Honestly, the sd card is arguably more important. I mean, headphones, there are workarounds like adaptors or wireless. But being able to stick a 1tb sd card in is just sooo good, basically a portable PC. There is no workarounds for sd card slot.
Moto 5g stylus has both. I just bought my daughter one for Christmas. The downside is using a moto phone which have gone downhill imo since the Nexus 6. But my daughter is 10 and just wants a phone with a stylus for drawing stuff and it was only $99 with my fi plan so why not?
I mean, the workarounds for SD cards is just USB-C drives, or USB-C microSD card readers. But I agree, just as headphone dongles are dumb and don't suit all needs, so is external storage.
Why? The quality was always shit. I’d rather keep the data port (Lightning/USB-C) and use an external DAC. For calls and meetings where audio quality is trash anyway, Bluetooth doesn’t necessarily degrade it enough to care.
The title has two questions and this one only fits one of them.
Wish wasn't cancelled, yes!
Wish they brought it back? No, it was a long time ago, and they made Serenity to close off the story and tie things up. It's likely that bringing it back would do more harm than good.
Man, that show was so likable, but I could never get over the pro-Confederate vibes, even with all the staff denials.
Call me crazy, but if I was going to bring back a series doomed by its association with Joss Whedon I'd give The Nevers another shot. I thought it was fun and then the Whedon thing happened and Covid happened and people seem to just have agreed it wasn't worth it and gone home.
If they did another series they could do it without rebooting, just a different set of characters in the same ‘verse. Maybe meeting the originals at various times.
The show runners for The Expanse claimed that they ended the show where they did because the show had reached a natural conclusion, the books took a giant time leap, and they felt the rest of the story would be better developed into a sequel series at a later time.
I really hope they work out a way to do a time jump series later on with the same actors who are all actually older (though logistically speaking it would be difficult)
Honestly, I think they did the right thing. The TV show was great for what it was, but the last book was just so different than the rest of the series, I don't think it really matters that they left it out.
End the show on a high note instead of possibly spoiling it.
I loved the expanse, maybe more than books. But even the books just got drawn out and I lost interest. With how closely the show followed the books I'm worried the show would just fall off for me like the books.
What they did was perfect, and there's no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.
But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.
People will inevitably come in here saying "whatabout the Maverick and Colorado?" but those trucks are all the size of full size HDs from 30 years ago.
Edit: don't even get me started on the Tacoma bloat, the "only mid-size truck on that market" which is the same size as a Humvee.
I like the idea of the Maverick, but it's the same overall size of the Ranger. Why not just reboot that?
I don't like that it's only 4-door, short bed and I don't like the bed and body being one piece. It's also 2024. There should be an EV and hybrid options before being a gassier. You aren't towing with that thing anyway.
How about things that never were but have always existed? Been waiting my entire adult life (I’m 42) for GRRM to finish Game of Thrones. My kid was 2 when the last book came out and now he’s driving lol
I was gonna say Patrick Rothfuss' King Killer Chronicles series. We're never getting Doors of Stone. I loved his writing, but dammit, I've just given up on it at this point.
Oh wow I forgot about that series. It’s been like a decade lol. I didn’t even realize the third never released. What’s with these good writers not finishing their projects
The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you're done with it, jerks!
I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that's a fantastic unit that of course I can't run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.
I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can't swing a Steam set and there's no way I'm giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!
Like others said there's still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\
Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(
The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.
I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they're done with it. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!
I used to think like you, then I saw some sit down with joss whedon and the rest of the cast where he talked about where the series would have gone if it hadn't been axed by Fox after the first season, and man it was a WEIRD talk. Joss started going on about the eventually fate of Inara and not only was it super harsh, but Joss kept giving Inara's actor the creepiest looks and I sware on me mum the whole table got skeeved out.
Honestly made me appreciate Serenity that much more as the cap to the series
I still think about the episode where John walked into his stock trader and randomly bought rights to some kind of seafood (shrimp, I think), explains why, then sells it -- at a huge profit. It was this little moment that explained why John could just "do stuff" and didn't need a job.
