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I need a new laptop cos mine fried its fan randomly last year and I have been ooerwting exclusively from my ohone since but a computer would be really smart and wise in order to get my life back on track etc. I am not yet buying one.

Are you guys Switching? I'm on PS4 but given the accounts and crossplay enabled I presume there may be ways to party even cross platform? Have downloaded on Switch as well anyway tho 😅 Really loving it. Usually BRs frustrate me but something about the big battle action in this makes it a bit less so. I can see more depth than I'm actually percieving/looking at at the moment but that's just a bit of more to look forward to. Mostly just been doing squads mode with crossplay on so far; my MMR or the players are definitely balancing out and it isn't the cake it felt like before; but I'm enjoyijng it! Have annoyingly had a couple times where teammates were either stupid or trolling and blasting me but also had a few cool squads and wins. Endgame small circle stuff can be very fun.

So I was randomly hitting up @DriftKaiser and he told me about this interesting new offering. F2P; basically a pewpew wizard battle royale. Only had a few games so far and its felt a bit empty/unchallenging but I have died a few times too! Battle has been fun when it's actually occured too. Anyone else out there been playing? I'm on PS4 with cross-play turned off but if it doesn't pick up too much I may see how it goes with it on. Edit: article from Kotaku for context; https://kotaku.com/spellbreak-is-avatar-the-last-airbender-the-battle-ro-1844999545

tbh for the all-stars angle that would actually be far slicker! maybe less rewarding for some though -.-

Galaxy 2 :p?

Ah yeah I can take that actually - though I wasn't actually meaning to imply that extreme(again my focus was more just on sm64ds +30stars extra content anf characters/gameplay options - poss even put in BOTH* versions just utilising same assets?) for me. It would be curious though even with that - what if they DID standardise the assets and looks and slickened them together to a similar style(there was still between title differences even within all stars snes)?? Like...imagine a physics* perfect like gameplay the same SM64 but looking as beautiful as Galaxy? Man. THAT on a limited run might get me interested - just for novelty tho really; I still prefer gameplay over graphics if given the choice but Galaxy did certainly feel pretty when I played it. *i realise there are no doubt physics differences between the DS and 64 versions that could be used to wedge this argument; but I hope the idea came across

Mod note:Just to say I didn't clock this little bit of an exchange when I posted yesterday. @Sheikah I can see where Jonnas is coming from but also I can see it was from you to DCubed and so I'll leave it up to you two there as sometimes member-to-member context can be lost to others(as recently with me and Goafer to some). To pretend that the quoted statement wasn't reading baity and confrontational would be a lie - but snippets and context etc. I have edited a part of your post reply in that - as ever any discussions folks wish to have with me on this feel free to PM public wall etcetc. Not here in thread.

My absolute counter to this would to be to compare it to its presumably original namesake of Mario All-Stars?

Out of interest are there any folks here with an interest in Asimov? I need to read much more but I low-key fell in love with him a few years back after hearing/reading some quotes of his and then read about him a bit more. The Complete Robot is a fantastic collection of Short Stories made imo even more remarkable to read now as we can contrast this world to the way it was back then when he wrote the stories - we've seen the impact of even just the idea of the Three Laws of Robotics alone. Srs legend of a mind. Also fanboyed over Sagan lol.

Except you clearly know and can comprehend this wasn't even the point. It was a point about why not utilising the extra content they already have and have created for this game previously ala the DS version with 30 extra stars.

Yeah I suspect as much myself(almost making it lazier and worse really) - my point is they COULD have made the effort to do otherwise

I mean this isn't likely for me as whilst I enjoyed Sunshine and Galaxy I don't have much hankering to play them again. I hadn't considered the DS Mario 64 ofc and I gotta agree - why not take that and update assets etc? Puts me off more(tho as said wasn't too fussed already).

Do Do DOOO! You'll love it. Maybe even read it before you re-read the others; theres some nods between but Pullman remains subtle as ever imo. Look for Hannah.

NO! I didn't watch that film(read books well before) and I heard it was bad and they did weird things ans urrggghhh. Read the books tho! Honestly super good! THEN watch(after you've read all three) the recent BBC/US series collboaration starring the immensely amazing Daphne Keen. Who reads the audiobooks(i dont do audiobooks)? I can tell you many things about the series - including its ACCURATE misnaming in foreign territories as 'The Golden Compass' (it isnt actually to do with the navigational compass looking object featured in the series). Some of its symbology and layers convinces me that Pullman studied some very deep and esoteric things in his time. Second to that for anyone who HAS read HDM - I read La Belle Sauvage eaelier this year(first in a trilogy of prequels) and was sufficiently if not even more impressed. Slightly different ideas and tones but some really fucking great shit. Weird part of it is also basically a basic counterintelligence manual lol. Not read the newer one yet tho.

