TheFlyingGerbil

Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition - I enjoyed it except the mandatory racing bits so completed all the optional stuff except the races and collectathons. The two DLC were enjoyable too. Three Fourths Home - was OK. More an interactive story than a game but it didn't outstay its welcome. The epilogue worked out OK but seemed unnecessary.

Congratulations on the continued weight loss/improvement in health. That's the hardest part - sticking at it - these things are easy to start. Seems like you're going about it in a healthy and sustainable way. Good luck.

Wahoo.

I stopped buying on Amazon and cancelled PRIME even though I got good value out of it (though it's not as fully featured here in the UK) as I'm trying to be a more ethically minded consumer. I could definitely do more on this front but honestly it's impossible not to tie yourself in knots trying to work it all out but some decisions are more obvious than others.

that's some futuristic looking weights - took me a moment to work out what they were.

I don't understand it but I kind of like it.

That's why I was so tempted when logically I should not get one. I could have had a go and sold it at a profit.

Missed out on Tesco selling PSVR headset bundles for £75 and games for super cheap. May be for the best to be honest. I feel like it would end up in a drawer.

I like the look of it but have no intention of buying it. I think next gen I will wait to buy a console until I see a Limited Edition I like though.

Nice to see Macaulay Culkin looking well. I loved the mead episode best of the ones I watched so far and will look forward to this one. I don't know why I don't look out for them myself but always like it when they turn up here.

Was surprised to find out one of the Chuckle Brothers was 73. Do wonder why people seemed to be a bit over keen on them not sure what that was about. Sad for the remaining brother as I guess that's his career over.

I think this may be one of my favourite covers of all time

What's the what, new friend.

I've enjoyed his web series and shorts then out of the blue there is an entire feature film on his channel. I don't know why I'm not putting it in good movies, tbh it was enjoyable and well paced and didn't feel like you were watching a youtuber making a film.

An article about the making of the Street Fighter movie. Sounds like a miracle it it ended up on the screen at all. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/16/inside-street-fighter-movie-jean-claude-van-damme-kylie-minogue

I guess this is the nearest thing we have to a science thread, I wonder if it's worth creating one? When I was a child, my father would take me trout fishing, and I spent hours marveling from the riverbank at the trouts’ ability to, seemingly effortlessly, hold their position in the fast-moving water. As it turns out, those trout really were swimming effortlessly, in a manner demonstrated above. The fish you see here swimming behind the obstacle is dead. There’s nothing powering it, except the energy its flexible body can extract from the flow around it. The obstacle sheds a wake of alternating vortices into the flow, and when the fish is properly positioned in that wake, the vortices themselves flex the fish’s body such that its head and its tail point in different directions. Under just the right conditions, there’s actually a resonance between the vortices and the fish’s body that generates enough thrust to overcome the fish’s drag. This means the fish can actually swim upstream without expending any energy of its own! The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect. (Image and research credit: D. Beal et al.; via PhysicsBuzz; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh) http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2018/07/watch-how-does-dead-fish-swim-upstream.html

I have what I believe is a good team, with good moves. The only thing I lack is sharing stones for it. I have the silver cauldron, it's still grindy AF.

Anyone playing pokemon quest? I've got my team up to around 6,500 and it is SO painfully slow to level up enough to move on to the next level never mind the next area. Plus even for a mobile game you pretty much do nothing. I'm not 100% sure why I am playing it, tbh

Just in time for them to kill it off. Though there was that spin-off not sure how similar that is or if they intend to carry along that route. I'm playing Sleeping Dogs which I had planned to speed through, but I guess that was dumb for an open world game as I can't help myself doing the side quests and I am enjoying it so why rush. But it is harder than I was expecting for an open world game to the point where I see a lock box to open and have to decide if I can be bothered to fight the thugs protecting it and the racing can be... frustrating and frequent.

I'm subscribed to that as a podcast and they didn't say it was also a video until way too late for me to go to and watch it, but then the podcast was 15 minutes longer so swings and roundabouts I guess.

I bounced right off the first one - I think I set my expectations too high when everyone said it was like Zelda.