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Let it run out. You can buy gold for 3 years using the codes you buy at a discount online and convert it to the full game pass for £1 for that 3 years. Think I paid £100 for ours.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I do know one sad case of a woman - a former friend - who was impressed by type of car. The rest of us called it a dick on wheels 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:So she started dating a doctor also called same Name with said sports car to try and one up me. Love it. A real Chicks Keep Rockin' moment.
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Payndz posted:Felt strongly enough about that fash-haired shithead's sheer gall that I did the very rare thing of responding to a politician's tweet. It will be ignored, of course, but I felt a bit better for doing it.
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I actually agree with that article about Sunak. Hate the guy obviously but I spend a lot of time with homeless people for various reasons and they hate more than anything being patronised or talked to like this is their life forever, or indeed any differently to a housed person. Sunak actually handled that well in my more-experienced-with-this-sort-of-thing-than-most opinion, particularly bearing in mind that the alternatives are generally abject pity and barely concealed disgust, which are both equally as humiliating.
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TBH my biggest issue with the article is it cuts out the part of the exchange where Sunak tries to hide what his job in the finance industry was, and the homeless guy pointedly states it to make Sunak admit his previous company and position. You know, the main part of the exchange where Sunak was not being honest with the person he was talking to.
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Tesseraction posted:TBH my biggest issue with the article is it cuts out the part of the exchange where Sunak tries to hide what his job in the finance industry was, and the homeless guy pointedly states it to make Sunak admit his previous company and position. Yeah that was scummy. I'd probably also not use my platform as a journalist to post a pro-Sunak article in a major paper even if I did have reservations about how a lot of people on my side were reacting to it.
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The Perfect Element posted:Status symbols attract people who care about status, and make everyone else think you're pathetic. I guess there will be some people who are more likely to touch your peen because of it. I do like nice cars (to drive, not be driven) but I'd get way more hot and bothered for a person with a bike and an oyster card than someone who got into massive debt or wasted a house deposit for a depreciating asset. Fair enough for people who need a car but a 20-year-old MX5 does a way better job of screaming "I'm financially stable with a touch of dashing irresponsibility" than a Maserati or that most basic of wealthy wanker cars, the Porsche Carrera.
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The article's a strawman, you're "supposed" to "agree" with it. Meanwhile *gestures*
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jacksbrat posted:a 20-year-old MX5 does a way better job of screaming "I'm financially stable with a touch of dashing irresponsibility"
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Re kids and games, I have two sons, both late tweens/early teenagers. Both got laptops young with a lot of parental oversight, no iDevices. First Son likes paradox mapgames and RPGs, Second Son likes free to play online games* where he can chat with his mates and is pretty relaxed about the gameplay, although he’s recently started showing an interest in brawlers / fighting games. For Xmas First Son got a switch and his most played game to date is super Mario world from the back catalogue, none of my doing. * this is China, which means these are most of the games his schoolfriends play.
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Well, I bought my large adult son (it's me, I'm the son) Persona 5 Royal today so that's fun. Also, I want to say that since Mike Ashley bought Game, god that shop has gotten miserable. It's gone from having its own store in the shopping centre in Inverness, Eastgate, to now being a small corner in Sports Direct. I really wanted to pick up Yakuza Like a Dragon but they didn't have it. And honestly, they had a pisspoor selection. At this point I think the best place for buying games in Inverness is probably just Tesco, which is a bit depressing. I realise this a niche post because you all probably just buy games online, but I'm an old fashioned idiot forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Dead Goon posted:It's very tempting to get back on Twitter just to call people like this cunts. If you don't get the "most people don't post tweets like this" warning you're not winning at twitter.
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Lol imagine buying a game from a store I bet you still get your porn delivered by the porn man every morning too
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forkboy84 posted:I realise this a niche post because you all probably just buy games online, but I'm an old fashioned idiot At least you admit that. Instead of simply buying and downloading the game, you have to travel to loving Sports Direct and Tesco, and do a bunch of shopping around, to then buy a more expensive product, that needed plastics and petrol and a global supply chain to come to you. This is obviously worse in every single way, but you can see that, and you seem to understand that when people like you are gone, the world will move past that...method. Meanwhile with ebooks, there are people that can spend their entire day reading on their phone screen, with whichever font and lighting options they prefer, but if you ask them to read an ebook on that same screen...that's not just absolutely impossible for them personally, but is a blight upon the concept of reading itself, a betrayal of every author in history.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If you don't get the "most people don't post tweets like this" warning you're not winning at twitter. I get that sometimes - yay I'm a winner at twitter.
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Power wash simulator is how I relax after a hard day being anxious at Victoria 3, wish I could bottle that zen feeling.
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forkboy84 posted:Also, I want to say that since Mike Ashley bought Game, god that shop has gotten miserable. It's gone from having its own store in the shopping centre in Inverness, Eastgate, to now being a small corner in Sports Direct. I really wanted to pick up Yakuza Like a Dragon but they didn't have it. And honestly, they had a pisspoor selection. At this point I think the best place for buying games in Inverness is probably just Tesco, which is a bit depressing. I realise this a niche post because you all probably just buy games online, but I'm an old fashioned idiot Depressing. I remember when it was an Electronics Boutique.