His Dark Materials. That is all. (srsly tho probs my fave trilogy/book series of all time i only grow to love it more as I age :p)

Someone forgets who whispered so many into the forums for just such a thing back in the day (and cheezo even came to a meetup or two wheres your excuse! ;p)

Are there any approval sanctions on new signups or verfications they need to do? @cheezopath should be a recent account signing up to join Smeagol's mafia but word is that they currently cannot post?

I have at least one more signup I think! they cannot post atm tho.

Really?? I bought it like a few months ago for....well I can't remember what was off. Maybe it was in the Summer Sale? I didn't get the DLC at the time(and tbh I haven't fully finished the Game but I probs slowly will over time before I touch DLC just cos its Spidey and Lore but I can see how lesser fans tire of it). I was sure I saw something else related to cut on store quite recently but I imagine it would have been DLC - strange if they wouldn't cut base with DLC again tho.

Does anyone actually play PUBG on PS4? What's it gonna be doing fot me compared to Fortnite or Apex Legends? I'd like to check it out but I foresee quick boredom without crewing up(losing's only fun when you spend time doing it with your loser friends :p)

I was waiting for someone to say this too - but what is best is that you said the all important also I think its both and the Oz story is a perfect way yo undertake both whilst ignoring the more controversial story of the two. One can be dealt with politically - and oh boy did they go political. Apparentl FB broke new first to NYT but IN AMERICA - so they gave jump on story to US media before anything in Oz so you can see caclculated agendas here not single pronged responses. I also find it a weird self-harming reaction for facebook to cut a market - so why? whats worth more to them? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/kenosha-militia-facebook-reported-455-times-moderators

Well. I dunno how I became fucking psychic yesterday but look whos just changing their terms and the reasoning why(this is imo to do with the Kenosha shooting);

Which other forums do you frequent? Tho on point I do think there is an aspect of falling back to these areas tho - especially amongst out generations. As you say the pace is different to the immediacy of social media and that pace is basically commericialised and controlled - and people are getting fed up with that. Imagine we ran this whole place on facebook for example. With one small tiby click of a button afew things going wrong etcetc we are a platform ON a platform somebody who knows fuck all about us could shut us down in and instant - no fallback. I think with time 'facebook'* will decay and maybe forums will jump back into the mix again too but there's something fundamental in the way that forums exist(even tho hosted and it can all go down) in the way even of internet archive machines or even the site admins/backups etc that it can continue to survive in a way we all know it cannot neccessarily do so on other platforms. *not zuckerberg. nor the corporation. they're well prepped for what to do next after their inevitable downfall imo they just stall as long as possible.

I'm with you on this man. Retards spastics hnnng noises etcetc we all did it and I did too. Hell...I was probably back in the darker less public annals om the internet at soke point poking fun at Lizzie Velasquez and 'no-chin girl' because I was a fucking retarded little shitstain. Then I grew up. And remembered that the internet does not divorce us from humans nor our humanity. I posted the above because despite being brown and hating racism - there's some about disablism(as it were dont @ me) that fucking infuriates me to no end. It's like picking on a fucking blind kid and I swear to God if I ever see somebody do shit like that I'm full on ready to make them touch ground. I worried I was being algorithmised sensationalisms when I saw it and it wasnt a thing but it seems it is(but small and passing as trends and memes always be) but its got such a dirty sinsiter feeling underneath it I hate it. Then I also realise I was seeing it from a wheelchair cosplayer I randomly follow on FB so I imagine her agenda too is not one for division per se(and indeed you see the message of these people despite all their suffering is one of betterment and unity). And I guess I post it to ask - where IS the difference between racism and that; in essence or crux??

I still got some responses to make to a few of the last few posts in the thread just haven't got round to it yet but I will(about to pop put). Also whilst I never edited the title I want to post this here because I think its something relevant to consider in ideas of discrimination or othering - but I'm curious to see how people feel about it on the whole if they are happy to offer opinions; https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/08/9987054/new-teacher-challenge