Crazycrab

They have debuted some new promo images showing members of the cast like Joel, Ellie Tess, and others:
 
https://www.eurogamer.net/hbos-the-last-of-us-debuts-new-cast-promo-images-including-joel-ellie-bill-and-frank
 
   
   
There is more in the article if you want to check them out.
 
I think they are looking great!  Every bit as scruffy and miserable as they should be!  The article has some has interesting information in it to.  For one it confirms that where will be at least 3 brand new characters in it.  Marlon and Florence, a married couple living in post-apocalyptic Wyoming and Kathleen, the leader of revolutionary movement in Kansas City.  Thus suggesting that at points the show at times does narratively and geographically go in a different direction at times.
 
It also confirms that Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, who played Joel and Ellie in the games, will have cameo roles in the show.

If a permanent purge wasn’t an option, then I would banish the entire right wing, fire the entire police force and restaff with new cops (our PD is corrupt from the bottom all the way up), and buy a monkey despite @Rain Dew telling me that I’m not allowed. I know that I’m a bitch, but damnit she’s denying me my monkey!

Found this really neat documentary on YouTube about the origins of video games. What do you think about it?
 

This guy barley mentioned dick about another Burnout game and even if he did it would be another open world fringe off the same cloth as Need For Speed or Forza Horizon.  When EA and Criterion released Burnout Paradise they fucking murdered the entire genre!  They made it perfectly clear that they don't want to make fun, offline, arcade racers anymore and a disgustingly large number of players apparently agreed so the fun racing game is now dead,
 
The last Burnout game was Paradise and it was dogshit.  Even if Criterion were willing to make another Burnout there is far to many idiots that think Paradise was a good game that that is inevitably what they would build it from.  Thanks for sharing but fuck this!

Another thing is how Qatar abused migrant workers who built the stadium to host the World Cup. They violated those worker's human rights in almost every way like forced labor, assault, stolen wages, little food, overwork and extreme heat with no breaks. At least 6,500 migrant workers died since the announcement of hosting the World Cup. I don't know the number that died building the stadium itself. This is crazy. WTF. 

FIFA sold what very little was left of their souls to Qatar for this event to be held in this shit country.  I won't be shy and mince my words here, these people are incompetent fucking scum.  Quatrain officials have harassed innocent reporters for no reason, they banned the the sale of alcohol at the last minute but still took money from companies like Budweiser.  They've been banning and confiscating items that show support for the LGBTQ+ community despite FIFA's assurances that they wouldn't.  There has been a catalogue list of technical problems from tickets sales on FIFA's own app to travel and accommodation for fans and the president of FIFA has publicly defended them for their atrocious human rights violations saying and I quote "Europe should apologise for the las 3000 years". That's just the tip of the iceberg, hell that's the tip of the iceberg concerning the World Cup!  There is so much more when it comes to the hateful and disgusting place but I don't want to rant forever,

Wow. Definitely 10/10. This could easily be music to a movie trailer. I love joe it starts off so hauntingly sweet. I love how the changes in music easily slide into each other. 
 
My all time favorite game song is Legend Of Dragoon If You Still Believe 
So my favorite is this tribute one

but here is the official one 

not sure if a tribute video using scenes from the game count. 

This new Adams Family spin off/remake launched on Netflix on November 23rd (yeah, it was Wednesday HAHA!) and in my opinion, it's damn near faultless.  Netflix have admittedly been on a bit of a slide lately with the only a few recent hits like Stranger Things Season 4 and Squid Game.  So they needed something on the platform to get people talking and I think this definitely will.... a good thing considering the amount they must have invested in it!
 
As a kid I loved The Adams Family and The Adams Family Values movies.  I'm sure I remember catching one or two episodes of the show as well I would say that Wednesday Addams was probably my favourite character (certainly in the movies).  I hadn't really been following anything about it, in fact I don't I was aware of this maybe a couple of weeks ago but I got pretty exited.
 
