r/gaming • u/Force_Hammer • 17h ago

Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers as costs continue to climb

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-limits.html
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u/Canadyans 16h ago

Oh god you just gave me dialup flashbacks. Damn you. And you’re right.

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u/HastilyThrownObject 15h ago

“Get off the internet, I need to use the phone!”

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u/justagoddamnperson 13h ago

But my hour isn’t up yet, my brother got the full hour and I had to wait!!!

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u/HastilyThrownObject 13h ago

Holy shit the memories you unlocked. My older brother always stole my hour on the computer and used it to try and look up porn. It was pretty much only images you could look at and they took like 20 mins to load each picture. Then I’d get in trouble for all his porn lookups. Really hard to explain to my parents that it obviously was him because I knew how to clear history and I looked at different porn than him

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u/justagoddamnperson 12h ago

LMAO. Oh god. See my siblings and I were younger and not looking at porn in the dial-up days. I can imagine something like this happening if we were older though 😭

I did get accused of messing up a laptop with porn once but it literally was some chain/spam Myspace message where I clicked the link which gave it viruses, some of which showed porn. My dad was sure I had to be looking at porn in the first place to get that but I wasn’t 😭

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u/HastilyThrownObject 12h ago

Yeah I was like 14 and my brother was 15 in 98 when we got our Gateway PC and a ton of AOL discs

My usage was 25% porn and 75% downloading and printing DBZ pictures with some Gamepro chat room time thrown in occasionally. I had a buddy that stole some XXX VHS tapes from his dad and gave them to me so I tried to stick to analog self satisfaction as much as I could.

My dad was more mad about me using all the ink printing out pics of Dragonball then he was about the porn.

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u/justagoddamnperson 12h ago

Lol, this makes me feel so innocent in comparison. All I was doing was talking to people from school. I still remember how mind-blowing it was when we finally got broadband and you could just have internet all the time and not have to fight over it or take down the phone line. Shit was crazy

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u/HastilyThrownObject 11h ago

Oh I loved that time frame when we finally got high speed. I was a sophmore and only me and my buddy down the street were the only people with broadband in the neighborhood for like 6 months so download speeds were so fast. My dad also got a new computer with a CD writer on it. I learned my neighbor hood buddy with broadband also had a CDR as well so me and him went around our school taking playlist requests and would then go home and download songs off Napster and then rip playlists and sell them the next day, sharing the profits. Sold CDs for $8 a piece for a mix or $11 for an artists album(it was tougher to get an entire album of Napster than just popular songs)

We seriously made like $700 in a few weeks. About halfway through that school year, 4 other kids got high speed and CD burners too and most people stopped buying CDs from any of us

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u/BloodPharts88 9h ago

And then there was me...who was looking up dbz porn as a youngin' in the late 90s lmao

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u/addamee 15h ago

Same. I played an air combat sim back in the day and it was free (provided you had an AOL subscription). The day they began charging for the game as well felt like a slow knife in my young heart

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u/rbrgr83 14h ago

Can I offer you a free coaster in these trying times? 💿

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u/Frequent_Opportunist 11h ago

I miss getting the diskettes in the mail.

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u/GrassyDaytime 10h ago

Yeah, also takes me back to the earliest forms of non-contract pre-paid cell phones. shudders

They were like... 1$ a minute or something? Lmfao

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u/AngriestInchworm 23m ago

The SpongeBob millennials made that into music.

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u/almostoy PC 16h ago

I had an actual local ISP at that time. I walked into their office and handed them cash. Then, we'd tie an onion to our belts and yell at clouds. T'ain't got no right, bein' cloudy as they are, clouds....

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u/justagoddamnperson 13h ago

As was the style at the time

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u/almostoy PC 8h ago

Yes. I actually did pay my ISP in cash. They were that local. Dial up.