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They'd have to pay me a lot more than $10 per month to use that crappy search engine.

longhornsk57 wrote:
Idk, the bing app on my phone is pretty easy. And I got a lot of games from my wishlist for free during sales

You gotta be able to spell to search. I can see his issue.

Feeb wrote:

Looks like the 3rd grade puerile insults have leaked out of the liberal circle jerk threads again with this hilarious zinger.

Outside of this thread I've never seen anyone admit to using Bing. At least you get something out of it though.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

I don’t use Bing and have never. I just think it’s injustice that the internet is gated by a middle school level spelling test. That’s indoctrination.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

LOL now i have a mental image of closet Bing users.

"Hey, honey - I'm doing some Amazon shopping for Christmas and accidentally closed a tab... is there a way to re-open it?"

"Uh, yeah, you just click on the History button and it should show you the last few pages you were on, you can find it there. Wait, which computer are you on?"

"Thanks! I'm on your laptop. So History..."

"Wait, I"

click

"HONEY, WE NEED TO TALK RIGHT NOW."

I can explain!

"Do you take me for a fool? All these years together and you never told me you sometimes used Bing? That's it, I'm finding a divorce lawyer."

keystroke sounds as they type divorce lawyer into the address bar.

"It's even your default search engine? I thought I knew you! I'm sorry but... this is for the best."

gunshot sound

One thing I used to think was so very cringe was how Jimmy Fallon would try so hard to promote Bing (I guess MS and NBC were doing some partnership? I dunno the details) but it's like he kept forcing that word "Bing" as if he wanted all viewers as well to replace "Google" from their vocabulary with Bing just because he was getting paid to do so.

This had to have been a decade or more ago because I stopped watching any of the late night talk shows on NBC after the way they handled the Conan situation (plus Fallon is trash anyway).

Ya Bing is just one of those things that never took off. It's not very good and doesn't give me basic results half the time like Google, DDG, and Brave serve up. I think it's funny they have to bribe people to use it and it's still not being used.

I keep thinking they'll kill it for good like their horrible windows phones but i guess they're still going to try to keep it going for a little while.

Ok….like I don’t use it to actually search for anything 🤣🤣 I do it for the free money. You can literally spam a letter and then just take one away each search. It’s literally seconds of my day whenever I do think to do it.

3hitcombo wrote:
Ok that definitely makes more sense. I get it and I respect the hustle. I was just saying I'm surprised that even still exists

I do the Bing rewards stuff...basically I click a few links and answer some light trivia while on the toilet in the morning. It takes maybe 5 mins a day and I usually end up with $10 xbox credit each month without actually using Bing to search, I just do the daily stuff and also the Xbox rewards (via the GamePass app). Every day you earn an Achievement, that's 50 points. It's really not anything I wouldn't already be doing, and I still don't need to use Bing.

Slickriven wrote:

Same.

I've been claiming the Bing points for a long while, normally redeem for MS store credit to buy games/DLC and that's served me well. I will jump on the Edge browser, gross I know, but they give 20 extra points/day for searches on there. I just go across the trending topics to get the 170pts, then do the handful of daily extras. I try to remember to do that everyday as they give consecutive day bonuses, but I forget often.
I don't generally use it on my phone, which would give another 100/day. I then try to do the GP related things on my XSX and/or phone with the cloud gaming app.
I agree Bing and Edge are generally crap but all of the free games and such that I've redeemed over the years has been well worth it. I'd guess I've used the points to buy at least 20 games, possibly more. I did get a year or two of Gold as well I believe.

@Slickriven if you want to get that extra 100pts/day, you can do the mobile searches by just using the mobile responsive view on your desktop. Right-click>Inspect Page, then click the icon that looks like a phone on top of a tablet.

SwiftJAB wrote:

Ha... I should have thought of that... Thanks!

Just got 3 years of GPU for $108 using the Gold Conversion/auto renew trick. I'm good for a while.

Ya I'm going to use my sub next weekend and play that Halo co-op finally with friends. Looking forward to that big time

I have a PS5 arriving tomorrow and God of War Ragnarok on Friday. That game is literally the single reason I was waiting to get a PS5 and I'm stoked.

I'm going to swap my XSX with my son's XSS for now because I won't really be playing anything on Xbox until I beat GOW2. And he's been wanting to play some of our physical games so it's kind of a win-win although I really can't stomach the XSS resolution at this point.

Interestingly my research for PS5 exclusives (that I want to play) hasn't resulted in as long a list as I expected. Lots of PS4 stuff I missed once I got the XSX (even though we still have a PS4). So I'm interested to see what I think of GP on the XSS when I have a PS5.

