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Back when @CaaC (John) and @Bluewolf used to play football...

@CaaC (John) always did have a bit of a glass jaw... I hardly caught him and he went down like a sack of spuds..

The only warning I have is be prepared for a couple of “what the fuck am I doing?” moments of frustration early on, because it doesn’t really hold the player’s hand at all - once you’ve got access to the ship the game basically says “off you go, have fun” and leaves you to figure it all out. And I think as long as you’re prepared for that, as it’s a game of trial and error, it shouldn’t be too frustrating. I also think my vague and (relatively) spoiler free tips will prove to be pretty handy and have you avoid dying early on in some of the stupid ways I killed myself. Those are about as much details about the game as I want to give, to be honest. Because so much of the game is really just about solving mysteries, I think it’d be a shame to ruin any details for you or anyone else on here. Avoid looking shit up or anything, because it’s just so enjoyable getting past the parts you were stuck But I think you’ll love the game. It’s part space exploration (and the planets and moons are all great, although some are merciless - but the planets are so well designed and fun to explore), part detective game, part Groundhog Day. Without a doubt the best game I’ve played in 2019. And if anyone cares, Gears of War 5’s tech test is pretty decent, although the servers have been wonky as fuck. But I haven’t cared too much because this game is too good

Yea I watched it... you will probably enjoy it mate I did

Money, shoes, poop, and other highlights from the 796 items we’ve left on the moon Sara Chodosh © Infographic by Sara Chodosh Data from the NASA Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon Humans have a bad habit of leaving a trace wherever they go. The moon is no exception. Sure, we left some ceremonial flags held aloft by wire in lieu of a brisk wind to blow them, but the most telling things we've left aren't what you see in commemorative photos. The official NASA Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon lists 796 items, 765 of which are from American missions. Some as small as a pair of nail clippers, others consist of entire lunar rovers and probes that long ago crashed into the surface. We're not totally sure where all these items are, but they're definitely up there, cluttering the otherwise barren lunar landscape. Yet somehow maps of the artefacts left on the moon never look that cluttered. Most of the dots you can see are fairly large items. The Ranger spacecraft, for instance, was a series of uncrewed missions in the 1960s to get images of the moon. Not all of them made it (Ranger 3 missed the surface entirely), but 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all crashed into the surface. Similarly the Lunar Orbiters, well, orbited. They took photos in part to scope out potential landing sites for the first crewed missions, then came tumbling down once they were done. MORE

Well you fully convinced me... Downloading it now as I type this. Will probably check it out tonight after work!

@nudge - I don’t want to give away any spoilers because I think part of the magic of the game is going in blind and figuring stuff out on your own. But I made some decent progress yesterday and after hours of playing and making that serious progress... I noticed a poster in the ship. Right behind your space suit is a poster you’ll see once you put the suit on and it explains the different things you can use one of your tools for. AND HOLY SHIT, it’s incredibly useful information that has managed to change my approach slightly and keep me alive better (I’m still dying constantly in hilarious ways, mind you). Your two other tools are a bit more obvious, especially the translator. Great game though, I now understand the rave reviews and fully agree with them.

That's a documentary? I tuned into their six-day "livestream" on youtube a few times which pretty much simulates and reconstruct the whole mission...pretty cool stuff. But this is even cooler: https://apolloinrealtime.org/ . It's an interactive website that replays the mission second by second - and thus includes 11000 hours of mission control audio, 240 hours of space-to-ground audio, thousands of photographs, all mission control, onboard and TV film and audio footage, multiple camera angles, transcripts, astromaterials sample data. It's incredible.

Stumbled upon this today... Colour film of the highlight of 1967 German GP on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The cars going airborne like rally cars! Pretty much no safety. Those were mad men. Incredible footage.

Right folks, so you know when you're in a bar, and you follow the signs to go to the toilet, and on that corridor you go down to get to the gents or ladies, there are always a few other mysterious and heavily locked doors that lead to various barrel rooms, private quarters, kitchens, and God knows what else? Well earlier tonight, it's time for me to go for a piss, so I head out of the main bar through the door with the toilets sign above it, and what do I come face to face with? Only this bad boy: Sorry it's sideways but this shit is real. I later noticed a further Rich Energy poster in the main bar area, featuring an actual image of an energy drink can with Rich Energy's current logo emblazoned upon it. Its happening folks, RE are starting with the Isle of Man and making the world belong to them from there. #betterthanredbull #nobull #etcetc @nudge @Tommy @... @Stan @Eco @MUFC @DeadLinesman

Das ist in meiner Heimatstadt passiert. Gestern wollten wir Mittags mit dem Zug zum Stadion fahren und alles war abgesperrt und wir wurden von der Polizei weggeschickt. Erst später haben wir dann von den Hintergründen gehört. Unfassbar, einfach unfassbar. Vor allem, dass es scheinbar ohne den geringsten Anlass passiert ist, macht es noch schockierender. Hätte ja auch einem selbst passieren können.

@Dr. Gonzo the game's too heavy for my oldie laptop and struggles to run will have to wait until I get a new desktop...

https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/vermischtes/artikel/1814850/frau-in-voerde-getoetet-bahnsteig-schubser-ist-polizeibekannt So in a town not far from here, someone pushed a woman he didn't even know in front of a moving train, and she died. Just because... How fucking horrible is that? 34 year old mother, wife, daughter, perfectly healthy. Dead in just a couple of seconds because of a sick mind. It's so difficult to comprehend.