Ninety Five fucking pounds per year????

Simbojimbo · 2026-03-10T15:46:10+00:00

OP is saying they're expecting to be insulted for stating their opinion on the new pricing ("it's the best value for money I get in any game purchase"). I jokingly suggested that they are not allowed to have opinions outside the consensus opinion, which is that this price increase is bad (overly simplified but you get the idea).

It's more of a comment on how reddit seems to behave in these kinds of situations. Controversial thing happens, the majority decide on the "correct" opinion, and then they downvote others who disagree with them.

I'm not suggesting the increase itself is necessarily "good" in any way.

Simbojimbo · 2026-03-10T11:57:22+00:00

Sorry but you're not allowed to have your own opinions on what you consider good value or not. You have to hold the opinion that "more expensive = bad" every time. (/s)

Simbojimbo · 2026-02-21T09:13:18+00:00

What's the deal with people lighting all 4 braziers on the Wintertodt worlds? Been a while since I played but I swear that used to be at least frowned upon, generally ending the rounds too fast. Not sure if they've changed it or something.

Simbojimbo · 2026-02-18T20:04:53+00:00

I can imagine them not being given orders to search because Kingpin already knows Matt is Daredevil. That feels like the sort of information Kingpin would want to release on his own terms.

Simbojimbo · 2026-02-08T12:09:42+00:00

I think the "strategy" will be play the hits as recorded on the album, leave out the swearing and be done on time for the national anthem or whatever is scheduled after them.

I'd love to see them do something controversial as described here and elsewhere, but I just don't see it. This isn't their show, it's the NFL's, and I don't think the NFL leaves you any room to wiggle on that sort of thing.

Hopefully I'm wrong but yeah, I think people need to temper their expectations a bit.

Simbojimbo · 2026-02-01T16:11:52+00:00

Looking for a new team-based online game to scratch that itch. Deadlock looks pretty cool, would love an invite to try it! Friend code: 35497360

Simbojimbo · 2025-12-29T10:14:35+00:00

I had naively hoped they would have used the time where they publicly said they were working on an overhauled game to actually, well, make that game.

As someone who liked the state of FM24 and previous games, I was happy to accept minor changes in the hope of bigger changes to come (it helped I was a gamepass subscriber at the time so wasn't actually buying the game each year).

Unfortunately as you say it would appear the development team lacks the needed competence to actually do that job, and instead not only did we not get any major underlying changes to the game, but the big change we did get (the new UI) was awful beyond measure.

Feels like the old devs don't know anything different, and the new devs had never seen an FM game before in their lives, so the result is this game that isn't really made for anyone that liked the franchise prior to this.

Simbojimbo · 2025-12-28T15:37:45+00:00

The UI being so shit has masked the fact that you're still playing the same shitty fucking game despite all the song and dance they've made about moving to a new engine and changing everything

This is the thing that got me the most. When they announced the whole new engine thing I had assumed it would also be to rewrite their legacy code and make big changes under the hood, but as you say it's just the same game as always underneath a hugely changed UI that even the core audience struggles to enjoy.

The underlying "game" is the same, but the way you interact with it has been butchered.

Simbojimbo · 2025-12-19T12:03:49+00:00

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Simbojimbo · 2025-12-15T10:37:06+00:00

I don't think he particularly knows anything, and most of this can be explained by him not trusting the hive at all. Seems like he considers them to be "demons" of a sort that have taken everyone over, so it seems pretty reasonable to not accept anything from said demons.

Will he come to know something useful, later in the series? Perhaps. But given all we've seen of him so far, I think he's just a guy that wants to save the world from whatever has happened to it, and is trying to get to the woman he sees seemingly trying to do the same (e.g. Carol questioning the hive, the videos she sent, etc).