The premise is that Wednesday Addams (played brilliantly by Jenna Ortega) after getting kicked out of school and sent to Nevermore Academy, a special boarding school for "outcasts".  In this world an outcast is anyone who isn't a normal human, or "normie".  This includes Werewolfs, Vampires, Sirens, psychics and so on.  Upon arrival she soon discovers a conspiracy that could bring tragedy to the school and everyone in it and she may be the only one that can stop it.  It's also entirely possible that she is the direct cause of all the suffering, pain, and death but, she's Wednesday Fucking Addams, so nothing is going to stop her getting to the truth either way!
She is joined in new quest for the truth by a number of her fellow students.  Most notably Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), a Werewolf who is was sent to Nevermore by her family because she is struggling to find her bite, so to speak.  She's bubbly, sociable and bursting with colourful positivity... everything Wednesday of course is not.  The dynamic of these polar opposites playing off each other is incredibly entertaining throughout.
 
I'm not going to go into any detail about the story here, your obviously better of discovering that yourselves.  I just wanted to gush about how good this and why I feel it's worth your time.  We see a lot of "modern twists" of classic material these days and very often if falls flat and pales in comparison to their original's.  Wednesday is very much a modern twist on of the Addams Family and for that reason alone I could see why some people would be put off.  However, it's clear that Tim Burton knew what he was doing and had a clear idea of what to keep authentic and what to take in a different direction and in my opinion he made the right choice almost every time.  He took the classic character of Wednesday, put her in a modern setting while retaining the same morbid charm and wit that made her such an iconic character.
 
Not that I'm giving Mr Burton all the credit.  After watching this performance I now have mad respect for Jenna Ortega:
 

 
 
After watching Christina Ricci's (who is in this show as well) flawless portrayal of Wednesday back in the 90's I honestly thought there is no way anyone could do it better without basically playing copy cat...
 
Yeah, I've been waiting years for an excuse to use this clip, bite me!
 
...but Ortega's dedication to the part is phenomenal she has made it her own.  Of course this is the first time we see Wednesday as a teenager and as the focal point so we get to explore aspects of her personality that we haven't go the see before.  Her performance feels totally authentic to the character but still feels fresh and new.  Not to mention she had to acquire a skill set that give Leonardo da Vinci a run for his Mona Lisa!  I mean she had to learn Archery, Fencing, Martial Arts, The Cello, Fast Typewriting and more!  I would rip off my underwear and wave it in surrender just listing these!  Ethen Hunt would tell these producers to fuck off!
 
So what are your thoughts on Wednesday?  Post down below and thanks for reading.

@Crazycrab - I awarded you 100 Points.

8/10
This one is amazing just because of how whacky it is! It's not my style of music but it's so fucking funny
Made me think of Guilty Gear, so here's my next submission:
 

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing has to be up there, almost nothing in the game seems to work as intended!
 
 
 

Well here's some Nintendo Switch related bullshit to brighten up your day:
 
https://kotaku.com/elder-scrolls-skyrim-nintendo-switch-anniversary-1849599263
 
In case your not aware the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim is basically the same as the Special Edition except it's got The Creation Club content included.  Creation Club is where you go to pay money for user created mods instead of going to Nexus Mods to get far superior content for free because.... your a jackass. The Anniversary Edition is something like £15/$20 upgrade or £43/$50 full purchase on PC Steam for this over a decade old game and it's almost universally agreed by Stream users that this clearly not worth it.  Yet not only is it $70 on the Nintendo Switch, as as I can tell there's no option to upgrade either!  It's the full whack $69.99 even if you own the Special Edition already.
 
I genuinely don't understand how Nintendo keep getting away with charging such a premium which has happened multiple times.  Why are games so expensive on the Switch when in many cases the ports are inferior?  This is ridiculous.

I've seen it happen, it's not something you can realistically expect to do intentionally, it's down to luck.

