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Yep. Not often though; it's just a slang term that's sometimes used.

It's also the nickname of a British politician (Jacob Rees-Mogg).

Veggeta_MAX posted...

I forget who but one of the directors said he'd cut his own head off if it released on the PS2.

That's what I was thinking of. I thought it was Mikami, but maybe not.

Didn't Mikami swear it wouldn't be ported if it was up to him?

Skyrim for gameplay (mainly the number of options you have), The Witcher 3 for almost everything else.

Who the fuck is Prince Henry?

JKRowling posted...

Is homeschooling an option in the UK?

Nah, homeschooling is punishable by a fine or prison time.

Celtic beating Barcelona 2-1 lol: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20150451

Jk, that was just to annoy you, although it is up there.

Real answer: Celtic winning a third domestic treble (and more recently their 10th domestic trophy) in a row. They also went 69 (heh) games unbeaten during this time.

The game is a trip from start to finish and I wouldn't have it any other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9YFhkWPbFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrLfKYYASo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1LXlGx1dM

Not really, since I already have / have played have the ones I want. A new one would be great.

I will be picking up the Zero/ZX collection though, as I haven't played those.

Rangers were relegated from the SPFL Premiership, as Celtic achieved a historic quadruple treble,

PiOverlord posted...

There is nothing special about pi, it's a useless number.

e is where it's at.

Miranda Hart. Or that tall teacher guy (Greg Davies?).

Well, not people ever, but people that call themselves comedians.

Probably closest to #2 (Scottish accent).

I don't really care that much either way, but I suppose I'd rather the money were spent on improving the game in more meaningful ways.

I liked the story, atmosphere, dialogue (and music!) in 1, but there was a point around the middle where it was a struggle to keep playing.

2 I found a bit easier to get through. I can't really choose between it and 1 in terms of story.

3 was a bit of a reversal: a far better game, but the story didn't grab me as much.

The gameplay definitely leaves something to be desired in all 3 though, but at least it gradually improved in each game.

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Persona 5 Royal
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Resident Evil 3 (remake)
• Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
• Axiom Verge 2
• The Last of Us Part II
• System Shock (remake)

Maybes:

• Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
• Psychonauts 2
• Tales of Arise
• Streets of Rage 4
• Watch Dogs: Legion

BlackScythe0 posted...

What would vice grip even be?

Scroll down a bit.

vice
often US vise
/ (vas) /
noun
an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws
verb
(tr) to grip (something) with or as if with a vice

To be honest, as a Brit, I hadn't even heard of "vise". I can't say I care much about this change either way. I'd prefer the British spelling since I'm more used to it, but it's such a minor thing.

That Witcher 1 quest being in there was cool. It makes me want to replay it. The gameplay isn't the best, but I think it has my favorite story and atmosphere.

masterpug53 posted...

I would have been in this topic 20 minutes ago, but I used up all my stamina briskly walking here and was killed by a rat because I couldn't hit the little bastard.

Well I did a bit of alchemy and now I'm literally Superman.

https://i.imgur.com/2tBGM4K.gif

Shame about the shit size.

I played 1 and 2 recently for the first time. Great games (especially 2 of course). I'm a sucker for base building / character recruitment mechanics in games.

I didn't manage to get the best ending (i.e. the one in the epilogue when Jowy survives).Supposedly you have to recruit all 108 characters before a certain point (I think it's when Leknat appears towards the end).

I wish I could find my save file. Do you get much for NG+?

For the time being I'm playing through Persona 1 (PSP) and 2 for the first time. I'm at the end of 1.

I remember you playing Majin Tensei recently. I'd never even heard of it, but I might try it too.

These days, if you say 'Merry Christmas', you get arrested and thrown in jail.

s0nicfan posted...

I don't know that Labour would have been able to stop Brexit, Putting it to another referendum seemed like the "sneaky" way to cancel it, but given how this election went it might not have even come to a remain win. At the very least, all the markets rallying on the news of the results and the spike in value of the sterling is evidence that business at least prefers certainty over more waffling. But I also have more faith that the UK will be fine in the long run. They survived multiple world wars and existed just fine before the EU. There are plenty of other countries outside the EU that do business with them just fine, so I don't see brexit quite as the country-ending catastrophe as some do.

