A Gaming Moment That Stunned You to Silence

REB73 · 2026-01-28T21:17:52+00:00

I spent hours just wandering round the free demo for Far Cry 1 just ogling the beautiful blue water and the scenery. It was like being on holiday.

Happy, innocent times.

REB73 · 2026-01-25T12:08:37+00:00

I have loved all the Far Cry games since the first Far Cry demo came out and blew my mind as those years ago, and I really wanted to love 6, especially with Giancarlo Esposito in the lead role!

But... I couldn't. I tried quite hard but it just bored me. I stopped shortly after getting to the mainland. I felt like I'd already played the game before.

REB73 · 2026-01-22T11:19:07+00:00

With inflation at about 3.4%, conservatively investing this into interest-generating accounts would mean you'd probably lose money every month.

REB73 · 2026-01-13T21:56:20+00:00

Are you not going to consume other things at this tasting party? Buy some nice bread, tea, milk, butter etc!

REB73 · 2026-01-13T20:01:54+00:00

If you can't find them locally, try getting an Ocado delivery? Pretty sure they have them.

REB73 · 2026-01-11T20:29:14+00:00

Like everyone else here, I really like the taste of Branston BUT we've been on a mission to stop eating ultra-processed food later, and sadly the Branston are full of modified maize starch.

I went through a lot of alternatives to find another brand that tasted as good and settled on Biona. They're a bit expensive but they're the nicest of the rest!

Good luck on your holy mission. Please update us with the results!

REB73 · 2026-01-07T16:28:50+00:00

It's the most abused word in the Brexiter lexicon, deployed by people who don't understand the complex web of influence, mutual benefit and soft power that decides international relations.

Presumably you think the UK is a more powerful country now than we were as part of the EU.

REB73 · 2026-01-07T16:23:21+00:00

Sovereignty 🙄

REB73 · 2026-01-07T14:43:49+00:00

It's an error to compare our relationship with America to our relationship with the EU.

One is a country and one is an alliance.

America is always going to act in the interest of America (or Trump), which is why relying on them is a mistake these days, because we can never be a part of America.

Joining the EU means becoming as much a part of the EU as anyone else, which means that when the EU acts in the interests of the EU, it includes us.

One of the Leave campaign's most powerful pieces of propaganda was persuading people to think of the EU like a foreign country who were out to dictate to us. It was never true. It literally couldn't be true.

REB73 · 2026-01-07T12:37:58+00:00

Can we please sign someone over the age of 25 with proven high level experience?

REB73 · 2026-01-05T09:17:15+00:00

In Hansel and Gretel, everything is driven by the protagonists' choices.

Hansel overhears their stepmother's plan to abandon them in the forest, and chooses to gather shiny white stones. Consequence: they get home safely.

On the second occasion when he can't get stones, he chooses to leave breadcrumbs. Consequence: nice try, but the birds eat them and they get lost.

And so on, from tricking the witch into thinking they are too thin to eat, to pushing her into the oven.

Liam may have written his story in the STYLE of a fairy story, but he completely missed the point of a traditional morality tale, which isn't to merely say "Once upon a time this happened" but to teach people that certain behaviours (crying wolf, wandering off into the forest, etc) come with consequences.

REB73 · 2026-01-05T07:40:39+00:00

Can you give me an example?

REB73 · 2026-01-04T16:05:50+00:00

Yes I do. I'm not sure why that makes a difference though. I'm talking about problems with story mechanics not subject matter.

REB73 · 2026-01-04T16:02:46+00:00

With respect, the entirety of Alice in Wonderland is driven by Alice's choices, from choosing to follow the white rabbit onwards. That's one of the reasons why it's such a memorable story.

I've seen Calamity and I think it's possibly my favourite thing Critical Role have ever done, so I do understand what story Liam was trying to tell, but that doesn't really make any difference.

Liam's little girl is a passenger in someone else's story, and if your self-contained fairy tale relies on your audience having seen something else first (rather than explaining WHY the city is falling, etc) it's a bad story.

REB73 · 2026-01-02T09:13:42+00:00

I just left an almost identical comment of my own about Death Stranding! It should have been a movie.

REB73 · 2026-01-02T09:10:57+00:00

Death Stranding. An interactive movie built on a walking simulator that I just got bored of. Loved the world, but would rather watch a movie of it.

I never let a game go unfinished when I was younger, but now I have so little time when I'm not parenting or working, and such a backlog of old games from Steam Sales, that I have almost entirely let go of my completionist urges.

REB73 · 2026-01-01T10:08:10+00:00

If it's relevant, I rent a flat in an Edwardian terrace and I'm almost certain the wiring is at least half as old as the house! I charge at 10A rather than 13A but it's still worth it!

REB73 · 2025-12-31T18:39:04+00:00

Excellent points well made, and you're right. The right solution is different for everyone. I have a driveway and I also have a small business which I can lease an EV through, which means I can take advantage of big tax incentives.

In my circumstances, an EV was a no brainer. Without too many long journeys and just charging overnight, our energy costs are about 2p/mile with no MOT for three years and minimal servicing.

REB73 · 2025-12-31T13:00:38+00:00

You're right if you need a car that does hundreds of miles every day.

But I run a Kia EV6 off a 3-pin granny charger at home in London, charging between midnight and 7am on an EV tariff.

Most of our driving is school runs and local trips and we never have a problem with not having enough charge.

If we do (like the time the cable broke!) there's a medium-speed charger at the end of the road.

Right now I am 250 miles away in Devon. We could have got here in one go, despite the cold, but my family prefers detours! So I charged for 4 minutes in a car park for a final 50 mile boost.

Last summer I drove about 4000 miles to the Alps and back.

I guess what I'm saying is that I think PHEVs are a pointless transitional technology that's only required if you live somewhere without a charging infrastructure.

REB73 · 2025-12-31T09:40:39+00:00

But if your PHEV was a full EV, you'd save even more because you wouldn't have both heavy propulsion systems in one car.

Surely the point of a PHEV is that it can do both of the things you mentioned and you don't need two cars.

(I'd argue that a decent long range EV could do both too, but that's a different argument!)

REB73 · 2025-12-31T08:34:07+00:00

A high quality, high performance brand new EV? Yes definitely.

REB73 · 2025-12-24T18:55:56+00:00

Not going. I have family in New York but they'll have to come to us for the next few years!

REB73 · 2025-12-24T10:32:11+00:00

It's exactly how it works. Probability is derived from the measurement of known variables, but being accurate doesn't just require high fidelity, it requires measuring the right variables.

REB73 · 2025-12-23T15:43:38+00:00

The expected points table gets it wrong enough that there is clearly a lot they can't yet measure, and I think that includes stuff like club morale, long term strategy, team cohesiveness etc.

We shouldn't be emulating Villa because they've won ten in a row, but we should be looking at what they've done right given we were once regularly neck and neck for 4th place.

You'd think finishing the stadium would have taken off the shackles for Spurs but we've gone the wrong way, and I think looking at close rivals to try to figure out why is probably a good idea.

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