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My Spider-man face mask finally arrived in the mail. It looks awesome.

Whether you support a mask or not, I don't care, and it's not the place to discuss it, but in Mississippi it's the law. I have to wear one when I go into any place of business, so I need one, and must have one.

It looks really cool, but it took forever to get here. Is there an issue with the mail? I'm joking... maybe... seriously wear a damn mask.

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Updateto the News Desk!

This just in to the Geek Nrws Desk. Google has just joined Apple in removing Fortnite from their App store.

No one really knows how much Apple or Google charge for every purchase of a game or in app purchase, but I've heard rumors of at least 30% per transaction.

If you still want to play Fortnite (My nieces love the game and play every single day with their friends) you can download it on your Android phones directly from The Epic Play Shore. (I don't play the game, but I do hope that these app developers don't continue to get screwed by both Apple and Google.)


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Apple being jerks and limiting apps, access, and overall products on their Apple Store, twhich is something they've always done, today Apple took down Fortnite, and Epic sued the hell put of them for unfair business practices.

The removal had something to do with the in app purhaes and Applwe not getting their slice of the pie. Considering that Fortnite is free,except the cost of skins the player can purchase, Epic circumventing Apple is awesome and funny.

Apple really does need to be taken down a peg; as just last week Apple prevented Microsoft from putting Xcloud streaming on their IPhones citing security reasons, (bullcrap) but it was because they wouldn't get any money from the games being sold or steamed, and Apple just can't allow that to happen.

Epic just said F you, and good for them for not just rolling over to big bad Apple.

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I'm really confused as how developers for Microsoft make any money when they put every new release on Ganepass?

Game pass is 9.99 a month and 14.99 for Game pass Ultimate a month.

If you make a game, let's say, Ori and The Will of the Wisp, and the gane is on Gamepass, and it's down loaded 2 million times, Microsoft gets that money. I suppose they could pay you if you're a first party studio, but if you're independent, then you have to rely on word of mouth sales. Maybe you sell 1 mollion copies in the first 3 months of release because Ganepass stole a majority of your sales, 1 million at 40 bucks a piece is 40 million, but by the time you divide that with cost, overhead, development, payroll, and bonuses, you may break even or make a small profit, which you then need to invest in more games and paying people for your next game.

Gears of War 5 was downloaded 5 million times on Gamepass last year. 5 million at 65 bucks a piece is a lot more than maybe the 2 million they sold individually, really 7 million copies total. It would make sense to sell the 7 million individually and make a major of the profits without Microsoft involved.

It just doesn't seem like a viable business strategy for the long run if you're thinking of working with Microsoft. However, I could be wrong.

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Another 2d Metroid would be awesome, but we'll get Prime 4 from Retro before we get another 2d Metroid game.

A sequel to Fusion... I don't know, call it Fusion 2, would be great, but Nintendo doesn't care what any of us think, and they do their best to kill fun, little slices at a time. (Animal Crossing is not fun.)

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I want more Metroid.

We all want more Metroid. The notification tone on my phone is the Item Collection tune from Super Metroid.

One Christmas I gave out copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii as Christmas gifts to all of my gamer friends. I love the series.

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Microsoft delayed Halo: Infinite this afternoon. Probably because the game looks like do-do, and the internet has shredded it like some chicken in a nice taco (yum tacos).

That announcement was sandwiched (yum sammiches) between Microsoft announcing that the Sex Box will be released in November, where you can't play new next generation games, but upgraded versions of older, current generation games. Which is definitely worth 4 to 5 hundred dollars.

This is just an early prediction, but Sony and the PS5 will win this generation in the console wars too.

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"Trapped like deer " is a reference to my favorite episode of Boy Meets World. It was the episode where Janitor Bud was leaving work early everyday to go place bets on the ponies. Everyday he would have Joey clock out early for him, and Corey remarked, "We're trapped, trapped like deer until 3 o'clock, well not all of us."

And that's the reference.

When I was nearly dead 6 years ago I would do my therapy and physical rehab while watching "BMW" and the episode and deer reference came up. Since I was literally trapped in thr hospital the line stuck with me again.

I'm a 90's kid. I watched TGIF with my mom and brother. BMW, Family Matters, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, Just the 10 of Us. It was my Friday night until Highlander came on in syndication at 9 and Next Gen came on at ten.

