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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.

Hahaha console peasants

Remember this? 😄 Honestly for a 10 year old boy that monitor is more than enough. However, there are a few ways of looking at this. The first being that you can buy him a nice fancy monitor, but he won't be able to use it to its full potential as his PC won't be powerful enough. In order to get the most out of it, you're looking at a £1500+ PC at minimum. Then factor in the £600+ or so for the monitor itself, and you're very easily staring down a £2.5k bill. Before all the accessories. That said, you can buy a nice fancy monitor with all the bells and whistles with a view of upgrading the graphics card in the PC (the graphics card is what puts out all the pretty images, the stronger they are, the more images and better images they can put out) and use it as it is now, however it'll only be a matter of time before he goes "mum I want to play at 4k" and then you're looking at insane costs. You can very easily spend £2500 on a graphics card alone, which is like buying an engine for a car, and then still needing the rest of the car. If this is a one-time purchase that's got to last him a few years, then it wouldn't hurt to maybe spend a bit extra to make sure that's at least one component that won't need upgrading for a while. Tell us how much you'd like to spend, and more importantly how much space you have, and let's go from there.

Nice, well done 😄

I've no idea where the 13 came from, but I'm a bit odd like that 😛 You know where to find us, happy to help any time 🙂

Nice, that's gonna be one very happy 13 year old lad this Christmas, hope he enjoys it 😄

That's a Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 headset. It will likely have come with a little bluetooth dongle which you plug in to a PC (it might be plugged in to his playstation). If you have it, it'll work. Great headset too 🙂 Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 review - SoundGuys WWW.SOUNDGUYS.COM The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 was a great wireless gaming headset. Is the second generation version a worthy successor?