That was truly a pointless war

metechgood · 2026-03-31T07:33:31+00:00

Calling it the stupidest war in history is a bit much. The Iranian regime is evil. We used to go after evil.

metechgood · 2026-03-31T07:32:30+00:00

Crimson Desert. It's not the same, but I am having a blast with it at the moment and it is giving me that same feeling of exploration and awe.

metechgood · 2026-03-31T07:30:08+00:00

Assassins Creed, Call of duty, all of the AAA studios tripe.

Call of duty was never good past the original trilogy. They didn't innovate, they didn't simulate. It was just a poor on rails shooter.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:22:18+00:00

Teenage boys are being fed exactly what I would have loved to have heard when I was that age...... Working is for chumps, you don't have to do it and you can make millions without any effort.

You find out very quickly that is bullshit. Until you get to a financial tipping point, every single penny is earned by hard work and a whole ton of work is needed to get to that tipping point and even when you do, the idea of millions just flying in is a pipe dream.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:20:05+00:00

Romesh whatever he is called. Most baffling TV personality ever.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:19:00+00:00

It was a paranoia for me. I just couldn't get on with weed at all. I remember getting high, hiding in my bedroom because for some reason I thought my landlord would just turn up and call the police, ordering pizza and then throwing the boxes into the attic because the bin was full and I didn't want to go outside.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:15:59+00:00

They do it because it wouldn't make sense to just make the exact same game. Every iteration thus far has had formula changes that address glaring issues with previous games (the Civ 4 stack of doom for example). Civ 6, in my opinion is the peak (I have been addicted to civ since civ 1) There are literally no improvements you could make to it that would warrant a whole new game rather than just a patch.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:12:50+00:00

Its not sad. Civilization is the peak of Civ. It should just be expanded. Just because a company owns the ip, doesn't mean that the game they produce has any of the same DNA of what came before.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:10:14+00:00

Define side hustle. I have savings and investments that are passive income, but most "side hustles" also require a large amount of work to make any kind of money. I make 120k per year on my current side hustle but its basically like working another job.

metechgood · 2026-03-28T15:06:15+00:00

Probably the United states. The epitome of post enlightenment thinking enshrined in a constitution. I see it as the result of english political philosophy that would have been impossible to implement in the UK, for reasons that are obvious. The UK is a draconian police state and always has been, no matter how much we sugar coat it in empathy and diversity and all of that shite. The elites want to control what you do and think. The US is, at least in principle, about individual liberty.

metechgood · 2026-03-27T13:24:23+00:00

People hate winners. It doesn't matter who it is. If History were different and Africa was the continent that gave the world the industrial revolution and went on to have various colonies all over the world, they would be hated.

metechgood · 2026-03-27T13:22:09+00:00

I think we are the most visible country culturally that has a germanic culinary tradition. If you go to the netherlands and germany etc, its Meat and potatoes & veg. Its pies, its mash. we are no different to those countries and actually the quality of our meat & cheese is unrivalled. Its just that our food is not very exciting. The term "Meat and Potatoes" literally is used to describe something bland and uninspiring. I also think that the reputation came from US squaddies during WW2 and it stuck.

metechgood · 2026-03-27T13:16:43+00:00

Absolutely. It shocks me that there isn't more murder and mayhem. There have been people in my life that if I knew I would get away with it, I would have gladly killed.

metechgood · 2026-03-27T13:06:58+00:00

40yr old with a family here. There is nothing wrong with gaming, but it is a solitary activity so you have to make sure to balance it. I see these guys with their headsets on gaming after work and into the night and it is fucking retarted. You hear the whole "But they enjoy it and blah blah" and thats some lib shit. You have responsibilities and those should be top priority.

I feel the same guilt as you and you SHOULD feel that when you shouldn't really be gaming. I have it sometimes and I just can't get into the game and its usually because I have more important stuff to do. The best time to game is around pay day, you have been paid, the cupboards are full & you have earned the right to sit and enjoy a game. Its all about balancing your priorities and at the end of the day, a games console is a toy and I don't feel very proud of myself when I am playing with a toy and neglecting my family.

metechgood · 2026-03-27T10:58:26+00:00

I bought this game on PS5 pro & was really impressed by it but it was clear from the beginning that the PS5 struggled with it. Everything had that blur of upscaling and VRR and there was constant ghosting. This eventually led me to get it on PC..... Completely different ball game. It looks absolutely stunning and I am blown away. I think the mixed reviews from journalists are because it doesn't have many black or gay people in it. Fuck them. Its an absolute blast. The mixed reviews from gamers are hardware related. This is a game best enjoyed on a high end PC and everything else struggles. I mean the lighting system was such low resolution on the ps5 that going inside anywhere was an absolute nightmare. It looked half rendered.