Also, it made my hate working forever, but I don't know enough to not have to. Yet.
S tier TV Shows cancelled by streaming studio fucks:
Raised by Wolves (Max), Little Demon (Hulu), Archive81 (Netflix), Scavenger's Reign (Originally Max, then cancelled, bought by Netflix, then fucking cancelled again. Clowns)
They're going back to the normal soda dispensers!?!? That is on my list of things to bring back. The freestyle ones are good in concept but seem to make all soda taste like a mix of flavors.
Command & Conquer series as a whole, no releases in 4 years, the last new release was a mobile game in 2018, and the last proper new entry was 2012.
The fan community has (at least) two really high quality mods still undergoing active development, with an actual release in the last two years. Giving this series the Sonic Mania treatment would be incredible, and probably make EA a lot of money, but also is very unlike their usual business practices.
Man, they won't even remaster Tib Sun and RA2. You know fans would go absolutely bonkers for those, even moreso than original C&C/RA.
I'm particularly bitter about the unreleased FPS shooter. Seeing the Scrin as actually in-person terrifying monsters, plus a more empathetic Brotherhood of Nod, could have made for some great stories.
Yep, I put hundreds of hours into Red Alert 2 as a youngun. I would absolutely play the shit out of a remake, provided a map maker was furnished or created by the community. I fucking loved custom RA2 maps.
Isn't there aome kind of openC&C thing that basically remasters it, adds better modding support and modernizes the controls, similar to OpenTTD? 🤔
I swear I fucked around with something like that a while back because I wanted to get down on some Tiberian Sun but I couldn't even get my discs to install on Windows 10.
I would happily shell out $60ea for remasters of RA2 and Generals. Improved graphics, proper modem compatibility (64 bit, Proton, ARM chips), maybe a modern vs original balance mode? I'd be happy as a clam.
Renegade had some interesting gameplay ideas as a shooter, and a new C&C FPS has so much story potential. It's a shame they cancelled the one, but a future release still has that potential. If they do it.
Command and Conquer 4 was not as bad as people say and now here we are.
The remastered collection was so good, though. I wonder if people just didn't buy it, because you'd think they'd have given that team permission to just make a new one, but it hasn't happened.
Choco Tacos: some places have been rumored to have brought this back
Mountain Dew Pitch Black. Reintroduced and limited.
Heroes franchise/series. Creator is rumored to be bringing it back.
'I am not okay with this' Netflix series based on a grophic novel.
Wish I had tried Pepsi Blue. Grew up in the 90's but never tried it.
Edit to add: The OG version of GTA San Andreas uncensored. My buddy had a copy we would play but I never got my hands on a copy of my own. If owned this would be a collector'd item.
Pepsi Blue was actually in 2002 era. But as someone born in the 90s I should have at least heard of it. It was berry flavored they discontinued it 2004 which sucks. It would def make a good comeback.
God, yes! I don't actually know what any of the numbers are, but I'm convinced that if this hadn't come out during the pandemic we would have absolutely gotten more.
OG Pitch Black was my favorite. They had it at a local gas station: Wawa near me last year not the second but the original. I loved it so much as a kid. I cut out the wrapper and the plastic from the bottle and flattened it and glued it to a magnet. Lol.
F-ZERO. Most innovative racing series of all time. F-ZERO 99 is cute and all, but high-speed was never the same after 2003. Aero GPX proves the most promising project since, and it is good.
Worst thing is that they had a nearly complete demo of it for the 3DS, and released some video of the demo and testing stuff in-engine during development, then like a day before it was supposed to drop they cancelled the whole damn thing because supposedly not enough fans participated in their fan forums/events.
They could have at least released the damn demo! It was already finished! Would have cost them fucking NOTHING.
And then the series creator Inafune fumbled making a spiritual sequel to Megaman when he Kickstarted Mighty No.9, so when he tried to Kickstart Red Ash as one for Legends it failed to meet the goal.
This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.
