Plumbers Crack

I almost cocked up last night when we were talking last night about the Sony event.
 
You do so much for all us mate, you’re the best of us so only right we occasionally do something for you now and then.
 
Don’t apologise for nagging us though mate, you keep this place together with your nagging.  They say about herding cats is difficult but some how you manage to herd us cunts and do we need it.
 

Porkies, you nudging us is what keeps this shit going. With the community spread across various platforms and also games, during this time where everyone's lives are fractured and dripping in FUD that little nudge, at least for me, is comforting. For all the shit I give you, I'd be even more pissed off if you stopped, and I mean that. So keep poking and prodding.
 
 
 
Again porkies. Stop talking yourself down. You're the backbone of this place, time to start realizing it ❤️ 
 
 

Wow. And I mean Wow. I usually get a whiff of something happening around this place as I'm usually speaking to most of you where I possibly have a minute free but genuinely didn't expect this to ever happen.
 
I can't quite thank you all enough. For you all to do such a thing at such a hard time in life right now, its overwhelming really.
 
All that's left to say is that I apologise for nudging/nagging/annoying your daily busy lives of late - I've always had a vision that FG can be there for shit like this more often, and help other people, especially FGers like you, that truly need it. I just never expected you guys do exactly that for me because you're all way more worthy people than myself.
 
You take the time out to come here and that's has always been more than enough for me.
 
GGFG ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I can’t really add more than what others have said.  This place would ve dead without you and determination. Well deserved in my opinion, you are FG and in the immortal words; GGFG.

Hope you enjoy it Lee, you've kept this place together by constantly nagging us all. You're a true gent and you deserve to enjoy yourself this Christmas ❤️

@GazzaGarratt Thank you for all you do.  No one is more deserving.   🍺👍

No one deserves it more! This is one hell of a community and the work that @GazzaGarrattputs in is phenomenal.
 
Thanks so much dude! Enjoy it buddy! 

This community rocks as always, when the going gets tough, FG smashes it out of the park.
 
@GazzaGarrattall we gotta do now is find you someone to play it with 🤗
 
Looking forward to all those evenings where we still persuade you over to the PC though🙂

Well, what a year this has been huh? I think we can all agree, to put it bluntly, that this year can go fuck itself. 
 
That said, one thing that's been a constant throughout this fuckup of a year is this place, the people that make it, and the website that Leigh won't shut up about. It's not gone unnoticed by most of us that Leigh has put some significant work in to this place over the last few months and kept the ball rolling as much as possible, whilst still being the responsible adult we all love and sometimes need.
 
So to that end, and with FG being FG, we clubbed in together to do something we all know Leigh would appreciate the hell out of. So we rummaged around sofas and sold our bodies on the streets to be able to do it, but Dad, you can cancel your PS5 pre-order as we've got one for you.
 
Thanks to all who participated in this, regardless of how you participated it's always appreciated and the love is always felt in this community. 
 
Happy 2020 you irritating fuck, hope you have many more years with us ❤️ 
 
THE BIG ASTERISK: 
 
We're struggling to get a proper pre-order in, Very cancelled ours for some reason so we're seeing what we can do, so if you have one that's still valid please keep it and we'll send you the money rather than have you waiting unnecessarily long. If we manage to get a reliable pre-order in I'll update this thread.
 
See you all online champs! 

At the moment, the only thing that would tempt me to buy a PS5 is if my PS4 dies. Ive had it since a couple of months after launch day and managed to keep it going since. It sits on top of some game boxes to help keep it cool and has a strip of Sellotape over the eject disc sensor to cure that fault. Some compressed air helps keep the dust at bay
 
I think I’ll probably wait until the bundles start arriving to see if there’s anything I fancy. I think the PS5 game prices won’t stay at £65+ for long....I think they’ll eventually be at a premium of + £5 or £6 over the PS4 version at the discount vendors 

While, in other transfer news of a less spectacular nature.....
 
Thiago Alcantara: Liverpool agree £25m deal for Bayern Munich midfielder - BBC Sport
WWW.BBC.CO.UK Liverpool agree a deal to sign Spain midfielder Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich for at least £20m, plus £5m in add-ons.  

