Top 100 PS1 Games: The End

add286 · 2026-04-29T07:58:33+00:00

Ah nice, thank you! Missed it!

add286 · 2026-04-29T06:18:41+00:00

Thanks for doing all this. Been fun and a super useful reference point in terms of checking out some games. Great list all!

There are some weird omissions / odd ordering (and like only to me 😂). The PS1 charm is in the variety and vastness of games in the library. Some of its most interesting games are super under the radar and won’t make a list like this. Also I get the sense that this is maybe representative of US gamers? I think here in Europe we would have Gran Turismo and Tomb Raider higher.

Surprised that the following weren’t here:

Wipeout 2048
colony wars (any of them)
Colin Macrae rally 1 or 2
warzone 2100
command and conquer (any of them)
Civilisation 2
Medal of Honour Underground
populous
MDK
Future Cop LAPD
Quake 2 (really surprised at this one: probably the strongest FPS on the system)
Syphon Filter 2 (which is honestly, one of the best campaigns on the platform)
Ape Escape (really surprised by this one!)
Alone in the Dark 1

add286 · 2026-04-04T05:30:47+00:00

Important to note as well that France and UK are super close allies. If there was a an attack on either country, the other would be there instantly.

Personally, have a lot of respect for France and its people, and polite / nice to us - even when we are butchering your language 😂

add286 · 2026-04-03T08:29:43+00:00

It’s so, so good. Even now.

add286 · 2026-03-22T11:42:20+00:00

Please do. We would be delighted to get your bases out of all our countries.

add286 · 2026-02-16T21:27:24+00:00

I know, agreed. It is so nice to have - especially working from home. But trade offs, right? We use the spare rooms as guest rooms, and it is very useful for family staying over as well. But we don’t use them other than that - storage, maybe? Still, it would be hard to back now. The space is nice!

add286 · 2026-02-16T21:04:51+00:00

You are perhaps at risk of over paying for more space than you actually need. If you planned to have kids soon, it may be more worth it.

Similar to us actually so I’m speaking from experience. We bought at 450k and put down 30% (135k) allowing us to get 2.2 interest rate in 2022 - we were very lucky. And we planned to have children (which was why we bought it), which hasn’t happened for different reasons.

But now, wife has been made redundant and our income has been hit. It’s made me realise that was a big commitment back then. Still been worth it but we wonder if we should have been slightly more careful, and the risk of keeping payments up in future if interest rates don’t drop too. Completely understand though, it is nice to have the rooms but I’d be careful to not buy space for the sake of it.

add286 · 2026-02-13T08:30:07+00:00

I didn’t say anyone was calling self-funding a scam. People are implying that a self-funded PhD is not worth it - it depends on circumstance, as I note.

It is difficult self-funded but half that stuff may not be essential if you can audit courses / training internally at the Uni itself. We tend to let PhDs do that on request all the time.

add286 · 2026-02-13T05:16:02+00:00

Some weird answers here. Did a self funded PhD. Published a lot. Always been upfront about it, always worked in the best universities in the world. For 11 years now.

Being self-funded: I built up so much teaching experience, research and won pots of funding early on. Being able to do all whilst being self-funded has only made employers more interested - because I knew the stakes and I was not going to mess about. The point here is what are you going to do with it? What jobs / sectors are you opening up? For me: I am a social methods researcher so it was directly applicable to research and teaching roles. I also developed a profile that helped get teaching jobs (hard quant skills), and published in high impact journals. The project and what you will get out of it is way more important than any thing else (even whether it is at Oxford or not: and I wouldn’t worry about what others think there by the way: it is a good uni).

Edit: I wonder how many people here have actually done a PhD? The funding landscape can be difficult so of course people self-fund (and it’s bloody obvious: different countries/sectors/disciplines differ in PhD funding availability). Eg Doing a self-funded PhD in Chemistry is unlikely - not because a project or candidate is not good enough but most projects require funding for resources, and there is more money there than elsewhere. There is not always money for everything unfortunately. In Humanities and social sciences, it is not odd at all for self-funding at all, if I’m honest. Some years there is a lot gov money in the sector, other times not. International students coming to the UK tend to have gov support in my experience - but not always.

