Rule One

Top Boy Season 4

Not as good as Season 3, with Covid halting production amongst things it just felt that some storylines were rushed over but it's still good and there's plenty of action to be satisfied with.

@SuperBacon

General Top Boy S4 Spoilers

On 3/16/2022 at 9:22 AM, Vegeta said:

Great shout on the special route X and the Corvette c7 14 been using it to get money to grab one of them time limited cars, about half way through at the moment but will be hopefully getting it by the end of the week, thanks the advice my friend 

And now they've nerfed it all. The menu book is the game and goes up to 39. Menu 33 (WTC 600 I think.) is the hardest out of them all.

I've binned it now as there's no enjoyment in grinding to get cars to play on limited tracks. I amassed over a few million credits and got the Dodge Tomahawk which goes around the SSRX at 350mph+.

Overall there's the bones of a good driving game but it's severely limited by PD/Sony's choice hoping to capitalise on the micro transactions gravy train.

@jazzygeofferz It's not only that, the servers went down for over 24 hours due to patch 1.07 rendering the game unplayable with players unable to do anything offline. With patch 1.08 they nerfed all the prize money races to 50% or less and to top it off, PD/Sony put out a statement which pretty much said "sorry but buy credits or go fuck yourself." So I fully understand why its userbase have had enough. It's a £25 game at best.

18 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

What's wrong with it? 

It's slow, clunky as hell, frustrating as shit and most importantly is no fun.

I've spent an hour fiddling with settings but keep getting the same result. Weapon shots are super slow and are reversed very easily. The AI not recognising prompts to pick weapons up so you're just stood there. Instant recovery powers of opponents when you've dead and buried them. Any interaction trying to do table spots, break the cell open, position items is a slog. Reversals galore with the prompts/timing off by half a second.

Community creations worked ok but after downloading items they didn't recognise arenas/championships/wrestlers in any regular match setting.

I understand it's a new game, I've got to get used to it but it feels half finished and any fun you usually can have with it has been sucked dry.

I'd say wait until the price goes down and hopefully tweak it in patches. There's something in there but they've forgot the fun. I really hate being negative but it just feels like gamers are being ripped the piss out of in terms of quality/price/gameplay. Between this and Dying Light 2 in a short space of time, please forgive me for blowing a fuse for being a fool for paying a considerable amount to be pissed upon.

WWE 2k22

Is this 2K's/WWE's idea of an absolute pisstake?

Fuck me, give me 2k20 back.

On 3/10/2022 at 8:27 PM, Vegeta said:

Ive really enjoyed it so far, I'm still early doors on it at the minute, got the b license all gold and 2-3 gold on the a license.

The cafe can be annoying, but I do echo what you said about it adding a little story to it. 

I've had a go or two at the sport online mode aswell and I sort of limp along on there and am not good enough to podium on there yet.

I got 35ish cars at the minute, but overall really enjoying it.

I'm hoping there is some serious money races upcoming as I always find I spend the money as soon as I make it tuning the car for the next set of races, hopefully that will level out eventually.

Agreed it's definitely a lot better than GT Sport

I'm on Menu book 30 at the moment and it's not got much better in terms of using all your cash to upgrade for races.

The quickest cash grab I'm using is Special Route X which unlocked on the Americas racing group. I use a nearly maxed out Chevrolet Corvette C7 '14 which is currently at 837bhp. With that a clean race nets 45k in about 4:30 of race time.

I'm not enjoying being stuck 20-30 secs behind every race on rolling starts especially on American car only races as they handle like utter trash and one small mistake ruins a hard fought race. Laguna Seca being a particular drag for braking/cornering.

I managed to scrape up enough to buy and nearly max out a Ferrari 458 which is tremendous fun especially on easy tracks with enough room to pull off drifts. Brakes/handles like a dream.

Oh and Nürburgring in the absolute wet is hell.

@scratchdj Cheers for posting that vid. Me and my son used to mess about on iRacing but I gave up after a few months because I kept getting motion sickness. I bet that chair is fucker to get out of if you really need the toilet but does look significantly comfier than playing on a regular office/chair desk.

19 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Edit: Upon looking for it, I stumbled across Reefs. MEMBER REEFS???

Yes! I learnt a valuable life lesson with with Reefs, if you drank the orange ones you must then stick to that. Never ever in any circumstances try your mates blackcurrant Reefs after an orange one, it opened up an ungodly world of instant sickness and bowel movements. Nothing brings a cold sweat of shame at 3am when you remember that you had to evacuate yourself in multiple ways in a Sports Bar of all places because of this.