At the moment, the only thing that would tempt me to buy a PS5 is if my PS4 dies. Ive had it since a couple of months after launch day and managed to keep it going since. It sits on top of some game boxes to help keep it cool and has a strip of Sellotape over the eject disc sensor to cure that fault. Some compressed air helps keep the dust at bay
 
I think I’ll probably wait until the bundles start arriving to see if there’s anything I fancy. I think the PS5 game prices won’t stay at £65+ for long....I think they’ll eventually be at a premium of + £5 or £6 over the PS4 version at the discount vendors 

Download complete but for only 25gb it took a long time! Content servers must have been hammered. Looking forward to giving this a try tomorrow and through the weekend. Seems like there is a good bulk of content being made available also. 

While, in other transfer news of a less spectacular nature.....
 
Thiago Alcantara: Liverpool agree £25m deal for Bayern Munich midfielder - BBC Sport
WWW.BBC.CO.UK Liverpool agree a deal to sign Spain midfielder Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich for at least £20m, plus £5m in add-ons.  

I agree but then I’ve never bought a console day 1.  With their desire to support old consoles hampering the new, it isn’t usually until a year+ that the new consoles take over and we see the new hardware truly leveraged.
 
Also...PC master race 😂

We've had the announcement and pricing and everything else about next gen systems. And my answer to them is......why bother?
 
Neither system - PS5 or Xbox Series - have any system exclusives coming out this year that makes me think "I *REALLY* need that game". Microsoft have said there won't be any exclusives to the XSX for a couple of years. Even games like the new Horizon or Spiderman game on PS5 are also coming to the PS4 as well. 
 
Then there is the cost factor. Both systems will cost at least £400 (let's just ignore the XSS for now). If you wanna expand the storage that will cost an arm and a leg; yes you can use bog standard external HDD but to run the games you have to keep installing and uninstalling them to the system SSD. A new controller for the PS5 will cost £60 (at least with the XSX you can use any Xbox controller). Neither system has an optical out so if you wanna use your old headset you'll either need to buy an adaptor(the Astro adaptor is £40) or you're just going to have to buy a new headset.
 
And we also have the pricing of games. A few publishers have said that games will cost £70. Sony have said games will cost up to £70. A £10 increase for what? RaY tRacING!! Thank fuck I can still buy games on disc so I can at least sell/trade when I'm done*.
 
So, basically, fuck next gen for at least another year. I'll stick with my PS4 Pro and Xbox One X for now.
 
 
*we really need a section on these forums to buy and sell games.

Shamrock Rovers v AC Milan tonight😎

@Grebothand @J4MES OX4D
 
You may choose a PC game of your preference from the following list (only one copy of each though so first come...) and I will email you the Steam code:
 
Generation Zero
Strange Brigade
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Little Big Workshop
Void Bastards
 
Cheers to everyone who took part 😍
 

🤣 Nice one Phil! 👍

Sadly, me either Phil

@Greboth and @J4MES OX4D  I will present you with your prizes tomorrow 👍🍻

If you're gaming in 1080p then it'll last many more years but if it's 1440p then the card will probably only have another couple before you'll be gaming with barebone settings and missing out on all the lavish new graphical features. If you go up to a 3070 then that'll give you a good few years of 2K at the very least with a strong performance return and the RTX extras.  

Cmon Tommy, you know better than to ask these questions. It all depends on what you play, what resolution, what graphics settings and what you'd consider a playable framerate. 
 
Off the cuff I'd say another two years easily provided you're not expecting 100fps @4k on everything in a couple of years time. 
 
 
 
 
This new 3k series of cards are looking good. Everyone's raving about them because they're such a huge leap above the 2080ti, however I think this says more about the 2080ti than it does about the 3k series. The difference between the 2080ti and the 1080ti is pretty much negligible, whereas the difference between the 980ti and the 1080ti is massive, the same again between the 2080ti and the 3080. It's always been like this with Nvidia, massive upgrade ---> mediocre upgrade ---> massive upgrade ---> mediocre upgrade. 
 
AMD has been awfully quiet during all this, I can't wait to see what the 6 series cards offer. With them shitting all over Intel they've likely been able to plough a fucktonne of wedge in to R&D in to their GPU arm. We can only hope it pays off. Never know with AMD, it could be an absolute stonker, or it could be another Radeon 7. 

Till it burns out Tommy or you get a dose of Mustupgradeitis....speaking of which <scuttles off to piggy bank>