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Thank you so much! Don't think I've ever won something like this so I was so excited when I saw my name came up!

Thank you so much! Don't think I've ever won something like this so I was so excited when I saw my name came up!

Thank you so much! Don't think I've ever won something like this so I was so excited when I saw my name came up!

Thank you so much! Don't think I've ever won something like this so I was so excited when I saw my name came up!

Thanks to everyone who so far started an FG Membership ❤️ I did the draw earlier today whilst at work and stuck it straight onto YouTube so you can see the winners:
 
 
 
Well done to @J-Lurch  @Misneach_  @techno  @TurboR56Mini  and @RenFengge. Let me know what game you would like or if you want to gift one of the above games to another FGer. ❤️
 
Memberships of course will stay around and whenever anyone gives it will always be appreciated. Much more FGFGF to come I'm hoping to make us smile.
 
 
(Note for existing FG Membership peoples....keep giving me feedback on how the payments are working please - it may take the recurring payment or it may send an invoice to resend one.)

I've been threatening to do this for a while without any real conviction, but I'm going to now push to get this organised!
 
I realise we've already got the Wales trip this year so I will try my damned hardest to make this as affordable and accessible for everyone as I can!
 
What is it?
A day out together for everyone in FG and any family they would like to invite.
 
Primarily I'm thinking of Milton Keynes for this due to the central location for most, and also because of the available amenities in the local area.
 
Go karting:
I'd like to organise a go karting race for us all (including family members) so we can enjoy a community GTA races event where someone will probably end up with a broken leg, or rammed up the arse (sorry in advance Phil). We can hire karts which are appropriate for the skill level and age range.
 
Picnic:
After racing it'd be nice to organise a family picnic with everyone, maybe have a couple of portable BBQs, some football, Frisbee, rounders etc. Essentially a bring your own food and drinks type thing and maybe we can mix and match.
 
When are we thinking?
Between the months of June and August.
 
What next?
If you're interested please can you
1. Let me know which month suits bets
2. If you'd like to bring family with an idea of numbers
3. If you'd prefer just to do racing whilst others do picnic afterwards that would be fine too.
4. If you can make Milton Keynes
 
 
Once I've got an idea of numbers etc on the above I'll start organising!
 

A few weeks ago I eluded to Memberships at the end of the Achievements article I did. So, wait no longer, as here they are!
 
One thing that sets us apart from everywhere else is the generosity that we all give to the cause that is FG. We look after own - and others - like nowhere else. That's down to all of us. I've been thinking about how we can help without having to feel like me and others here nag/nudge/kick you all 4,5,6, or 74 times a year to kindly donate to the good causes that we try to do via the FGFGF - The Forever Gaming Feel Good Fund.
 
We'll always have the ability for you all to donate on an ad-hoc basis to help us keep doing the things we're doing here. Whenever you feel you want to do that, please just use the Donate button you can find on the Homepage ❤️. For everything else, the easier way to help ongoing FG goodness is selecting an FG Membership.
 
Put simplistically, it is an alternative way to donate to the Forever Gaming Feel Good Fund and maybe get something back for the goodness you're providing to everyone.
 
There are 3 available, with monthly/annual options:
 
Survival Tactical Legionnaire  
 
Launch Benefits
As this is something new for the first time ever here and as a huge thank you for people who do get behind this straight away and take up an FG Membership, I'll stick you in a raffle that has the chance for one of the 4 games below to be bought for you, as a Thank You from me to you.
 

 
 
The raffle will pick 5 people that have an active membership and they will have the choice of:
Gran Turismo 7 Destiny 2 Witch Queen plus Season Pass Horizon Forbidden West Elden Ring OR select another FGer to have one of these games  
To reiterate, you will be entered in the raffle if you have an active FG membership before Friday 25th March. I will look to set up the raffle on Saturday 26th March.
 
If you want to know more about each membership, take a read via the link below.
 
FG Memberships
 
Also, it would be amazing to get any feedback here if you think of more suggestions to keep FG going in any way.
 
Good Luck and Thank You for supporting your FG Family. ❤️
 
GGFG.

My Trek bike is going strong! Thanks for asking 🙂

My Trek bike is going strong! Thanks for asking 🙂

I don't have any RPG games in general let alone that use cool dice but I have just came across these and they are super slick 👍

This has been on the cards for a long time sadly.  By having a new COD every year, it's saturated the traditional deathmatch-type games and these just don't make the money Activision desire even with massive unit sales. The series has failed pathetically as an eSport but Warzone is raking in the money - literally well over $1bn a quarter on just cosmetic shite alone. Insane money really. COD mobile can also generate way more than its console version counterparts even being FREE which just shows what the gaming landscape has become from a business standpoint. Why bother selling 25m copies of a game when you can sell coloured guns and make even more money without spending a penny in the process?
 
