HardAct

I think I need to just say no. I'm an adult and we can "AFFORD" it, but will I use it is the question that I seem to not ask myself enough. I do NOT play my PS4 much at all if at all. Really all I do is look once or twice a month at the "FREE" games offered {LOL} add them if they look good, tell myself I'll get to those for sure soon and shut it off again. It's just not smart. I bought the Added Nintendo thing on top of the 20 for online and I don't play anything online. Stupid right? I justified it for the Mario Kart 8 tracks, then rethought the purchase because you don't own the tracks if you drop the sub next year so I then paid for the Tracks myself and that was dumb too. It's the most played game by far when the kids are here but WTF MAN! 20 a month isn't anything but added to 12 subscriptions it can be. At least I dropped SHUTTER streaming service being the huge Thriller / Horror fans that we are, because it's stupid on top of the content we already have, makes me sick with myself really. I'm going to let my Sony PS+ sub run out, and try very very hard to justify why before I pick it up again. Good thing is, Sony is making this easy for me/ some of us right?

Yea WANTING but really honestly I have not looked at all. I mean if I was on Amazon I'd type in PS5 but that's about the extent of it. I was in BEST BUY 2 weeks ago and even my contact there said they haven't seen stock, there bought way before they ever get to the store. Kinda crazy, I though I might even wait long enough to get a PS5 Pro or a newer version that's how hard I had looked. The wife is going to be thrilled...lol NOT! I still have a SteamDeck on preorder @649.99. I have really been rethinking that purchase a lot lately. Helps that it's a waiting game! That looks like earliest is late April but I'm thinking "AFTER" 2nd Q2022 could mean anything really, late November?, or later even. It's really something I do not need at all, but I love tech so much and losing all the shit I had collected for over 30 years in gaming including 1000's of games and consoles in the camp fire I tend to want it all back and that's impossible or ridiculous and Stupid Expensive of course. I'll Enjoy it, it'll be hooked up to the 83" LGC1 and my 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos home Theater I've been setting up and a HUGE Bucket List ITEM off my life journey...lol For the first few months to glorify it the thing, then I'll down grade it to the Gameroom and just a meager 65" LGCX

Stunning turn of events, I'll be a PS5 disc version owner on April 7th!! I had literally just accepted the fact that a PS5 wasn't in my very near future as I don't use any social media sites {except this one and sometime IGN & Reddit Home Theater forums}, and really only brows Best Buy or Amazon a few times a Month at best when looking for stuff. I wasn't the type to allow alerts on my phone, or search instock sites, I'm a relatively private person, exact opposite of my wife and her Facebook obsessions {To be polite she really has gotten better} so....anyway, an Hour ago I was browsing new HBO Max series and up popped an AD for PS5 in stock Now for Best Buy total tech members. I swear to god, I laughed out loud as I walked to my computer, logged into best buy searched PS5 and there it was, 499 disc version with no Upsale! Well Total Tech is I guess but I use it for warranties on my 83" LGC1 and 65" LGCX, along with my Denon x6700H receiver and Xbox Series X so it's a much cheaper option that buying warranties for them all.. I still thought no way was it going to be this easy, WELL FU%K I added to cart, It said I was inline for awhile with a spinning Buffering like thing spinning and then bamm! There it was! I pick it up April 7th, disc version. It cost me 4.99 as I had almost $300 {$280} in Reward certificates I had to spend by may anyways! This is really going to hurt the wallet a bit, the wife was saying last weekend that she was surprised I didn't try harder to find a PS5, and I told her I would wait till I could just Walk in and buy one in Best Buy or find it one Amazon or BB online. I had plenty of games and have really just in the last few years realized the just how impossible my backlog of games had gotten, especially on Steam and I do own a Xbox Series X! So, looks like that backlog is going to be dumped on some more in the coming months. I have been really kind of proud that I had been playing my Older Steam games and even my Switch, 3DSxL, and Vita lately! Even have Elden Ring installed and haven't touched it yet! So I'm looking for deal on a 2Tb 4th gen M.2 ssd, I bought a 1TB Series X SSD that was pretty expensive, and looks like the 1TB 980 Evo M.2 I have been holding onto wont work damnit! Games: Ratchet & Clank, Gran Turismo 7, Eternal, Demon Souls & Deathloop all are in my near future!!!!! Just found out that Ghost of Tsushima is upgrade free and that sucks! I never finished it and that it shameful really as I was loving it. I do this a lot. I doubt it, but I have been holding of on playing FF7 remake too because I was hoping for a free upgrade if/when I did eventually score a PS5. Fingers crossed, Looking that up now.....YES IT DOES! No way in hell I'll ever play all these games, I have a serious problem.

