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Think the swap deal worked for everyone. Reckon Mike (can't be arses to lookup the right spelling) will do well at Arsenal if they can hold on to a few of their players

If you're going to be on PS4 for this then hit me up for a few games. This thread has resurrected my interest again and I'm getting back on it!

Only played a couple of games on this but it seems like its a great flanking map as there's loads of levels and entrances\exits. Will take a fair few plays to get up to speed on it more. However the aesthetics are just awesome on it and it really gives the sense of something special. Awesome addition for free yet again.

I agree too, Miky will be a far better player suited at Arsenal. No point having a moody fecker at a club bringing everyone else down.

Yeppers!!

No worries Dude. Hope you get on ok with it. I'm no expert by any means by I do enjoy having a good dabble. Superman is the best starter character from what I remember. I'm just far too deep down the rabbit hole with Batman, Green Lantern and Joker at the moment. Will start to look at another character when they release the TMNT DLC

I'm the only dense person here for not actually including that. /facepalm

We're gonna get spanked [emoji23]

Well, this has languishing for while. This year I want to start actually reviewing the books I read. I mostly am doing it through Goodreads, but I might as well copy it over here as well. I'm pretty wordy, so sorry for that. Malice by John Gwynne, book #1 of The Faithful and The Fallen series Tl;dr: Good vs. Evil. Somewhat hollow characters while building overarching story. Enjoyed and currently reading book two. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In all likelihood, this book (and the rest of the series) would probably have sat on my bookshelves for a number of years before being picked up if not for my husband. For Christmas 2017 rather than give gifts or do anything formal we decided that we would give each other a book that we had previously read and thought the other would also enjoy. This is not what I had expected him to hand me at all. There were at least three other books I was prepared for and this series hadn't even crossed my mind. It's been a delightful surprise. As with most series now the main perspective switches between a series of characters (maybe it's always been this way? I guess with Tolkien it was...). It's your basic good versus evil type story included "The Chosen One" (times two!) and all that trope-y stuff, including a war between God and the Devil, but it didn't make the story any less enjoyable for me. The somewhat novel (HAR) of the story, at least for me, is that you get to read from both the view of the "good guy" as well as the "evil guy" and several others in between. The only other series that I've experienced that with is The Traitor Son Cycle. Sprinkled throughout seems to be themes and ideas drawn from Norse mythology as well as influences of vague Celtic culture and fighting styles of ancient Greece and Rome. It creates an interesting blend. So, our "Chosen One" for the side of good seems to be Corban. He starts off the book at the age of 14 and with that comes all the annoying-ness of people at that age. One could only hope that over the course of the book he matures and becomes a more enjoyable. While I didn't hate him, I would have liked to have given him a couple swats up the side of the head (this is why I shouldn't have children). The best redeeming quality of Corban in the early chapters is that of his family members and close friends. I look forward to learning more of his family friend, Gar. Over the course of the book two years pass and he matures and grows and becomes a man by the cultural standards. Less that awesome things happen to him and it results in some maturity. By the end of the book I couldn't help but like him. Mr. Gwynne has written Corban in such a way that he has this undercurrent of natural charisma that you can't help but be drawn towards. I found myself gradually looking more and more forward to his chapters. I couldn't help but cheer him on and feel sorrow for his hardships. Nathair is the "Chosen One" for the side of evil. We don't directly get to read his headspace, but those close to him. Just the same, I couldn't help but both hate him for his actions and feel pity for him at the same time. He has been tricked to believe he is acting in the name of good. To put it politely, though, he's an egghead. I look forward to his end. One of the main people we get to know Nathair through is Veradis, his First Spear. Honestly though, I loathed his chapters. He is an empty shell of a character that blindly follows Nathair and within what seems like minutes he's entirely devoted to him without question. I found him incredibly annoying and the only reason I didn't consider skipping some of those chapters was because I knew that I would miss some of the most important plot points. And speaking to that, it seemed odd to me some of the conversations he was privy to. He's one of Nathair's closest companions and head of this war clan, but he seemed be allowed to hang around for some really important conversations but not others. That's just me being nit-picky though. There were other things that made me a bit nit-picky as well, mostly due from just coming off The Traitor Son Cycle and completely adoring that universe. During battle scenes (and life in general) I found myself wondering why there weren't squires and the like in the makeup of the lines. I would have to remind myself that based on the description that the war style of this book we're looking at a more Greek/Roman style (i.e. shield wall techniques have just started being used). There were other little things that bothered me as well, but they also were more stylist choices that weren't my favourite rather than faults of the book itself. I hope that as the series continues on that there is more character development for the other, somewhat secondary characters that we meet. I think because it's the first in a series of four books the overarching story was being established rather than character development for anyone other than Corban and Nathair. I'm glad my husband gave me this book to read. It really seems like it's going to be an exciting series and I'm looking forward to plowing through it over the next couple months. The concept of the book and series doesn't seem to be anything too outside of the box, but it's interesting and has drawn me in. I'm already a quarter of the way through book two at this point and likely where it's going as well.

