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  1. FLips

    Fry-ups

    Loves a bit of green shit on his eggs does Frankie.
  2. FLips

    Fry-ups

    I can forgive the peppered hash browns, but I won't forget the whipped black pudding.
  3. Feel like I’m just cold take after cold take in the modern gaming thread lately but back on to Baldur’s Gate 3. Playing co-op with my wife at launch I didn’t really think much of the game, a lot of it was down to mechanics and some in hindsight just down to gameplay elements that I either didn’t understand yet or weren’t actually explained. My wife got super super into it though and she’s about 4 or 5 plays deep now in solo games whereas I ducked out at Act 3 on our co-op run. I thought that enough time had passed and I’ve seen my wife have so much fun on it that I’d go back and start solo and having more freedom in dialogue and combat and stuff would make the game more enjoyable for me. It did not. I still absolutely hate the randomness of the core gameplay. Dialogue options that you fail and it forces the character down paths you had no intention of being on, combat against scrub goblins where you constantly miss, and having to save scum locked doors and chests constantly. I really like the characters and dialogue but I just wish it was more of a bog standard RPG where every action you make isn’t constantly down to chance. I don’t find any fun in the game doing the opposite of what I want to say or do 8/10 times. A shame because I was really excited for it pre-launch but it’s just not for me and that’s twice I’ve tried it now so can’t say it’s due to a lack of.
  4. Spent just over an hour on Balatro after hearing nothing but good things, but sadly I think it's confirmed for me I'm 100% over the rogue-like and deck building genres both singularly and combined. There's nothing wrong with it and if anything it was pretty easy, I reached Run 6 without much effort. Just the gameplay loop, same as I found with Inscryption, is just boring. It's the first game I've refunded through Steam in my entire time on the platform, which isn't a slight on the game as I know it's well made for what it is, but it's just ÂŁ12 is a lot of money for something I feel I saw everything it had to offer in an hour's time and know I won't go back to.
  5. After the WWE Network randomly renewed two months after I cancelled it without my permission, I started watching old Manias during work and one thing I have came to realise is how bad the 20-23 ones are. I have great memories of watching them at the time, especially 20, but in hindsight most of it is either shite or tainted. 20 has some really awful throwaway tags on it where the likes of Garrison Cade and The Bashams are getting a pay day, Lesnar vs Goldberg is worse than I remember, Molly Holly has to shave her head to get the women's belt on the card, and the main event and following championship embrace to close the show is rough to go back to. 21 is much better but has stinkers on it like Trish vs Hemme and Akebono vs Big Show. The Cena and Batista eras beginning are important in the grand scheme of things but both of those matches had me snoozing. I did enjoy Michaels vs Angle a lot, and Money in The Bank still holds up. 22 has the MITB, Edge vs Foley and HBK vs Vince to prop it up but everything else on the card ranges from average to absolutely shocking. Boogeyman, a Mark Henry casket match, and a Playboy Pillow Fight stink the place up and Cena vs HHH going 20 minutes is a bad bad finish. The way the crowd has turned on Cena in the space of a year is fascinating though, they were up his arse when he was against JBL the year before. 23 may very well be one of the worst Wrestlemanias, period. MITB is ok but at this stage is already wearing thin, and Cena vs Michaels is decent. Undertaker and Batista I remember enjoying at the time but maybe we're spoiled with what we have now and what we know at least Undertaker could do at Mania, because I couldn't get on with it this time. The rest of this card though, fucking hell. Khali vs Kane, ECW Originals, Donald Trump. It's bad. Melina vs Ashley Massaro goes less than 4 minutes in the semi-main, which isn't even long enough to actually go take a piss break. Looking at that card for 24 as well doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.
  6. For the first time I can remember as well one of the candidates outright said “Yeah I messed that up and take full responsibility” and it was completely ignored and someone else got sacked anyway. Wild.
  7. Never liked Kevin Kelly. He grated on me back in his WWF days and was only good as the butt of The Rock's jokes. A complete dweeb that never had the on-air presence and/or commentary ability of any of his peers in any major company he's worked for.
  8. FLips

    #EATCLEAN

    I'm actually tempted one day to order the egg fried rice from there to see if it's just plain rice with an egg on top. I can't get over it.
  9. FLips

    #EATCLEAN

    Paid over ÂŁ30 for the experience so you better believe I ate what I could stomach. I'll deal with the life threatening bout of food poisoning tomorrow.
  10. FLips

