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I don't have a stake in this at all. But physical stores have been struggling for years here as well. Digital is just more convenient.

Ok, here is an easy one

I know it's not San Diego, I said I found the picture on wikipedia, I just didn't want to reveal the city so soon.

McDonalds Burger King - - - - - -- KFC - Because the floppy pieces of crap they give can't even be called fries. We don't have the rest of the popular fast food places here.

I just realized that's the image from the wikipedia page of the city. I thought we were using our own pics.

The Witcher III I think the gameplay is outright atrocious. The story might be OK, but I never could get deep into it as the main character is so antipathetic. GTA series I like GTA games, but I think they are seriously overrated and overhyped. The gameplay is good, and the open world is implemented well in them, but their characters and stories are boring and flat. Dragon Age Inquisition It dazzles people with the hinterlands so that people fail to notice the boring repetitive mmo-like nature of the rest of it. The only usable class in it are the ranged, as close combat fight is useless. You are just chasing enemies around and hitting air if you do a warrior, or rogue with daggers. Titanfall 2 It's mediocrity in all of it's being. Derivative, but fails to meet the standard of games it copies. A little bit of gears of war, a little bit of mirror's edge, a little bit of mechwarrior, but nothing is fleshed out, it all clashes and cancels each other out instead of complementing each other. And the story is so clichéd it hurt my brain. Hellblade : Senua's sacrifice It was an interesting idea but the end result is a sluggish, dragged out and slow game, despite being only 6-7 hours long. The combat is awkward, repetitive. The rest is just a walking simulator with lots of backtracking. And you can take walking literally here because running in this game feels slower than the walk speed in other games. Doom 2016 It's fun for a moment, but everything looks like plastic in it, the graphics design is awful, and there is nothing to keep me playing. The level design is not that brilliant that it would be enough alone like in the original Doom, and the story is just an excuse, not a reason to play the game. I quickly lost interest in it, and never actually finished it. (and I assume eternal is more of the same) Dragon Age: Origins I actually prefer Dragon Age II, sue me. I think this game is very repetitive, all encounters feel the same, and playing the same goddamn ambush for the 1000th time gets old very quickly. The result of encounters is more luck based than skill. The story is completely overshadowed by the clunky mechanics and awkward dialogues.

I just thought of one more: Actually no, it doesn't really fit here.

I think of it exactly the same way as any modern franchise to come out of hollywood: boring trash. It's the era of movies that are selling based on how flashy and over the top they are, as opposed to clever writing and well acted characters. When something is not grounded in reality it becomes completely uninteresting. And boy pirates of the caribbean is not grounded in reality at all. Some of its scenes are so over the top, that it completely eradicates any sense of suspense. When characters can survive anything, and when there are no rules, and everything can and will happen through unexplained magic there is no thrill, you cannot root for the characters, because the odds are unrealistic and you know the only way they win is through magic. that is worthless to me. I want heroes who win by clever tricks, superior strategy, and not by sheer dumbfounded luck, or unrestricted superhuman powers. And that doesn't mean I don't like fantasy or science fiction. It only means that the heroes involved must have clearly defined limits to their powers, what they can and cannot do. Today's fantasy and superhero movies lack this completely. And because there are no limits to their luck and abilities, no situation they can get into seems serious. And Depp's overacting is not funny, it's comical in a bad way. I feel sorry for all involved who try to act besides him. I don't consider him a bad actor, I especially liked him in Benny and Joon, but he is outrageously bad in this series. I almost feel like this is all a big joke for him and he isn't even trying. Yet the entire movie is sold on his character alone, the rest are so underdeveloped and uninteresting, that frankly I cannot even remember any characters other than sparrow, despite enduring all the movies at least once.

It had happened to me, that I couldn't activate extra content. But also had one game where I bought a game retail, and it was sitting sealed in box for years, and when I finally got around to opening it the code was rejected, and the on-disc version of the game was no longer supported.

You act as a typical bigot "My opinion is the only right one, and everyone who disagrees are "truly stupid" I don't even know why do you throw "hyporcritical" in there , just as a buzz word? I mean it has no meaning in the context. It's one thing that you think I'm truly stupid for not considering esports the same way as I consider an athletic sport, but how is that hypocritical?

