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Looks ace dude. If you want to bend it a bit and see how much strain you can really put on it, for free, download Planetside 2. That'll show you how much grunt you have in a live, proper battle scenario. I'll probably get the Gamepass too, it's insane value. The flower is a nice touch, did your boyfriend get it for you?

As disappointed as I am, England brought their A Game and were absolutely on point. They deserved that win.

Ohhhhh boy, I haven't watched the vid but if their previous track record is anything to go by then they're nerfing toitens and warlocks and extending the duration of blade dance by 500% and making the hunter invisible for the duration.

The article isn't very specific, but what racism did this chap experience? Cricket's always been a bit of a clubby-cliquey sport, be interesting to see what scurries away from the inevitable incoming shitstorm. Fucks me off too, some of the world's best cricketers are Pakistanis and Indians yet they're treated like shit. Also you're welcome England, as a saffer, I hope you're enjoying your Cricket team.

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Fuck me, multiplayer in the Stalker world, with permadeath, sign me the fuck up!

Of course I still have it! One of my most prized possessions ❤️

Sure, why not. Can I wear my Guardian Down shirt just in case?

I know Steve, I'm not an idiot (on Thursdays). That was my whole point, everyone portrays things differently, whether it be the Holloywood crowd or the bloodsuckers in the media 😉 See you in 40 years, make sure you oil your rocking chair, I don't wanna hafta turn my hearing aid off when we're bickering again.

He didn't pick up a gun though, did he? He picked up a prop. The fact it was an actual gun is irrelevant, he was told it was dead and would not fire any live rounds. You may say "it's basic stuff here in the US" to which I present to you some fellow Americans, how many of these people do you think would know how to handle a firearm? (Ok, Red would definitely know how to handle a gun and was probably barred from having one for risk of shooting one of these dumbasses, but still). Like I said, just because you and the people you hang out with know how to handle a gun, doesn't make it common practice. I'd imagine that the vast majority of Hollywooders, New Yorkers, and all the other metropolitan darling people wouldn't have a clue how to handle a firearm. Couple this with the fact that the company has literally paid someone to make sure it's safe, you'd expect it to be safe, no? Clearly not. Perhaps my impression of the USA is wrong and Americans all know how to handle guns but that's certainly what American TV wants us to believe. The press on the other hand wants us to think you're all a bunch of murderous psychopaths who shoot up schools for lols. Neither of these is true obviously, but I think it's far from unreasonable to expect an actor (note: not a lumberjack or a hunter or an engineer or anything "manly", an actor. Someone who's had their every beck and call taken care of for the last 30 years) to now know how to handle a gun. If he did know how to handle a gun, then the "armourer" (lol) wouldn't have been necessary. Either way it's irrelevant. This conversation will go round and round in circles for the next month with you refusing to see it my way and me refusing to see it your way until we get bored, move on, and have the same discussion when Macauley Culkin's grandson shoots Miley Cyrus's cyborg grand-daughter in the fanny in about 40 years and end up bickering about it in rocking chairs.

No, sorry Steve, but you can't expect someone who's never had any training to know this kind of thing. It might be second nature to you, but as you say you're very much a gun fan. I suspect a Hollywood actor could tell you more about the viscosity of a cappuccino than he could about guns, and will likely have only fired live weapons a few times in his life. The studio obviously knows this, which is why they hired an armourer to handle the firearms. That's a whole different conversation however with its own set of questions, but the point is that whilst Baldwin could've very reasonably prevented this from happening, expecting him to do so without adequate training or exposure to firearms isn't realistic at all.

Don't die.

I don't blame Alec, regardless of what I think of him. He's been acting for over 30 years and has never had any problems, so why would he expect to suddenly have a problem now? He's clearly not had any firearms training and is unlikely to be a gun owner so whilst "clearing the gun" might make logical sense to you, it won't for him. As far as he was concerned, he was handed a prop and told to fire it, so he did, to a very unexpected and tragic result. This really is one of those cases where this could've been avoided in many ways, however ultimately it falls on whoever's responsible for the health and safety on the set, as well as the managers. The prop guy should've been trained in the use of live firearms if they were using them, or the managers should've hired a competent company to handle these weapons for them. Ultimately this hasn't happened in decades so the risk of injury was considered so small that it probably wasn't even considered. There was no malice here, this was an honest-to-god accident with disastrous consequences and I feel bad for all involved as they were probably doing what they've been doing for years and on this one occasion it killed someone, and they now have to live with it. This isn't a case of finding someone to blame, this is a case of putting measures in place to prevent it happening again, and then blaming them when it goes wrong.

no i don't need to raid i turn up, get drunk, get carried, provide the odd lols and get vex. tnx tho

Stick a grand under your pillow tonight, then every time the game goes "LOL U NO PLAY WIV FREN COS U NO OWN DLC LOL KEK LOL" you are ahead of the game. The way Bungo manages their DLC is a fucking disaster. I know Lee likes to bang on about how they should improve as if it's some quirky little upstart that deserves a bit of patience and understanding, but the fact is that this is a multi- billion dollar company which has run multiple franchises over decades so they've got not excuse. They need to have 1x DLC which includes all previous DLC, and the base game. Not fucking about with a lottery of which DLC you need to buy to play with your friends. Release new DLC? That then becomes the chargeable one and all the previous ones become free. As much as I'm against the season pass, at least it's its own thing so doesn't affect what you can and can't do. Christ, I'd even chuck a fiver a month at them to just get their shit together so I can spend more time enjoying the game and less time whining like a little bitch.

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The sooner people stop falling for these stupid marketing tricks, the better. This woman's just limelighted herself on oretty much every first world publication with one dumbass statement, it's genius and people lap it up.

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I also love a good whinge so there's that. I'm the yang to Leigh's ying.

What I don't get is the inconsistency. Some folks are reporting that the game ran fine with a few bugs, for me it was utterly broken. No exaggeration, I'd get a few seconds of decent gameplay then as if by magic, it'd be a stuttery mess for a few seconds, then it'd behave itself for a minute or so, then I'd suddenly fall through the map. My experience was a disaster. I know I like to be dramatic and all that but sadly on this occasion there was no exaggeration - the game was literally unplayable, and just when it'd settled for a few minutes and I started to think "this might not be that bad" I'd suddenly be suffering screen tearing, teleporting, bad guys hovering in the middle of the sky, helicopters flying upside down and then I'd be disconnected and staring at the logo screen. Doesn't make sense.

I've no doubt that it'll be a great game. In 2024 when it's on Humble Bundle for £1.50. Really disappointing, I was actually looking forward to this for once.

Watch the vid I posted to see what a dumpster fire it is. I get it's a beta but this shouldn't even be considered an alpha at this point, it's not just bad, it's Cyberpunk bad.