>>24942>>24936
I rather enjoyed it solo, but I think you had to get yourself into the mindset / roleplay it a bit. The illusion was broken in MP whenever I tried it due to people having unlimited rocket launchers and super flaming exploding poo knife chainsaws.

Riptide plays similarly but has a bit more to it. Base building and defense, and a Unarmed Melee based character joins the team.

I played through Doom 2 with Brutal Doom over the last few days. It's all great and I suspect some of you already know that, but thinking back not only did the original Doom bits hold up, basically everything in Brutal Doom makes it more fun. What isn't good and probably wasn't in 1994 are some cheap tricks that hide a small number of keys that you can't progress without. One section where you have to open one timed door and then run halfway down a hallway to trigger an invisible switch which opens another timed door in the room you just left, may perhaps be one of the most underhanded bits of game design this side of retro adventure games. Possibly there are some optional secrets that do that too, but this is the only necessary hidden pressure switch in the entire game.

However, looking up one of the hidden keys did mean I got to find out about, and experience for myself, Club Doom.

Got Chivalry 2. It's pretty fun, very hectic, the controls are shit on a gamepad so I'm killing my teammates more often than I'm killing the enemy, but it's good silly fun. I especially like that when your defences are sufficiently breached you have to play as peasants with handtools to defend against the encroaching army. I don't know if it's possible to win with peasants, but it's a nice little touch.

>>24950
Really like the look of it - seems like a giggle.

>>24950

I'm going to get this but I'm going to shit up the voice chat constantly screaming the lyrics to A Fine Day To Die down the mic in my perfect Quorthorn vocal stylings.

>>14454

I bought a microwavable donner kebab from Home Bargains for a pound and dressed it with lettuce from my garden, a but of leftove onion , sriracha and garlic mayo and it was pure lovely.

Anybody know where I can buy the mango sauce they use in all the Manchester kebab shops?

>>14455
I'd be surprised if they managed to find something cheaper than KTC

Peas, potatoes and vegetable protein in chip shop curry sauce. The box makes it look like vomit. It wasn't overly nice.

Butterkist toffee popcorn ice cream;
Thin, aerated 'ice cream' with a miniscule layer of toffee syrup and corn kernels. It sat in my gut for 3 days before slipping out as a slimey gloop over the course of 36 hours. Exlusive to Iceland, indeed.

>>14467
I'm incredibly wary of brand mash-ups and remixes like that ever since one of you lot highlighted that those Cadbury ones were just the floor sweepings from the Oreo or Dime production lines dumped into a chocolate bar.

>>443552
>it looks like the physical damage to Shell HQ was very limited in the first place
Cost of £15,000 apparently. The broken windows last week were valued at £160,000.

>But on the other hand, what are you saying with a verdict like that. Will you have the right to just randomly go into a service station and vandalise it, and possibly assault the lad behind the till because his employer pollutes the Earth? Can you drag somebody out of a combustion engine car at an intersection and do the same to them because they're part of the problem?
No, obviously not. What absurd hyperbole.

>I don't think that's the right way to protest against unequal wealth distribution
Too right. Hilarious as it is, it didn't go far enough to actually address the issue.

>>443552
>I mean, the damage was effectively zero, after a good clean and polish anyway, but I don't think that's the right way to protest against unequal wealth distribution.
Indeed. Slashing the tyres would have made far more sense; more costly, more menacing, not so debased.

As for the earlier part of your post I don't see how this case set any new precedent. If a jury doesn't want to convict someone then they don't have to, and whilst I can't think of any examples off the top of my head this can't be the first time a jury has sided with a more sympathetic defendant over the prosecution, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/shell-trial-verdict-netherlands-emissions-b1854266.html
>Shell forced to slash global emissions after landmark court ruling

https://news.sky.com/story/shell-ordered-to-reduce-emissions-by-45-by-2030-in-landmark-ruling-12317324
>Shell ordered to reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 in landmark ruling

>Records of Priti Patel’s contact with police over XR protest deleted in ‘IT glitch’, court hears
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/xr-printworks-protest-priti-patel-police-b1864046.html
This is a joke. The Hertfordshire Police chief has destroyed evidence to protect Priti Patel.

