Nokia dragged their feet on smart phones and paid the price. The fact that they went with Microsoft when they did start making smart phones almost certainly didn’t help matters, but they were already way behind at that point.

It’s an absolutely perfect example of how petty he and his ilk are.

I take reviews on any site (especially Google/maps) with a huge grain of salt. I mostly only go straight to the negative reviews though. If they’re all petty shit, then it’s usually a good sign. I also like to see if the business/owner has responded. If they’re posting snarky responses to negative reviews, then I’m inclined to think that this isn’t a business that I want to deal with.

I ran DG as well (PX Poker Night) for the first time this year. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. I’m currently waiting for the print copy of God’s Teeth, which I plan to run.

We had the second-highest number of sessions in our Pathfinder game (the Hell’s Rebels AP) since we started in 2019. 8 sessions this year, 2019 was the highest number with 9.

Started playing Changeling with a different group, most of whom I’d never played with before. That game is fortnightly and still going. It’s the first time I’ve played a regular game with another group since my ‘main’ group started playing together in 2004-ish. Actually, if I count those sessions, I’ve played more this year than I have in the past ten years.

I ran a session of Delta Green for the first time this year. I’ve been interested since it first came out. I’m currently in the exploratory stages of finding out who will be available for a regular game of that, but it won’t be starting until next year.

Actually, that’s another one. I’ve played more new games this year than I have before, other than convention games, at least. Played Fate, Changeling and Delta Green for the first time.

I’ll preface this by saying that I haven’t played it in probably at least two decades, but I used to love Wacky Wheels. I believe it’s on Steam now, too.

I never even realised it was a thing people did commonly until I started watching Critical Role.

The closest my group has ever come is playing the Hell’s Rebels adventure path for Pathfinder. In that you resurrect an old group called the Silver Ravens, so that essentially becomes your party’s name.

That would be a 23 kg bike. That’s crazy heavy. It’s more than double most bikes’ weight, and triple the weight of a racing bike.

It’s actually not that crazy. E-bikes tend to be at least that heavy. Mine is 30kg. In our example of a fat man riding a bicycle, he’s probably more likely to be riding an electric bike anyway.

I’m guessing you mean the original Most Wanted. That game was excellent. I think the ‘special place in my heart’ is probably reserved for NFS 3 (which I played the absolute shit out of and was the first NFS game to include cop chases) or the first one just because it introduced me to the series. Most Wanted though was the last good NFS game in my opinion. I lost interest when Underground came out, but when the demo for MW was released I played it so much I had to buy the game. The soundtrack was good as I recall; I think it was also the last NFS game where I didn’t immediately mute the music.

And yeah, the police pursuits were really good in that. Hard enough to be a challenge, but not so hard that it was punishing.

On a similar note, Full Throttle is my favourite game ever, and has been since I first played it. I love everything about that game.

The replacement’s job isn’t to fix the problems, just to make it seem like they’re doing something.

Just saw an article on ABC about that exact thing (drip pricing.)

It must be exhausting to go anywhere in the US. You’d need cash on hand to tip people in situations where you can’t just opt to add something to the amount taken off your card. I’m also opposed to the tipping culture (like most rational people) but would be acutely aware that most of the workers you’d be likely to tip are relying on them.

Custard is an obvious choice.
I went to practically every gig that george did in Brisbane back in the early 2000s, so they’re definitely up there.
Cheap Fakes are also excellent.

Mostly it’s through recommendations from friends, or when I frequently see people talking about a particular show in a community. For example, I discovered Hacks thanks to people in the Frasier subreddit frequently talking about how amazing Jean Smart (who was in several episodes of Frasier) is in it (she really is.)

The “Can it run Crysis” thing was purely about the fact that it was one of (if not the most) resource-intensive games out at the time. I remember it being a big jump in terms of both visual quality and the requirements to run it well.

I haven’t liked a Need for Speed game since the original Most Wanted (and that was the first one since Porsche Unleashed.) I’ve played a few since and some were okay, but none of them have grabbed me the way the old NFS games did. I spent more time playing any of the first five NFS games individually than I have playing all of them in total since MW.

The Last of Us is definitely about the story. If you’re not invested in that, you’re probably not going to enjoy it. There’s nothing much in the gameplay that sets it apart from similar games.

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I haven’t played Wasteland 2, but I quite enjoyed Wasteland 3. I’ve played it through a couple of times. Might be worth giving it a go?

Working today, but I just had a week off, so I can’t complain too much. Plus I’m working from home, so pants aren’t required.