We tried and tested this method amongst our friend group and it was the same result, nobody could survive.

Overall I pretty much tried all the usual rites of passage of teenage drinking except for cider, a family member was a deep alcoholic heavily into cider. I saw what it did to him and wanted to no part of that.

Luckily for us we never had no booze supply issues as we had Dirty Des (RIP you gloriously seedy motherfucker.) and as long as he knew one of your family you had access to all of your average filth laden teenager desires; cigs, booze and porn.

Between the ages 13-15 it was whatever we could get in volume, MD 20/20, cheap versions of lambrini for the girls and beers were a mix up of Fosters/Carling/etc and I found my happy place with Skol/Yellow Lynx because unless a mate was skint or it was the end of night, nobody wanted to drink it but me.

After 15 until we started hitting the pubs I got into spirits a bit more starting out by clearing my guts out on a regular basis with Thunderbird and cheap vodka before entering a lifelong affair with Jack Daniels. I used to think I was king shit sat on park equipment knocking it back like a fool.

Glory days, eh?

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

@Rule One Is the 1991 Mercedes Benz 190 E in it? 

I kind of enjoy driving the more "regular" cars in driving games generally.

Doesn't seem like it. Currently there's 424 cars to collect so a lot of regular cars have been left out. The M3 '03 is ridiculously good to drive. Some of the Honda Civics and rally type cars are good drives too.

50 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

I always reach a point where I can't drive certain cars above a certain power. The fastest thing I drove in the whole of Forza Horizon 5 was bare in A-spec and I could just about manage that. I think I might have to pass on GT7 as I'll probably only make it to international B licence if I'm lucky. 

It's pretty easy going, plus you can play with the difficulty settings. I've not driven anything that's too wild yet and the licences are considerably easier compared to previous games as I acquired the International A on my first few hours into the game. I ripped a course with a Nissan Skyline R34 doing 160mph+ in some sections and it never felt too fast for me.

@Merzbow It's one of the earlier cars you collect/win. The one I have is the '83 Levin version.

@scratchdj That's a sweet setup, many a man would love to look like a nob just to be in that position, I hope it brings you much joy.

@Astro Hollywood he's too big for us now as well. How I long for more beach diaries.

@Undefeated Steak Seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. I'd just like to know if he's alive and well if anyone closer to him on these boards know.

On 3/6/2022 at 10:36 AM, Vegeta said:

Just installing this now, can't wait to give it a crack, looks amazing

How have you found it?

I've enjoyed my time on it so far, the Cafe Menu nonsense is a bit annoying but at least it adds some kind of story to the game. Driving with a wheel kit is so much better than a pad but it is prone to small inconsistencies with corner braking.

I'm up to about 50 cars in my collection now but I don't know how I'm going to muster up millions in credits for the expensive cars unless there's some big money racing further down the line.

I'm just glad it's better than GT Sport.

DYING LIGHT 2

More like Dying Shite, I haven't been let down by a game like this in ages. Everything that made the first game fun has been sucked from this one and turned into a clunky, frustrating mess.

The story is very poor and I just couldn't get invested in any of the characters. The gameplay should have been improved but has gone backwards. Some of the glitches, like freezing enemies, sounds loading 10+ seconds after everything has occurred and NPC's just being grey matter until the game decides to load them or not. It's not Cyberpunk levels but at least I could laugh at that.

The parkour is a mess with actions not responding in a timely manner, they've fucked the grappling hook mechanics and most of the decent missions occur at night which is terrible to play through especially with the implemented you can only be in the dark for X amount of time.

Gran Turismo 7

Looks amazing, plays better than GT Sport, can't wait to delve into it a little more.

2 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Remarkable how all these poor, destitute City fans from Ardwick, Cheetham Hill and Moss Side (?) were suddenly able to scrape together enough pennies for Saturday's match after Guardiola did a Delia, but ok, lads.

What does it matter to you as a United fan? United aren't always full to the brim every game.

Cup games cost extra whether it's Champions League, Carabao cup, FA cup/etc. 

There's a large number of the 'loyal' (Read: Before the money rolled in.) that don't want to attend Champions League games because of how they perceive UEFA's treatment of the club. Some can't afford it or would rather save upwards of £35. Some just plain can't be arsed going. Some people work late and would rather stick to weekends. Some people have season tickets and don't show up. (There's a guy who has a ST near me and he never attends unless it's against a 'big' club.)

Take your pick but money is a massive factor above all when attending any football game. A family of 4 attending a City game these days will cost more than £130+ and that's just for the game. Without a season ticket, how many times can an average family do that?

