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@TommyNL Europe is a continent. The EU is an organisation made up of nations within that continent. England is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which has left the EU, but that didn't change its geographic status.

@Bricktop33 I feel like the series of economic crises we've gone through since 2017 and how much worse we've faired through them kind of speak for themselves. The money we paid into the EU benefitted us in terms of both subsidising our industries and making trade much easier. Everything the Remain campaign warned of has turned out to be grounded in facts.

Folks here are really acting like they think committing economic suicide by leaving the EU somehow moved us to a new continent. Of course Europe includes the UK.

I finished the story yesterday in GoW Ragnorok so I've still got plenty of content to finish off before I choose what to play next. Completed the Musphelheim trials but then got my arse handed to me by Gna so I'm going to have to come back for that once I've upgraded my gear a few levels.

Probably also finally get back to the woodworking now that my finger is up to it and I've got myself some new safety equipment. Its been about 6 weeks and I can't wait.

@themightyant before you know it we'll be giving ourselves hints for every little thing. I just need to type this message and hit the send button

@Stevemalkpus given it's the British Academy, they have an award category specifically to showcase stuff from British studios, which given how much of the market is dominated by American studios seems fine?

Just passed the point of no return in the story, and I can say that so long as they don't completely fluff the ending, this game deserves every one of those awards. Great stuff!

Just a 6'2" short arse here 😂

I can imagine that as with anything where you're trying to get a good fit around the head, hair is an issue - I presume those with long straight hair are having the biggest issue, with bald folks having nary a problem, and everyone else fitting somewhere in between?

@burning_as_souls am I wrong?

This week I finally started Dad of Boy Ragnorok. I'm about half way through the story according to a mate I was talking to. Great stuff so far and I have all sorts of twisty ideas for how things could end up resolved, and who will be left standing by the end. Trying not to mention spoilers for anyone who hasn't got around to it yet.

I might buy it if it has hotseat couch co-op (doesn't look like it though), but without that I'd rather either use tabletop simulator or discord to play a proper ttrpg, or just play something that doesn't pretend to be tabletop

@PegasusActual93 Eh, I'd say that the main character ends up being the Rocinante 😉

I think it ends up a little more focused than GoT, but where I'd agree is with there not being anyone it would cast as a hero, and very few people who are unredeemable villains, with things mostly being about conflicting motivations.

My finger is finally up to controller use (if a little painful) so I'm playing through God of War (2018) in preparation for my first run through Ragnarok.

I'm a little worried that I'm not enjoying it as much this time around, and wondering what that means for the sequel, but that could just be because I'm on my 4th play through and I'm in pain whenever I press L1

For those wishing me well the other week, some gross details: The wound has finally, after 3 weeks, fully closed and mostly shed its scab, and I have an impressive looking scar - the top edge is perfectly straight while the bottom edge is ragged where the chisel wedged the wound open as it went. I'm also completely lacking any touch sensation in any of the tissue on a segment from the scar up to my finger tip

This should be good. Still miss the old Kyle Catarn games though

@DutchDouchebag I mean it's possible, but it would increase the cost and require extra processing overhead. The current wisdom is that it's simply not worth the effort, and that you get used to having see-through arms pretty quickly, but who knows what we'll end up with in time

To be fair this looks more like XCom than Midnight Suns did

This is cool, although it's with noting that the 4090 outperforms the 3090Ti by a significant margin. It just sucks a lot of power to do so and is about ¼ the size of the PS5 on its own.

@DutchDouchebag alas it's unlikely to happen - due to limitations around tracking anything that isn't ahead of the headset is impossible to accurately track the arms, which leaves a lot of guesswork, and it turns out that inaccurately rendered arms are even more immersion breaking.

If it had been XCom I would have bought it day 1. This looks cool and all, but I'll wait for either a deep sale, or to have less on my backlog.

@nomither6 the job of a CEO isn't supposed to be flashy, they're not supposed to be celebrities. He seems to just be quietly getting on with the job while folks wail and gnash their teeth about some impending disaster based on guesses and speculation.

It's not so much that I support him, or even Sony, but I find the constant doomsaying and calls for firing baffling, especially when it so often (not AFAIK in your case) comes from the same people who ridicule anyone who doesn't want to buy the latest TERF wizard game.

Sony are doomed, Jim Ryan Out?

