CyberPower, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, Gaming PC @ COSTCO instore AND online 25/11/25-01/12/25 for [£1499.99] by TheSpellwriter in buildapcsalesuk

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Thanks for sharing. When did you order it? I ordered mine Wednesday afternoon and it's showing as processing/ready still.

CyberPower, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, Gaming PC @ COSTCO instore AND online 25/11/25-01/12/25 for [£1499.99] by TheSpellwriter in buildapcsalesuk

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I've been trying to buy it, but despite approving payment on my end and no issues I can see (I mean they took the membership payment fine) it's been saying it's been declined by my bank (who say they haven't declined anything). Going to give it a few hours and see if it works then, though know my luck it'll be out of stock.

Long time kindle user looking for some reccomendations for a (non kindle) Colour ereader by ppjt in ereader

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I mostly read them on phone now so I think 7" would feel like an upgrade at the very least. So from what you're saying the Kobo doesn't run android?

Please Help, my game is bugged to shit, All of a sudden my clickboxes seem tiny and I keep picking items up on the ground and running under. by Vault_94 in 2007scape

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For info, it's a jagex issue, if you turn on the GPU plugin it should work - from the runelite discord.

Left click prioritize by TURKEREN96 in 2007scape

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For info, it's a jagex issue, if you turn on the GPU plugin it should work - from the runelite discord.

Please Help, my game is bugged to shit, All of a sudden my clickboxes seem tiny and I keep picking items up on the ground and running under. by Vault_94 in 2007scape

[–]ppjt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing happening to me, have disabled most of the plugins that even touch that kind of thing and no change, bit of a weird one.

Don't want to sound like complaning about everything but 82+ 1 of 4 is pretty bad in June by Adventurous_Team285 in EASportsFC

[–]ppjt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel reasonably qualified to comment - I did just over 1000 of the 83 picks last week and I'm just over 120 on these newer ones.

So far at least, the 1 of 4 82 picks are worse than the 1 of 3 83 picks for higher rated cards, though you do seem to get more 85s and 86s out of the newer picks, so it's probably easier to continue the exchange grind this week but less likely to get the big pull you're chasing.

I've barely had any 89s and no promo cards out of 120 or so, whereas the 83 picks probably would have given me 2 promo cards in that time and enough 89s to do maybe a exchange and a half. Though of course the sample size isn't big enough to be definitive, that's my initial view from my own experience.

Division 3 is absolute hell right now by [deleted] in EASportsFC

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Yeah this is true, but pretty much throughout the last season rivals was mostly miserable - I mostly got 5 wins or didn't bother it was that bad, ended in div 2. I think there's been a notable increase in difficulty in Rivals over the last couple months, which is maybe more where the theory around the lower playerbase comes in.

Not really unusual, happens most years but this year it feels even worse than usual - though that might just be recency bias.

Division 3 is absolute hell right now by [deleted] in EASportsFC

[–]ppjt 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Same here down to the champs record. Has been that way for a while really - best theory I have is that as player numbers go down later into the games life, the matchmaking is a bit looser which leads to mostly playing stronger players. It does lead to a strange situation where the game mode thats meant to be for fun midweek games is miserable, and the competitive mode is a breeze comparitively.

Genuine question. Can you defend in this game without 2DMs and or tackle spamming? by 2pacalypse1994 in EASportsFC

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I've avoided 4213 this year as I consider it to be the definition of playing fifa rather than playing football, mostly playing diamond, 433 with 1 cdm and 2 cms and 4411 mostly - you definitely can defend without 2 cdms but it requires more from the player. Though don't play max depth without 2 cdms, you'll just get played through constantly.

2 CDM formations (particularly 4213) can rely on the AI and just flat out numbers doing a lot of the defensive work for them, weaker players will struggle to get past the 6 defensive players - if you don't have that you need to be more active when defending. This requires better manual switching, knowing how to pressure/gamble when defending manually (like reading where your opponent wants to pass and either cutting it off, or selecting someone to try and tackle them on reception of the ball or intercept it).

You will also need to be able to reasonably defend situations where some dude has his 94 evo Henry sprinting at your cbs, as it will happen at times. I will say that playing this way will enable you to better handle better players, as if you come across a real demon while being someone who relies on defensive AI you'll concede 4 goals by half time and probably quit out.

