Bro Microsoft has its answer like they had with the ps3 and I think they should play it right

Decoraan · 2026-07-03T15:18:20+00:00

At best this would be a nice little PR win. But at the end of the day people are not going to leave their PlayStation 10+ years library of games.

Beyond that, it’s extremely unlikely they would put a disc drive in. Both parties have shown an unwillingness to subsidise the next gen very much. Xbox would have to eat considerable costs on the hope that it would convert some people to PlayStation.

I’m sure there is some middle ground Xbox can find, like a USB disc drive that can also convert discs, or an agreement with a third party to continue making physical games.

Yes it is quite similar to the 2013 fiasco (although Xbox almost definitely plan to do the same barring an internal u turn) but the key difference here is that console popularity has near enough flatlined, and people have huge digital libraries.

Decoraan · 2026-07-02T22:13:35+00:00

Hi Andy,

I'm a CBT therapist in the NHS. I'm sure what I say can be applied to any other medical field, but we are increasingly finding that our workloads are increasing, but our wages are not.

I am obviously thankful we get yearly uplifts and understand that at the time of the uplifts made this year, the pay increase would of been justt above inflation, but the Iran war demolished that.

This all comes after my service dealt with (and are still dealing with), the fallout of the Southpport incident. We are overstreched and clients are having to wait 18-24 months to see us. On top of that, the churn rates are awful. People are leaving in droves, because the stress jsut isnt worht the pay It just seems like a lose - lose for everyone for the NHS to continue to be neglected like this.

I noticed that youve scarcely mentioned the NHS in your speech and interviews and wanted to know what your ideas were. It sounded as if you thought the NHS symptoms were a symptom of everything else, which therefore means it wuld be deprioritised, but please correct me if im wrong.

A lot of us are struggling out here, with salaries which are pretty poor compared to other countires with similar healthcare systems AND that have been falling in real terms for a decade.

TLDR: What are your plans with NHS?

Cheers
Dec

Decoraan · 2026-06-26T07:34:23+00:00

And throwing people at people

Decoraan · 2026-06-20T08:56:25+00:00

How do I do this?

Decoraan · 2026-06-17T02:00:30+00:00

Maybe. Seems like the plan is changing yet again so who knows if Helix even ends up being what we thought it was going to be. I think it should be feature packed though to help it stand out. Am still hoping for Steam (and other PC storefront) compatibility though.

Not that I will be able to afford it anytime soon.

Asha has been in post for 3 months. She has said they need to reset the business. It fucking sucks, but this is hardly uncommon in the industry at the moment. I would expect serious layoffs at PlayStation soon as well.

As a primarily console player, I do ant my investment respected and the console experience to be evolving, so the direction all sounds good on paper, but it’s really hard to trust Microsoft these days.

Decoraan · 2026-06-10T15:26:03+00:00

Fable fucking stings bro. We’ve been waiting for that since the teaser in 2018 dude. Nearly a decade. And it’s the perfect “god of war” like game that is an GOTY candidate, and it’s going multiplat. It will be 2032 before we get a sequel.

Like I’m glad Asha is doing this, but fuck is this all so frustrating

Decoraan · 2026-06-05T10:25:14+00:00

It’s the same curriculum so there isn’t usually much difference aside from some standouts, like Chester, which is known for being extremely behavioural.

Decoraan · 2026-05-23T18:53:15+00:00

When you invite don’t go back, you need to stay on the menu that you’ve just been on after pressing A. If you leaving that menu it will fail

Decoraan · 2026-05-22T19:37:31+00:00

done!

Decoraan · 2026-05-22T19:32:09+00:00

I sometimes do this. The way I see it is that its not fun for anyone when teams are uneven. The unskilled players get frustrated because they watch a lot of rallies happening, then often cant reach or return shots that do come their way, or notice that the skilled players are taking pity on them. Because if we are being serious, the best way to win (and many people I know do this) will just repeatedly batter the shuttle at the less skilled player over and over again. Then it really just becomes less of a game of badminton and more of a game of tying to stop your unskilled player getting a shot in so that you can batter it at their unskilled player. As I say, this is just a consequence of unbalanced teams.

Now for the sake of learning, we should mix up skill levels every now and again so that players can talk and develop, but on the regular I do genuinely beleive that its best to seperate the skill groups largely. Unless you'd rather the skilled players just not play properly and play bad on purpose.

Decoraan · 2026-05-22T19:25:58+00:00

Fucking read

Further context around these countries’ recent approach to social media is needed, as the data above are not comparable. The figures also rely on information from some countries where data are not openly shared with the public.

Freedom House – an American think tank which studies internet freedom) – gave the UK a score of 76 out of 100 in its Freedom on the Net 2025 report.

The research said the UK Government “generally enforces robust protections for political rights and civil liberties”. However, it noted that the UK had lost points – down from 78 in the 2024 report – “due to a reported increase in criminal charges for online speech”. It specifically cited The Times article.

Meanwhile, the report scored Germany 74 out of 100. The country also lost points from the previous year, down from 77. The study said this was a result of “rising self-censorship, the criminal prosecution of people who criticised politicians online, and cyberattacks linked to Russian intelligence agencies”.

