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My concern isn't which animal i might survive being attacked by, because I honestly don't think I have a chance against either of them. So I shift to what happens after the attack, so that's why I go with the wolf. A wolf would probably just simply eat me, but a bear is less predictable. I might shit on my face, or use my body to "ease the tension" if you know what I mean, regardless it'll probably be less dignified than being eaten.

They consider old video game soundtracks to be a major inspiration, and you can here it in thier music. The last album though the went all out on the gaming theme. And here they are on tour with that album (The other band on stage here was thier main support band on that tour Lovebites, who are fantastic, btw, and one of my favourite band atm)

I don't know about the DualSence, but when that happens with the Dualshock 4, it means the battery is bully charged and so can't take in any more juice, thus breaking the connection.

I swear, Epic are deliberately trying to piss me off! This is the third time in the space of 24 hours I've updated this thread because the preview of upcoming and current games keeps changing 🤬.

The new one from Sabaton. Me like.

I've actually decided to lock this thread until @killamch89 DM's me to better explain what the topic is about. That's now four people replied clearly unsure as to exactly what the topic really is. There's no point on trying to discuss this as a community when the subject itself in unclear. So @killamch89, message me as soon as you can so we can determine exactly what the topic is, then I'll edit the topic to make it easier to understand then re-open it.

I'm also confused. Poker is a gambling game. It's also a game of strategy and deception, but a gambling game none the less. So playing poker is utilizing it to win at gambling, so I'm not sure that you mean.

To me, a progressive is someone who believes in social progress (hence the name). Someone who believes in principles and a social ideology that's forward thinking, looking to the future rather than standing firm with old ideals and maintaining the status quo. Ideals not built on religion, but science for example.

Good to know the release date. I'm not surprised nor particularly bothered by the coming out later than expected. I've spoken before about how it's a serious and mostly unspoken problem for game companies to announce release dates too early to greedily cash in on pre-orders before they know the game will be ready on time. With pre-orders for this starting in the beginning of September, around 5-6 months before the planned release date, Id say that's a fair balance. That's obviously not a guarantee that the game will come out polished and not be delayed again, but you can say Guerrilla are opening up pre-orders with enough certainty 5 months before launch.

My old mouse is actually quite similar to that. I'd have to see the full specks and button placement to have some idea of what it might be like to use, but the design allows for a compact, very stiff chassis and low centre of gravity without adding much weight, so there is a practical aspect to the deign. Yes, the looks are not subtle, using that in an office you may as well wear of COD cap and drink out your coffee out of a novelty gaming mug, it would be that embarrassing.

Wow, that is pretty bad. Did they give any logical reason for this? Not that it would be a valid excuse, I'm just curious if they tried.

This is actually spot on. The game is called Grand Theft Auto, its literally named after a crime. So for people to get all shocked and shaken when you roleplay as somebody, minority or not, doing crime is a classic case of reading too much into it. Whether or not Rockstar handled race well in thier games is open to debate, I honestly wouldn't be one to know. I think the vast majority of players take the characters in GTA games as individuals like the way you said about the "white" criminals and people looking at GTA and any prejudiced overtones it may have are looking at the portal of the characters as individuals and are free to judge for themselves. I do think some of the characters and gang member NPC's, especially in some of the earlier GTA games, are kind of stereotypical, but to call it flat out racist is a bit of a stretch.

It's ironic after all this talk about mirrors that you think you're writing about me, when you just written a perfect description about yourself. I know how smart you are and I know what you trying to do, get under my skin, but it won't work. Now, as a mod, I'm telling you get back on topic.

Nobody "went" digital on PC as if we, the gamers, had a choice. The platform itself abandoned physical games what had to well over a decade ago.

Incredibly, I got exactly the same,

I don't even need to read beyond this sheer hypocrisy. Ever since you arrived here there has been no narrative that's correct except your own, no haw far fetched or controversial, not matter how many of us see flaw in it. When challenged, you become a victim and it's really getting old. Seriously, why are you here? Let me tell you, if the purpose to convince us that your way seeing thins is the way it should be seen, that you speak the one and only truth then are wasting everyone's time, including your own. I've admitted I'm wrong plenty of times, and I'm about to again. See? I was wrong. I should have given up on you ages ago, you are beyond hope.

I saw a story about that $2million Mario Bros cartridge and I suspected something was up. If this isn't illegal it should be. I mean, this if fraud.

That's the speed of the HDD that comes with the console as standard, so that's probably the one to go for.