>>444440
She probably sent him images of her RIGHT PRIME ARSE to make him do her bidding.

>>14387
There's only two ways to cook beef in my experience. Really quickly or really slowly. Your recipe sounds good, I might try it.

Does anyone have a beef ragu recipe they'd recommend?

I made it anyway using a mixture of internet recipes.

So 1kg beef cheeks, 400g sausage meat and 200g of smoked bacon.

Start a bottle of spiced cab sav simmering to reduce it from 75 to 50 CL. At some point, throw a sprig of rosemary in there.

Good squirt of olive oil in the biggest frying pan. Cut the bacon into pancetta pieces, fried it then the sausage meat to a crisp brown. Put them aside, diced then fried a handful each of carrot, celery and onion in the fat.

Put everything cooked so far in the wine, plus some bay leaves roughly torn in half, two spoonfuls of tomato pureé, a tin of peeled plum tomatoes and a literal mug full of beef stock.

Rolled the beef cheeks in flour, then fried them in the remaining grease.

Everything goes in the slow cooker on low for 6-8 hours. The butcher said the cheeks would need about 40 hours but he was wrong.

Add soy sauce, some fish sauce (or an anchovy) to taste, plus a pack of double cream and a few ladles full of starch water from the pasta. Oh and a handful of parmesan. Stir in well.

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Sorry I forgot: I also put three large garlic bulbs in there, roughly crushed.

Alternative pop-country goddess Lissie is the finest singer-songwriter of this millennium. Nobody since the year 2000 has been so consistently brilliant. There's still time for her to make it big. It could still happen. The morons can still realise how wrong they have been about her.

>>444363

I put it to you that it is in fact you who is the teary bumder.

>>444365
I'll teary in your bumder

>>444363
Revenge lad is back! He's been analysing all our posts and basically we're fucking stupid.

Click here to find out how.

>>444367
I think you're giving revengelad too much credit.

>>444368

Few posters even consider the possibility of shit posters from other message boards.

And yet across the gulf of space minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded our website with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.

>>444396
>Is it some specific type of leaf or what?
My guess is it's smoked in some way. Though I've only ever smoked it when people on council estates in Byker have offered me 50g for a tenner. What a time to be alive.

>>444397
A good shag is always worth the money.

20 Chunghwa please.

>>444400

I miss them lad.

>>444397
> European Drum is barrel-cured in the Netherlands using a centuries-old process.

So it's down to the curing process and blend of tobacco types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_(tobacco)

>>2953
You've found a wild kakuna

>>2954

My thoughts exactly, but I now think it's a cutworm chrysalis

Any of you lads know what this weed is?

I'm about to pull it, but it looks quite cool and most of the weeds around these parts are old herbal medicines.

>>2956
Don't know what the middle one is, but the long leaves surrounding it are wild rocket, and you definitely want that to grow - tastes very nice fresh.

>>2957

Yeah, I'm cultivating the rocket (but they're all about to bolt) but the weed has a sufficiently interesting appearance that I'll let it grow a bit more.

>Sarah Everard died as a result of compression of the neck, a post-mortem examination has found.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57260746

What exactly is compression of the neck? I assume it's different to strangulation/asphyxiation if they haven't been given as the cause of death. Did she receive the George Floyd treatment?

>>33868

Ah. It's one of those kinky sex gone wrong cases.

>>33868
Maybe it's a blood flow thing? You can press your veins and arteries in your neck quite easily; I can imagine it would kill you if someone wanted to do that. Meanwhile, I think George Floyd officially died of a heart attack, which was why the defence for Derek Chauvin argued that it was the drugs that killed him. If you Floyded Sarah Everard and she didn't have a heart attack, she might have just had the blood flow cut off to her brain. Although I do strongly suspect she was murdered a little more vigorously than is being implied by that report.

>>33868
It's injury to the spine.

