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As far as I care about any of this crap or these streamers. The fact he put this cringy apology out surely made it worse. Not sure the reason for his wife being in the background was a great move either.

So whilst waiting for Hogwarts to come out I have sort of put my big games on the backburner as I don't want to get too deep into them only to stop halfway through as I know I will never return. What I have done is find this little gem on the PS subscription and I am currently playing chapter 2. So for anyone that does not know, Dragon Quest is a brilliant JRPG series (with it's last game being their best by far) and they have created a few spin offs recently. This one is essentially minecraft but with a bit of story and direction to it. The game is incredibly colourful and chirpy (despite the story being a little dark and drab) and the idea is that monsters took over years and years ago and now humanity is struggling to survive as they have all forgotten how to build, the ability was taken from them. Humans being social creatures that need to work together they are dwindling and there aren't many left. As you go through you learn recipes and plans, build little towns and bring people together all whilst working through a bigger story where I imagine down the road we will take on the final boss and kick his ass 😄 So for anyone after a small, quite relaxing game to play that has the elements of minecraft I would definately recommend this 🙂 There is also a second game which is multiplayer that I will look at playing at some point 😄

She was very upset but it was quite hard to work out whether it was because her marriage was going tits up because hubby has a fetish for two of her friend's, or it just being down to the potential significant loss of their income which probably spans tens of thousands a month. Her being in the apology video in the background just added a whole new dose of cringe.

I dunno, for a game that was due for imminent release, delayed only by a 'trademark dispute' they are showing and providing sweet FA about this game. 9 minutes of walking through an area? For a finished game that seems a bit weird to me that they didnt have more to show. Too long in the tooth and seen too many games flatter only to deceive. I'm happy to be pleasantly surprised but here's my predictions, if it isn't delayed again.... 1. It will have massive network issues at launch and beyond. 2. It will have microtransactions and monetization will feature heavily. I do hope I'm wrong but World War 3, Dead Matter and a whole host of promising games that looked great but ultimately failed to deliver.. help temper any enthusiasm I might have 🙂

Meh. If we all apologised for dodgy sites we visited we'd all be spending the rest of lives apologising to everyone else. The pros, cons, technical skill, requirements, ability or morality and legality of deep fakes are all interesting discussion points but what sites some random person has visited? I struggle to care less. Obvious that's caveated that the sites someone visits are legal.

Well looks like my Dad might need to sign up for his own account. This new method sucks all round for everyone. I'll only keep it because of how much usage it gets from us.

Needed to do a squad hunt contract for the black mous missions. I usually don't like to kill other operators if I don't have to but in this case I had to. I got the perfect spawn at the airport. I picked up the contract. My team mates were idiot running around getting themselves killed. I revived one of them 5 times. I finally just left them as they were a liability rather than asset. I get the mini helicopter that is at airport and start flying in the direction of the squad. They must have panic because they are all over the place according to the map. I am low on full so I go gas station to refuel the helo. As that is happening, I get a notice that the squad got downed elsewhere and my payment is authorized. Awesome, mission done and contract done. I look for a safe extraction point. Fly over and extract. Extraction streak goes up to 5. Sometimes the stars just align for you

For the squad hunt contracts, you don't have to actually kill that squad personally. As long as they go down you get the credit For the black mouse mission, you don't have to extract with the weapon from the squad hunt. As long as you extract with an enemy weapon you will get the credit for the mission

By YouTubers. They've made collecting Pokemon Cards for TCG play or the standard hobbiest insufferable, collecting retro games, you name it. They're pissy about the prices they helped create..

