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To be fair, Newcastle have already won the league in recent years. Too bad that league was only the Championship😎

Pretty much all the rumours and suspicions were correct. If you don't fancy reading the long article, this is a good watch:-

Ah well remembered😀 I'm tempted to get the 2019 anniversary edition as it's only £25 on CD Keys.

Another interesting read from Kotaku The Human Cost Of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 KOTAKU.COM One Friday afternoon a few weeks ago, the developers at Treyarch held a happy hour event to welcome the summer interns. There was pizza... How times change - they used to be able to rattle games out within two years pretty comfortably. Activision and the demands of the industry has certainly taken it's toll. Now they have barely a year and a half to make Black Ops 5.

Do it in order I would. Trilogy + Reach and then you have 4 games in one for £20. The original probably hasn't aged as well as Nigella Lawson but it's one of those games that has to be experienced.

Probably😁 I'm happy to spend the cost of a game but I wont stretch to any other form of soulless monetization to it which only really lines pockets rather than benefits the game. Same thing happened with Black Ops 4 - game 'under performed' so instead of enticing more players to the product with assurances and improvements; to mitigate the lost revenue, they simply just monetized it more aggressively instead and held existing owners to ransom. $1 for an operation level instead of playing 45 minutes or buy a gun that costs 75% of what you paid for the main game. Because they are rolling in so much money from secondary revenue streams, that's why so many AAA games are poor, neglected or well below the expected standard these days.

Another game last night decided on a bullshit penalty award. Point blank shot from the Dutch slammed into the body of the Japan defender and the ref awards a penalty for handball. New rules from this month (only implemented to cover up all the bad penalty decisions made in recent months) say that if it's handball in the area intentional or not, it's a penalty no matter what. It wasn't even clear if it struck any part of the defenders arm at all last night but it's getting to the stage players are gonna have to run around with their arms behind their backs or players are going to have to sign players without arms.

I don't have a problem with shareholders and in the gaming industry, I never really considered them until recent years. For me, people that invest in scummy companies who don't need the capital in the first place to make a big return out of horrendous practices such as supply drops can burn. At no point in the past decade did Activision need to make so many shares available - they've just made a company that was worth X billions into a few billions more. The investments that are made in the company plus the money that is received from sales is never truly invested back in the products and even without shareholders, the next game would be easily funded from unit sales regardless. I think a lot of AAA gaming companies are raising unnecessary money that the gamer will never benefit from and the people that support these arseholes in their heinous practices to make easy money rather than support a product are no better. A company worth 10bn just becomes worth 15bn - the gamer doesn't really benefit. It's all about making a quick buck from the perspectives of the publishers and the shareholders and gamers and games are being destroyed for it. COD is probably worth 10X more than what it was a decade ago and that's down to supply drops, not investment in the product or a drastic improvement in quality. I can't blame shareholders lumping in though with gamers being as dumb as they are these days!

Publishers like Activision are under pressure to keep shareholders on board, income thriving and the company value in growth. The minute the value starts declining, shareholders walk away, share price sinks and the value diminishes. BO4 made record breaking money yet they started making cutbacks soon after release. If it wasn't for them publishing Sekiro outside of Asia as a one-off, they would've been in deep shit even after generating huge figures. With supply drops under fire and with no season pass, they are going to have to monetize the absolute fuck out of the game just to come close to BO4. The company as a whole as a tiny portfolio now so this is one of only a few brands that makes money. Base game sales don't even touch the sides and they have to make up all those lost sweet revenue streams somehow. This game will be fine for a week or two and then it'll be a casino. Supply drops, operations, in-game shop plus more.

Very sad news Missing YouTuber Etika's body found WWW.BBC.CO.UK The gamer, who went missing last week, had uploaded a video describing suicidal thoughts. Didn't watch the guy but I saw a sad thing about him a couple of months back and he was clearly in a bad way. Surprised he wasn't hospitalised for a considerable amount of time because he came out still in a poor mental state. Seemed a likable and talented person.

Newcastle may very well regret letting Benitez leave. Just when the club was finally turning a corner they allow that to happen.