>>33873
>I think George Floyd officially died of a heart attack
This is partly a case of medical terms confusing lay people.
You have a heart attack when your heart stops receiving enough oxygen to pump blood correctly. When writing death certificates doctors are usually very pedantic about only writing things that that can see direct evidence of. So they will write that they died of a heart attack but avoid conjecture about possible causes of that lack of oxygen.

I used to collect Top Trumps, and each set comes with a special card. If you send 10 special cards to Top Trumps HQ, you get a Top Trumps Top Trumps set. It was very underwhelming.

>>444369

Does the Top Trumps Top Trumps set come with a special card?

>>444369
When was this? They never did this in the 1990s when I had Le Mans Cars and Road Cars and one of the fantasy ones, possibly Goblins & Faeriefolk. I had loads, and I imagine I still do if my parents haven't thrown them away.

The best top trumps aren't even made by Top Trumps anyway.

>>444370
Don't think so.
>>444373
This would have been about 2002. They actually advertised that the prize was a gunmetal Top Trumps case, but I guess that got replaced by Top Trumps Top Trumps by the time I had enough special cards.

>>5303 Wasn't there a Raman Spectrometer on Beagle II ?
<rummage>
Ah, not quite. Blast it with piss^WGamma. Should be able to spot the difference between win-blown rock, CO2 globs and magic mars mushrooms.

The Mössbauer Spectrometer
This would investigate the mineral composition of rocks by irradiating exposed rock surfaces and soil with g-rays emitted by a isotopic source (cobalt-57), and then measuring the spectrum of the g-rays reflected back. In particular, the nature of iron minerals in the pristine interior and weathered surface of rocks would have been compared to determine the oxidising nature of the present atmosphere.

"Martian Fungus" is all I need to hear to have the plot of a sci-fi horror movie fully mapped out.

The first manned mission to Mars is going to be a disaster. The one we send afterwards to investigate is going to be even worse, it's all so tiresomely predictable, but we'll walk right into it.

>>5310
I think I agree with you actually - many of the first manned missions to Mars are just going to be snuff films.

>>5311

>>5312
Don't threaten me with a good time Mr Musk.

>>5297
>>5301
Fair warning, if you use 1.1.1.1 then archive.* breaks because the people that run it are idiots.

>>5302
If a web page was worth reading in the first place why would it have been deleted?

>>5305
Because it wasn't maintained, presumably.

>>5305
Have you tried asking fastly? They effectively deleted half the internet yesterday.

>>5307
nothing of value was lost, etc.

>>444131

>if you get caught speeding in your dreams, does that count in real life?

I can only imagine police forces are actively, desperately working on it.

>>444133

ARE LAURIE LIKES IT UP THE SHITTER /Q LADS

There was a new show on the Las Vegas strip where the audience watched a person be tortured and killed, which I attended and had mixed feelings about, but the majority of the world seemed generally okay with the show existing. The production company that ran the show was owned by Donald Trump, who was lauded as a genius for its inception.

>>444204

Irl, I woke up at half 4 for some reason, and couldn't get back to sleep so put some episodes of The Thick of It on as I often do in these sort of situations. Then later fell asleep with my headphones on.

So in the dream, I was at a some kind of casual rehearsal or recital of the show taking place in a small marquee, but with different actors. Everyone was just sitting around on stools, the audience weren't really separate. In fact there might not have been any other audience but me.

Since I was actually hearing the real show, they had the voices of the original cast. The scene they performed is from early in S4E1, where they have a meeting discussing the announcement of the app thing. Glen was played by a woman with a fake beard stuck on.

>>9163
>Asshole
Get him out of the England... whatever they call it cricket, right this instant.

>England pace bowler Ollie Robinson has been suspended from international cricket pending an investigation into historical racist and sexist tweets. The posts from 2012 and 2013 were revealed while he was making his England debut during the drawn first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.

>Robinson, 27, has been dropped from the squad for the second Test, which begins on Thursday at EDGBASTON. He will leave the England camp on Sunday and return to his county Sussex.

