Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

This article didn’t age well. Well, maybe it did in that the author’s opinion hasn’t changed? But after 10 months of blazing fast load times, ray-tracing, and Quick Resume on my Series S, I don’t miss my Xbox One X one bit. The Series S is only a little bit more powerful overall than the One X, yet still manages to… Read more

This comment didn’t age well, what with Microsoft explicitly extending the life of the Xbox One hardware by allowing next-gen titles to stream to it (as an alternative for people who don’t want to buy the new box to get that level of fidelity).  It was never likely that Microsoft would want to release new hardware… Read more

Rogue One featured a homosexual relationship, as hinted on screen and confirmed by the director of the film.  It’s not MCU, but it is Disney, FWIW. Read more

Agreed.  It’s time we start referring to Game Pass *as* the platform. Whether you play Game Pass on an Xbox, on a PC, on a smartphone, or on your internet-enabled refrigerator, Microsoft doesn’t much care. Read more

I put that kind of time into MSR/PGR/PGR2, back in the day. And thought that was an impossible chunk of hours.

Then I put over 1000 hours into the original Halo Wars. Before starting over with the Halo Wars Definitive Edition and Halo Wars 2. Now I’m back to Halo Wars Definitive Edition. Have I collectively surpassed… Read more

Why is copyright law BS?  Seems like if you spend millions of dollars to make something, it’d be nice to have exclusive rights to it for a time. Read more

I didn’t see the film until years later on home video and...  quite liked it, in fact.  It’s gone on to be a cult classic, by all reports. Read more

Sony bought Psygnosis and took a bunch of franchises from me, including my beloved “Lemmings”. :P Sure it was decades ago, but I don’t have to like it! ;)

I can understand Sony fans not liking this. I suggest that Microsoft should bring these games to PS4, acknowledging that huge installed base and the good reasons to… Read more

The people most likely to argue a pro-life position (ie. have as many babies born as possible), are also the most likely to argue against social programmes for children already born. The prevailing pro-life attitude seems to be to get as many children born as possible, but to then throw them to the wolves afterwards.

I’… Read more

“It did this by pioneering the series’ trademark “radio station” soundtrack system, where genres and styles of music are divided into separate stations then fleshed out as their own mini-soundtrack.”

Interestingly, the radio station system appears to have been pioneered in the Sega Dreamcast game “Metropolis Street… Read more

You’d be surprised. The original Xbox was a rogue R&D project within Microsoft, without any official sanction at first. Read more

Apparently most Windows gamers do want W10, if Steam’s OS version stats are to be believed. Windows 10 64-bit is the number one OS version at about 40% of Steam users as of May 2016, and steadily climbing. Read more

I was a big fan of anime, but my interest petered out over time. I was weaned on Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers, and Robotech, and then expanded in subs of the source material for those, and other anime. I read the Gundam novels, and saw 0083. The last anime I remember really rocking my world was Legend of… Read more

You might be a muslim socialist. "Might" doesn't mean anything. Everything "might" be true. But most aren't. Read more

You probably don't want to base your purchasing decisions on who is missing what OS features. Because if the Xbox 360 and PS3 are anything to go by, and the early days of the Xbox One and PS4 are congruent with this, Microsoft will keep rolling out a shit-tonne of updates and new features, where Sony will continue to… Read more

A few AI-heavy games are better on Xbox One, apparently. Some multiplats have more characters on screen on the Xbox One. The majority do favour the PS4 at this stage* but not every one. Read more

My business has decomissioned our FAX, years since. We now SMS people on their phones to let customers know their repairs are ready, to ask them questions, etc. We email our customers receipts, rather than print them. We no longer issue business cards to staff, as we email quotes rather than scribble them on the… Read more

I just used rechargeable AA batteries with the Xbox 360. Ditto the Xbox One. High-persistance NiMH batteries for the win! Read more

I already charge my phone every day. Soon I'll be charging my Microsoft Band every couple of days. Charging my game controller every day too? No thank you. I'd get a wired controller before I would put up with that.

I have long used a mix of wired and wireless controllers. Last-gen I had a Mad Catz controller that… Read more

Hell, I have dozens of Dreamcast games still in my backlog. Read more