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Ah yes, I remember all of that. I also remember playing with two friends from school, and we always trolled one. Like getting him into a plane with us, then jumping out without telling him. He always panic parachuted in the last second and died almost every time. Or just jumping out of the jeep heading for the ocean while he was still on the passenger seat. Fun times.

If anyone ever teamkilled me to take a tank, there's a good chance I flew over them with a helicopter, picked their tank up, and dropped them into some water or onto somewhere that made it a pain in the arse to be in a tank. But there's also a good chance that I did that to anyone for no good reason other than me being an idiot that thought doing that to people was the funniest fucking thing ever. Also spawn camping the other team, putting mines inside their helicopters, running out and hiding to watch them get into the helicopters was a lot of fun.

There were so many assholes. People teamkilling you so they could get a plane instead of you. Just thinking of that brings back old rage that I didn't even know was still there.

Those 2 were the best ones. My brother and I were such awful trolls in Battlefield Vietnam, I bet people hated playing with us - hilarious times though, especially with that one helicopter that could pick up tanks & boats.

Badass.

My favourite Battlefield will always be Battlefield 1942. It just had a unique feeling about it. It was nothing like I've ever seen before (especially in Multiplayer), and never brought me so much joy in terms of gaming. Battlefield Vietnam was pretty close though.

That games' weird because there's barely any trench warfare in it - it's a good game, but it's not the best at making a "faithful" WW1 setting. It feels like a WW2 game with WW1 skins. I do remember the story mode being very enjoyable, even though it's really short... but tbh, Battlefield you mostly play for multiplayer and sometimes singleplayer's been sort of an afterthought for them. I think I prefer the little stories. I never played the Battlefield that came out after it, that was a return to WW2... but my friends I play Battlefield games with played it and said it was pretty bad. So going into Battlefield 1 for that sort of gameplay isn't the worst option. I played the shit out of that game and I loved it. I'm still playing The Ascent with a few of my friends, and I've got to say it's a very enjoyable co-op game. It feels a lot like Diablo, because there's loot and because of the top-down view - but it's got it's own feel to it (and it's very pretty). Speaking of Diablo, I'm looking forward to Diablo 2's remaster coming out - that was probably one of my favourite games of all time. I dunno if I have the time to play it like I used to (I'm not sure I ever beat Diablo 3 actually because that was when I was sort of getting my career started and I remember buying the game and playing it for a few months... but I can't say that I remember too much about it).

Watch this:

And I didn't even see that...

Not confirmed, but yes, Norwich is reportedly the destination. If true, then it's pretty cool, considering that Rashica is already there, too.

This is incredible. Meet the most powerful, the tallest ever assembled, and the only fully reusable rocket ever. First fully stacked Starship

Absolutely excited, as I just got a notification that Andy Weir's latest book is ready for me to check out and read. Let's Go! Cancel all my plans for the weekend... And then my non-fiction -

Perseverance to take its first core sample today.

Topology of Austria

How do you know that, do you know someone who works in my office? Have they told you!!

Nope! @Devil is still a muppet

Haha - how long have you been here? I'm over 14 years (I joined in college and graduated in 2008) . Also, I enjoy a small jab at @Viva la FCB as he just one of the nicest blokes on here. Oh I know. But certainly you have to love someone of his caliber coming out and saying his dream to play for a 2nd division team. Probably difference if you Bayern as most of the world would dream of playing for you lot, but having a quality player saying they dream of playing for someone NOT BvB or Bayern, is something I rather like to see.

I created a god damn twitter account so I could share this. This game is god damn amazing.

Brilliant, these animals are more intelligent than the animals called human beings with brains in their feet who run around knifing people and what not. I am not one for zoo's I am afraid and the last time I went to a zoo was when I was in the PTA at the primary school when our son & daughter were wee nippers, their school, and I helped out when they arranged the the school to go for a visit to Edinburgh Zoo. When you see wild animals in glass enclosurs just staring at us humans breaks my heart as their freedom of movement is around a grass field no bigger than a football pitch.

Love this. That said, whenever I'm visiting any zoo, I always feel very uneasy seeing the great apes there. I know that a lot of zoos are a good thing in terms of wildlife conservation etc. and they also take good care of the animals, but it just feels insanely wrong to have those intelligent, human-like apes having to spend their lives locked up and constantly observed. Same applies to every animal, but the great apes hit especially close to home.

Got this as my next non-fiction read. I must admit I know VERY little of Taiping rebellion and the civil war, so I'm really eager to read this book.

Yes that can work against you, I learnt to switch off the Microsoft communicator to off-line status up until 9.00 though if someone came to my desk just had to accept it. Managers are different too, some can be in at 7.30am others 8.45am and another 10.30am. Some are authoritarian most are easy going until things go wrong as they do from time to time. Successful ones for me need an edge, so you automatically respect them and knock on their door when their calendars are free. Normally found this worked though am also able to judge when they are stressed and know that is not the time to approach. One manager I liked early on was in charge of about 100 people, I go on well with him as we went to the same school although about a decade apart. I recall one evening about 6pm the phones were going and I was the only one there, he came out of the office and picked up a phone and dealt with it. When I wanted a move he told me straight he didn't think I could get into that area of the company though added he didn't want to lose me. I later moved jobs and a couple of years later moved abroad and phoned him to see if he would give me a reference, he seemed delighted. The agency later told me he game me a top reference and I got a decent job. When I came back to the UK I went back to that company and on my first day I saw that manager walking through the corridor and nodded and smiled. I never saw him again in the office, he had just been sacked. Bizarrely I saw him five years later at a school reunion and we had a chat and it was interesting, he told me he had fallen out with the client manager. By then he had risen to manage about 250 people yet had fallen out with the client manager and had paid the price. He knew it was a grey area and should have been diplomatic though for some reason he could not explain he decided to stick to his guns and let the other know in no uncertain terms he was not budging. He was philosophical about knowing it was partly his own fault. Said he had had a couple of jobs later though added they did not last long this was about 2005.