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  1. Playstation 5 Console Discussion

    Genius by Microsoft. Announce a new/cheaper console for the opposition. Everyone is excited. Get them to come out and deny it. Everyone gets annoyed at Sony for cancelling the new console.
  2. Attack_on_Titan_final_copy_final_this_one_FINAL.docx
  3. Pikmin 4

    Sounds like a standard Nintendo game.
  4. The death of Twitter

    One theory is that the bill for their cloud services use kicked on the 1st July, and they couldn't pay it, and they were frantically trying to transfer everything from Google over onto their own servers, but couldn't get it done in time, so the whole website fell over.
  5. So I found and downloaded the MP3 of this song for some reminiscing. It's still an absolute banger. Put it on at bathtime and my 2 year old was dancing around the room in his nappy. He obviously recognises quality.
  6. Marvel's Phase 5

    Secret Invasion Ep 2
  7. Marvel's Phase 5

    Anybody watched the first episode of Secret Invasion?
  8. Even better, they announce Metroid Prime 5, and then act like they already released 4 but everyone missed it.
  9. Pikmin 4

    The word you're looking for is gleaned.
  10. The Android Thread

    I ended up buying the Pixel 7a. I preferred almost everything about the Samsung Galaxy A54, except for....the phone apparently doesn't lay flat on a table because the camera lenses protrude out on one side only, so the phone wobbles around. That may seem like a tiny thing, but i often will lay my phone plat on the desk in front of me, and I don't see how that wouldn't make it unusable in that state. Such a weird design choice. Anyway, my Pixel arrived, and it's pretty good so far. Obviously i've yet to fill it up with much, so the tiny amount of storage isn't an issue yet. The camera is fastastic of course. I'm a sucker for a slo-mo video, and the slo-mo on this thing is incredible!
  11. Final Fantasy XVI (22nd June 2023)

    That you're a massive nerd?
  12. I Was Saying Boo-ris!

    They revised it to add a bit about him commenting on it, which he wasn't supposed to do.
  13. I Was Saying Boo-ris!

    Somehow, Boris returned.
  14. Looks very pretty, even if it is supposedly just Far Cry with an Avatar skin on it. Flying the dragon thingies has the potential to be an awesome experience though, hopefully they nail that.
  15. The Star Wars Thread

    Also, they fly now.
  16. Football Season 2022/23

    If it wasn't about money - why wouldn't he go to Barcelona for free? If he had had enough of playing at a high level, why not retire completely? Why bother signing with a team who are basically at a League 2 level, who according to their GK, only have a temporary stadium with no security. The whole thing is very weird. It's like something out of a game of Football Manager.
  17. Football Season 2022/23

    There are rumours that Messi might be going to....Inter Miami?! What the fuck? Apparently it's some sort of deal like the one Beckham had where he gets the opportunity to buy a franchise afterwards or something, but the whole thing is just too bizarre imo. One of the best players currently playing (a contender for another Balon D'or) going and playing in the MLS? It's such a wet fart ending to his career, it's so strange.
  18. The Android Thread

    Yeah but then all your data and secrets go to the Chinese government, rather than Google or Apple. No thank you!
  19. The Android Thread

    I did look at the 7a - I like how small it is, and Google products are generally quite swish. However, I don't really like the look of the back, and it doesn't have an expandable memory slot, and only has 128GB of storage? That's less than i have/use now, so it would be a bit of a downgrade.
  20. The Android Thread

    Currently looking for a new phone (the power button fell off my Moto, amongst other things, maybe @drahkon had a point), and the current state of mobile phones is a bit weird. They are all essentially identical now. Sure, you get a bit more brightness with this one, and a few more RAMS with this one, but for day to day use, it doesn't matter all that much. I get that there is more of a difference between a £1500 phone and a £200 one, but for phones in the same price range....you could pick one at random and it would be fine? Trying to look for daylight between the various models, but all the reviews are full of weird fanboys in the comment section saying how this chipset is absolutely trash, or a 25W charger is an embarrassment and you'd be a fool to get this one etc. I think I might settle on the Samsung A54, but I will probably seek one out in the flesh before I buy, as it's a bit larger than phones i've owned previously, so I want to make sure it doesn't make me feel like a tiny-handed twat.
  21. Job woes/wins

    I don't think there's anyone out there that truly enjoys their job. If anyone says they do - I don't trust them.
  22. The Star Wars Thread

    I know I am easily confused, but I do probably represent the casual fan who doesn't study every scene or know what the hell BBY or whatever means (I didn't before your post). What I think further muddies the waters is that there isn't really any proper distinction between the various eras. The prequels are easy to discern, because everything looks kind of new, and you have the droids Vs humans etc. But then after that you get the rebels Vs the empire/stormtroopers, and everything turns grungy and brown. But then even when the empire is defeated, you get an identical fascist 'empire' pop up, who also use stormtroopers, and you have the rebels rebelling, and everything kind of looks the same. So there's just always an oppressive regime, and there are always rebels, and the shows (and games) could really be happening at any point on the timeline after the prequels and it wouldn't make much difference.
  23. The Star Wars Thread

    I recently resubbed to Disney+ to watch Ant Man 3, so I had access to the rest of The Mandalorian S3. I enjoyed it. It was better than Season 2 in my opinion, which relied too much on cameos from Luke etc. I like the simpler standalone episodes like the one on the plant with the robot uprising, and it looks like Season 4 is going to be more of that, with Mando and Grogu getting bounty contracts from Appa. Good to see Grogu finally getting to use the Force more, although I'm sad he lost his cool robot body. I thought that would be his new form moving forward. One thing that I realised about all the new Star Wars shows that I find a bit confusing, is how they just around the timeline quite a bit. Obviously the prequels are fairly distinct, but all the other shows and films tend to jump around and it's not immediately obvious where each one appears in the timeline? For example, is Andor happening at the same time as Mandalorian? Is all the stuff happening on Coruscant at the same time? I find it really hard to place it all.
  24. General TV Thread

    Finished watching The Marvellous Mrs Maisel on Prime. It was ok. We watched the first 3 seasons before the pandemic, and then hadn't realised that they'd done another 2, so we binged the rest in a few weeks. I like a lot of the side characters (the dad and Suzie were great) but where it falls down imo is that Mrs Maisel herself is just so unlikeable. And she keeps torpedoing her own career by being unable to shut her own damn mouth again and again. Almost every episode in the latter few seasons, she has a 'big break', but near the end of the episode she insults the boss, or breaks the rules etc, and then gets fired. It's just so annoying. I guess it's because she wants to get to the top her own way, without a filter yada yada, but its so frustrating to watch. Anyway, the final episode is actually really well done and satisfying in tying up all the loose ends and showing what happens in the future. I would give the whole thing a 7.5/10.
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