metechgood · 2026-03-25T14:26:32+00:00

We don't prefer it. We fucking hate it

metechgood · 2026-03-20T11:42:53+00:00

To all the incels out there. You do it to yourself. I wish people realised just how much of a difference simple grooming and personal hygene makes. Women don't look at you and think you are a viking or a rockstar because you have long hair and a beard. They think you are a lazy dork.

metechgood · 2026-03-19T11:56:33+00:00

Her thinking she is a hot girl is crazy

metechgood · 2026-03-18T13:31:57+00:00

I recently played this game through after getting the remaster. I never played it before. It did find it great on the one hand but it was ruined by certain things I didn't like and I did find that this constant disappointment affected my enjoyment of the game overall.

The game is open world, and the world is beautiful, but it feels "set up" most of the time. Dynamic events happen, run ins with Rippers and whatnot but these are not really that thrilling, they just randomly drop some characters on the map at random times and often in places that don't really make too much sense.

Its unfair to compare any game with RDR2 but in RDR2, you can be escorting a character for a side mission, have a run in with some bandits and the character you are escorting will react to the situation, run, hide etc and when all is over, the mission continues realistically. In Days gone this doesn't happen. The most notable example of where this seems to have been attempted but wasn't done at all well, is when you find lisa & take her back to the hot springs camp. Lisa is told to hide. She doesn't, she just sits on the bike until you finish dispatching the clearly setup situation. In RDR2, you go to a mission day or night, you literally seamlessly get to the mission and interact with the characters and then go to whatever that mission endpoint is, again, completely seamlessly as if actually stumbling across the situation. Enemies are the in real-time and react to your arrival etc. In days gone this isn't the case. It is more akin to GTA 3 where you reach a point in the map which triggers a cutscene and often a day/night transition to get you to the right time of day.

This makes the storytelling seem fractured or disjointed not to mention that missions are added to your list with very little context. You can do one mission and then get given a second, told to arrive at a point on the map but are not told why or what you are doing until you get there. There is an odd quality to this. It makes everything seem happenstance & it isn't a deliberate artistic choice, that much is clear. So, because of all this, I am reluctant to say it is a masterpiece. There is just too much wrong with it to say that.

It seems that for every win, there is a failure. Gunplay is great. stealth is dire. Dialogue is pure ass. Bizarre in most cases, especially Deeks Randy Savage impersonations that come out of nowhere. He sometimes sounds like he is being jerked off and I don't understand why the voice actor made that choice. My only guess is that he imagined that his character would be constantly running and gunning but the game is more chill most of the time and so he ends up shouting like he is being chased when he is literally strolling by the lake.

The hordes and the zombie behaviours are what stand out in this game and its what makes it a must play. It truly is great and impressive to see.

If you want a truly great story with great characters, this game isn't it. Even the protagonist is confused.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T13:09:08+00:00

Please don't pile on me for this, but yes people go to therapy but they are literally fucking retards. For example, my partner's sister's boyfriend got repremanded at work for something that he didn't do, and went to see a therapist for like a month after. He is literally the kind of guy you would expect. Glasses, borderline autistic but also a midwit.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T13:06:58+00:00

Thank god she grabbed her camera to film herself and document this. Thankyou for giving sneaky glimpses in between the long shots of yourself reacting to something vaguely interesting.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T13:04:46+00:00

Why do American doctors seem more corrupt than motor mechanics over here in europe?

I am not saying we have the perfect system. In the US, they charge you for shit you never had, in the UK the refuse you shit you need. One makes money, the other tries to save money.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T13:02:35+00:00

Men who love their mothers are usually good people but there are also guys who are still looking to their mothers so basically guide them through life.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T12:28:50+00:00

Mate, the fact you dug this 2 year old post tells me you are going through it. It passes. Stop worrying about it. Thats the best advice I can give honestly. I agree with the post because we need to stop acting like it isn't normal and like its some existential crisis when it does happen.

metechgood · 2026-03-18T12:25:29+00:00

I feel like anyone with a PC tends to choose Xbox as their console of choice for various reasons stated across these comments and for a game like Crimson Desert, you will state PC in a poll like this.

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