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The release clauses are bullshit. Clubs can just pay the release clause and you can't do anything about it. Already half a season in Manchester City paid the release clause for Sergio Ramos.

No, I spent 5 minutes in that mode in FIFA 17 to see what it was, and then I realised that I don't care for it at all.

I've heard people say the defending is harder, but if anything I find it easier to do 1-on-1 marking, although the ball does get through in the chaos more often than I'd like. Just had a terrific match in career mode. My first derbi and it lived up to the hype. I was getting absolutely slaughtered in the first half, so in half-time I decided to go all or nothing (since I already had nothing). Took Benzema off, moved Ronaldo to the front, put Marcelo on the left flank as a full-blown attacker, swapped Modric for Isco, and put in Kroos for Asensio. Basically the most fast and attacking formation I could push together, and absolutely raped them on the counter. Feels good when your HT changes actually make a difference.

Currently trying to set the commentary language to English, which is surprisingly convoluted. It is truly amazing how it has been AT LEAST since FIFA 11 that you couldn't simply change the commentary language in-game, and that the Dutch commentary has been 80% the same since FIFA 13, in addition to being badly acted by the most annoying commentator who mispronounces every name that isn't Dutch.

Playing through the original Mass Effect trilogy again after beating Andromeda a while ago. Currently at Mass Effect 2. It probably has the best atmosphere with that neo Tokyo Blade Runner style going on. I still think ME3 is the best game, but the looming threat of the final battle makes it a bit depressing to play at times.

The first time in forever I got a FIFA game at launch date. I've started a career mode with Real Madrid, which I hadn't done since FIFA 07. But with the current team I just can't resist the temptation to play all the top teams in the league and the CL. I also made a back-up career mode to play with other teams. I started at Tottenham and got Bas Dost for way too much money (€50mln). Overall I like the new gameplay as it's very pass-oriented, but it does once again seem slow. If you change direction with any player that isn't Ronaldo, you accelerate at a snail's pace.

Takbeer!

That is seriously the most German picture of all time.

Insurance companies have protocols to fuck people over. They rely on your lack of persistence, so it's always worth bugging them to try and get a little more. It works like that with most big companies really. My landlord was offered a 100 euro compensation for the faulty internet service and with a phonecall she got that up to 500.

It's weird because tensions culminated so much under the Mourinho era that you'd think people have calmed down by now. For the most part this is true, but Ramos seems to have gotten progressively worse. He was one of my favourite footballers ever since he came over from Sevilla, but I'm really starting to grow tired of his shenanigans. By contrast, Marcelo has grown into my favourite player of the whole bunch.

Barcelona's defence in their golden era is indeed underestimated. They were so good they succeeded for years to obscure the fact they had a very mediocre goalkeeper (Valdes). I remember reading a statistic in the 2006/07 season or the one after that which showed that Casillas had let in just a few more goals than Valdes despite receiving literally 3 times as many shots on goal.

tbf stabbing is as normal to Finns as breathing, so at least these muslims show signs of assimilation

Er will keinen Thread ohne der Ewige Anglo. Verräter...

Happy birthday Inga! A new set of teeth is underway.

Outlast (both 1 and 2) also looks scary as fuck. Such games give me way too much stress so I won't try it.

As the saying goes, trans kids are like vegan cats: we all know who's making that choice.

RE7 looks quite good but I watched some gameplay footage in which the protagonist gets stabbed in the hand with a kitchen knife repeatedly and I figured I didn't need that in my life.

RE7 looks quite good but I watched some gameplay footage in which the protagonist gets stabbed in the hand with a kitchen knife repeatedly and I figured I didn't need that in my life.

Ever wonder where the term 'banana republic' comes from?

Nah, I did about 1 a week and I could only finish the third one so soon because I had a few days off. And I rushed through the first game, wish I kinda regret.

You say it like a temperature barely above 20 is anything other than ideal.

Finished the Mass Effect series. From the 'buzz' back in the day I always gathered part 2 was supposed to be the best, but I think 3 was easily the best one. In addition to having some of the most intense missions and difficult decisions (Krogan planet, Geth planet, I needn't say more), it was also the first game in the series that was a fucking great shooter. Contrary to previous entries, the weapons had real weight to them, and the arsenal to choose from was huge, especially with DLCs installed. Speaking of which, the Combat Simulator that comes with the Citadel DLC is fucking killer. In any case, I sank way more hours into these games than I would be willing to admit, and it feels rotten that it's over now. Yeah, there's still Andromeda, but it's supposedly a rather weak entry. Also, it's an entirely different story arc, with (for as far as I can tell) none of the characters that you bonded with across the initial trilogy. I think the only cure is playing through these games again sometime. But yeah, it's a fantastic trilogy that holds up well, and Mass Effect 3 is easily in my top 5 games of all time.

So is it that time of the generation again where Latin American countries make their switch from socialist rogue states to capitalist hellholes controlled by the US and fruit corporations? Time is not linear, it's cyclical.

Welcome back. You have even kept your username as misleading as ever!

You do know what BBC stands for, right?