Homer Thompson
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3 hours ago, CityDave94 said:
I was under the impression that this would be Bethesda returning to the form they had a decade ago, I was mistaken after watching play throughs. I mean why spend around £60 without checking it out first. It really looks dated with graphics and amimations that could come from 2014 and there is nothing engaging or interesting about it and so so many loading screens.
Compare to Cyber Punk 2077 and its game mechanics, the quests with added distractions and character back stories, dialogue and interactions, the combat and the open world element, no contest. Starfield has very little depth to it. Even Fallout 4 with all its faults and gliches is far better game as it gets your curiousity to explore and investigate and also other science fiction games like The Outer Worlds and the Mass Effect series are far superior in almost every way. Was it really worth boasting about 1000 planets to visit when 95% of them are empty and have nothing of any interest on them at all. Quantity over quality again.
After the initial good reviews the game had after launch (most of these were probably the advertisers themselves multi spaming ) is now down to the level of mixed on Steam, so Bethesda did a good advertising grifting job to hype it up but as usual it left a lot of people were disappointed. I think a lot of people still want Bethesda to do well for some reason despite the the Fallout 76 debacle and its pay to progress, the way they treated loyalty was a disgrace, they lost a lot of customers. People should realise that the are only interested in taking your money than doing anything different or ground breaking anymore even though they claim so, why do people get taken in by their bullshit?
Nah I'll give it a miss and wait for Death Stranding 2.
I've heard The Planet Crafter is a good game.
Awww poor Todd
I disagree, I found this far more engaging than Cyberpunk, which I got bored of really quickly.
I've really been enjoying Starfield. It is effectively Fallout 5 and I guess you have to get over the graphics and some of the other minor annoyances. I've got into this more and quicker than I did any of the games you mention
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Sad, sad news
Im also currently re-watching 99. Im sure something similar happened earlier in the year when one of the stars of show died while I was watching it.
Think I'll rewatch Gavin and Stacey next
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3 minutes ago, HighlandQueen said:
Paul McKay
That's what I said
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11 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
Missed it the first time: look at Gibson's reaction to the 4th goal. Bottom left hand side of the screen
I missed that too. Brilliant
Good to see Paul McKay get an assist for his vital contribution
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7 hours ago, Frankie S said:
He is indeed, (a song called ‘Queen of the South’ features on his 1986 solo album ‘The Man’), though Spurs are his main team. I went to the Cup final in 2008 with Bill. He was mildly intrigued by the suggestion of investing in Queens, though he’s got several kids from previous relationships, so maintenance payments to his ex-partners might have had a preferential claim on his funds, along with the fact that he genuinely did set fire to a million quid. It was a defiantly absurdist gesture watching (much of) the material gains from a successful career in the pop business go up in flames, and I admire him for that, but you have to live with the consequences. It certainly didn’t prompt him to go back to the coal face in the music industry though, and he’s been spending his post-KLF years engaged in uncommercial projects, such as visiting folk whose houses stand on ley lines to make them soup, before embarking upon a decade-long World Tour entitled ‘Best Before Death’, which has seen him shining people’s shoes, baking cakes and building beds in locations from Lexington, North Carolina to Kolkata. Perhaps his modus operandi is changing though, as I notice KLF have just announced a world tour for 2323, with a (revisiting the scene of the crime) date at The Boathouse, Isle of Jura on 23.01.2323.
We need to play more KLF at palmerston. Maybe that's the answer
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42 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
I never singled Wrexham out, they were brought up. There's plenty of other sides doing the same thing but it's not quite as big a circus as Wrexham. Either way I wouldn't want that at Queens.
You literally singled them out as the Welsh Gretna
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11 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
Notts County were another good example. I don't know what the argument is tbh.
I'm sure the hangers on are enjoying it down Wrexham way but given how bored I ended up being the season we walked L1 I'm confident I'd get fed up supporting a team buying success.
Your argument appeared to be singling Wrexham out as doing something unusual.
Wrexham aren't walking it though. It took two years to get out the conference and they're in second in l2.
There's a big difference in bankrolling a team and bankrolling a club. Mileson bankrolled a team as a two fingers to carlisle. He had no interest in the club or it's long term future. If what we've seen of Reynolds is true, that's not what they're doing at Wrexham.
Bankrolling a club can be a positive thing, if there is investment in infrastructure and community and youth development. Ross county have done pretty well out of it.
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57 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
They're a bankrolled side buying success, that's the biggest similarity. I reckon every other side in the league will think of them as we thought of Gretna.
There are dozens of clubs being bankrolled, trying to buy success. Do you think Notts County were paying national league wages last season?
Milestone was a con man who took over a club with no history, no ground to speak of, no catchment area and no core fan base. When he died, the club was left in masses of debt and folded.
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5 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
They're literally the Welsh Gretna. I want things to improve and would love an investor to put some cash in but not to that extent. McElhenney is my comedy hero and Reynolds seems like one of Hollywood's good guys but I wouldn't swap places with Wrexham tbh.
Are they? Apart from having owners who have no previous connection to the club, it's hard to see any other similarities.
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12 minutes ago, virginton said:
How reliable is that possession stat? Having 50-50 possession of the ball (if true) in a game that you proceed to lose 5-0 would be the real red flag than just being pounded by a better team away from home, which happens. That's major Kenny Shiels losing 10-2 at Hamilton vibes.
