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Sup fellas I got a $500 gift card from some work stuff, and spent a few days looking for crap to buy and couldn't come with anything that wasn't just spending to spend. My son is pretty into PC gaming and has a bunch of friends on discord that play together. Currently our setup is a rig that I built about 10 years ago - i7-2600k, GTX 480, 8gb, a few SSDs and SATA drives, Sabertooth p67 board, dual monitors. Not anything fancy in today's terms but it was a big chunk of money 10 years ago and thankfully it's still working really well. I had the store build it for me originally but I've taken it apart and cleaned it a couple of times so I'm not opposed to buying everything separate and building it with my son so he can learn. Given all he knows is that 10 year old rig, I don't see any reason to go crazy on budget and buy top of the line stuff so I'm thinking a max budget of like $1k USD. I would think I could get at least the same specs as my current setup 10 years later for that budget amount. I think I spent around $2500 for the original setup and hopefully Moores law gets me better than that for this budget. I do want to future proof this a little bit but I don't know how much is too much in terms of device specs and I don't want to go overboard for no reason. He can use his own money later on to upgrade this as he wants. I don't know anything about todays current standards for gaming requirements, so just looking for advice on what you would buy if I handed you $1k. Everything he plays now has zero issues on our current setup but thats mostly minecraft and he's getting into mods and fancy stuff. If the budget needs to go up that's fine, I just figured this was a good starting point and with the gift card it would only cost me $500. I'm not including monitors in this, I have a bunch of good ones collecting dust and we can make that birthday presents or he can buy them if he wants. Appreciate any suggestions!

The Tetris blocks have names. Names! Somebody actually sat there and thought "I know what's missing from this game - The blocks don't have names." Thus, the blocks now have names. Long live Orange and Blue Ricky.

Cameroon 3-3 Serbia and South Korea 2-3 Ghana already today! What a goal Dude probably thought he was offside so he went for the spectacular!

My son completed it really quickly as he absolutely LOVES Kratos and the God of War games. I don't understand how you can cope with all the melee combat but it definitely gives some exciting feedback to the user. He said he actually got emotional at the story which was nice to hear from him and he's been going back through the game as and when for all the things you can pick up and collect. Some real hard bosses for a 13 year old but I've watched him try and try again and its a great game to just watch too. @Riff Machine , if someone was new to God of War, would you make sure they played the first one on PS4 or just dive straight into this one?

England are top of the group, unbeaten. Last performance wasn't great but wasn't abysmal either. Statistically in the hardest group so i'm not that bothered about what others think. Gareth Southgate, whatever you think of him, is spot on when he seemingly has to remind the British public that this is tournament football and you don't win the tournament in the group. You build up across the tournament. As football is our first and national sport, I understand the frustration. We all want our clubs to smash each team 25-0 every week, but it doesn't happen. Just abit of perspective needed although I'm not expecting it. English mentality dictates the backlash after evert game. I don't think many England fans understand the words 'balanced opinion'. I still would also like to see Foden at some point in this tournament too. In other games, they was some crackers yesterday. Morocco were superb to beat Belgium and I think Germany did well to stay in the game with Spain. Spain look great in the main but they didn't handle people running at them very well.

Funny how they've banned so many streamers for being 'toxic' yet turn a blind eye to them and others also cheating🤣

I finished this last night and got the platinum trophy this morning. As with the first one, it was one hell of a ride. Yes, some parts I felt could have been fleshed out more, but all in all, fantastic game.

Let the journey begin!!!! I started this last night and oh man, is it gonna be a hell of a ride. If you've grabbed it as well, post your thoughts down below.

What are you doing in there? The challenges. strongholds. Something else? I kind of like it. It's a simpler Warzone in many ways. You got a squad? Solo? Randoms? I've gotten some really good randoms and some really bad ones. I kills me when they just bail after we spawn in and leave me short teams mates. Sometimes being solo is better because you can mitigate you danger.

It's it's easy to prove the guy's a prick. Harder to prove that he is cheating. Just have to watch his video's, yep he's a prick

I think it's more DMZ specifically. 💀 Warzone 2.0 will soon add popular Metal Gear Solid feature WWW.GAMINGBIBLE.CO.UK The feature was spotted by one eagle-eyed player.

