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I'd start saving your money and buy a better one later in the year as £300 is not going to get you a lot and you may find you'll have to buy another one in a few years time. My advice would be to buy a laptop stand and buy a seperate keyboard and mouse. The laptop stand will raise and keep your laptop cooler, so you shouldn't be hunched over too much. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kensington-Portable-Ergonomic-Cooling-SmartFit/dp/B0007YB8NM/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=laptop+riser&qid=1610027525&s=computers&sr=1-5

I agree 100%.

Couldn't have put it better myself

Fascinating 🤗

I found a site that announces the daily races earlier than others so next week's dailies are available. There's an N300 around Blue Moon that we'll avoid I think, but here's the other two. Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Gr.3 4 laps Hard tyres only No fuel or tyre use. Dragon Tail- Gardens Gr.2 13 laps Medium tyres Fuel x2 Tyres x7 Technically the second race is Seaside, not Gardens, but we did Seaside a few weeks ago, so I'm switching it to Gardens. I will also ask new players to grab a Gr.2 car. If that's a problem before Tuesday we can make it Gr.3 or 4 instead. I'll sort the calendar now.

Well SBMM is where you get fucked if you happen to be a superior player 😉

Good shout, and I did indeed do that too. My current chair has a very low back, no lumbar support and it's like sitting on a wooden board so hopefully that should also help! Thanks mate

Also you're welcome!

I'd also look into a better chair, they looks little silly but the gaming chairs that look like racing seats are actually really good for posture.

I can't believe I didn't think of doing that. I'll give it a go with a laptop stand first and see how I get on. Thanks!

Event Title: Gran Turismo Sport - daily races Event Author: phil bottle Calendar: Community Calendar Event Date: 01/12/2021 08:00 PM Two first choice races below, any suggestions for a 3rd race, please stick in the comments. Note, a Gr.2 car is required for race 2 (Nissan and Honda have great Gr.2 cars, plus maybe the Lexus). Race 1. Gr.3 Hard Tyres only No fuel or tyre use Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 4 Laps. Race 2. Gr.2 Racing Medium and Hard tyres, Racing Hards must be used at least once during race. Fuel x2 Tyres x7 Dragon Tail - Gardens 13 Laps. Gran Turismo Sport - daily races N.B. If viewing this via the FG App, please visit the Calendar event via browser to RSVP. Thanks.

@Stretch616 , great thread and definitely looking forward to seeing more of them! I'm gonna look into Rhino Hero and Ghost Blitz for sure. We love Dobble in the house as we've already got 2 versions of it, so I think this one will be a firm favourite!

"but they're likely to be new players, with average K/D ratios skewing as low as 0.72 in some games"....in some games? That's where I live in all CoD games, baby!! 🤣

Yep, thanks to @GazzaGarratt..got the cross gen CoD in digital. Downloaded and installed but yet to take for a spin as 7DTD keeps luring me back to the PC

Spurs to play minnows Man City in the final. I don't believe City have ever won the league cup or even a trophy for that matter so this will be big one for them😎

My package arrived today also. Thank you very much Lee and everyone from FG. The wife was unsure and surprised I had won something. She was chuffed for me and proud. Maybe it will result in extra game time over the year. I can say if I want to have a chance of winning anything else in the future I need another few games. 😂

🤣🤣and what amazeballs passes they were mate! It was like Christmas 2021 had come really early 😍 and thank you mate, I think the more visuals we can create the better it shows off the night we had.

Please tell me @GazzaGarratt you didn't get a pod one??? Gotta grind those beans big boy!

Got Mario Jenga for xmas too and I feel Jenga has come a long way now. Its not just stack a tower its beat Bowzer and collect coins etc and the brick have different bonuses too. Really enjoying a few games of that 🙂 I look forward to you bringing some of these when we can camp again dude.

No Thanks This is a card game based around numbers and the idea being to have the smallest total once the deck is exhausted. The numbers in play are numbered 3-35. Everybody starts the game with no cards and between 7-11 "pass counters". The first card is then revealed from the deck and then it will be down to the first person to decide whether to take the card or to play a pass counter (No Thanks!) Obviously there is slightly more complexity and tactics to the game which is down to 2 factors. When you elect to take the card, you also collect all of the pass counters that have been placed previously. This will then give you an advantage in being able to pass in further rounds. Any cards that you have in a sequence only count to the lowest value. So collecting the 35, 34, 33, 32, 31 & 30 cards would only actually count as 30 points. This is a great dynamic to the game as you then start to think about not only what cards you need to lower your deck value but what cards you could take that would act as "blockers" for your opponents. We've found this one a bit more tactical in the thinking and given this it was difficult to get the psychology of the game through to the younger members of the family. Another issue is that the game is best played with a minimum of 3 players and it really is noticeable in the enjoyment when you play as a duo. I think i'd love to have a bash of this game with a group of adults as i think it'd be a great game, but maybe not as much a game to have an experience of a laugh with. Stretch's board game rating - At the moment, no thanks 4 out of 10 stretches

