This is also possible because they are only selling through their website, while other consoles go through retailers. I'd actually prefer a retailer just for doing this over one that was first come first serve.

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RandallBrown a day ago | parent | next [-]

When the Xbox 360 came out decades ago, the store I got mine from did this. They had like 10 consoles and there were like 200 people there. They did a raffle for the consoles and I got to buy one. It felt like I won the Xbox even though I still had to pay for it.

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transcriptase a day ago | parent | next [-]

I never thought much of the need for trigger warnings until I read “the Xbox 360 came out decades ago”

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Arainach a day ago | parent | next [-]

The XBox 360 release is closer to the (US) release of the NES than it is to the current day.

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SpaceNoodled a day ago | parent | next [-]

Reading this was physically painful.

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giancarlostoro a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dang. That wasn't supposed to be a challenge... That will have eventually become true no matter what tbh.

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Sophira a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Similarly, Windows XP's release is closer to the release of the IBM 5150 (the first-ever IBM PC) than it is to today.

	▲	tosti 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But the difference in computing power is more impressive between the first IBM PC in 1981 and a new PC from 2001, than between a new PC from 2001 and now. At least subjectively (it might be that software in general got more slower than hardware got faster).

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Keyframe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

we're dead, practically.

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Bluecobra a day ago | parent [-]

red rings of death, specifically :)

	▲	pluralmonad a day ago \| parent [-]
		Time to wrap us in a towel and put us in the oven!

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mvcosta91 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The original Crysis will be TWENTY YEARS OLD in 2027.

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kube-system a day ago | parent | next [-]

And I still can't afford a GPU to play it

	▲	Hamuko a day ago \| parent [-]
		Don’t worry, you also can’t afford RAM to play it either. Not that it needs much.

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Fuzzwah a day ago | parent | prev [-]

30th anniversary of Quake's release today.

	▲	godshatter 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That one for me is particularly painful. We were playing the alpha release before the game officially came out after work. I still work at the same place, though I've moved jobs within it a few times.

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croon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read a plot outline describing "turn of the century" and it threw me when I figured out they were talking about the early 2000s.

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teaearlgraycold a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Casual reminder we're all mortal! :D

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inigyou 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't fear dying in a car accident. I dread the certainty that one day I'll be 80 and all I'll have left are memories, everything and everyone I ever loved will be gone (unless I have children which is very unlikely at this point), the world will be completely alien to me, and there's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent this - apart from dying even sooner which is even worse.

I think there are ways most people cope with this knowledge most of the time so they don't go crazy. I get why so many elites are obsessed with preventing aging.

	▲	teaearlgraycold 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Become closer to people younger than you and not everyone you know will be dead when you're old.

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64738 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just a few days ago I was thinking about firing up my 360 to play some Halo Reach. Any idea if the online matchmaking still works?

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jamesfinlayson a day ago | parent | next [-]

I think the Xbox 360 online stuff was only shut down... two or three years ago? It hung around for a long time.

	▲	salad-tycoon 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have the Master Chief collection or something (almost all the games in one with a selector screen), I remember a year or two ago booting into and playing online game, plus there appears to be a discord server that organizes players to better reach playable numbers.

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Chaosvex a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn't.

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nottorp a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Had that at a national electronics chain in romania for the PS5 launch.

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greggsy a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s effectively closed off to new accounts too, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of bot campaigns