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I have an Xbox 360 that i honestly play more than my Series X. It is too bad the store is closing but it was quite good of MS to keep it alive as long as they have, not to mention the awesome amount of backwards compatibility. I will always have great memories of playing Halo 3, Project Gotham Racing 4, Minecraft and Gears of War 3 with my daughter before teenagerdom hit.
Auditioning for the role of chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, James Doohan did several different accents. Producer Gene Roddenberry asked which he preferred, and Doohan replied, "If you want an engineer, in my experience the best engineers are Scotsmen."
Really should mention this podcast on your cave channel as well i didn't know this podcast exist for a good year after subscribing to the cave channel.
I tried to attach a credit card to my 360 account on my 360. It gave me an error. And the 360 shop through web browser is not working anymore..... They have basically shut it down half a month ago.
He got interrupted. Here is the full list: Tar mac roads, the pedal bicycle, the pneumatic tyre, tubular steel, the falkirk wheel, coal gas lighting, the stirling heat engine, carbon brushes for dynamos, clerk cycle gas engine, wave powered electricity generator, the first passenger steamboat, the first iron hulled steamship, the first practical screw propeller, the hot blast oven, the steam hammer, wire rope, cordite, hollow pipe drainage, the Scotch plough, the mechanical reaping machine, the telephone, print stereotyping, roller printing, the adhesive stamp, the postmark, universal standard time, radio, the BBC, the teleprinter, RADAR, the ATM, Encyclopedia Britannica, gospel music, logarithms, modern economics, modern sociology, hypnotism, tropical medicine, modern geology, electromagnetism, saturn’s rings, proxima centauri, latent heat, the incandescent light bulb, the kelvin unit of temperature, criminal fingerprinting, the noble gasses, the first cloned mammal, tractor beams, Australian rules football, curling gaelic handball, cycling, golf, ice hockey, shinty, rugby sevens, football, the robot olympics,, the piano footpedal, the kaleidoscope, the waterproof macintosh, the modern lawnmower, the lucifer friction match, the self filling pen, cotton reel thread, lime cordial, the electric clock, Bovil, Irn-bru, the carronade cannon, the ferguson rifle, the lee bolt system, the ghillie suit, the percussion cap, the boys brigade, the bank of england, the bank of france, colour photography, anaesthesia, saline drop, the hypodermic syringe, electrocardiography, staph, insulin, penicillin, x-ray cinematography, haldane effect, radiation therapy unit, transplant rejection, oxygen therapy, the first effective tuberculosis treatment, first bea blockers, modern asthma therapy, chainsaw, the television, the refrigerator, the flush toilet the vacuum flask, and triple distilled Irish whiskey. - Dunc
Nintendo switch keeps physical with smaller patches for now. Ps outrun pc patch is amazing.refelects stunning, aa no jaggies, 240 FPS stable , no pop in
Thanks to jailbreaking, every Nintendo system is safe to offline and perpetual play - Wii, Wii-U even online. Switch eventually Online without Nintendo. Every Playstation up to PS4 Pro, same, but online only for LAN games. XBOX tops out at 360, also online with LAN patch. The last game I put 40 hours into was Zelda for the Wii in 2006. Back in the day however, Ultima IV, Ultima V, Bard's Tale series, Stunt Car Racer multiplayer, etc.
I inherited my aunties 360. She was playing console games well into her 70s and probably 80s. I bought some games in second hand shops for it but it broke after about a year. So ended up buying a second hand 360 from Cex. Still have it connected to the TV! All this talk of ending the 360 makes me want to play all those Lego games again 😄
Two early examples of crime games are 'Mugsy', a fairly limited but still quite fun organised crime game, as well as 'They Stole a Million' a game very much ahead of its time which has an interesting back story - the game was eventually remade on the PC, and the guys who created this eventually became part of Rockstar and helped to develop the 'heist' elements of GTA V.
Xbox 360 and Xbox One are the last generation where the full game is on the disk. You can't say that for Series X as their disks are only a gateway to download the game from their servers. No servers = no game with only a case to remind you that you don't own the game.
Love Winamp. Was introduced to it along with ICQ and Photoshop 5.5. Still use PS and Winamp. Currently building a version for my Sony Xperia 10II phone for SailfishOS. The visualizer Milk Drop is the best plugin I've ever seen. I've called mine WimpAMP as it won't have all the features of the real Winamp.
