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I'm a big fan of Amazon myself already, and I'm getting the game from there (although if there was a better price available, there are plenty of places I'd prefer to that and get faster pre-order delivery from, like simplygames, tesco, shopto) but I have little experience of Nintendo for release date delivery. Actually... that might not be true. I think I got my New 3DS XL from there, maybe I should scour this very forum to remind myself whether that arrived in good time

Oh. I see this is the no fun allowed thread. My mistake.

Stock's trickling back in for this machine. Is Amazon, or anyone else, more likely to get you a device on release day than Nintendo? Thinking of switching (that's gonna get old soon) my order.

Haha @Aneres11 when I bought a 4k TV for work, the first thing I did was search youtube for 4k video and watch that same video Makes you feel good about the purchase eh?

"first party" is no longer a guarantee of quality to me. To be honest when you say "the first 10 months" you're only further undermining the argument, because realistically, from a consumer's perspective that is an incredibly long time. You're talking some of those games not being available until after Christmas, and suggesting it's a good start on that basis? Any one of those could be pushed back a long way, or simply be very underwhelming. A dozen good games from any source in the first couple of months would vastly outweigh that for me. I really love the look of this little machine, and its potential. I have one pre-ordered and when it arrives, I'll have it alongside owning every other Nintendo console. But... I've only got it because of Zelda. And I won't be suckered by them for much longer. If something like a proper Metroid game isn't announced at E3, I'll probably sell it (and by then, still only have the Switch and Zelda) and that may be when I give up on Nintendo for good.

I feel like you might appreciate the visuals and gameplay more when you have it in your hands. If it does it right, and captures how BK etc felt, you'll come to appreciate it. Iirc you did not play BK, which had similar cartoony, blocky graphics which in a way were simplistic, and to observe someone playing it, it looked very basic. But when you were actually in those sprawling worlds, making use of tight controls and exacting some creative problem solving, it all came together and created a wonderful, vibrant cartoony world that was very well designed, funny, atmospheric, well thought out and a joy to play. Of course, there's no guarantee that it'll recapture that old magic, it's been a long time and a lot has changed. We'll have to wait and see.

A car battery? No, no. You put an electric charcoal fire starter on it so it heats up and he burns his hand. Bonus points if there's a big letter on the door handle that permanently brands him. Also, glue his lock? No. Glue his whole self, then cover him in feathers using a fan! If this doesn't work you can always throw bricks at his face from the roof of your building.

^ what's actually wrong with that screenshot anyway? I mean, ignoring the fact it's low res and been stretched up to 1920x1080. It's hard to even tell what's going on, there's bloom, transparency and particle effects happening and bouncing towards the screen, the character is mid-animation, the characters seem to have an intentionally blocky/square design presumably relative to their position in the game, and the squares etc are likely to look a lot better when animated. Feels like a frame has been taken way out of context and judged really pointlessly. It's like if you were to take this frame: And then claim that the art for Aladdin looks terrible

There was always a back-up option, but in my experience it was unreliable and just easier to redownload....

I signed up for the beta but didn't get an invite to download, disappointed really as I would like those custom wallpapers.

More likely they wanted to try and prevent piracy and exploits by keeping an entry-point closed. The drive inside it is a very standard 2.5" laptop drive with ordinary sata connectors. You can slot a replacement 2TB drive in yourself, or even have an extension cable coming out the back and connect any HDD at all. If they wanted to make people pay to upgrade, they would've used something proprietary.

Get her Stardew Valley! Just sunk my 100th hour into that.

How about a Chromebook

I really can't stand macOS. What used to be strides ahead in terms of intuitiveness and design now feels like it's the Facebook apps of operating systems. Things like being constantly nagged about updating the OS, with the only option being to update or be reminded again tomorrow.... A macbook is also a fairly low spec machine (relatively) at a very high premium because you're paying for that shiny shell and glowing logo. Of course there are places where it stands out, quality screen, decent build, great touchpad. But I honestly think they're, by quite a stretch, an issue of style over substance.

Continuing the trend of admitting how old most of us are getting, a thread about savings, investments and monies! Anyone consider themselves especially savvy in this department? Anyone willing to offer advice? For example, I've recently been considering filtering a chunk of savings into a Stocks & Shares ISA, but I don't know enough about the market to know where to start or what you can trust! When I bought a house, one of the best things I did was get a Help to Buy ISA. If you're even slightly considering a house, you should get one of these ASAP! Or, if you have a bit more money and a bit more time, there's the LISA (Lifetime ISA) which can be used for a bonus either towards a house deposit, or withdrawn when you're 60 for a bonus. Nobody needs to talk about their salaries or anything, but with what you do have, are you smart with your finances? Do you bother budgeting, do you save at all, or are you blowing your paycheck every month? There's also the concept of FIRE which I believe has been discussed before. Financial Independence / Retire Early (may be paraphrasing, don't remember it exactly). The idea of that is to live frugally and save/invest smartly to reach a magic number so you can retire early. @Mr_Odwin I believer has talked about it here. Something I've never touched on at all is actual, proper investment, as in, monitoring the market and buying and selling. It's a lot like gambling, and takes expertise I'll never have. But does anyone here dabble? Doesn't @ReZourceman work advising in this department? And to close on a bit of advice from myself, despite knowing next to nothing, I understand that if you can get a pension, you should max out your employer contributions! That's what I'm doing now that the company I work for has grown big enough to be required by the government to offer a pension at all.

Hey Paj, been a long time! Is "where do I stand?" more than a rhetorical question? Difficult to say without the ins and out and the hows and whys. Nice to see you back

They would have to give just the smallest indication of how soon it might be out on Switch, for me to consider switching (...) to that platform, otherwise keeping my original PS4 backing and getting it asap is definitely the most attractive idea.

Impossible to say since we don't know enough about it, but it definitely doesn't have to be, the app could use an api like the Playstation app, which knows what game you're playing and manages messages without connecting to the console at all.

I use siri for a countdown, alarm, or reminder, but anything else I just feel a bit silly. Having experienced both your accents first-hand, I'm finding something hard to believe here :p

I've heard some bad things about it! Like it gets very difficult single player (but doesnt have online multiplayer) to the point you have to grind to level up to make further progress.

Is it just me or does this look kinda graphically dated? The main character's hair and facial textures etc. feel like they look no better than ME3. That said, watched 10 seconds of the trailer muted just to see if they moved away from the CoD vibe and it's certainly looking better as long as I can make my custom FemRyder look nothing like that bland cookie-cutter hero....

I think people using their phone browser are probably doing a lot of pinching and zooming to make it functional. Which is probably just showing a lack of awareness of how much better it could be :p

How about some nice artwork for the wall, a framed poster or print.

In an ideal world, we'd move to a new forum software that's a bit more mobile friendly/responsive. It's certainly a possibility, although limited by the size of our existing content and peoples' free time.

I don't think being very critical of TV and Movies is the same as hating them/not watching them. I'm sure some communication is the answer here, just point out that constantly being overly critical of things doesn't make for an enjoyable atmosphere. If the other options are to be miserable and put up with it, or break it off, you have nothing to lose. Pretty sure my ex disliked a lot about me for a long time and instead of talking to me about it, it just made us grow apart. In my current relationship we've already both openly mentioned dumb things the other one says or does and its very healthy. It's not about "changing" someone but about that person realising some of the things they say or do are probably automated and that everyone can live without them.