Not very. Bbc says 63% to 37%
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10 hours ago, Swarley said:
Thats a tremendous result, tremendous. Well done to all involved. Hope this accident in the car park isn't as serious as it sounds.
Anyone any idea why tweets from the Club don't have any actual links to the stories? I'm presuming its an "Elon has f#cked things up" situation, rather than someone forgetting?
We switched to a new integration after Elons fun and games. It wasnt picking up the link, but should be now.
Just have to get round it throttling the tweets around 4:40 every Saturday
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13 hours ago, queenslad said:
Is there still traffic lights at Arena car park?
12 hours ago, MazzyStar said:Yes
No
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16 hours ago, overthetop said:
Hi is anyone having problems buying tickets for Saturday?
There's plenty sold, so doesnt look like theres a general problem.
What problem are you having?
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9 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:
It's really captured the imagination of the public.
Get there early to avoid disappointment.
How's the sign looking?
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2 hours ago, untitled00 said:
I enjoyed the game and it has a lot of replay ability with how the story ends, although
Once the main quest is completed you start again with your existing stats in a “new” universe. It would be nice if the new universe was different if even in subtle ways.
Things like:
Different Factions having control or more influence of different universe to offer something slightly different (maybe the Va’ run more involved etc)
id love one where humans haven’t left Sol but that would be a nightmare for the devs as they’d effectively have to rebuild earth plus a load of bases
Or one where humanity never actually left earth, nuked earth into oblivion and there’s nothing on any planets except the artefacts etc (although this would probably be a pretty boring play through)
As others have rightfully said, if you approach the game as Fallout in space, you’ll have a better experience. If fallout in space sounds shit then you probably won’t like it
As with all Bethesda games, mods really improve the experience.
I haven't seen any mods with major changes, but I'm sure they'll come.
I'm just annoyed that they script extender only works with the stream version, not game pass
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On 26/10/2023 at 01:05, GiGi said:
I heard there was no aliens but I'm hoping that's bullshit for an interstellar game.
Honest reviews still seem to be pretty bad so I've not bothered yet sadly. Will wait for a sale and significant performance patches.
I'm about 50 hours in and no aliens so far. Can't say it's affected the game at all. The whole story, I think, is about everyone leaving earth and colonising other planets. There's plenty of alien creatures to kill.
I've really got into this now. It feels really big, although I know people said it gets repetitive. I haven't hit that yet and still so many quests to do, it's unreal!
I think my enjoyment grabbed hold when I stopped expecting it to be something ground breaking and realised it's just Fallout 5
Eta - I've not had any performance issues. If anything it runs better than any other Bethesda game. I did install a mod that replaces the Amd up scaling with an Nvidia one. It seems a lot smoother after that
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4 hours ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:
A trivial matter really but why do the seat graphics on the QoTS ticket website face away from the pitch?
I think the bold bit is supposed to be the seat and the lighter bit the back of the seat... Maybe
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2 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
I'm guessing that's an old video. Cruel to get our hopes up that we'd see Mimnaugh again
I was wondering that. It looks like it was posted recently but it must have been filmed earlier in the season
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I would put good money on Connelly cheating
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I've started to get into this. Just about to leave New Atlantis after doing as many side quests there as I could.
A lot of it doesn't seem very intuitive, particularly the research but doesn't take too long to understand.
It is very Bethesda though.
I initially had issues with the speech being out of sync, bit moving to the ssd seems to have sorted that
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1 hour ago, GiGi said:
Goalkeepers seem to get injured every other game which will definitely be a bug, have seen others complain about this too.
The old game engine throwing up more shots hitting the woodwork than goals needs sorting as well, games where both teams hit the post/bar 5 or more times each? Come on man that's not how football works.
Media handling and players falling out with you over praise seem completely random too.
I haven't played a new version of this for 10 years now but I'm sure improvements are on the way.
You've missed a lot in the last 10 years.
Improvements might come next year when they finally release a proper new version
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On 15/10/2023 at 18:08, Homer Thompson said:
ETA - for those wondering where the confusion comes from, McKenna went off the pitch on the opposite side from where the substitute came on
22 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:I don't understand how that would happen. The play stops, attention goes to the half way line, the assistant notifies the ref of a sub, the ref notes the sub, the assistant checks the boots, McKenna is subbed off and leaves the pitch. And then what? The memory eraser from men in black? The whole thing is just wiped, McKenna comes back on, and then play continues like it never happened?
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1 hour ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Why would the ref allow him to be on the pitch if he had been subbed off? That doesn't make sense. Got a link to this story?
Its whats commonly referred to as a "mistake"
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38 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Surely the ref and assistant would have taken action if any rules were broken?
Yeah, we all know how competent referees are.
26 minutes ago, DG.Roma said:Board was definitely held up, McKenna definitely left the pitch, but I don't think the sub had came on.
There was another stoppage after the freekick and before the goal. The ball went out for a throw-in which was taken quickly, might even have been McKenna that took it.
Sorry, I thought it was straight before. Pretty sure the sub did come on, but I think it would have to have been while McKenna was off the pitch to make the sub count.
ETA - for those wondering where the confusion comes from, McKenna went off the pitch on the opposite side from where the substitute came on
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Marvin's Maxwelltown Marvels v Embra
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Have we changed formation? Looked to me like Fergusons dropped back into where cochrane was playing and Connelly has moved inside