The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

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Post by Animalmother » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:03 pm

Jesus mate, you've really had a rough time of it in the past while. Hope it gets better soon. My friend had Covid and the fever caused her to hallucinate about being kidnapped by tall people in trenchcoats, terrifying to say the least.

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Post by Rossell » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:11 pm

Ah thank goodness for that. That's sounding much more positive. Got my fingers crossed for you both.

And I completely understand where you're coming from with the end of life thing. I've been in and out of hospital for various things over the years and just when I think I'm in trouble, something else pops up that reminds me actually my issues are solvable compared to some.

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Post by eny » Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:41 am

Wordle 217 3/6

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Post by Sly Boots » Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:47 am

eny wrote:
Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:41 am
Wordle 217 3/6

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Nice. Got it in 4 today. Had a run of 3s last week though!

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Post by eny » Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:11 pm

I love it, a nice brain warmup over breakfast. Once a day is just right.
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Post by Animalmother » Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:21 pm

I have no idea what that is and if you love it or hate it :lol:

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Post by eny » Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:38 pm

That is why it is in both rooms ¬_¬ to gauge other's feelings about it by the reaction it gets...

It is quite popular, but a somewhat marmite topic on Twitter, but take a look for yourself:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
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Post by Raid » Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:55 pm

I guess it's one of those things that are unpopular because they're popular. I only actually found out what it was this morning (4/6, incidentally) after it was posted here.

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Post by Mantis » Sat Jan 22, 2022 3:16 pm

That's quite neat actually, not seen it before. 3/6 here for today.

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Post by Snowy » Sat Jan 22, 2022 3:21 pm

It has been in the news because the guy who invented it has not monetised it, no adverts or any other of the vile cuntery we see as standard these days.

So some other arseholes have ripped it off on mobile apps and charged for it.

I quite like it, I enjoy things that challenge my knowledge of the language.
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Post by Tommy » Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:28 pm

I love it - I'm more focused on keeping my streak going so I often try a completely new word around go 3/4 to use some letters. Which I think is considered amateur etiquette.

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Post by Snowy » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:11 pm

Aliens Fireteam Elite.

You may know it, L4D style shootybang available through Gamepass. Been playing it with Raid and Mantis and enjoying it plenty.

However.

A couple of mates have it and we had a game arranged yesterday afternoon. They don't sub to Gamepass so had picked it up on Steam. When our own vaguely elite TGA fireteam assembled to play it previously we had a few headaches getting everyone into the same session, something that was largely blamed on MS and their shitty platform, but there was a far more wretched and stinking turd lurking just out of sight. We had to frig the system to get our original group playing but the developers have created a co-op title that requires all players to own it on the same game storefront or be unable to play together. Yep, because I have it on Gamepass and they have it on Steam, I was not able to join them.

Words cannot express how moronic this design is. To room 101 it fucking goes!
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Post by Drarok » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:45 pm

Tbh that's true of most games, innit? They lean on the platform to provide friends and invites and stuff.

Certainly I've ran into this exact problem before when friends had a game on Steam and I picked it up free on Epic or wherever else.
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Post by Raid » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:47 pm

It's funny, I've had that fear about Gamepass stuff almost every time I've played something multiplayer, but it's never been the case before. But with A:FE I can't say I'm remotely surprised given how bizarrely implemented the multiplayer is.

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Post by Mantis » Mon Jan 24, 2022 3:02 pm

It's hit and miss with Gamepass. I've played a few games where someone owns a Steam copy and we've managed to get everybody in without any issues. I would say those games are outliers though and that the vast majority of them are only compatible with other Gamepass or Xbox players though.

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