Corey

I'm a filthy casual gamer.

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@PlayStation @netflix #NoDiscNoBuy

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@heelvsbabyface Jasper with the May Fur Burst

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@Info2Consider @PhilCooke @RealShahriqKhan Open source Linux versus closed source Windows.

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@PlayStation Half-vampire, all digital. Not worth a purchase.

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@PlayStation If play has no discs, then I make no purchases.

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@PlayStation No disc, no buy.

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@PlayStation No disc, no buy. We have 2 of each Playstation in our household, but that won't include any digital only consoles.

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PS4 is still a great console today thanks to this.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

"PS4 SUPPORTS USED GAMES" ***huuuuge applause*** "“PS4 won’t impose any new restrictions on your use of PS4 game discs."

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Then I'm done buying your games. I find no joy in digital purchases.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

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@VHSDVDBLURAY4K Don't forget the slip of paper that says "lol"

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@Nerdrotics

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@LutherTheWriter @TheQuartering My RC track is under attack!

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@GhillieYT Nothing Xbox does ever makes sense 🤨

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@PoweroftheTruth SAD! PATHETIC! So how is your weekend? 🙃

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@PhilCooke It wasn't the real OJ. It was his character from Naked Gun just trying to help.

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@heelvsbabyface Your cheesy muscles, sire.

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@darksy_dephil

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@JoshuaTookes @JaboodyShow streamed the whole thing with subtitles for april fools. https://t.co/rA0knmrCPg

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@drek2474 So blatant they named the whole movie after it.