This topic really got us thinking here at the home. We have way to many streaming subs and it's just not funny at all. These prices seemed just ridiculous when compared to Game Pass. Not a MS fanboy but the highest tier GP Ultimate is 14.99 a month with deals found easily to save on that price too. Then I looked and my sub to PS+ ends in April. So having Disney+ / Hulu no ads, Apple+, Prime, HBO Max and Netflix's highest tier, Nintendo+ Expansion and Gamepass {Ultimate is paid through 2024} I said fine, No PS, that's easy. I'll look into it when ever I find a easy PS5 down the road. All this and a Reservation for a top Tier Steam Deck @649.99!! LOL ............. Well that was Yesterday, lol. I was browsing new HBO Max series and up popped an AD for PS5 in stock Now for Best Buy total tech members. I swear to god, I laughed out loud as I clicked the ad, logged into best buy searched PS5 and there it was, 499 disc version with no Upsale! Well Total Tech is I guess but I use it for warranties on my 83" LGC1 and 65" LGCX, along with my Denon x6700H receiver and Xbox Series X so it's a much cheaper option that buying warranties for them all.. I still thought no way was it going to be this easy, WELL FU%K I added to cart, It said I was inline for awhile with a spinning Buffering like thing spinning and then bamm! There it was! I pick it up April 7th, disc version. It cost me 214.99 as I had almost $300 {$280} in Reward certificates I had to spend by may anyways! So.... How much was the PS+ again?

Well SHIT....lol Honestly don't know why I even have a PS+ sub it's just something I have always just done, I need to rethink a lot of shit I spend money on though. Not re'upping this after April when it expires, maybe I'll see a value when ever I buy a PS5!

WHAT???? This is one thing I always defended Sony for over MS being that PS+ games were yours when you added them to the library. If there locked now this is the first I have heard of this? Starting when, are the games I thought were mine back then locked too or are they doing this moving forward? This is bullshit! I haven't turned my PS4 Pro on for at least 2 months but I'm now going to check this out and update the system while I'm at it, this is quite disappointing to me...I'd be fine with it if that was standard but this was a feature used in many arguments in MS vs Sony, Games with Gold / PS+, Etc! Man not cool, not cool. I'm going to let my PS+ sub expire this time, not because of this but it's just not needed now, I'm so buried in games already, but I have held a PS+ sub since the beginning until now and I do realize they have to compete with the Game Pass juggernaut, but putting included features now behind a pay wall is bad news at least to me. I need to try and find a ps5 again, I spend about 2 minutes a week looking, starting to think this might not be the best way to score one f these consoles now...

Yadda yadda . . . Of course they have to respond to Gamepass but this doesn't sound very good to me. I do admit I don't know about PS now, I do have a PS+ sub I think is up in may but I forget to even look at the free games on that already. Maybe if I ever get a PS5 I'll see an advantage but I'm good with MS & GP for the near future!

hope so, I know that purchased material is still available but new game purchases I thought were going to cease? The Vita is still a favorite of mine for trips, very small and a great console to play games on from a comfort stance. I love the 3ds but man is is not fun to hold for games other than Mario etc, side scrollers mostly. The switch is a bit bulky compared to these too. the 3 make up some fun times though for sure. There are at least 10 games I'd love to own on the Vita.. Thing is for me, I owned large collections for games in physical form for all 3 but the fire happened. Replace them has been a challenge and obviously isn't affordable either at least by me. I don't own a single game on cartridge for the vita now and only 4 for the 3ds. I think 5 for the switch, I have now seen the value of digital library collections over physicals. Oh well lessons learned I guess...

