Eddage

Okay, I unpaired his console through my account online and can now load them onto my Switch. So it obviously locked me out because he must've tried to play one my games downloaded to his Switch and loaded the virtual game card. This then meant my PRIMARY Swicth couldn't load a game without pairing localy. Why the fuck would it it let him load one of MY GAMES to his Switch and then lock the PRIMARY CONSOLE out from playing ALL games. Fucking Nintendo, that's why... 🙄

I have a family plan online subscription, but my nephew's Switch was a brand new one he got a few years ago. At one point I set it up as my primary so he could play Mario Kart without having to buy it but I changed it back to my console being the primary about 6 months ago. I know that worked because it no longer had to check if the software can be played when starting a game. I've gone into my Nintendo account and it says virtual game cards "can be loaded" next to my nephew's but mine says "not paired". I'm wondering if my nephew has loaded one onto his Switch which has locked it out of mine without pairing the consoles. But surely they would only let you load a virtual game card onto the primary Switch... right?!

What the fuck is going in with this virtual game card shit?! I've just turned on my Switch for the first time in a while and updated and it won't let me play any of my games without loading a virtual game card. It says "In order to load virtual game cards to this console, it will need to be paired with Eddage's console, shown below".... the console it shows is my nephew's??!! In my account settings it says "This console" in the 'Pass-enabled console" and this was my primary Switch before the update, so why do I need to link to my nephew's Switch??!!

It’s rewardgateway.com, but this just takes you to the B2B website selling the platform to employers. For the Aviva version (and presumably other employers) you need to register with your payroll number.

Says they've sold out now. Just got an email from ShopTo as well saying I wouldn't get one at launch, I hope my Smyths order is good!

I work for Aviva which has an employment benefit giving access to a website that gives discounts for different retailers. For example, LG which meant I saved nearly a grand on an LG G3 OLED. I even just get 8% of eShop purchases and 5% on PSN. The Argos discounts are actually a discount on a Love2shop card and top ups, so can be used at other retailers.

Damn, you have to pay for it upfront with Argos... Oh well, no extra discount then. Save £110 on my PS5 Pro last weekend though so can't complain 😅

I’m lucky that my job has had overtime for about a year now and it’ll last for the foreseeable future. Means I can immediately have enough money left over from one month’s pay! Already preorderd with Smyths but want to get one with Argos as I can get a discount through work.

Saw Captain America yesterday. I’d say it’s one you can wait for streaming if you were undecided about seeing it right away. I quite liked it, but it’s mid-tier MCU for me at best. I liked it more than Cap 1, but I really didn’t like the first as much as most people!

Now to sit back and watch every single person who's ever said we should get rid of VAR scream and complain about how Man United scored an offside winner in the last minute... I'm a United fan but also firmly pro-VAR. Goal shouldn't have counted but hey ho, becuase VAR isn't used in the early rounds it did.

Ticket to see Brandi Carlile at the Royal Albert Hall. I only learnt she and her band existed about 6 months ago through a friend at work but pretty much fell in love instantly. So happy they're touring the UK and I get to go see them

Godammit, I've literally just finished playing this for the first time and I'm a sucker for remasters 😆

I think The Digital Foundry reaction touched on this nicely... Usually consoles are sold at a loss and the money is made on software sales, the Pro doesn't look like it's doing this though and they're looking to make a profit purely on the console itself. I guess that kind of makes sense when you consider that it's likely going to be people upgrading from the original PS5 so it's not really going to drive any new software sales like a new generation would, price still sucks though. I would like to think that for the PS6 it'll be the more traditional approach of selling at a loss so in theory could be cheaper, I don't think they'd be able to get away with it for a brand new generation when there's eventually going to PS6 only games. God knows what the market is going to look like in another 4 years or so though. 🤷‍♂️

Well this is pretty crucial though isn’t it… IF you already have a PC you can get a better graphics card for the £700. That’s a pretty big if!! If you don’t already have a PC, or aren’t particularly comfortable with building and upgrading your own then that’s a huge blocker. Yes you can buy a pre built but they’ll never be the best value and then you still have to worry about upgrading in the future. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to justify the price, I’m just saying that everyone going on about how you might as well just switch to PC gaming is blowing things out of proportion as that’s just not an option for a lot of people. Will I buy a Pro…? Before the price announcement I was definitely gonna get one, now I’m not so sure. Let’s see how much overtime I can get in the next couple of months 😂 One thing I will say though is that taking Forbidden West off PlayStation Plus is fucking stupid when it’s one of the games being updated for the Pro. They’re already releasing an extremely expensive console, then expecting people to pay full price (?) for one of the showcase games. I reckon if that, and a couple of the other games, were available on PS Plus then it might sway more people to pick up the Pro if they can immediately access these updated versions.

