Anything: Series, video game, book, food, old toy from childhood, service, etc. Also, any series which you wish did not end, etc.
headphone jacks in phones
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?
Yeah I have to use an adapter now
Just servicability in consumer goods in general.
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.
This depended on the phone. The HTC One M8, for instance, had a surprisingly good built-in DAC.
Well that’s great because you could still do that even if they included a jack.
But I would never use it and it would just collect dust and pocket lint 👎
Mandatory Firefly comment
Every time somebody mentions Firefly I automatically think of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Bruce Campbell in a steampunk cowboy romp across the old west?
That show ended way too soon.
Dark Matter (the SyFy show), it was just getting good!
I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t take the original series from me.
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.
There’s talk of a reboot, and that’s not what anyone wanted at all…
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.
I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.
As long as we’re on cancelled sci-fi shows, Babylon 5 spinoffs. The entire setting is more or less dead and it hurts.
(Yes, I know about The Road Home. It’s not the same.)
Problem with that is that almost everyone who was interesting is dead. Actor wise.
Yep. (Mira Furlan was a real punch in the gut, particularly.)
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.
Inside Job. Canceling a series when there’s a cliffhanger should be illegal!
Also, Windows Mixed Reality, my VR headset is going to become a paperweight when I’ll be forced to migrate off Windows 10 in a year.
Upset about both of those too.
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 =\
Then migrate to Linux and see if there are devs working on open source drivers
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!
Microsoft will take a blowtorch to the project and products before making it open source so expect nothing there
So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.
But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.
Oh yeah I could not get enough of that show
VR trolley problem video game based on the good place.
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
Light pickup trucks.
Not “technically” discontinued, but almost
Buying products and owning them.
Buying products and getting full repair manuals and electrical schematics
Cathode ray tubes
Overbuilt refrigerators and washing machines
Clothes that last and are repairable
Houses built with full bricks and iron with actual straight walls and unbroken woodwork
Scavengers Reign
Noooooooo, why??? I didn’t know they cancelled it. That’s horrible.
I didn’t know either. Such a strange and unusual show - I haven’t seen anything quite like it.
It’s always the unique, experimental stuff that gets cancelled :(
It just didn’t reach the financial goals, I think. Last i checked they’re investigating alternative funding.
Travelers TV Show. Doesn’t even need the original actors, its perfect scenario for a reboot with different characters.
The Expanse. I mean come on, there still so much book material left… 🙄
And SD Card slots, god damnit. I don’t wanna spend +$500 more just for 1tb storage, a 1tb sd card is like $100. Fuck these greedy corporations.
I get so petty about this that I got an A series samsung phone instead of the S series, just for the sd card slot.
A super niche one: the 2000s show “John Doe”
A guy wakes up with amnesia and doesn’t know who he is
But he basically knows everything else.
Weird mystery that ended on a cliffhanger and basically no questions answered (although the show creator later revealed the later plans and plot)
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.
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.
I’ve been on an emulator kick recently and hoo boy, F-Zero X is probably my favorite title on the N64. I adore my mean high speed bumper cars
Santa Clarita Diet.
Just needed one more season to wrap things up. Damn you Netflix
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)
Awww, thanks for telling me, but… FUCK. I didn’t know any of that. I need a drink.
I need a blunt.
I have a few:
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.
Never heard of Pepsi Blue but I remember Crystal Pepsi
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.
I remember pepsi blue existing but I don’t remember ever wanting to buy it. I did probably try it at some point, but neither of the restaurants I worked at during those years carried it.
Also the limited time Dr Pepper Dark Berry for Jurrasic World. Closest thing. When that came out I looked up sodas/colas that were berry flavored and discovered Pepsi Blue.
idk if it’s the same thing but in the UK we had a limited run of “electric” pepsi a few months ago that was dyed blue, everyone I know assumed they were just trying to shift a bad batch as a limited edition drink.
Was t crystal Pepsi just reg but clear. Did it taste different?
Tastes the exact same as regular Pepsi if I remember correctly
Same, IIRC.
I remember it tasting just like Pepsi, but it was a little less syrupy in it’s consistency. I loved the stuff as a kid.
Pitch Black was my jam!
I prefer the original over Pitch Black II. But both are great. PBII tastes more like Baja Blast. The original was a lot more sour.
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.
Surge soda. They bring it back every once in a while but the demand isn’t there.
bk had it in their freestyle fountains, but the ones around here went back to normal ones and they don’t have it.
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.
I tried one can.
I had no idea that was actually a real thing
