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That’s exciting @Ashley! What a pain. At least you know about it now rather than finding out after moving in. If you really wanted the place it would be a good way of getting some money off but if they’re having to do that it suggests it’s not particularly well managed and you’d probably have to expect more issues to cover later on. Where are you looking at buying?

I’m about half way through the WrestleMania IX documentary and loving it so far. Unfortunately I’m away from home this weekend so it will have to wait until next week to finish it off. My money is on Cena to win this, with a good amount of heel interference. I think they go with a real screw over of Cody and Cena walks off into the sunset with the belt, then the story to Summerslam is Cody’s mission to get it back. Similar to you, I don’t see what they do with Cena if he doesn’t win and he’s been so good as a heel I think there is an awesome story if he does get the belt. I hope they go with a Jey win but I have a feeling in the back of my head they won’t. I think my money is still on Jey winning but I really don’t feel too confident on it. Aside from the previous two I think the stuff I’m most looking forward to is: Jade Cargill vs. Naomi I’ve never been a big fan of Naomi but I really like Jade. Not sure this will actually be this great but for whatever reason I’m looking forward to it. Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins Probably the obvious one. The CM Punk / Seth build up was amazing at points over the last few months. Roman could be removed without losing too much but I think this will be a great match and should be some interesting story coming out of this. Women's World Championship Triple Threat: Iyo Sky (c) vs. Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley Another one thats been quite fun to watch the build up and all three are great. The way things have been going I feel like Iyo will win then she can go off and do other stuff while Bianca and Rhea keep on feeding for a bit. Looking forward to it but I think I’ll definitely be watching the morning after rather than staying up.

For all its faults I actually love Wrestlemania IX, probably more due to my age/ability to watch wrestling at the time - the documentary sounds super interesting - going to try and give it a watch.

I had no idea where Bedford was, turns out its close enough to make a season pass viable. Got to imagine they'll include it, surely??

Same here, I think that controller and a case will be the only extras I buy.

Glad Argos are offering more orders, should mean mine from last week is secure for day 1.

I think the main thing is to support local as much as possible. Particularly with tech we’ve sort of allowed American companies to own everything about our digital lives and maybe that’s not the best thing for us? I agree you need a large number of people to make a difference but it starts with a few considered actions and grows from there. You’re absolutely right, but I would imagine there is a high amount of overlap between those groups of people. It always made me laugh when people said we should use Brexit as a chance to be more like Singapore without having any idea of what allows Singapore to be Singapore. Is this actually a thing? I honestly don’t know enough about housing policy of the current government but certainly hadn’t heard they wanted to reduce farmland for housing. I think we’re way too protective over a lot of areas and should be forcing progressive development a lot more than we do. It will damage some jobs and eliminate some jobs, but it will also create jobs. Isn’t it better that we create those jobs here rather than letting someone elsewhere take them? AI is going to advance whether we like it or not. Yeah it’s totally understandable, often being able to protest anything means you’re coming from a privileged position. When everything is so expensive getting ‘good enough’ for cheap is going to entice a lot of people to use them regardless of the hidden ‘cost’ in other areas. Definitely my experience too. I dread having to deal with anything in the UK as I know it’s going to be a complete pain and it will be handled by people utterly uninterested in solving the issues. Totally the opposite with Chinese companies, they’ll bend over backwards to ensure things are sorted as you expect them.

The fact that the X in the title is the most interesting thing to discuss tells me everything I need to know about this game. I don’t know why they ever greenlit this game, feels like a solution looking for a problem type thing.

Definitely changing my preorder to this version.

Not surprising really. While I’m sure there is a healthy profit margin they can eat into there’s no way it will cover the 50% tariff the things will be hit with. The pricing on these in the US is going to be insane.

Thanks, thats perfect - exactly what I needed!

I haven't had anything from Amazon yet either - I'm assuming they haven't sorted it yet but could be wrong I suppose. Could you let me know the website? Going to suggest it here.

Why do so many people get Argos discounts through work? Is this something I can get my work to do too?

Yeah it's one of those things that would have been a really nice positive message if given away for free. As it is it will just be seen as a $5 waste of time.

Yeah bit of a pain, I suppose at least its done and don't need to think about it again.

Argos is live now. Managed to get my order through.

My wife hates me when we do the shopping and I go through all of the avocados to find the acceptable ones. Yeah I totally agree on this. I think its just about being more aware and making changes where it makes sense to you. If everyone just considers it a little, and makes a 5% change then it adds up to a huge swing overall. I guess it comes down to interests and what media you look at. I'd expect people here to be way more clued up on games than your average person who probably has no idea about those game boycotts. Since I started having a long commute twice a week I find I'm a lot more clued up on events simply because I listen to the news for a lot longer than I did three months ago.

Something I don't want nor need just got added to my shopping list.

Yeah I think that is very much the key issue, and one I think will be the most difficult to deal with. We're probably too far gone to expect things like that to come back but we can buy things that are more friendly to the cause. I'm seriously considering a Fairphone next time I need to upgrade and I think that sort of thing is a good move in the right direction. What I do wish we'd do here is be more protective of our public industries. We should be self-reliant on things like power, transport, food (to the extent its possible) but as you say, seem to outsource the lot of it. I think a lot could be done if we underpinned our mass-consumer/free market desires with a very socialist approach to the fundamentals.

Yeah I don't really get the mouse con thing at all. It's cool that it's in there but I can't see many people actually using it as a control method. Dual mouse would be very easy to do yet... I can't think of a single game where they have? I don't see many games using it and those that do won't see many people choosing it.

Same here. I went physical only with the Switch and I’m a bit torn on what to do here. The game prices seem totally crazy to me, way above what I’d expect. With how this is looking I’ll probably just get the Mario Kart bundle with a GameCube controller and that will be it for a good while.

So this popped up in my Reddit feed a while back and I ended up spending quite a bit of time thinking about it, with all the new Trump tariffs it seems like a good time to discuss it. Essentially the premise is that with this and the other madness Trump is up to plus the fact we’ve become so reliant on the US it’s time to be more mindful about putting our money and time with things more closely aligned to us. There is a similar movement for buying from the UK though I don’t see much of a difference between EU/UK here. Anyone else been keeping up with it? What are your thoughts? Generally I think I’m in support of it, and will try to move away from US products and services where I’m able to. I’ve long been trying to keep my data out of the hands of “big tech” - probably relying on Apple too much and their privacy first stance. Until late last year I’d deactivated Facebook but had to get back on it due to so much school stuff going through it. As of last week I’ve deactivated everything with them again and can’t see myself going back. On my commute this morning they were listing off everything that originates in the US and basically concluded that it’s so difficult to boycott you may as well not bother. I think I see it more as a stepped process, where possible buy EU/UK. Over time you can change your habits bit by bit and get to a good place with this. Anyone else making an effort with this?

Not bad on the pricing. Considering it will stay like that may as well just get it day 1.

Where can I order!?!? I must have it right now.

It looks cool but I can’t say that direct particularly got me excited. I think the only thing I really want is Mario kart.