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A brand new game, released on July 5th 2024, has been made free for a very limited time. You have until 9am Eastern time to on July 7nth to claim it, so head to the Steam page now while you have the chance! It should cost £8 (Around $10), so why not just claim it for free. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3028500/Cakeys_Twisted_Bakery/ Cakey's Twisted Bakery is a first person horror game whare you explore a strange bakery in search of your lost bother be fore he's baked... literally. With added elements of stealth and collecting ingredients to make pastries that, in one way or another, help you escape the bakery. Boasting an art style similar to game like FNAF and a retro 90's setting. It looks interesting and could be a lot of fun. Toi summarise, This is for Cakey's Twisted Bakery on PC through Steam. The game was £8, but is being offered at a 100% discount to £0 from the time of this posting until 1pm GMT (9am Eastern US time) on the 7nth of July 2024. Here is the link again to the Steam store page to claim the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3028500/Cakeys_Twisted_Bakery/

I waited a day because a couple of seats took time to declare, and for for me the results couldn't have been much better. In short Labour did indeed win in a landslide with the biggest losses suffered by the Tories and the SNP (Yes!). Source Sky News. My personal interest in these results mostly revolves around how the SNP have been decimated, bodes well for the Scottish Parliament elections in a couple of years time, but there are some interesting things to look at hear. For example, the controversial far right Reform UK party gaining an impressive 14.3% of the vote, but to only win 5 seats. Say what you want about Reform UK, I personally can't stand them, yet they only win 5 seats? The Liberal Democrats with a vote share 2.1% less won a staggering 67 more seats. The reason for this is the "First Past the Post" system that is operated in the UK election system. First past the post is a plurality voting system wherein voters cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins that particular seat. Reform votes were high many seats, finishing second or third on many occasions very close to wining, but not quite. The Green party could share similar complaints winning just 2 sets with a bigger share of the vote than the SNP who won 9. This has caused many people to question how fair this system is and how well it actually represents the UK voters. Regardless of what one thinks of Reform, I think that is a fair question. This does also question the validity of the winning party as well. Is it really right that Labour win well over half the seats with barely over a third of the actual votes? It's a point worth talking about I think. The other thing to talk about is the turnout, which I think was pretty low at just under 60%. I think this represents something I said in my previous post: It feels like the UK population doesn't really have much faith nor hope in our government regardless of who's in charge, which is why a lot of them didn't care enough to vote at all. I don't want to agree with that, but I kind of do. I have felt like that for quite some time because of the SNP clearly not being interested in actually governing` Scotland, so this result does give me hope, but only time will tell if that is the case.

