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by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:23 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Currently Playing
Replies: 1649
Views: 528812

Re: Currently Playing

I mentioned it in a previous post, but I'm going to give a second shoutout to Gunfire Reborn . I'm finding a lot of replayability on this, and a lot of fun. I just got to the third world on it, I had a monstrous build that was decimating everything, but I got arrogant and deservedly got my butt one ...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:20 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Game of the Year 2020 Awards
Replies: 16
Views: 6132

Re: Game of the Year 2020 Awards

It wasn't even my top pick. I think it may have been my second. It *has* won me over now. Still, we're not the only site to elect it as such; it was Eurogamer's staff pick (it came 4th in the user chart), and I've lost count of the number of people who've said it was a contender. Yay - glad it's go...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:25 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Internet
Replies: 25
Views: 7094

Re: The Internet

cloud based operating systems replacing local Operating Systems - hmm I am not sure about that. Most people want to control of their own PC It's not going to disappear overnight, but it's coming. And yes there will be 20 years of resistance to it, but the groundwork isn't far off. at all. And for a...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:20 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Internet
Replies: 25
Views: 7094

Re: The Internet

I don't see digital voting ever happening. I hope it never happens, at least. Tom Scott has a good video on it, IIRC. Software is too complex and relatively easy to fuck with compared with simple, tried-and-tested paper-based votes. I just watched that video. All his points are logical and structur...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:55 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Game of the Year 2020 Awards
Replies: 16
Views: 6132

Re: Game of the Year 2020 Awards

Thanks for organising it DJ! While I'm happy Hades got goty, i'm slightly puzzled as to who else voted it! as far as I recall, Raid and I were the only one who'd played it, and Raid isn't all won over yet! :lol: Agree that given numbers a discussion thread might work better for us next year. I was c...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:53 am
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Internet
Replies: 25
Views: 7094

Re: The Internet

A bit late jumping into this one, but a few thoughts on what to expect: Fragmentation of the internet by geographic blocks - US, Europe, China in particular acceleration in migration to subscription based services GDPR2 to refine the BS privacy / cookies model so that cookies or whatever model repla...
by elgaucho
Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:40 am
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: 2021
Replies: 42
Views: 11247

Re: 2021

Happy New Year all!

I know it's gonna be better than the last one! :lol:
by elgaucho
Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:13 pm
Forum: Technology & Hardware
Topic: Upgrade Time
Replies: 78
Views: 22243

Re: Upgrade Time

Can I be your wife? That's better than mine :( Sorry! :oops: She's been nagging me for ages about this, and it's taken me a while to really get back into looking at options. I think it's only fair I look for her what I'd look at for me! (I might swap out hers with mine and hope she doesn't notice!)...
by elgaucho
Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 1964
Views: 517525

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

Dark I've only just managed to find the time to watch season 2 in this last week. I still don't really have more than a vague idea of wtf is going on throughout, and who is related to who, and how many time paradoxes i'm keeping track of... :lol: So yeah, no clue, but I know without a doubt that th...
by elgaucho
Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:11 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Currently Playing
Replies: 1649
Views: 528812

Re: Currently Playing

Shadow of the Tomb Raider I've spent some time this week invested in a good old story driven game, and the last of the new Tomb Raider games. I'm way behind getting to this third one, but it's the first time in a very long time I've had enough time to delve into a game without having to eke out tim...
by elgaucho
Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:04 pm
Forum: Technology & Hardware
Topic: Upgrade Time
Replies: 78
Views: 22243

Upgrade Time

So the other half's pc is getting to the point that it struggles to play some of the more recent games like Jedi Fallen Order smoothly, and has a few other little performance issues going on. Not entirely suprising given the build dates back to 2009 or so, with only a graphics card upgrade in that t...
by elgaucho
Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:45 pm
Forum: General Gaming Discussion and News
Topic: Currently Playing
Replies: 1649
Views: 528812

Re: Currently Playing

I've finally gotten around to grabbing Hades . I'm a massive fan of Supergiant's visual and sound designs, but it's only really Bastion that clicked with me on a gameplay level. Hades is definitely strong on the aesthetics, but I'm not quite convinced of the gameplay yet. There's a good chance I'm ...
by elgaucho
Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:44 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: The Absolute State Of It - It's The UK Politics Thread!
Replies: 1109
Views: 322507

Re: The Elephant in the Room - Brexit

Does anyone have a clue what the import / export duty situation is on goods from 1 January? In the event of no deal, it's my understanding that standard import duties would apply, plus VAT if applicable. Which in the case of importing to where I am, would be around 17% VAT, plus an 18 EUR handling f...
by elgaucho
Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:46 pm
Forum: General & Real World
Topic: Christmas 2020!
Replies: 24
Views: 7382

Re: Christmas 2020!

Merry Christmas all!

When this year started, I had planned to spend this Christmas back in South America, but that obviously didn't happen, so instead it's a quiet Christmas with Florey and I and some simple food and a movie.

I hope you're all having as good a holiday as conditions permit. :D
by elgaucho
Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:00 am
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series
Replies: 1964
Views: 517525

Re: Good TV (aka, the TV series spamthread), the second series

Watching or finishing a few bits at the moment: Battlestar Galactica I feel like I'm 2000 years behind on this, but i finally finished watching season 4 of this. I think the concept and idea of the show were great, but there were definite moments, especially in the last season, where it felt to me l...