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@Blurry Moon No, they'll instead rename Cortana in the new Halo remake "Copilot for Xbox" (not to confuse with "Copilot", "GitHub Copilot", "Copilot for Office", "Azure Copilot Agents", "Copilot for Business", "Enterprise Copilot" and "Copilot for Workgroups", all different products that sometimes coexist in the same environments).
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@Blurry Moon Love the high lethality fights that can often be over in a couple of turns. Love that buffs, debuffs and status are very useful, unlike most JRPGs that make them mostly useless by making the few enemies that are vulnerable to them be the ones so easy you don't need them. Am uncertain about the slow attrition of MP being basically your limit to exploration. Love the demon mechanics, hate how bleh the humans are as RPG characters.

Love my buddy Jack Frost. Hee-ho!
Jezza™ · 2w
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Jezza™ · 2w
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It's a shame Mini-Disc didn't catch on here. After cassettes were "over", north america mostly jump straight to Discman, but for years that was awkward as fuck. They were big and bulky, no recording, they skipped easily, batteries didn't last long. We kind of powered through until the tech got better but there was still an awkward minimum size that meant even the small ones would only really fit in stupid 2000s cargo pants. Sure you could clip one on your belt line but then it would dig into your belly if you did anything but stand up straight. Skipping got better with more buffering thankfully. CDs were also never really meant to be handled in the kind of environments Discman exposed them to.

I guess people resented the extra step of ripping their CDs or LPs to cassette to listen to them portably, but on a technical standpoint, Mini-Disc were just better designed for the job.
note1cqusu...
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@Blurry Moon If you get a Hi-MD portable music player/recorder, you can connect it as a data drive to a computer (even with standard Mini-Disc, if you format them as Hi-MD in your recorder); Hi-MD gives you about 1Gb, standard MD less than 300Mb.

Me what I want is a 2000s Mini-Disc head unit, but of course my car is too recent and recent cars can't realistically get 3rd party head units. And they're pretty hard and expensive to find with full coverage of north american FM radio bands; there's tons of JDM ones, but Japan's FM radio bands are not quite the same.