We in the UK went to the ballot boxes today (July 4th) for a General Election. I understand than many of you aren't going to b e very interested, but it is at least amusing that we in the Motherland decide our future on the same day you colonials celebrate the anniversary of giving the big flip of form the other side of the Atlantic. Besides, sure American want to know who's neck thier President is going to tie thier doggy chain around. Anyway, the polls closed at 10pm local time (5pm eastern) and the results are going to being counted through the night. Now for those not in the know, the UK does not operate on a two party system like the US. There a several Political parties as well as independent candidates for each seat. A single seat represents a specific region and the citizens in those regions vote for thier perspective candidates, similar to how US voters vote for thier state representatives. A rundown of the main Political Parties: The Conservative Party aka "Tories": Mid/Right leaning party. Value right wing policy and traditional values, but not to the extremes that we see for Republicans in America. Always a strong power in British politics. Currently in Power lead by current Prime Minster Rishi Sunak. The Labour Party: Mid/Left leaning Party. Lead by opposition leader Keir Starmer. Labour and The Conservatives are always the two largest Parties. As long as I know, one of those two have been in power and Labour are the main opposition to the Conservatives in this Election The Liberal Democrats: Left Leaning Party led by one of British politics more eccentric characters in Ed Davey. Not much to say. An ever present power in UK politics and always attain plenty of seats, but never enough to be in charge. Reform UK: Far Right Party. A fairly new player in British politics that heavily pushed for the UK's exit of the EU led by Nigel Farage. They have struck a cord with some voters because of thier tough proposals on immigration, but also controversial with the party accused of bigotry and racism during thier campaign. Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP): The party currently in power in Scotland. I suppose I have to call them Left/Far Left on the spectrum, but that's irrelevant. All they care about is Scotland gaining independence from the UK and will appear to lean whatever direction they believe is most likely to make that happen. They lean left now, but this same party one sympathised with the Nazi's. Why? Because they believed that in Nazi Germany won WWII, Scotland could become independent. Regardless, they never do well in the UK Election as nobody outside of Scotland has any reason to vote for them. The votes in each seat will be counted through the night and we should have a confirmed result tomorrow, but we have other polls and survey information including and "Exit Poll" that gives us a fairly reliable estimate on how this is going to go. Here is the exit poll, and it's looking like it's going to be a Labour landslide (Source; The Sun) Honestly, its who I voted for and the result is what I was hoping for, but this for me wasn't about who the best choice, it was about least bad. Amounts the candidates with a realistic chance, that being Labour, Conservative or SNP for my seat, I don't think any of them are a particularity "good" choice. No major party has got though thier campaign without saying or doing something deeply stupid. So congratulations Labour, it'll be refreshing to see somebody else screw it up in a new and original way at least.

If anything, I think the opposite is true. The controllers for the Xbox 360 and especially the PS3 felt light, flimsy and were not reliable. The quality stepped up big time with the PS4 and Xbox One and I feel the standard has remained high. Even 3rd party controllers have improved a lot in recent years. I reviewed a third party controller last year on this forum and I was very happy with it. Better yet, it's still going strong. So overall, I'm quite happy with they things are going when it comes to controllers, but that's only little old me.

Welcome to the Transfers Thread! This is the spot to discuss the latest rumours of players, managers, owners, racers, anyone in the world of sports is switching teams or clubs. This is thread is here to consolidate such discussions into a single thread, so please do not start new threads on this subject, simply post about it here. A few simple rules: You may discuses both rumours and confirmations of transfers on this thread as well as directly related subjects (Fan reactions, controversies, etc). Whilst I expect the conversations here will mostly focus on Football/Soccer, discussion on any applicable sport is welcome. Link to credible sources to inform your fellow members of rumours and confirmations in the transfer market. Any posts without a credible source may be removed. Other threads that pop up on this subject matter are subject to deletion without warning, so only discuss transfers here, not elsewhere on the sports sub-forum. An amnesty will run on this thread for the fist week it is open Ending July 10nth 2024) whare new threads on transfers will be merged, but after that threads will start being removed. If there are any threads you want merged into this, please let me know I'll take care of it. All other rules for the forum as stated in our Forum Rules and Guidelines obviously apply here as well. Be respectful of others and thier opinions. Have fun and let's get into the good gossip!

Enough is enough. Sorry @Heatman, this isn't your fault, you are merely the straw that broke the camel's back. I've said it before in PM's, but rumours and confirmations of transfers are going to happen literally hundreds of times throughout the year, especially now that it's the summer. We can't keep having a new topic every time there's a new rumour or confirmation of a transfer of players or managers between football/soccer clubs, it just isn't practical. And because everyone discussing this subject feels compelled to make a new topic every time, I'll generate the thread myself and stick it to the top of the sports sub forum. I'll hold an amnesty for a week after I post the topic whare I'll merge any threads on this subject into the aforementioned thread, but after that any new threads on this subject will be deleted. This thread will now be locked, but I'll leave a link to the pinned thread when it is ready. EDIT: The pinned thread has been created. Find it here.

A mistake that's very possible to make when you post in a rush. Calm down, this isn't a race. Take your time, read others comments, watch the embedded clips if there are any, think about the information and taking the time to formulate an opining instead of posting like you'll stop breathing if you stop posting.

