I don't want an X Box, I wouldn't know how to use one and they sound so mind numbingly boring!

[Accy cyclist]

I've just heard someone on the radio say/rant that 'They all have X Boxes in prison, when it's supposed to be a place of punishment'! 🤬 How many times have I heard rants about prisoners having X Boxes in prison! Listen, if I was doing time and was given an X Box I'd swap it for something useful like a packet of biscuits or a bog roll, as the thought of using one sends me to sleep!! Do you have one and if so why?🤔

 

[wiggydiggy]

I've had some kind of games console or computer of one kind or another for over 40 years, why? Because I like to play games that's why

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I bought a PS5 for my better half and I back in March. because our gaming pc is 10 years old now with a 5 year old graphics card "upgrade" in it, unable to play some recent game releases and a console was the far cheaper hardware option.

But I'm struggling to use it much, I love Rocket League (Rumble gamemode) on the pc, but keyboard plus mouse isn't a play option in Rocket League and I simply cannot adapt to using the PS5 controller to play.

The only thing that's got me using it more recently is another free to play game, namely Disney Speedstorm, a karting game I'd heard of but never tried on any platform until a fortnight ago...

But even with Speedstorm, I split my time pretty evenly between the PS5 and the old gaming pc, mainly because my old eyes can keep better track of everything when I'm ~3 feet from a 27" pc monitor than ~8 feet away from the 32" ps5 tv!

It feels a bit weird still being a light gamer in my 50s, but I've had gaming computers most of my life, going back to the ZX81.

 

[Seevio]

Yet another unnecessarily long title where most of it should have been part of the actual post. (Feel free to copy/paste this for the inevitable next time.)

Some people like pineapple on their pizza so they buy it. I think it's an abomination unto Nuggan so I don't. I then go about my day.

I have a good pc and no tv, but other than that it's more or less the same thing.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yet another unnecessarily long title where most of it should have been part of the actual post. (Feel free to copy/paste this for the inevitable next time.)

Some people like pineapple on their pizza so they buy it. I think it's an abomination unto Nuggan so I don't. I then go about my day.

I have a good pc and no tv, but other than that it's more or less the same thing.

Do you struggle with 'long' thread titles?

 

[Electric_Andy]

They are good if you like gaming, which you presumably do not. It also has Apps like Netflix etc on it, so is good as an actual entertainment system

 

[PeteXXX]

Do you struggle with 'long' thread titles?

If a title is too long I usually put it on ignore because it uses up too much of my phone screen.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yet another unnecessarily long title where most of it should have been part of the actual post. (Feel free to copy/paste this for the inevitable next time.)

Some people like pineapple on their pizza so they buy it. I think it's an abomination unto Nuggan so I don't. I then go about my day.

I have a good pc and no tv, but other than that it's more or less the same thing.

Absolutely shocking post and you should be ashamed.


Pineapple on pizza is the food of the Gods, though it has to have tuna on it as well.

 

[Drago]

I've never played a video game in my life.

 

[tom73]

Can we put to bed the idea prisoners all have game consoles. They don't and any prisoner that has one , first has to be off basic so has to behave and be trusted. Then they will have saved up the daily allowance they earn though work or education. To buy one and ordered it from the same private company that runs the prison shop. At massively inflated price as with every thing else they have to buy like toothpaste.

 

[Drago]

Good God. Why would anyone want to drag out a prison sentence and make it feel twice as long like that?

 

[biggs682]

Another vote for pineapple on pizza here please and if it can come with some garlic bread please

 

[Gunk]

I’ve never done any gaming, born in 1965 so a bit too old, I sort of missed the whole thing. Plus I’d rather live my life through actual reality rather than act out a fantasy in front of a screen.

 

[Sea of vapours]

I’ve never done any gaming, born in 1965 so a bit too old, I sort of missed the whole thing

Nooo.... You weren't, and aren't, too old !!! I was born in 1963 and started gaming with Infocom text-based adventure games in the eighties. (Possibly it helped that I worked for IBM and had a PC from the time they first appeared.)

 

[Gunk]

Nooo.... You weren't, and aren't, too old !!! I was born in 1963 and started gaming with Infocom text-based adventure games in the eighties. (Possibly it helped that I worked for IBM and had a PC from the time they first appeared.)

We had one BBC computer at school and that seemed to be completely taken over by S Level maths nerds, I had absolutely no computer skills until the mid 1990’s when my company sent me on a Lotus/Work Perfect course when they gave us all laptops.