Whilst this is defo extremely expensive everyone saying you might as well get a PC is seriously exaggerating things. A decent GPU will cost nearly as much as this console and it’s not like you can just plug a GPU into a monitor 😂 Once you factor in a case, motherboard, CPU, RAM, PSU, storage, etc then you’re not far off spending double for similar performance. One thing that people also forget is you get a very high quality controller as well which you’d have to add to your PC build price. Yes, you may already have a PC, so could just get a new GPU, but then you have to consider if you’re going to bottlenecked by your current CPU, etc. Linus Tech Tips did a good video about this for the current PS5. Had to buy second hand components and then the results more or less just matched the PS5 performance...

Wasn’t it written like Infinity War and Endgame, so essentially one story split into two? That’s the only reason there was originally only going to be a year between releases. Obviously it was delayed due to more time needed to actually animate the damn thing but to think that it could mostly be scrapped for “creative reasons” seems entirely unbelievable, when it must have been more or less set in stone. Then again this is Sony…

I am still tempted, I told a friend I was gonna get one and then I’d sell my PS5 to them since they’re still on the 4! But at £700 it is seriously pushing it!

$699 is less than £550, getting absolutely shafted over here!

The Switch was revealed in October 2016 and launched March 2017, there was less than 5 months between reveal and launch. A reveal this month and release in March is clearly possible. Not saying it will happen but the past has proven it’s not a timeframe that’s “too tight”.

Is there any update on getting spoiler tags working?

I don't know how to feel about The Acolyte. I thought both flash back episodes and the episode where they're just walking through a forest looking for Kalnacca were awful, just so boring! However, I thought Qimir was a great character and some of the fights were incredible. One thing that annoyed me a bit was in the final fight when Sol cut the end of Qimir's light saber... Your sabre splits in 2 dude, just use the other half 😆

Yeah, that's really not how it works... If you set up your card to use Apple Pay then it doesn't actually store the details in a way that can be viewed. If the person who steals your phone can even get into it then they can't actually see your details, for example in Apple Wallet it literally just shows the last 4 digits of the card you've set up. Someone stealing your wallet and getting your physical card is a lot more dangerous! Are you saying you have no apps on your phone that hold any sort of personal data that could be used against you? As for the cash vs card debate... If it was just notes I wouldn't mind but change is evil. Literally the only time these days I would use cash is if I was buying something off Facebook Marketplace or had to buy a plumber/builder/other tradesperson and they asked for cash. Cash is so much more convenient - self serve checkouts are a blessing, the less human contact I have to have the better! I don't carry a wallet with me most of the time, just use Apple Pay for most things and my phone case has a couple of card slots on the back so I always have my buss pass and debit card on me for the rare occasion I can't just pay with my phone, although I honestly can't remember the last time that happened.

I honestly thought Ryan Reynolds would be the one person I could trust. Especially with the trailer being on his channel. Obviously Disney can do what they like, but Reynolds definitely has some pretty serious power when it comes to the Deadpool movies. Some people may not care about the spoiler, it isn't a major plot detail and it's something I was 75% sure was going to happen (or at least wanted it to happen). But it would've been one of those rare moments where I would have absolutely popped off seeing it happen in the cinema, without knowing for sure beforehand.

IF YOU'RE ALREADY GOING TO SEE DEADPOOL THEN DO NOT WATCH THAT TRAILER. IT'S GOT A PRETTY HUGE SPOILER AND I'M SO FUCKING MAD!

I think they'll have plenty of people for the next Avenger's films. They've already got a lot of established characters still kicking about that can return, new characters already introduce and characters scheduled before Avengers.. From previous Avengers films... Spider-man Hulk Thor Hawkeye Doctor Strange Captain America (Sam Wilson) Wong Antman Starlord Captain Marvel Loki Black Panther (Shuri) Already introduced in Phase 4/5... Shang Chi America Chavez Kate Bishop Stature (Cassie Lang) Photon (Maria Rambeau) Ms. Marvel She-Hulk Will be introduced before next Avengers... Deadpool (already known from Fox Universe) Wolverine (already known from Fox Universe) Falcon (Joaquín Torres, was in Falcon and the Winter Soldier but will be properly introduced as new Falcon in Brave New World) Daredevil (already known from Netflix shows, Born Again releases before) Fantastic 4 Blade (lol) And that's just focusing on the heros, we're going to get a collection of bad guys appearing as well. So I think there's just as many new characters that can be used as there are characters from the previous Avengers films. Then with it being Secret Wars we can expect multiverse versions of characters. So we'll probably have more than one Spider-man, some of the old X-Men (other than Wolverine), etc that are already established in their own universes. Honestly I think there's too many characters to choose from! The only thing missing for me at the moment is that we haven't been building up to the antagonist of these films, or at least we had been but then Jonathon Majors screwed all that up! So it might be that Dr Doom is hastily introduced in the Fantsatic 4 and then he creates Battleworld for the Secret Wars films.