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Let’s leave the water temple out of this one. What is/was the hardest task you ever did in OoT? Was it collecting the tunics from the free side? Getting Epona? Or was it sneaking past the guards to meet Zelda? For me, it was the final part of the trading game to get the Big Goron sword. Getting from Lake Hylia to the top of Death Mountain was a pain. Even with Epona. In the 4 minutes given to do it, you have to exit the goofy lake guy’s house, jump on Epona, race across Hyrule field, run through Kakariko village, get to the vertical climb, take the time to kill the tektites on each ledge, make it to the Goron on top of the mountain and speak to him to finish it all. When you get to the top, he’ll use the eyedrops you brought him, and get set to work fixing the broken blade you brought him. While we’re talking about difficult tasks, has anyone ever actually beaten the shooting games, or followed Dampe through his grave in less than a minute? I’ve been playing this game since it dropped, but I’ve never been able to do it.

Forums used to be very popular until social media sites with its competition pushed it back so hard. A lot of people left forums and moved to different social media sites. New people never had the interest to give forums a try. When you started using forums, what made you interested in forums?

There was a time when players played the natural way without having to learn one or two. Nowadays, a lot of things have changed, and it makes me wonder why it is so. Do you think that having specialists such as penalty kick specialists, corner kick specialists, and others have made the game look more boring?

Source - https://twistedvoxel.com/valve-planning-steam-console-to-compete-with-playstation-xbox/ This would be pretty cool. I know they are making the Steam OS easily accessible to users, as you can now download Steam OS to other devices and may even use it on PC. So it would be very interesting if Valve decides to make their own console. They have the catalog of games already, and I'm sure they could make a console that matches what most consoles do today, if not better. Though this might not be 100% true. It's all alleged by an insider who also happens to be a content creator, who recently spoke about how another YouTuber spilled the details about there being a new console in the works. He believes it has something to do with Valve being heavily involved in the development of drivers for the AMD 9070 GPU, and it's alleged that will be in the console. Check the article above for more details on this news. What do you think though? Would you like Valve to come out with a console? I know we've had a SteamBox I think it was back in the day, which was kind of like a console/PC hybrid if I remember correctly. But I don't think they've outright made their own console aside from the SteamDeck.

You guys aren't getting relegated this season as Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton are all worse than you lot. That being said, next season, if you guys keep up the same form, you're definitely going to get relegated.

I would love to play this game at some point, as I am a big fan of the Alien franchise, but to be honest I've been too scared to play it. I started playing Avowed a couple of days ago when it came out on gamepass, and I really like it so far. The combat system feels very satisfying. So far I've been using a gun in one hand and sword in the other, I think I'm gonna go with a build like this going forward an spec towards ranger

Heal the world by Michael Jackson. It is one of those songs I can bet on my life to be a very good song for peace and unity to be in the world. I like this song and will keep playing it when I want.

I wear makeup when I go out, but if it’s a home day, I don’t bother. I see no reason to get all made up if I’m just going to be laying around the house in sweats.

Honestly, the latest lie I told was about being too busy to hang out with a friend when I actually needed some quiet time to recharge after a hectic week. It wasn’t meant to hurt anyone, just a little white lie to preserve my energy.

One thing my mother still does for me is cook my favorite home-cooked meal whenever I visit. It’s a small act of love that not only fills my stomach but also fills my heart with nostalgia and comfort.

You win some and lose some. This is how the game works. It's going to be very difficult for any team to replicate Arsenal's invincible season.

Sadly, it's not possible for fans to do such. There's no such powers for fans to pull anything like that off. Fans can only boycott their club's matches in frustration because they are not being listened to but I can't think of how they can do anything against FIFA or UEFA or any other sport's bodies.

Are you talking about Manchester United player Antony who's on loan playing for Real Betis? He's been absolutely exceptional since he moved to Spain.

Duran move to Saudi Arabia to play with C. Ronaldo seems to have favored him a lot. What do you all think?

I'd say around June we'll start hearing more stuff about the next Resident Evil game. I don't know about Silent Hill though...