The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should've.
And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD
Kid me didn't understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing... Perhaps it's time for a revisit.
I didn't know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!
ReBoot got... restarted with a boilerplate power rangers/tron script at one point. It's terrible and no one remembers it. There's also a terrible comic book squeal to the original that no one remembers either.
At least their original series "Dark" was completed. Dark had the same slow build but man, it gets so good. I was highly anticipating 1899 to be even greater
Stupid Netflix. Just another of the many reasons I no longer have a subscription. Can’t get invested in anything there other than the played out “Stranger Things”, because it will just be canceled.
I thought it was pretty boring at first. They were just on the ship the whole time and I wasn't really interested. But it got better towards the end, and I was sad that they cancelled it. Though I can't even remember what happened now, it's been so long
Awesome first season, terrible second one. They turned an awesome cyberpunk show into some bland, generic, chaste sci-fi.
The main actor for the second season looked like a kid trying to look tough but only making you laugh your ass off at him. Papa Doc isn't Takeshi Kovacs.
I think they changed directors between seasons? That would explain the mess.
Ultimately Stadia was an absolute win for those who gave it a chance. Google gave away those controllers like candy and when they pulled the plug, not only did you get a full refund for every game you purchased, they even unlocked the controllers so you can use them as Bluetooth controllers.
Stadia was good, but Geforce Now is just so much better.
It really was, though. Stadia was super convenient for playing games... anywhere really. I know a guy through Discord who played using it over Starlink. And it was free. 1080p60, any games you bought from their store where yours to play whenever. And Destiny 2 became Free to Play as well, without any payment required.
Angel was pretty bad. I’m not saying there weren’t good characters, humor, and such, but the overarch? There was no real motivation on it. Like that last added season of Babylon 5, no compelling main plot moving things along.
Buffy was great, with a great ending. Solid finale.
Firefly, also great, and we’ve heard everything I could say from others already, on repeat. I will add it was difficult to find on TV. Suddenly, boom, gone from the time slot, and then, boom, gone again. Likely didn’t help with ratings.
Galavant, it was a show that only lasted a season, two seasons, but was just kind of a medieval-era musical drama/comedy that didn't take itself too seriously.
The songs were catchy, the characters were a little corny but grew on you, and the actors could sing fairly well. But, it only got one season and ended on a cliffhanger, so we'll never know what could have been I think it deserved one more season to bring some closure to some things. :/
🎶Way back in days of old, there was a legend told, about a hero known as Galavant🎶
Edit: another user pointed out a few things I was wrong about, edited to correct.
Lays had some chocolate covered potato chips that would come out around the holidays. I didn't care for them myself, but my wife loved them and I miss buying them for her
Canadian here. Chocolate company Laura Secord made a chocolate bar called the Royale. Or Mint Royale? Something like that. Basically a "solid" mint milk chocolate bar that would just melt in your mouth. Those things were fantastic.
When I was 16 (now late 30s for reference) they sold off the chocolate bar to Nestlé Canada. Who immediately changed the recipe to use, I assume, cheaper chocolate. Maybe cheaper everything. It was never the same and after a year or two they just disappeared, never to be seen again.
My first experience with enshittification I guess.
Shark gummies. Idk what they were actually called, but they were the most delicious gummies. Some were opaque and milky colored, others weren't. I don't think they were associated with Street Sharks but maybe they were. I crave them.
I don't know what brand but Applebee's had this weird mixed drink with those in them I had a few years ago. They were shark shaped gummies that were part white part clear blueish.
Lol, Street Sharks were awesome I had a collection of their action figures as a kid.
Stargate Universe, Alphas and Dark Matter.
All left on cliffhangers. Sometimes I wonder if the writers see the writing on the wall on the cancelation and pull this shit to see if people get a petition going to have their show come back.
Sarah Connor chronicles, Stargate Universe just of the top of my head, they weren't anything special but still enjoyed watching them and would have liked to see how they would have wrapped it up, a closure of sorts instead of leaving them in limbo like Half-Life.
