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GDC has been VR central this year with the Rift launching shortly, details confirmed on PlayStation VR and a few weeks back Vive also having details sorted. Exceptionally few titles shown, to me anyway, look like anything beyond tech demos, and often bad ones. I think VR is going to have a very bumpy first year, with only PlayStation offering anywhere near affordable and accessible, and no killer app in sight...

He won't be sacked, but I still see him walking in the off season. He (completely correctly, IMO) is going to want support to rip this squad apart and bin the vast majority of it, and there is next to no chance of that happening. There will be squad upheaval this summer as rats leave the sinking ship but the kind of backing Garde will want is not going to happen.

Daredevil has a cracking opening couple of episodes to series 2 and yep, Frank Castle steals the show instantly. John Bernthal was always going to be a cracking bit of casting, and he really shows it. On the basis of these 2 episodes, he's walked straight off the page. It still suffers with the same problems of series 1, there's some absolutely clunking dialogue still and the performances are uneven (Foggy is much improved thankfully though!), with a few too many caricatures in the supporting cast, but otherwise we're back to great dark action series it seems.

Hmm. Rockstar traditionally don't do much/anything at E3. And why would a tipster go to a website I've never heard of to offer scoop? There's so many better known places to take it, although they may also treat it with short shrift without any corroboration. There is some work going on with RDR, Microsoft had the original running on the Xbox One recently which accidentally got revealed. I hope it's right (and increasingly I think RDR might Rockstar's next title) but I think this might be more guesswork than anything confirmed. But I'd delighted to be wrong.

Jackman is on to do a third solo Wolverine movie (allegedly and appropriately inspired by the Old Man Logan storyline) and then he's done apparently. He'll be a difficult act to follow, for sure. Funny really as he actually looks nothing like the character should do. He's far too tall for a start. But he's made the character his own and basically become the de facto main character in what should be an ensemble in every film.

They've been very quiet about it. Rumour was he is in it, in a smaller role, and possibly in a more traditional costume (if that's true, he will wear it for 15 seconds, max). I think Singer is aware the films to date have been a bit Wolverine and friends so they've scaled him back, and he doesn't fit as well with this films focus on the new generation (Cyclops etc) as teenagers. Be very surprised if he's not in it at all though.

You may be well right, the details I've read up on it are quite confused. Not a shocker with this government.

Hmm.

Verdun is probably the biggest WW1 FPS. That's a different thing to a Battlefield title though, more methodically paced and I seen to remember pretty brutal in its difficulty.

It's free money when you're 60. And only free money upto the amount you've put in till your 50. And if you need that money before you're 60 your charged 5% and lose the bonus and ask interest related to the bonus free money.

The lifetime ISA isn't quite as great once you delve into it. The bonus 25% is only paid up to the age of 50, and if you take money out you lose the 25% bonus, and any interest relevant to that bonus, and get charged 5%. They appear to be pushing it as a pension top up or mortgage part off fund, but I'm fairly sure there's better investments out there if you could afford to make the most of this. Which a lot of people won't.

In fairness any flat rate tax increase will effectively attack the poor more harshly than the more affluent. So the sugar tax is an attack on the poor. It's unlikely to be as bad as VAT is but still.

Some disabled people don't need a bike. They've already got wheeled transport. No excuse to not get out there and pull their weight.

It's all alright. Osborne is going to find a naturally occurring source of cancer cures under Westminster in 2019 and UK PLC will turn a profit in 12 months.

Given Osborne seems to think we can go from borrowing £40bn in 2018 to having a £10bn surplus in 2020 he might need every penny. I don't think he genuinely understands what he's saying. Or he's got a helluva rabbit up his sleeve.

In fairness, a Labour PM could have announced an abolishment of tax, replacement of the Bible with Hayek's Constitution of Liberty in churches and schools the country over, closed the borders to all immigration and announced that benefits and tax relief would only provided to people agreeing to provide services to millionaires and Cameron and Osborne and the massed Tory horde would have crucified them for it.

IPT up again. It went up 3.5% in November...

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There's no Kingpin this time round I understand. The villain appears to be the Punisher to an extent, and the Hand. I'll be astounded if by the end of the series Daredevil and the Punisher haven't ended to working together, even of only briefly. He won't be in Civil War. The story really doesn't have much to do with the comic, beyond basic inspiration and themes. I think the best bet for the Netflix team to appear in the movies is the Infinity War films. If that happens I don't think they'll recast unless they're forced to, the Netflix series are heavily invested in the MCU and came out of it, unlike DC/WB Anywho, final Daredevil S2 trailer

They're making a fifth Indiana Jones movie. ...sigh.

It does kinda fit from O'Neill onwards funnily enough...

Black and white. We had a meatheaded showy manager, them we flip to the more stoic manager, then the clamour is for the meathead again. Couple that to Leicester being successful this season (ignoring that they were shit for the vast majority of last season and he spent most of the season barely clinging to anything close to behaviour befitting a grown man let alone a public figure) and bingo, Pearson is the obvious choice. Awful man.

I have one of those tumbledriers that spontaneously bursts into flames that was in the news a couple of months back. I filled out the thing saying come stop it burning the house down about a month ago and they've finally come back to me today. They can fix it in December.

If that's all you've taken from what I've said today I don't know what else I can say. You have your standpoint. That's fine. And can we pack this shit implying the only reason anyone likes Garde is because of how he presents himself in please? Nobody supports him just because of the way he acts, and I'm sick to the back teeth of seeing it being slyly (and not so slyly) suggested.