Hobsons Choice

Right- started a new Fifa save with Valarenga. Trying to viking things up a bit. As an aside, is there a way to watch the games over here? I know the A league have a youtube channel for live games. Is there something similar for the Eliteserien?

OK, so I had a stab at this last night, and thought I would report. First attempt was not promising. I went for a local server, practice race, with no other lobby filters. There were about 5 other people in there, all of which had vastly superior cars, most of which were either doing donuts, driving the wrong way, or deliberately trying to smash into me. I was out of there quickly. I then tried to go for a real race, and filtered the PP of the car to just over the maximum of the one I was driving (i was around 540, the PP limit was 600). There was one other person in there, who again, despite the PP limit seemed to have a massive performance gap to mine. I picked a simple track (an oval) to start with to see what was what, and on the straights the difference in straight line speed was immense. I'm not sure what was going on, but to my mind it should have been reasonably close. Again I wasn't after victory, just having a go. I don't know what I was doing wrong, really- I looked for the 'daily' race you mentioned, but couldn't seem to find it. Any thoughts on this? I'm not giving up just yet, I just need an experience to convince me to persist. Edit- I should note that I'm not a newbie to racing games. Been playing them since the 90s. My weapons of choice more recently have been the F1 series, which I've been playing since the early PS4 era with no driver aids (except auto gears), and the Project Cars series, in which I find the AI nicely challenging. That said I don't use a wheel, and I'm not playing them every day (yay Fifa!).

The Blues trophy cabinet . My shoe rack is bigger.

Well he does live in Liverpool. And spends all his time with Liverpool supporters. Kind of inevitable.

I get your point, but I would say that in most businesses you don't give even your smaller rivals anything, because they might be where you are in 10 years.

I wish Man U would stop getting themselves in a position where I have to hope they win. It feels awful. Come on Bruno F...no I just can't do it. Hope they draw and get 5 players sent off each, even though that's not possible in the rules of football.

Thanks man, you do make it sound good. Is it cross play? I only use a standard dualsense, but I see videos of people with massive gaming rigs with pedals etc. Obviously they are going to be at an advantage.

Aaaalllrrriiiiight. Under duress I'll give it a go.

Dune Part 2 trailer has dropped. Cannot wait.

Yeah, I don't really do multiplayer games. I don't really want to spend my time being called a c*** by a 12 year old in Ohio.

It's testament to the job Emery's doing that it's actually tricky to see where we most need new recruits at the moment. I would have said CB, but we've been solid recently. I would have said wingers, but we've played well using full backs (ok mainly Moreno) for width. I would have said striker in case Ollie gets injured, but he seems fantastic until anyone threatens his place, and seems to be made of titanium. Maybe RB is our greatest need?

Oh well. Disappointed. Not for you, hope your music goes well. I just wanted to tell people that John Wick is one of the clan.

Bought GT7 a while ago now, and I must say that while I played it for a week or so, I soon dropped it. For a 'Driving Simulator' it just has so many things that break immersion. The fact that there is no qualifying. Baffling. The cars are perfect, but no racing series in the world would in real life just start you last every race. Then you realise that they do this to up the challenge because the AI is garbage. It's barely evolved in terms of features and implementation since GT2 released in 1999 (which I loved at the time btw), aside from ray traced petrol caps, and 4k rendered gear knobs. Hell even Circuit Superstars, a knockabout budget racing game on PSN is way more advanced in terms of qualifying and pitstops. When you step back from it it's so, so disappointing.

Got Far- Lone Sails and finished it in one sitting. Fun little game. Also just got Chef Life. Not sure why, as I do all our cooking, so it's more like another job, but I'm finding it to be great so far.

Villa fan?

Check this out. Frigging hell! Edit- I don't know how to do the embedding thing, sorry.

Just watched a video of LKI. Holy crap he looks good. His close control at pace, and while keeping the ball moving is amazing. Super aggressive going forward as well.

Well it's interesting that this occurred as the big Z is visiting the newly Nato-fied Finland. Intriguing developments.

Think they might be lining up justification to take out Zelenski. Maybe they have him pinpointed.

Just saw the breaking news. That looks like the falsiest false flag that ever flagged.

Is that news or a 'would like to see'?

It didn't make total sense for the Russians to do it, because it would galvanise Europe into being less dependant on Russia's Gas, and therefore would screw themselves financially because they would be intentionally dropping their biggest market. In hindsight it makes slightly more sense because China have taken up some of the capacity, but they seem to be buying it cheap, so, yeah, they did a brexit and shot their own feet.

What a statement. This summer is going to be freaking epic.

So it's looking more like Russia did the Pipeline, then?

How the f*** did that team beat Dortmund?