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Glorias Port Royal (Food and Eats)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:36:57 +0000

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Dec 2023

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Kingston, Sep 2023 (Street Photography)

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:20:49 +0000

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Mostly cross roads, mid day.

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French Toast Plain (Food and Eats)

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:38:13 +0000

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St. Elizabeth, August 2023

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Havana Cuba, 2016 (The people project)

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:17:01 +0000

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Aliens vs Predator on Xbox 360 Review (Video Games)

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:59:20 +0000

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Play through

The audio logs are really short and can only be started in the pause menu. The game feels retro like an old school quake arena shooter. Not much to collect or anything to jump over, strictly A to B in the opening sections.

Playing as the marines feels like a bare bones game with a few jump scares in between. There are things to shoot but not much loot to find. This game seems to be pre-COD-aim down iron sites. The loading screen is long but once the level loads thats it until the next level. Classic old school shooter. Corpses disappear very quickly after they are shot.

They say the other campaigns are better but I do not see how that would be possible with the current gameplay of the marines. At this point I am think I should have skipped the marine's campaign entirely. Aliens Colonial marines is a better game at this point.

I finally finished the Marines playthrough and started the Aliens which is not much better. At least their wont be someone telling me where to go.

The camera for controlling the aliens is wack. The levels for the aliens are more cinematic and have better lighting but it all still evolves to the same A to B to C gameplay.

The alien campaign is sadly not much better. It is more stealthy with more conversations but it was over is basically 2 sittings. I feel that everyone who reviewed this empty game reviewed it with nostalgic eyes. There is nothing to the alien campaign. Its literally pointless.

The predator missions are slightly better but only because they incorporated more tools associated with the character. The missions feel like they could pull of a Metroid Prime with the visors and lock on feature but the game never uses them effectively. The areas in the 3 missions are essentially the same.

How it ended

I am rushing through the last section of the predator missions. No point dragging this game out any longer. It was definitely made at some point in 2009. The predator missions use the same levels and locations as the previous campaigns.

Conclusion

My rating 6/10. Its not really a good game. Colonial Marines is slightly better. The game just feels retro like it came out on the n64. If you like N64 shooters you can give this a go. The predator missions feel like they were inspired by metroid prime.

Strategy

The collectibles in the game are pointless. The audio logs are just as pointless so there is no real point searching for them. There are no secret paths or anything to find in the corners.

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Downtown, Kingston (Low Life)

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:37:02 +0000

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December 2023

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Back to Black (Logbook)

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:15:54 +0000

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Last week or the week before was "Womens Day", they were promoting and celebrating as normal even when there is a full on world war in which hundreds of thousands of people are being killed. Its like we live in a version of the Truman Show. None of it matters, it all exists to exist, drain our funds freedom and more importantly time. Time you lose you never get back. Little bits at a time. In a 100 years they will wonder what people were doing during world war 6 and we would have been watching netflix.

The cognitive dissonance with everything online nowadays has gone so far that I wonder why people even do anything anymore. it seems that helplessness has blended in with ignorance is bliss. Nothing is certain, everything is a wait and see, maybe possibility, the sky might be blue or it might not. Information, misinformation, omissions, currying facts - everything is wild. I might have felt like this before but it more vivid now. The world can never be the same.

The older I get the more I narrow things into a path. Everything must be for a reason. Things could be worse. Embrace the struggle and move forward. Do not let people waste your time. Most people have hidden needs and wants. People lie, omit information. They bide their time until the next celebration. You need to navigate all the conflicting vectors towards a point of escape. The journey wont be easy and certainly not fast. Take your time.

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Grid 2 on xbox 360 review (Video Games)

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:35:37 +0000

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I am not sure why I started playing this game right as I got it but I did. The game is pretty but not in a unique way. It is very linear. Super linear in career and cars are given to you or simply become unlocked into using a particular vehicle. Lots of rear wheel drive muscle cars which swing out of control easily on certain roads. It is a ok game so far but the tracks seem limited.

The loading times are long asf. Loading to race, loading the fancy menu - it feels almost as long as Skyrim. GRIDS2 has more realistic graphics than PGR4 but it is not as varied and there are no weather effects. In the first season of GRID2 you are stuck playing the same level multiple times. You eventually get shipped to Paris in Season 2 of the career mode but the repeating levels and linear career mode is very in your face.

