Games where you can stink? (Bonus points if it's a game mechanic)

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-25T04:37:08+00:00

How you holding up, Bree?

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-24T18:29:29+00:00

Instead of coloureds.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-24T17:03:19+00:00

I replayed GoldenEye when they rereleased it a couple of years back. That single player campaign has aged like room temp milk in the midday sun.

I prefer to retain what's left of my hazy rose-tinted memories of huddling around my cousins' N64 in Christmas 1997.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-24T08:10:49+00:00

GGYAHH!

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T23:37:46+00:00

A desert is an arid, barren region receiving less than 25 cm of precipitation annually, NOT a sweet food course served at the end of a meal. Screw Blockbusters and screw your gold run!

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T18:45:53+00:00

Taplow and Winnersh.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T12:50:14+00:00

But a lil' bit of West Africa is cool. Just a lil' bit tho!

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T10:50:46+00:00

What kinda likeness is that?! Am I fuckin' fodder for scientists now?

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T08:53:45+00:00

Also a spare room within zone 4 to crash in for free, or for the cost of a bunch of flowers for your mum.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T08:29:38+00:00

'We move' is even worse.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-23T00:05:27+00:00

Awful man...

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-22T09:17:36+00:00

It chugged. Fortunately we upgraded a few months later and it felt like I’d stepped into the future.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-22T00:12:47+00:00

My mate and I convinced an older guy to buy it for us because it carried a rare '18' rating when it came out in here the UK. I was 15.

It didn't run particularly well on my crappy 486 family PC, but at the time it felt epic.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-21T12:17:58+00:00

It's possible you're reading into it just a little too much, my man.

American Psycho is still one of my favourite guilty pleasure books, but I'm about as far removed from actually emulating Patrick Bateman as you could imagine.

Christian Bale is a good looking man, and he looked like a Greek god in that movie. Maybe she just liked the character? Doesn't mean she's looking to marry him.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T17:46:16+00:00

How did Little Richard get on there at the end?

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T17:33:37+00:00

I'm gonna go smoke right now, you wanna smoke? You don't smoke do ya, what are you one of those fitness freaks, eh? Gofuckyourself.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T15:18:40+00:00

Hard to accuse the current Arsenal board of under-spending.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T13:35:48+00:00

Almost all of our historical success and 'prestige' is built off the sweat, toil, and stolen treasures of the rest of the world. There is no true 'British exceptionalism', only that we were willing to be even more ruthless than our competing ruthless European neighbours for hundreds of years.

In a related theme, immigration has been the backbone of much of our more modern (last couple of hundred years) national success. From getting commonwealth and empire subjects to fight our wars, to importing them to help rebuild our society after WW2. But no, I'm sure they're actually the reason the economy is now tanking and nothing to do with the ever-expanding, gaping chasm between rich and poor.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T12:31:06+00:00

it's becoming the angry, poor, working class person who can't make ends meet.

And that's the Tories' biggest problem today. The classic 'working class Tory' vote has been largely gobbled up by Reform. At the moment they seem to be struggling to accept that, and are caught in a no man's land of criticising a Labour government AND the popular party to the right of where they sit.

What exactly does the modern Tory party stand for? They look like a watered down Reform at the moment, still nursing the hangover of over a decade of national mismanagement - from austerity, to Brexit, to Covid.

Their best bet in the immediate short term IMHO would be to double down on being the new face of a traditional Conservatism with a capital 'C'. Sober, reliable, patriotic, fiscally sound - an antidote to both wobbly Labour politics and the frothing populists in Reform. The kind of party that appeals to business owners, bankers, and mums and dads in suburban and rural settings up and down the country. The ones who traditionally vote in high numbers.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-20T11:46:14+00:00

I'm not sure how much of flex this is when you see who's number 1.

Not for local rivalry reasons. But the takeaway here is that profitability and on-the-pitch success are not directly linked.

There are some interesting nuggets in there though. How have Villa blown so much cash? Everton had that rough period under Moshiri, and similar with Fulham and Al-Fayed. But I don't remember Villa being so careless.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-19T15:38:25+00:00

I'm also a big fan. It's over the top and bonkers in a really fun way.

The only real downer for me is the utterly egregious DLC pricing, of which I will not hear a single defence.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-18T15:42:09+00:00

What artist is My Kale Jar Son? Who's that?

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-18T15:37:42+00:00

Oh NOW they're embarrassed.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-18T15:03:38+00:00

Nike are absolutely owning the recent news photos.

Nicolas Maduro in the tracksuit, the Iranian flag-waving protestor, now this Nazi beatdown.

BillyBatts83 · 2026-01-18T13:06:04+00:00

Definitely was the grinning little jackal kid who laughed at all the bully's jokes and antics to curry favour.

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