The further I am away from civilization, the better. Nature is where I feel the most tranquil. It’s why I always took a month every summer to disappear into the woods and live entirely off the land. I wish like hell that I was still physically capable of doing it. It’s why we moved out to the country. My physical and mental health suffers severely in town. I can’t get far enough away from urban areas. The calmness and tranquility of a silent and still morning as the sun comes up, with the crispness of the air is so sacred out here. I couldn’t even enjoy that in town. I’ve always been a country girl. I lived in the country my whole life, and I just can’t survive in town.

It's been a racing-heavy weekend for me. I went to visit my parents and brought my Steam Deck. I mostly played Dirt 5 and Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, both really fun arcade racing games.

I want to knock the everliving shit out of this cunt. I hate people so invested in hate that they don’t care about anything but abusing people they have never even met. I bet my life that this worthless cunt has never even been in the same building as anyone who is transgender. I left her name uncapitalized because she doesn’t even deserve the slightest bit of respect. As someone who’s LGBTQ, this just fucking pisses me off.

Pavel Datsyuk, nicknamed “The Magician”, was going for a goal, and proved his nickname true. He jumped over an opponents stick, shot the puck behind himself, and scored. I’ve never in my life seen or heard of something even remotely resembling that happening. I don’t even remember how the rest of the game went because I was too in shock.

A Valve console would be a game-changer, literally! With their vast game library and innovative OS, it could be a formidable competitor to Xbox and PlayStation. I'm curious to see if this rumor pans out, but I'm excited at the prospect of a new console that blends PC and gaming capabilities.

Link’s Awakening already is on Switch. Its been out for several years. I was going to say Mario Land 2: The Six Golden Coins would be awesome to see released for Switch.

The best example I can think of of this, is Mike Meters in the Austin Powers movies. In the third one he played FOUR separate characters. Austin Powers, Dr Evil, Fat Bastard, and Goldmember. All characters in a single film, and all played by the same man. If that’s not versatility, I don’t know what is.

If rumors are to be believed Playstation has squandered over a BILLION DOLLARS on games the Playstation gaming community would have essentially viewed radioactive if released at any point in the last 7-8 years, but there's a lot more to this and the long history of failure with GAAS. There is no successful live services sector of gaming there’s a handful of successful games (and that’s being generous.) It’s been the case that the few successful service games are outnumbered by the unsuccessful ones by exponential factors since well before Sony sent itself careening into failure with it’s ill-advised live service agenda, hence the need for all their public defending of live-service…the cloak and dagger organizational “streamlining” and railroading of certain executives that most certainly would not have gone along with it. Consider a single minuscule VR case of a failed live service PSVR game almost fully funded by PlayStation, Megalith. The game looked good, it was polished butch had few levels, playable characters and enemies. Initially it attracted players, however before the end of it as I recall the rancor the few fans had for the openly greedy publishers/devs in their discord left every one bitter and eroded the user base to zero in like under a week from what I could tell. That was 5-6 years ago and a drop in the bucket. Disruptive games went on to build Godfall and relatively recently announce significant layoffs. One larger industry long term problem with these GAAS games as a a games initiative, not only is that once the franchise is built exclusively as a GAAS product that runs it’s course the publisher typically kills it and the game vanishes like it never existed, but also it will NEVER be able to come back, like Overwatch. Blizzard learned the hard way with Overwatch 2. Beyond that industry wide irreparable and ultimately fatal reputational harm to ANY FRANCHISE THAT REMOTELY LOOKS OR PLAYS LIKE IT is also doomed because of the player perception of GAAS as predatory. Sony’s wasted $300M-$400M on Concord plus other recently canceled GAAS attest to that. Consider that the Overwatch Beta, a product that wasn’t yet made available to the public won GOTY in 2016…9 years ago. Uncharted 4 was also a nominee. Overwatch is a worthless franchise and Activision will never be able rejuvenate, they will never be able to build spin-offs from it, Overwatch will never be a trans media product. All of these things that will never happen with Overwatch will and are happening with Uncharted and it will continue to generate hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in revenue for Sony going far into the future. This franchise erosion aspect of GAAS is a problem for which there will likely be many business case studies made in the future around the question of whether the short term success of the one in a million GAAS game success is worth any investment to any party involved.