The game feels good and fast in the city levels. Though when in the forest and coastal tracks it is easy to fly off the track or hit a solid road sign that will destroy your speed. The game has a limited rewind feature which can be used to cheat your way out of bad situations.

20 races in and I think I finally have a handle on the cars. The levels get better as well. The city levels in general are very pretty, especially in the later game - too bad no screenshot option. Loading times stay consistently bad. The graphics definitely make up for the long loading times. I will say that this is the best looking racing game I have played so far on the 360. There is not shortage on great racing games on the 360.

I had to change my camera view to "bonnet" because the 3rd person view swings too wildly causing me to under/over steer into every corner. Once I changed the view I was better able to handle the car around corners.

I think the issue with the game "seasons" is that you spend a few races on the same tracks until the end of the season. Once the season ends you get to get fresh new tracks and the circle repeats. The later tracks look good so its worth the temporary slog to see whats next. It is a lovely game and the night levels are really dark.

There are no weather effects which would have been cool but I figure that weather would be too much for this game engine and the 360. I am in the later part of the game now and everything is starting to come together. There are no more new tracks to see but I have quite a few vehicle challenges to complete. Vehicle challenges seem to be the best way to play because you are not interrupted by the NPC cars.

How it ended

Fun right up until it ended. Not a long racing game but there are extra things you can do to extend the playtime if you want to.

Conclusion

My rating 8.5/10. Definitely in my top 5 racing games on the 360. Lovely graphics, lovely night racing. No much weather but the sense of speed in the edge game cars is great. The announcer is a little annoying but you get accustomed to his random input. A nice arcade racing game to add to anyones collection. I would recommend it over Forza 4. No in game screenshot feature.

Strategy

I had to change the camera view because the 3rd person view made me crash "alot". Do all the promo events to ensure that you see all the special track locations. Though in the end you wont miss out on much by doing the bare minimum to unlock the next event. When the game ends it locks you off from the career mode so if you want to do and get everything the first time make sure you enter every challenge before you complete the season finals.

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Off Duty (And the Sign Says..)

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:32:32 +0000

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Treasure Beach, 2023 August

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Portmore Mall, Dec 2023 (Street Photography)

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:44:23 +0000

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Walking around

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BioShock review on Xbox 360 (Video Games)

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:07:07 +0000

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First impressions the game is pretty. I did select the option to lock the framerate at the cost of graphics. The world is detailed and has lots of things to loot but I hate having limited slots for my left hand abilities while still being able to carry infinite guns. The sound and lighting is excellent. It makes me question my whole concept of early gen games being bad since it came out in 2007.

As I got further into the game I got to buy more slots with cash. I gobbled them up quickly but even with enough money they limit how many new slots I could buy at one time. Then eventually limited the money I could keep in my wallet. Despite this limitation I did push on, listening to voice notes and checking corners for secret rooms as I did in DeusEx.

Conclusion

Its a good game. Sound design is excellent, voices everywhere. A bit too many weapon options and linear design. 8/10 would recommend.

Strategy

Play on easy. The game really has no strategy, its A to B stuff with a few hidden corners that give you extra stuff to add to your already OP arsenal of stuff. If I were playing on normal I would probably be constantly running out of stuff because of the max limits.

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Tomb Raider (2013) on xbox 360 Review (Technology)

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:47:44 +0000

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I popped this in after completing Watchdogs (gave it 8/10 cool game). The graphics are ok. This feels like the game that transitioned laura to full circle Drakes Uncharted. Tonnes of QuickTime events, scripted scenes and white paint telling you where to jump up. I played for about 15 minutes and the entire thing was on rails apart from a little section where I had to jump from a ledge onto a crane to raise a flaming bunch of garbage. It was insane but slick in it's execution. The early game is sectioned off so it auto saves often which means that there is not much freedom to mess up during this early tutorial section. We will see if it opens up as we go along.

Even in the early game there are popups for progression for basically doing nothing - wish I could turn these off. This is a bad sign but I should not be surprised as this game probably started this modern trend. I even took a look at the achievements which was basically "kill 30 enemies", "craft 20 weapons", "hunt 2 large animals". lol, this game feels like it is going to be a gigantic waste of time. But we will see.

