Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Thrillho Did you see the result against New Zealand? Disappointing news eh? Still, there's always next year, I think New Zealand had a bit of luck due to Bairstow and Livingstone's pair of dropped/knee on the boundary catches.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I listened to it on the radio. A slightly weird, low scoring game but the one bad over from England/good over for NZ off Chris Jordan's bowling really swung it. NZ are a team I don't mind losing to and I hope they win it now (even better if they beat the Aussies to do so )

@Thrillho; @TheBrandedSwordsman

I was wondering, as a fellow cricket fan (South Africa), do you guys really enjoy the fact that the T20 World Cup is held every year? I think the fact that it's an annual tournament sort of dilutes the prestige and importance of the event. Personally, I think it should be held every 2 - 3 years.

@N1ghtW1ng I thought it was every two years? Obviously things have been thrown out because of Covid so that's probably messed the schedule up.

Every other year is fine though as it gives the smaller nations more of a chance to play some bigger matches. Afghanistan have a decent team now!

@Thrillho What did you think of Aus making it into the final? You more or less predicted that, didn't you? Haha, it's a shame for Pakistan, but I think NZ have a better chance of beating them than they would have had against Pakistan.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I thought Pakistan would win but an Aus/NZ match is always good fun. The only problem being that it means the Aussies have a chance of winning the tournament now..

@Keith_Zissou Almost as bad as Stokes missing the whole of a previous tournament after punching a locker..

@LieuetenantFatman Which books did you read during your gaming sabbatical? I am always on the look-out for new books to read, currently reading The Pickwick Papers myself during a sort of gaming sabbatical of my own - I was just struggling with a lot of games recently, but now I am waiting for a new XBox 360 to come through the post so I can play Fable II (a game where you can't die), excellent stuff, and then, depending on how I'm feeling at the time, possibly Elden Ring and then God of War:Ragnarok after that.

@TheBrandedSwordsman
I've very recently read through the Greek Mythology books by Stephen Fry and the Norse Mythology books by Neil Garmon. All very interesting and an enjoyable way to learn some history.

Currently reading the latest 40k book, always a fan of science fiction. And then I'll probably jump in on the latest fantasy book by Joe Abercrombie. Very popular at the moment and well worth checking out. Definitely check out The First Law trilogy.
Only novel I think I've read from the 1800s was Jane Eyre, certainly was interesting but I tend to enjoy slightly more modern novels.

I am looking forward to Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok as well. No doubt they should be a lot of fun.

@LieutenantFatman Thanks for the recommendations, the Gaiman books and the First Law trilogy stood out to me, so they are now on my Wishlist. It's a shame you don't like more novels from the 1800s, there's a wealth of treasure to be discovered therein.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I'll echo @LieutenantFatman about Gaiman's Norse Mythology, it was very good. Very interesting to read the actual myths that inspired the more 'mainstream' version we all see in the MCU.

I'll also look into the Greek Myth book suggested, that world is a personal fave of mine.

@colonelkilgore
It's a trilogy that starts with Mythos and then Heroes, finishing with Troy. Quite a different style to Gaiman but Fry attempts to pull off a similar idea of putting the stories in chronological order where possible, without making things confusing. Much trickier with Greek Mythology, as there are so many contradictions but I think he does very well.

This is what my walk home from work looks like nowadays

Or more like: an early part of it, when I turn around (as the only light source was actually behind me)

@Voltan Abandoned PS5 confirmed! Are you Kojima?

@Voltan Where on earth do you work? Inside the Resident Evil 4 village?

@AK4tywill In relation to where I live - on the opposite side of a reasonably sized forest
Seriously though - the southern outskirts of Warsaw, Poland

@Voltan Yikes! Spooky! The scariest thing on one of my routes home is the smell sometimes from one of the takeaway places.

@Kidfried tbh this year did not realy have those stand out games from previous years.

the only thing i don't realy agree with is that returnal is not nominated.

it's a weird omisson tbh.

@Kidfried funny you say that cause it's leading the poll right now on push square lol.

another weird thing is cyberpunk for best soundtrack.

like what? that soundtrack was nowhere near great. it was just some techno stuff. nothing realy stading out exept for 1 radio song.

@jdv95 You forget that Grimes did the Game Awards a couple years back to promote Cyberpunk. It’s all connected!