I still admire Xbox taking more chances than Sony. But God of War.

Ps5 exclusives that you want to play?

GOW2 primarily. Then Astro-bot, Horizon 2, Ratchet & Clank Rift, Mies Morales, Sackboy, and then some PS4 upgraded games like Days Gone, Last of Us 2, Tsushima (again), and Uncharted 4 (again). That's what I'm going to start with.

🫢

3hitcombo wrote:

I was being sincere dude. 100%. Life's too short for this crap.
Tad and i made amends, Kommie and i seem good. Is Hammer still an active user?

Simon_Belmont wrote:

Do you still hold a grudge against dracula?

BloodPuppetX wrote:

I was like who?
and then i put 2 and 2 together.
well done sir

Did the first puzzle in Scorn. Incredibly stupid and annoying for no real reason. We'll see if it gets better or worse.

Started playing Persona 5 Royal on Game Pass and I've been pleasantly surprised how much I'm liking it. Usually JRPGs aren't my thing, but I'm really getting into it.

jgrant78 wrote:

i was thinking about it because EVERYONE talks about those games. I can't get into JRPG's save for like FF Tactics, Ogre Battle and some of the older FF games.
I'm trying to finish Death Loop so i can clear hard drive space, because I'm sure COD MWII will be on sale on Black Friday-ish. I haven't paid full price for a COD game...ever. I don't think I ever will.

Kommie wrote:

It's bad

DarkFact wrote:

Its fun to watch someone play it.
That's about it though.
It's INCREDIBLY visual.

Scorn is not that great. Once I beat a puzzle I say "that was dumb" and move on. I'm at 2-2, I think.

since I busted out my 360 I am going after these Call of Duty Collections like Modern Warfare Collection, the War Collection, etc. . And one thing I've noticed. Call of Duty really hasn't done crap in the last 10 years. There's advanced warfare (also on 360), Infinite Warfare, WWII, Cold War, modern warfare remaster, modern warfare remake, and that's about it. Guess the 360 was the golden age.

Kommie wrote:

Yeah I went into this game with apparently really high expectations, and after my first session, I haven't even tried to play it again. It LOOKS nice on my 3090, but it hasn't pulled me in at all.

Scorn tips:

Once you get Weapon 2 and use the Station with all the weird Orbs, you need to reload (X) In order to use Weapon 2.... Yeah. I got pretty far in Act III thinking Weapon 2 did nothing. It's like a small shotgun and Weapon 3 is a bigger shotgun.

I'm in Act 5 so this is the last one... I have some opinions on this game, boy howdy.

Hold up, did halo infinite co op finally come out?

Scorn - Do not play this unless you want to give it a shot. When you complete a Puzzle your response to beating it is more so "Well, that was dumb/annoying" and not "Wow! Great puzzle!" Puzzles are "brute force" with no clue what to do other than figure it out.

The game gives you no hints about anything. There is no lore, story, or anything. "Lore" implies there are documents to read or things to interact with. Nothing here. All you do is wander from place to place, pulling levers or finding dead ends and running away from the awful enemies. Apologists could argue "Well, your character has no idea what's going on, so you shouldn't either!" Even in the From Software games there are tutorials. Nothing here. Need to figure out what a button does? Pause menu. There is a "healing" station and an "ammo" station. In order to even use Weapon 2 (which looks like a pistol) you have to hit "X" to reload it in the first place after getting ammo. I got to 3-2 before realizing this. I did beat the entire game with no guide, but it gave no real satisfaction. The combat is awful and should be avoided at all costs and the only Boss is a Two-Phase boss and you can run out of ammo for it. Honestly, the combat made me quite angry with how bad it is. Like the whole game. Even the aesthetic isn't really that interesting as it's just a stolen art style. I can't imagine how anyone could like this game unless you also consume the smell of your own farts. Maybe Kojima fanboys might like this "art" garbage but that's about it.

I think I'm the only one here who's beat this, it seems?

Probably gonna play A Plague Tale Requiem next on GamePass while doing Ragnarok on PS5

SilverOwl wrote:

Supposedly but i haven't tried it yet

I really enjoyed A Plague Tale: Requiem. It starts slowly but ramps up by the end.

Kommie wrote:

Welp A Plague Tale is way better than Scorn so far.

Probably because it was designed as a video game game

Congrats on beating Scorn! I haven't heard of a single other person, even those that like it, who have beaten it.