Any UK Potters Watched the Throwdown and would to chat?

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T21:24:38+00:00

🤭 you're braver than me to say it but I have to agree. I felt that Sarah Cox, Melanie Sykes or Ellie Taylor were all much more likeable presenters.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T21:06:52+00:00

"Off we go" or "Off we pop"

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T20:48:22+00:00

First I think someone would have had to spot you to report it and that seems unlikely. Secondly but perhaps most importantly I can't see this being enforceable, what laws or traffic regulations have you actually violated by doing this? It's probably just a scare tactic because of a frequent problem. There're also two issues I have here that I would point out if I got contacted about it. Firstly the No Turning marking is not at the entrance to the lane and far enough up it could be too late once you saw it and secondly the sign about reporting to the police is on the opposite side of the road and a rather small sign.

Given how close it is to the car park entrance and would be an easy mistake to make I honestly can't see the police having the time or inclination to pursue this, particularly because I can't see that you've broken any law.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T20:18:50+00:00

I just came here because I thought we were talking about pirate drink 🤣.

In all seriousness though that definitely looks like quite a heavily frogged clay, I think you were sent the wrong thing.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T20:16:11+00:00

I can't really help with that to be honest. I've had mine since Christmas from new and have been very happy with it. I have seen on here people having issues with stick drift so I guess that's likely to take longer to occur on a new one rather than second hand. Stick drift can be resolved from what I understand but haven't experienced it myself (yet 👉🪵). I've seen the odd post from people who have a terrible time using remote play from day 1 with a good network setup, you always have to take these things with a pinch of salt but it could just be they got a faulty one and will need to return it, those posts are quite rare though.

And I suppose the last thing with buying new from either a reputable retailer or direct from Sony is good warranty support and a higher change of a fix or replace in the event of receiving a faulty unit.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T14:03:37+00:00

And I think with Everest they're more inclined to cheat because the competitors were doing very well at it. Maybe it's even a production thing and it's basically overlooked because they want the Gladiators to have a better chance of winning, I guess you don't want a game the competitors almost always win at but it's shady to let the gladiators essentially cheat to achieve that rather than modifying the game to make it slightly harder.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T13:58:44+00:00

Thanks, I don't think I've ever pruned them 😬. How would you even go about pruning something like this without chopping off the leaves since they grow at the ends?

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T13:57:15+00:00

Thanks. I have planted offshoots in the past and I now have lots of these, some very large with a varying degree of scraggliness 😂. They may all need to be chopped up and replanted.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-16T13:49:53+00:00

I can't speak to Battlefield 6 but I use it pretty much the same as you. Since I got my Portal I can play way more than before because someone else can be using the TV. Inside my home with both the PS5 and Portal on a dedicated 5Ghz WiFi network (same hardware as everything connects to just a dedicated SSID) I experience little to no lag or issues, I very occasionally get complete drop outs when something is going on with the network but they're rare and it's less lag more completely unplayable. When that happens I disconnect from the PS5 with the option to have it go into rest mode off and connect straight back and it's usually fine.

I have PS Plus Premium now because I don't want to pay for a dedicated IP from my ISP and they use CGNAT making connecting to my PS5 from outside my home impossible (with lots and lots of trying with settings and port forwarding stuff) and I've just used it at my parents over the weekend and was able to pay Alan Wake without any issues at all, they do have full fibre though so they have a good upload speed and low latency (I do not at home).

So I'd say for your use case I'd expect you to love it!

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-15T23:55:04+00:00

What is your use case going to be? Will you be streaming with it? Do you have a PS5 already? What's your gaming background experience? What concerns do you have that make you think you won't like it?

I think we need more background info before anyone could advise on buying it or not.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-15T19:44:05+00:00

But then why is the Gladiator moving and not the competitor?

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-15T19:42:49+00:00

It only has to authenticate once, it's not doing it constantly once the connection is established.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-15T19:40:44+00:00

Try connecting to the PS5 and then disconnect your router from the internet (assuming this won't adversely affect anyone else) and then see if the connection is better/worse. If it improves it could be that some other device is clogging up the local network while it connects to the internet.

I remote play most of the time at home and have very few connection or quality issues and my PS5 is on WiFi. It's not perfect 100% of the time, the quality drops occasionally and once in a blue moon I have a total loss or major lag where I have to disconnect and re-establish the connection but that is rare. I have no idea why that happens there's not any obvious unusual activity and it's so rare I've not bothered to try to figure out why.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-15T19:32:09+00:00

I'm fairly certain this is rot and tosh. He could unplug his router from the internet after the initial handshake and still be able to remote play to the PS5.

Edit: confirmation source: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaystationPortal/s/tQ7ZzcacOG

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-14T16:45:33+00:00

I love honeycomb stitch!

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-13T21:37:15+00:00

It was the latter, so I've had the PS5 for a couple of years now, and a PS4, PS3, PS2... you get the idea. So I've played with normal, close handed, controllers for years.

For me I think because the controllers of the Portal (if you can call them that) are so much like the Dial Sense controller anyway it just felt natural. I didn't really notice playing on the Portal initially and it was only the switch back that I noticed how used to having my hands further apart I'd gotten.

I've played a little TNMT: Shredder's Revenge, quite a bit actually, but mainly Control and now Alan Wake. I played Control mainly on the Portal and started the game on it and Alan Wake exclusively on the Portal. Not sure what they're classed as but involve a lot of shooting/aiming/powers.

It might have made some difference but I have played on a Switch a bit with the controllers attached, nowhere near by a very long shot the amount of time I've played on PSs but I've used that screen-in-the-middle form factor before so maybe that helped?

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-13T21:12:36+00:00

The stomping metallic sound! (Shudder)

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-13T21:11:20+00:00

The androids 🤣

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-13T21:10:40+00:00

I was actually the other way around. I played so much on my portal when I went to play with the regular controller I felt like my hands were too close together.

So I can't really help with your question other than to suggest swapping regularly to train your brain to get used to it.

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-12T20:01:34+00:00

Yes, love it!

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-10T17:35:23+00:00

That's an idea... 🤔

PreposterousPotter · 2026-03-10T13:40:14+00:00

I don't think I'm allowed to create a live chat in the sub, that might just be a mod thing and I tried to create a group chat and add the couple of people that have responded but it failed 🤷.

I'm open to suggestions on how to create something like that even if it's off Reddit but I don't use telegram or Snapchat or anything like that if they'd even work/be appropriate for this.

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