Nothing new about this this. The warzone loot mode has the ballons to extract your cash. It would be nice to have in order to eliminate extraction camping. Since all teams know you have the case and were you are, extracting is dangerous and difficult. That would make that much more difficult for the opposing teams

I don't think people are shelling money because the game is unpopular. They are doing it because they cannot manage the activity + the extraction It requires skill and a decent squad. Lots of people can't invest in it I've played the DMZ and I do prefer it to Warzone. My only complaint is that I wish I could unequip some of the stuff for my soldier. If I want to go in to do something challenging I don't want to lose by large backpack, vest and mask. I wouldn't mind being able to leave them behind This video kind of shows the problem. You had 3 profession gamers take on people who just are there to play. The first attack is kind of pathetic were the killed players who had no gear and were no danger. So that's why people fork the $25 We had the case and people just camped us at the extract. So "get better"

Would be a cool feature as long as its implemented well. I think it would have to be a case of being able to extract goods anywhere but at the same time having a possibility the stored cargo can be shot down.

I always found infinity ward games are awful in hardcore.....

That'd work I suppose. Shame EA haven't released a decent Stat API like destiny and other games have that you can implement in a website..

Not checked it lately but it has helepd in the past. Main issue though is more that EA only seem to keep available for the last 5-10 games in the API. So once its gone, its gone. Its definitely been reduced over the past year from 10 to about 6 I think. I've also noticed some stats don't track exactly to how it pans out when playing, which is very weird. Huge area for EA to capitilise on but I just think they CBA. 🤷‍♂️ If we have simplistic template that anyone can use and then somewhere to post or send it in, it would be pretty easy to keep up with. Me too! EA don't even let us play cross-gen which is even more annoying. Miss you on the PlayStation mate! ❤️

Just to provide another view on this, isn't this sort of thing essentially what some of the bigger tech companies are trying to achieve with a metaverse? The idea that someone is paying some money for a gun in a game isn't really any different from skins or virtual content. In fact some people pay thousands of pounds for virtual land these days and with the planet going the way it is there is every possibility that for most people a virtual world is going to be where people spend a lot of their time one day. I feel like the idea of trading real world money for virtual items has been around for some time already?

If you thought that Border Crossing or Taraq are bad in Core then you definitely don't wanna play them in Hardcore. They're absolutely awful.

Kind of, but this stuff exists everywhere now so I think its more about gaming culture changing more than anything. There are some that don't really want to work or even try in the slight to get weapons or unlocks in games anymore - this is exact same thing happens in Destiny 2 and has for years. Its really down to the company to ban and stop recoveries and people that actively play for others for money. It may be a shame that one gun is in a gamemode that some don't like or want to use, but thats not enough noise and reason to not make a reward like that available. If the game had 3 weapons and this was 25% of the available weapons then people may have a point but it won't break the game fundamentally at all. The real losers here are the people that pay money for it.

How would you know its not your thing if you've not tried it? Have a go sunshine, it might make your day. Ok it might not 😅

Don't take it as gospel that DMZ is unpopular.

Finally got around to playing some COD this evening. Four hours went by in a flash. It seems I'm massively addicted to the DMZ mode. Absolutely love it.

While very true it is one of if not the reason we have the bullshit shop etc in games and why only fans exists. 😉

Activision: "We the boss of you bitch" 🙂

Japan bottle it losing 1-0 to Costa Rica - could've sealed their spot in the last 16 but have blown the group wide open and let Germany back into it. Belgium losing 2-0 to Morocco and getting outplayed once again puts them in a tough spot needing to beat Croatia in their final game. From what I've seen, they are well and truly past it despite having the strongest team on paper in the world for a good few years. Roberto Martinez was not a good choice with those quality of players and their overall composition. Spain v Germany tonight will be massive!