The game is pretty straight forward with lots and lots of little cutscenes/QTEs as I mentioned before. The game funnels Lara into a constant mix of awful situations. There is jump paint, animals to harvest, scrap to collect so you can upgrade weapons and skills. The skill tree is gated so that you cant "over power" anything too soon. In so doing it ends up being a liner checklist of things to click on - which sucks.

It's a collect-a-thon game that is fluid and most jumps are easy to make without worry. The game feels like Uncharted + Horizon Zero Dawn mixed with Banjo Kazooie. This is why I play on easy. The bow feels nice. I am mostly using the bow. Silent and deadly.

The game is good, the flow is good, the bow is deadly. Some areas have a bunch of enemies but not to an extreme. The game flows nice without many road blocks in the way. Its just one torture scene after another. I dont know how laura or any woman could survive this all. But this is video game logic.

I like the sections with fire. Fire in this game looks really good. Though the fire sections are few and far between - they are impressive to look at. The game does not balance very well for the bow, so you might get forced to use the guns in a few spots - especially if you are not efficient with your arrow consumption. This is disappointing because I had planned to use the bow throughout my entire play-through.

Conclusion

Good game. 8.5/10. Worth the time. Innovative. Nice set pieces, nice fire. Lots of stuff to collect. I might buy Rise of the Tomb Raider to see if it holds up. The game is fun on easy with nice set pieces and not too much bloat. Would recommend. Must have in any collection. Going to play Aliens vs Predator next.

Strategy

Play on easy, bow and arrow all the way. I completed the game first time with a 75% completed. So the game is not a collect-a-thon. You can replay the game afterwards to collect everything you missed if you so desire. Playing bow only feels good and is a bit more stealthy if thats what you are into. I only upgraded the bow to 100% and ignored everything else. Had 5000 scrap left over in the end.

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Halo 4 review Xbox 360 (Video Games)

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:43:02 +0000

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Right off the bat, Halo4 is certainly a pretty game. An "A to B to C" shooter with big set pieces and beautiful sky-boxes everywhere. From what I have played there is not much to it. I keep running out of ammo which forces me to pick up strange enemy guns. The vehicles are not fun to drive. Every texture is meticulously crafted but the game just sends me from place to place to push a button, shoot some baddies, press another button, watch a cut scene with in world babble then repeat. Things are happening and only this one guy and his Ai can stop it. Doesnt make much sense.

This is my first halo game so I have no reference point. This might be how they all are. I do get lost in some of the more open areas. Not sure if it is because of the seamless textures or poor level design but the solution seems to always involve going up to the highest point. I will have to see how the rest of the game unfolds.

Halo 4 is pretty but its not a fun shooter. 7 out of 10. I am going back to FarCry 3. Might come back to it later. This is when I started playing several games at a time because playing multiple levels of hal04 back to back can really numb your skull.

Picked this up again and it's still boring. At this point I try to avoid enemy waves by throwing a grenade then running past them. The UI message telling to swap to another weapon looks exactly like the pick up weapon message. So I end up confused with in a fire fight.

I will have to pull out a new game from the stack because this is not worth my time. Pretty but dumb sci-fi.

Conclusion

Boring game. I give it 5/10. Even playing on easy it was just like watching a movie with annoying shooty sections.

How it ended

I just stopped playing the game at a random level. I am not even sure how far I was into the game. I took the disk out and placed it back in storage. Maybe I need to play an earlier ODST, H3 or Reach.

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Pelican Bar, St. Elizabeth (Into the Blue)

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:10:45 +0000

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August 2023

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Help (Logbook)

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:16:16 +0000

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Do not let your self get stuck in a down mood for too long. There are things you cannot control. Forces that have no steering wheel and you are in the passenger seat. I just have to let it run its course while keeping track of everything else that needs to be done. There is always other things to do. Spinning things around in your head for too long is only going to make you forget the other things. It is a form of procrastination. Get other stuff done before they pile up. It will make you eel better and regain focus.

It seems like nowadays its much harder to be a true evil-evil group. A truly evil-evil person/group has to be devious and plan every aspect to avoid getting caught or just fkitall. While a Good-Evil group is legally evil, persistent and makes up all sorts of memes to justify the evil that they commit. If you are caught being evil-evil you go to jail. if you get caught doing good-evil you change the topic. Good-evil is at a epic high right now. You see it movies, Israel, foreign policy, Ai, its all over.

