doublepepperoni [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • The battery life calculator claimed it would add over 2 hours to battery life which sounded fairly substantial. The battery on my previous phone is completely fried after about 5 years to the point that browsing the Internet for 15 minutes consumes about 20-30 percent so I kind of want to baby my new phone as much as I can. The smart charging options on newer versions of Android should make that pretty easy though.

    Anyway, the battery’s so bad on my old phone that it limits reusing it as something like a dedicated emulator device which is a shame since it’d be pretty decent for that sort of thing. It just irks me that we have these really neat little portable computing devices that are destined for the landfill because of their shitty non-replaceable batteries.










  • I think it’s just that Microsoft didn’t feel like it was worth the investment to also give Gears 2, 3 and possibly Judgment the next-gen remake treatment back when they did Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. They also don’t feel like just doing straight up ports of the remaining games now for PS5 and PC because they fear people would see them as too outdated and since they’re fully backwards compatible and enhanced on Xbox consoles (and XCloud visible-disgust) they feel like they’re already available enough for those who want the classic games

    Personally, I’m just fuming about how Microsoft has handled the franchise because I never even wanted remakes in the first place. The Xbox 360 games have an iconic, era-defining look (and still look great!) and rebuilding them in UE4 or now UE5 just takes all of that away. All they needed to do was publish a collection of all 4 games for PC years ago

    Oh yeah, and fuck CliffyB and Epic too. When Gears of War 2 was coming out he proclaimed that the series would never release on PC again after people gasp pirated the PC port of the first game and none of the other Epic-developed titles ever made it to PC.