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Seems it's going to be called Red Dead Retribution. Maybe.

Maybe.

Lego is comparatively expensive, although the licenced stuff (literally a licence to print money in some cases) most of that is the cost of the licence itself. Hence the Death Star is £400. It's a large and complicated set so a lot of the price is design and materials, but then the Star Wars licence is stupidly expensive. However, I do seem to remember reading recently that Lego was a better investment than gold. Popular sets that go out of print remain in demand and the price goes up. They released a version of the Millennium Falcon in 2008 I think that was about £300 at release, but now sells for over £2k. Even just the mini figures sell for daft money - people buy sets and part out the figures and can make money.

^that. The price is only an invitation to treat, it's entirely at the vendors discretion to sell to you at that price. I do seem to remember something about the product of it is mis-priced had to be removed from sale from a certain period of time. But yes, you can offer to pay that amount, but they can also (and almost certainly will) just cancel the order and apologise for the mistake.

...snigger.

In fairness the game is set the best part of 100 years before that gun existed. And 30 years before it's ancestor was first made.

This entire situation is a complete shitshow. And the details of the tactics used by the defence and the people around are horrible. Sexual history is exceptionally rarely used any facet of these cases, and I've no idea what relevance it has to this case all. Did she reveal whilst mid orgasm she held a long standing fantasy of fabricating a rape case against a footballer, which she just so happens to pull off perfectly while collapse in the kebab shop drunk? Evans partner is alleged to have offered money for witnesses to the defence case - and the judge allowed it. And the court of appeal were hesitant to allow the new testimony, which the prosecution contended were being fed evidence by Evans' family to support their story. This whole thing is decidedly grim whatever way you look at it.

Just rewatching the trailer, one thing that does stand out, that's a really good soundtrack. More orchestral than most trailer fodder these days, and better for it.

It's too limited for me. At the moment it acts as a weird mash up of 3d and motion controls, but were actual movement is an issue. Teleporting around an environment is shit, and games that give you full control via a controller seem to have particular problems with nausea. Unless you're in a cockpit of some sort. So far the only real successes appear to be things like Elite or driving games, or the very niche field of things replicating table tops. It's a technology that is very interesting but is miles away from anything more than novelty. It feels like a rung on the ladder to truly revolutionary things, but will ultimately be an offshoot on a time line in a making of article in a century.

That's an obscurely clever name there from Minter... PSVR out today, anyone pick it up? Giant Bomb have another stream on the go at the moment. The level of meh is astonishing. As is how shit a lot of these games look, both literally (even accounting for the weird output VR gives to other viewers) and figuratively. I'd stake decent money this is abandoned by Sony within 2 years. And that might be optimistic.

I saw a clip of her doing some striking routines a few months back and even as a complete novice of any martial art, her punching was dreadful there. She's never, ever going to be a good striker. She's an awesome judoka. But the womens UFC is starting to get better all round fighters and Ronda can't keep up with that. Throw her in with Cyborg and she'd leave very quickly and permanently less pretty.

It looks the part and there's set pieces that look interesting. I'm still concerned about the sheer amount of talk of production problems, and Felicity Jones really seems to be doing a poor job as the lead. Perhaps it'll work better in the final cut...

Star Citizen is not something I'd stake my hopes on. The delays, increasing monetisation, a more than a few stories would have me fairly wary. I'd be surprised if the game promised ever releases.

Food prices up, you can't buy Hellman's or Pot Noodles in Tesco, petrol's up already... I'm sure all the poor people that voted Leave voted to make the contents of their wallet go even less far than it already did.

It's going to be Bruce. And Derby were talking to McLaren for longer than 4 hours. It's just nobody knew/cared to say until this morning.

I don't think the aspirations are at odds with the immediate situation (notwithstanding that the aspirations are absurd). Right now we can want to be top 5 in the world all we want. There's a lot of shit to shovel first. Hiring Steve Bruce to drag a club through the Championship is so far removed from being a global force in the game that they aren't really an influence on each other, but represent steps on the same ladder. We haven't hired Steve Bruce to make us the new Manchester United. We've hired Steve Bruce to make sure, as far as possible, we can take the steps to make sure we can have a crack at being the new Manchester United. I don't think anyone at the club, Bruce included, is under any illusions otherwise. Bruce gets us up, hopefully. I daresay not this year. Maybe he gets a crack at stabilising us as a Prem side. But he's not going to be expected to chase titles seriously.

In fairness I'm a sucker for any big that involves the player character being launched hilariously into the air. It's nearly a selling point.

I'm not happy at being in the position to consider Bruce a good choice for manager. I'd hoped Bruce was never a name seen a reasonable choice for the Villa dugout. But right now, he's probably the best. Bruce isn't a great manager. But at Championship level he's got a record that isn't bettered by many, and he's done that with very unfashionable clubs generally. He hasn't taken over a Newcastle post relegation and romped home as expected. He's got Blues and Hull up, and he's bounced back from struggling seasons to get them back. At Prem level he's not as good, but he's still had successes with weaker sides for a while. Not that that matters to us at the moment. And he's seasoned as a manager. He's managed for over a decade and he's been there and seen that. He's not learning the ropes, he's dealt with players he's learnt to handle drama. We're not employing a rookie, like we did with Tim and arguably RDM and Garde. We need someone who can come in and start another day at the office. Someone who has dealt with a dressing room, got results, knows the game he wants to play. Bruce is that man. That's not to say he's perfect. I don't think he's the best in the transfer market, I don't think he's the most exciting manager, I dont think he's particularly flexible or clever, I don't think he's going to out think a smarter manager, etc etc. And that's also not to say that it wasn't possible for us to bring in a less proven name and have then achieve great things. But we don't need to gamble. We need the best shot at getting out of this hole as soon as possible, and we also clearly still have problems as a club that are quite fundamental. It's not a surprise that human nature favours an option that has succeeded before over options that might succeed but have no history of it. It doesn't excite me and I'm pissed off we're in the position that Bruce is the right man, even near a coup, but that's where we are. I hope he shows his worth.

I don't like crowbcat but this is just funny I don't mind some 'jank' and I don't think much of this is much more than poor quality control, but it is funny. I'll be picking this up at some point but I think it's a Christmas sales game for me. Same with Deus Ex, nailed on to be £25 in December.

I think you should read the rest of it. It's fairly closed minded to see a phrase you don't like and go 'No'. Especially as I don't think the 'little Englander' comment is anything more than a nickname for the speech. And also because I think it's a quite interesting viewpoint from someone at the upper echelons of power looking at the situation as a politician.

Given my experience of American draft beer, I'd probably suggest uncleaned lines might improve the flavour.

Newsnight seems to have stumbled on some discussions in Whitehall that they're mooting just paying for single market access, seemingly because they know it's going to torpedo the economy. I trust this will sit astoundingly well with the Brexit faithful.

A rise in reports I'd assume. I don't think that changes much. Brexit changed opinions and actions. Either the situation had encouraged the scum to rise, or there's a greater feeling of needing to report a problem these people had encountered before - vulnerability, awareness?. Likely a combination of both. Brexit is still the influence. Are Polish Neo-Nazis being unpleasant to tourists a big deal in Poland? Are they somewhat thematically linked to a major event in Poland at that time? Has there been a strong theme in Polish Neo-Nazi unpleasantness of a particular recent event, as dozens of British Asians reported being told 'we won now **** off home' (or are all these people lying?) pose referendum?.If not, I'm not sure there's an equivalence there much beyond the surface.

Every time I see this topic title I think it should be the header on a letter to a local newspaper and signed 'Outraged, of Abingdon' or something.