I’m hoping the queuing isn’t as bad this time. People forget that since Endwalker they’ve actually done some work on the queuing stuff and the disconnects during queuing (admittedly after a network engineer who played the game was able to comprehensively demonstrate there was issues in the game’s netcode causing the disconnects, but still). And they’ve added in the extra servers as well to help with the initial surge that you’d expect will happen.

That’s not to say there won’t be queues of course but I’m not expecting it to be as bad as EW was.

That’s fair enough too. Man has earned some rest! As long as that’s all it is, was worried maybe he’d gotten sick.

Might have just missed it. Is Martin Brundle just not on commentary this weekend or is there a reason he’s not there? Missed him on the grid walk today.

Oh, I missed them having to backpedal on that! That’s good news.

You’ve achieved something you wanted to get done, don’t belittle that! Enjoy your chill afternoon 😊

Crazy the 20th anniversary edition will release before Beyond Good and Evil 2 does.

Am looking forward to this though, I played this back when it originally came out and really enjoyed it.

Halocene. They got noticed for their covers of a variety of songs but they’ve also got their own music as well. Here’s a couple of my favourites.

Hold Me Help Me

Maleficent

Devil Inside Me

They’re currently touring as well through Europe and back around the US later this year.

It feels like the screenshot is breathing.

Just finished watching a replay cause I wasn’t staying up for a 4am race start, but that was easily the best race of the season. There was actual racing, good overtaking, different strategies in play, and you genuinely weren’t sure who would win for a good portion of the race.

More races like that please.

They do say one of the best ways to progress your career is to focus on your knob work. People really appreciate someone who can handle a knob.

Even if this worked as promised, if someone just murdered your child for example, and they got given a 1000 year sentence that was over in an afternoon from your perspective, would you feel that justice had been done?

You can argue that yes, of course it has, they’ve lived a millennium being punished for their crime, but I feel the vast majority of people would feel short changed by the process.

Whether that in itself is right or wrong is a completely separate discussion. But you’d have to have it if this tech actually existed and was used as they’re suggesting.

As a temporary measure could you set up a second account with different communities blocked? So browse on your main with everything as you have it but if you want to dive into the politics communities, switch to your alt account?

Isn’t Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can’t exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).

They posted a completed save file on their website and instructions on where to save it on your PC to be able to use it. So it’s not your own cloud save, but it does give you a completed save.

Oh, sorry, please don’t read it that way! It’s a game I very much enjoyed when I played it, and I do still today watch speed runners race it occasionally. The bug didn’t impact my enjoyment of it in the longer term, it’s just a fun fact I remember about it from when I did play it all those years ago that I thought I’d share.

Honestly I’m surprised they aren’t adding something that would allow it to rotate with the iPad. A second screen, maybe an e-Ink display, just to display the Apple logo, and the iPad can just send it a signal to spin it with the iPad screen. Make it a colour e-Ink screen and make it match your wallpaper.

Doesn’t really add any value but can be the beginning of iPads entering the RGB era.

Rhetoric aside, I can see why they’d do this. If you’re buying a 13in iPad, statistically you’re probably going to be using it in landscape, so it makes sense for the logo to be orientated that way as well.

But on the other hand, is that going to be a deciding factor in a purchasing decision? I highly doubt it. You’re not going to be looking at the back of the device when you use it. Plus if you use the Magic Keyboard with it, you don’t even see the logo anyway.

Chrono Trigger have played and loved as well, but it’s not one I’ve gone back to and replayed, which was one of my key criteria in this list, longevity (for me - I realise Chrono Trigger does have it between the multiple endings and New Game+ mode).

I have a very distinct memory of first playing it via emulator on ZSNES, and running into a bug in a section in the future that required you to hold L and R and activate some controls to open a door. For whatever reason the emulator wasn’t handling that properly and I got stuck. Eventually went back to it on Snes9x and was able to progress, but that stuck out.

Haven’t heard of Song of Saya though, thanks for the recommendation!

You’re right, you really can. That being said if it’s purely personal favourites I’d put FF6 into that list as well. I would love if they gave that the Remake treatment.

O doggo under the sofa, what is your wisdom?

Hmm, tough choices. In no particular order.

The Legend of Zelda - A Link To The Past This game was great when it was released and it’s great now, and thanks to the randomiser community it’s now infinitely replayable as well.

Super Metroid A series that literally helped define a genre, Super Metroid was everything that I suspect they wanted Metroid and Return of Samus to be but the hardware couldn’t keep up. The world is built for speed running as well with so many shortcuts that experienced players can utilise, and again, with the randomiser community making it infinitely replayable (not only on its own, but with a crossover with ALTTP!), this game easily makes it onto my list.

Final Fantasy VII My original introduction to JRPGs and a game whose story and mechanics still hold up today even if the graphics don’t as much. Obviously a lot of people feel the same way thanks to the Remakes, which while slightly out there have had so much nostalgia to play through them.

Final Fantasy XI The original Final Fantasy MMORPG and my introduction to MMORPGs generally, I put about 10 years into this game and still to this today occasionally reinstall it and see where I was last up to.

Final Fantasy XIV I tried several times to start FFXIV, but never got past the first few dungeons until COVID lockdowns hit, and since then am fully on board. The story, while a slow burn, is so good, and being a live service game means there’s always new content coming or changes to learn. But really, the story in FFXIV is easily good enough to qualify as a mainline FF title, and any FF players who haven’t tried it yet, should.

Doki Doki Literature Club You have to play this blind. Don’t watch a let’s play, and avoid any spoilers if you can. It’s worth it. But when it’s all done, if you’re playing on PC, people have written entirely new mods and story for it, and the good ones really know how to make you connect with the characters.

Persona 5 Royal I discovered the Persona series with Golden, and was super excited to play Persona 5 when it released, but Royal is the definitive version that you’ll want to play. The story is great, the gameplay is lots of fun, and the combination of JRPG and slice of life makes you feel a lot more connected to the loveable cast.

Factorio Just perfectly tickles that itch for resource management. The factory must grow.

Metal Gear Solid 2 A main memory I have of this game is the first time playing it where I bought out a whole box of those chocolates they sell for fundraising - was supposed to sell them to other people but they were great for late night snacking while I played. The stealth, the tension, the weird everything towards the end, it was a trip from start to finish.

Duke Nukem 3D Duke wasn’t my first foray into FPS games (Wolfenstein 3D manages that title). But it holds a special place in my heart as it was the first game I ever played online multiplayer on. But I did it before the internet, so literally had a modem to modem connection running over an IPX network. Realistically, there’s been plenty of better FPS games since, both modern and classic, but the irreverent humour, plus the fact I was a teen who probably wasn’t supposed to be playing a game with strippers and highly pixilated tits in it, just edges it into my top 10.