Dr. Gonzo

Never played a game like it before. It’s fun, pretty relaxing tbh because I really have no idea what I’m doing so I’ve just been exploring the solar system in the game. I’ve played for about an hour and I’ve had 4 hilarious deaths due to my really shit piloting - the best one so far was me taking pictures of planets and drifting into the sun.

I probably won't check it out until tomorrow (or very late tonight after I get back from a concert and I'll probably be very tired... and very drunk). But I'll keep you posted. Although this weekend, I may be preoccupied with trying to make peoples heads explode into a red goo while trying out the new Gears of War 5 tech test... But I'll check it out soon and keep you posted, definitely.

Everyone I know who's played it (granted, it's a sample size of 4 lol) has said it's a really great game

All of my friends have been raving about a game called "Outer Wilds" so I started the install of it before I left home today. Going to check it out tonight.

Oh I actually love the Gears games (even Judgment, which was a bit crap in comparison to the rest of the series) and I've been looking forward to the follow up to Gears 4. But to me it's pretty important they keep the gore in the game, it's a pretty dark game with a dark story and how violent it is plays a big part in the "feel" of the game and the world they've built for the stories. And imo they've got a great story campaign, so it'd be a shame for them to fuck that up. Looking forward to their "tech test" tomorrow for Gears 5, so I guess I'll see how gory it is in just over 24 hours.

Apparently this band's first album was produced by Deep Purple's Ian Gillian, so you might be into that @CaaC (John)

Was there even smoking in the previous gears? I don't remember it. I guess now that I think about it, I think some people smoke cigars. I particularly don't give a fuck, but they better not tone down the gore.

I wouldn't be surprised if right-wing extremists were dealing with dodgy arms dealers.

You can see that things are this bad because they have

I think that’s just the nature of developing young players. Even the ones that look really really good at the youth level might not be ready for regular first team football in the top flight. Some might be late bloomers as well - Connor Coady for example, when he left us after his loan spells it was because it looked like he found his level in the championship. It wasn’t until he was promoted with Wolves many years later that he’s looking like a genuine top flight defender. And kids that were higher rated than him at our youth team are still in the championship or below. Everton clearly have a very good academy with some very talented youth players. But I think the nature of developing young players for a side with ambition in the top flight means a lot of those players don’t break through into the first team unfortunately.

Yeah it's a bit annoying to not have more free time to play games. Lately I've been spending basically all of my free time playing guitar so I've cared less about games, I hadn't realised it had been so long since I even logged into my xbox.

There's almost always delays in large construction projects of that scale too. But it'll be coming within the next 5-6 years, I'd imagine.

Hope it ends up actually being good and not a let down like the final season of GOT.

Just received a text from one of my friends that I play with all the time saying the last time I logged into the Xbox was about a month ago. I knew it'd been a while since I'd last played a game... but that's actually fairly surprising for me. Better log on this weekend to get some use out of my Xbox Live/Game Pass.

Do the games run better docked than in handheld mode? The graphics and frame resolution seem to be much better in handheld mode than docked with my Switch.

Can't play Mario Party with it though, which is a bit of a let down

That good? Maybe I'll stay there instead of at my parents' house the next time I go back home

I don't think we'll sell him just yet. Although it's probably not great for him that the one area of the pitch our reliable journos say we're looking to bring in a squad player is in his position - but I suspect he and the kids will get more chances in pre-season to impress. If the kids all play like the way they did yesterday, with visible hunger and desire to crack into the first team (with some kids looking far more ready than others, tbf) then he'll have a good chance of getting more time on the pitch with us.

Sounds fun

Yeah, heard about the dog. Glad to see he got the cute little fucker back. Brewster looked good today, basically everyone did tbh. But it was Tranmere, so it's hard to say if he looks ready for first team football in the top flight. I will say all of the young kids looked very fucking hungry and looked like they all wanted to fight for at least a squad role in the side, which is encouraging - none of that "oh it's pre-season against a small club, let's put no effort in" mentality. Even the more established players looked hungry and up for it, which is good to see. I'd say Brewster was a highlight for the second half, and that Dutch kid Ki-Jana Hoever looked pretty fucking excellent - Clyne scored, but I thought Hoever had a better 45 minutes. Wouldn't be surprised if Hoever's our backup RB for the season. But again, it was only Tranmere so we have to take the performance with a pinch of salt. But the good thing is the kids looked well up for it. We'll be getting Henderson, Trent, Virgil and Gini back on Saturday.

I've just listened to 4 songs of that band @Inverted posted in the "Making Music" thread - Khruangbin. I like them, relaxing stuff.

It ended 2-1. Now we know League One > Ligue Un

Clyne's goal was good. Featured a 40 yard run from Gomez as a centreback Curtis Joes got himself on the scoresheet as well. And Origi just now

Our starting XI for our friendly today against the other club on Merseyside to win something this year: Mignolet, Clyne (didn't realise we still had him lol), Phillips, Gomez, Larouci, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Milner, Lallana, Kent, Wilson, Brewster Subs: Jaros, Atherton, Hoever, Matip, Johnston, Lewis, Fabinho, Jones, Woodburn, Duncan, Glatzel, Origi

The Soggy Baguettes in charge of Iran doing their best to get Iranians killed by trying to stop a British tanker