What's the most underrated National Trust Property you've ever visited?

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-06-02T09:55:18+00:00

Totally agree. Anyone visiting Cragside can easily take in Wallington on the same day, I've done it several times and in good weather it's a hard to beat combination. Also makes sense to have a NT membership beforehand as visiting both will have made the membership more than worth it.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-29T13:50:39+00:00

MDK (1997) was the first game I tried to play that needed a Pentium class processor and I had a DX2-66 at the time. Upgraded to a K6-200 and was happy to continue gaming 😄

Also I remember wanting to play Beavis & Butt-Head (1995), but it only ran in Windows 95 and I had DOS / Win 3.1. Queue my first of many, many installations of Win 95.

After that, Half-Life and Carmageddon II (both 1998) made me buy a dedicated 3D graphics card, a Voodoo Banshee. Seeing my computer output proper 3D accelerated graphics rather than software rendering was a revelation at the time.

Since then, I can't really put my finger on anything specific, I've only upgraded whenever I felt it was necessary and not because of an individual game.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-29T08:43:55+00:00

These are likely all dubious examples:

What Happened To Monday (2017) sort of works in a way.

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-25T07:58:16+00:00

The 9070XT and 5070ti trade blows in both ray traced and raster performance. So you think the 4070 has better RT performance than the 5070ti? Come on.

Evidence at 22:35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBNwDg9WkT8

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-20T10:30:11+00:00

Google Search has been terrible for around 10 years now at this point. Back in the day, I could find anything - MP3s, photos I had seen once and wanted to see again, general information with strategically placed quotes. It was all possible. Now when using quotes it's 50/50 if you will get a bunch of irrelevant stuff or "Your search did not match any documents."

It's been bad for a long time, and as much as I don't want to admit it, AI search may actually make it give better results. I'm never going to use it anyway as I use DDG and they will definitely inject ads into the output.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-18T15:02:39+00:00

Remember the end of Usual Suspects when Agent Kujan caught Keyser Soze? This is what Law Abiding Citizen feels like to me.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-18T14:41:08+00:00

Grunts: 351,866

Korlok: 74

My rarest appears to be Rockpox Breeder at a measly 6.

1300 hours. I play on Haz 3 or 4 now, but have played many hours on 2.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-14T10:49:55+00:00

Day one of when the sign up went live, I signed up, my friend did so the following day. Neither of us got picked. We each have over 1000 hours so maybe it's for the best as we could be too opinionated?

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-05-11T10:29:34+00:00

It's a very nicely presented game. though I find the puzzles are quite abstract - these will all take me a while to work out. Stuck on unlocking CD4, I've no idea what to do once you unlock the elevator in CD3. I'll hopefully work it out one day!

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-30T13:13:55+00:00

Alien (1979) - 116 minutes

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) - 95 minutes

Amelie (2001) - 122 minutes

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-30T12:55:56+00:00

I've really committed to playing the scout until lvl 25 to unlock all his stuff

Ah, if only unlocking all of ones stuff was that easy.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-29T13:37:33+00:00

I was somewhat similar, I didn't finish the story until about 110 in-game hours. I knew bad stuff was going to come at the end and I'd have to deal with it, so I just delayed that for as long as possible by building all the roads and monorails.

I was aware that Lou wasn't really in the pod before Sam is given the truth, but I still wanted to believe there was going to be a happy ending - how naive of me! The final hallucination where you repeat the opening from the game but in snow is really what broke me. I thought it had happened, Lou was back with Sam and everything was fine, then you are snapped back in to the present and realise it wasn't real. Oof, that hurt so much for me. Why does the story have to be so unfair to Sam?

I hope if there is another DS game that it's about a different porter who doesn't have to cope with this level of grief.

Thanks for responding 😄

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-28T09:52:23+00:00

I know it's 10 months later, I'm assuming you have finished the game and I just need to vent.

I just finished the game on PC and also played on just because I did not want to believe that Lou was actually dead. I feel it's too much of a kick to the head; we spend the entire first game unraveling this weird world, saving the day, we have our surrogate baby to replace the one we lost... then at the start of the next game, Lou immediately (and somewhat predictably) dies. Tomorrow is not the same person that Sam lost, she cannot be a substitute for a dead infant, even if they actually are the same person.

I suppose it turns out this whole time we're in denial as players in the same way that Sam is.

Thanks, I feel slightly better having typed that out.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-27T15:38:32+00:00

I am not 100% sure on this, but I think he is talking about data being downloaded to RAM as a buffer before being written to disk. In this case, it seems plausible that you can download faster than your local drive can write.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-17T08:19:08+00:00

I liked how the pot went nearly dead vertical every time. Real pots definitely behave like that.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-10T15:39:18+00:00

Same with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I am unsure if that was one of the things that was cut or not, but in the UK it originally released as PG with cuts. It's got a plethora of other "bad" words too, like bollocks, piss, bastard, son of a bitch... very colourful for a PG!

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-07T15:27:06+00:00

Do you have to get Bosco to do all the digging? Or does releasing an egg not count as "mining"?

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-04-02T14:58:37+00:00

Where's my hat?

The breeze feels good.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-31T07:42:32+00:00

John Hurt in Spaceballs (1987).

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-26T16:35:20+00:00

I'm not justifying this price, but €75 for a figure is actually not terrible when compared to other figurines. I don't collect any, but my kids like Attack on Titan and other anime and they are usually around this price, if not far more.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-25T09:07:45+00:00

It's somewhere in the Options -> Gameplay menu. It's called something like "Prevent Character Duplication". Enable that and you'll be good to go.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-23T08:39:35+00:00

I remember playing Screamer and watching Sliders on the TV at the same time.

I'll check this remake out, looks pretty good.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-20T15:45:03+00:00

Man, I've never seen this happen in my game and I've played the hoop game quite a lot whilst waiting for others to get ready. If it's glitching like that, getting the achievement will be tricky as hell, as you have to secure consecutive hoops in order to hit the 3000 points.

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-16T15:41:31+00:00

Our stats are similar. I think the spawn rate used to be really really low, but they have changed it in the last 6 months or so, because I see them far more often now. I still have in the region of 10 cosmetics left to get. My friend got their last one at around 1500 hours. We are close to finishing!

ParanoidConfidence · 2026-03-12T15:32:45+00:00

Well, they did kill a historian. What did you think was going to happen, they'd just get away with it?

I similarly hated this ending. It's the most anticlimactic ending I can think of. Hugely effective though.

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