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I think my next one will be this: https://www.christopherward.com/sports-watches/c63-sealander-bronze-cosc/C63-39ADC3-B00K0-TK.html the company is fairly local to me so I can check it out before buying. I think I would like a green fabric strap rather than black personally, hopefully they can do that. I like it cos you can see some of the movement through the dial, but it still looks easy to tell the time with it. I agree about "keeping for best", it means you never wear the things you like (and I think is a sign that you maybe spent a bit too much on the watch if you feel like you can't afford to wear it). I partly want the new watch so I can send the Tissot in for a service (I've had it for about a decade now).

That's nice. I've got a Tissot that I love for its clean lines and accurate automatic movement, it didn't cost the earth either (https://www.tissotwatches.com/en-gb/t0864071605700.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwu_mSBhAYEiwA5BBmfxWDtT1ihZiq2X6v2WQOwjdGNsUNXEcBd40mtmsgjY9LYA7zbNMTIRoCuhAQAvD_BwE): I've been thinking of getting another one soon. Something in the £500-£1,000 price bracket, maybe a skeleton/open heart style, with a metal wristband.

That is good to know! My PS5 still crashes in rest mode now and then. So will be save-quitting.

That's a very good point! I wish more games used this trophy philosophy tbh. I think trophies are at their best when they encourage you to try everything, rather than complete everything. But maybe that's just me being a big "participation award" millennial?

That was good. Going to wait to start Elden Ring and GT7 until the new TV arrives on Friday. I like that the trophies respect your time, e.g. you only have to play a couple of Machine Strike matches, and clear like 4 enemy camps and stuff rather than "find every x". The only "every" thing you have to do is scan all machines, but that's something that I think almost everyone will do.

Upgraded my LG OLED 55 B6 to the 2022 55 C2.

I mean... Timezone permitting, I'm sensing a way through here...

It's nukes. If they didn't have thousands of nukes we (or rather you) would have changed the shit out of that regime a long time ago.

Disco Elysuim Following @danielpholt's example. I'm also ditching this. There's a few things I don't like: 1. RNG skill checks. I feel like this should just have been a threshold thing. If you are over the requirement you pass. The happiness of passing a 12% skill check I had no business even attempting is far outweighed by how much I felt cheated when I failed a 79% skill check. 2. The relentless darkness. It's all so grim, like yeah it's a dystopia, but gods is it fucking depressing. 3. The pressure. Add to the grimness the pressure to pass skill checks, and the pressure to scrounge up $20 a night so my character can sleep, and the pressure to constantly make choices it just feels like working in a horrible, unfair place, which is not remotely fun. I saw the game over screen when my character shot himself in the face, so imma call it "completed" and move on with my life.

My only issue with HFW is that there is more focus on melee combat (which is good), but there is no way to lock on to a target which makes keeping track of an enemy really difficult when you are jumping around and slashing.

Exactly this. All scenarios now are a loss for Putin: 1. They take Ukraine and spend forever with a ornery neighbour that they have to ceaselessly "pacify"; 2. They split Ukraine and see "West Ukraine" join EU/NATO and have a hostile power on their border who they cannot invade again without facing the entire western world; 3. They leave Ukraine in defeat and lose a war against a nation 1/3 their size. Under 1&2 sanctions continue indefinitely, Europe will be forced to move away from Russian energy reliance weakening Russia as a world power. Once they are weakened, China will have no further use for them and they lose their only meaningful ally. Under 3, they spend the next few decades climbing back out of sanctions and regaining trust, but only if Putin is no longer there.

It's going to be a huge loss for Putin in long/medium term. He had a neutral state in the form of Ukraine on his border, he's going to end up with Ukraine being a member of the EU when the dust settles.

I thought the same. I was like... So we can just nick other people's territory again and you basically just get a fine? Cos the English used to love doing that shit up to the 18-1900s, but then it sort of fell out of fashion in the 1940's.

I've got back into running on the regular. Normally do a 5k a couple of times a week and occasionally bang out a 10k just to make sure I still can. I use the Zombies Run app for motivation.

Do they fold up? They look like they do. The tyres look really fat... Are they for the beach or something?

You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

What sort of range does a Spot even have? There's a lot of border and I'd imagine roomba style charging stations would have to be tempting targets.

I really can't tell if you loved it or hated it. I thought the combat was lacking a bit until I got hold of the after that I felt the combat flowed well. The axe recall is hugely satisfying and makes me want them to make a Thor game as well. I never noticed being shot from off cam. I do always appreciate when games don't do that (Jedi Fallen Order is another that does it well, storm troopers will shoot at you from off cam, but will always miss - which kinda fits in universe as well). It was new for a GoW game to have enemy levels and I remember opening one of the rift thingies and getting utterly curb stomped by a mook. It's so long since I played that I don't really remember how levels work tbh, but I do think it detracts from the "god-hood" of Kratos. I wonder if they will do it in Ragnorok or if they will drop that system since I don't recall it adding much. I'm fine with unlocking abilities and tools, but rpg style levelling doesn't fit GoW in my view.

I completely agree @TheFlyingGerbil, would love an Uncharted that is exploring, puzzle solving, and running away from boulders, floods, collapsing temples... etc. with no shooty-bangs whatsoever.

Haha, yeah, just being facetious. Shame you can't sell it to your neighbours, "mates rates" would still be a tidy profit.

Obviously took lessons from GameStop.

That is a lot of panels! Are you able to sell power back to the grid?

Even my dad texted me about it. lol.

Ahhh, existential dread, how I have missed you!