Recent content by DarrisBard

I played through POP and beat it again. Fun stuff. Skipped Splinter cell because it isn't my type of game. Grabbed Rayman though I don't know much about it.

I agree with the guy who is disappointed that regular is only shown on the smaller screens now. I'm not a fan of 3d. I paid $11 the last time I went. I don't see how they're getting such a low average when everyone in this thread is well above $9. Communal movie watching is a different...

I would have been interested but there are too few games and no additions possible. What if I want to play Baseball Stars or Mission Impossible? I've been out of the Nintendo system for a while anyway.

To me the games themselves trump whatever the launcher is. So if I want a game I don't care which service has it. From Origin I enjoyed the Mass Effect series. From Uplay I love Might and Magic X legacy and did ok with the earlier Assassin's Creed games. I've grabbed Sands of Time since i...

I'm happy with my windows 7 setup. I tried to get rid of the KB3035583 update and hide it etc. but it kept coming back. So then I had to switch off automatic updates even though it is easier to leave it on and now I have to remember to manually run windows update every so often. When I do run...

Am I missing something? I'm looking at Assassin's creed Rogue and Unity. The bundle is more expensive than getting them individually. Why?

I'm playing Bastion now. Feel like I'm playing an NES game that my youthful self would have been more comfortable with.

Interesting update. I had a meeting with the audiologist who explained that there is something called low power bluetooth that allows the devices to do this streaming without killing battery life. My audiologist set me up with an intermediary device that works with my current equipment...

A friend told me about this and I played it over the weekend. Fun game. Old school. I ran into a big bug at the end but googling gave me a solution that let me finish the game.

Couple quick things. They use VOIP at my work and it doesn't sound that great to me. It looks like the hearing aids I tried can work with android phones but only through an intermediary device that you can clip to your belt. The advantage of the iphone is that it streams directly to that...

Yes there is definitely a jump in quality. I remember at my last upgrade in the same places I was hearing stuff that I just hadn't noticed before. It was a big difference. Having said that I was less impressed with the trial pair I used earlier this year. It was louder but not clearer. Part...

It looks like when I turned wifi off that cell standby statistic dropped off the list. Yes it is my first smartphone so I'm not familiar with a lot of this stuff. My friend at work told me to expect to charge it every night. The s6 charges really fast, it finishes in like an hour with the...

I'm trying a Samsung Galaxy S6. The hearing aid mode and the louder volume button hurt my ear. But just using the regular volume all the way up has been working fine. It is comparable to the dumb phone I was using. So far it is ok. I've learned how to use it and set it up how I want...

Hearing aids are a little bit like cars. I like to keep them until they break down to the point where it is no longer worth repairing them. Generally that is a 7-year cycle. They cost around 4 or 5 k each time. Right now I'm on year 5 and they are working well so it is too early to jump ship.

I generally do wait. The only case where it makes sense to me to buy close to release are games with a multiplayer component where you want to take advantage of interest and activity. Anyway amusing thread. Just wait until virtual reality is mature.