I play it exclusively for the Gwent

Difficulty: story only
Cutscenes: skipped
Gwent Difficulty: hard

Optimal.

That’s half true… Spain has two exceptionally good teams whereas other leagues have fewer, but have way more very good teams where Spain only have “ok” teams. Compare teams in midtable or towards the bottom of the Premier League or Bundesliga with teams towards the bottom of La Liga and it’s clear that Spain has a huge power imbalance and is suffering as a result as the quality of the opposition just isn’t as good.

Germany & England and to a lesser extent Italy are also more flat at the top than Spain - there’s a good 5+ clubs with huge pull in each of Germany and England, and 3-4 in Italy, whereas Spain pretty firmly has 2, leaving fewer slots in “top tier” first teams.

Also, it’s harder to buy developing foreign talent in England than most other leagues and all other top leagues, which means they kind of have to buy already developed players. Spain makes it pretty easy, so clubs can bring in Latin American and to a lesser extent African teenagers in bulk, then sell them off when they develop.

According to the lineups he was playing at right wing-back so I guess given there’s a right back and right mid or wing it somewhat makes sense

+1

As a huge NFS Underground fan, The Crew is the only game I’ve played that comes close

2 was by far the most polished, but 3 had more features so I guess ideal lies somewhere in the middle

If there’s a gold rush, you want to run the railroads, build the houses, sell the shovels and open the general store I guess

the appeal was declined instantaneously

I hate this so much and it was the reason I left Facebook after receiving a “warning” for the first time and getting the appeal denied despite the comment being completely benign (something like “why does Brazil fucking hate Czechs so much?” under a map of Brazil’s approval of each country in Europe, where their approval of Czechia was remarkably low - I appreciate it probably saw “fucking hate Czechs” and flagged it, but any remotely human reviewer should have seen the context and immediately understood, especially when running a more in depth review as part of the appeal)

All the major tech companies seem to do this and I don’t know why they even bother… If you want to give the illusion you’re considering the appeal, leave it at least an hour or so, but if you’re auto-declining them then just don’t give people the option to appeal in the first place as you’ll just make them mad

One reason is that Epic are very dismissive of Linux, while Steam go out of their way to be supportive and GOG are supportive when it’s convenient

Another is trying to lock games into exclusives with them, which other distribution platforms don’t do so much

That said, if you don’t play games without cross platform multiplayer and don’t care about Linux support or see yourself caring any time soon, there’s not a huge reason to push you towards steam and away from epic. GOG is more of an anti-DRM thing, however barring sales the price and the cut for the devs is identical on all of them and it’s the same game aside from DRM.

那个, that could never happen right?

Just drive via the eurotunnel… If they’re not gonna let you fly then… don’t fly?

Sure but one of the downsides of the game (and one of the upsides, in that they allow it) is that you need 10-100 mods to patch things which should be in the base game or are just weird/unexpected, and I worry the devs are expecting modders to do their work for them… With this I bet they’ll be announcing that pollution is even more purple in CS2

Solar panels producing noise pollution? What?

That’s kinda but a small dent in my hopes for the game but hopefully the rest is good…

But people will buy an XBox rather than a PS6/7 if they can’t play CoD on the latter… It’s not like people are already tied into a console 1-2 generations in the future, so this would influence what console people buy next.

With Minecraft most players play on PC and frankly taking it off Mac and Linux would make a lot of business sense for Microsoft, however as it’s Java and how easily modifiable and portable Java programs are, they know people would just get it working anyway. The same does not apply for CoD, where nearly everyone plays on console, and a significant part of what console someone buys is what games they can play on it.

Regulate Sony to not be so anti-competitive then, rather than turning Microsoft into them

Taking over Activision and making CoD an exclusive down the line (I know the deal specifies not for a while, but it’s clear as soon as that period is up they’ll be making it an exclusive) is a negative move to combat that - it tries to combat dominance by introducing dominance

Microsoft should invest in their own exclusives to improve their own offering without affecting Sony, which would leave both in good positions, rather than taking offerings away from Sony which leaves both in mediocre positions.

Fingers crossed the CMA aren’t swayed on it