Another VAR fiasco this evening in the USA v Spain women's match - penalty awarded in the 69th minute and it didn't get taken until the 75th because of VAR. Foul was committed, penalty was given, everything was eventually set up with the ball on the spot and the keeper ready and then the ref went to consult the video footage which took 2-3 minutes before the penalty was confirmed. Finally converted about 6 minutes after initially awarded. If the video refs gave it, and the penalty was set, why did the match ref then want a second opinion? It further slowed down what was already a slow process. As it stands, I'm expecting nothing less than 10 minutes added on.

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I watched the whole of the England game and it was painful as a spectacle as VAR ruined what should've been an exciting game. In the end it was entertaining for all the wrong reasons. There were 15 MINUTES of added time because of all the stoppages and 3 red cards that never were even after VAR referrals. The best solution is for matchday officials to get better at their jobs.

Cameroon Women have just had a perfectly good goal ruled out for offside against England. Probably the worst decision ever made on a football pitch. The footage was shown on the big screen and I think everyone in the ground including Phil Neville knows that was a goal. How the hell that's been given offside I don't know. The scorer was in tears and everyone else was in shock. This is nitpicky at its finest Also Cameroon should have been reduced to 10 men...I mean women after a few minutes after blatant elbow to the face. How was a yellow given for that? Should've been two other blatant reds after VAR referrals. This game should be used as the number one example of how fucking flawed VAR is and how fucking useless the officials are at following the rules from incidents that they have been able to watch. What a ridiculous game of football that was.

Great news! The Peacekeeper from BO2 is back and in the game. The bad news is that it's locked behind supply drops😁 People are pissed as usual!

From Red Dead Redemption 2

Yep, they basically turned it into Call of Duty.

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New rule changes for the EPL and FL next year https://sport.bt.com/football/premier-league-rule-changes-everything-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-the-201920-season-S11364371163327

I liked the idea of VAR but the way it has been implemented and used is utterly appalling and it really hasn't improved. The concept itself is flawed, it is slow, nit-picky and adds a level of anxiety for very small things. I saw one game recently where a penalty was awarded but then the ref brought it back for a penalty to the other team from 2 minutes before. It's just ridiculous and now even more farcical as in the womens world cup, goalkeepers literally have to now stand behind the line in fear they encroach merely a centimeter and give the ref an excuse to have it retaken. The biggest flaw in VAR so far is how it's made referees forget the basic rules. They see a handball in slow motion and give a penalty on the basis it's hit the hand rather than deliberate handball or ball to hand. Incorrect decisions of this nature have been rife with mistakes made (IMO) in the World Cup Final, Champions League 2nd round, Quater Finals, Semi Finals and Final where penalties for handball (ball hit hand) were given without any consideration of the rules and a decision based off of whether any part of the ball hit the hand in 25% speed. Refs should not be allowed to watch slow-mo close ups to form a decision and it's like they suddenly under pressure forget the rules to formulate their verdict. The amount of referrals is daft and any made should see the ref watch the incident in real time speed from an angle that represented his position (or near enough) on the field at that time. The definition of handball should also appear on the screen to remind them of the rules. Slow mo should only apply in cases of dubious tackles to determine whether the player or ball was taken first, NOT handballs. The next flaw is the ref itself. I don't believe the on pitch ref should be be consulted and have the final say on any incidents. A panel of 3 watching the footage should have the final decision and must be unanimously agreed without the game stopping. This decision would then be relayed to the pitch and the match ref would then take the necessary action based off the decision. With refs getting decisions wrong even after watching video evidence, a larger jury is needed. This will cost the governing body of each match more but it's fairer. Lastly, the amount of times VAR is used should be reduced to just goal-related aspects. Too many incidents are getting referred and it's getting awfully anal. Potential red cards, yellow cards, offsides, handballs and all the other bullshit. It's just too much and spoils the experience now, made even worse by how they handle it and the level of trust in decisions made even with it right in front of them.

I prefer the term pervert😎

Can't understand a word but nice arse regardless😎