If this is from a racing game in the same vain as the titles that @Shaggermentioned above then it must be a very early example because it looks primitive even compared to F-Zero on the SNES:
 

 
Hell, Google lens thinks the second image is of a Giraffe!  I'm not kidding!

Your trying to give them credit "trend setting" but none of these "trends" are for the benefit of the end user.  This company is so fucking avarice that they make the likes of EA and Activision-Blizzard look like fucking charities.  Every aspect of every single one of their products are designed from the ground up to leech as much money from  thier customer base as possible.  The manipulative marketing, the overpricing, the proprietary connectors/accessories and their continued denial of right to repair.  The worst thing is they have successfully manged to hook their consumer base to such an extreme extent that they will applaud their inferior, overpriced products and worse than non-existent customer service.
 
You seen the Louis Rossmann video I posted right?  The woman brought her MacBook to an Apple store because it wasn't charging properly and they told her that the pins on the battery connection were bent and they would have to replace the logic board the cost of $425...  both of these were flat out lies!  The pin's weren't bent, it was just loose and even if they were at worst it's the battery that needs replaced, not the board!  Why are they lying?  Simple, Apple would have replaced the board (probably with one they got from some other poor sap through this disgusting practice) then put hers in another "broken" MacBook and sell to somebody else They are discussing!  This not an isolated incident either, they pull this kind of shit all the time.  Check out the guys channel, he set up shop close to an Apple Store and it's packed to the brim with stories like this.

Nvidea are being very disingenuous when it comes to their marketing on these.  There are variants in the line up that have different amounts of RAM on board.  That's fine, we've seen different amounts of memory being put on the same chipsets before.  What they are being really sly about that they different boost clocks and CUDA core counts as well.  So the 4080 12Gb isn't really a 4080 at all because it has 26% less CUDA cores that 3080 16Gb.
 
 

Yeah.  Heres my source. https://www.history.com/.amp/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins

Your trying to give them credit "trend setting" but none of these "trends" are for the benefit of the end user.  This company is so fucking avarice that they make the likes of EA and Activision-Blizzard look like fucking charities.  Every aspect of every single one of their products are designed from the ground up to leech as much money from  thier customer base as possible.  The manipulative marketing, the overpricing, the proprietary connectors/accessories and their continued denial of right to repair.  The worst thing is they have successfully manged to hook their consumer base to such an extreme extent that they will applaud their inferior, overpriced products and worse than non-existent customer service.
 
You seen the Louis Rossmann video I posted right?  The woman brought her MacBook to an Apple store because it wasn't charging properly and they told her that the pins on the battery connection were bent and they would have to replace the logic board the cost of $425...  both of these were flat out lies!  The pin's weren't bent, it was just loose and even if they were at worst it's the battery that needs replaced, not the board!  Why are they lying?  Simple, Apple would have replaced the board (probably with one they got from some other poor sap through this disgusting practice) then put hers in another "broken" MacBook and sell to somebody else They are discussing!  This not an isolated incident either, they pull this kind of shit all the time.  Check out the guys channel, he set up shop close to an Apple Store and it's packed to the brim with stories like this.

Trick or Treat,
Beat the Meat,
Have a Bite to eat.
I'll Take the piss,
have at this,
I might be into feet.

Oh come on!  I already don't give a shit about trophies!  I don't need yet another gimmick to not give a flying fuck about!

Well it's a continuous event so I think you could without any issue.  I think you could include Scottish, International, European and other leagues in the same thread without confusion.  I'm not trying to take a dump on this interest, I'm actually trying to help.  Spreading multiple leagues and tournaments over multiple topics will only result in most (if not all) of them flaming out.  Having one or two threads dedicated to the discussion will keep active for longer if not indefinitely.

Oh come on!  I already don't give a shit about trophies!  I don't need yet another gimmick to not give a flying fuck about!

Oh come on!  I already don't give a shit about trophies!  I don't need yet another gimmick to not give a flying fuck about!

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