    #EATCLEAN

    We’ve been looking for a new regular chinese since ours got closed due to a 0 star hygeine rating. The one we tried tonight, my fuck, the sheer state of it. Beef Curry had no spice, no flavour, and a gelatinous wallpaper paste texture. The house special fried rice had a whole fucking fried egg on top of it? What is wrong with these people. shite.
  11. Looks ace. Even if it’s bad, at the very least there seems to be a lot of love and fan service went into it.
  12. Meltzer usually has some awful takes and is oblivious to the real world, and even he is asking why the fuck Tony Khan is letting one of his biggest stars go out to die on Mount Everest.
  13. Really hammers home just how lucky we were as fans and how lucky Sting was that he got a beautiful send off and a great match to go with it. Looking at that list there, most of them are awful last matches. Inconsequential with no fanfare, taking place at county fairs or as a throwaway body in a rumble. It's no surprise wrestlers don't often stay retired because if my last match was against IAmTHEPROVIDER I'd be back between those ropes ASAP.
  14. Blubbering at Sting's entrance vignette. So happy for him he gets to end it on his own terms with no screwy finishes or bad booking. A well deserved happy ending for him. But jesus christ, Darby.
  15. Sorted (almost) a PS1. Found a cheap modded one for sale nearby so drove 20 minutes out for it. Only ÂŁ20 so worth a go. It's a SCPH1001 Revision model, so basically the first revision after the launch models. We're talking 1995-1997. The lasers are basically paper mache and the seller did warn me of that as well when we tested it at his house. I got it home and my plan to swap my 7502 laser into the 1001 hit a few roadblocks. The optical drives are very very slightly different so long story short to get it to fit I had to snap the plastic legs off it with a pair of pliers and then go to my Mam's to borrow a screwdriver from her glasses repair kit to swap the plastic covers between the two lasers. I finally get the laser swapped over and it works (though with the age of it, it's chugging along a bit even with the newer laser) and the mod chip turns out to be as old as the console because it's one of the older ones that runs NTSC in black and white. So I've ordered a cheap RGB Scart cable off Amazon to come tomorrow and reassuringly the reviews outright mention that they got it to run a modded PS1 in colour for NTSC games so hopefully that should be the end of it. The original guide I used to get my 7502 model that named that the best one to have names a 1001 Revision with a refurbished laser and RGB Scart as the 2nd best way to play PS1 so that's filled me with hope that tomorrow when the cable arrives I should be roughly back to where I started. --- In other news I completed Super Turrican on the NES. I could get as far as 3-2 without cheats but the NES version is brutal even on easier difficulty as it has no checkpoints so each death sends you right back to the start of the level. Needless to say I found an invincibility cheat very quickly and used that to finish it. No earthly idea how anyone is meant to complete it legit. I've been playing a bit of Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii U and it looks nice on the CRT as expected. That weird Wii blurriness is completely gone, the colours are really sharp. My plan was to mod my Wii U but it turns out modding a Wii is a lot easier with no chance of bricking it, so that's my plan now. Find a cheap Wii and mod it to play Wii and Gamecube natively and leave my Wii U as is, as honestly there's not much I'd want to play on the Wii U anyway that I either don't already have or that isn't re-released on Switch.
  16. Went touring the local CEXs and game shops with a mate today and came away with some decent stuff. The first CEX we went into had Super Turrican on the NES for ÂŁ22 which is an absolute steal as online it's currently between ÂŁ49-75. It's a NES exclusive and a PAL exclusive game which I coincidentally only even found out about earlier this week and there it was. It's like fate. Plays great, looks decent for a NES game and sounds fab too, with the soundtrack being made up of remixes or re-imagined tracks from Turrican 1 and 2. It was really clever though and took "Traps" and "The Wall" from Turrican 2 and just straight ported them across. Love it. It keeps all the mechanics you want from Turrican. Fast paced run and gun action, exploration is encouraged, and even adds a few bits like the ability to run and difficulty options. If you want to see how it looks in action here's a playthrough. I picked up NBA Jam on the SNES while I was there for a fiver too, which is a decent price for that as well. I'm not into basketball but I had good fun on it when we all went to the arcade in Leeds so thought for a fiver it'd be a decent pick up and play multiplayer game in case nobody wants to play Clay Fighter with me. Boomshakalaka. I also got Donkey Kong '94 for the Game Boy from a Cash Converters for ÂŁ9.99, which is well below current asking price for a great game. It gets an exclusive arcade cabinet design and full colour on my Super Game Boy so that's really nice to play on the telly. We went to a shop that was mad brick-a-brack mostly full of vinyl records but also had games and DVDs. It was like the wild west. They had filled the window with retro stuff, mostly Master System, Mega Drive and Gameboy Advance/DS but it must have been there for fucking years because it had been drained of all life by the sun and was all monochrome. An absolute waste. The games inside didn't fare much better, all mixed together and randomly dumped. Glass cabinets displaying what you would think would be rarer items but it was stuff like copies of Cheggers Party Games that had fell over face down or battered Halo 2 on the original Xbox. I have no idea at all what the deal was with that shop. In a mad stroke of luck though on the way out as we walked past the window again, I saw a Wii RGB cable I was looking for just dumped in the window at the bottom. No label, no price. I went back in and said "how much for the Wii scart cable in the window?" and he looked and went "It's not a scart cable". Right ok but how much is it? He looked it over for a few seconds and went "I dunno. Couple of quid?". I give him a fiver and just left. So now my Wii U is set up on the CRT. It looks surprisingly good after a bit of tinkering with the settings. Obviously doesn't look as good as it would on a HD telly but it's crisp and plays fine. The Wii games will look really good on it though because they weren't made for HD. I have a digital copy of Mario Galaxy 2 I'll give a blast some day.
  17. FLips

    #EATCLEAN

    Maccy’s cocked our order up and I got two double cheeseburgers instead of one. I’m not sure what you all call slamming two doubles together but I’ve known it as a McGangbang since a lad in uni called it that way back yonder. Whatever you call it, it belongs in this thread.
  18. Nice of him to recognise one of the all time greats by throwing a woo in there because he's on video.
  19. Bought a shirt yesterday and paid extra for next day delivery but because it's a leap year it hasn't counted today, so it's coming tomorrow.
  20. A real shame. I was under the impression he was recovering. A lovely bloke by all accounts.
  21. I won’t believe it until Ringo puts a brunch video out.
  22. The way he says DEEleted is really getting to me. Showing his age too with “give us a call we’re at home”. Ringo definitely still has a landline.
  23. That's proper cracked me up. I feel a bit bad about how much I laughed at it.
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