BrodyGraham

On the Gamescom live stream, they seemed to confirm a strategy of free content updates alongside paid dlc's adding match types and roster updates.

I've said from the start, if they made something as simple as a No Mercy/Virtual Pro remake that I'd be very happy. It already looks like a bit more than that, so rough build or not, I want this now!

Well, hands up who saw that coming!?

10 hours ago, Thunderplex said:

I hope Manchester gets one.  We have Miami Fried Chicken, which is awesome, but I do love Popeyes.

I live round the corner from Miami and there's always a queue outside. I tried it a few months ago and found it to be basically just a Chicken Shop but with particularly chunky chicken bits. The seasoning and moistness was a bit lacking.

I use Cleo's Nashville Chicken for that kind of thing. Easily best Chicken burger I've had at home and the wings and tenders are ridiculous.

It looks really like No Mercy to me. The cadence of the running, standing and ground grapples looked very much like a sped up version of the Virtual Pro engine.

The mini games look like the kind of thing I could play with my daughter as well, so jobs a good 'un here. 

Watched all of 'Paper Girls' in one sitting last night. It's really good. The young girls who play the title characters range from being good to genuinely excellent and the story, whilst being twisty, never devolves into nonsense.

It dropped on Prime yesterday and has seemingly only been damaged by Amazon's reluctance to publicise their own shows.

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

If they're a pub with a selection of unusual beers, samples are more than fair. One of my locals is both expensive and changes their beers regularly enough that it's difficult to have a 'regular' - and they'll actively offer if you're looking at the taps or beer menu. But don't take the piss - try one or two every few drinks. If you're at a busy Spoons and trying to decide a £2.50 real ale, take the risk and just order one. And then have a word with yourself for drinking in a fucking Wetherspoons and giving money to Tim fucking Martin.

Or if you're in the Waterhouse in Manchester, assess the situation, ask for a sample (we do put some thought into what goes on tap), tip your bar staff and be comforted by the knowledge that you're funding my daughter's board game habit.

Olli Olli World is bloody lovely. If you've not played the earlier Olli Olli games, they're skateboard games reinvented as twitch platformers. This one has a very latter day Cartoon Network aesthetic as well, which keeps the whole thing very chill despite the fact you need mental reflexes to be good at the thing.

Also spent the weekend revisiting Split Second: Velocity. It's still, to me anyway, the standout game from a period of time where Arcade Racers were having a bit of a renaissance. The speed, handling, tension and track design are all absolutely top notch. It's a bloody shame that it, and the equally brilliant Blur were basically sent out to die, being released at the same time as Red Dead Redemption.

A sample? Yes, by all means. 2? Yeah. 3. Just about. Any more than 3? Either buy a pint/half or just fuck off.

We barred a guy a few years ago for trying to consistently scam staff into essentially giving him a free half via means of excessive sampling.

There's also nowt worse than being 3 deep at the bar and getting lumbered with some knobber who 'can't remember what Ruddles tastes like'.

Shit, Geoff. It tastes like shit.

42 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It should’ve been the final straw for people stopping giving him their money too. 

For some of us, it was.

1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yep, Lostprophets with a new singer are still Lostprophets. 

Bit unfair, the No Devotion album was a real sideways turn. Didn't stop me referring to them as Geoff Rickly and The Enablers for their lifespan mind. To be honest it's a much better name.

On 7/21/2022 at 4:35 PM, Carbomb said:

Boardgame reviewer geek queen Becca Scott is very nice to look at:

 

She's no Tom Vassell, that's for sure!

Overcast and breezy in the leafy Heatons. You'd still describe it as muggy but considering at points yesterday the air felt like sandpaper, I'll take it.

5 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

I'd like to present this with a comment but I've not quite come up with the words yet.

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Sooooooooooooooooon to be released due to 'budget cuts'.

Can't believe they've reduced Gibson, probably the best all rounder we had on the UK scene to muscle for Joe fucking Gacy.

Well, I mean I can, they've done egregious stuff to talent since the dawn of time, but still, it'd be gutted if I still subscribed to Network. 

Fucking pissed me sides when the umpire asked Kyrgios which spectator he wanted removing to which Kyrgios responded "The one who's had seven hundred fuckin' drinks!".

