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Perfect for T in the Park
I was at the first one you know
Weekend camping at a festival is actually minging and I will never do it again.
I always recall the time on day 3 when everything goes wrong and there's **** everywhere in the toilets, I went for a pee and dry heaved looking at the all the **** and puke clogged up in the toilet and all the walls.
I got out and these 2 hot young birds were like 'OMG look what he's done!'
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Perfect for T in the Park
I was at the first one you know
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His brain is fried. The lad liked his drugs
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I once saw Brian Wilson in Universal Studios Florida doing an afternoon shift to a crowd of none on a public walkway.
Pretty shocking if you ask me
He played Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis which I thought was apt.
Not bigging myself up but it seemed like I was the only one who knew both Brian and that song.
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When I saw Dylan in London I swear he was practically being held up just like when I saw Brian Wilson at t in the p
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You say you're not really following but you are more like Dylan was when he last visited Scotland and fell asleep during the press junket
My thoughts still take root because wise men plant trees they will never sit under the shadows of
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Last of Us: it has an annoying lesbian subplot with an ugly ethnic woman and they also did something that I won't post as many on here will be looking forward to season 2 of the show unaware of the shocking twist.
Gaming: I think the entertainment medium in general is highly sanitised, woke and stupid. Those Marvel MCU movies are just absolute garbage. There's also no movements in music anymore. Who are the good new bands? Music was great the 60's to 90's and then it collapsed. I was considering getting tickets for 83 year old Bob Dylan's upcoming gig in Edinburgh ffs and I've already seen him and know he cannae sing for peanuts anymore
Wow: I played guild wars 2 a bit and it was quite good. I've also sunk a load of hours into final fantasy online
(You kind of meander off at this stage and I'm not really following)
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I've not played any of The Last of Us (Or watched the show) but apparently between the first and second game the community got split in two by the storyline and so I've kept shy of it.
Personally I reckon that, like the Internet, gaming died when it got popular with the masses. It got easier, preachier and expected more of a person than it did before (That would be about personal details rather than effort in winning).
Anything I play now doesn't have gender/race/sexuality in it and is just colourful shapes solving problems against the clock with music in it.
I never did touch World of Warcraft as it looked too cartoony for me. I played the equivalent called Guild Wars but that too got too cartoony and so that got dropped.
I suppose in about 20 years time people will talk about being able to play Pac-Man at the arcade in romantic ways and I'll be the ancient codger saying they don't know about the off-table tactics from strangers standing around you and how going to go to the toilet was a factor in concentration to the groans and modern swear words dismissing me as senile.
Still, there will be a different version of that reality for most of them at some point (If they are lucky).
GTA VI should be the rebalancer or absolute death of gaming in the traditional sense. It seems, just now at least, the equalities and marginalised aspects (Dealt with perfectly in San Andreas) is going to be the Damocles sword in how it goes.
I trust Rockstar to stick to the original DMA roots in pointing things out and laughing at them but times change, and as you have mentioned, games aren't what they used to be.
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I think gaming's really stagnated in the last 10-15 years. In fact, the last time I've been truly impressed by gaming is probably World of Warcraft way back when, finding a world I could navigate and anything seemed possible.
Just seems like lots of Ubisoft type clones with no original gameplay. Hopefully the next GTA is a banger
Edit - actually RDR 2 and the last of us 2 were the last games to impress me
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I think that would have been a great game. An online game that was more like a weekend of camping rather than a jump on and get a quick half hour battered off which is what RDR2:O is like.
But they separated the two so some folk won't even know what the game is actually like and so you can't hate them for their fun.
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It's a shame cos an online RDR 2 world with slow immersive gameplay and RPG elements would be awesome
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Indeed
The online version is almost the exact opposite point of the game. In every way.
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I played online only once and it was weirdly fast and arcadey, which misses the point entirely. Waste of time
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Yeah, a deck of cards or a chessboard don't give me any of that nonsense and so casuals, like me, will just stroll on.
Nothing against those dead into it feeling grand in their own way though.
But if I wanted to impress a girl by loading up a C64 game with the possibility of a syntax error appearing halfway through the ten minutes it takes I'd be married and have kids and there'd be water flowing underground.
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Any game I put in wanted a login which completely misses the point of a casual games system.
well, you need an account that you can link bank details to so you can buy games and subscriptions, in your case you could have just logged in as a guest.

Between logging in and updates the whole situation becomes an unwanted one Alvin
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I tried a PS5 once, on an AirBnB I had rented out.
Any game I put in wanted a login which completely misses the point of a casual games system.
I just put Sony into the calling Obama a ****** box with that one and let the idea of being entertained by it DEI.
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Yes, when you reached 400 hours I'd imagine you had a general idea of the theme lol
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It is playstation 5.
Why are you trying to tell me what the game is like? I have played it to death I know all about it lol bith online and single player.

I'm guessing that's the Epic game system or something else that isn't Steam.
Either way, the game starts off slow, keeps being slow and doesn't seem to pick up until you end up being a rootin' tootin' Wild West outlaw who is a crackshot
Online is just for *******.
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Errrr, wot?
(Hours I have played the game, majority online )
and that is just on the playstation, probably double that when i had an xbox

It's a slow start and even slower burner but it picks up and has a lot of pace. You'll be ploughing along before you know it and being whatever type of hero you want to be.
Don't bother with online though, like GTA it is a completely different dynamic with the geography being the only thing that is similar.
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Didn't you wear fingerless gay leather gloves too lol
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