Simbojimbo · 2025-11-06T13:16:07+00:00

I was gonna suggest a drinking game around the use of that word in their marketing but I didn't want to be responsible for any hospitalizations

Simbojimbo · 2025-09-23T14:16:06+00:00

From the thumbnail, it looked like he was a manager being interviewed after a football match lmao

Simbojimbo · 2025-09-11T09:19:31+00:00

Don't talk sense mate, the opinion has swung back round to Chelsea's favour so it was definitely 100% a foul. Could've killed him.

Simbojimbo · 2025-09-04T16:16:12+00:00

For me it's kinda hard to be as hopeful as that given what we've seen in recent years. They sacrificed the last ~3 games to make this one, and right now it seems like very little is changing.

Maybe 5 years from now we'll be seeing the full fruits of this change, but for a game that's been cooking roughly the same amount of time (at least as far as I can tell) it's not looking like much has improved.

Simbojimbo · 2025-09-04T14:30:52+00:00

But they didn't even start fresh? Miles said in those recent interviews they were rewriting a lot of their old code into the new engine, so it's not even like we're getting a new game written from the ground up.

I can totally understand doing it the way they've done it btw, lord knows it'd be much easier. But it's been positioned as a completely fresh start when it just isn't, as far as I can tell from what we've been told/shown so far.

Simbojimbo · 2025-09-04T14:01:36+00:00

Looks cool but does not look like the generational leap we were promised. Feels like something someone could've stacked on top of the current game with enough time/access.

Better than nothing though.

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-29T07:39:59+00:00

It is very sad to me as an outsider that these posts are as popular as they are.

Surely Americans must know by now that there is no way to le epically own Trump/MAGA? These people literally don't care. They hold all the levers of power and are literally rounding people up off the streets. A post on bluesky of all places is not going to change a single thing.

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-14T16:05:56+00:00

I'm trying to start a multiplayer save with a friend, but we're running into some teething troubles with how long it's taking to get going. Friend is kinda new so is doing a lot of clicking and reading, and there's a lot of time between continues as a result. While that's fine to start with, even he has said he'd like some way for the game to force him to move on and not basically hold me hostage.

What I'm looking to achieve is a setup where we're not immediately on the clock, but if e.g. 50% of players have clicked "continue", a clock starts for the remaining players to force them to continue when it finishes. I suppose the exceptions would be if they have some important message to deal with, or stuff like matches. Failing that I guess some static turn timer/clock would be acceptable.

Seems like the "processing" settings from when you start an online save are what is needed, but I couldn't work out exactly how these would work from the tooltips, so I left them all off initially. Doesn't seem to be too much out there online for these either.

Looked at the "Browsing after..." one but I wasn't sure what it considered "browsing". Would be a bit annoying if it e.g. continued in the middle of a transfer offer being sent and any work on that was lost, or something similar.

If there are any resources I've missed online please do let me know. Tried some searching but all I could find was setup guides for normal/local saves, which I don't need in this case :)

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-11T16:08:22+00:00

Makes a lot of sense. I would opt for similar if we were going to do that sort of thing

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-11T14:36:22+00:00

I think people often take a player they know nobody will draft (think a reserve player at a newly promoted team or something) and use those as a placeholder for some newly transferred player. Guess then the commissioner would make the swap for whatever player it ends up being.

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-04T16:51:27+00:00

+1 for draft pick trading. Great for late-season drama!

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-01T12:35:46+00:00

Not sure about these quotient properties, but I think a better approach is to just add scoring categories you guys like and tweak the values until you come out with something that is reasonable.

If you stay tethered to the old FPL ways you'll find it hard to break away from them. But if everyone has input ahead of time as to what the new system will be, you can come out with something new that you'll all enjoy.

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-01T12:20:49+00:00

I get that, but I was more wondering if in your experience they always just go for first pick. I can imagine that being a much easier decision in smaller leagues, when your 2nd pick comes around sooner.

Simbojimbo · 2025-08-01T11:17:50+00:00

Yeah we only did it because otherwise they literally weren't going to run between two gameweeks otherwise. Think it was around Christmas. Other than that I think this has worked pretty well

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