In the end, I Never even played the game, uninstalled everything, cancelled my game pass subscription. I'm done with the MS store.

I'm 99% certain that's the US, from the architecture most likely south-west, San Diego-ish. The tall building in the background stands out as it seems more east coast. That's all I can figure out by looking at the picture.

Well if you look up Alexender II, his wikipedia page mentions three countries he ruled in. It also explains the significance of 1863, and there is actually a photo of this statue there. Doing research is allowed.

Well, it's in the North, just not mainland, and not the North Sea. The sky might have been misleading because the photograph was taken at 4:30AM, hence the lack of tourists. Here is a closeup of the statue. The person depicted will pretty much narrow down the options.

By modern standards everyone who lived in the past was a "bigot" I think it's not a good idea to judge people of the past by what's considered the norm today. Especially because those who want to forget the past are doomed to repeat past mistakes. Another common mistake some make is attributing the words and views of fictional characters in a book to the writer of the book.

You describe the exact things why it isn't a sport. It's a travelling circus. And I'm not saying that as a diss, I have the utmost respect for circus acrobats, I think they do amazing things for very little money. Wresters on the other hand are comparatively overpaid. I don't like anything that is fake, but that's neither here nor there, that's not why it's not a sport. If you consider this type of wrestling a sport then you must also consider doing stunts in a movie a sport. Which I'm sure you wouldn't. What difference does it makes whether you do stunts for a camera or a crowd? What makes something a legit sport for me: It must be competitive (either by judging or by measurable performance) needs years physical preparation to be able to compete at a high level Pro wrestling fails in the first account as it is staged / fake / choreographed / the feuds are written ESports fails on the second account, as it doesn't require peak physical performance.

It's as much a sport as chess or fishing is. But I suppose to a degree golf is similar as well. It's mostly about talent and skill, not physical preparation. But it's still more of a sport than so called "professional wrestling" that's a circus, not a sport.

i don't think Halo MCC is UWP, as it installs under the program files folder, not inside the hidden folder in the root directory. Anyway, I couldn't even play it, because when the download finished I started the master chief collection, but wanting to run halo reach it said it's not installed, despite the windows store showing it as installed. then I uninstalled the entire crap, at least that worked. Tried downloading it again but it only got to like 17% in 3 hours. And it's not my internet connnection, that's fast. It's this utter garbage they call a store. Best case scenario it downloads 10-15MB/s but yesterday it was sub 1MB the whole time.

Can you guess the place? It's like geoguessr, but with my own pictures. Of course if you know the place it will be easy. If there is no correct guess I'll provide additional hints. Or you can cheat by using reverse image search, but what's the fun in that? I'm lucky enough to have had been to a few countries so I Have a lot of material for this.

I don't think people should enjoy gold plated ps5s. Unless the proceeds go to a charity. It's unnecessary and excessive and just a spit in the face of everyone who lives on $10 or less a day.

Nope, the selection comes up for other titles, but not for this one. They can't even figure their shit out, because this game was installed in the program files folder instead of the usual crap hidden folder in the root.

I don't know how can MS get away with such a shoddy and useless storefront. I just subscribed to xbox games pass for $1 and I'm already regretting it. It's definitely more trouble than it's worth. I mean it's one thing that it doesn't let you decide which directory it installs games. And it doesn't support any level of modding. For all intents and purposes it's a walled garden inside your own PC. But I just wanted to download the Halo Master Chief collection, and for that it doesn't even ask what drive to install it on. So it just started downloading to the system drive, it overfilled the drive, which caused my work that was in progress to fail. Ridiculous. I can't believe they are not making it crappy on purpose. Because nobody can be this incompetent for this long.

Nothing particular, I'll probably bide my time until CP2077 I'll occasionally fire up beamNG to let off some steam.

That reminded me of this. Of course some of you might be not old enough to remember this game. But it seems apart from being the best game ever, it is also seems prophetic now.

Crash helmets are mandatory in most countries for riding a bike, yet I don't see anyone complaining that helmets infringe on their basic human rights. What most people fail to understand is that wearing a mask is not to protect the wearer. You you are putting others at greater risk than necessary when you refuse to wear one, your chance of getting ill is not dependent on whether you wear a mask or not, it depends on whether everyone else does.