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2 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

I’m sure you can just ignore all the pointless side missions on Spider-Man can’t you? I never because I found them quite satisfying but it’s easily avoidable. If the story doesn’t do it for you though you’re fucked I suppose.

They’re inconsequential but you do need to complete some of them to earn tokens to upgrade your gear. 

2 hours ago, Tommy! said:

Is this the 2018 one or the 2020 Miles Morales one?

I've not played MM but the 2018 one was all about the story for me, very rare I get drawn in by a story in a game but that did it really well for me.

It was also nice to have a Spiderman game it's fun to play because the last one I had was the 2000 PS1 game (which is still great).

It was the 2018 one, the story isn’t bad and the characters are well voice acted but other than the Octavius stuff the rest of it felt rushed. For example, one extremely easy mission with Miles’ dad isn’t enough to make me care about either of those characters. Like I say, there were positives but as someone who likes to blast through a game rather than an hour here or there then it just felt overly repetitive for me. Example of that being, completing all the Frisk and Demon hideouts only to then have to do the exact same with Sable and Prisoners in the second half. And the little bonus challenges of drone chasing, taking pictures of cats and finding backpacks all just felt like pointless filler.

12 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

To which system do you keep referring here?

Of a Down, presumably?

🎵I don’t think you trust….🎵

Sorry!

13 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

A food pairing suggestion for the BrewDog Parma Violet:

 

Bumped in to the good man twice when I was living in Herne Hill, I’m guessing he lives around there too. And true to form he was stuffing his face both times, he’s absolutely ginormous.

11 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yeah. I meant fuck knows why she thinks they’d be cancelled by woke pc types. 

Can’t even say your British anymore without offending someone. 

Standing in the queue in WHSmith today holding two Viz annuals for gifts (it’s £12 for one or two for a tenner in there, fyi. Don’t ask me how that works). Some old bloke turns to me and says “mark my words, this’ll be the last year you’ll be able to buy that with all this woke culture going on”, I replied “yeah, worlds full of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, isn’t it?” He laughed thinking I had sided with him and went on his merry way. That showed him, the prick. 

Spiderman is pretty shit. I’ve never been a fan of superhero games but this had rave reviews, won GOTY from a few places and was discounted on PS store so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’m nearly 70% through the campaign but I’m throwing in the towel. Don’t get me wrong it does have some plusses, the New York skyline looks fantastic, the web swinging is pretty cool and the humour isn’t terrible but that’s where it ends for me.
There’s almost zero interaction with the “open world” other than taking photographs of some landmarks to earn tokens to be spent on upgrades. The campaign is repetitive, the side missions are pointless and unfulfilling and the stealth objectives are laughable. The combat is so-so, it takes a while to get used to, is fun when you get used to it but then like everything else in the game you realise that nothing has really changed from the start, only arguably easier as you progress through the campaign.

It’s a game that had a potential but like so many games these days, all effort was put in to aesthetics leaving gameplay wanting. 
 

Yeah, I believe alcoholics and smokers do, generally, find it more difficult to get transplants when theirs pack in. So there’s absolutely a precedent for prioritising health care based on lifestyle choices and if two patients required an ICU bed with one being fully vaccinated and the other an antivaxxer then I’d have no issue with the former being prioritised. 

4 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

That said, my non verbal son can now say hello, but due to his impedient it sounds more like a chinese stereotype impersionation from the 70's so were hoping he doesn't say it out in the wild so he doesn't cancel himself.

Great news, you must be over the moon. I’m sure he’ll get on just fine with it, unless he’s trying to get in to a Bowler show, obviously.

45 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

I know it's not real, but why would anyone pay extra to not get Mrs. Brown's Boys and The One Show when you could pay the normal price and just, y'know, not watch them?

You know when your programme finishes and then you subconsciously just start watching the next show? I did it with Mrs Brown’s Boys once. It’s been a slow recovery. 

Until I see evidence to the contrary, I’m going to assume they’re all Land Army fetishists. 

Tenner says O’Carroll makes some shit joke about stuffing an old bird.

Look at the absolute state of this. There’s something really creepy about the Daily Express and it’s readers. 