Ghost Blitz For anybody that's played Dobble and enjoyed it, this game takes to a whole new level of franticness! In this game there are 5 pieces: White ghost Grey mouse Green bottle Blue book Red armchair Then a card is turned over from the deck and it is down to you to decide which piece corresponds with the card and grab it from the table as quickly as you can. No points here for just shouting out the name! You must physically have the piece in your hand to earn the point Like with Dobble, the card may show an exact match to the piece, however the real curve balls are the cards that do not match anything. You then have to go through a process of elimination with what is wrong on the card which will leave one option remaining which is then the piece you want! So if we take the picture below as an example: The card showing a picture of the grey mouse is an exact match and you need to grab the grey mouse as soon as you can! However the other card doesn't show an exact match. So the process of elimination would go as follows: The armchair is the wrong colour, so this is eliminated The armchair is white which is actually the colour of the ghost, so the ghost is eliminated The book is the wrong colour, so this is eliminated The book is green which is actually the colour of the bottle, so the bottle is eliminated Which leaves the grey mouse as the correct piece to pick up It's amazing how quickly the brain can begin to process this elimination way of thinking once you're dialled in which leads to some really frantic grabs for pieces. When you get the right piece you earn the card, then the next card from the deck is revealed and so on until all the cards have been used. The winner is (shockingly!) the one with the most cards once the deck is exhausted. What is also really good on this game is the fact that age doesn't seem to play a part in this game and kids vs grown ups can be a really competitive affair. As a point of reference, Etta is (currently) 5 and she is able to more than hold her own on this and also correct the grown ups sometimes!! This has been our go to game this year since we've bought it and spent many, many hours having a great laugh with it. The box size is probably the size of 2 playing card boxes which means it's nice and portable and you only need a very small playing surface to be able to have a game. At just over £10 for this, it's an absolute steal and i'm sure this will be at the forefront of my game collection for quite a considerable time Stretch's board game rating - A ghostly 9.5 out of 10 stretches

Rhino Hero Probably the quickest game to play out of my current collection as it can be over in the space of a few minutes depending on how it goes! However, there is no chance that you'd play this for only one game, it's just too damn addictive! This is basically the opposite of Jenga, so instead of having to rearrange a pre-existing tower, you have to build this one up from scratch. It's the method of how you do this that makes this fun and different every time. There are 2 types of card in the game. A roof card, which you place on top of the walls and it will show markings on them to show where the next wall structures need to be built: And the wall cards themselves: There are also some roof cards which show the Rhino Hero character's face. On these cards, you have to move the character up to the relevant spot on the roof card whilst also placing the wall cards You then just continue to build the tower until either somebody makes the tower fall over or you run out of wall cards and you (all) win! I can't stress how much i like this game! It's fun every time we've played and it always creates a good atmosphere in the room. The simplicity of this also means that there is no problem with leaving the kids to have a game and there's no need for a referee to be involved!! There is an expansion pack to this game where there are more complicated structures to build in, but the premise remains the same. I have no doubt i'll be investing in this at some point in time and i'll be sure to add on the review into this thread Stretch's board game rating - A Super Rhino 8.5 out of 10 stretches

ffs, crap result for us at the weekend and it doesn't look like we're going to buy anyone this season. Although i thought we played well at Liverpool i still feel we're missing something. Fair play to Liverpool it was a good game, even though Sturridge celebrated like he meant to score that deflected shot lol Looks like Ozil will be going to Aresnal, would have liked to have seen him at utd but it seems we want to bring half of Everton to utd. I like Fellaini and Baines but i think we should be looking at better players. I read today Moyes says we don't need anymore players......is that, we don't need any, or no one wants to come to us. Either way i've been less than impressed with this transfer window (in terms of utd) i really hope we sign someone, i think new faces equals more competition, so will hopefully spur some people on to play harder. Also Bale going to Madrid for 85M is the biggest joke ever, i've never wanted someone to fail so much in my life!