Surprisingly, I'm an avid bird watcher. People don’t usually see that coming given my tech-savvy nature. The reactions are generally a mix of surprise and interest in the serene and observational aspects of bird watching.

It gives a better trial and error setup than building one and hoping all goes well. We can measure the conditions wherever it is that we’re wanting to go to, and then run more precise simulations to see where the flaws are in that design and plan. It gives a better understanding and a higher probability of success.

WWE 2K25 looks promising with Roman Reigns as cover star. Hope it's improved from previous versions, might give it a try on March 14th release.

One of several things I wish I could do is draw. I’m the only person on earth who fucks up a stick figure. I’m looking for an art teacher who can teach me how to draw. I can teach myself a language or instrument. But learning to draw requires a teacher for me.

No one is above the rules and regulations of any gaming community. If there is a breach, they can be banned whether they are influencers or not.

I have three cats, and they all have very different personalities. One of them, Celeste, loooooves to drink water from the faucet. Whenever my wife or I go into the bathroom, she will run ahead and jump up on the sink before we even enter the room. A few days ago I gave her water in the downstairs bathroom, then I walked up the stairs to my office. She then sprinted up the stairs in front of me, and sat down in front of the upstairs bathroom door demanding to be let in. When I let her in, she of course wanted water there as well, not even a minute after she finished drinking downstairs.

I actually did finish it, but the worst book I've ever read was Ready Player Two. I absolutely love the first book, Ready Player One, I have read the book, listened to the audio book multiple times and watched the movie, but the sequel was just insulting to read. It really felt like Ernest Cline just wrote it as a cash grab after the success of the movie, and it really just felt like reading bad fan fiction of the first book. The plot is basically a rehash of the first book, except this time the protaganist needs to find 7 macguffins instead of 3. One of the parts that made me the most angry was when the characters arrives at one of the locations where one of these macguffins (I don't even remember what they're called in the book, maybe shards?) are supposed to be located, and they're presented with a quest by the queen of this kingdom, that they need to complete in order to get the shard. Then the main character just straight up says "Oh yeah, I already did that", and the queen just gives him the thing. It's so fucking stupid, I hate it. I am in general a quite positive person, I mostly focus on liking the things I like and usually don't put a lot of energy towards things I don't like, but Ready Player Two is one of the few things I hate with a passion. As a fan of the first book it just felt like getting spat in the face by the author.

This can be likened to clickbait in blogging. They present a concept that is entirely different from the product and people end up feeling betrayed. If developers are sure of e what they have done they have no need for misleading trailers.

Not just match sharpness, in order to improve, players have to train their skills.

That's what I'm wondering. He's way past his prime at this point - let him enjoy his retirement.

Yep. Calling a league over in January is really jumping the gun.

I totally get that but doesn't change the fact they're an exciting team to watch.

I totally agree.

Brighton and Hove is like the husband of Manchester United. They are beating United for fun. Even as a Manchester United fan, I knew they were going to beat us at home as usual.

Leeds are great. They used to be in the EPL last 2 seasons or so. Unfortunately, I will never like them because as a Manchester United fan, we are hated rivals.

Damn, 4TB of storage on the Steam Deck is pretty sick! I got a 1TB SSD in mine along with a 512gb SD card. I've been playing quite a few games this weekend. I played through all of Firewatch, and I really enjoyed it. I've had it in my steam library for years but have never played it, so I decided to finally start playing it on my Steam Deck. It was a pretty short experience, I'd say I spent about 5 hours on, which is kind of perfect for a game like this if you ask me. I also picked up a few games on a Steam sale, so I've been playing a bit of Diablo 4 and Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. Diablo 4 is just perfect for the Steam Deck. I've played it on Xbox, but it was totally worth buying again to play on the deck. Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip is a pretty charming indie game, it reminds me a lot of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, which is one of my all time favorite games. In addition, I've also started playing Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth on the Xbox. I'm a few hours in, and just arrived in Hawaii. I do like it so far, but I'm kind of surprised by just how much of the game is cutscenes instead of gameplay. My only previous experience with the Yakuza/Like A Dragon-series is a few hours of the last game, Yakuza: Like A Dragon. I've heard that Infinite Wealth is one of the best games of 2024, so I though I would give it a shot.