Another thing to remember is that football has been nothing more than a business for a long time. We the customer can be loyal, obsessive, passionate but that doesn't mean we're obliged to do that. We have a choice.

It's up to City to figure out how to move on up and pull in the tourists, new fans, money, etc. When it's starts going to shit, I'll be more concerned. Until then, as with any season ticket holder, supporter, punter, customer, consumer what has a choice, I'll take my seat as and when I choose to.

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Didn't know John Barrowman posted on here!

Alas no. That fucker got a refund. All I have is regret.

5 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

What was so bad about it? I've seen a lot of strong negative opinions on it.

The dialogue was dire, comical levels and communicated the story very badly.

Everything that tried to tie the plot together was full of holes that could and should have been tidied when going over the script.

Spoilers Below:

There's something there in the premise but this just isn't it. If someone enjoys it or understands it's "layers", power to you. I'm still mad 12 hours later.

Old:

Honestly, I've never wanted to walk out of a film ever but this one finally cracked me. Please, please, please, I beg of you, please do not punish yourself or subject any of your senses to this "film". 

Fuck M. Night Shyamalan, fuck this film, fuck the cunts who budgeted this fucking crap and fuck life for letting this absolute atrocity to exist.

Just fuck off. I really fucking hate myself that I paid for this shit.

PS: Apologies for the negativity but seriously fuck it every way humanely possible.

21 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

I’ve picked up these plain as fuckers for everyday use in the Nike sale for about £37.

 

I then got these monstrosity’s knocked down to £85 from £189. I keep telling myself I’ll just send them back when they get here but I know I won’t.

Having a truck load of new trainers turning up at the house is the only upside to having a patch of bad mental health.

First and foremost, I hope you're over the bad patch and doing better.

Are the top pictured Nike's Daybreak's? They look similar to them which are very comfortable but the soles wear down fast.

I was so tempted to pick up the very same Evo's in the Size sale because I love pissing off my son with trainer styles I know he doesn't like.

I bought these nearly three years ago to wind him up with:

He utterly despises them. I also bought some gold and silver Airmax 97's on the spot because he thought they were horrific.

Forgot about this classic:

Have you ever been so cold in the D?

The worst song always belongs to Chuggo - C'Mon Fucking Guy aka C'Mon fuck a guy.

The video is wonderfully terrible to boot.

@Devon Malcolm How much have those set you back?

I like them but JD are selling Adidas München in near enough the same colour for £40-45. I know that the Napoli's are more sought after and will hold better value.

I've bought these over the last few weeks:

Very comfortable but they won't last long as the sole is thinner my hairline.

Absolute filth.

@Mr_Danger Fight pettiness with pettiness but within rules of your job.

Tape her letters to the letterbox or tape one side to the outer edge and post half through tearing shit up as she pulls it through. Bang the door/letterbox and scurry off every so often. Leave a sorry we couldn't deliver card citing the letter/package too big to post making her have to travel to get her shit. Take a photo her door/letterbox as proof so you're covered.

Alternatively just tell them to fuck off.

@Keith Houchen

The Audi E Tron has been a nightmare for my friend, he's had two of them and they've both inexplicably failed within the first 3,000 miles. Audi can't explain why it's happened either and it was a pain to get them to refund/cancel his deal with them. Both vehicles just shut down and wouldn't get going again, they tried to blame some of it on his charge point but he had it checked and certified three times to prove them wrong. It was nice to ride in but going off his experience/cost, it just wasn't worth it. 

He's now got a Tesla Model 3 which isn't as spacious as people make out and having a quick go of it, it was very strange to drive. I don't like it at all but he thinks it's the bee's knees. 

Finally pulled the trigger on some Gazelles. £50 on offer at Office. Very comfortable, more comfortable than Spezials but still love/rank LA's above these. However I may have to switch because original LA designs are getting harder to find. They've run the brand into the ground with some truly horrific twists and tweaks in the last few years that barely resemble anything like them. 

Also I mentioned about six months ago that I'd bought some Nike Vapormax TN's for £42.50 because one shoe was stained and the other was bright white. They sat in the box up until this week where multiple washes with assorted cleaning products, some trainer paints and then two roll throughs with black dyes and this is the end result. 

I call them cosmic peach and its a lesson learnt. I'm going to use them for gardening. 

Has anyone heard from @Undefeated Steak? If you're just browsing, I hope you're ok.

Also @Sergio Mendacious Can we have the real you back? I want more daft stories about daft stuff you've seen in New York and less lurking please.