Hey Phil..check this out.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/42815023?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5a69b387ce7984064b448f62%26Classic FA Cup goals - in cartoon form%26&ns_fee=0#post_5a69b387ce7984064b448f62

Mourinho is in form today. Laughing at both Arsenal and Real Madrid. Talk about your pantomime villain🤣 Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

I'm hyped we got Sanchez but the video that was made for his introduction was fucking awful. Still......great swap IMO

I've sent a request to join on gamebattles

I always thought you were high class!

Just watched trailer, accordion looks like it is part of one of the Resistance division uniforms

Oh haha, yeah I built it then got a little carried away with the decorating and making it overgrown I think the whole thing only took maybe an hour and a half, though some of that was spent running around trying to find vines to make some mossy cobblestone. I don't think they are too far removed from medieval though, as quick google suggest medieval houses were usually timber framed with wattle and daub, clay infill or if high class then stone. Obviously on a scale of 8x6 blocks we can't detail the builds too much but that is basically what we've built

Y It shows up if you have Requistions equipped on one of your classes, otherwise it doesn't. Actually less than double ( UAv is only 50% more, but some are closer to double, paratroopers for example.Artillery is 1425 instead of 850).

I love anything DBZ and Street Fighter, so i feel the nostalgia my cloud my judgement but either one of them or both would do me just fine

I managed to pick up Injustice 2 standard edition for £11 so I grabbed that but definitely open to exploring the others games too. DBZ looks entertaining but I may wait to see if I can get that cheaper and the only real thing putting me off SFV was the DLC BS in the original version but now the Arcade (GOTY ver basically) edition is out; that makes it a more attractive purchase. I may leave Tekken 7 aside - although I grew up with the series and the new game is supposed to be decent; the story elements aren't quite as deep as Injustice or as interesting as SFV and jumping into the online element now would no doubt see my arse spanked!

Preordered Dragon Ball FighterZ. I'll let you know how I like it. I'm pumped. Via the FG App

I can only speak for Injustice 2 but its a great game. Story mode is ace, Multiverse is great, gear is done properly and the online is really solid. Combo timing is quite forgiving also which really helps when trying to learn new strings. I held off on SFV as the game basically wasn't complete when they released it. Now that the arcade version has been released I'm looking to try and get into it, however that'll mean a new arcade stick or a converter for my ps3 one. I'm just a bit hesitant to spend 40 quid on it if it doesn't work Guilty gear is a solid game from what I've seen and is pretty cheap now too. I'd honestly play fighting games more but there's generally not a lot of people on here that are interested in them

Motherwell rip the piss out of Sanchez's cringeworthy introduction video Original Fantastic stuff!

Samurai Showdown on the 3dO or Neo Geo

No he became Vulcan Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Lol these maps were the ones found in the encrypted beta files way back in October which housed the pre-released gold build data meaning this map pack is essentially the cut content that was withdrawn for the game! The Resistence remake ('Paris' in the files) was also remade in Infinite Warfare last year so people that bought that pack are going to be playing the same map yet again. I assume this is a paid DLC and if it is; Activision have done a savage job on people's wallets for material that should have been included in the base game.

Liverpool 4-3 Man City Swansea 1-0 Liverpool