I would love have to seen more of Alf. Green blood, eats cats, and cynical as hell. I loved the show. I had the entire series on DVD, but one of our dogs got ahold of it, so I have to get a new copy. But since it ended in the 80’s, don’t want it getting revived. The attitude in Hollywood is completely different than it was in the 80’s, which means that all they would do is completely fuck it up.

A mohawk. It was an idiotic decision. A woman with a Mohawk?🤢🤮 My hair will stay long forever.

Landing on an asteroid isn’t like it’s portrayed in the movie Armageddon. You have to time it perfectly to do it. Then you also have to have a new kind of spacecraft to haul the results of the mine. Now the vast majority of elements in an asteroid is iron, which is not particularly in high demand. Finding an asteroid to mine is pure dumb luck. The NASA budget for finding asteroids and anything of that nature that could be a threat is practically nonexistent. Armageddon at least got that right. So if they don’t have the means to find any asteroids to mine, how are we to mine it? And who are you going to send to live on it and actually do the mining? Astronauts? Coal miners? And who is going to be able to afford to pay them? The American government is already 13 trillion in debt, so we can’t afford it. Just to emphasize that it’s 13,000,000,000,000. Twelve zeros. And how many people would be willing to leave their homes and families behind to work in space? Potentially for years. There's no practical way to do this.

This is one of my mom's favorite bands. She loves listening to "THE WEIGHT". It's through her that I even know of their music.

Same here. Dogs are man's best friend for a reason - they're so much fun to be around.

Bans are necessary for a healthy gaming environment, protecting users from toxicity. Clear boundaries promote respect, balancing freedom of speech and community standards.

The first thing that comes to mind, although I've never actually played the game myself, is Barry from the original Resident Evil, spesifically the english version. Who can forget such excellent lines as "That was too close, you were almost a Jill sandwich" and "Jill, here's a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you"

If you say it's nothing serious and won't affect your day to day life, then that's the best outcome given the situation.

Honestly, I'd say Leeds. Their high risk, high reward style of play is pretty fun to watch as a neutral.

I did have playing this game occasionally. It was a fun game to play with friends but in the end, it gets really repetitive after a while.

I don't have full understanding of people who are loyal to certain platforms, publishers, developers, game franchises of whatever. I get fans of them, I am a fan of a number of them myself, but I'm not loyal to any then, I just love good games with little regard to who made them. So the concept of being "loyal" to games publisher is already a little odd to me, but when the publisher you're talking about is EA Sports, that is mind-blowing! It's literally pledging allegiance to the devil. 2K may have followed suit, but if they're Darth Vader, EA Sports is the Emperor. The greediest, most amoral games publisher in the world. They lazily rehash the same games year after and release them at full price with little to no changes. Updated team rosters and shirt designs, and that's about it. It's not like the games are quality, they're sub-par with glitchy gameplay and mediocre graphics. EA prays on impressionable children and vulnerable adults to bait and real them into gambling. I don't are what defences people have for it, it's gambling. EA don't care about their customers, that's obvious, but EA doesn't't even care its own people. Lay off staff by the hundreds whilst giving the executives who buggered it up get multi-million dollar bonuses for buggering it up. The amount of studios they've bought over then shut down is an ever growing obituary that shows no signs of slowing in its growth. They're a cancer on the industry. EA in general, but EA Sports in particular, are a soulless, greedy, amoral tumour in the gaming that may care if you die tomorrow if they could somehow make money off that. Nobody should be loyal to any gaming company, it's our place as customers to demand the best from them, not buy their stuff because it's their stuff.