/sarcasm

@BearsEatBeets you might say that they made you an offer you couldn't refuse?

I have no idea how 7% of respondents can say in good faith that this is a crap selection. I've already played and highly enjoyed Mafia, but I'm looking forward to Ollie Ollie.

@thefourfoldroot1 I'll see how I'm doing in a few weeks, I'm looking at cuts to my benefits and need to replace my wheelchair, so every penny counts at the moment

@The_Pixel_King Eh, things ebb and flow - I'll never be well enough to work again, but things are generally good enough to have hobbies. You play the hand you're dealt, and I try to use my problems to remind myself of the importance of compassion for others.

@KingPev it can't hurt if you cut through the nerve?

Yeah, it wasn't good

@The_Pixel_King eh, I have a lot of chronic health issues of my own, so I know what it can be like. Nobody deserves what out bodies can do to us.

@The_Pixel_King that sucks, I hope it passes quickly and that you're able to get back to your usual self

Currently trying to work out what I can play without a left index finger.

I took a chunk of of myself while sharpening my chisels last weekend, so currently my finger is pretty much unusable while it heals, and it could take up to a year to recover whatever function I'm going to get back, which is annoying for using a controller.

@NEStalgia I think it depends. I'll likely build something based on an AMD 7600 (unless something that's better bang for your buck releases) with a reasonable amount of RAM and a midrange GPU and the whole lot will hopefully, by then, cost around £500, but with inflation it could be up to £800 (I don't need a new case, but I might be persuaded to pick up a new PSU with the new GPU connector). By the time that's creaking in 1440p then doubling up the RAM, slotting in whatever the end of the line AM5 chip ends up being, and a newer midrange GPU should be reasonable.

I think if you're patient then things don't generally have to be overly expensive (to the point that the cheaper games might help things break even), but recently has not been a good time - between CPU socket lifecycles, new ram standards, and GPU manufacturers getting used to crypto booms, it hasn't been a good time for a really long time.

@NEStalgia yeah, I mean I still run a system I first built in 2010 for £1k and spent another £1k keeping up to date until 2018 - it has a 4670k, a 1060 6GB, 16GB RAM and is still great for indie stuff, but the only things I could bring forward in an upgrade are the GPU, PSU, case, so I'll keep using it for indie stuff until 2025 with Windows 10 is EOL and then I'll build a new rig. The PS5 is keeping me going with AAA stuff and maybe VR until then.

@NEStalgia I'd say it rather depends. You can build or buy a PC for not much more than the PlayStation, and it'll be almost as good. You're not going to be playing VR games, or installing hundreds of mods, or running at 144hz though, and also by the end of the PS5 lifespan you'll be struggling to play AAA games.

If you want something that will do VR, and still be playing games that look and feel better than on console in 5 years you're probably going to end up paying about triple the price, because each time you upgrade one thing, something else is the bottleneck so unless you upgrade another thing you've wasted your money so you end up paying at least £400 for your processor, the same for a GPU, and half the same again for each of motherboard and RAM, before you've looked at an SSD, a case, some fans, etc

I'm one of these too. I've owned the original Gameboy, the Wii, and the PS5, but all my other gaming has been on PC.

I definitely think the PS5 has benefited from the high costs of building a gaming rig, as my decision to buy the PS5 was based on that as much as getting to play all the exclusives (the ps+ collection was a real treat for folks like me, too)

@__jamiie because it has already been pointed out repeatedly and we assume everyone knows by now?

@RubyCarbuncle it means you (like me) paid to get to play them earlier

I'm inclined to think that over the past 6 years I've gotten more than my money's worth out of the trilogy, and that them choosing to give that experience to more people at a cheaper price takes nothing away from me. The third game was a little disappointing to me, but I'm hoping that Freelancer mode more than makes up for it.

@Digit2021 so technically USB-C isn't bound to a particular revision of the USB standard and can be used all the way back to USB 1.1. Furthermore the USB Consortium have made a right mess of naming on USB3.x.