Miiverse on the Wii U.
Every games felt like a community. You could share tips, screenshots, etc… some games even had integrations like chat bubbles in Mario Maker.
I always went out of my way to pick up a message in a bottle in Windwaker.
When they shut it down, the console main screen felt VERY empty and each players, very alone
(You can spare the jokes about how we were alone anyway since it didn’t sell well)
I really enjoyed Happy, and the ending was a little rushed. It's one of those classic shows that people seemed to like, but not enough people seemed to have watched to keep it going.
Alongside this, sugar versions of soft drinks in the UK. I have an intolerance to most popular artificial sweeteners, and as someone that likes fizzy sodas .y choices dropped significantly after cunting Jamie Oliver decided to ruin another thing I love.
For the longest time I thought a certain soda I used to drink growing up, Jones Soda, was discontinued until maybe a year or so ago. Found it in a store near where I live and am glad it still exists.
As for something that actually was discontinued/cancelled, my personal pick would probably be Batman Beyond because I really like the idea of the whole Batman of the future being a teenager who has help from an elderly Bruce Wayne and really like the show in general. I also absolutely love the theme song and animation that went with it.
I'm a high speed developer, I write a LOT. All keyboards are still in working order after 6 -12 months, but the key storked become "hard" and they start damaging my fingers. I typically have to give my keyboard to someone that writes slower, and inget a new one that is "soft"
Looks down at his second-hand, 13 year old HP 5309U product code GM321AA and thinks "Damn dude. Sure my keyboard has nine keys that are worn so much that most are missing the print on them. And sure, it's not a mechanical keyboard. But I didn't have to spend a dime for it and it's still working just fine for me.
The joyful wonder and whimsey that lived in my soul and twinkle that shone through my eyes, or at least I think it was there. It's now just a faint memory of a memory, something that I yearn for but unsure if I ever even tasted it.
The Quest (2014). It was a random find on Netflix many years ago. My friend and I checked it out and ended up getting into it. We ended up watching 2-3 episodes back to back. It's one of my all time favorite 'different' TV shows.
"Fantasy meets reality as 12 contestants engage in epic challenges in the world of "Everealm", and compete to avoid "banishment" in order to become the one true hero that will save the kingdom."
Reminds me of another show that I wished wasn't cancelled: The Colony. A reality post apocalyptic survival show, set in LA. I might check out The Quest now.
There's one I haven't heard of in a long time. I was hooked for the brief time it was out. I rember being pumped of potential news of a third season that never came to fruition.
Oh, I didn't know they changed it. Haven't had it since I was a kid. That sucks. Seems like everyone giving bad reviews on it. It was the only non-sugar cereal that tasted good dry.
10 cent Near beer, (NA beer today), available for us kids to buy on street vending machines.
Some of my best memories was being able to get into town in the evenings after all the chores were done and playing baseball with my friends on a hot summer evening. And when we were done, we would walk uptown to the one pop machine that had Hamms near beer in it. At 10 cents for a 12 oz bottle it was amazing. So cold and so refreshing.
People today would absolutely lose their minds over 9 or 10 kids standing around on a sidewalk drinking NA beer today.
The series that I really liked and wish it would have completed but ended up being canceled due to a writer strike was 'Pushing Up Daisy's' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/
Something I wish I'd bring back is the '90s style. Honestly so much was more interesting back then. All the colored gadgets, and the really cool ones where you could see sort of through the plastic see the components. Commercials were absolutely unhinged and wild. Things were just more fun and less formulaic. So many things today seem to have no real personality.
A bit of a weird one because it never actually came out, but I was really excited about the news that Michel Gondry was set to direct a film adaptation of Rudy Rucker's novel The Master of Space and Time. I really like both Gondry and Rucker, and their sensibilities would have worked really well together. The story is kind of a sci-fi three wishes fable. It's not my favorite of his--that's gotta be White Light--but it's really light-hearted and fun. And Gondry is terrific at getting bizarre, dream-like ideas onto film. I'm still bummed out that they cancelled that.
