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Beat Saber. Every day for an hour in the morning. Average heart rate 130. Best workout ever.

Oh and I’m playing all my favorite songs, working through 500 of them at last count with many more to add.

It’s magical. Darn thing even got me to buy a gaming PC

All podcasts (beastcast, bombcast, hotspot) are missing from the all videos feed.

That RSS feed is really valuable for me because I watch all my GB videos in a podcast app on my phone.

It's okay if I have to use multiple feeds but nothing seems to be working quite right at the moment.

For Christmas my son bought me Andrew Groen’s book on Kindle (I know I’m missing half the experience with the maps and all...).

On a whim, I installed the launcher, fully expecting it would not work at all (I have nothing remotely close to a “gaming PC”. And lo and behold the damn thing runs. Not well but it runs.

I ran through the tutorial - not super excited by PvP but I started a mining career with one of the agents. Sort of amazed by the drop off in hand holding from tutorials to agent missions.

Anyways, just posting this looking for more ways to engage with the community (blogs, forums (Tapatalk compatibility a plus), etc) and learn more about how to play.

For example, yesterday the lady asked me to go mine three elements to turn into something else and I had NO IDEA where to find those elements. I YouTubed the answer and the guy just bought the end products and I thought well THAT’S kind of cheating...

Anyways, open to suggestions - I’m probably going to play an hour a day or less. Pretty casual.

Thanks.

PS : It occurs to me that if they ever do the “Stadia thing” with this game where you could play it anywhere at anytime it would be a much bigger hit.

I can’t see how Sony survives if streaming games becomes the default business model. They’re networking stuff has proven to be terrible time and time again.

Nintendo is a different beast. They have enough multi- generationally loved properties to keep going how they are.

Microsoft is clearly running towards the same target as Google.

When do Apple, Amazon and Facebook get in on this? They can’t be far behind right?

@jesus_phish: thanks for the recommendation- I'm trying to play one thing at a time at the moment. Working my way methodically through the demos to see what I like. That Astro Bot thing is so not my cup of tea but darn if it isn't fun.

I have been a pretty loyal and avid XBox player for about 15 years now. Coincidentally, I've been listening to Jeff talk about video games for more or less the same amount of time.

I was pretty disheartened to read over the last 6 months that MS was not interested in going forward with VR at this time. I'd seen enough on GB to be really interested in the tech but had no desire to spend $1,000 on a PC and then another $500 on a headset.

Over the last couple months I received enough money via sales of junk in my basement and holiday / birthday money (pretty sweet being 44 and still getting cash for your birthday btw) where I sort of didn't know what to do with it. And then last weekend it all kind of caught up to me. PSVR.

Fast forward to yesterday and I'm in a Target parking lot meeting a guy from two towns over to sell me his PS4 (speaking of which, holy smokes is the used PS4 market expensive...) that I paired with a PSVR headset bundle I bought from a WM marketplace vendor. $500 or so later, I'm playing in VR.

So can I just say that I think Sony owes Giant Bomb a cut for that sale? Because there's no way a tightwad middle aged guy like myself with kids entering college in the next few years drops $500 on a toy like this without Giant Bomb.

So thanks to Sony for making a really cool, mass market VR experience and thanks twice to Giant Bomb for convincing me to buy it.

Has anyone seen a straight confirmed story on Destiny 2 in 4k?

All I have seen is screenshots that it was sent with the review console but I haven’t seen anyone say for sure that it ran in 4k.

TIA

A week ago or so someone from XBox was quoted as saying that 4k assets would only be downloaded to XBox One X owners so as to not clog up the hard drives of other XBox One owners.

But that got me thinking - how do they handle the disc problem if everything is cross compatible? Are they back to assuming everyone has internet because I don't think that's the case. Is someone who lives out in the sticks and owns a 4k XBox not going to be able to play 4k games?

Thanks @morello

the drive is over - and I am sad.