Nexus

I answered all of the questions because I'm not interesting enough to dox.

Finished the original Justified last night - all six seasons of it. It's brilliant, although I don't think I liked the finale, although I guess it does mean that

may return in Primeval.

I don't really like Westerns in general, but I enjoyed all of the seasons of this. The turn of Duffy was something I did not expect - it never once crossed my mind. Every season had a decent "big bad" as well, and Dewey Crow was one of my favourite characters throughout. 

9 hours ago, StrongStyle said:

I bought it last week but have yet to become properly acquainted with it...as I am doing my first NG+ playthrough of Elden Ring. First completed the game in June 2022 - and it took me until about 6 hours into this file to understand what Great Runes/Rune Arcs actually do. I'm a berk.

Obviously, NG+ makes everything a lot more straightforward, so I'm glad I've started it with Shadow of the Erdtree coming out in the summer. I 

What you playing as?

Helldivers 2 is hella fun. 

Chung is my fave and I hope he wins it all

Went to see Hadestown this afternoon. My wife bought tickets and I attempted to listen to the soundtrack a month or so ago, but wasn't able to focus on it. I'm glad I didn't - watching it blind was phenomenal. Fun staging, good story and great singing. 

Highly recommend it! 

Edit: Also the actor who played Hades (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_James) reminded me simultaneously of both Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. 

18 hours ago, Jesse said:

Bought Balatro on Steam today and that's all my spare time gone. It's a poker roguelike - get dealt cards and try to make poker hands to score chips. Better hands score more points, beating stages gets you money to spend in the shop on more cards, cards that improve the scoring of your cards, or Jokers - cards that modify your score when you fulfil specific objectives (like multiplying it by 3 when you score the same hand two times in a row). Bosses, one every three stages, each come with a unique ability to fuck with you - forcing you to discard two cards every time you play, dealing some cards face down, and removing scoring from specific suits are some I played against today.

I've played it for 90 minutes after work and I can already feel the next thousand hours creeping up on me. 
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/

One of my old internet mates was raving about it so I played the Demo, and it's ridiculously fun - I don't even massively like Poker! Game came out a day after I tried the demo, so the demo wasn't active, so as a result I was going to just move on, but then I saw it posted about on Twitter, bought it and now it's going to be my new Slay the Spire for a bit.

August 31st was my proudest gamer moment

My first platinum, as well! Such a good game and I'm so horny for the next one. 

That chilli sauce makes this banging meal - https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/mobs-chilli-butter-gnocchi/

If you want an alternative slow roasted lamb recipe, this lamb raan recipe from Dishoom is banging - https://www.dishoom.com/journal/dishooms-lamb-raan-recipe/ 

Dry fry some chillies, have it with some chapatis, it's delightful. 

YJB needs to be dropped now. He's not in for his keeping, and his batting is completely off a cliff now. 

1 hour ago, wordsfromlee said:

Fuck Wesley. Didn't even deserve to be the stand-in in the first place.

It's madness - why not give it to one of the other best runners up? He's done nothing. 

To be fair, richard23588, this probably isn't the right area of the site to ask about ring ropes. Mainly because it's the off topic bit, so being off topic is what we do. 

How do you feel about Ian Beale? 

6 hours ago, Bus Surfer said:

As usual, I'm massively late on this but but I started playing Dredge yesterday and it's tons of fun.

The atmosphere and music is just perfect with the daytime being some care free bliss and the nights being sinister and eerie. The game days pass so quickly and the urgency really ramps up as the daylight starts to fall. 

I probably played for 4 hours yesterday and I feel like I did too much exploring early on and missed a few early quests. I also feel like some of my boat research has been miss-used so I'm contemplating restating the whole thing. 

£18 well spent and I can see me sinking many hours into this. 

Dredge was one of my favourite games of 2023, and I'm glad to see you finding it! I don't really like horror all that much, but it was a nice balance of dread and not-dread. 

There is an area later that can completely get to fuck though. Hated it. 

Missing out on an excellent game, to be fair Houchen. There's Japanese schoolboys too! and a dog! 

It's got to be Wrestle Me, even though it's mostly behind a paywall. It's so consistently good, and now they're diving into the attitude era. 

It's everyone's dad, Christian. 

6 hours ago, Slapnut said:

I’m rubbish with names on TV but Charlotte’s was one that I always remembered somehow. About half way through I was talking about her to my fiancée but tried to pretend I didn’t know her name, to which she replied “oh Charlotte, the one with big boobs?”. 

I should have just said yes, but instead I said “oh does she have boobs?”. Dickhead.

She also rarely wore a bra which is why I struggled to not have that the way to describe her to my visually impaired wife..."the one with the nipples..."

52 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

. I've kept my thoughts on Charlotte to myself though but I strongly suspect we feel the same way on her too. Bonk indeed.

Agreed. It was very difficult not to be enamoured loudly by her. 

Oh the reaction to Dirty Dom coming out was great. I wonder what his reactions will be like if he turns face...

Enjoyed the Women's Rumble, Jade Cargill looked like a superstar, Bayley's inevitable beatdown by Damage Ctrl will be amazing. 

I despise Reigns' matches. At least it wasn't interminable in length. 

Logan Paul has no right to be as good as he is. 

Bron Breakker is a freak, and I still don't like Cody Rhodes but I hope he finishes his story. 

Barney Walsh is really bad. 

Army brat but deserved the win. 

shit joke wanker

I voted for RE4 remake, but then played Spider-Man 2 over Christmas. It was fucking incredible and would've got my vote...