TheMightyEthan

I think that's the same pricing scheme they had on PS5, IIRC.

We are able to sell it back, but only at the wholesale rate, which is about 1/3 of the price we have to pay for what we buy from the grid, hence the battery so we can save it up and use it ourselves instead. Even so, for about 9 months of the year we should produce more than we use and end up selling more back, but in June, July, and August the A/C will mean we use more than we produce and have to buy. I just found out today though that our city is considering switching to variable rate and charging more during the day and less at night, which would great for us since during the day the panels will cover our usage and then we can run on the battery through the evening and it'll be overnight and early morning when rates are low that we might need to buy.

Finished installing our solar and battery backup system today!

Quantum Break This game did a lot of stuff right, but it just couldn't bring it all together. Overall I liked it, but it could have been so much more. The TV show cutscenes were an interesting idea that just didn't work, but I do respect that they tried. The combat was fine, the powers were cool when everything came together just right, but a lot of the encounters didn't seem like they were designed to really make good use of it. There were also a lot of threads left dangling, and not in a sequel-teasing kind of way (though there was that too), but more in a "we just kind of forgot about this" kind of way. Violations of the principal of Chekov's Gun. I'm assuming some of that is due to the branching paths and the way the different decisions interact, and maybe if I'd made different choices some of those things might have come back, but that's not what happened so it just felt weird. The story was compelling throughout, and the time manipulation stuff was awesome, but it had me going "but what about...?" about several things at the end. All in all, there's a lot of great stuff in here, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts. Grade: B-

Yeah, depending on how hard it is to fix it may be something they can get working again before launch anyway. It's not like it's this week.

Yeah, I'm guessing just disable online

Yeah, it allows someone to run whatever they want on your computer, completely taking it over if they wish.

I plan to keep playing it, it just doesn't have enough story to keep my full attention so I want to save it for when I'm watching TV or something.

I've got Arceus on my Gamefly queue. I'm not interested enough to buy it, but I'll give it a shot.

Just remember, that's the exact same argument everyone made with Bethesda, but the official policy there is (for future releases) "exclusive to platforms where Gamepass exists". I expect ABK will be the same. So I expect everything that's already on PlayStation to stay there (like Fallout 4), I expect Warzone to stay and continue getting updated (like Minecraft), but I don't think anything that isn't already there when the deal closes will ever come there (like Starfield or TES6), unless there's a specific preexisting contract (like Deathloop and Ghostwire).

I started Nobody Saves the World last night, and liked the little bit I played, but it didn't feel like enough of a game to hold my full attention, so I stopped and will probably use it as a game to play on my phone while watching TV or whatever. Then I started Quantum Break, and I've liked that so far too (though going straight into this game at 30fps was painful after having been playing Halo at 120), I think I'll stick with it. I'm not a fan of the TV show cutscenes, they're too disruptive to the game, but I respect the experiment of them.

I don't think anyone expected them to pull existing one-time-sale games, but ongoing games are less clear because there's more grey area. I don't think they will (especially after that tweet, but I didn't anyway), but they could leave them running but stop updating them with new content, or something like that, short of outright yanking them.

The plot thickens... Probably just means Warzone though, which would go along with the whole "not yoinking existing games" policy they've established with Bethesda and reiterated with this deal.

No game shame here, if you count it then it counts!

The fact that, at least in terms of revenue, Xbox + ABK is still slightly smaller than Playstation makes me feel less concerned about this specific merger, but I am still quite concerned about the trend it represents.

Yeah, doesn't look like he's staying

So Microsoft is buying Activision for $70billion. This sucks big floppy donkey dicks.

Spider-Man: No Way Home First movie I've seen in a theater for 2 years, and it was a good one to come back to. Often on a first viewing I feel like Marvel movies have pacing issues, that for some reason resolve on subsequent viewings, but this didn't have that issue. I'm impressed with how good it was especially considering I also like how they seem to be making Dr Strange take on the role that Iron Man used to have, of being the thread that connects all the different movies. I'd thought I was over the MCU, but between this and Shang Chi I'm getting drawn back in.

I have never heard of that and it sounds like the worst thing ever.

Pokemon Legends Arceus Y'all are on crack, this game looks great.

Also, there's people like me who are like "why would I go out of my way to support Democrats? they won't actually do anything good, their 'best' quality is that they won't actively do the horrible things Republicans want to do".

You give people more credit than I am willing to. So often I encounter situations where people have something explained to them in plain English and completely misunderstand what's going on. I mean yeah, there's another part that feels ignored/is lazy/whatever, but a huge portion are just fucking idiots.

I think the biggest issue is that the electorate are fucking idiots.

I was enjoying it a lot on PC (the original, not the enhanced one with the voice acting) until like 12 hours in I ran into a game-breaking bug that made it impossible for me to progress the story any farther.