With all the terrible things happening in the world it is important to keep working on the things that you can control. Keep creating, keep moving forward. Stay in control of your reality. Sail your ship away from the rocks. You are your navigator. Even when everyone else is heading towards a precipice you do not have to follow the script. God and time.

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Zootopia 2 Review (Movies)

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:30:45 +0000

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Its a fun family film with the usual ups and downs. I did not find the theme song very good. The audio in the first sections is on the loud side but it settles down after that.

Not much to say, the film progresses similar to the first movie with a few cameos. Modern movies try too hard to impress.

Conclusion

My rating 6/10. Jan thought the first movie was better. I thought it was ok.

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Portmore, Feb 2024 (Street Photography)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:48:46 +0000

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I think I had to go to the locksmith in bay side

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Dishonored on xbox 360 Review (Video Games)

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:45:04 +0000

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The game has Thief vibes, good graphics and movement. I like it already. Maybe because I recently completed Thief. I cant believe that this game was made in 2012 before Thief(2014). By level 2 I got the blink power which pretty much broke the game. Or atleast broke the things that made the game similar to thief.

This game is not Thief. The magic goes a bit too far to be honest. I suggest you play Thief before you play this game because the blink ability is way over powered. it is fun blink. There is way too much magic in this game. Lol, talking hearts, teleportation, possession of animals, it crazy. It's like they added everything into this game but I choose to only sneak around. I could be doing way more damage but alerting the guards creates chaos which is a free fall into more chaos. Sometimes I can accidentally trigger a guard and not realize until I get attacked by another guard on the other side of the building.

Blink really breaks this games navigation. I remember searching around walls and corners for access point in Dues Ex Human revolution - it was a puzzle in itself to find entrances to buildings. In this game blink is omnipresent. There might be ways to play without using blink but its so convenient why would you not use it? You get the blink power so early in the game that it becomes the primary tool for navigation instead of a late game metroid-vania accessory like the space-jump in other games.

Magic aside there are lots of things to loot and alternate routes in which to steal stuff. So that fact makes it scratch that Thief itch. There is enough there to make any play style fun. Not too many enemies, the levels are not too big and there is breathing room to plan your attack. You can also save anywhere which is a plus for some people.

Conclusion

The game is good and cheap. 10/10. Its a short game but you will spend a good 30minutes running around each area. Depending on your play style its similar to Thief but with over powered magic abilities.

Strategy

I tried to not kill any guards. but then I got blink and now I blink everywhere. And sleeping darts. Use sleeping darts but you never have enough. Save your money for upgrades and slots. All you really need is blink. The game over stays it's welcome but has replay value if you want to search for every coin. Completed Mar0126.

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Portmore, March 2024 (Street Photography)

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:51:43 +0000

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March 2024

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indigo_club 20 (Logbook)

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:39:14 +0000

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Understanding your built environment is a key part of survival. You need to know who, why, what and how. The ignorance of other people is also a key part of said environment. Know yourself even more than you know others. You exist in your head as much as you exist in real life and these 2 parts must know each other. Everything is an advantage and a disadvantage. You never know which direction the arrow to the knee is going to come from. So evolution must be a careful mission of choosing your battles and min-maxing your strategy. Embrace the chaos.

One has to reconcile with ones past. Never betray your former self. You can feel sorry for yourself but let the sorrow direct you to a new place. Rather than going the same old rabbit hole. Create more, do more, navigate to a better direction. We know that choas chases us everywhere we go but take time to think carefully as you steer your way through the waves. Do not carry your past around like a bag weighing you down. Free yourself. If even just a little. Little by little until all you see ahead is new beginnings.

People will lie to themselves all their lives and if you tell them the truth they will hate you for it. But that is just how it is. You cannot spend all your time trying to change people that do not want to change. Live your life and you move on. Because your journey is not complete. There is still work to do and no one will do it for you. Hell is other people.

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Tech Expo at AC (Street Photography)

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:20:28 +0000

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I usually miss these events or I forget to pin them early on my calender. This one is from November 2023.

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The xbox helix situation (Articles)

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:07:16 +0000

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The video game console cycle starts again with the announcement of the Xbox Helix, set to launch in 2028. That is roughly 2 years away and the youtube shills have already started promoting the thing to the literal moon. While the corpse of the current Xbox Series X is not even cold yet. Might as well kick the current console in the nuts by announcing something new 2 years in advance.