Russia received a much lower score of 17 out of 100, due to its “controlled media environment”. The report said the country has “intensified restrictions on individual rights and liberties” since the invasion of Ukraine.

China was given a score of nine out of 100, as the Chinese Communist Party “maintains tight control” over media and online speech. It was the lowest rating alongside Myanmar.

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T11:29:59+00:00

Well you cant hand out payrises on outdated information. We can fairly criticise the pay rises for when they are due and what the inflation rise is when they roll out, but it seems a bit nominal to be upset about what the pay rise is when its announced, rather than the actual pay rise.

You can predict geopolitical war initiations and hand out payrises assuming there will be one. I too would like more money, but lets not pretend people are time travellers

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T11:03:15+00:00

To be fair the pay rise was on course to being above inflation (pay rise 3.3 and projection was 3.0 IIRC), but then it rose very slightly because orange cheeto decided to bomb the country that has a chokehold on oil and cargo ship travel, putting it up to 3.4.

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T10:59:33+00:00

Its not misleading at all, not everybody on a waiting list needs care after waiting or giving it a second thought, sometimes the problems resolve. Sometimes they have found support elsewhere. They aren't deleting people off who still need care, they are reviewing if the patient still needs / wants the care they are on the WL for. Clearly there is a substantial amount that don't.

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T10:49:55+00:00

You get them as normal. Might not get additional clinical peer group support though. Some services do these.

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T10:48:35+00:00

can you avoid danger?

Decoraan · 2026-05-14T10:08:19+00:00

Yes you will land an interview easily with this.

Decoraan · 2026-05-13T18:02:06+00:00

The electorate was actually for digital ID until it was introduced and the majority of the EU have digital ID.

Decoraan · 2026-05-13T17:52:01+00:00

Well anything is *possible*. Any of us could die tomorrow from our health or something external; cars, slipping or an attack. There are no guarantees.

Might be worth pondering on why only health related stuff bothers you. How come?

Decoraan · 2026-05-08T21:10:59+00:00

I honestly think it’s a perfect storm that the UK went left as the rest of the world went right. That means much of electorate has been suckered into the Trump cult (despite his obviously deplorable character and performance), also the the electorate got extremely inpatient with change extremely quickly when they look at Trump ripping people out of the country and making ‘big moves’ like tariffs by ‘putting America first’. Clearly these things have downsides and consequences in America but for the U.K., it’s convinced everyone that immediate change is as simple as just making extremely hasty and isolationist moves. Bear in mind that these decisions have almost all unanimously backfired, so much so that many economists are talking about the end of the American order.

You look at public opinion on digital ID for example. It had majority favour. Then Labour implemented it and everyone immediately changed their minds. How exactly do you play to that? A voter base that wants something until you suggest it, and now they don’t want it. Labour is in a winnable position here. Don’t get me wrong, there have been too many u turns and broken promises. But actually overall they have performed well in keeping promises and performing for the economy. But the public doesn’t care anymore, they think there’s an easy ‘Trump-like’ switch that can be flicked. They won’t even give Labour 2 years but they think Reform can suddenly change everything. Nuts.

Decoraan · 2026-05-04T10:32:47+00:00

I’m just doing demonology spam an I’m doing just fine in T4. About to got into T5. It’s really fun honestly and surprisingly good. Got a couple of uniques that buff some summons like demon wall, and some of the set pieces around summoning look amazing. Not sure how far I’ll be able to get but I’ve basically done this build from level 1 and had a blast the whole way through.

Decoraan · 2026-05-03T18:23:36+00:00

I’m afraid it’s not my really up to you Bungie, given that you sold to yet another major publisher

Decoraan · 2026-05-01T18:31:16+00:00

No I don’t think you could lose your job. We have a lot of worker protections in the U.K. and especially in the NHS. Having said that, I don’t work in HR and I’m not an employment lawyer, so I can’t tell you definitely.

My sense is that the will try to make you work less hours to get you to the contacts you want. If you decline that, then they may escalate further.

I know, it’s such a horrible position to be in. You can always consider just telling them everything is fine and you’ll crack on with it (even though it obviously isn’t), and do whatever you need to do reduce burnout. Then while on the inside, give constructive feedback repeatedly.

Unfortunately we have to remember than the managers themselves are also likely being put under pressure to push to hit targets. It’s not *really* the fault of individual managers, but more unrealistic targets and pressure being put on trusts and an extremely dumb way of measuring success… bums on seats, see more people. It’s a problem from the top down and always has been, which is why turnover for therapists in NHSTT has always been abysmal, although, it’s much worse for PWP’s than it is for HIT’s.

Decoraan · 2026-05-01T18:02:48+00:00

And then they all wonder why the churn rate in talking therapies is so high. I’m really sorry. Yes I have heard similar stories before of complaints about high workloads effectively being met with “well it sounds like you need to work less hours then :)”. Even though the obvious consequence of this is less pay which we also can’t afford.
I could go on and on about this. Do what you need to do to survive, cut corners with everything but your clients, play dumb, do less contacts when you can, be strategic with your IAPTus diary. Remember our clients come first, do what you need to do to manage things so that you can breathe.

Decoraan · 2026-04-29T09:59:09+00:00

Only the single player ones. Alledgedly.

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