@Thrillho Did you see Moeen's batting this morning though? Well, it's all over now ,but I am more hopeful for the third and fourth tests. How do you feel about them? Optimistic or still too early to say?
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Moeen leaving after one test is a bit weird. The next test is the day/night one I think so may well suit our seamers better. Hopefully winning the toss isn’t such a vital factor but I am concerned that our batsmen haven’t done great at all other than Root in the first test.
@Jimmer-jammer Teaching your daughter piano sounds excellent and fun, also, with regard to game design, I would say the creative artistic aspect of it, shaping the game and focusing on the aesthetics of the PvE for players, rules of play and game mechanics fascinate me too, it's all such good fun.
How did my explanation of cricket settle with you? Did it offer a cure for your bafflement?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman in what capacity bud, its a very general term, which (at least in the financial industry... but I would imagine most others too) crops up again and again within a wide spectrum of appointments?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman but like personal /team management, operational management, project management or managing a technical area etc.? They can be quite different.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman ok, well that is a tough position as you will constantly be passing on tough info from those above to your team (a team who, if you want them to have good morale and therefore a performance boost) need to know you 'fight their corner' when management meetings (where the bad news generally originates) occurs.
It really is a tough job, and those who are 'good' (though good and bad is depending on a particular perspective) generally progress quite quickly while the 'bad' normally hang around like a bad smell proliferating their bad habits for decades.
Some people are naturals, and genuinely enjoy to not only lead a team but prioritise the development of the individuals within said team. If your that kind of guy, you will not only do well but will also glean great satisfaction from the role.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Busy! Good and bad. Responsiblity is on your shoulders but it is quite varied and you get good teams. The dream is for me to move into video game project management but I'm too old for crunch and constant layoffs!
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Ys VIII is a pretty sweet game (with the understanding that it looks like an uprezzed GameCube title and features the same mostly tropey characterization you likely became familiar with in ToCS). I wouldn't call myself a Falcom fan, but it was one of the bigger surprises of this generation, IMO. It's weirdly long for an Ys game, though, which, in the past, were notable for how brief and zippy they were. Ys VIII is very much an epic by comparison.
We'll see how Ys IX turns out, but I'm going to attribute VIII's performance to NIS not really knowing how to get the most out of the platform initially. Any platform where DOOM 2016 and The Witcher 3 are highly playable in full fat form shouldn't be struggling to run a PS Vita port.
I recall your thoughts/review on Ys 1 & 2 and I incorrectly assumed they were just shorter affairs due to the style of gameplay and the fact they came out so long ago... Interesting hear Ys VIII is actually more the outlier compared to the other Ys' games (I assume IX is probably a longer affair too)
And I've seen your recent pictures for The Witcher III in regards to Blood & Wine... It does look a little off in presentation but yeah it's VERY impressive none the less!
RE: fighting games with deep stories, I'm reminded of how the 3DS Dead or Alive game included a story campaign, and it turned out to be one of the most weirdly convoluted plots I've ever encountered.
I've only played 1 game in the Dead Or Alive series. DOA 2. The plot was just completely nonsensical in that... The final boss of the story mode was a Tengu (Just called Tengu) for seemingly no reason. It just didn't make any sense (and there was barely anything there in the first place). Quite a fun fighting system though which was really really responsive and fast paced. Really wanted to try another of the series but I wouldn't wanna support the absolutely gross dlc practices they have.
No, but it's my second longest one I've done, and it somehow managed to allow me to post and even edit it without the site demanding I prove I'm a human before taking me to an error screen, which is the only reason I've been splitting up my longer pieces to begin with.
Seriously?! You lucky son of a gun! I've really procrastinated on a writing another review lately (It's not like I don't have things to say!)... Maybe I should do a smaller impressions piece for something (Maybe the DQ11 demo?) to get me in the mood.
That's right. I forget other countries actually do stuff to try and prevent the disease from spreading. Aside from seeing some masks in stores here, you'd never know we were in the middle of a global pandemic where I live. The governor won't even mandate masks. Could be a reason my state briefly had the worst infection-to-population ratio in the world.
Thankfully, my 72-year-old mother is due to receive her first vaccine dose next week.
Well, now's the time to do stuff like redecorating if you're locked inside anyway, right?
Ugh... I'm sorry you have to deal with that Ral... The UK isn't dealing with it a whole lot better... But it's something at least compared to sticking your fingers in your ears 😧
I'm glad to hear your mother'll be getting the vaccine dose soon!
And yeah it is... Though as soon as we finished the living room we took about five minutes taking it in before we both looked to each other and said we hated the new look and tore it back down to start over again 😅
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Texas has been dealing with statewide blackouts all week because our power grid isn't properly made to handle the winter storm that happened. Yours Truly here was down on Monday and Tuesday and didn't get power back until Wednesday morning. I've been playing it safe since, though my power has been steady. That said, not everyone has it back and hopefully they will soon.
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@Arugula NLife seems to have gotten too big for their current moderation staff. Innocuous articles are now reaching well over 100 comments. That E Honda article is the most comments I’ve ever seen by a long stretch. It’s just too much to effectively moderate at that point. It also probably doesn’t help that they’ve seemingly accidentally cultivated a whole Q-Anon subsection of the community which is a whole lot worse than this site’s crazies. I think they’re trying to get away from that reputation by posting more articles that have an outwardly liberal viewpoint (read: against glorifying genocide and homophobia) but all that happens is that guys who look like stereotypical truckers come in the comments and say things like ‘Reeeeeset era’. Lord knows what they’re even supposed to do except keep churning out the controversial articles and profit off the conflict.
@nessisonett How are you? Been a little while, how are the studies going? @colonelkilgore How does it feel to be a Banks-reading Banker who works in a Bank? 😂 The phrase just struck me today, it's worthy of Kelsey Grammar in Frasier isn't it? Seriously though, how's things man? What games are you onto now? I'm still playing UC4 as I've said in the other thread.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman Studies are going 50/50. We’re now not going back at all in-person so the rest of this year will be online. Part of me’s glad because I now don’t need to leave the house but my AI class is a bit of a nightmare and I would have preferred in-person tutorials. I’m mostly just in panic mode trying to land a placement in time!
@TheBrandedSwordsman yeah it would probably feel better if the Banks books were my only Banks-association... but not bad dude, hope you’re good too. I’ve noticed your playing of U4 and I’d definitely suggest you try playing the whole series as you seem to be enjoying it.
Still on Dying Light and Dead Space 3. I think I’ll wrap up the DL plat next week and haven’t gotten anywhere near as much done on DS3 as I’d planned (hopefully my DS3 co-op partner isn’t too far ahead of me by the time we start next month).
Sorry to hear you fell of Death Stranding, I think you would’ve really dug the narrative.
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