As somebody who still wears shorts in -5C, that does sound pretty nice. Anything above about 27 can go fuck itself.

“You don’t know what’s in that shite” - Debbie, 52. Lifelong smoker.

I’m on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I’m got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢

He’s actually three zeros off.

It’s 0.0021%

I’ll go with the small red download button in the middle.

It could be the very bottom one, but it probably says advertisement under that and it’s just been cropped out.

But even the correct button is likely to launch you into a popup to try and get you to download a “downloader” of some description, as if that’s not literally the sole function of a fucking web browser, and then suddenly you’ve been taken to livejasmin.com or a sketchy gambling site targetted at Asians.

protections we put in place to secure players’ data

The player data that we are required to agree to share with 1643 trusted data partners in order to connect to your service? That player data?

Go fuck yourself, you ghouls.

It’s got Gareth Edwards on board at least. I’ll probably give it a watch at some point just for that. Plus action hero Chris Pratt is the worst Chris Pratt. I liked him better when he was fat.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone more out of their depth than Colin Trevorrow. A real shame that, because I actually enjoyed Safety Not Guaranteed.

According to Wikipedia, they started it in 2015 with Beasts of No Nation and stopped in 2018 with Roma.

Lots of others did it during covid though.

The last time I actually enjoyed a cinema was a tiny little place in Iceland that appeared to have two screens, a ticket stand and a snack stand, and had one old guy running between all of them like a novelty act. This is how a cinema should be, not some horrible 12 screen thing showing the same Marvel shite at 20 minute intervals.

We did see Die Hard 4 though, so it wasn’t all fun and games. Still it could have been worse. It could have been Die Hard 5…

Mate, this isn’t a new church roof.

Your fundraisers are going to want that money back and then some. Forever.

So do we. We just leave them in another country so we don’t have to think about them.

I’m honestly impressed that a left wing organisation lasted long enough to get themselves banned.

They usually split into a dozen warring factions within a month.

My strict diet of bread, cheese and highly processed red meat means I don’t need to worry about washing vegetables.

Checkmate, healthy eaters!

They could easily do so on a console or game streaming service, just give you like 2 hours and then switch it off.

I think Sony actually do that as part of one of the PSN tiers.

But I think the main driver behind no longer doing demos is that when they started analysing it, they found it mostly reduced sales. A lot of people were no longer interested enough to buy it after playing, at least not at full price. I gotta admit, back when demos were common on the front of magazines, there were very few that I actually purchased on the basis of the demo. The ones I did buy, I’d have probably got anyway, like Metal Gear Solid 2.

I think it was Netflix that went through a period of releasing movies in cinemas and putting it on streaming on day one.

It was such a resounding success that they no longer do that.

I guess MS has deep enough pockets to not realise their folly yet. PSN Premium/Extra isn’t as good value from a consumer point of view, but it also hasn’t killed their own console. What that cannibalises is the “wait for a sale” people, who would likely have paid £20 for a game a year or two down the line. I think that’s a more manageable than losing all the day one £65 sales.

It can’t be worse than those Chris Pratt ones, can it?

You can take it on with the basic pistols if you like. Plenty of spots to stand and shoot from safely.

Well she is British…

Twice, I’d imagine.

Oh look, new money was old money all along.

Guess even they are cashing out.

Doubtful, but if anything mine would be more accurate. Fewer calculation steps to lose precision on. I think most spreadsheet software fudges floating point precision anyway. A computer programmer may accept that 0.1+0.2 is not 0.3 but an accountant or mathematician would not be having it.

I think she was just shit at maths tbh. As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that’s not the case at all.