Should have got the trophy for that quite frankly.

19 minutes ago, air_raid said:

Love shit like this. The more tenuous the better. My mum used to do a spot of house cleaning for Anthony Gardner's sister-in-law.

I used to work at a KFC in Manchester City Centre. Ryan Giggs came in one night and left a tip for the staff, becoming one of only two people to tip me in that job. The other was the bloke who plays Dev on Corrie.

Both were thus sentimental favourites in institutions I could otherwise do without.

I'll be keeping an eye on Burnley this season. They signed CJ Egan-Riley, who lives at the end of my street. I'm mates with his grandparents so I get updates on his career. It's going to be interesting to see how many City academy kids wind up there and how they do in the Championship.

3 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Can we please keep this painfully unfunny running "joke" exclusive to the Tony Khan is a Twat thread? I'd rather this Poundland Pitcos shit didn't infect any other threads.

They can't, they're too upset that Tony is their real dad. 

4 hours ago, Nick James said:

Jesus, Kip Sabian has gotten himself in serious shape while he's been out. Good on him.

Whatever they've got planned looks like it's coming sooner than later as well, he's been very visible on the last couple of Dynamites.

2 hours ago, KJHenley said:

Send Dax.

Lovely idea, I was just thinking it'd be Murdoch or Aldiss.

Can't see Tony letting any AEW guys near Flair at the moment though. 

I wonder how much AJ values his fans in the Digestive Health Community?

I had 16 Fite Credits so it's cost me nowt, which is nice. I'm one of the few people that's actually kind of stoked for it and hasn't really felt the need to complain about the build and whatever else so it's all coming up Graham really!

I'm taking it for granted that Danielson is injured so that'll suck but I'm not the biggest fan of Zack Sabre Junior's pubescent BJJ prodigy act, so swings and roundabouts really there.

We've bought a good few games recently.

I managed to con my little girl into going halves on the Summoner Wars 2nd Ed Master Set (I mean I give her my tips from work as her allowance, which she saves and then I top that up with my actual money!). What a game! Great art, great player variety, great tactical variety and not actually that bad a price at £50 for a six faction set (although she gets a discount for running her own board game club, so £45 really). If you've not played it, it's basically a card battling game wrapped around an abstract style strategy board. Magic the Gathering meets Chess essentially. There's a 2 faction expansion already available and some single decks coming soon which opens it up for custom deck building but the faction decks I've played provide a good mix of play styles so I'm not sure I'll go beyond just getting pre mades. Properly Excellent.

Tiny Turbo Cars is a really interesting and fun race game where you program your moves using little sliding block puzzles. It's the kind of game where the mixture of planning and luck can lead to turns where you either feel godly or just repeatedly bang up against the same obstacle ad nauseum but it's a really nice looking game and will be a daft laugh with 4 or more.

Flick of Faith is basically Shove Ha'penny The God Game. The idea is that you're God's trying to gain control of an archipelago by flicking prophets into the islands to gain influence and control. There's a bunch of different god powers and variable different winning conditions so every game is genuinely different even though it's still basically flicking disks on a mat. Also it looks bloody lovely. We love it but obviously I understand mileage may vary on dexterity games.

Loco Momo and Draftosaurus are both 15 minute set collection games with different methods of drawing creatures out of bags and are both fun filler games but Draftosaurus has you drawing wooden Dino's out of a bag and therefore wins by default.

There's more but this is a big enough bloody post as is!

I have never been more annoyed at being on the open in my pub tomorrow. The combination of a 'New Season', a new market, the Warners' execs and all the shenanigans from the weekend, point towards this being a noteworthy episode. All that is only exacerbated by the short turnaround until Forbidden Door.

Bollocks.

As I've said before I work in a pub in the centre of Manchester and work every Saturday morning and afternoon.

Second week of the season just gone, we had a massive crowd of Wrexham fans come in on their way to Stockport away. Rudest, most obnoxious set of fans I've come across in 20 years working in this city, to the point where any of the goodwill I had from the feel good story of their take over and the general feeling on here was pissed away in the space of 3 hours. To put it in context this was the week after United/Leeds at Old Trafford, a day we were breaking up fights at 9.15am.

Watching that lot snatch failure from the jaws of glory has given me a guilty sense of satisfaction.