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Retired plumbing and heating engineer/estimator/project manager here Luseth. HNC Building Services was as far as I got but this industry can be a carousel at times - correct @Diddums? - and I moved around regularly until I found a niche in a small family company and stayed there 19 years! 😂

Ooooooooh is it? Fuck. That changes things. Will have a looksee, loved these games as a kid 😄

Great thread @Luseth . A lot of FGers may have put some of what they do in their PPRs over the years but I think things always change for some people. Not me though, lol. I work in Projects/Change. Yep, vague as hell and the most transferable thing you could probably do. I'm a Change Lead at a UK Building Society. Been here for 18 years come 27th September. I'd say my job feels very much like what you might ask like a consultant to do to come and help problem solving and get decisions on certain technology, processes and organisation structure/people. It has been varied for the past 10 years, and I always feel really lucky that I've had chance to work on the biggest projects/programmes we've done in all that time. I'm currently on the biggest one at the moment which is delivering software for mortgage brokers and staff to use with customers on mortgages. On the subject of our current jobs, thought i'd also mention that Covid has changed my mindset even further - Working from Home pretty much permanently although you never know how long that may last. Its done wonders for me mentally. Seeing the kids and wife so much more than I did. I don't feel as guilty as i did and I really am a big believer in living your life to the fullest - which means getting the best work/life balance you can find. Very rarely we find a job to live for as we mostly work to live. I'm definitely in the camp of work hard but don't allow anything to get in the way of real important shizzle things happening in life...which could even be what we're gaming on tonight! 🤣😎

Loved turtles in time back on my snes. I will have to pick this up. 6 player online co-OP with you lot would be awesome!

I mean... It's on PS4/5 too. 😉 It's so fun though. I miss games like this.

Must not buy a Switch, must not buy a Switch...

Fancy bringing the Demo with you in November @crispymorgan ? 😎Great concept, even if you don't like Metal.

Bout time you came home dad, we've been missing you.

The new Baldurs Gate plays more similarly to Divinity, slightly more fluid though from what I understand. Plus the system is pretty much D&D 5th edition.

Maaaaaaaateee @Riff Machine , it really IS AWESOME!! I absolutely love that the game plays and feels so much like the old classic side scroller, but it also feels refreshed, extra moves and details. Actual content to replay and the fact it is 6 Player co-op online is incredible. Also, I really love the extra detail on the Story mode that it has a World Map, very similar to how Super Mario World would have, which i'm really impressed by. For £18 it is an absolute steal of a buy. Couldn't agree more Chad.

Straight up, If you've played the classic TMNT arcade games or Turtles in Time... GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!! This plays and feels just like those classics we all grew up with. The original voice cast (Minus James Avery R.I.P.) has returned to their respected voices and its such a flash back. Online co-op and up to 6 players! It's so damn good!

Quite a variety on here then 😄 @Diddums that sounds an incredibly interesting place to work at! Well seeing as I did start the thread it's only right I do add my bit as well. Personally I am a mechanical design engineer (or at least I qualify for it in the next couple of months), so I have worked for the same company for 6 years just as a CAD technician (so turning marked up drawings into 2d professional drawings) and about 2 years ago I spoke to the boss about moving into design and he agreed, so I have been attending college for a day a week working towards my HNC, I can go further but have chosen not to just yet (and unfortunately for him, the young designer at the time was let go and I have now slotted into that position). As a company we design mechanical and electrical systems for large buildings (mainly residential apartments and the such), moving into mechanical design as I am I am moving into designing heating, cooling, ventilation, drainage & water services (this typically includes plantrooms & tankrooms that run the water to apartments and the such) and I get involved in others such as fire suppression systems, smoke ventilation and building management systems (I have to spec up some of these things). The past year or so I have worked on my first project based in Bath and it is being installed currently so I will be going down to see it next week. Where I think one of the senior designers has realised I will be incredibly valueable is with Revit & BIM, this is basically the 3d modelling of buildings (I will sort out a few screenshots at some point to show you guys) and everything that goes into them, something I have an interest in but the opportunity has never come up to really get going with it until very recently. In addition I am partially responsible for IT & software management for the company, sometimes select products to install in the project and that sort of thing so it's quite a broad role I have at the moment. So my subject knowledge is quite broad and growing rapidly and I could realistically go and get a much higher paid job than I do currently but I kind of like it where I am because I am getting the opportunities now to develop, do some of my own things and the such as well. Though the conversation will be coming about pay this year, once I get my certificate, just need to build up some confidence for it because it's not something I have ever done before!