A huge missed opportunity once again from the devs seems to be the wider consensus and even more doubts arising as to whether they actually have a 'game' - we've already seen these environments for a good two years now and most of the assets seem to have been purchased from Unreal and have been available since 2014. They barely showed off the combat or the mechanics as a whole - what about cover, mantling and what is the actual purpose of the game? Is it like The Division or DayZ? Simple questions and nearly 4 years on we still don't have answers. All we've really seen is a stock character parading through an environment. Didn't look all that scripted but footage seemed very safe and lacking depth. No driving gameplay either which is a huge selling point for this game. Any credible dev would have provided several independent gameplay videos showcasing many scenarios and mechanics. Shouldn't be too hard for them to fire up the latest build and do a step by step walkthrough. It's taken 14 months of persistent badgering just to get them to release this 10 minute video and even then it seemed to be asking too much of them. They've had a couple of significant titles and have been around for many years. What hasn't helped is their backseat approach plus their shady nature. They originated in Russia but then backdoor-relocated to Singapore not so long ago. Nobody can identify the dev team apart from a couple of local faces fronting them and most of their funding comes from a 3rd party company with a large pot to burn. They've certainly bitten off more than then can chew with this game and their approach to the community leaves a lot to be desired but they certainly aren't the little unknown developer with a big potential hit that they want people to believe. If they put together a more constructive promotion of the game then it would really put a lot of concerns to bed for the time being.

I see both sides. I think the anger is a little bit much from the youtubers as there isn't as much wrong with them as they say there is. However, I do have a problem in people thinking they can make an extremely large buck out of gullable buyers that are more likely to be casual gamers as you say @James5497 because they won't know none the wiser. A PS3 for $400, even refurbished is quite mental, but if people buy them then they won't stop what they're doing. Out of this I think the least DK Oldies could do would be to update their wording somewhat to reflect what you are purchasing. Most of these products worked so the videos for me should've been focused on clarity on their wording more than anything. Oh, and also they should be very clear about Official and Non-Official equipment. I'd be devastated to receive that shite non-standard controller in the first video for over $400. I suppose the difference with me is that I know what i'm looking for. More generally speaking, I'd argue that game pricing has been severely inflated for a number of years now across the board, not just DKoldies, and stops the small percentage of us that love all games to play them and not re-sell them on. Its so incredibly difficult to play on all the games we can find these days on older consoles for an affordable price.

Hola. I've been focussing on getting everything gold then will be onto the drudgery that is the platinum challeneges. It's going well aside from having to get funky stuff like hip fire kills/point blank kills etc, playing shipment was an absolute nightmare, I'm not sure if it's just the sweats who play that mode but my god I was going from 0.4-0.7 for 7 straight games and my lobbies were not getting any easier (Was waiting for SBMM to kick in but it never did) so had to take a break. Using a camo tracker I am at 41% done, AR/SMG/BR/LMG are all gold, I've got some marskman rifles done, and need a double weapon xp weekend to level up pistols, snipers and shotguns

Everything I have seen suggests there is a game and it's a game I would quite enjoy. It has however been managed and promoted by amateurs (which tbf they are new to this). I think a lot of the issues have been around a small studio trying to do something far grander than their size or budget will allow, if they are managing it and creating the game there are going to be a lot of mess ups and I think that is showing. I do think we will see something at some point but definately would recommend no one pre-orders just in case 😄

Have you tried changing the appearance back? I think I read somewhere that you can switch between the 2?

I'd say they're pretty decent for people not that into video games. They're a tad expensive but that's only because what your buying has been restored to a good quality. I'm not that keen on the dis videos about them, I find a lot of them are by 'collectors' and that isn't their market I don't think.. more for casual gamers.

Hello! Since the update, I can't find Dandelion to see his new costume! I looked for him in Rosemary and Thyme - he's not there! I went through the whole game completely, along with the update, I went through a new quest, after which I unsuccessfully try to find Dandelion. Many thanks in advance for your help!

Actually resembles a game but I’m still taking it all with a pinch of salt. Until there’s an independent hands-on, I’m gonna sit back but it defies belief how it’s taken all that’s happened just to get to this stage

So without watching the vod. How did this go down with his wife? Did he lie his way out of it? Providing she didn't already know about this.

Fair enough, I suppose what you do with the digital images of @slamminbones face in a private capacity is entirely your own business 🙈😅

Weirdly, I'd take an extra PS Plus Monthly game that's more upto date than most of them on that list. Doubt they will, but we don't know yet if they will do something else in its place come May.

Indeed😄 I mean I only have PS Plus as many multiplayer player games require it, I would not bother otherwise.

