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Corporate cope 🤣 a few more phrases like that and I'll have a full house on by bullshit buzzword bingo. From the article you posted: "The absence of new models, with most petrol and diesel cars phased out, has left showrooms barren, amplifying the damage." Or "With global sales down 46% from 61,661 in 2022 to 33,320 in 2024". Almost like the article is pointing out the decline started happening long before the advert and the lack of cars is also a factor. So either - You only read the headline before posting. In which case lol. - You're now actually arguing against the article you posted. In which case lol. - Or you're trolling. In which case lol. But assuming one of the first two. As much as you go on about plenty of stock to sell (when there isn't), most of the stock is the less desirable cars/configurations/specs - yes there's significant discount on them but in reality, no, no-one was biting hands off for an XFR, because even in its time not many people wanted a supercharged 5.0L V8 car. Mentioning in it's time, leads on to the next factor, none of the Jaguar line up had a refresh recently so the cars they're trying to sell are 'old' - sticking to the XF as an example, that got refreshed in 2020 so even buying new today, in design/infotainment/technology it's a 5 year old car. Also throw in that no money is being spent on marketing Jaguar - before the re-brand all the adverts got pulled and there hasn't been any since but, for example, you still see Land Rover / Range Rover adverts. You also have to consider that JLR have been paid for the cars you're seeing - normally not selling the cars would lead to overstocking problems, which normally isn't good, but since none are being built, there's no risk of that. So if it's slow selling the small amounts of remaining stock then that's for the dealers to worry about. I'm not saying the re-brand and advert haven't played a part - it's hard to quantify but they may have. But to lay it all at the feet of advert/re-brand is comical when there's plenty of other factors too. Though I'm sure you'll just dismiss this as cope again or some other BS.
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I’m not saying sales haven’t stopped. I’m saying it’s clickbait as the headline is Jag sales decline after woke ad then article goes on to explain the decline is a trend long before the ‘woke’ advert, dealers not having stock to sell and no new models to drive interest (though there are other factors too). If ‘clickbait’ offends, how about sensationalist then? Why is it a surprise that a company saying we’re going to stop selling these products then has poor sales of said product? Where’s a shocked pikachu when you need one. There’s something funny about your anecdotal evidence for the numbers of cars when I know precisely how many they are.
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Yes, definitely the woke advert. Couldn’t possibly be they stopped building Jag’s 6 months ago so don’t have the product to sell. But I guess that doesn’t fit the anti-woke agenda or make clickbait headlines.
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Yup 🙂 We did have a java modded server for about 5 or 6 years but it wasn't getting any use so I let it lapse a few months ago.
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It looks like only Matty can do it as the Realm owner so dropped him a message to post a join link. Never! It’s nice to be able to crossplay with some mods but Bedrock has a looooong way to go to be on the level of java. Also you have to buy the addons for Bedrock (the server host does, not all of us) rather just download them. Plus Bedrock is annoying in some respects though I accept this might just be because I’m so used to Java.
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Good afternoon you beautiful people, I don't know when but at some point recently addons (or mods basically) were added to the store so they can be added to realms. There's whole modpacks on there but to start with, Matt and I decided on a few choice vanilla+ mods. The mods included are - Tinkers Construct (a mod that adds many different materials for tools, upgrades and modifiers to tools) - Storage drawers (these are errr drawers the store stuff - some alternate storage, each draw stores one item but shows the item and single drawers can store a LOT - storage can be increased too) - Botany pots (pots to grow stuff in, simplifies crop growing and with hopper pots, they will auto-harvest crops too) - A structure addon that adds buildings to explore out in the world - A creature addon that adds some new creatures (and variants) to find in different parts of the world. This should work seamlessly for anyone that can connect from whatever device. For me, the realm showed up automatically for me as I've connected before to the old one. So hopefully people can get on but any problems and we can sort out an invite link.