So just had a meeting with one of my directors at work (the one that's more likely to be grumpy than not). He made a comment about me being indespensable which was surprisingly nice! But it made me think of yesterday's bored at work thread and in turn wondering what everyone does for a living on here? 🙂

This releases tomorrow!!!!! 6 player co-op!! ONLINE!!! And, It's getting some great reviews! This should be a fun one with some FGers!

Soooooo Rhythm Shooters. Sounds like a crap idea. HOLY SHIT IT IS AWESOME!!!!!! It's basically Doom, but shooting in time to the music does extra damage, dashing in time to the music is better, and reloading in time to the music is twice as fast. There's also a powerful finisher that is (yup, you guessed it) in time to the music. It shouldn't be this much fun, but when you pull off a slick dash kill 180 headshot finisher reload kill some more......... it's amaze balls. Download the demo, forget what you think you play an fps like and go ham. The music is epic too, Serj Tankian etc, depending on the multiplier depends on how much music plays, 16x multiplier is EPIC music time so play with headphones.

Yes @Diddums, odds are electric will play a bigger role but by all accounts i think its too early to tell where things are going for us as mechanical designers as far as where the energy will come from. (I have studied some electrical units too and would like to learn both if for nothing more than understanding both sides will only help the design process). You may have seen different but from my point of view a lot of the heating focus has been around heat networks so that the gas boilers can be swapped out down the line, its just a change of heat source then (and its fairly efficient combined with HIU’s). Its the heat source that people are still not sure of, we have worked quite closely with the guys that have written CP1 for CIBSE and been some of the early adopters of their revised guidance (in fact we were installing heat networks based on the Danish standards prior to CIBSE adopti g it and creating their version (though back then I only cadded it all!) As far as what we do as a business we are on the install side as well so typically the types of systems we install are somewhat dictated to us and we make it work (we are in the process of working on and installing our first net zero carbon project utilising underfloor heating and ground source heat pumps). The communal vent is much more traditional but the energy useage is offset by solar panels on the roof etc. So we are getting our foot in the door as a company 🙂 But as I say personally the design elements of a project is still relatively new to me (in fact I often think I might enjoy the BIM side of things more so my career path could change again down the road and my director did hint the other day that I could have the opportunity to lead that aspect of the business, though thats all for discussion yet) I am finding it funny how I have come on this forum and found someone I could discuss all this with, I always find everyone looks at me funny when i say what I do. Considering how much we rely on these systems for comfort and yet so few people know what it involves (like a lot of careers im sure!) Sorry for the long reply! 😁

Ah, so you design all the stuff I used to install and now look after. I'm an HVAC installer by trade, pipe fitting being my speciality. I am no longer on the tools however and manage a team of engineers instead. Do yourself a favour and concentrate on energy, that's where the world is heading. In my last building I oversaw the installation of an Openblue system and saved my client £1m in the first year, with the prospect of another £1m over the next three. It was extremely intensive and took a lot of dedication but the results are worth it. This was one single building, the only building in London to have a running track on the roof and the first building in the client's portfolio to have free cooling, photovoltaiv solar, thermal solar and energy recovery in the air handling units. It's a benchmark for most of their portfolio now, interesting stuff 🙂

Ah coolio. Thanks @phil bottle

Really well put together, an excellent watch!