I agree with your second point - but I do think @Luseth has a point in terms of at least understanding why its happened. They didn't have to and when you remove anything from someone then you usually always get negative media. I think I looked at it as its 20 games initially offered (and still offered to everyone to stick in your library before May so you keep them), most of which were felt like they were owned by a large majority of PS players already. I remember looking at the initial setup costs for each package and it always looked as an additional extra to entice new people to just get a PS plus subscription which feels a given if you're ever going to own a console these days and never a dealbreaker whether or not I took out the basic package. I look at it as one of those where it feels like a 'meh, thats abit shitty isn't it', whereas the other point you put up here deserves the news but thats derailing the thread somewhat 😅

The deep fake porn thing is almost a form of nonce behaviour in my book.

You must lead a sheltered life if you're not sure why there's uproar on the internet. Removing a benefit from gamers is a serious faux pas 😅 Meanwhile this week our government are restricting our rights to strike and rights to protest, rights that people gave their lives for, when we probably need them the most, and no-one blinks an eye 🙈

I bought a Pokemon Yellow GBC from them with a great experience. Here's my thing on the social media shit, these are collectors' items and with eBay you run the risk of getting fakes. The pieces I have gotten from them are in good condition and working well.

Netflix are adding new terms to crack down on password sharing which essentially locks the account down to the owners very own home. Also if you don't log into your account for more than 31 days, you and hour household will be blocked from the service even if you were away on vacation or have some other circumstance for not using it within this time. If you want to use the service whilst out and about, you have to contract Netflix to receive a one-time code for another fixed location (not device) i.e a hotel when away from home. This would also be limited so if you are on holiday and go between two locations, you can only activate the account in one place. Whilst I understand password sharing to be a big problem (est 100m people exploiting) this is not the answer and it could cause dire inconvenience to existing genuine customers. Those 100m or so users who are accessing it through sharing will not magically turn into subscribers - they will be lucky to capture 1% and will probably drive away a lot more from their current subscribers. Not sure what the best solution would be but what they've pitched has to be the worst for everybody.

Well Netflix is about to lose a lot of customers then and many, including me, will leave. I’m not being dictated to about logging in when they expect you to. Fuck off. What about people with more than one house etc?? How can they police it when many people use VPNs?? Sounds more like scaremongering

I don't feel the need to defend these companies at all. What I can't stand is all this whinny ass cry baby shit from people I doubt were ever responsible for a multi billion dollar product line and calling the people who do it dumb and greedy. I think it's in my PPR that I have a PHD in electrical engineer and I work for the Intel network communications group. I designed the first graphics chip with integrated analog circuits , I designed the first north/south bridge CPU, I designed and validated the first PCIE switch with broadcomm . Now I designed the ASICs that went into Nokia/Ericsson/ZTE 5G network architectures and I see a bunch a people posting on what developer and companies should be doing and how as if they had a fucking clue. Even James telling us all about patents. Somehow I am pretty confident in saying that he doesn't any of own however. If you want to make a point to these companies the solution is simple, don't buy the product. COD 2022 made $1B on 10 days on a budget of $250. They're clearly not the dumb ones

It’s not just about them turning those users into subscribers it’s also about them having to provide the infrastructure for those users, by getting rid of those users it will significantly reduce the strain on there infrastructure and therefore have the knock on affect of massively reducing their costs. That being said if this makes my Netflix experience inconvenient I will be canceling.

I feel like we are going off topic here this was a topic to discuss the Season 2 Content for DMZ, I get it Activision Blizzard are greedy corporate meanies, we don’t need it pushed into every thread where we are trying to have discussions about the games content

Yeah let's spend our free time playing gamemodes we aren't remotely interested in just because they made them. 🤦 The fact is if you by a product no matter what it is you have a right to criticize it especially as they don't only release 9 maps every year. I don't understand this need to jump to defend at all costs these billion dollar companies when people have legitimate gripes, surely if they were to do something about it you would benefit too? If your happy with the game then that's fine but please realise there are plenty of people that aren't the player count and social media etc prove that. Now time for some more mw2 excuse me.