>The tweets, posted when Robinson was aged 18 and 19, came to light on Wednesday afternoon, while he was on the field. After play, he apologised, saying he was "embarrassed" and "ashamed". "I am sorry, and I have certainly learned my lesson today," he said. "I want to make it clear that I'm not racist and I'm not sexist."

>Robinson returned match figures of 7-101 and scored 42 in his only innings against New Zealand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/57379184

Right now every professional cricketer is trawling through every single thing they've posted on Twitter to try and delete anything potentially offensive.

Serves them right. I am only a few years older than these twats, but I would have never dared to post silly things on an account with my name and image. I virtually had zero social media presence, and most of my peers were the same. They only started making these accounts in their late twenties.

>>9180
The internet wasn't serious business back then.

>>33951

>why is ones opinion worth more than another?

If your opinion is "this hurts me and makes me feel bad" and my opinion is "it's fine" then why shouldn't yours be given more consideration by anyone compassionate enough to not want you to feel bad?

Moreover it's not really an opinion, is it, it's not like you can say well, in ny opinion, I feel awful when I hear a joke about my race, can you? It's deeper than that and pretty dismissive to suggest it's merely a preference for you and your entire race to not be compared to a monkey.

>>33952
>It's not about ignorance - the hypothetical that I gave you was a black person who was not ignorant, but remained uncomfortable.

But the core of what you're saying is that irrational feelings of one individual dictate the behaviour of others, and that regardless of the reality, if someone feels bad about something then that something must be changed to accommodate them. You can't apply that policy consistently, it's ouroboro...tic.

>The other black person couldn't care either way,
Who said that? In my example the other black person (I'll just refer to him as a Wilfred Zaha for now) is actually arguing against any action being taken in that vein, as many are.

>I don't know what you mean by "you can't just go on feeling",
Because black people are the same as white people, they're just treated differently by certain institutions and individuals.

I don't think I should operate on feeling above all else, same goes for people in general. It would be entitled of me to assume that other people whose cultures I am not a part of and whose cultural symbolism is provably unrelated to my history or my being to change their culture to accommodate my feelings, when I can instead learn to control my feelings. Why would I change my mind on that principle just because of the colour of someones skin?

What if we were just talking about white people?

>>33953
>If your opinion is "this hurts me and makes me feel bad" and my opinion is "it's fine" then why shouldn't yours be given more consideration by anyone compassionate enough to not want you to feel bad?

That's a false equivalence. You're saying "racism hurts me and this monkey being hanged resembles racist iconography, so this is hurting me" with the response being "Actually this refers to a chimp we thought was a Frenchman, it's completely unrelated".

Then any reasonable person would go, "Oh, okay, thanks for educating me on your cultural heritage. What a funny coincidence".

Your argument, if applied in real life, would lead Jews to go to Japan and complain about the manji. You don't see Jews in Japan slating the manji. Because that would be absolutely moronic, and culturally insensitive. I'll now be dying on that hill because I think it perfectly encapsulates why this hypothetical black person is a snowflake.

>>33955

I wasn't talking specifically about that, it just sounded like you didn't understand how racism worked.

>>33956
What if you give me the benefit of the doubt, regardless of whether I deserve it?

>>12841

But that's precisely the problem - white soul artists are re-hashing a cod version of a cod version of 60s gospel. The Black Church is still churning out innovative and technically brilliant musicians in droves, but that isn't filtering through to the mainstream.

Let's all take a few minutes to appreciate the best-named French pop star, Fanny Forest:

>>12847

The French are dirty bastards. Fair play to them, I wouldn't have the nerve.

I still can't decide whether I like Zenit. It does look like they'd put on a good show though.

>>93935
Don't worry, you might be seeing some new faces but they won't be sticking around. Some mighty nice houses up there we can to buy-to-let you see. Why else would you think we're sending money up North to tidy it up a bit first, we've never sent you any money before.

There's not much point in making a distinction about the North versus the rest of the country. The social attitudes in the so-called red wall are in line with the rest of the country; the main difference has been the historical "I'm voting Labour, just like me Dad" tradition that had been weakening.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/05/17/stereotypical-image-red-wall-residents-accurate

>>93937
I like how they conveniently neutered the free speech question to the degree that both answers can be interpreted as the same thing. And the the school history question isn't in line with any national debate. Suppose it doesn't matter so long as they can make it into the paper though and get more people signed up to watch ads for them.