Like I said, you don't need to use BBcode. The website itself recognises an image URL then reencodes the image link to display the image on it's own. It's the same with embedding YouTube videos, just copy the link into a post and the website takes care of the rest. I know it's something the "Old School" forum users might not be used to, but it does make things easier. If you encounter difficulties in the future using the site, don't hesitate to ask me for help.

@Razor1911 I've edited your post to insert the image you were trying to use. You don't actually need to use BBcode on the VGR forums to insert new images. Just copy and paste the URL of the image into your post. If that doesn't work, you can either click on the "other media" on the bottom right of the imbed word processor where you type you posts, then select "Insert image from URL" and input the URL there... ... or (what I usually do) download the image to your device then make use of the attachment function on the bottom left by either "clicking and dragging the image" from an open explorer tab or "choose files" to browse and find the specific image you want. I prefer this method because it turns the VGR forum into the host site for the image, so the image doesn't disappear if the original host deletes or moves the image. Should improve the quality as well. I hope that helps. On topic, in the UK, we refer to that vehicle as a pick-up truck, and I'm fairly sure the rest of the world does as well.

OK, @m76, before I get stated I do, in fact, know better than to debate with you because I know this is going to go. I'll question you viewpoints, nothing more and nothing less, but you'll register it as a personal attack on you when all I'm doing is challenging your views. I know what I should do is follow @The Blackangel's example and ignore you, but I wanna try this one more time in the hope that you do have the capacity learn, see a new perspective and respond like a rational human being. I'm doing that because I know you're a smart guy and I haven't given up on you yet. It's not the people you rather unjustly labelled as a negative element in society called "progressives" pushing the idea that fiction needs to mirror reality, fiction does mirror reality, or at least any fiction worth a damb dose. I say that because if fiction didn't connect to real world emotions, experiences, social tropes and relationships people share in the real world, there would be nothing to connect fiction to ourselves as people, it would have no impact. It doesn't have to be a blunt, literal reference to connect with us, it can be more metaphorical, buried by the overtones of the world crafted by the creators imagination, but it will be there. If all great writers and creators of fiction gave an aspiring creator one piece of advice, I reckon the vast majority would say the same thing. Write what you know. And because creators can in the end only be inspired, whether it be directly or indirectly, by the real world I could say that it's not even possible to have fiction that doesn't mirror reality. Did you know, for example, that J.R.R Tolkien based the Battle of Hems Deep in The Lord of the Rings on the real Battle of Vienna in 1863? From the attempts to destroy the walls with explosives to the cavalry charge to beak the siege and win the battle at the end, it's almost exactly the same. Nobody accused Tolkien of "hitting to close to reality" or told him to "keep real world references out" of it because he was just doing what good writers do. Write what he knew. We was a veteran himself and knew history, so those two things were a big inspiration for him even though his books weren't exactly documentaries. If you deny the simple truth that fiction reflects reality and pretend the connection is not there, it's little wonder you've become so superficial, immature and vain about it, not to mention how stubborn you are in your denials. If you still not convinced, let's try looking at it in a way more specific to a hero and how a hero in fiction is a reflection of reality. A hero's deeds are heroic in fiction need to be comparable to something considered a heroic deed in the real world, otherwise how could you even consider it heroic at all? For example, let's say saving someone from a burning building. That can happen in fiction just as easily in real life, and you said so yourself, "Nobody is trying to diminish real world heroes, or imply that if you don't look like adonis you can't be heroic IRL.", so why would it be such an issue for you to offer the same admiration to a fictional hero for doing the same thing just because they didn't float your boat? The last time I encountered logic like that was when I was a teenager arguing with some girl who insisted a boyband (I can't remember specially what boyband, but I remember they were god awful, even by boyband standards) sounded good because they were nice looking. That, for some reason, being easy on the eyes made them sound better. So you see, you bring to this the logic of a teenage pop fan. I'm not stupid, I know how vain the world of pop music is, I'm just saying that, for me, that whilst I looked at the Spice Girls as a teen and thought "Yeeep!", but that didn't make "Wannabe" any easier to listen to. Well, tell me what movies your movies your watching, games you're playing, books your reading and TV series you're watching because you're not picking them very well. The alternative is that you're talking complete nonsense because hero's have changed. Men are more emotional and conflicted than they used to be woman are more stern and wilful. Nobody's saying you have to like these changes, but how on earth you don't see them is beyond my understanding. Just look at how different Sean Connery's James Bond is to Daniel Graig's, for example. Now, I don't know if you for some reason can't see it, refuse to see or if you're just making up this false truth about how hero's have changed in fiction to strengthen your position here, but something sure as hell isn't right. We may just have to agree to disagree because I just see what you're talking about. Again, where are you getting this idea that people are painting what you refer to as "protected groups" as perfection? Not only is that straight up bullshit, it's not what people within those "protected groups" even want out of thier represented/inclusive characters. Don't take my word for it, go ask them yourself, and the best news yet you don't even have to look beyond this very thread. If what your claiming is true the backlash would be coming from those groups, not from where we all know the complaints about inclusion (not lack of inclusion) actually come from. (Sorry @The Blackangel, it's not my intention to draw you into this, I just to show this guy how blind he really it.) The only sensible thing you said in that entire post, but no comeback on any of the points brought up, so I'm just gonna assume that you didn't want to admit I actually right there. There's a big difference between helping the audience sympathise with the motives of a villain and painting the villain as a victim or condoning them. You're not a stupid man, you know the difference. Strange, a few chapters ago you were claiming that inclusion of "protected groups" were being written as too perfect to make them look more heroic, now all of a sudden members of the LGBTQ+ community are being portraited as "arrogant" and "fuelled with rage"? You can't even keep you own position of this straight! The thing is I think I know exactly what character it is you're referring to (Ellie, TLOU Part II) and we both know her rage and the fuel for her hatred and anger had nothing to do with her orientation. I'm not gonna go into what those motivations were because spoilers and the thread has nothing to do with TLOU, but you know what I'm taking about. Not to mention that's only one character. I admit that's an assumption and I could be wrong, but either way you still don't back any of this up with examples. If you're gonna say that all gay characters these days are written such a specific way, you have give an example of what you mean and explain how those traits, be it positive or negative, tie into that characters sexual orientation, otherwise what you're spewing is some unfounded and, quit frankly, quite bigoted nonsense. Before you say it, I'm not "calling you out" on that unfairly. Only a couple of weeks ago somebody posted something on the forms claiming that a decrease in deportations in America was causing COVID to spread. I told that person to back that up or I'd have to consider the post unfounded and racially incentive and would be deleted. This person couldn't do that, so the post was removed. Let me make it clear, I'm not threatening to do the same thing to you or your post, I'm just pointing that out for my sake before you claim I'm treating you unfairly. And not for the first time, let me make it clear I don't believe you're homophobic in any way, I'm just saying if your going to say something like that it's better to back it up.