YES PLZZZZZ

April 21st 2022: I know here very soon we are to lose the ps2 and psp / vita sore fronts. I hurried up and grabbed the game that I had bought but lost in the fire and a few others all digital, I actually don't own a single game for the PS Vita on cartridge, fuck that damn fire! Anyways back on topic. Don't you think it would be in Sony's best interest to reveal and a date and have a super flash sale for these unsupported consoles? It's easy money right? Why would they close down the plays store and not reap all the rewards they can first? Makes every bit of sense to me, fingers crossed that they do something like this RIGHT? I would buy a lot for my collection at a steep discount but right now prices are still pretty high. No NINTENDO high but high enough. THOUGHTS?

I'm just about to start this game! Excited and a bit worried too. I have a hard time understanding all the weird things you can find and just how they should be used. I know basic shit like heavy means less rolling and swinging, etc but it's all the little stuff that's in these games that makes me pause. I'm going in completely blind, I have not read a wiki, or other than watching IGN's 10/10 review I have seen no media coverage. I do need some beginner 101 stuff before heading plz. Like stuff you know now but with the game would tell you stuff. I don't need spoilers, just help going in and I would appreciate it alot. I'm gonna be pissed if this game doesn't grab me from the start and and just wow me. I'm not worried about the difficulty, that's fine it's just how read intense is it to understand the important nuances of the game. Starting Thursday morning, i'm excited. I just played Grim Dawn a made a character an managed to beat {Well Almost} Ultimate difficulty. I'm a lvl 83 Pyromancer and boy is this game just fantastic. I clicks every box on a game I would like. I love hack'n'slash loot games like Diablo 2 and this have taken all my gaming time now for the last 5 weeks! I even bought D2: Resurrection and didn't touch it...lol Anyway, Elden Ring here I come!

True THAT!

I'm really starting to second guess the need for this thing. I'm After 2nd Q2022 but still it's giving me to much time to think about it. 649.99 won't kill us, and the thought of selling it has now actually crossed my mind but I'd be a hypocrite so I'm really getting second thoughts. With the short supply on everything these days I'm keeping the pre-order but I do not think I'll use this very much. I don't know what to do, but seeing them seeing them for double easily is so very tempting. I could sell it and save the money toward a 40series GPU next year. 1500 would cover the cost of at least a 4080Ti at retail anyway right? WOW, options suck. I do love Fancy "NEW TECH" though, I'm really waffling every day on this thought. Mine is probably set for December 2022 anyways...lol

Not dissing in any way, I'll be getting them and I haven't played any Mario kart other than the 64 version and M8 so they will be nice, I was just stating what I read! Didn't know about the sale but I waited and waited for a very long time to get in at a sale price {Mario Kart 8} but finally caved! I owned it once before but lost almost my entire library of switch games in the Camp Fire. I had almost all games in cartridge form, I have no rethought my whole idea of physical vs Digital trust me. I bought it for 49.99 and it's the game the kids and grand kids play the most. I only had Breath of the Wild in the switch and it was thrown in the truck was the only reason I had any AAA titles for the switch post FIRE . I bought the Booster pack because of the courses and the N64 emulations but after seeing what they offer the online pack was enough for me thus making me now have to buy the DLC because correct me plz if I'm wrong, don't you have to have the complete online sub plus booster to even play them? Kind of like games with gold, drop the sub lose the games unlike the PS+ games. I always liked that Sony let you keep them. Not that I'm dropping Game pass or PS+ anytime soon!

Also excited to have more tracks for the grandkids to race on but, aren't the "NEW" tracks just old tracks being remade? I have the Online service +booster but I'm buying the tracks so that I can drop the +sub after this one expires!