As a remainer (still), I'm not sure even a remain win and/or the revocation of Article 50 would have put the genie back in the bottle. That wouldn't stop a Brexit supporting party (i.e. the Tories) putting Brexit in their manifesto to attract the significant number of Brexit supporters still out there. If the 2016 referendum can be ignored, then so can a subsequent one. Unless it's legally binding, but that would kick up a massive stink (if it could get through parliament). I don't know how that would work legally, since future governments can't be bound and the country essentially forced to remain in the EU in perpetuity.

Well, we don't need to think about that now lol.

The worst part of all this is that we'll have to see Ruth Davidson naked.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18093584.ruth-davidson-skinny-dip-loch-ness-snp-win-50-seats/

On a more serious note, 55 seats for the SNP would be be massive. Could we see a Labour wipeout in Scotland?

Bio1590 posted...

I can't really find any info on it but does the way the UK's "system" is set up favour the Conservatives, like how the US' favours the Republicans?

Like you look at a map of the constituencies and the UK (particularly England) has an absolute fuckload of rural ones that always vote for the Conservatives.

E: And yes I know they have different forms of government, that's not relevant to my question.

I seem to remember a couple of elections back that Labour actually did better in terms of votes/seat (seems I was wrong on this; see below). For that reason, the Tories wanted to shrink the number of seats (to 600 was it?).

UKIP got shafted with something like 4m votes/1 seat. The SNP got like 50 seats on like 1m-2m votes (can't remember the actual number).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/06/theresa-may-to-ditch-plans-to-cut-number-of-mps-from-650-to-600

The commission is set to publish its latest proposals based on 600 constituencies next month, revealing which MPs would face the axe.

Labour opposes the reduction, which would cut the number of seats in its urban heartlands and result in the party losing more seats than the Tories. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has previously labelled the plans gerrymandering.

The Tory leadership is preparing to abandon the plan and ask the Boundary Commission to redo the review on the basis of keeping all 650 MPs to ensure that all constituencies are of broadly equal size, the Times said.

Found the votes per seat from 2017:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11593854/Votes-Per-Seat-for-each-party.html

So the Tories had the advantage in 2017.

2015: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/voters-per-mp-why-first-past-post-failed/

The surprising result of the election illustrates the distorting effect of First Past The Post (FPTP) voting. The Tories have a 99-seat lead 15% of the parliaments seats on the opposition Labour, with 6.5% more of the vote share. The Lib Dems have lost many seats, falling to 7.9% of the vote share but with only 1.2% of the seats. The Greens have over 1.1 million voters with 1 seat. UKIP had nearly 4m votes, for 1 seat.

Bio1590 posted...

I mean I'm pretty sure the Conservatives ending up with the most seats is a foregone conclusion, the only question is if they'll win enough to form a majority either outright on their own or through another coalition.

Fuck knows what would happen in a hung parliament. I can't see who the Tories would form a coalition with. The Brexit Party will be lucky to get a single seat, UKIP are finished, the Lib Dems, SNP and Plaid are diametrically opposed, they've burned their bridges with the DUP. Change UK (or whatever name they're going by this week) aren't worth mentioning.

That leaves, what, Labour + SNP? Who knows if they'll have enough seats or even be able to agree anything. The SNP have ruled out a formal coalition, so they say.

Gotta echo The Witcher 3.

Terrible:
T.R.A.G.: Mission of Mercy / Hard Edge

Not terrible but flawed:
Alpha Protocol
Hogs of War
Digimon World

I guess so. Not so much for the games (I probably still prefer gens 4 and 6 for that), but for how exciting a time it was with the transition to 3D, the experimentation that was going on (in terms of game mechanics, genres, visuals, etc), and so on. That combined with me being at that impressionable age (8+) and not caring about flaws so much.

Reminds me of this (SPOILERS):

https://i.imgur.com/JjGTybG.jpg

I actually liked MGS4 though, but much prefer 1-3. V has great gameplay (before it gets repetive), but went too far in the other direction.

Hung Parliament 2.0 at best is my feeling. :( Fuck knows what would happen then. Tories + Brexit Party? Labour + SNP?