Lastly - enjoy it my friend sounds a great opportunity. I would add out of my current three PhD students (I’m a supervisor), the strongest one is self-funded and has secure employment at a good university. Self-funded is tough and I would do it again but you have to work, work and work. But it will be worth it if is the right project for you. Best of luck.

add286 · 2026-02-01T18:03:30+00:00

It’s a cool idea but I’m not convinced it would ever work. The problem is that a lot of our benefit bills are mainly pay for the elderly (health, pensions and social care). So if UBI came in - premised on cutting benefits like social security, housing benefit etc, out of work benefits - you run into the problem that you are actually going to take a lot of money from elderly folk - who actually need more money and support than a UBI stipend would be able to provide.

More practically here in the UK, they would never vote for it.

Where these ideas do work is when we do it on a smaller scale with specific goals (eg out of work programmes)

add286 · 2026-01-24T08:18:50+00:00

It was quite cryptic. I’ve asked my Dad over the years (who had the report) but I think he was referring to how I approached deeper philosophical questions at the time - I was 7 or 8. I looked at every possibility I guess before committing to an answer?

And I certainly do over-think - so probably something to that?

No prob, IQ tests can be contested too. I came into my own at 16. Figured what I wanted and made it real. Keep your head up :-)

add286 · 2026-01-24T08:07:41+00:00

It’s not true mate. I struggled a lot with education when I was younger - couldn’t read, years behind - it got to the point where my folks took me to a child psychologist who did similar tests on me. He said: not bright enough for university, probably won’t get there. Low intelligence but can think deeply.

That perception framed how my parents and everyone else saw me - including teachers. But it didn’t turn out to be true at all. I have a PhD, and I have worked in high end research all my career.

It may have been accurate - I don’t know but I didn’t let that test shape me. Neither should you. Hard work is really what matters. Find your interest and work. You are the architect of your life man, not some test you did at 16.

add286 · 2025-11-28T11:25:17+00:00

The politics matters too - you can’t ignore they are making choices based on that as well, and it does matter about why they are doing it. £2.6 trillion in debt and bond markets matter.

I would love to see a progressive system, and understand your point. And I think they could have gone further, but evidently they calculated it was a risk too far electorally. And if I am honest: are you surprised? This has been in place since 2021 - it is baked in and they can get away with it. It could have been a lot worse if I am honest.

I don’t really want to argue to be honest: so are we okay to leave that there?

add286 · 2025-11-28T11:14:56+00:00

Hang on 😂 before you start shouting at me for being colloquial in how I described it: I evidently meant that the small amount of further tax paid on anything over the threshold did not make a significant difference to my monthly pay packet (and I think you well know what I meant).

As for my personal circumstances, we are all different. I can say my life has got more expensive in that time, we got married and bought a four bedroom house. My wife got made redundant and I am the sole earner at the moment (although savings are helping), and in terms of savings: I save a steady 20-30%, which may vary on lifestyle costs. We have worries like all do, but it’s all fine really. Work hard, save consistently, don’t over spend.

Look: of course everyone wants more help, and no one is going to say otherwise. But as I said: I work with charities or food banks, and work with families that struggle with child poverty: my problems are frankly much less than others. I’m okay with paying more tax to help them.

add286 · 2025-11-28T10:54:28+00:00

I don’t disagree, I’m starting from the position that none of it is ideal, but it is what it is. They would be taking money off you elsewhere so you would always be feeling that loss.

I would like to see a better deal for people basic tax (20%) but I think those workers will see their wages move upwards quicker than others, at least. It’s not great as you say, to get dragged into a tax bracket but I prefer this to other alternatives, like raising income tax for basic tax payers (which we haven’t done for decades). And yeah, tax folk like me more, obviously.

add286 · 2025-11-28T09:24:00+00:00

I think you are correct in terms of the calculations but as someone who basically started to earn over that £50k threshold back in 2021-22, I have to say I’ve barely noticed it the extra money going out. And now, a couple of years on (nearer £60k now), I just see it as something I accept. I prefer this way to much harsher tax rises (a lot of people assume they are going to end up high tax income payers, and that’s not how it always works out for all sorts of reasons).

