Less commercialising, more burning stuff

I think Tylenol must have a total monopoly on paracetamol sales in that country, as they never refer to it by its non-brand name. Going for the specific brand would be the same as suing every manufacturer.

F1 is owned by Americans now. Why would the one that brings in viewers and therefore money get punished for anything?

Ancient history now but Black&White 1. “Now you know how to rotate the camera to the left. Next let’s see if you can rotate it to the right!”

In the game’s defence it was still early in the 3D era and there probably was a number of players who had never navigated a free camera in that environment before. Still rage inducing though.

Not OP but Kerbal space program is far better when you have a mod that calculates delta V for you. Otherwise you have to manually recalculate everything every single time you make a small change to your rocket. And without knowing the delta V you have no hope of reaching many of the planets in the game

Underwater swimming on a game that wasn’t built around it. Every single time it’s a frustrating battle with poor camera angles and imprecise controls.

Oh I’m above the thing I need to collect but slightly out of grabbing range, all I need to do is go straight down… And now I’m 20ft away.

If only it was climbing. BOTW was more like “oh there was light rain recently so fuck you, no access up here.”

All I can think of is maybe at the start of Phantom Liberty? On first arrival at Dogtown you were locked in to a string of missions for a while but I don’t remember if you couldn’t pause or save because I did all of that part in one go anyway.

Carry weight is gameplay balancing. Without it on those games you’d just hoard a million healing items or something.

The borderland series is the worst for this. Boss fights just mean you have to continuously shoot the enemy for 10-15 mins.

Yes but I’d say only for new cars, seems a bit unfair to people who bought their cars a couple of years before the charge is introduced. Do they really want to pressure those people to go and buy another car? (more environmentally damaging than keeping what they have).

“Oh, you’re having financial trouble? Here’s a punishment to make things worse for you!”

That might be the catalyst but it’s foreign adversaries that have been investing a lot of resources into polarising us that are the real cause of this.

The same thing I do every year. Wonder how on earth I can insulate this house better when I’ve done all of the usual stuff and it hasn’t helped. Cavity wall insulation, double glazing, loft insulation, draft-proofing, new boiler. All done yet the boiler has to operate almost continuously just to keep the house at 18 degrees. Need one of those infrared cameras to spot the problem I think.

Wtf yikes as a fellow contractor, NEVER dip into your tax pool unless it’s a life of death situation. Stick it in an ISA or something for a year to get a few quid extra for the time being.

There are a fair few games out there with world building that is on par or even exceeds most films and novels. With films and TV shows you only get a limited time to experience the world in which they reside and so many details about the world or context don’t make the cut. With novels you get more capacity for background information but often fewer descriptions of the smaller things in the world. With games you get the best of both where everything down to the smaller details are displayed visually but with a runtime that can sometimes go into hundreds of hours allowing for plenty of time for backstory/lore.

It’s been a fucking meme for the last decade at this point but the Witcher 3 is one of the more memorable ones. I’ve played the game, read the books and watched the Netflix series, and the game is the best of the three.

Another example is Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s set in the wild west so you get all the iconic visuals and action of the best cowboy movies but the amount of detail included also beats many novels. The story of the game goes into a level of gritty detail and complexity that could easily be a book, but you can also bunk off and go hunting, fishing and camping and just live in the world in a way that you can’t experience in any other medium aside from actually being in 1800’s America yourself.

Hell, if you just wanted a video game version of a Tarantino film then GTA 5 (and upcoming GTA 6)has you covered.

Probably been sat in storage too long. Apples are sold all year round but they are only harvested once per year. And don’t think that in season you’ll be getting fresh ones, they’ll be straight into storage while you eat the year old stock.

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Never met a tramp but the idea of just fucking off from society and living in the woods or something is a constant temptation.

I haven’t paid any attention to them for a good 10 years, when I looked at their manifesto and saw that they wanted to cancel all road maintenance to force people to cycle. Hopefully it’s a bit less insane these days.