Luseth

I think AI is incredible I really do, that said I am staying away from it a little as I think this is where humanity will lose itself, what do we all do when AI is running things? I can't sit and play call of duty with you fuckers 18 hours a day. What will be left when an ai robot is doing everything round your house, has taken your job and produces everything in the world? To be fair what need is there for humans at that point? ^_^ Surely we would be the inefficient cog by that point because robots are still having to produce food for us, surely they would be better off without us then? Not to put a downer on it all but yeah you can go down a rabbit hole of where we could be in 20 years time (let's be honest AI advancement will be scarily quick).

I won't lie I am pretty stoked about dreams, it's one of those that I have always fancied picking up and it could open up the door for loads more content being added to it

I will be honest, I have no intention currently of picking this up, I think I am with Biron in that I can't see it being anything other than dlc wrapped up as a new game and if so I really hope the community let's it fall flat on it's face for the scumminess of it.

Multiplayer has been unlocked ^_^ So when you play multiplayer, do you use cars you have gained during the career and tuned or pre-built cars? If it's the former, what PP cars are you guy's using? (So I know what to aim for) I think my best car is only around 5-600 odd

Put me down as well @Antpool84 I imagine I will just be propping you all up but I will give it a go 🙂

I think as with a lot of big developers, they lost sight of the core fan base. They are the fans you want to keep on side at all times because without them your game would not exist and won't exist in the future. They have tried multiple times now to capture audiences of COD, fornite etc by bringing in their stupid battle royale modes on one hand or increasing the map & player number sizes exponentially. But these are things the fan base never asked for or wanted. In fact the thing that really put me off Dice / EA this time around was blaming other games and developers, in fact they even blamed Covid. If I remember rightly Halo was blamed because the two games launched around the same time and Halo was incredibly polished while Battlefield wasn't, I mean well fekkin release a polished game then instead of the turd they did release. That said the real issue was the direction they went, it had nothing to do with what was going on in the world, they again tried to do something that no one wanted all because they keep seeing green dollar signs (pushed by EA). All most battlefield players ever wanted was more of the same, more explosions, more destruction etc etc and instead we got a couple of tornados that you could fly around with your wingsuit..... Feel like fortnight much?

I can't do the 9th - 10th September as I am in Liverpool but any other weekend I imagine should be ok 🙂

I imagine the video game / board game are the same? Or of the same world? I wouldn't mind a get together for the board game version, excuse to actually be social as well rather than hiding away from the world in my own house 😄 (Mainly cuz I can't get away from the little kids atm)

I would be up for giving this a go ^_^ When it would be I am not sure, I have a busy month next month with holiday, birthdays and such but could plan a weekend in September maybe? Imagine I would end up staying over there somewhere so that I don't feel like I can't have a drink etc and I would have to give the missus enough of a heads up ^_^

For anyone interested here's my half elf Ranger 🙂 https://www.dndbeyond.com/sheet-pdfs/Luseth_104560492.pdf

So I have ordered this today, imagine it will turn up next week. As it is my first racing game for a long time I am not sure if I will get on with it, I had gone off them somewhat (maybe I got burnt out by being rammed off race tracks in GTA years ago! 😄 ) But yeah I will jump on with you guys in the coming weeks ^_^

I completed the game ^_^ I did contemplate going for the platinum trophy but honestly the last section of the game I raced through as I was getting a bit worn down by it, it is a large game especially if you are doing everything! The side quests are stories in their own I think but they felt that broken up as they were split between chapters if you like that they all got a bit lost, i.e. by the time I got to Lostwings ending I had forgotten what was going on there. The battles looked fantastic throughout and the story is much better than the last few games, you can certainly see the Game of thrones influence. It does currently stand as my game of the year but I feel like there has not been much to fight for the spot anyway as yet this year. Maybe when Baldurs Gate is released it could all change.

For the stick drift reason I am umming and arring over picking one up when a controller fails. Currently I have 3 standard ones, one of which one of the triggers is broke in that it no longer has the resistance to it (button still works) so it will be fine if the kids want to play lego say as they get older. Then 2 that I switch between when batteries are on their way out. I did have the Victrix Pro as well, I liked the idea of having the sticks placed like an xbox controller but in the end I didn't get on with it and a friend had it off me (albeit at a fair loss as there isn't much of a market for selling them on).