For me, COD has been dead since Black Ops 2 anyway so it's no big loss. I don't like the brand anymore and its filled with cancerous business practices and dickhead community members. It's barely recognisable to what it used to be. Things have actually gotten worse since supply drops which is crazy to think about. Warzone is laden with cheaters - some even notable streamers/content creators and Activision hasn't bothered about eradicating that problem until this week and even then it was a lame effort.  Post launch support for these games now is shockingly bad especially with no season passes. Even zombies players have been well and truly fucked over. Even Treyarch don't give a fuck about the community now. 
 
Call of Duty is well and truly dead in its traditional sense. They'll milk the battle royale until 2025 and then I'm sure that will become unbearably saturated and something else will come to fruition.  What's killed MP for me is SBMM along with fabricated factors impacting gameplay - it doesn't feel like a fair and genuine game. Old COD's had connection-based matchmaking and then lobby balancing and everything felt good. Now you can't trust anything and the sweaty mechanics just further kill the fun. There's just so many elements that have killed it for me and many veterans of the franchise. 
 
DICE have a big opportunity with Battlefield 6 so they'd better not fuck it up. 

Hi all,
 
So. Who is Zaxzar?
 
Well great question. Can start with the what. A year ago I was 36, and went by the name of Lars. Today I am 37 and goes by the name Sarah. 
Confused? Well let me clarify. I am a 37 year old transgender woman. Been out for a little over half a year. I go by she/her. I know this is something that can be instinctive challenging when communicating over voice chats, because I haven't started voice training yet. So I forgive you in advanced if/when you get this wrong. As long it isn't done on purpose, we are just A-OK. ❤️😁👌
 
Okay. to what really matters. Who am I (at least gaming wise), and how did I end up in your community?
 
It started a very long time ago on a Commodore 64. A little later in life I got my older brothers Amiga 500. Here I played a game called "Sid Meyer's Pirates". This is where my gamer tag Zaxzar got born. So I have been using this tag at least 25+ years.
 
I have played PC most of my life, but over the last 5+ or so years, I have moved to PlayStation.
 
Of my all-time favorite games I can mention:
 
Sid Meyer's Colonization
Sid Meyer's Pirates 
Sonic I and II
Curse of Monkey Island (the first 4 at least)
Deux Ex (the original one. Wow what a story)
Zelda
World of Warcraft (the first few expansions. The panda expansion kind of killed it for me)
Diablo 1+2+3 (I moved to PlayStation somewhere after Diablo 3 got released. I started on PC in that game, but moved to PlayStation. Fun fact: I was number 1 in the world in the hardcore ranking on my monk in 2 seasons)
 
After I started to burn out on Diablo 3, PS Plus made the base game of Destiny 2 free when they released Forsaken. And I picked it up. And have been hooked ever since.
 
In Destiny I have been quite enveloped and engaged in the community. I used to run PvE recovs alot (have done around 100 Petra's run recovs for example) But this started to burn me out quite a bit, and stepped back from all of that. The people you play with that does this as a business are very very toxic. If you make a mistake in a speedrun of a raid, with a fireteam if recovs, shit really hits the fan. Because time is money. 
I liked the aspect of challenges of speedrunning, no matter the account I was on. But if the toxicity is there, it just ain't for me.
 
Been in a lot of the highly competitive clans, and also been admin in all of them.
One of the latest clans I was in was Valhalla. First I stepped down as admin, because of an increasing frustration I had with some aspects of the leadership, and the workload.
I then left them after a transphobic attack on me from an admin. I demanded an apology, and wasn't given one, and there was no consequences. For me inaction is the same as greenlighting it, so I chose to move on. This wasn't the only reason I left tho, but it did make it easy for me. The general tone of the forums, had become more and more juvenile over time. And with this, toxic.
I joined an old clan of mine, where alot of my friends where still in after, but left them because they where too PvP focused for my taste.
 
And now I am here. ❤️ 
Why did I join you? Well I joined because I heard of you through teenwolf, after he also left Valhalla. He spoke highly of you, and have had the pleasure of playing with some of you through his friendship over the years too.
I thought that if the rest of you are just half as enjoyable to play with as them, this is gonna be a good home for me.
 
What do I focus on today? I am still mainly focused on raids and PvE content. Not as much as I used to do. Lost a lot of my passion for raiding after they sunset more than half the raids in the game.
 
Will look forward to get to learn more about you all.
 
Now what questions do you have?
 
Xo 
Sarah

Count me in! Love the idea. 

Biggest loss of the lot for me was selling Dembele. We never replaced him and I'm still staggered he was let go.

'Doh'erty - nowhere near good enough for European football
Hoibjerg - good footballer but doesn't really fit Tottenham's traditional style
Sessegnon - wonderkid at Fulham but his rapid progress has stalled abysmally especially compared to other similar players like Mount and Saka
Ndomble - biggest waste of money imaginable. Shite attitude and got schooled my Morecambe to end his Spurs career. We'll be lucky to get £12m back if Lyon opt to buy
Regulion - way better than Danny Rose no doubt and often let down by shite that's around him
Royale - not convinced by him but he hasn't done too much wrong. Cannot see him developing into the type of player required for high-end football though
Gil - has not settled in at all and will probably not return. Done absolutely nothing and couldn't even handle sub-par football teams in fringe competitions let alone the Prem
Bergwijn - has potential but not exactly set the world alight so far. Hopefully he can build on the Leicester game but then again, he may go 5 more without even having a shot
Rodon - bit-part player. Will feature against Football League teams and fringe European sides but will likely never force his way into the first team. Couldn't even do that when Spurs were at their worst.
 