• USB 3.0 = 3.1 Gen 1 = 3.2 Gen 1 = 3.2 Gen 1x1 = 5Gbps
• USB 3.1 Gen 2 = 3.2 Gen 1x2 = 3.2 Gen 2 = 10Gbps
• USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 = 4 Gen 2x2 = 4 Gen 3x1 = 20Gbps
• USB 4 Gen 3x2 = 40Gbps
• USB 4 Gen 4 can be 40/80/120Gbps

Technically x1 means it's single lane while x2 means it's split over two lanes, with x1 being implied if missing, and the Gen # referring to the speed of each lane, and USB 4 Gen 4 is split into symmetric (effectively x2) and asymmetric (effectively x1 or X3).

The whole thing is a confusing mess, but suffice to say that the presence of a USb Type C connector doesn't imply anything about the speed of the connection, with the actual speed being the lowest supported by any of the host device, the cable and the connected peripheral.

@Ravix Bahaha I can see it now

(Obviously not something I believe, but it's the sort of self-own they'd issue)

@Arnna this guide is promoting their own brand of SSD, but otherwise seems very beginner-friendly: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZoV8P894N4

The process is remarkably simple considering it means you can use commodity parts.

@Northern_munkey I mean as in things being drawn on the wrong part of the screen because the electron beam wasn't targeting where it was expected to be when it was given the colour information. (Remember that a CRT didn't take frame information, but a continuous sequence of colour values which has to be timed for when the electron beam was targeted to a particular point on the phosphor layer behind the screen, so the computer would hold a buffer of the 8 lines currently being scanned (because the ZX spectrum
, like many others, worked with 8x8 blocks). If you got out of sync then you'd be sending the information to the wrong lines.)

Guessing by colour clash you're referring to the same thing I know as attribute clash, where each 8px by 8px square of the screen could only contain two colours, which required some careful design to work around. The limitations provided by some of those old computers were fascinating and a big part of why retro computer development is so much fun, it's like a Zachtronics game.

@Toypop I'd be disappointed by a ZX game running at 60fps, given it was for PAL, therefore the maximum frame rate was 50fps, with game logic being synchronised with display logic, so any faithful conversion would need to run at the original frame rate else exhibit either improper behaviour or visual artifacts

@Elodin as a franchise it has been around for ages, I remember playing the first one on a 486 running Windows 95. I think this is the first entry to make it to consoles though, so assuming it's a good port, you're in for a treat.

Edit: the original was released 1998, and there have been a couple of spinoffs for Nintendo handhelds, and a couple of mobile spinoffs too, but this is the first main series game to land on consoles

When it comes to open world pirate adventure I'm still salty that Seadogs 2 was hijacked by the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The original Seadogs (2000) was so good, and there were hints of what could have been in the Pirates of the Caribbean game, but by the time the true sequel came out in 2006 the studio had evidently lost whatever spark it once had.

This, on the other hand, looks kinda *****

If this had been an option at launch I'd probably have gone for this + digital. I hardly use the drive on my launch console, but the few times I have it has saved me a fair amount, more already than the price difference between editions.

This strikes me as a mediocre game I likely won't bother with, that is getting a load of extra crap thrown at it because of misogynoir.

The actress who plays Frey seems good enough, but the script seems like absolute crap, and the mechanics seem kinda divisive based on individual tastes. If it weren't for the fact that Sony are shining a spotlight on the game, and a load of bigots are salty about having to admit that women of colour exist, then nobody would be talking about it, and honestly it's getting boring at this point.

I played a lot less than the previous year too, I think the previous year was about 2100 hours, but this year was a lot more chaotic. I also spent a lot more of this year playing mediocre games like AC Valhalla because things were too chaotic to enjoy good games but I still needed a distraction (which is why I still haven't played the new Dad of Boy game)

https://wrapup.playstation.com/en-gb/9d5c861b1383d43b0ffdec4de34e67b8527db54433218e9f6782eb5b6dae67c8/?emcid=ot-ha-456949

@GKT how much do you like Remedy weirdness? It's very much that, so if you've enjoyed their other games you'll like this one

@NEStalgia that's fair, I was taking things entirely at face value, but it's possible I fell for trolling. I'm just used to feeling very old around folks who grew up with online multiplayer as the default.

@avatarian couch co-op is local co-op multiplayer, as in you're sitting in your sofa, aka couch, next to the other player.

You know, like when consoles had 2-4 controller sockets on the front?

Looks cute, I just fear it'll get lost in people's wishlist given the number of other great games that have released recently it or are expected over the next few months

The other meaning still works with trichomoniasis?

See this is how FromSoft intended it to be played