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Surprising to nobody, NASA are nerds who like Bethesda games, more specifically The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and quoted the game recently in a public statement regarding the new James Webb space telescope. The first images from the new telescope have been making the rounds on social media promoting an interaction between the official Starfield account and NASA on Twitter leading to Bethesda quoting from Oblivion. Full story below. https://www.techradar.com/news/even-nasa-is-an-elder-scrolls-oblivion-fan So, yeah. A cool story if not that surprising.

I think open world games do this better when the story and overall progression is more liner, like GTA, Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West and some of the AC games. Bethesda open worlds, like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, as much as I love them, do not do this well at all because every story and side story goes on hold until you get back to them, amidst what are often quite immediate and desperate scenarios. Like there is something that story-wise need addressed immediately, but you can hold it off literally for weeks in game doing nothing to address it and it makes no difference. Obviously, that's not the game's fault, it wouldn't be fair to penalise the player for doing one thing instead of another, but cleaver writing can round this problem. This is one of the things I felt HZD/FW did especially well. You hit a checkpoint in a side mission, and there was only so much urge to get to the next step. It's difficult to explain, but it was very subtle and very clever. The games also gently encouraged the side quest to played in a certain order, especially in the earlier parts of the game. It made sense to both players with a completionist and more direct play style.

Do you seriously believe that players when the have a kick-in near the opposing team's box that they'll just pass the ball? They won't, they'll take the chance to play it like set piece, I guarantee it. I suppose they could make a rule to forbit it, but how could they enforce such a rule? You can't just say they're only allowed to kick the ball so far, nor could they disallow the ball to fly from a kick-in when a ball is allowed to fly from a throw in currently, it just wouldn't work. The wheal dynamic of out of bounds would change. Defenders, for example, would no longer try to try to put a ball out of bound to the side rather the back because what's the point in preventing a corner when the opposing team will get a kick in just a few feet from the flag anyway.

If they did this, every time the ball went out of bounds outside the, let's say, "middle third" of the pitch, it would effectively turn that into either a goal kick or corner kick depending on what side outed the ball. It wouldn't speed up play because you would inevitably have players making walls to block the ball and position defensively like what happens free kicks and corner kicks, so it wouldn't the desired effect. Not to mention that the football itself is very different object that it was 160 years ago. The materials and design make modern footballs fly, spin and react to touch in a very different way, so even it made sense 160 years ago to have kick-ins, it doesn't make sense now. Suffice to say, this is a stupid idea.

The thing about electrical current is that it's not really voltage that kills, it's amplitude. Yes, tasers run at an absurdly high voltage, but the amplitude is extremely low, a few milliamps at most. The voltage is what the nerves and muscles react too making that high voltage far more painful than a shock at, say, the 230v supply that runs through your home, but that home home electrical supply could be running at 13 amps, making it far more dangerous. That's why tasers run at such a high voltage, so they can operate a very low amplitude and make them safer whilst still effective.

The EU's Senet or Parliament building or whatever it is they call it is located in the Belgian capital of Brussels.

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I couldn't agree with you less. EA turning it into FTP "Live Service" has killed the game stone dead for me. It'going to predetory, greedy mess with the a standered for quality and morality lower than a Badger's Badger. Terrible news for fans of the series.

It's often the case when a raid happens on a suspected drug den or dealer that everyone in that dwelling get's arrested on suspicion of being involved. If it becomes clear that any of those were not doing anything wrong or just happed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, they'll likely be let go. Still, to arrest every adult male who was in the block, not just the targeted home, seems a little extreme.

When you buy an NFT, you're not even buying digital artwork, you're buying a receipt that says you own that digital artwork. That receipt is then authenticated through the blockchain to give value to the item that receipt claims you own. The more people you convince to invest in your NFT's in your blockchain, the more they are, quote on quote, "worth". It's a pyramid scheme, basically. You are right through, people are wising up and not investing in this bullshit anymore, and that's why NFT's are collapsing. I get junk e-mail from crypto companies and such all the time (It's not even filters I put up myself, my email client just recognises them as junk, that's not legit these business are), and one I got recently actully tried to convince the reader the collapse of the metaverse and crypto is actually a reason to invest in it. I'm not kidding, look; Remember, this went straight to my junk. This whole thing is scam, even my e-mail knows that.

I'd have to agree, it looks like shit. The design is uninspired, it looks like every other medieval game and graphics are dull and muddy. I makes me wonder why it's not releasing on PS4 and XB1. Frankly, I've seen PS3 games that look better than this. As for the gameplay, it's Xcom. And that's about all there is to say. It's just a clone on Xcom with a different setting.

I've been playing a lot of Oblivion lately. If anything, this game has got less stable over time and it crashes constantly. Yes, my version is mudded and that could be the problem, but it's still strange to see this game struggle like it does given it's age.

The free games have been good recently, but there's a bit of a trend starting to happen that I don't like. For this week and next week, DLC packs for games that look like FTP mobile trash that apparently cost $100+ to buy are being offered instead of games. I don't see that value in this at all. The only reason these "packages" are so expensive is because that's what the greedy ass publishers behind these games decided to charge, there is no way they are worth that much to anyone I hope this is not what we'll typically see with this going forward. I understand they're not gonna come through with a big AAA heavyweight every time, but this pretty poor. Hopefully Wonder Boy and Tannenberg will pick up the slack.