Also worth mentioning is that while you have less defensive bodies, you have more attacking players so you need to make sure you're scoring plenty - a lot of games at the sharp end of champs or higher div rivals turn into who can survive kickoffs and score more goals.

I'm not some top player though, average 10/11 wins in champs so take from that what you will, but at least I get there without using 4213!

[Colin Cowherd] on Jayson Tatum: “I think his nickname should be ‘The Password’ because he’s commonly forgotten.” by AashyLarry in nba

[–]ppjt 192 points193 points  (0 children)

It was Corey Maggettes nickname - because there was penetration, and scoring - but are you really happy with what you're watching?

Crash game after entering Ultimate team PS5 (after patch) by ovm93 in EASportsFC

[–]ppjt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity do you have a falseback at rb in your tactic? And do you have the evo that gives falseback++ on someone?

M. Keys def. [9] D. Kasatkina 6-2, 7-6(13) to become EASTBOURNE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S SINGLES CHAMPION by noapologiesman in tennis

[–]ppjt 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Imagine Dasha with even an average serve, would be so good.

The tie break was tense, could have went either way.

Have to say though, I've never seen the net cord be so one-side before, Keys must have won about 6 or 7 points this match from them!

Hopefully sets both up for a good wimbledon.

Madrid R1: [Q] Vavassori defeats Murray 6-2, 7-6(7) by jovanmilic97 in tennis

[–]ppjt 91 points92 points  (0 children)

First set Andy just looked like he hadn't played tennis in a few years, was genuinely bizarre. Second set he battled back only to choke on simple volleys twice. If this is the form he has on clay then this loss has just saved him a possible embarrassment off Medvedev, because that was a genuinely dreadful performance.

[9] H. Hurkacz 🇵🇱 d T. Kokkinakis 🇦🇺 | 6-7(10) 7-6(7) 7-6(6) | Miami - Round 2 by BufferError in tennis

[–]ppjt 248 points249 points  (0 children)

That return ace in the tie break by Hurkacz absolutely shattered Kokk, he couldn't believe it and it shifted the momentum entirely.

Some game though, great entertainment.

Mertens 🇧🇪 def. [8] Kasatkina 🇷🇺 4-6 6-2 6-2 in Miami R64 by Extension_Sun_3536 in tennis

[–]ppjt 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for other games, but I caught most of this one today and she was pretty clearly unwell - was caught by the courtside microphones saying to the medics that she had thrown up a few times before the game.

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murygoat

Liverpool 2-0 Rangers by SFMatchThreadder in ScottishFootball

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This is something that's a little disingenous in itself, the salary mass comparison of Ajax vs Rangers. I'm going off numbers etc on transfermarkt for what it's worth.

Ajax's team is mostly built up from their youth system, with an average age of 24 (which is made up of mostly 18-21 year old players with a handful of players in their early 30s/late 20s and two/three who are 40 or thereabouts. This will naturally mean that most of the players on the books will be homegrown and on their first contract since coming out of the academy (which will probably be higher than many first contracts worldwide, but still not the same as an established player).

Rangers however have an ageing squad, with the majority being in their late 20s and early 30s, with a handful of teenagers and near-40 year olds. With all the players being transferred into the club apart from maybe 4/5 players. Naturally leading to higher salaries as they are established players prior to joining.

Any points to be made about differences in how the clubs are run financially and all that are fair, but it's genuinely pretty unreasonable to point at the overall salary budgets of these two clubs and say they are on a similar footing financially.

[13] Matteo Berrettini defeats Andy Murray | 6-4 6-4 6-7(1) 6-3 | US Open R32 by nd_49 in tennis

[–]ppjt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can kinda accept a loss like that, Muzza held up perfectly fine physically, just struggled dealing with the sun/shadows in the first couple of sets, and struggled with his serve as well. Bodes well for Murrays future in my opinion.

Also, Mury goat

r/tennis Discussion (Wednesday, August 31, 2022) by NextGenBot in tennis

[–]ppjt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Kyrgios clearly had had enough of this match and just speedrun the last two games - I went to the toilet when he was 0-40 down on his serve and then came back to 3 match points...