Hawklord

3 hours ago, Flub said:

Qntm is guest blogging at Charlie Stross's site at the moment. His first article just went up

 

 

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/01/make-up-a-guy.htmlhttps://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/01/make-up-a-guy.html

Literally popped in to post that lol

Kelly Monteith at 80 from a stroke. Used to love him. He was one of the first American comedians to get his own show in the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64152056

Elden Ring

Binding of Isaac 

Erm, those are about the only games I play on the Deck lol

Dark Souls map is a bit shit

I was predominately a PC gamer but had most "modern" consoles since PS1 except XBone. The cost of GPU's has put me off upgrading my PC any further so I'd have to say 100% say Steam Deck. Still a PC and most exclusives are either PS5 & PC or XSX & PC. As much as I like the "older" stuff, I've either already played or can't be arsed with and SD is a console

5 hours ago, Gotters said:

interesting page on Steam showing this years most played on Deck, shows the legs some games have with things like Binding of Isaac (which I've never got the appeal of) still placing so highly.

 

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2022?tab=6

I'm at almost 1000 hours of Binding of Isaac lol

Only the Souls games come close and only if I count the play time of all of them over all platforms!

If you take the price of the bottom tier in the UK (£11, no ads) and presume it's roughly the same world wide (on average and for arguments sake) and see that they have 231 million subs then that's revenue of £2.5 billion per month or just under £30.5 billion per year*

*back of fag packet sums

5 hours ago, Calashnikov said:

Currently sipping a wee beer and having a scan through the massive fuck off guidebook I got for Christmas, so I can see what all these non-STR/DEX Uchi boi, non-melee builds are about.

Not opened mine yet. Tempted to keep it in the shrink wrap lol

I just lost 80 hours of gameplay due to my Steam save corrupting. Tried about a dozen methods of recovering the file but every one of then ends up with Start New Game instead of Continue. Gah!!!!!!!

1 minute ago, multi said:

 

Would love to see a pic of you in those shorts

What happens in Munich, stays in Munich 😛 

Managed to get Death Stranding from Epic running via Heroic. Had to update Proton to 7.43 (I think, will check if anyone wants to know). Set it to 40fps and runs perfectly. Then I remembered it's not the Director's Cut (got that on PS5) and I couldn't face those opening hours again so I've uninstalled lol

I think this is my Steam ID? 3654179 (Stormbringer)

Profile is in my sig as well

And there's also the RLLMUK Group

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/rllmuk

1 hour ago, Commander Jameson said:

So I'm now part of the air fryer gang. Before I start though, do you need to adjust cooking times from what you would normally do in the oven?

I use this but also keep an eye on whatever is cooking as it can sometimes be ready sooner

https://lovefoodnotcooking.com/air-fryer-calculator/

I fucking love my SD  

I fucking love my SD

Sorry cross posted but still appropriate. The Deck has been a bit of a lifesaver this year for me 

It's his accent that puts me off him

I've never shared my password but I also don't have 4 devices that need 4K streams so I cancelled when they upped the price. Give me a reasonable price for one 4k stream and i'll re-subscribe

Not been a great month has it?

Maxi Jazz from Faithless, aged 65

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64087315

This years IMDb list (so far). Everything else I watched was a re-watch. Sorted by rating

2 hours ago, memories said:

I second this, absolutely fantastic.

 

I did find some more locally, a few weeks back I nipped into a small Scotmid shop beside my work for some lunch and headed round to the crisps section to find a shelf of giant 180g bags for £2.50 each, absolute bargain compared to the sweet import shop in Aberdeen.

 

I now currently have 4 giant bags of them in the house for over Xmas.

 

Seems like they might now have a UK distribution deal, the packaging is different from the import versions and sounds like folk are able to source them a bit easier now.

Nice one. There's a Scotmid round the corner from my mum's, will have to check  

100% these

@memories did you ever manage to find any locally? Was in my local corner shop just now and spotted them at £1.24 for a small pack (55g) so had to stock up on a few lol.

Finally got a chance yesterday to visit the roastery that opened nearby last year. Turns out they are actually closed on a Friday as it's roasting day and they forgot to put the shutters down! The owner was happy to sell me a few bags of beans though and chat away while he was working his "magic" with the roaster. Sneaked a photo of the roaster (I probably could have got a better one if I'd just asked lol). This was the final batch of his Xmas "special", a whisky infused Guatemalan.

https://www.fowercoffee.com/product/scotch-whisky-infused-guatemalan

Didn't buy any as it still had to rest but smelled amazing. Roaster was plugged into a laptop showing various settings & timings. At one point he looked at the screen and said you'll hear the first crack any second and sure enough it started to sound like popcorn. Glad I can support a local business and get good coffee at the same time

Wonder if he'd come back? 🤔

Played an hour or so. I can't handle the 30fps in RT mode on the SX, seems kind of stuttery. 60fps Performance Mode looks visually identical to my old eyes (and my new telly*) so I'll be using that and it's very smooth

*

As previously posted

No surprise. Had about the same amount on SX as well lol (got Platinum/100% on both)