u/bsncoleman

Along with most of the internet, I’m pissed at Sony because they plan to eliminate physical game discs starting 2028. Without going into the details of it here, I want to join the “protest” by canceling my PS Plus subscription but….GT7 is my obsession and about 90% of the time I’m playing a video game it’s GT7.

However, if I cancel my PS Plus, I lose access to GT7 and it becomes a shell of a game. I’m torn on how I feel about the whole thing and I’m curious how everyone else feels about it. I do have several offline racing games I’ve been meaning to play and this would provide the perfect excuse to play those without the distraction of GT7. But still…maybe I keep my subscription right up until 2028 if they don’t change course before then?

Back in 2014/2015 I was working at film equipment and studio rental company in Dallas, TX when a movie called Bad Kids of Crestview Academy was in town filming. One day they rented out on of our studios to film a couple of green screen shots and I got a look at the call sheet and saw that the Director was listed as Ben Browder.

I thought, “surely not that Ben Browder.” So I poked my head into the studio and, yes, it was that Ben Browder. Of course, being in a professional setting, I couldn’t just go up to him and start fanboying out, so I resigned that my “claim to fame” was that I got to be in the same room as Ben Browder.

But later that day, I was walking down the hall and saw my boss talking with Ben. I had planned to just keep walking and keep it professional but my boss (not knowing I was a Stargate fan) flagged me down, saying he wanted to introduce me to him.

Of course, internally, I was freaking out but I was REALLY worried about coming across as an annoying fan if I said anything about Stargate, so I kept it professional and pretended like I didn’t know who he was. I shook his hand and we talked for about a minute or two before he had to get back to set.

To this day, I regret not telling Ben I was a fan and that I appreciate his work on Stargate. Now that I’m older, I know there are ways to express that without coming across as a crazy fan and I wish I had taken the opportunity I was presented.

(Side note: before posting this, I had to look the movie up on IMDB to make sure I was getting the name right and had no idea Sean Astin was also in the movie!! He was never on set the days they were renting our Studio or I would’ve been doubly star struck!)

I finally FINALLY had enough self discipline to save up 20,000,000 credits. Which of the cars with that price tag should be my first purchase?