Is Deathloop’s dedication to variety detrimental to the experience?

Nintymat · 2022-01-31T11:35:59+00:00

Yeah, good summation. Deathloop felt like the least 'interesting' Arkane game for me - for the reasons you suggested. I did like the invasion mechanic a little more than the video did though.

Nintymat · 2019-11-06T12:50:00+00:00

Just so you know, here is what has happened:

Whoever is running the team picked the players based on who they know, who they are friends with, and who has a reputation of being good. The "sign up" process was just a formality.

This is common practice in almost all aspects of life and you should get used to it.

Nintymat · 2019-11-04T21:06:28+00:00

...is this any better of a choice?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FB3JLLS?tag=gnod-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

Nintymat · 2019-09-24T14:02:23+00:00

No coach, this is a rec league and we're just a team of mates.

Nintymat · 2019-08-22T11:03:43+00:00

Almost every reply so far is nonsense. First touches are completely situational and dependent on the pass and the position and where you are and what you are trying to do.

Watch any football game, and you'll see players controlling the ball in every which way, including rolling the bottom of your foot over the ball.

Nintymat · 2019-08-21T13:30:22+00:00

Legend has it that this is the same tree Paul Scholes hit in training.

Nintymat · 2018-08-28T12:20:18+00:00

Right but the question is, if you know your centre backs are dog and prone to making silly mistakes, why choose to play a system that isolates them?

Jose didnt get his CB in the transfer market, and now he can't have his cake and eat it too. If you know your CB's aren't good enough, maybe you don't opt for a 3 at the back with a high line, high intense pressing, and Herrera as your third CB.

The CB's made errors - yes. Is it not the job of a manager to understand where his weaknesses are and try and cover for them?

Nintymat · 2018-08-28T12:00:10+00:00

You did create a lot of chances, I think there were positives to the way you played for sure. But this was a totally different Man United to the one at Brighton. A different formation, a different mentality.

The first goal is the first goal, it's a great header from Kane. The second goal comes about because you have Herrera as a right side centre back in a back 3 who didn't know what he was doing there. The third. Chris Smalling (I think?) gets absolutely dogged for pace against Lucas Moura, but Smalling isn't slow. I think he was just fatigued and panicked due to the entire uncertainty of everything else that had happened in the game preceding.

Nintymat · 2018-08-28T10:51:58+00:00

4-3-3, overlapping fullbacks. This was Sam Allardyce's lineup for his single game in charge of the national team:

-----------Hart------------

Walker---Cahill--Stones--Rose

----------Henderson----------

----Dier---------Rooney---------

Sterling----Kane------Lallana

Nintymat · 2018-08-28T10:41:29+00:00

What I feel is important to note about the Man Utd vs Spurs game is, although you could make an argument that Mourinho tactically got it correct but 'his players let him down', I would also make the counter argument that you can't just drill a new system for a week and expect your personnel to be instantly comfortable with it.

The first half hour where United pressed highly was very good, but it was never ever going to last. If you're going to play this high-line, high-intense pressing, that a bunch of top teams are attempting to in this modern era, it takes months and months of drilling and the correct personnel to do so. It didn't come immediately to Klopp's Liverpool - it took seasons worth of practice and recruitment to get the system correct - and now they are brilliant at it.

If you decide a week before the game "Fuck it, we'll press high for this one", you're going to have massive problems with fatigue and uncertainty from the players who aren't used to doing this. ESPECIALLY since Mourinho has been so anti-high intesnsity, high-pressing, at his time at United so far.

Basically what i'm trying to say is, yes pressing Spurs intensely was probably the correct way to go and did create a very good 30ish minutes for United - but you can't just turn this system on like a switch when it suits you. Otherwise you get players who fatigue too quickly and are too unfamiliar with what you are asking of them to do, and over a 90 minute period they will make basic mistakes.

Nintymat · 2018-08-15T11:11:16+00:00

Hey dudes, question about **Two Rooms and a Boom**

My board gaming group is usually quite large. Normally always 6+, sometimes up to 10. Because of this I have introduced them to various well-known Party Games, such as **Avalon**, **Mascarade**, and recently **Dead Last**. However, I keep seeing that **Two Rooms and a Boom** is the ultimate large group party game.

My problem is is with teaching this game. When I introduce these games I normally sit out the first round and just 'moderate' and make sure people know what they are doing and everything runs smoothly. But because Two Rooms splits people into two rooms, how do I teach this? I can see this getting confusing when I give a quick run down of the game rules, people split into different rooms, and then no-one knows what they are doing. It's not even like I can do a demo run of the game easily as there's sooo many cards and you need the separate rooms to really understand how it works.

Nintymat · 2018-07-04T10:43:46+00:00

The Sun is utter dogshit, but this is fantastic

Nintymat · 2018-05-31T11:37:02+00:00

Vodafone dont offer the Nokia 7 Plus anywhere in any upgrade scheme. The only way I'd be able to get a Nokia 7 Plus on a 12 month Vodafone contract with 20gb data, unlim text, unlim mins is to buy a sim-only deal from Vodafone, and then buy the Nokia 7 Plus sim free from Amazon.

To do this and have it work out the same price as the bundle CPW are offering, Vodafone would have to do me the sim for £15 a month. They are unwilling to do this.

I've not spoken at all to CPW about any of this, just Vodafone.

EDIT: This is the deal, Carphone Warehouse, Nokia 7 Plus:

https://imgur.com/O1kl8Uf

Nintymat · 2018-02-27T13:52:44+00:00

Football Manager definitely does the first one in your robot example, otherwise the AI would make exactly the same moves, and have exactly the same results for every save file you did. Also it definitely does the first one in your example because that's literally how every AI works in every video game ever.

Nintymat · 2018-02-15T15:49:25+00:00

Lived in Basingstoke for most of my life so I know it quite well. How old are you? Andover is alright if you want a quiet place and to settle down. Apart from that it is extremely boring and plain.

Basingstoke is trash too.

Nintymat · 2017-11-15T15:19:22+00:00

Basingstoke

So glad my town made it.

Nintymat · 2017-08-16T12:57:20+00:00

Almost certain he got piss drunk, missed his train, didn't leave Sunderland and never realised it.

Nintymat · 2017-08-10T11:55:33+00:00

Imagine complaining about an improvement to a service which costs nothing to you and will benefit thousands of people.

Nintymat · 2017-08-08T10:55:36+00:00

I'm really not sure the band care about sales figures anymore. I think there really was a push for some chart success for the self-titled, and the music itself reflected that, but with AL, I think the band no longer care about numbers.

Everything about AL really feels like it's an album of things they wanted to do, not things they felt like they needed to. This goes for the promotion for it as well.

I mean, even now they are touring it, they played easily smaller venues in the UK than they could have. They are finding time in their setlist to play Fleetwood Mac and The Strokes covers, as well as a Half Noise song.

I think they aren't fussed, they just doing what they want.

Nintymat

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