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@Ronnie, do you mean you don't want to have to announce your own preferred pronouns or that you don't want to have to use other people's? I assume you mean the first and if so I agree with you, but I don't think anyone forces you to do it do they?

Yeah, I can see why it could be seen as supportive, as you’re showing it’s a legitimate and standard thing to include, so people nervous about it would feel empowered to - I’m really not sure though. Is it a bit “All Lives Matter” ish? If our members to whom this more appropriately applies feel comfortable sharing I’d love to know their opinion on it.

Depends how many of those are actually in consumers hands. The article says that’s numbers shipped so it’s pretty difficult to say if they’ll have broken even on it. If they do manage to sell all 5 million of the shipped copies then they’d need to really overspend not to make a profit. I’d imagine they’ll end up profitable on the title in the end.

Would definitely be up for this! If anyone is playing morning or early afternoon this weekend I’m in!

I’ve been looking at that Gina Carano stuff and I can’t even work out what everyone is pissed off about. As far as I can tell they mis-interpreted a post about standing up to oppression as support of Nazis and therefore she doesn’t support BLM which of course you must do or else you’re a racist who should be punished? Yeah, I think I’d put that one down to idiocy too.

Thanks! I can’t say I’m too worried about the stability of a Bluetooth controller, so I think I’ll go for that version. Just a shame they have much better colors for the 2.4Ghz options.

I think everyone is getting bored of it. I dread to think what is going to happen in the UK when winter roles around. We’re currently at less than 10 cases per day in the local community, and lockdowns are not easing up. Other countries around us are doubling down on them too. At work we’ve started planning around no return to the office this year, possibly well into next. Things are really not looking good.

I hadn’t heard anything about it and everything I’m going to say I based on 10 minutes of reading up about it. I think it’s completely fine calling it Black is King. I’m no fan of Beyoncé (nor do I dislike her), but it seems to me as if this is a really genuine production stemming from exploitation of a black artist in the making of the Lion King, which has gained steam culminating in this. It absolutely would scream racism if a white person called something White is King without any context, but I don’t think the opposite is true. There is reasoning for the title and it represents something that I think is really a positive thing. So, my thoughts are that it’s great, I agree with the title, and I don’t think it should even be considered that they change it.

I’ve been looking at the Retro Bit Saturn pads, but I’m note sure which to buy. Maybe I’ve gotten bad at searching but I can’t really tell what the differences are between the Bluetooth pad and the 2.4ghz pad. From what I can tell the 2.4ghz pad is more hassle due to the dongle and doesn’t have rumble. Do any of you guys know more?

Must be why I had absolutely no idea what you guys were talking about. I heard from some other members that they’ve been popping up loads today, quite annoying they told me.

Bumping this up as after having some really good conversation on these issues we shouldn't let it fade away. I got accepted to this! Not too sure what to expect yet, but looks like I'll get to undergo some diversity training sessions and then be part of the group that enacts policy to ensure we have a positive impact for diversity and inclusion. Do they have this set up just as a space and whoever wants to go in there can go in and do whatever they want? Religion is a tricky one as I don't think you can explicitly say it's for anything as you risk immediately isolating anyone not mentioned. Companies in Singapore seem to just label them as reflection rooms and never mention anything else. I also find this one quite interesting. I totally get it for people who want to clarify where it might be ambiguous or they have a preference for something in particular. When I see totally normal regular guys putting him/his I'm not sure it's the right approach. It feels to me like saying you have a black friend so can't be racist. Maybe I'm totally out of line on that though.

My sister just got one of those. For a bin connoisseur I’m sure it’s great, you’d be the envy of all your friends! We just have a plastic bag on a hook - not cool at all.

Sorry - yeah it was. I totally get where you’re coming from, I guess I just see this type of thing as another addition to why to pick on console over the other. If people really don’t like this then they won’t spend money on games that do it and the practice will fall out of use. I’m actually quite interested to see what a difference this makes in terms of the sales split by console over a normal release.

I do wish they would do the whole trilogy, I’d love to play through all of them again. I never managed to finish this one originally so it will still be nice to go through it. Looking forward to it!

I’d say that’s a pretty good shout. Hardcore gamers will definitely shell out more money to have the best.

Ah! I mis-read that as a back button, as in back and forward buttons. Ignore me, I totally agree. It is weird they haven’t included it as standard with the Dual Sense.

What does a back button do that cross or circle don’t?

Looks really good fun, I’m downloading it now. Hadn’t looked at anything on the PS4 apart from my usual F1 racing but reading all the comments on this I had to get involved.

Definitely good to drop some money to developers when you appreciate their work! For PS+ games specifically don’t worry too much - they get a really good deal for doing it.

I think for more casual people it absolutely will. As someone not particularly interested in Xbox it was only recently that I managed to work out which was the current generation and which is the new one. I’m still not entirely sure of all the derivatives and what each one does. With PlayStation just adding numbers it’s very easy to understand which is best. When you talk about Xbox 1 vs Xbox Series X there is nothing to suggest which one is which just from the name.

Microsoft’s naming for the Xbox consoles has definitely been one of the stupidest things in gaming over the last few generations.

I guess the pricing is somewhat representative of getting a bit of a discount on the average cinema spend. I’d be quite happy to spend $29.99 for a movie I really wanted to see. I just cancelled by Disney+ subscription, hadn’t really been watching much of it so wasn’t really getting any value from it. Will jut re-subscribe anytime there is something I want to watch on there.

There’s a lot of people like this right now, whether that continues I wouldn’t be so sure. If the rest of this year is as bad as many think it will be spending on anything outside of essentials is going to be pretty small. Totally agree with that, gaming is definitely great value for money. I also wouldn’t bet against record launches for the new consoles, there will be enough people who have money to get them straight away, we just may see a much deeper and longer lasting lull afterwards than we’re used to.

Pretty amazing numbers and the stock price has had a nice bump off the back of it. It totally makes sense that they’ve done well and where that revenue has come from. People have been locked down during the last quarter and generally governments have been propping up peoples income. It totally makes sense that some of that money is going on digital game purchases. What’s a bit more worrying (not just for Sony) is what happens from here out. If we get more lockdown and less government support we have the potential for a recession of pretty massive proportions. There is the potential that this and all the other great results companies are posting are one final hurrah before we go into a pretty big dip on consumer spending.

I think that’s fair, and I agree there is a long way to go before they are ideal. But they will improve, and get used for more and more things. Over time they become a bigger barrier to switching. I guess it does include the games you own and have dropped money into. It’s the whole online connection to the ecosystem. I think they’ve been pretty clear, but they haven’t come out (as far as I know) and explicitly laid down a mark in the sand like Sony have. As other have mentioned Sony have been very clear that generational leaps are important and there should be a very defined difference between what is possible on PS5 vs. PS4, to the extent that games are not possible on the older hardware. Microsoft are going for the opposite approach where games are playable on whatever hardware you have, just to differing levels, but obviously they can’t say you don’t really need to buy the new console so it comes across as less explicit. In terms of approach I think you can easily make a case for both of them being the right way to do things. But Sony sure make their approach sound more exciting for people looking to get a new console.