I was just about to delete this post as it looked liked a double-post, as in that you posted the same reply twice by accident. It's not a big deal, it happens, but then I realised that this was in fact two different threads about the same game. I didn't notice this until now, otherwise I would have merged these threads together already (doing that now). You obviously noticed this and decided to make the exact same reply on both threads. Why would you do that instead of pointing this out and/or reporting it? Anyway, I've merged the threads together with @Kane99's thread given priority as it was posted first and deleted one of @Lens' replies. Can I ask @Cpvr and others to please check if threads you're about to post are already up and report these errors if you come across them? Thank you.

I've done intense overtime before on more physically demanding and hazardous roles than working in from t of a computer. So yeah, I could handle it, but that doesn't mean people being effectively forced to do so is any way right.

@Knight Plug I edited your post to embed the video you linked to, I hope you don't mind. This all looks interesting. An open world Resident Evil is intriguing and the Dead Rising Remake looks like a lot of fun.

I liked the Final Fantasy XIV community when I was playing a few years ago. Generally they were helpful and understanding bunch.

Because this is you own personal thoughts on a game/DLC and not actual news, I've moved the topic to the "Video Games" sub-forum. Long term members know how I feel about these types of games and given that I wouldn't blame anyone for not taking anything I have to say seriously. So I might be wrong, but aren't the boss fights the whole point of these games? The "trial and error" approach to difficulty is the reason I personally can't stand these games (To me that's a disingenuous form of challenge. The constant repetition associated with that also make these games tedious for me.), but if you're right about From Software's over reliance on boss fights and thus detract focus from story, regular combat, exploration and other elements then just sounds like a Soulslike to me. That's literally what's wrong with these types of games as far as I'm concerned. Why put effort into those things when you know people are going obsess over one thing, the difficulty? I'll given Elden Ring credit as it does seem to do exploration as well as it's creative design, environments and style very well, but that doesn't change the fact bosses are to a Soulslike what platforms are to a Mario game, it's what they're about. The difference is that people don't complain about the combat in a Mario game because they know that's not the point of it.

GTA is a racing game?

I'm going to have to disagree a little here. I know that the FPS genre has generally been a big let down as far as storytelling experiences go, but the genre itself can do this and has done this well. Spec Ops: The Line (Technically a third person shooter, I know, but still), The Metro Series, Titanfall 2, Halo, the Farcry Series and even COD has done this well in the past. It seems unfair to lump all FPS together like that. And with all due respect, why use Mario as the example of "good" storytelling? The storytelling experience in Mario games tend to revolve around some rather archaic and juvenile tropes, it's not known for doing stories particularly well. Great games, but this isn't what they're known for. Harry Potter is also kind of a strange example. There are really only three types of Harry Potter game; Movie licensed trash that merely translate the story from the books/movies. So they are not only not original in terms of story, said translation has historically been done quite poorly, so it's debatable whether or not they actually count. The LEGO Harry Potter games. MUCH better games, but still share the same issue with thier stories not being original and based of of the movies/books. The third is Hogwarts Legacy. Easily the best Harry Potter game despite not even having Harry Potter in it. More importantly, an original game with an original (and IMO, very well put together) story. So yeah, the only one the defiantly counts, but it's still just one game. It's your opinion and I'm not saying you're wrong, I just find it a little odd to lump and entire genre of games together as if there is no game in that genre that can tell a good story when that is so obviously not the case, and then come up with a couple of pretty weak examples to counter. Is there something I'm missing here you care to elaborate on? Onto the topic, and I don't care how much praise Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series get, I will never play them. The last "Soulsbourne" game I attempted to play was Nioh (before the game glitched out and showed the controller button prompts and the wouldn't even pause in the settings menu as I attempted to fix it) after having a horrible time with both Bloodbourne and Demon Souls before. Add to that an even worse experience with the rancid fanbase surrounding these types of games and I decided enough was enough and that I was done with these games. I can oly speak from my limited experiences, but for me the difficulty was disingenuous, it's about trial and error more than it is skill and strategy, I hated the lack of basic quality of life features such as a pause (Seriously, how does the lack of a pause button make a game more challenging? It just doesn't.) and the aversion to difficulty options sets a bad precedent for gaming in general. Multiple difficultly options don't take challenge away, just the opposite in fact. Not to mention when game developers do add difficulty modes that offer players the chance to just explore thier game worlds and enjoy thier stories, they end up actually making games with interesting worlds to explore and deep stories to tell. They actually end up putting effort into that stuff! Funny that, isn't it? In short, well all benefit from that and games can still be as hard as you want.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be harsh, I just trying to understand what was so compelling about this. And I must admit how uninteresting it is does kind of make it interesting. Not that this is worth playing.