REMEMBER: you can always, ALWAYS respect you skill points and devotion points for almost nothing {Only while in Veteran / normal that is, in elite it costs much more}, as long as you hoard like I do and sell everything you'll always have plenty of cash. This can has no penalty for changing your mind other than bits but that's plentiful trust me, so experiment all the time, that's the fun. I honestly completely beat the game on Veteran without any help, not once. It wasn't even that hard. When I jumped to Elite though, I had to look. My guy was AWESOME in Veteran and couldn't even beat a mini boss to at all, it was depressing! Biggest tip: It's not all about DPS, it's about Resistances even more so on harder difficulties. Poison is a monster at the very beginning OMG! I never bought a piece of gear from vender either. I did not like how it seemed like I had to hold on to some pieces for so long never finding a better piece in 30 lvls or so, but's it a game of chance at its core! This game is as complicated as you want to make it. I suggest that you play on NORMAL but Veteran! It's a better challenge and you level up much quicker. The jump from Vet to elite is a huge slap kick in the face and bullet in the head, followed buy getting run over! Trust me II was shocked! I'm level 77, from 50 you will lvl muck slower, only 2 skill points per lvl up. Get the DLC if you like the game it's cheap and adds a ton to the game, I'm digging this game a lot. I also restarted 4 times settled on Demolitionist and Occultist and it's great. Elite lvl is all about Resistances, have them you live, don't you die it's that simple. I also have to admit that I read some guide help stuff on the reddit forum and OMG it helped. I didn't really understand what things did, and it was very help ful. I respected a few things and what a help. I did not module my character to someone's else's I just needed help on what exactly things do, they're not that understandable buy the definitions alone. lastly, my got the stuff the blacksmith can do is what has overwhelmed me so much, the things that you make with all the little seemingly worthless stuff you find is mindboggling to me. later on you'll be able to buy stuff from venders that is awesome to have on your gear. Running Normal/Veteran I only found 9 Unique / purples but in Elite there are many more, but you die oh so much more too...lol I love this game so much I haven't touched Elden Ring or Diablo II Resurrected at all! Figure stuff out by yourself is half the fun, but I have to admit once I looked up my class skills and how they work together I better understood a lot. ENJOY MAN, GOOD STUFF! Also on Steam: HardAct

We made it out, Paradise was the worst fire in California history, not in Acres but in homes and displacement. My wife and I along with all our friends and family there all survived. My wife and youngest daughter had the closest call to harm. We had no time to pack, just flee. over 14,000 homes lost, only 1300 have been rebuilt in 3 1/2 years. We ended up in Oregon starting over. I lost my job of 19+ years and my wife job of 26 years, that was the biggest hurdle. Netflix had a documentary on the Camp fire in paradise and Magalia California. Paradise was a complete and TOTAL loss and half of Magalia where we lived. Of course in that time we lost our son to Cancer {He was 30 at the time, with 3 kids}, and then of course Covid, the loss of my dad to a heart attack, and my wife's dad just last month, this is what I meant when I said we have been "KICKED IN THE TEETH" the last 3 1/2 - 4 years. I'm humbled still we have our lives and a new home and complete new start but income wise losing Jobs like of that long each, we lost a lot "Income wise" starting over in a new state, still I'm so very grateful, I TRUELY AM. we have learned to be a bit more conservative and not take to much for granted and take one day at a time. I thank you for your well wishes, I tend to rant like this at least once a year, you sparked the need to say it all again. Hoping I don't bother the boards with my story to much more in the near future, trust me they know it already!! I still thank the boards for just being here and there are some really compassionate and fine people in here there really are!