I may have to play this on PC. I find the control for PS is too fucky. I'd play on a steam deck too if i was lucky enough to get one. Does the new Baldurs Gate play similar to Divinity or is it more Diablo-ish?

Battlefield 4 was already on its 4th map expansion by this stage🤣 BF4 Premium was one of my best purchases - the base game had some devastating technical and performance issues but once that was fixed to a degree and the new content started rolling it, it was an absolutely sensational package with guns galore and varied maps. It's such a travesty we don't get anything like this now especially with them not being burdened by having to deliverer paid map packs. Players really got screwed over with BF5 because we missed out on at least 8 new maps because they were busy trying to fix all the issues the game had. It's even worse now because they have to make the new content away from the conceptual flaws whilst under feedback guidance from the community. What a pickle!

I'm happy enough with Southgate and think he deserves the world cup which to me is where he should be assessed, a lot of the recent results have not been great admittedly but you can see he is also looking ahead and if we disrupt it now we are back to square 1. Being a Birmingham City fan at the moment has really been tough over recent years but it appears like we are on the verge of being sold and there is a lot of speculation as to who will end up owning us and with Bassini being the front runner, who is really behind / backing him. Suspicions are that it is David Sullivan at West Ham (as he is in the process of selling West Ham currently) which would be interesting as he left us previously and we found ourselves in a world of hurt. On the flip side our fans blame him for our current plight so it will take a lot for him to win them over.

@Luseth been good seeing you joining us on Fifa dude 😊 I'm an accounts clerk for a shop fitting company, it can be pretty mundane really, but i've been looking to move on from here to somewhere a bit closer to home recently

Damn you @Diddums now i have to do a proper one as well. Assessment compliance for an exam board. Assessment performance statistics on one hand, internal auditing of awarding body processes on the other. Long term, however, I want full blown anarchist communism and to do away with the wage system entirely. Belated welcome to FG btw @Luseth I've been away a few weeks👍 Nice to see new threads to chat about stuff.

Your thread piqued my interest, what do you do @Luseth ? Me? I'm a laboratory and technical operations manager at one of the world's most interesting places. A few tidbits: we have a tree which is grown from a sprig from Newton's actual apple tree, my client designed the bouncing bomb for the Dambusters, and Alan Turing did a load of research here in his early days. We also have an atomic clock which dictates the time around the world, accurate to within 1 second every one hundred million years. I could go on and on, but I'll let you Google it if you're interested 😄 Here's a video from Tom Scott: I was moving furniture for £50 a day when I moved to London in 2006.

I invented dice when I was 6 years old then retired. J/K I work in retail, more specifically I work for Tesco.

I'm a wage slave whose taxes fund all sort of depraved immoral government policies.

This game has incredible potential - demo available on Steam via the Next Fest event if you want to give it a shot. It's basically a spiritual successor to F.E.A.R and it looks visually fantastic. Doesn't quite carry the same level of horror and I'm really not keen on the name but this is really one to watch!

@GazzaGarratt I do like the series but it's not without it's flaws! Fallout New Vegas is probably the best of the series but I enjoyed Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. It's very much a love it / hate it series of games though so if you don't enjoy them you never will 🙂

Wow that's a really cool and wild concept, so if your good at it you don't need an editor you are already making a montage. 😎

Awesome @crispymorgan I'll have to check this out. There was one released not that long ago that had a similar vibe. BPM: Bullets Per Minute.

Seems to be a faithful remastering if an already remastered title rather than a complete remake. TLOU1 running on the sequel’s tech will look amazing but it still feels a bit of a pointless venture. The one saving grace appears that they won’t tamper with it narratively which is an almighty relief

This looks like a game right up my alley. Visually, It looks very similar to Blasphemous (Released last year) and gameplay is akin to the typical metroidvania/souls-like trend as of late. Release date is listed as 2022 so here's hoping sometime soon. For me at least.