Thank god for Moura, Son and Kane - if it wasn't for them then Spurs would probably have one of the messiest and poorly composed squads in the entire league.  Even having Lloris there despite some iffy spells, certainly keeps some identity of the club from better times. A total overhaul is needed and this may take 3-5 years and a ridiculous amount of money. 

Count me in! Love the idea. 

Nearly all that team that got us to the final has gone, vertong, alder, erik, dele, lamela, rose, sissoko, llorente... What have we replaced them with? 

So... This is a short update clarifying the conversations / ideas we've been discussing over the past few weeks. 
 
From what I've gathered their are two main points that should be brought up here. And I'd appreciate anyone's opinions on the following. 
 
 
Number one, 
Which club are we playing for?
 
There's been a lot of moving around joining and leaving clubs already this season and we've only just began. 
From my understanding the original club 'Forever Gaming' had become too high ranked for some of the beginning players. The second club '#ForeverGaming' had some issues regarding a certain player (me) not being able to join / leave. And finally the third club 'FG FC' is the one we are currently using but has limited affiliation with the Forever Gaming image and has already surpassed the original clubs rank which was the first issue. 
 
I think we should delete the first club by removing the last members and re-create the final club, with the official name and only use it on Mondays or scheduled events. This way the clubs does not rank up too quickly and all the members can feel as if they contribute equally. 
 
 
Number two, 
Competing in cups. 
 
Last season we worked heavily towards filling our trophy cabinet with all of the cups and league titles. This hasn't been the case this year yet as there's been some discussions as to whether this is something we should do on our MNF sessions. Some players don't want people to be playing during the week as it spoils the fun for others, so when do we play cup ties? 
 
I personally think events should be set up so every couple of weeks one of the Monday night football events will be Cup matches rather than league matches. 
 
 
I'd love to hear your opinions to both points, so please leave a comment. 

@Ajay  distilled it down perfectly. It is about climate change, and how after all this time from scientists and data specifically spelling out the problem, we are now probably too late to really turn the tide of climate change. This is also confirmed by the movie's creators.
 
Also, agree with @phil bottle regarding the comedy aspect. I have zero desire to watch the movie because it's not my preferred comedy style. Plus, while I enjoy thought provoking movies, I need to be in the mood for them... especially if it is not a comedy style I enjoy.

@Ajay  Not sure what you mean... Is this a hidden message your talking about?
 
 
 
@phil bottle Yeah I really didn't get along with the comedy side (if it was even suppose to be funny) I found a few characters very out of place in the film. 
 
 

So... This is a short update clarifying the conversations / ideas we've been discussing over the past few weeks. 
 
From what I've gathered their are two main points that should be brought up here. And I'd appreciate anyone's opinions on the following. 
 
 
Number one, 
Which club are we playing for?
 
There's been a lot of moving around joining and leaving clubs already this season and we've only just began. 
From my understanding the original club 'Forever Gaming' had become too high ranked for some of the beginning players. The second club '#ForeverGaming' had some issues regarding a certain player (me) not being able to join / leave. And finally the third club 'FG FC' is the one we are currently using but has limited affiliation with the Forever Gaming image and has already surpassed the original clubs rank which was the first issue. 
 
I think we should delete the first club by removing the last members and re-create the final club, with the official name and only use it on Mondays or scheduled events. This way the clubs does not rank up too quickly and all the members can feel as if they contribute equally. 
 
 
Number two, 
Competing in cups. 
 
Last season we worked heavily towards filling our trophy cabinet with all of the cups and league titles. This hasn't been the case this year yet as there's been some discussions as to whether this is something we should do on our MNF sessions. Some players don't want people to be playing during the week as it spoils the fun for others, so when do we play cup ties? 
 
I personally think events should be set up so every couple of weeks one of the Monday night football events will be Cup matches rather than league matches. 
 
 
I'd love to hear your opinions to both points, so please leave a comment. 

Disappointed. No thanks for your mother bringing you into the world, your father for the initial...va-va-voom, the trainers for bringing you through the Academy to the first team, your teachers for keeping you on track at school, the rest of your family and friends and anyone else who knows you. No tears of joy..very poor (jk)

Thank you for my award it was an amazing moment for both myself and the fantastic team we have every Monday and I feel that goal really symbolised our passion and desire to win that night. 
 
gg

Thank you for my award it was an amazing moment for both myself and the fantastic team we have every Monday and I feel that goal really symbolised our passion and desire to win that night. 
 
gg

Happy birthday James.