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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.

Skill Up covers a lot of the points really well. What's put me off even more was realising that a lot of features aren't in the game because they're not in the game, and not because it's a beta. No scoreboard? No squad organising? Yeah... no. It'll take a miracle for me to purchase this.

What, you? You looked through the (very expensive) shitty bits? I don't believe you.

Happy birthday dude 😎

What a fucking mess. I get it's a beta and all that, but the bugs are ridiculous and make the game unplayable, at least for me. I stuck it out for a bit tonight but gave up as the reward for putting up with all the bugs isn't even remotely close to worth it. Add in the fact that you're up against PC players and it's quite possibly the least enjoyable gaming experience I've had in years. I'll wait until a month or so after the final release before looking again, but at this point, I don't hold much hope.

Same, don't even know what Divinity is 🤣

It's taken a long ass time to get to this point. I remember when I told people that I wanted to start a Youtube channel and all I got was "get a proper job" - nowadays a decent youtuber earns 10x what I do. It takes some serious dedication, time and the will to cancel everything else in your life to get there but the payout is worth it if you can pull it off. Also, get an avatar, you look like a random. How's MiniRob?

Corrected for accuracy 😄

Best start a new thread then. This is more of a journal of what I'm doing, what I want to do, any challenges and stuff along the way. If it helps someone then great 🙂 First off, I absolutely loved it. It felt so good to be coding again, I forgot how much I enjoyed doing it, even if it's been 25 years or so since I last did anything. So after spending a few hours this weekend coding and fiddling, I now have a very basic COVID statistics tracker and a very basic weather app. The reason I did this is because I just can't stomach a full 8 hour lesson to have a simple bit of text saying "hello world" at the end as that's always been where I've lost interest in the past. I wanted something that although pretty much useless, is an actual piece of software that works, and also provides real time information. For this I had to use API calls. So I set my sights a bit higher and went for it. All I can say is that it's piss. It's really so much easier than I'd have anticipated, what would've been a 500 page project before was done with no more than a single page of code. The tools nowadays are so much easier too, making it a lot easier than I'd have anticipated. I'm shuffling things around a bit in order of what I would say is the easiest, then the most difficult, in case anyone else wants to have a go. If you're keen, then follow this guide: 1: Download Python from their website. 2: Download PyCharm. This will be your code writing software. 3: Start writing code! This COVID tracker is extremely basic and simple to make, you can have this up and running in an hour or less: If you have problems running the code with something about the requests package not being installed, then simply right click on the word "requests" in the code, click on "context options" or something similar, then "install requests package". Try again. Took me a little while to figure out, I installed the requests package on my PC which didn't work, until I realised that PyCharm is a closed working environment when testing, so it has to be installed inside Pycharm. 4: If you've got all that up and running and want to try a new project, then sign up to Openweathermap.org. Do this first as there's a two hour delay after signing up until you can actually use their facilities. Then follow this video: IMPORTANT: Since the vid was made, a few things have changed in how the API calls work. These will be in the API URL, most notably where it'd say "London" before, it'll now say "London,uk" - small little things like that will drive you nuts. I'll post up anything else in here, but this is a fantastic little side hobby. Even if you just spend an hour doing the COVID thing to see if it's for you or not, it's worth it.

8/10, thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm the furthest thing away from a fanboi that there is. A few little niggles in the directing but I'm chalking that down to pressures and time constraints due to the 'rona. If you're a bond fan you'll love it, from the shit bond theme that'll no doubt clean up at the music awards to the bond girl who's supposedly a bombshell but is just mediocre and who nobody's ever heard of outside of a bond film, to the cars and gadgets and of course the shaken, not stirred line. Very good, go see it.

BOOM! Fuckin' five years baby! That's gotta be a record shirley? I found this video which is really good. It walks you through a fairly simple project from start to finish and you have an actual working project at the end, so it's pretty motivational too. @GazzaGarratt @Dr Diamond @BO7H B4RRELS

Oooooh, I like hitting stuff. Might hafta pick this up.