The yt marketing is pretty much solidified on a few key points; PC/Console "hybrid", backward compatibility???, steam store integration, easy development and game publishing. And lets not forget "most powerful xbox ever", something they said about every console they ever release.

I will discuss each of these marketing points individually. These fantastical - "lets wait and see" - points that will surely fall through by the time this thing is released. Many commenters and youtubers are kicking the ball down the road trying to NOT form any opinion on this while praising the called "potential" of being able to play PC games. The idea is that PC games are popular or "becoming" popular because of fortnight/robox players - I am not sure - PC is popular just like how mobile gaming is popular. Its all snake oil. Anyway;

PC/Console "hybrid"

This is by far the biggest BS lie that is being mentioned. A PC/console hybrid thing cannot exist. The 2 concepts work against each other. They might even be polar opposites. Just because both can play games does not mean the games can co-exist in the same hardware. PC by definition is personal which includes customized hardware/software specs while consoles rely on fixed specification to maximize efficiency.

The fixed specs of consoles allow for optimizations which are only possible when you are working with exact limits and boundaries. Min-Maxing your config. The console scene has been fuzzed over the years with the introduction of "pro" consoles (ps4 pro by Sony) and "quality vs performance" settings. But the concept is still held strong with Nintendo and Sony. Xbox on the other hand has been doing all sorts of damage with the "everything is a xbox" marketing as well as releasing a xbox branded PC handheld that only plays PC games. (they later abandoned this bs)

PCs thrive on flexibility, being able to run any kind of software or hardware combination. this opens it up for hacking, modding, unlocking, emulators, over clocking etc. Stuff like that leads to bugs, updates, lots and lots of updates. Security updates, Update updates, game updates, driver updates, patches, you will never know what its downloading fixing at any point It is an unstable mess.

backward compatibility

There is no point in waiting for the helix to play games that you can already play today on current xbox consoles. Xbox has been carrying the fake BC feature for years now, selling the old games at new game prices. The few who had already bought these BC games digitally get to look at them in a list of thumbnails forever locked to their online account.

The reason I call it fake "BC" is because xbox is more than likely recompiling or emulating these games in order to get them work on the newer consoles. Xbox is basically converting all their old games to PC builds and claiming BC. The downside of this kind of BC you only get a small selection of the old library because everything has to be re-licensed. You are not playing the old game - you are playing a new version of the old game. This relicensing includes altering the game to remove things, plus fixing bugs. Some would say its better than nothing but real BC plays old discs and the old content, not some recompiled-rerelease disc key bs.

steam store integration

I do not know why any well thinking video game company would want steam to be available on thier home hardware. There are probably millions of games on steam. Majority of which are made for keyboard and mouse. Why would you want to expose your user base to that level of abuse? It is madness. Not to mention the shovelware? How are you going to do quality control?

Easy development and game publishing

This is one of those situation where you have to ask why not do this now? why wait until new hardware is released to do something that can just do now on your current hardware. Makes absolutely no sense. Another thing to note is that all games are written on PC then compiled to work on console. There is no great difficulty in creating console games vs pc games in modern times (unreal, godot, unity etc). This "easy development" bs is made up to onboard indie devs to publish on xbox. If the devs dont see value in your platform why bother? This is not revolutionary.

Conclusion

I dont see this turning out well for Xbox Helix at all. If the world doesnt destroy itself in imperialist wars - this device is going to crash and burn in epic fashion. Overtime the concept and marketing will evolve to accommodate reality. As with everything nowadays the marketing will shift and sway in group think as the lies fade away. The console moniker will have to be dropped at some point which is when the sheet will hit the fan.

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Xbox Play Anywhere - gimmick or deeper troubles? (Articles)

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:36:45 +0000

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In the constant move by xbox to get its player base comfortable with the "owning nothing" to get everyone off dedicated consoles on to PC master race. Xbox start promoting PlayAnywhere; something that PC gaming has had forever but nonexistent on consoles. PC gaming does have its own advantages and problems. But mostly problems - if you ask me.