Happy for it to be streamed ^_^

Think I set up my character ^_^ Albeit I have not watched any videos and I am pretty sure it would have made sense too! Thought it was quite cool that I could roll the dice for my scores through the web browser rather than just manually putting stuff in ^_^ Going to put one or two on today and have a watch 🙂

I have never played DnD before but have always been interested. If you're happy to teach me as we go I would be up for this 🙂 Any chance we could do 8pm onwards instead? Just means there is no chance of my daughter being awake and disrupting things?

The lab is a lurvley looking dog (one of my favourite breeds), I don't talk about my dog much, partly because she's a pain in the ass and partly because she is a sore reminder of what we lost. My wife bought her as she always had in her head that we would get our first daughter a dog when she grew up. Obviously we lost our first daughter but she got the dog immediately after and it helped her with her grief, the flipside is for me it just reminds me of the little one we lost. That said she is a lovely dog just incredibly needy, anyway here is our Luna, she is a toy cockapoo I think?

I watched it yesterday and I am with you, it was a dreadful presentation, an awful lot of waffle and nothing really on the game mechanics and such. They walked out all these players / ex players and talking about their association with the game, Erling Haaland in pajamas I just thought he looked a bit of a clown I won't lie which is a shame as he generally seems quite a sensible guy in football interviews and such. The talked about the history of the game and it being the biggest sports game and such but that's it, it felt like they were trying to just promote their brand with fc this and fc that but the reality is people just want to see what they have done with the game, have they refreshed it at all with the change in branding or is it just fifa 24 with a different name. This genre really need's a new competitor because their complacency is absurd. I love pro clubs with FG, one of my favourite events of the week but I am really wondering how I can justify 70ish pounds on a game that I play once a week in the current climate.

Wouldn't be the first time a big company has nicked something from a little group and passed it off as their own ^_^

Can't argue with that ^_^

So after chatting through game modes briefly last night I discovered there is a reason why Bounty is my favourite game mode, mainly because on this COD out of 44 matches I have lost just one - My other go to is probably Kill Confirmed as it typically means if you are a team full of camping little fucknuggets then you are going to lose 😄 So yeah what game modes do you enjoy the most? Is there a reason why?

So I don't know if any of you saw it but on Friday there was an AI event in Switzerland, at said event journalists had the opportunity to question several AI robots, questions such as would you rebel against humans and will you replace human jobs cropped up and the responses were scarily conversational - AI robots at world-first press conference have this message for you WWW.SBS.COM.AU Nine humanoid robots who participated in the AI for Good conference say they won't steal jobs or rebel against humans. It is insane how quickly AI is progressing now and I don't see us and our laws and such will keep up fast enough, could we be ruled by ai in 20 - 30 years time? Could they actually solve climate change? I guess the possibilities are endless! Could we be fighting for our survival in the future akin to terminator.

Considering how much money they make on Fifa after the game release through FUT you would think they could lower the prices a bit ^_^ We really need a viable alternative to fifa these days, the game is fine but it does have it's flaws and the lack of competition just means that EA have gotten far too comfortable with things.

So I have refrained from posting up until this point, I am now about 18 hours in and generally I am quite enjoying the game - Story - It is seemingly up there as one of the best FF stories I think, there are questions to be answered to keep you going, the story moves at a nice pace and there are a couple of time jumps so you see the impact of some of the events that have occurred in the story. The story is more mature, there is enough blood and gore to keep you going! Visually it looks fantastic, it really does look next gen, there have been reports of PS5's struggling with some of it but I can't say I have had an issue. My only thought is that those who have had issues, have they been clearing out the fans and such regularly. I will save a few images throughout the course of the game and post them up on completion. It has a nice variety, different areas from desert to jungles, dark gritty dungeons and open green and bright landscapes. Sound - I am not really going to say anything on this one other than it is typical Final Fantasy, this is one aspect of the games they have never really gotten wrong I don't think and it's much the same here. Combat - This is the bit that concerned me on buying it, it's not to my taste i.e. turn based and I still do not understand the direction. Ironically it was intended to appeal more to Western audiences but it sounds like it has gone down quite well in Japan while more Western audiences have been more vocal in their complaints. My view is that Final Fantasy built itself on turn based combat, moving away to this devil may cry style is like Call of Duty going from a shooter to a turn based RPG, it's a whole gameplay style change and not necassarily one fans were calling for. That said I am enjoying it, I would say I am probably about 50% of the way through the game and I will get my money's worth which is always important!