I BuiId them "USUALLY" average every 3 years, usually all brand new nothing reused. I have given old ones to family, sold a few and parted a few over the last 20+ years. Only ever had one motherboard come DOA, and 1 GPU fail in less than that time. Been lucky so far. This one was different as we lost everything in the 2018 camp fire {Everything I mean everything, town, jobs, our vehicles, our home of 25 years and every possession we ever had!} and I had just built a 1080Ti rig 5 months before. The folks on the board were great on advise on some parts, they talked me into saving some on the power supply "Still a 700 watt gold corsair, because it was white " and only going 500gigs one operating system etc, instead of 1TB at the time. A few upgrades too, so tatal now is right at 3k I love it! MY NEW PC Bounce Back'n-forth really. If I want RTX then it's 1440p. Having the LGC series TV's with VRR is so sweet no more Vsync! 4k / 60+ - 1440p/120+ It really has outshined all my expectations by far. It's a modern beast, built buy me and 100% and I love it. It's silent almost all the time too. I have a h100i Cpu Cooler and the 2080Ti extreme amp edition Zotec 2080Ti is really so impressive. Custom fan curves for winter and summer 32 gig Corsair 3200 DDr4, 2x Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSD's, 500gig for Operating system & 1Tb for gaming, also a 870 Evo 1Tb backup and gaming drive

I planned a ground up build late 2022 anyway. This I79700k / 2080Ti has been a great PC and really holds up well and though it should. I love new tech and have enjoyed watching and reading all the hype around these cards but It was an easy pass as I have never upgraded from one year to the next. This PC was 3k and has given me a wonderful 2+ years. When we can just buy a 3080ti I'm on board and am excited to watch the shit show all over again...lol Theoretically a 4080Ti could as much as 65-75% faster that's humbling! I might even have to find a way to integrate the new pc into my Livingroom hooked p to the LGC1 83"! Seriously though, the LGcX has been a great gaming PC monitor too.

Never even knew this was a thing, hope you get it sorted and done right!

Grabbed this Switch and Luigi's Mansion 3 on a whim. Continuing my random over buying spell I've been under As-Of-Late it's pretty dang good. A lot like Dead Cells movement wise, that and guacamole. Thoughts" Also Hades, I've heard just nothing but amazing things about it but can't figure out really how to get better. I only put an 1.5 hours in but it not gabbed me so far. Any tips you wish you knew going in you know now? I'm not dissing the game just in really how to approach it. I'm not great at these Rogue type games but I really like them. Reminds me of difficult fast moving / paced games of my youth. My reflexes haven't aged well that's for sure!

I have 4 kids so pretty much after their grown and out of the house, lol Um....NOT JOKING

ooops my bad, I do not know what i am doing damn it!

After progressing through the game your given the opportunity to completely completely or partially respec your characture!! Its a nice option. You cant rechoose your disciplines but you can take out as many lvl points you want. It costs money but money is never a problem at least to me. I have 1 characture now that's lvl 72. You can even take iut the tree points. It's kinda a big deal and let's you try out many combinations and I appreciate it. I'm a little taken aback by how much I like it. I just bought Diablo 2: remaster PC and Elden Ring series x too! It's really good and I'm getting ready to start extreme difficulty! Very much recommend the 2 DLC packs for like 14 bucks. I may be wrong on price. Theres a ton of shit to do in all in just one play through of normal (also recommend normal veteran to start, much better drops than just normal. You get very very few purple legendary drops as it is, this will up your chances if even just a little bit!) You can easily drop over 120+ hours in just one playthrough on a new characture in N/Veteran difficulty. If you have it on Steam we could do some multi player some time? Bounce tips by each other. Also with the Forgotten Gods Dlc you get the Crucible. It's super handy to run a new characture through it for a few levels to boost your characture with some quick deviation points and some quick levels points. It's worth the gear you get trust me! You get some sweet starting gear to start with making normal veteran much easier in the beginning. I have a great link to how to use crucible on a new starting characture if you want.

Not impressed by how Doom 2016 controls, god I love those games, Eternal is just a near masterpiece In my opinion. The switch doesn't have the fluid feel that these game demand. I wont be buying Eternal on switch. I want these games on the Steam Deck so bad though. These 2 games (most recient, I love doom 3, and doom 64 but not buying them again). Fingers crossed as there just amazing at 120htz, I know the SD cant do it, but I'll be following them closely. I own doom 2016 on xbox series x and steam and switch. Only own eternal on series x.