Sorry to hear about this. I understand that it's frustrating. Is it possible to replace the drive in the console?

Vault-Tech from the Fallout franchise are very persistent and successful in their persuit of needless cruelty and power over every living soul. Quite an accomplishment for a company that simultaneously safeguarded the future of mankind.

I find it interesting that you ask why this is an issue, to then bring up "inclusion for the sake of inclusion without it making sense" to then use Battlefield V as the example. You know, that time EA and Dice decided to have the characters equipped with artificial limbs that didn't even come close to existing in WWII, but everyone lost thier shit because "A WOMAN ON THE FRONTLIES! YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT! BECASUE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!". Yeah, I remember what was ACTUALLY stupid about that. Nobody took the narrative of a Battlefield game seriously for years until a woman appeared in the trailer, then suddenly that was all that mattered. It was one of the most hypocritical backlashes I've ever seen for a game. The worst part about it was there actually was a justifiable means to the backlash that the haters could have used but didn't, and I'm going to explain exactly what that was right now. If they wanted to have a female character in the game based on WW2, why not take inspiration from the real examples of how woman served in combat during WW2 instead of making something up? The uprisings in Warsaw, the French rebels, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air force AKA the Night Witches (That would make a brilliant map for a Battlefield game btw. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up). Of course, I didn't see a single person say anything like that during the whole fiasco. On the contrary, most of them flat out denied stories of woman serving in the war, even the stories that were true. I know exactly why EA didn't want to base the female characters on real people, because that would mean basing the game on something other than the Western Front, something western media, not just in gaming, seems very reluctant to do. I described recently in a thread discussing Call of Duty Vanguard my frustrations with western media for never exploring anything in WW2 that wasn't the American perspective of the liberation of France, and Battlefield V is prime example of that. They wanted to have woman in the game, but they wouldn't dare do anything other than the liberation of France and post D-Day as if that's the only place anyone fought in that fucking war. Because they, as usual, didn't want to go anywhere other than the Western Front, the had to "make up" a woman to be in the war rather than take inspiration from the real history. But nope, none of the pre-pubescent, insecure keyboard warriors used this justifiable problem with EA and Dice's plan for the game against them, mostly because they too busy denying woman served in WW2 completely. Honestly, I was embarrassed to call myself a gamer during this shitfest.