That was one of the worst trailers I've ever seen for a game. That was so bad I'm not even sure whare to start. I suppose I'll start with a question. When you've made a trailer that you plan to use internationally, what do you do about lip-syncing a character's voice over in those multiple languages? Well, these half wits decided the answer was "let's not" and not have the characters move thier lips at all. Then, there is the obvious problem of the trailer not having one mere second of actual gameplay in it. That's not a good sign for any game when the game is already out, but for a mobile game that should send everyone running to the hills. But I think my biggest issue is that was clearly this is clearly the work of a committee that know nothing about gamers, they just read about them in a copy of National Geographic or something, and thus look at us like wild animals to be exploited. They studied these creators and found dozens of things that they like, such fantasy, cyberpunk, mechs, pirates, dancing animals, magic, swords, guns, big armour on big dudes, small armour on little babes and so on. But remember, gamers aren't people, they're stupid animals who's attention won't be held by a single, cohesive theme, so let's have all of them! Just cliché on top of cliché with no cohesive theme at all. Same story with music, it's all over the place with folk, industrial, R&B, pop, what is the tone and ambiance they are going for? Even the name of the game is just two random buzzwords with an "of" in between. The funny thing is that the one cliché they omitted from that ridiculous trailer was a King, so why is it even called "Hero's of Kings"? It's insulting, clichéd and utterly uninspired. The most woefully, yet clearly deliberately, unoriginal crap I've ever seen. This is just another mobile trash game that does what every other mobile trash game does. It's not worth the time. I'm actually embarrassed that I've taken the time I have to tear it a new one. I think the reason why I did is to build up to asking @Cpvr why you're wasting our time with this? Not only is this obviously garbage, it's garbage that doesn't even stand out amongst the ocean of garbage that is the Apple/Play stores. It's the same crap as hundreds, if not thousands, of other mobile games, so why post about it? Why this one? I've seen the gameplay footage, this just a rip off Mobile Legends that was a just a crappy, mobile rip off League of Legends, what was it that drew your attention to this?

You can mock Trump, Republicans and religious zealots all you want, just don't celebrate a child being abused in the process if you don't mind. I don't think that's much to ask for. If your original post had read something like this; Then I would haven taken no issue with it. Seeing somebody as ecstatic as you were over a child being molested because it provided you with political ammo really bothered me. It didn't feel right. But, I'm happy to drop it now. I am glad you shared your story and I wish nothing but the best for you and your family going forward.