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Some of this will be a recap of the last session too but I'm just typing up my notes to make sure I cover everything 🙂 For the recap we were given a parchment from Guard Captain Foundry in Slema. The parchment was reports of ghoul, skirge and zombie attacks in St Julians, Pachavil and Mosta all the way to the coast. Guard Captain Foundry suggested we should speak to Father Richards, in Mosta, as he has knowledge of the Skirge that could help us. Barm escaped and has the 3 artifacts; Dryda gland, dragon heart and giant spine. We also knew we needed to speak to Ceryni fo the thieves guild who may have information on how to counter Barm's time stop. We started the session in The Swan where we asked Jeremy if he knew where we could find Ceryni, he did not but knew a man who did - Doug. Jeremy sent Miranda out to find Doug - a particularly rough and odorous local scumbag who deals in information. Miranda returned with Doug and it was clear he was going was going to scam us or rip us off in some way as he knew we need information. Draverum snuck off to charm Doug letting us get the information we needed easily - Ceryni is in St Julians and he most likely will be found in The Occult, a thieves guild tavern that is not welcome to non guild members. There are other Thieves guild taverns in St. Julians and they can be identified by a small skull and cross bones on the sign. Doug also informed us that Ceryni is relatively high up in the guild and reports to 4 masters. Also worth of note is that the Thieves guild have their own language 'Thieves Cant' which is only known by members. To help cover up the spell cast on Doug and the information given to us, Azum ordered the strongest drink Jeremy serves, a Lady Boy, and gave it to Doug so he will be too drunk to be able to recall our conversation. We now had a choice - go to St. Julians to find Ceryni to get information on Barm or Father Richards in Mosta for information on the ghouls, skirge and zombies. We decided Barm is the bigger threat so we should speak to Ceryni first. Nothing of note happened on the journey to Ceryni but we arrived seeing a small bustling city 3x-4x the size of Sleema with stone buildings, a busy markets with a church and large keep in the middle. We got stopped by 2 guards on the gate who questioned our purpose in St Julains. We explained we were sent by Guard Captain Foundry and on showing the parchment, they told us we should speak to Marshall Deniver in the keep. We decided if we are going to see Marshall Deniver and Ceryni, we should probably see if we can find Ceryni first but not knowing St Julians, we chatted to a local market stall holder Azool (who sold some delicious if expensive cherries) who told us about 2 taverns, the Baron hog and The Ship with the later being a Thieves guild tavern. We headed there and found it filled with what appeared to be local business and trades men but Brock noticed that 3 men were speaking a language none of knew - Thieves Cant. We sent some food and drink over the their table to ingratiate ourselves and on being served, they came over to our table asking why. The thieves explained they operate the city and we should be careful but they could get a message to Ceryni that we wanted to meet but would be later. We therefore took the time to go see Marshall Deniver in the keep who we met in his modest and, for his station, small office. He informed us that there had been 7 reports of ghouls, skirge and zombie attacks with the most recent being 2 nights ago. He said we should start at the Scolded Child tavern as that's the last known sighting of some of the missing people. Marshall Deniver then gave us a parchment that would allow us to investigate and be given passage in to the towns Pachavil and Mosta and we should return to him in 2 weeks with what we've found. He also advised that we should speak to one of the Victors at the church before we leave St. Julians. On leaving the keep, we decided we should go back to The Ship as that's where we'd spoken to the Thieves guild. But on leaving, a group of children ran in to us and we quick realised they stole our gold as they did - the Thieves guild! Brock cast a spell, freezing one of the children in place who we questioned him finding out he worked for the thief we had spoken to in the morning in The Ship. We took this as a sign Ceryni was ready to meet and got the child to take us to The Occult where led us to the back door which led in to a tavern - a secret tavern behind the public facing one at the front of the building. We sit down with Ceryni who asks what we want, we say we're there for information on stopping Barm. Ceryni says it will cost a favour but Azum offers the coin he got from Jarlaxl from Bragen D'Erth - Ceryni is impressed and accepts the coin in exchange for information. What we need is a counter charm that will stop us being frozen by Barm time stop spell. He further explained that it's a Bard spell and we would need a bard to cast it or have the bard's teach one of us. There is a catch to the counter charm though - it takes 10 minutes to cast but the counter charm only then lasts 60 seconds! Ceryni then spoke directly with Brock pointing out the that all magic has an opposite, Barm has the Dryda gland that is darkness but Brock can cast radiant spell - the light and counter the dark. With that new knowledge, we ended the session to consider our next steps and how to use our new found knowledge.
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Greboth is attending FG Friday - Among Us!
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Greboth is attending Gran Turismo 7 FG Race Night
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Greboth is attending FG Friday - Black Ops 6
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Greboth is attending FG Friday - Wreckfest!
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Greboth is attending Gran Turismo 7 race night
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I’d love to get some Wreckfest on the go but I’m away so will have to join the next one.
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The modded server still exists if you want to play on it 🙂 But I appreciate there's fun in the challenge of figuring out your own 🙂 I remember Voizdev on youtube having some good tutorials on starting and joining servers. They may be out a little out of date now but I'm sure they're still relevant. It's more connecting, joining etc. though rather than hardware. Hardware wise, Minecraft is pretty easy to run so just go with whatever the best hardware is that fit's your budget. Some general comments though, Minecraft is still terribly multithreaded so benefits massively from fast single cores over high core count CPU's. RAM, fast RAM is great but total pool of RAM is more important than speed and even for the heaviest of modpacks I don't think we ever went above 8Gb but we probably pushed that limit a few times. Storage, less of a consideration so really any SSD/NVME would do.
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Halo 3 and the original MW2 was probably my heyday in FPS - young enough to both have the time to play silly hours of it and the reaction time also. Though the game I was best at, probably a shock to no-one, is Gran Turismo sport. I've put a lot of time in to other GT games and countless other racing games but GT Spot was the one I probably got the fastest and consistently fast in due to the FG leagues meant I played it the most.
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Agreed! Hopefully the announcement means it’ll be out relatively soon rather than GTA style it’ll be 2 years. As it’d be great to have it for some FG Fridays over Autumn/Winter.
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Greboth reacted to a post in a topic: Wreckfest 2 Announced
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Wreckfest 2 was announced a couple of days ago. I never got massively in to the first chasing the credits and whatnot but still absolutely love it. There's no release date and not much other detail on it either except the below "Wreckfest 2 is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, featuring a completely overhauled physics engine for even more realistic destruction, fully customizable cars that you can share with other players and revamped game modes including a brand-new split screen mode" @slamminbones time to re-ignite our rivalry 😄
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I'm up for this, it's been a while since killed some zeds. @Chocolateboy Do you want to join from the beginning this time?
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Greboth is attending The tale continues... (DnD Night)
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Go on then, I'll join.