I’ve watched about three episodes of AEW so I’m not passing judgement on anything other than Jungle Boy’s entrance music being a certified banger. 

Hard to be enthused by this. I mean, it’s always good to see the cunts suffering but this just means he’ll be replaced in plenty of time before the next election, likely by Snake-Oil Salesman Sunak or Liz got-a-beef-with-CHEESE-ON Truss and they’ll do the old Tory trick of framing themselves as a new Govt despite being made up of the same people, denying past liabilities and taking credit for the few and far between successes. 
 

What’s more disheartening though is that none of this is new. His party and the media knew what Johnson was liked, everyone who’s had any interaction with him tends to form the same opinion. But they happily let him in to No 10 as their useful idiot to ram Brexit through, stuck with him through endless scandal, at a time when trust in Government policy was vital, and only now because he’s becoming an electoral liability are the Men in Grey Suits being readied.
The whole think stinks of self-preservation and it’s fucking sickening. Give it five years, and he’ll be repackaged as an eccentric statesman, wheeled out à la Hesseltine, Blair to speak with authority on everything he’s fucked up. 
 

Eat the lot of them. 

We’re living in the Minority Report lads, police don’t look at crimes that happened in the past.

Raab must be the thickest person to ever sit on the front bench, I swear Johnson only keeps him around to look competent in comparison.

You’ve got to love the irony in these vax sceptics being so keen to shovel all this other shit in to their body.

1 hour ago, hallicks said:

 

If we did have a hung parliament and DUP support wasn’t enough, do you reckon Lib Dems go full heel and form coalition wolfpac? Would SNP back a queens speech from the tories if it meant getting Indy ref 2? 

Not a chance SNP would vote through a Tory Queen’s Speech or Budget. SNP know they’re borrowing votes from Labour until independence, they can’t risk upsetting that unspoken of agreement. Sturgeon’s been pretty clear that’s a no-go, she’d be showing uncharacteristic naivety in trusting the Tories to deliver on an indyref2.

Has anyone had a Festive Bake from Gregg’s yet? I remember enjoying them but I had one a few days ago and it tasted like someone poured a jar of dried sage in my mouth, I had to chuck it after a couple of bites. Good job I bought a chaser of 2x sausage rolls and Yum Yums. 

The actual garment could be anything, it’s the display of having money to burn on an ostentatious piece of shit that’s the statement. 
ie. if you wear Balenciaga you’re a colossal cunt. 

Succession continues to be the best thing to have graced our screen for years. The latest episode was a belter, perfect blend of comedy and real cringe inducing tragedy, quite an accomplishment getting you to feel any sort of sympathy toward these characters and that last episode was a masterclass in it. I can’t think of a better cast series for a long time, maybe Westworld but that went off a cliff after the first season. 
The writing is impeccable and although I’m nowhere near ready for this to end, I’m already excited for future Jesse Armstrong projects. 
 

47 minutes ago, Pinc said:

Psychology of the Merseyside derby tonight is all over the place. Some blues hoping we get tonked so Benitez leaves. Likewise some reds who wouldn't mind a draw to avoid being the ones to cost him his job. Can't see anything but a 3 or 4-0 in Liverpool's favour. No one goes home happy.

4 hours ago, Thunderplex said:

Whiney, nasally shite.  How they made a fiver, never mind millions I will never know.  They think they are hard bastards, but there are 1001 storeys round south Manchester of they being a pair of shitehawks.  Burnage monkey-boys.  I rank them just higher than Phil Collins, and  trust me, that’s pretty fucking low.  Shit.

One of the reasons I’ve never taken them or their fans seriously. They thought they were the hard men of music when in reality it was handbags in the tabloids with Robbie Fucking Williams. 
Just arseholes with shite haircuts imo.

20 hours ago, PunkStep said:

As we enter the festive season, I'll rewatch the Christmas episode as I do every year and wish that Mark's dad was in more episodes. 

Is that traditional?

10 hours ago, FelatioLips said:

My wife has mentioned a type of cake her Nana used to buy but neither of us have any idea what it is. Her description is “like an upside down cupcake but with coconut on the top”.

Any ideas?

A snowball? Filled with raspberry jam?