If you use YouGov you're a patsy for corporate interests. There are ways to structure electronic engagement that Taiwan leads on, people need to stop thinking this is it.

>>93938
>There are ways to structure electronic engagement that Taiwan leads on, people need to stop thinking this is it.
Sorry, I don't really understand what you mean by this and it comes across as a very puzzling outburst. Could you explain further?

>>93938

>And the the school history question isn't in line with any national debate.

There was a parliamentary petition last year to make lessons on colonialism and slavery part of the national curriculum, which kicked up a small amount of fuss in the tabloids.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092

>>13817

Lab tech? Don't know why, just getting some sort of sixth sense.

90 day passwords for admin functions. That cannot be the same as the last 3 entries. That must include capitalisation, a number, a symbol, be 9 letters long ad nauseam. And then if you get the password wrong 3 times you will of course be locked out and have an absolute ball-ache getting let back in.

I have a feeling it has to be this way, not because it works but because it gives the appearance of working.

>>13817
>All the classic signs of someone in a managerial position who's well acquainted with the ways you can half arse your job with impunity

As someone who half arses life in general; have you thought about kicking up a fuss so she consciously avoids fucking you, and specially you, about?

>>13819
>As someone who half arses life in general; have you thought about kicking up a fuss so she consciously avoids fucking you, and specially you, about?

You need to establish that dynamic pretty swift though. If it settles and then you try and show backbone you can end up getting even more shafted for appearing inconsistent.

>>13815

maybe hint to her you consider unfair rotas a form of work place bullying

People putting preferred pronouns on their email and yes I get why they're doing it but this seems a bit daft. The more people do it, the more pressure I have to spend 5 minutes doing my signature for absolutely no benefit - a form of workplace assault.

>>444292
Fuck off Ronald.

>>444292
What's snobby about humous? It's just smashed up chickpeas.

>>444271
>Infantilisation polari
I agree completely, but what really sets this post apart is the fact that it reads like a crossword clue.

>>444238
Is calling it your 'packing up' really only a thing in Hull, or are you just psychic?

>>444323
It's where I'm from originally and it was used there, but I doubt it's the only place.

>>33911
He's a post man. When he says locking himself in his own little office he means going for a cheeky wee on his rounds.

>>33912

Climbing inside a big red letterbox and having a wee chuff

Being a dysfunctional ADD sort of person who sleeps on a 6 or 13 hour cycle, I'm very torn on work from home. On the one hand, not sleeping consistently makes it difficult to get up and get ready for work on time and makes it impossible to do so without showing up some days being completely out of it from lack of sleep. With WFH there's the option of waking up at 1pm and working later to compensate, which helps with that. But on the other hand, in the absence of being forced to focus by a school/workplace environment I would inevitably leave things to or beyond the last minute, so it's unlikely that I'm actually going to sit up until 9pm doing my work like a responsible person when someone on this website is being wrong about snails.

>>33914

I've never really thrived in a typical white-collar office environment. Something about it always felt stifling to me. From bosses where you have to know the exact distance you're expected to crawl up their arse, to the finer points of office politics and having to suffer the quirks of coworkers eight hours a day.

We're now gradually moving back to a schedule where we are expected to spend most of our time back at our company's headquarters, and I've honestly been looking at other job openings or career opportunities that would enable me to keep working from home full time. Maybe even become self employed.

>>33914
>Being a dysfunctional ADD sort of person

Have you had any success with the Medication / Working Therapies side of things? I'm honestly like that moment in Brazil where Robert De Niro rips all the Ducts open, every time someone gets my attention - but only if I forget to take my prescription whizz. [Computer-based] CBT was a waste of time though, I just stared through the PC monitor at the wall behind, answering the multiple choice questions like I was auditioning for the Job of a Normal Person, and the rather fit Healthcare Assistant didn't seem to know exactly what to make of me describing my experience with it.