Hexenherz posted...

I felt like the first Witcher was good about this; maybe I just have a shoddy memory, but I feel like most of the time when you made a decision, you didn't really see the full result until later on when it was too late to save scum. The later games were not so good about it though.

I think you're right, although it's been a while since I played it too. The presentation of the choices was obvious, but not necessarily the consequences.

I remember a choice regarding the boy (Alvin?) that didn't play out until later.

Alpha Protocol, sort of. There are obvious choices too of course.

The Metroids are particular favorites of mine. It was amazing how we hadn't had a Metroid game (let alone a good one) in a few years, then 4 came along at once (including the Primes on the GC). Fusion maybe wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it's nonetheless a damn good game.

Aside from the usual, Legacy of Goku II and Buu's Fury are great, along with Super Robot Taisen Original Generation 1/2 (and the JP-only Super Robot Wars A) and the Mega Man Battle Networks (2, 3 and 6 being my favorites).

What little I played of Mega Man Zero I liked. I'm looking forward to the Zero / ZX collection next year.

I'm not sure a game has ever "ruined" others for me, but some have certainly made me be a bit more critical of other games, noticing the aspects that are perhaps not as good or not my preference. E.g. Deus Ex, Super Metroid, Morrowind, Diablo II, etc.

Diablo II is probably the closest to what you're asking for. It's so addictive that it can stop me from playing other games entirely. I'd much rather play it than D3, and D4 will probably be the same.

Like others, I sometimes fight Sabrina first, maybe even more often than not.

I don't really think there's too much wrong with the way it's currently done. There isn't a set order, hence the levels being similar. If you want to go to Saffron and fight Sabrina before Koga, you're perfectly able to do that.

On my most recent playthrough, I broke the game a bit. I traded Fresh Water in from Stadium to reach Saffron early, and made extensive use of the Mew glitch to get my team early.

I think you can skip Brock through a glitch, but don't really see why you'd want to outside of a challenge.

There's also Glitch City, but I don't really know what you can do with that. Can you use it to get to Cinnabar early?

I had dial-up for a bit, from NTL (UK), now Virgin Media. It was shit, but I got by.

In some ways, I enjoyed 3 more than the first two, as evidenced by it being my most played, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.

I wonder if Mercenaries mode will make it in, and if so, what it will be like.

Will they keep the different paths in? Not that they changed *too* much, but it was cool how they changed some Nemesis encounters.

If you compare the PC to individual consoles, the PC wins every time. If you compare the PC to all consoles collectively, then the consoles win. Voted console since the latter is what you're asking, but it's not really an argument in favor of consoles, since you need several to even compete.

Bonzi Buddy

Soundbites, soundbites everywhere!

Get Brexit done! Strong economy! Deliver for our NHS!

The best one was the carer going on about benefit scroungers essentially. The Tories have fucking shafted scroung... I mean carers and the disabled. Will the Tories be there for her in her time of need?

This statement is a lie.

The final dungeon in RPGs. That seems to happen a lot.

pfh1001 posted...

No, it has very little to do with 6.

pfh1001 posted...

It's more similar to 4

Those.

It's hard for me to pick between them. I love both.

Deus Ex
Diablo II
Metroid Prime
Metal Gear Solid 3
GTA: San Andreas

A disproportionate number of my favorite games come from the early 2000s. I could go on listing them for ages.

He's talking crap, at least about about the "pretending" part. Who cares enough to do that? I'm sure there are some, but how often is he talking?

Living in Glasgow, there's no shortage of Indian restaurants. I'd guess that it's either the second or third most popular restaurant type, behind British and possibly Italian.

My current haunt is a local Indian/Nepalese place. It does a great Lamb Karahi. Pakora and naan are mandatory.

I certainly wouldn't claim to be an aficionado or anything, since the restaurants probably change things to suit British/Scottish tastes. I probably haven't had even 0.1% of authentic Indian dishes. But what I have had, I've generally loved.

I think it was Fusion to be honest, when I was 13. I may have played a little bit of Super earlier, but I didn't properly play it until later.

VII > IX > VI > X > VIII > XII > V > IV > XIII > I

It was Nojima apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VIII