The major problem with PC gaming is the constantly changing and varying hardware configuration, video cards, RAM sizes and formats. Many reviewers will not mention this fact because they have a sadistic relationship with PC gaming. They game on PC so they want everyone to game on PC. They will spend tonnes of money to setup up a PC just to play a single game at max settings. After which they will sell and repeat the cycle in a couple months. On the flip side console games will keep the same hardware for 5 to 10 years. The hardware stability gives console game devs room for performance improvements over time. Not so with PC gaming. PC game devs are constantly dealing with hardware fragmentation.

Big pipeline

How this relates to "Play Anywhere"(PA) gimmick I will try to explain. Shifting hardware is tightly coupled to "PC Culture". If you bought a game for Windows or Linux in 2005 there is a good chance that you can play it today on any PC. This is not the same for Consoles. Console games are locked to the generation on which you bought them. This is the price you pay for having dedicated software that "just works". The tight coupling makes everything better. Its a strength through limitations tactic. Its both a blessing and curse.

Play Anywhere(PA) can only exist if everyone is in PC Land. When this happens you can sell everyone a new PC box every month and for the suckers on the old box you simply send them patches until they just give up and buy a new PC box. PA is not an advantage, its a fools errand. There is a reason why the older consoles do not get new software patches every week. The limited hardware reduced the surface area for attacks and exploitation. Once you buy into PA/PC culture you lose stability and you gain a crab hole of hardware and software problems brought on by the competing needs of a constantly changing marketplace. You gain the "churn". You start getting 3 year support and security patches every week.

Its bad enough with "pro" consoles, and now you have handhelds + PC/Console hybrids that all need to be supported. The quick solution is "game profiles" that try to configure your custom PC to match a random game that was sent out into the PC world. Who is making these game profiles?

On the latest console they have performance vs quality modes which should have signaled the dead howl but since game reviewers are compromised they promoted this bastardization. There is no need for a quality vs performance setting - the dev should pick a balance and be done with it. But we cannot have nice things anymore, only pain, lots and lots of pain.

Back to PA; none of your old console games will work in the future because they will recompile then to PC as long as they still have the license. PA marks a line in the sand that says "these games are Play anywhere", forget about the old games. The old stuff be dammed. The trick with digital games is that they can keep the prices of games permanently high, then drop random sales to create FOMO and keep people watching the market places like hungry puppies.

Digital game purchases are like youtube videos that you bookmark - it might be there is 10 years, it might not, it might lose half of its previous content, it might not. No one really knows what might happen to the data you pay for in the cloud. Own Nothing. You rent a license.

What happened to the GTA4 sound track can happen to any licensed content that lives in a market place that is constantly extorting the content producers as well as the people who consume it. The market place needs to constantly sell the new stuff while the old stuff is just an annoyance that is tolerated as padding for new suckers who sign up. When they want to stop paying the owner of content they simply delist it or start charging marketplace rent like a supermarket.

It is true there are options that you get access to 400 games as long as pay $50 dollars a month. But if you dig into it you will see that the service is a buffet that you cannot consume. The games are huge, often 50 gigs or more, while your local storage is small so you can only have 10 or so games installed at any point in time. You could play the games via "cloud" at a sub par resolution and framerate but only if you pay extra for good internet. Either way the service requires you to be always online and paid up. There is no way you come out on top. The only way to win is not to play. The platform has the last laugh.

I have games that I have played for 80 plus hours. Even with a free schedule it would take me 5 months to play such a game exclusively. So the other 400 games mean nothing once I have found a game that I am interested to play. You can only load one at a time. Having access to so much content is really a FOMO tactic to keep you hooked on to service that charges you every month to do nothing but look at advertisements.

Conclusion

PA is really just a move to PC digital gaming where you buy a PC/handheld PC but you use it mostly on your couch while your family watches Netflix on your 65 inch 8k tv. You have all the hardware; but not enough time to play. Your virtual digital game library continues grow. Major sunk cost fallacy you can never escape from. You buy something that you cannot sell or share. You cannot stop paying for gamepass because new games constantly come out, you cannot enjoy the games you have because the launcher/homepage gives you anxiety and FOMO for new stuff. You swirl deeper and deeper into a hell hole of constant updates and patches and DLC that feeds on your focus.

Its not a feature - they are just saying they will not sell you the same game twice - but only for these new games. You are getting another reason to waste money.

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KFC nuggets (On the menu)

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:28:11 +0000

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August 2023

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January 2024 (Drive By)

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:10:16 +0000

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