ma Bell and the way that worked was the creation of a bunch of regional telecom services, that’s not going to work on the Internet.

I guess they could mandate spinning off Android, but that’s not really the problem addressed in the antitrust case, is it?

Maybe split the AdWords side from the Search Engine side?

“Who was your designer? Hannibal Lecter?”

I got you fam:

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/06/09/sig-p239-with-rainbow-titanium-finish/

Seems like they missed a trick… Pocket Pentium. :)

That’s consistent with my office, plus a hiring freeze so nobody new coming in.

Fortunately, for me, my cardiologist told them to pound sand. Working from home now since 2018.

They didn’t just remove story missions and quests and things, they removed entire PLANETS from the game. It was crazy!

Bungie’s problem is they don’t really want to make a story based looter shooter, they want a free to play PvP gacha engine.