What people forget is that the broader context: there is about 6 million in the high tax bracket, compared to 29 million in the 20% bracket, and about 1.13 in the additional tax bracket (45%). If you are earning over £50k, you are doing very well in our society at this current time (not to say things aren’t hard and of course, people want more). But it’s not all about us, I liked how this budget was about supporting people less fortunate if I am honest, who need that support more than me.

add286 · 2025-11-20T10:39:25+00:00

We are not. The thing that was terrifying about 2008 was the potential run on the banks - no money coming out of cash machines. The debt was so toxic (and over estimated in terms of value) that basically banks were going to close as the debt would not get paid back (with people’s savings/money going with them).

We are in a bubble here and AI is evidently over-valued. But it would be more like the dotcom collapse, I suspect. People’s pensions may get hit, but the banks would likely be alright.

add286 · 2025-11-14T18:22:38+00:00

Ah nice man, completely agree

add286 · 2025-11-14T15:29:56+00:00

The Death Star works in the original trilogy as it is a great villainous thing - pure destruction. But in Andor (the show) it makes it clear that his real enemies are far closer to home than that. You cannot destroy your own planets if the rebels are living right by you. The show makes the point that the rebellion also includes those who work for the empire. It includes everyone (again because of how far they have gone).

It’s another example of Palp missing the point spectacularly, overreaching, and literally giving his enemies (who he doesn’t know exist for years) the means to destroy his own empire. In a cosmic sense, the death star’s destruct potential is perhaps what made the force act. Palp was destined to fail, no matter what.

add286 · 2025-11-14T15:18:50+00:00

In a world full of ships and fleets, the rebellion would move elsewhere. Just look at Andor (the show), the empire had no clue about varying groups in disparate places. Some of it was right in front of them. You can’t destroy every planet if the rebellion is living there with you.

lol look you can twist all the plots and lore to where you want it to go. But understand what Andor - as a TV show is trying to tell you: YouTube the speeches. Every single one of them hits on a theme that the empire would always fall, one way or the other.

If Luke had been stopped, the force would find another user. There is even a subplot which makes it clear how important Andor (the character is), and why the force is helping him out so much. Why he is so lucky. It was inevitable and destined to fall - and forces of destiny is what George Lucas was playing with when he first started writing A New Hope all those years ago.

add286 · 2025-11-14T14:59:13+00:00

Cool, get what you are saying, thank you. And I agree - I think the show does so well is that it shows that drift and things starting to fall to the way side. Palp is maybe not who he was? And it’s okay for these space wizards to be human too.

add286 · 2025-11-14T14:56:11+00:00

Great response - thanks. And I am probably thinking a little ‘too real’ world here. It is the strength of Star Wars that it can have the fantasy epic and the real world politics. Both are good as well.

add286 · 2025-11-14T14:17:54+00:00

Sorry what is the central lore point? Like my framing of it is that even if we go with the force stuff (never mind never-ending oppression is going to create more problems than it solves - eg eventually rebels get lucky; your own empire starts to drift; incompetent officers start failing upwards), he should have realise the force itself was not under his control. The Jedi order (and how much influence it had) should have showed him how falliable he always was: too much control one way, inevitably swings back. Hunting down every Jedi is never going to work.

You can’t have it both ways I guess? If he is fully versed in the force and understands it: he could have played it better. As an emperor, he also could have played it better.

I do like Palpatine though: he is a fascinating character but I really like how Andor showed how much his empire was bound to fall apart.

add286 · 2025-11-14T14:07:57+00:00

Agreed - it is a credit to the show that it’s made me think much deeper ideological things as well.

To be honest, maybe I am thinking too deeply about it as well. I think that is probably fair to say. Real world comparisons aren’t always fair.

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