City of Gangsters FREE on Epic until the 9th https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/city-of-gangsters-6c2974 Dishonored: Death of the Outsider also FREE until the 9th https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dishonored-death-of-the-outsider

The point that a lot of these YouTubers are making is that DKOldies claim they clean and/or refurbish the consoles which justifies their 3X cost price compared to rivals and the general market, yet in many cases including normal customers, there is huge evidence that they do not always do this and in some, the machines are internally damaged on top. They make all these TikTok's showing the utmost care and attention to these alleged orders yet what people receive and the way it's delivered is literally taking the piss. YouTuber's can burn money on things like this for videos but if you were a normal person that spent $450 on a classic Xbox that was delivered in a bashed up box with the console protected by bog roll and the machine wasn't cleaned or even tested, then you'd feel very hard done by, bordering on scammed. There's not many places you can buy machines safely, especially with places that offer a comprehensive 'specialist' service and guarantee so when they start half-arsing it or not doing things by their book and charging triple, it's kinda sad.

New blog post published today with more details on DMZ Changes coming in Season 2 https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2023/02/path-to-season-02-dmz-update-modern-warfare-ii

It definitely wouldn't have blown up had it not been for the fact it was literally his close colleagues, best friend's girlfriend and the fact he actually registered and paid for the material and being married. The painful excuse did not help either. I do think some of the victims are milking it to a degree but I can't speak for how they feel about the situation. If the guy was simply looking at deepfakes of celebs and got caught then it would be embarrassing but forgotten about the next day. He should've just come clean and could've even bit back a bit cos half the people on the list literally get their boobs out to minors on stream and are an inch away from having an OnlyFans on the side as it is.

Ah, I had a feeling something was drawing me to this thread 😍

Oh man I would love that, unfortunately I don't own a PC. I'm really looking forward to playing it on my Playstation 2 though! Can't beat a good Lego game 🤘

10 minute 'gameplay' coming today apparently after another bizarre u-turn. Will probably be another scripted video with more bought assets from Unreal but it'll be interesting to see what they've concocted. So much for the trademark dispute too! Even if this is somehow genuine gameplay irrespective of quality, the way the developers have handled this entire charade has been the worst I have ever seen in entertainment media history.

Yup, I am not really surprised and not sure why there has been such an uproar on the internet. They were put in place to entice people to next gen while content was still being produced. It has definately fulfilled its purpose by now, anyone choosing to get a ps5 going forwards will not be doing so for these games.

Is it that collection of games that you automatically get when you get a ps5 and have a ps plus subscription?

Its not the Monthly games though, right? I'm glad I didn't change and increase my subscription when they made the new tiers.

Now now @J4MES OX4D you know better than to criticize call of duty 🤣🤣

I've started reading Leviathan wakes by James Corey as I finally caught up and finished watching the Expanse last year which is a great series and well worth a watch. Though it only covers books 1-6 in the TV series as there's a time jump between the end of book 6 and 7 so the TV series doesn't wrap up all the story lines and I want to know how it ends so thought I better read the books. And knowing there are a few differences between the books and the TV series, I also thought it best to start at the beginning. So far so good though only 100 pages in to book 1 of 9 so this could take a while to get through it all 😄

Now this is a popcorn moment. My money is now on this was a social behavioural experiment 🍿😄

2nd most wishlisted game on Steam and it's all smoke and mirrors. The funniest story in gaming just gets better and better 😅

https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/the-day-before-delayed-to-november-2023-amid-trademark-dispute-and-legal-issues/1100-6510837/ LMAO! Biggest scam ever! Game pulled from Steam just as they were under immense pressure to show raw gameplay. This legal nonsense sounds like bullshit to buy more time.

I'll shoot zombies until the cows come home, and then some. I'll never tire of that. I like shooting shit. I find that fun. I don't like being in an army, or a government agent, or a cop and the way the world is, I end up having to be a character like that in many games we play. So zombies are fine by me 😅 But yeah I get scam vibes from this game...

I started reading Dune

I work in a bookstore on Sundays, England's oldest anarchist bookshop, which has been around since the 1880s. We had a book event tonight for Tim Wells who writes about skinhead werewolves in East London 😁 Freedom Bookshop (@freedombookshop) • Instagram photo WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Freedom Bookshop shared a post on Instagram: "This Friday @timwellsauthor joins us in the...