@Reality vs Adventure I am truly sorry for what your sisters, your family and yourself have gone through, I really am, but that does not excuse what you said. What your saying here is that what this child went through is a good thing because it helps you prove your point. Just think about that. A child being molested is nothing to celebrate no matter what the circumstances. You and your family have been through more than your fair share of tragedies and I sympathise greatly. However, there will never be enough tragedies that any person(s) or family can go though that would justify celebrating a child being sexually molested. Again, I am so sorry for what your family has gone through and I hope that you have gotten or will get justice for that, but it has nothing to do with that child being molested. Not does it have anything directly to do with politics either based on how you described it. What I'm addressing is what you did with that post, and that was just about as selfish, insensitive and callous as it gets. You don't celebrate people being hurt because it suits your point of view. I know that it's also not the first time somebody has done this. I've seen politicians and political groups (representing both sides) do similar things and it's no better when they do it either. What you and them all have in common is that you don't understand that there's a difference between a martyr and victim. How would you feel about your sister's death being celebrated by somebody because they saw it as an opportunity to tear into the Mormon community, Christians or whatever? I'm sure, or for your sake desperately hope, that you would not approve. And please, please tell me that you would not approve because the alternative is so much worse. Trust me when I tell you neither of us wants me hold up that mirror, but I will if I have to. Not on the forum though, it will be through a DM. Again, I'm begging you, please don't force me to play this hand.

Be sure she knows about thoughts are with her. Glad to know this situation is at least improving.

To be clear, I'm not posting this a a moderator, only a member. Nothing of what I'm about to say is meant to represent VGR in any capacity. With that done, onto the point, that I am very disappointed with you @Reality vs Adventure and even a little angry. I really don't like how exited you are about this @Reality vs Adventure. What is your concern with regard to this story, the suffering of an abused child or "getting one over" the political bias you oppose? To anyone with common decency, this is NOT good news. It is never is when a child has been molested. Honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself for this. Not that I'm condoning what this man did, not even slightly, I'm just calling out what I see as a pretty appalling attitude on your behalf. You couldn't care less about that child or what they went through. All you care about is that this makes the republican party look bad, so you're exstatic at the thought a child have been sexually molested. Honestly, it's kind of sick. Would you be this happy if it were somebody this closely associated with a Democrat leader (After all, it has happened before.)? I doubt you would be. In fact, I'd bet you wouldn't have made a post about it at all. A child being molested by a republican is a cause for celerbration, whilest a child being molested by a democrat is an "incovience" to ignore and just hope it goes away. Either way, you couldn't care less about the victim, and what's so wrong with what you just did. A republican supporter equal in passion to yourself would, of course, do exactly the same thing. This is why I'm not fond of political extremists from either side. They're so busy flinging shit at each at other their blind to the fact that, deep down, they're exactly same. Full of shit. Whare as the sensable, grounded people sitting near the middle get drowned out and ingored. But that's another rant for another day because, unlike @Reality vs Adventure, I would never turn the suffering of a child into some sort of political flex. MY thoughts go out the this child and thier family. I hope you make it through this difficult time.

I am familiar with this, and I don't think there was any point from it's embarrassing announcement at The Game Awards 2022 by a barely coherent Michael Madsen; To it's subsequent trailers then finally to the release of the game itself where it was well received by anyone. Even IGN slammed it when it first came out; And I have a very hard time believing it's gotten better to the point whare it might be worth playing in the last 15 months. Honestly, this is one to avoid.

I highly doubt that's true. It's true of many PC ports of multiplatform games allow the player to "hotkey" functions, something that isn't really possible with a controller However, hotkeys are, like you said, shortcuts to functions, not the primary means of accessing that function, so I find it unlikely that actual control functions are just straight up missing on console ports of The Sims 4. The shortcuts may be missing, but functions will be thier. That's one of the reasons why I personally prefer to play those types on games om PC, but no developer would make the game impossible to play on console. There would have been a massive backlash against The Sims 4 and EA in regards to that if they did. I can't say for sure as I don't really play The Sims 4, but it doesn't make sense for anybody, not even the out-of-ouch twats at EA, to do that.

I wonder how long this thread will go on until somebody says "phone"...

There's a difference between games that sharpen maths skills and games that simply use them. I work in engineering as my trade, so math is a way of life for me. So, with all due respect @Knight Barida and @Shortie, no video game is going to test a player's math skills that hard unless it's a true mathematical puzzle game.

A trailer's purpose is marketing, simple as that. The level of insight it offers may be helpful in determining if it's the kind of game one might be interested in, but they are not to be trusted.