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- Fri May 03, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: General & Real World
- Topic: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
- Replies: 1904
- Views: 448700
Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan
I lost what had been my first pet last year. Despite not having seen her for two years (she belonged to my ex), it still hurt as much as losing any member of my family ever has. This is one of those things that people that don't own pets don't really comprehend; people can form bonds with animals th...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: General & Real World
- Topic: Aaand, In Other News...
- Replies: 1003
- Views: 213813
Re: Aaand, In Other News...
Christ, people were joking about it being a dangerous world for Boeing whistleblowers after the first alleged suicide, and it's actually happened? Is it just the case that there are so many whistleblowers because there are so many problems at the company, and this is actually just a reasonable morta...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
- Topic: General Gaming News
- Replies: 852
- Views: 141143
Re: General Gaming News
BG3 certainly had a falloff, I don't think a single-player game would ever not, but the current numbers are more than ten times that of Starfield's.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 526488
Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
So I finished Fallout. I think my enthusiasm dipped a bit by the end; there's clearly a ton of love for the source material, and it's the most faithful game-TV/film adaptation I can think of in terms of aesthetic (and it must have cost a fortune to make as a result), but the tone just didn't seem to...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
- Topic: General Gaming News
- Replies: 852
- Views: 141143
Re: General Gaming News
I think there will be plenty of people looking forward to it. Starfield is one of those games about which the agenda was set by the people who didn't like it and ignores the thousands of people who did like it. Because the general consensus was that it would be a hit in the same way Skyrim was when...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
- Topic: General Gaming News
- Replies: 852
- Views: 141143
Re: General Gaming News
Former Lionhead-staffed studio announce their new game, release a demo, and in the same breath postpone its development. https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-lionhead-devs-announce-new-game-shelve-new-game-and-confirm-layoffs-all-at-the-same-time It's a pretty sobering take on the state of the games industr...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
- Topic: Currently Playing
- Replies: 1657
- Views: 537202
Re: Currently Playing
It's certainly appealing looking for me, but I read a review that said that healing items are consumables that don't get automatically replenished, and you have to gather materials to craft them. That's an instant deal-breaker for me; I like games that are challenging, but the second you make me gri...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
- Topic: Elden Ring
- Replies: 130
- Views: 25690
Re: Elden Ring
I've ended up giving this another try after two years of saying I wouldn't. I'd gotten pretty good at Jedi Survivor so figured maybe I'm just better at this genre now, and I've had so little trouble compared to my first attempt when the game was first released. I'm not sure what it was, but previous...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: Technology & Hardware
- Topic: Gaming laptops and fan noise
- Replies: 13
- Views: 228
Re: Gaming laptops and fan noise
...you realise discrete *is* the gaming GPU, right?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 526488
Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Oh, hah, that's what I get for skim-reading.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 526488
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
- Replies: 2002
- Views: 526488
Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
I finished watching The Three Body Problem last night. It was pretty good for the most part, the premise is a fun one that I was constantly expecting them to subvert as a twist at some point, but that thankfully didn't materialise. There are a handful of things that I think you have to suspend your ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: General Film News
- Replies: 716
- Views: 214278
Re: General Film News
Those are solid shouts I suppose, although I did watch the Kurt Russell The Thing for the first time last year and really didn't think much of it (beyond the incredible practical effects anyway), and I don't think I even realised The Fly was a remake. I forget sometimes that remakes aren't really a ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: General Film News
- Replies: 716
- Views: 214278
Re: General Film News
It would be nice for one of these remake projects to actually produce a film that was superior to the original. I'm really struggling trying to think of a single one that worked.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: General Film News
- Replies: 716
- Views: 214278
Re: General Film News
To be honest, I can actually see Liam Neeson suiting the role. Nielson was a serious actor that happened to be able to do deadpan perfectly. Neeson would just have to prove he could do it too. But it's the script that would be the issue; The Naked Gun and Police Squad had some of the tightest comic ...