Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@RogerRoger Nope, I just don't buy Christmas cards!

@Th3solution We've never really done it in our family, only for special occasions like birthdays or major wedding anniversaries we give each other cards. Stuff like Easter, Mothers Day and all the rest we don't bother with.

I like Easter as you can get some really nice chocolate for next to nothing in the week after it.

@Thrillho Yeah that's true, some places clear the stock though as I went to do that one year and there was not a chocolate egg to be found anywhere.

Helping a mate clear some stuff to the dump today. I love hauling crap into a van. Reminds me of being a kid and helping my dad!!

@RogerRoger meh i don't really care about birthdays, growing up poor they was never a big deal and by the time i was old enough to go out a celebrate i was working anyway

you know i don't think i have ever had a actual birthday party and to be honest it never bothered me

@RogerRoger same, it always feels they put the fuss up more for themselves than for you

i agree with data

@RogerRoger me too

except i also order myself a pizza

beats the hell out of a cake

@RogerRoger Bacon, Chicken and Pepperoni with a BBQ sauce base

@RogerRoger @FullbringIchigo I may have mentioned this before, but at work they do this horrific thing of gathering round your desk, presenting you with a card and then asking on your plans. If it is a big birthday you get banners, balloons and your desk covered in stuff. I appreciate that they only mean well, but it is not for me personally and I opted out as soon as I could.

@JohnnyShoulder Try going to Frankie’s and Benny’s for your birthday, the staff come along with a cake and ‘Congratulations’ by Cliff Richard plays over the tannoy. It’s hellish.

@nessisonett Thanks for the warning, I'll be giving that a wide berth. I'd rather be with fam and have one of my mum's home made chicken cuzzas and chocolate fudge cake!

@JohnnyShoulder i just never tell anyone when my birthday is, i found if they don't know then they don't really care

You, know. I hope Reggie does some fun PR at Gamestop. He was always personable at E3 for Nintendo, so I’d like to see him figure something similar out for Gamestop. GameStop gets a lot of undue hate too, so it could help get rid of the people who don’t shop there for dumb reasons like “they take 2 seconds to ask if I want a warranty. My day was ruined, giving me a bad attitude at work, causing me to lose my job, then my wife left me and my dog died.”

When you accidentally keep coding until 2AM because you’re ‘in the zone’ but you’re back up at 8AM...

Another bit of 'surprising to no one' news on Stadia.

Despite Google (and iD, to be fair) promising otherwise - Doom Eternal will not be running native 4K on Stadia; which is of course a bit hilarious - but also yet another gaming industry BS story.

@KALofKRYPTON Hmm how long before the whole endeavour gets cancelled do you reckon?

@Rudy_Manchego Honestly, I can't decide whether the announcement, launch and business model for Stadia was a series of miscommunications along the way, actual deceit or just blind ineptitude. The tech is alright; it does work, and it could have been welcomed with open arms in as right-on and happy-clappy way as Google could've dreamed of. If they hadn't overhyped.

I feel like they'll keep on trying to save face for as long as possible, but there's one YouTuber who tried to estimate their install base, and it ain't big - and not getting any bigger either despite them trying to give Stadia away.

@KALofKRYPTON I agree - I was one of the few people that thought the idea was sound and if Google could make it appealing, it might work well with casual gamers who don't want to worry about expensive console generations etc.

I feel the core issue is that they couldn't get the games lineup. I accept that it is hard for a newbie to bring in lots of exclusives so if they couldn't, they need to bring in another incentive. If it had been cheaper to get third party games on their service or had a really decent subscription model then I think it could have turned heads. Launching with games that were more expensive than you could get on other platforms, that you don't physically own and depend on the success of the console, and only older games at that was not a good move.

I mean, months after launch there are still very few games on there. Imagine if they teamed up with EA for a Fifa promotion or even COD or something. Never mind.

@Rudy_Manchego The business model is what's done for them. It's too expensive and only comes across as incredibly greedy; and unfortunately in a business where the incredibly greedy (EA for example) have had years to ingrain themselves and access to billion dollar franchises year in, year out - greedy and 'new' isn't really the best combination.

Add that that the system is, for some - volatile in operation and much touted features aren't present...

They should have gone simple. Simple and cheap. Even with a library of say, mostly 7th gen games - a Netflix style service would be welcomed.

Who here thinks ps5 is going to get delayed to 2021 as we seen you do not have to launch around November the switch and 3ds did not