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Bit defensive. I'm just saying that Ed taking everyone to court is pretty unlikely for a variety of reasons!

Why would I not be defensive when accused of not understanding the situation? But I can understand if it’s something that effects you daily. I actually meant few people on either side bother, so many websites fail basic accessibility, and why do they not bother complying? Because of the reasons you mention, amongst others... as I said, it’s part of my job to rectify this.

I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm just balancing what you've said with some additional context from my own experience. I'm sorry it stung, you don't need to convince me of your a11y credentials :-)

Ed Scoble Himself Personally Now vs The Internet.

Sound like a horrible version of this;

Ed Scoble Himself Personally Now vs The Internet

You mean making everybody click on 'Mark All Read'? :)

Reckon we all have a very strong case for a class action lawsuit against Squabble for that one. No court in the land could fail to convict!

No court in the land could fail to convict!

He should get an MBE for that clever prank

I'm with the "hanging's too good fer that rascally varmint!" crowd

I recall I might have played a hand and nudged him towards how to do it.

You're fishing for a gong too :)

I just found a pm chat I had with someone else where I'd figured out how to embed the mark all read link in a blank image on a post/pm that would load it up without anyone clicking anything and no one would see it happen.

but I used my powers for good and I let VB know instead.

I just made a link and that’s it.

Then watch all the negative rep poured in.

I never fell for it, I found it hilarious.

I would see him knighted but skip the bit where the sword is lifted above the head when moved from shoulder to shoulder.

Half-Life is 20 years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/21/half-life-at-20-valve-shooter-sci-fi-horror

I still have my original CD. #wasd4lyf

I still have my original CD. #wasd4lyf

Me too and many mod discs. Remember the Western mod? Foreshadowing RDR.

Still is the most important and memorable game in my gaming life and holds up today, even without the Black Mesa project graphic upgrade. Played it again recently.

I am really enjoying Fallout 76, what different beside the obvious is that you having no voice mean you're not playing as someone else, you're playing as you.

Remember all the awesome side questes in the previous Fallout? the majority of them tend to be holotape-specific (and mainly unmarked such as the Vault 11 unmarked quest) .

I most especially welcome the weapon degradation, and needing water/food to survived, my only dislike is simply the lack of human NPC which kinda spoil it a bit, but then, it is only 25 years after the bomb fell.

Some nice little gags.

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I saw a eurogamer stream for it yesterday and it looked like total shit.

Drab and outdated engine
No combat ai
Bugs everywhere you look
Unsatisfying weapons (feel like pea shooters)
Confusing menus and systems
Broken or unclear quests
Tiny payouts from quests so microtransactions required to buy almost anything

The one element that was supposed to set it apart (other human players) seems to be something that no one is actually doing. There's so little incentive to interact in game that people are treating it as another single player game with randoms occasionally wandering past.

Just seems like a bunch of spare parts from the cutting room floor thrown together for some £. And on that point, they did mention that the only part that worked absolutely flawlessly everytime was the store...

Given FO4 was such a hot pile of shit, I'll be giving this a super large miss.

I read the eurogamer review at lunchtime and it sounded like total shit.

Yeah - it takes a lot for them to rate anything as 'avoid'

I'm aware of the review, being biased due to being a fanboy in all thing regarding Fallout, I still enjoyed it.

Maps is huge tho (you don't need microtransactions).

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You're absolutely entitled to enjoy it.

I won't be wasting my time personally, that's all.

Considering Ed's review I'm tempted.
Eurogamer can fuck off

The whole lack of NPCs thing seems like such a cop out. All the player's characters are out of the vaults, why would no NPC characters be hanging around too? It just seems rushed/a cash grab.

why would no NPC characters be hanging around too

To clarify, there's no human NPC, the only other I've seen are robots.

Ordered 3 switch games for £95 from German amazon today-

Wolfenstein 2
Bayonetta 2 (+ Bayonetta 1)
Civilization VI

Christmas gaming sorted!