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Yoshinori Ono quit Caocom this morning.

https://www.destructoid.com/stories/street-fighter-producer-yoshinori-ono-leaving-capcom-after-near-30-year-tenure-600031.phtml

Those rumors of him being demoted off Street Fighter V and off SF VI were true, and he decided to take his ball and go home instead of working with the new crew to get SF VI right.

Personally, I don't like the game play of SF IV or SF V, and with this rumored tag mechanic of SF VI, I'm not sure I was going to love SF VI either. A lot of it may have to do with the nerve damage in my left hand and arm, and not being able to play fightibg games well anymore, but I didn't like the game play of either of his SF games before I got sick.

I still enjoy the hell out of SF III: Third Impact, which may be the best fighting game of all time. I also enjoy the hell out of Guilty Gear as well, so it's just a SF IV and V thing.

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Rumors out of Capcom are that the direction of Street Fighter 6 was not great. The game had some weird tag mechanics that just didn't mesh with the traditional 2D one on one fighting known to the series. Play testers, developers, and higher ups were not pleased with the game or Yoshinori Ono's directing and direction. Thus the game was scrapped and they're starting back over from scratch. In the process Ono was demoted within Capcom and is no longer directing Street Fighter 6.

Considering that Street Fighter V was a mess from launch Capcom didn't want a repeat of the backlash of that game and Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite.

This is why a whole extra year of Street Fighter 5 content was just announced. It is going to give the new developers a few years to properly develop SF6. Originally the last update to SF5 was goibg to be the Seth DLC pack, but with development not going well on SF6 Capcom decided to keep supporting SF5 for another year.

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Remember that Xbox 360 game, Too Human? The game that tanked because the controls were complete and utter ass? (All the combat moves were mapped to the right analog stick, and couldn't be changed.) The game looked great, and the story was passable, but the controls ruined the entire experience...

Well, the PS5 exclusive, Godfall, reminds me of Too Human, except the controls seem to be working. The developers are calling it a "Looter/Slasher" and that's a cute catch phrsse, but I believe it's the sequel to Too Human that fixes most of the problems of that game.

Godfall looks fun, but I don't want to play alone, and I wonder if I could get Oreon and Bank Robber to play it with me this fall. If not , then it will just be "Tooo Human" and I'll just play more Spider-Man.

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I literally didn't know Entity13 wanted that phrase as the topic title. I admit to not understanding what Entity13 wanted and I clearly made a mistake. I really am sorry, and ut was an honest mistake. I hope Entity13 isn't gone forever, as it would be a tremendous loss.

I'm apologizing again for my mistake.

Entity13, I'm sorry.

Tell me exactly what topic title you would like for the next topic, and of course it will be yours.

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SpeeDLeemon posted...

Orange!

You Greedy so and so. You're the one eating all me Lucky Charms!

PS4 State of Play this afternoon. Not sure what surprises are left, but Sony may have a trick or two up its sleevs for the gamers not getting a PS5 anytime soon.

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Entity13 posted...

Hey look, I was right. My suggestion didn't matter.

I don't remember what title you chose. I'm very sorry. Tell me which one you picked because I missed it.

Separate note: Remember you can't take the Red Lantern Ring off! Ever! Or you'll die, so that's a minor draw back of choosing the red ring.

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Humanity, still plagued by the modern day plague, are trapped...trapped like deer inside of our homes, our faces hidden away from view, our food drive thrus and food delivery apps pushed to their digital and physical limits.

It wasn't supposed to be this way.

It can't be this way.

Yet it is.

28 Geeks later, and not one of them have developed a cure. How much longer will we suffer? With the Internet, television, YouTube, TikTok (For now) video game, movies, comic books, digital entertainment, and old fashioned books, we are desperately running out of content. There hasn't been a new video game released in Hours!

HOURS GEEKS! WHOLE HOURS!

Damn it Nerds, I'm a Geek, not a doctor!

I guess the only thing we can do is post in this topic to keep the hope alive.

Opening Question: What color (Green) Lantern Ring best fits with your personality or world view? (Green, Blue, Violet, Indigo, Red, Orange, and Yellow)

Black & White don't count. (You're not dead or Saints)

What would be your secondary color and why?

Wrap up from, "Life After Geeks" in the following post!

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