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Younger brothers know how to play the victim card and mine could craft a convincing cry and a series of embellished truths out of nothing.
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pdub wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:48 pm Younger brothers know how to play the victim card and mine could craft a convincing cry and a serious of embellished truths out of nothing.
gotta do what we can to survive ;)
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Sea Battle was peak intellivision gaming.
Along with B-17 Bomber.

And who could forget NASL Soccer?
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pdub wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:17 pm We had Intellivision probably in 1986 -- I barely remember it.
Then Nintendo not soon after.
My mom sold the Nintendo at a garage sale within a year or two of owning it without any of us knowing because it was causing too much fighting between me and my brothers.

I wasn't allowed a gaming system until the summer before I moved out for college and immediately bought the N64.
It is just me and my younger sister who isn't a gamer at all so the only friction video games caused was when she tripped over the power cord to my Atari while I had an all-time great hi score on Asteroids in progress. It would have been a justifiable homicide in my opinion.
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Back2Lawrence wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:50 pm Sea Battle was peak intellivision gaming.
Along with B-17 Bomber.

And who could forget NASL Soccer?
I had a friend with an Intellivision and a different friend with ColecoVision so I got go experience most of the early stuff. Gaming at home was pretty groundbreaking to 10 year old me.

Damn, now I want to drop this stupid work call and go play.
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pdub wrote: Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:04 amBye then.
How is your playthrough of Diablo 4 going? Still liking it? Where are you in it?
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Lol.
I haven’t played it in weeks.
I love it but been too busy.

I hope you’re liking it a bit more.
Blizzard will change it over time hopefully for the better.
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pdub wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:50 am Lol.
I haven’t played it in weeks.
I love it but been too busy.

I hope you’re liking it a bit more.
Blizzard will change it over time hopefully for the better.
I have really enjoyed some of the environments in the later stages of the main story line and the ending cinematography was fantastic. I moved up to World Tier 3 and the overall game play has gotten much better. More variety of opponents, some nee play styles and dungeons and new gear levels. Makes a replay much more appealing.
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I’m glad you’re more into it.
I really am excited to play but it’s probably going to be a few more weeks.
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Not saying that it isn't real game play but a number of smaller studios prerender scenes and post them as game footage.

It's getting very real however.

I'm still slowly beating the first play through of Diablo 4 and absolutely love it.
My next games will be Baldurs Gate 3 and Aliens : Dark Descent.
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bitch don’t kill my vibe

lol, i know it could easily be a bait and switch scenario, but i’ll remain hopeful

the wife and i are kinda zombie-crazed
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I remember the first time I played Resident Evil 2 at a friends.
Was up all night. He fell asleep. It was 3 AM and I was running around collecting plants.

Last of Us is one of my top 5 games all time.
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BIL is supposed to send us his PS4 just so i can play Last of Us

there was rumor it’d be adapted to xbox, but that ain’t happening
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I'm imagining you've already seen the series - which was great - but man, the video game, as an experience, is just waaaaay better.

First time you see a clicker?
Almost as scary as that MIZZOU video just posted.
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lol

yeah, we enjoyed the series quite a bit (disappointed it ended)
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I won’t be playing any internet games, sounds like trouble, “gaming disorder “.
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There's so much of a requirement to "keep up" in leveling and gear that a lot of regular players get distracted and bothered when they aren't playing. Especially if you're playing in a competitive environment against people who don't have anything else to do with their time but play all day. I can see how it could be classified as an addiction.
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Single player offline for me plz.
( unless i'm playing Diablo just co-op with my bro )
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