Can we have a source, please @kingpotato? Without a source there is no way to know how credible this is. I do know that Bandai Namco were hacked recently, so leaks are possible, but we still need a source for this @kingpotato, whether it be an article, forum, social media, a reddit or whatever. The titles do at least make sense apart from a couple of things. First, I don't know why they would publish 3 DBZ games in the same year. They are different genres of games (well, at least two of them are), so it's plausible, but I'm not sure. I have a bigger problem with is Tales of Ascension. Another full Tales game just two years after Tales of Arise? Sorry, but it doesn't seem likely, unless this is something else like another mobile spin-off or an expansion.

I highly doubt we'll re-join the EU, nor do I think it would necesseraly be wise either. Don't get me wrong, it was a stupid idea to leave, but renegotiating EU membership this soon after brexit would not work out well. We (the UK) are just not in a position to negotiate a good deal for ourselves. Brexit is done, we have just to live it and deal with it now.

Two things I always, for some reason, buy together are a video game from Bethesda and pain.

The only thing you have proven here is that you indeed could have made an opening post to this thread thread that was worth a damn, but choose not to.

Does anyone have a red-hot poker I could borrow because I want to shove it through my eyes.

I second this @Justin11. It's OK that you don't have a full scope of the situation with regard to the resignation of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It is even OK to not really care either, but if wish to contribute to conversation at hand, actually have something to say. For the second time in about 12 hours, I'm telling you if you have nothing to say, say nothing! If you insist on contributing to the conversation, do a little research to develop at at least some understanding of what's going so you can formulate an opinion and then, and I mean ONLY then, express it. If putting that bare minimum effort of is not worth it to you, then why would a post where you couldn't be bothered to make that bare minimum of effort be worth it to us? And frankly @Reality vs Adventure, I could say the same thing to you. Especially as the author of the thread, I would expect a lot better than this. No article, not so much as a basic description of what happened nor even a detailed opinion. Sadly, I've come to expect such a half-arsed effort from @Justin11, but this is really disappointing coming from you. @Crazycrab has already done your job for you and went through the basics about what happened and his effort is only reason I'm keeping this thread open. I may have deleted the thread entirely if it wasn't for him. I'll add here an article from what something I would consider a neutral news source to provide some more details. From Sky News My two cents? It was time for him to go. There had been two many missteps with things like party-gate, controversial policies set forth by his administration and what I would describe at best as a slow response to the cost of living crisis. He was not the PM and his was not the government we needed anymore. I don't have anything against the guy, but I don't think history is going to regard him that fondly.

Why on earth would you bring Sudoku (I'm assuming that's a misspelling on your part) into this? It's a logic based number puzzle, no more and no less. Yes, you can obviously play it on an electronic device these days, but the same is also true of Solitaire and one would hardly call that a video game. Candy Crush is also puzzle game, so like Sudoku the difficulty is a reflection of the person playing it, so I'm not sure how relevant that is to the subject at hand either, but I'll give @Heatman a little credit in that game at least that only exists as a video game. So it's the same vain as something like Tetris, so whilst I'm still unsure of how a puzzle game fit's into a conversation like this, Candy Does still count as a video game. Sudoku, I'd have to say, does not. Think about it this way, if I were to struggle with a Crossword app on my phone (and I would because I suck monkeys at crosswords), would that count here? Your post clasher along with @Justin11 tailing onto your comment tells me both of you were scraping for an excuse to post on this thread, when closer to the truth is that neither of you really had anything to say. When are you guys to learn that when have nothing to say it is OK to say nothing? @Justin11, you didn't even bring up a game of you own to add to conversation! Come one, guys... Anyway, with that out of the way; DKC is actually considered pretty infamous for it's difficulty in most circles. I personally didn't think is was as brutal as some people claim, but it was not an easy game by anybody's standard. For me to pick a game, I'd probably go for ReCore. Most reviews I read called it a breeze, some even sighting the lack of difficulty as problem, but the game had balls for me. It had an old school, Metroid feel and kept me on my toes big time.

Remember how I said how creatively inept this idea was with how generic the console looked, the soulless nature of the concept and how even the logo itself ripped off the gamecube logo? Well it turns out it gets worse/better! The very design mock up of the console is itself a rip-off of a failed South Korean console called the Behance Oasis! This was first reported on Twitter as seen below. Here's a more detailed report and update from YongYea: I can't exactly say I'm surprised.

I defiantly agree on the original Xbox controllers. If anything my hands are on the larger side and even I felt I was holding a plate.

I've decided to embed the trailer directly because the verge are ass-holes who make it impossible to disable trackers on thier website. I'll also add here an alternate article from Gamespot again because fuck The Verge and fuck Vox Media.

The OP is refering to a specific model of the PSone called the PSone Combo. It was a small version of the PSone with a built in screen that flipped up like a laptop. Since nobody has bothered to post an image of one, I suppose I'll do so now.

Sad to here. After I read this I told my better half and she was pretty blown away by it. RIP.