For something that actually did come out but then got cancelled, I enjoyed Disney's adaptation of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Then they threw that one down the memory hole for tax reasons, so there's no way to watch it anymore short of piracy. I feel like that shouldn't be allowed. Seems like they should add least have to provide the Library of Congress with a copy. It's weird that our cultural history can just be yanked away like that now.
I'm not a fast food person, but the McDonald's Arch Deluxe was amazing. I'd love to have one again. Also Pepsi Kona (coffee-flavored Pepsi) was really good.
I miss things having actual buttons instead of touchscreen - most commonly, car dashboards. But even my microwave's interface has a touchscreen feel. It's not an actual screen but the "buttons" don't need to be pressed so much as grazed, or sometimes my finger being near the button is enough to "press" it. So it ends up in a lot of false inputs that I have to clear out and start over. I have to be very deliberate which slows down my ability to use the stupid thing. And I mostly only use it as a kitchen timer, I can't imagine how annoyed I'd be if I used it more frequently!
The Logitech G600. It had a 3rd mouse button for your ring finger, and 12 thumb buttons with amazing macro capabilities. Only the sensor kind of sucked so it was useless for FPS gaming
I’m very disappointed by the lack of ‘The Middleman’ here. A very fun show with a very spunky Natalie Morales. Based on the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine, but the best part was that Javier Grillo-Marxuach was the show runner so it really didn’t lose that crazy fun factor of comic books nuttiness. Seriously rock eating aliens, zombie flying fish, boy bands trying to take over the world. It only got 12 Episodes and it’s still got 100% on rotten tomatoes and even over an 8 on IMDb.
I remember a blue Pepsi that was hella fucking good back when I was in high school. I miss that. It was a pretty sour berry flavor; might have been blue raspberry but it was also pretty unique and one of the sweetest, yet still tolerable, sodas I've ever tried.
I also miss Dr. Slice. It wasn't a Dr. Pepper knock off; it was an official mix of Dr. Pepper and Slice. Not sure if it was orange slice, but it was better than regular Dr. Pepper and I only ever saw it at one random ass restaurant in the small town I had lived in most of my life.
The Hotline Miami game franchise. 1 was perfect, 2 was better in every single way, and right after dropping both entries within a year of each other to wild acclaim, the creators announced that they wouldn't develop the series further, which is a shame. I'd gladly buy a new entry every single year if I could.
What was that? Couldn’t hear you from offscreen but I’m gonna kill you anyway. You don’t get a chance to react, you don’t get to avoid it. You just need to memorize where I am. That’s not a bullshit mechanic or anything.
I wanted another season of American Vandal on Netflix.
First season was good. But while the second season started slow, it ended with what I thought was a pretty intense emotional pivot.
You begin with a poop joke, and end with a commentary on the illegal sharing of a persons intimate photos online and the harassment and blackmail that can come from that. It was really really good. I wanted to see what else they could come up with.
Taco Bell seems to make a great new thing, then they gradually put fewer and fewer ingredients to where it's basically a tortilla and people stop ordering it. This is my thoughts on the Frito Burrito, black bean crunch wrap, chicken fajita burrito.
Cornwell's Plum Sauce. I haven't seen it since probably 2001 and I still want it back. It was the best thing on Macaroni cheese. The closest alternative is Masterfoods BBQ sauce and it's great but it's never hit the same. I tried other plum sauces since there are hundreds but it seems Cornwell's take on it was really different to everyone else's in a way I can't describe so I don't know what to look for in an alternative. Even if I did find another plum sauce as good, the bottle design and logo are iconic for me and part of my childhood.
DC Legends of Tomorrow: I wished they didn't end the whole Arrowverse. When Flash wrapped up with that horrible last season, it was like a Potpourri of a season but not in a great way.
Wouldn't mind seeing the game come back. Don't get me wrong, it was pretty shitty. But, for whatever reason, I kept finding myself coming back until there wasn't a game to come back to anymore. I guess I was charmed by it.