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Mugsbaloney posted:Power wash simulator is how I relax after a hard day being anxious at Victoria 3, wish I could bottle that zen feeling. This is a problem I have, I would in theory love to relax with games, but the games I play are stressful, deep, and sometimes I end up watching 5-10 hours of Youtubes while taking notes, about how to play them, before I start them up (Shadow Empire is a great game btw, mixes civ-style 4X with paradox-style mapgame stuff and grognard wargame stuff).
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domhal posted:Depressing. I remember when it was an Electronics Boutique. I remember when I had both in town simultaneously and if I didn't like what was on the shelves at one I could go and check out the selection at the other.
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All this game talk made me realise that the last new game I bought was Far Cry 6 - which came out over a year ago, even though I thought "Must have been this April or May, surely?" And there's nothing I've seen upcoming that I'm interested in playing. Guess my interests have changed as I've got older, except they don't seem to have been replaced by anything new.  (Can't work up any enthusiasm for new movies or TV shows either.)
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Microplastics posted:Lol imagine buying a game from a store It’s convenient, but tits poke through the foil sometimes, which can be a problem.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Re kids and games, I have two sons, both late tweens/early teenagers. Both got laptops young with a lot of parental oversight, no iDevices. First Son likes paradox mapgames and RPGs, Second Son likes free to play online games* where he can chat with his mates and is pretty relaxed about the gameplay, although he’s recently started showing an interest in brawlers / fighting games. How's the Great Firewall's play time limits?
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Payndz posted:All this game talk made me realise that the last new game I bought was Far Cry 6 - which came out over a year ago, even though I thought "Must have been this April or May, surely?" And there's nothing I've seen upcoming that I'm interested in playing. Guess my interests have changed as I've got older, except they don't seem to have been replaced by anything new. play elden ring imo
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Brendan Rodgers posted:At least you admit that. Instead of simply buying and downloading the game, you have to travel to loving Sports Direct and Tesco, and do a bunch of shopping around, to then buy a more expensive product, that needed plastics and petrol and a global supply chain to come to you. This is obviously worse in every single way, but you can see that, and you seem to understand that when people like you are gone, the world will move past that...method. I just like that I can trade games in and buy games 2nd hand for cheaper. Make a way I can trade in digital games rather than having a collection of hundreds of Steam games that will never be touched again. Which just seems wasteful in a different way.
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Payndz posted:All this game talk made me realise that the last new game I bought was Far Cry 6 - which came out over a year ago, even though I thought "Must have been this April or May, surely?" And there's nothing I've seen upcoming that I'm interested in playing. Guess my interests have changed as I've got older, except they don't seem to have been replaced by anything new. What games do you recall really liking previously?
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Has any woman actually ever been impressed by a man’s car? Like growing up there always seemed to be this thing that having a powerful manly car would be a definite bonus with the ladies, but I’ve never met a woman who gives a poo poo - even the ones who are themselves are enthusiasts. I did meet my ex and current SO because they asked "Is this your car?"
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forkboy84 posted:I just like that I can trade games in and buy games 2nd hand for cheaper. Make a way I can trade in digital games rather than having a collection of hundreds of Steam games that will never be touched again. Which just seems wasteful in a different way. Giving Mike Ashley more money is way more wasteful than just about anything. You’ll also generally get way more for any given game on eBay, and buy them cheaper there too. You can replace your trip to the shop with a trip to the post office to send the games off to their new homes even, if you need to justify it as a “gets me out of the house” scenario.
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Microplastics posted:Lol imagine buying a game from a store All the games I ever own(ed) where bought like that. I found all these at my parents out back in a shed earlier this year.     Terra Nova has such a great cover    I don't think this is complete though. Star Control III was good because it came with Star Control II and this incredibly huuuge printed map of hyperspace for it, must've been like A0 size. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Phwoar I loving love a big cardboard PC game box so I do
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Brendan Rodgers posted:This is a problem I have, I would in theory love to relax with games, but the games I play are stressful, deep, and sometimes I end up watching 5-10 hours of Youtubes while taking notes, about how to play them, before I start them up (Shadow Empire is a great game btw, mixes civ-style 4X with paradox-style mapgame stuff and grognard wargame stuff). Just googled it and holy poo poo between this, dwarf fortress and dominions I think I'm gonna have to be chiselled off my laptop like burnt cheese from an oven
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Splurged out and got two half price games for £12 on Steam (Empyrion & Delta V: Rings of Saturn), will dive into them when i get bored with Space Engineers again.  I threw out my Freelancer cd a few years ago.... wtf was i even thinking then?!?! 
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Rarity posted:Phwoar I loving love a big cardboard PC game box so I do I have an original USA release version of No One Lives Forever, with the fold-out cover. You may touch the hem of my garment if you wish. Not for too long though.
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forkboy84 posted:I think I still have the Alpha Centauri manual, with lots of interesting appendices about the star Isn't it a trinary system and thus probably inhospitable towards life when the wrong cycle comes about? Though I am basing this on a fictional book, Three Body Problem.
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There was a actual book walkthrough for zelda ocarina of time and I only bought it out of desperation when I got to the water temple.
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Mugsbaloney posted:Just googled it and holy poo poo between this, dwarf fortress and dominions I think I'm gonna have to be chiselled off my laptop like burnt cheese from an oven If you're into Dwarf Fortress and Dominions, Shadow Empire is definitely the game for you. I struggle to recommend it to most people, even though I love it myself, but you are the exact person to enter that kind of game without bouncing off it.
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