I bought a new truck. I've had the same Ram since 2012, but gave it to my son. So now I have a 2021 Ram 2500 Power Wagon. I wanted something to off-road with and the PW is, IMO, the top of the line full sized truck for the sort of off road trails I have access to. I wanted to order a 2023, but order banks are closed and once they reopen it will still be an estimated 6-9 month wait to get one. I decided to go used instead and focused on the 2021 for the 75th anniversary package, which has a unique 2 tone interior that isn't available in any other Power Wagon. This thing is absolute tits for everything but fuel economy. I'm ditching the steps for actual rock sliders, which I've already ordered. Also need a bed cover, but otherwise don't intend any additions or modifications until it needs tires and I go to 35". PW comes factory with front and rear axle lockers, front sway bar disconnect, and is a 2500 (so heavy duty frame, axles, running gear) but sprung light closer to a 1500 for better ride and offroad flex. The 75th anniversary adds a ton of luxury features. Heated/cooled leather seats (mountain brown over black), 360 camera with tire paths, adaptive headlights (the lenses make the headlight beam sweep with the steering wheel so you're always in the 'sweet spot' and it's amazing), etc. This one has the sunroof and every option but the safety group (didn't want) and ram boxes (didn't care one way or the other). I bought it with 8107 miles on it and in pristine condition.

Just about time to head out. Flying on Monday.

I'll go with Dave then. Anyone who uses a statue with such a small dick in order to be reafirmed probably is over compensating for something too 🙂

Anyone tried out mods or are you running vanilla? If you have, feel free to post them below. Since coming back I'm running vanilla, but I'll be looking at traffic mods soon. Useful links: https://truckersmp.com/ - makes the game online, thousands play this. https://forum.scssoft.com/viewforum.php?f=24&sid=e5d61f00b3528ad4154655f848073e69 - main place you might look for mods. https://forum.scssoft.com/viewforum.php?f=109 - you may find more user created realistic plugins for your wheels, such as realistic FFB. https://www.promods.net/ - most well known map pack for ETS2. https://www.roextended.ro/forum/index.php - another well known map mod. https://trucksbook.eu/index - already known here but creates a virtual trucking company (doesn't affect your in-game company). **I would recommend having a separate profile that contains map mods, as game updates break mods until they get updated**

Argentina have definitely brought them game in a lot, you don’t beat New Zealand, England, Australia, and Scotland twice without having elevated your game. Japan game masked a lot about Englands lack of speed and creativity in the back line against top level defences (think the Smith and Farrell combo still isn’t working, smith doesn’t seem confident enough to operate for England at 10 without a lot off space which we had in the last 10mins against New Zealand, and although Farrell is kicking and leading well, he offers no run threat at 12 and slows the game around him down to the detriment of Manu), plus Eddie is still only picking more experienced players May and Nowell who are getting slower and hasn’t brought through any younger wingers outside of Freddie Steward. It’s a bit better news with our forwards although they have been giving more technical penalties away recently and the jackling and turnover ball we were so good at in the last World Cup seems to have regressed. The starting front row have been very good and lock position we have sorted as well as some good replacements. Just need sort the 6,7,8 positions, which I think on that score our best bet would be Lawes at 6, Curry at 7 and either Dombrant or Simmonds at 8.

Just grabbed the entire collection on Origin for £12.49 at 50% off! Generals and Zero Hour installed first😎

I wish Pro Clubs was cross play. I just bought FIFA on PC. 😞

Can we not utilise a website like Pro Clubs Head? Might make keeping track slightly easier..

I'm enjoying it so far. Honestly, It's more of the same but the best part? NO FUCKING MICROTRANSACTIONS!!!!! It's so damn nice to see a triple A titled release that's just a game. It looks stunning on the PS5. Utterly blown away graphically, and the combat is tight. I may try to change up the control scheme is I can. I hate having to use the triggers for melee combat, but I endured with GoW 2018, I'm sure I'll manage with this one. I'm glad they've kept in the banter while rowing on a boat. I enjoy some of the small stories told between the group ranging from norse mythology, to Kratos' past.

When did it become any of your business what people do with their money. Whether it be hookers/Cocaine or stupid guns. It's their business. Depending on how much you get paid, you might make more than that an hour which and it's likely to take you more than hour to grind for it Personally I don't have that gun. But if people want to pay for a gun or a burgertown skin its their business

Well I've decided I'll be retiring from trucking for some months. I heard about a method of gluing the encoder back together, so spent time this morning dismantling it all again, and this method probably works with the right strong glue, so all I did was make it messy and it wasn't bonding the plastic. The only other option is spend money on a brass encoder, which probably does work but costs more than I'd like to spend and ships from abroad. I don't have the room or space to keep it dismantled anywhere until a fix is found, plus not a huge fan of the pedals. So I'll hang my keys up for now and try and save some money if I can to buy a new wheel, so recommendations?