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Feeders went back up. Carnage ensues. 

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. 

Spent several hours Sunday painting this Owl candle holder whilst listening to American Psycho. Bit of a juxtaposition, but I still feel it dull, nonetheless. 

8 hours ago, Matthew said:

I was reading earlier how Ari Emmanuel (sp?) culled a load of deals in Saudi years back to do with UFC, even though it meant losing money long term, as it was the right thing to do for business.

He seems to have been pretty ruthless in the past, when it was “best for business”, when it came to axing deals, or staff. I’d bet a pretty penny that Paul is concerned currently.

Ari also heads up the UFC. He stuck by Dana after he slapped his wife in public last year and seemingly has no issue with the likes of Sean Strickland bashing gays, trans or anyone else that doesn't allign with his insane views. 

I just thought you were a Dr. Dre fan!

There was a rumour in our town that a lad tried to stick his dick in a Timotei bottle in the early 90's. This lead to 'Pooly is a Tim' being graffiti'd all over the place. There were atleast 15 tags that I'd seen personally and apparently a lot more. 

Anyways, back to Raw. 

I picked a name based on a hobby I like to indulge in. 

No Flips, just Chips. 

I'm sorry if this has been confirmed, but surely Netflix isn't getting the current back catalogue of early WWF, ECW and ECW tv and PPV's? 

Maybe the network will exist much like UFC Fight Pass does?  it'll hold all the historical content whilst the new Raw/SD and PLE's go up on Netflix? 

29 minutes ago, mim731 said:

The Lidl knock-off of Azera tastes very similar at a fraction of the price I've found, which has been a big help when I don't have time to make a "proper" coffee. 

My Aldi has 2 of the Azera style ones plus a Decaf version too. I always get one for work and a tin of the Decaf for the evening at home. All of them are great for the price. 

Audible exclusive 'We Play Games' is free in the Plus Catalogue at the moment. I'm a few hours in and it's pretty great so far. Narrated by Billie Piper and Dan Stevens for the most part. 

Centres around a husband and wife who are con artists. Lots of twists and turns throughout. Great story and narration. 

Thoroughly recommend as a free listen

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/We-Play-Games-Audiobook/B0CQ5BNFTT

3 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

We have food waste recycling bins here and i just chuck my pods in there. If it wasn't easy i wouldn't bother either, I won't lie.

We have food waste bins here, but the Tassimo pods are non compostable. However, I wasn't aware that some brand's pods could go in the food bin. I'll have to look into that and maybe make a change down the road. 

Whenever we get an order of pods, they always include a green recycling bag specifically for the pods. But there's no recycle centre near us that takes them, so like the bastard I am, they just go in the rubbish bin. 

Is this a safe enough space for me to admit I still use a Tassimo? 

I've had various machines of theirs over the last 10 years. Yes, 99% of the coffee is garbage and the pods are horrendous for the environment, but a lack of space and ease of use keep me attached. 

As mentioned, the majority of their coffees are absolute toilet, but I've been exclusively buying the Jacobs Cafe Crema XL Intenso pods for several years now. They are fairly strong and I tend to have around 3 a day. The Mrs really likes the Au Lait milky/frothy things so we tend to buy bulk packages of each from Ebay/Amazon which are always fairly reasonably priced. 

I do have a French Press thing but I'm a lazy bastard and can never be bothered to use it. 

We have the Ninja AF300 which is the 7.6L version with the 2 drawers. 

I absolutely love it. Really never use the oven now unless I'm cooking a pizza. However, I do wish I'd gotten the AF400 (9.5L) as sometimes the drawers can get a little crammed. 

Episode 7 was probably the best hour of UK reality TV ever. The Funeral stuff whilst being incredibly on point for this place was just so well done from top to bottom. 

Paul has been flying far too close to the Sun for too long and is surely out next. He's been really interesting/fascinating to watch play. 

For anyone interested, the USA and Australia season 2 episodes are easy to find on Daily Motion. 

I think McGregor said summer for the Chandler fight. If that was gonna be on 300, I think they'd just announce it for that date without the swerve. Could be wrong though. 

@Egg Shen threw GSP's name onto the table. Could get some mad GSP/Asesanya fight in the mix. 

We're not too far out and things seem to be quite hush hush about the event considering how much of a landmark it is. 

The card so far appears to be:

The offering so far isn't to be sniffed at but when you look at how stacked UFC 299 is, it feels like we're gonna get something out of the box for 300. 

Plenty of rumours involving Tom Aspinall v Alex Pereira have done the rounds, and everyones favourite instigator, Ariel Helwani has kind of alluded to a former star returning for the show. With Nate Diaz rumoured to box Masvidal, the only 2 viable names for me and Ronda and Brock. 

Rousey / Tate 3

Brock / DC? 

Both barmy fights but neither I'm really too interested in. 

What does everyone we're going to get? 

Happy New Year all. I've struggled quite a bit since my Mam passed away and having a big fallout with a sibling over some family matters. It's been almost 4 years and I can never seem to get passed it and I always feel like I'm in limbo. Hoping 2024 will be a little easier on the brain. 

'Face the pain' being the new Raw intro music whilst Shane O Mac does some terrible shadow boxing is gonna be tremendous. 

Speaking of mental curveballs, there is a little bit of chatter about Tom Aspinall v Alex Pereira for UFC 300. Nothing from official sources, but I've seen it pop up in a few places. 

Barmy. 

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but with 205 being a bit of a wasteland, I'd love if Roundtree got a massive bump up and got the next shot at Poatan. That would be absolute chaos. Both are hammers. 

I feel for Anthony Smith. Seems a good guy and yes he took this on short notice, but I could t see him doing much better with a full camp. 50+ fights imto his career. It's a tough old game. 

Luke most others, I hit x5 speed on the main event after round 1. If we get Yadong vs Figgy, I just might cry. 

I know it's a game, but going back to GTA Online after an extended period off was quite daunting to me. I get overwhelmed very easily and there was just too much getting thrown into my face. I started to get into it and before long I had amassed about 30 million and owned all of the businesses I fancied (Cayo Perico heist is king) but it just felt like I was grinding and not really having fun it so I sacked it off again. 

The new trailer release and the Online Winter update (which is out in about 5 minutes) has drawn me back in. 

I reckon I'll be bored/burned out by Christmas. 

My Xbox Gamepass Ultimate expired a few days ago. Can anyone confirm what the cheapest way is to resubscribe? 

I've seen a few bits about buying 12 or 24 months Gamepass Core, and then buying one month of Ultimate which apparently converts all of it to Ultimate? 

Many thanks!