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I mostly play video games to switch off and relax. So generally I play single player RPGs on the easiest setting and just explore the world and the story.

I do occasionally play something like PUBG if I’m after some excitement but I don’t have time to master games like I did when I had no responsibilities or kids!

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me!

Friendship is based on shared experiences.

So you need to find some experiences to share with people. Whether that’s evening pottery classes, joining (or starting) a man’s shed, joining a book club, joining a local amateur sport team, getting into a virtual TTRPG, joining a bridge club, or a chess club, or litter picking group, or bird-watching group… or something entirely different it’ll work as long as you have repeated exposure to the same group of people. Unless you pick a group who are all assholes. Or if you’re an asshole.

I mostly agree with this. Except that hash tag. Your use of “hash tag” here is an abomination.

I know dot jay peg!

Absolutely, if they’d gone that way it would have been cool as well. But, given they didn’t, the modern day stuff is just jarring and immersion-breaking. For me, at least.

Hash tag different people like different things and that’s ok!

Syndicate followed by Black Flag is my all time favourite.

I’ve tried all the new ones but they’re just too… I dunno, the opposite of focused. Diffused, I guess.

Given the Paris Olympics, I thought about replaying Unity but I did a run through last year.

Yeah, that’s totally normal.

No matter how much you think of a job as just a commercial transaction between you and your employer it’s hard not to have a visceral, emotional reaction to being told ‘we don’t need you’.

I don’t know your financial situation, obviously, but my advice would be to try and take a bit of time out to clear your head of the old job and the layoff before you really get stuck in to finding your next gig. If you can afford to step back for a bit and clear the understandable negativity you’re currently experiencing then you’ll be far better set up for job hunting than if you just try and push through while you’re still in that negative mental space.

“Allow me to retort!”

I can still hear the music from this game in my head.

Same with visiting almost any website.

Then

1. Click on link to website.
2. Read website.

Now

1. Click on link to website.
2. Click on Cookie options.
3. Scroll down looking for ‘Reject All’.
4. Discover there is no ‘Reject All’.
5. Scroll back through list turning off all optional cookies.
6. Scroll back to the bottom to click on ‘Confirm my choices’.
7. Hunt for the close X on the ‘Subscribe to our newsletter’ pop-up.
8. Click on the close X on the ‘Subscribe to our newsletter’ pop-up.
9. Read the website.
10. Discover the website is just more AI generated SEO garbage.
11. Go outside, walk on the grass barefoot, weep for the future of humanity.

Defragged cows. System files cannot be moved.

I’d love to but I play my games on XBox. And yes, Fallout London looks glorious - I’ll be sad to miss out.

Just finished a new playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 but that’s a mere 4 years old.

Otherwise, a lot of Skyrim, Fallout 3, 4, NV, GTAV replays. And Civilization Revolution for casual, or Bloons TD6 sometimes with the kids.

Same, I think.

I still vividly remember, just a few hours into my first character (orc hunter), when I made it to the Crossroads in the Barrens for the first time. While I was seeing what NPCs were there and starting to pick up quests, a bunch of Alliance PCs turned up and attacked. Word made it back to Orgrimmar and high-level Horde characters started dropping in. As a level 5-ish character, watching all these high-level characters go at each other was so exciting.

I hit one of the Alliance guys with Hunter’s Mark, which turned on PVP for me, and I was almost immediately one-shotted by something I never saw. coming. Worth it though.

Played through a few of the expansions, but nothing quite recaptured the sense of exploration of that vanilla experience.

You might also want to add Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai to your list too - they’re the Kurasawa films that A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven are western (in both senses) remakes of.

For A Few Dollars More is so-so (but I’d still watch it again), but The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is epic.

And if you enjoy them, then take a crack at High Plains Drifter or Pale Rider which are both excellent though share an underlying theme. The Outlaw Josey Wales is also well worth a watch, as is the magnificent (and best picture Oscar winner) Unforgiven starring and directed by an older, wiser, and grittier Clint Eastwood.

When Netflix had (seemingly) everything I was totally cool and the gang with paying for that service.

Now I have:

• Netflix
• Amazon Prime
• Apple TV
• Disney+
• NowTv
• fuck knows what else

and I still can’t find the content I want to watch. I had an urge to watch The Good, The Bad And The Ugly the other day. Could I find it on any services I pay a combined £50+ a month for? Could I fuck. Why would they be surprised they’re pushing people to ‘alternative’ sources? Sure, I can rent or buy Barbie and Oppenheimer if I want, but I don’t want. What I want is access to the tens of thousands of old, excellent, films that have been made.

Aw. I was hoping to see him seamlessly fly to the Volii system, seamlessly fly to Volii Alpha, seamlessly land on the Neon landing pad, seamlessly enter the Bayu Plaza and, seamlessly interact with dozens of NPCs, many of whom have branching dialogue trees, and seamlessly loot the ever-loving crap out of hundreds of interactable objects.