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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 28, 2018 18:53:29 GMT
We used to have 2 HMVs and 2 Fopps within 10 miles of my house, now it's just one small HMV. I went yesterday looking for the most recent Low album, but they didn't have it. They did have loads of Nirvana, Stones and Oasis albums on vinyl reduced from 30 to 20 quid.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 28, 2018 19:26:30 GMT
I'm pretty certain CDs are here to stay. Much like vinyl records. They'll decline until it's just me and the ironic purchasers. The wanker market.
Even I don't actually play CDs or records any more. I record everything and play it from an enormous hard disc. Streaming is enormously convenient.
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Post by crankcaller on Dec 28, 2018 20:07:00 GMT
Tesco put more independent record shops out of business than hmv ever did.
All of that fucking business selling cd's from Guernsey via their shops with no tax. Selling them cheaper than Indies could buy them at.
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 28, 2018 21:18:17 GMT
Pandemic is difficult. I need more wine.
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Post by Faceless on Dec 28, 2018 21:34:22 GMT
Pandemic is shit because cooperative board games are a stupid idea. I need more wine. Ftfy |
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Dec 28, 2018 21:35:23 GMT
Never bother getting a third-party pad. They are invariably not as good as the actual manufacturers' pad. Hardcore gamer or incontinent dribbler? |
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Post by amipal on Dec 28, 2018 21:35:58 GMT
I'm pretty certain CDs are here to stay. Much like vinyl records. They'll decline until it's just me and the ironic purchasers. The wanker market. Even I don't actually play CDs or records any more. I record everything and play it from an enormous hard disc. Streaming is enormously convenient. Just you and me, Sheep. CD brothers. |
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Post by Destry on Dec 28, 2018 21:41:20 GMT
I'm pretty certain CDs are here to stay. Much like vinyl records. They'll decline until it's just me and the ironic purchasers. The wanker market. Even I don't actually play CDs or records any more. I record everything and play it from an enormous hard disc. Streaming is enormously convenient. Just you and me, Sheep. CD brothers. You spelled 'seedy' wrong. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 28, 2018 21:47:00 GMT
I am quite enjoying this Poirot thing with John Malkovich and Ron Weasley in.
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 28, 2018 21:55:47 GMT
Russians (gchq/cia/Shenguin - delete/add as appropriate) can't listen in if you're playing your shit music by CD/vinyl/cassette. Simples, innit.
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 28, 2018 21:57:19 GMT
Solomons key is extremely difficult. I'm only on level 5 after at least an hour. I need more friends.
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Post by Destry on Dec 28, 2018 22:12:23 GMT
I have been playing Oblivion on my laptop. I then came across this video of the 40 or so mods to install to improve the game. Fucking hell. Maybe I should stick with the vanilla version. |
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 28, 2018 22:18:54 GMT
Pandemic is shit because cooperative board games are a stupid idea. I need more wine. Ftfy I've never played it before. I'm playing it with a ten year old. It's shit. As is the game. I need more wine. That part is definitely accurate. I don't like cooperative games, I do like wine, and I do like CDs. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 28, 2018 22:35:32 GMT
Russians (gchq/cia/Shenguin - delete/add as appropriate) can't listen in if you're playing your shit music by CD/vinyl/cassette. Simples, innit. Shenguin can listen to my CDs if he is close enough. The Russians and CIA have better taste in music. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 28, 2018 22:39:08 GMT
I do not expect Shenguin is good at cooperative games.
He should play Fortnite with the 10 year old.
It won't require cooperation. The 10 year-old should be fine at it anyway.
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Post by amipal on Dec 28, 2018 22:51:20 GMT
Never bother getting a third-party pad. They are invariably not as good as the actual manufacturers' pad. Hardcore gamer or incontinent dribbler? Yes. |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 28, 2018 23:01:23 GMT
In the looong years of fanatically playing / designing board games, I've only ever played two 'board' games which I might recommend now; Dungeon & Dragons (but only with a DM reasonably well-versed in the background oeuvre, quick-witted with a sense of humour (not you, mate)... and, for a group of LotR fans: Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings, Spiel des Jahres 2001 special prize for best use of literature in a game... The first time we played it, our group were quite prepared to hate it. Because of our love of the books and the beautiful production values we persevered... 80 minutes after finally starting it and the tension had ratcheted ever higher, Samwise was caught with the Ring on the slopes of Mount Doom after our party had slowly sacrificed themselves one by one, in order to progress the Ring. We were wrung out and one of the girls burst into tears. For us, it was one of the best games we had ever played, even though we had lost. (We celebrated our first victory by demolishing a bottle of of Bas Armagnac.)  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2018 23:12:04 GMT
Chumbles I'm 99% sure that's the Lotr game I got for Christmas when I was younger. It is wildly complicated and I never got past the 1st board (there's like 7 minor boards and one main board), not sure how you persevered!
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 28, 2018 23:18:16 GMT
Hardcore dribbler.
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Post by lonewolf on Dec 28, 2018 23:26:05 GMT
In the looong years of fanatically playing / designing board games, I've only ever played two 'board' games which I might recommend now; Dungeon & Dragons (but only with a DM reasonably well-versed in the background oeuvre, quick-witted with a sense of humour (not you, mate)... and, for a group of LotR fans: Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings, Spiel des Jahres 2001 special prize for best use of literature in a game... The first time we played it, our group were quite prepared to hate it. Because of our love of the books and the beautiful production values we persevered... 80 minutes after finally starting it and the tension had ratcheted ever higher, Samwise was caught with the Ring on the slopes of Mount Doom after our party had slowly sacrificed themselves one by one, in order to progress the Ring. We were wrung out and one of the girls burst into tears. For us, it was one of the best games we had ever played, even though we had lost. (We celebrated our first victory by demolishing a bottle of of Bas Armagnac.) I have this game. Never played it. |
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 28, 2018 23:45:07 GMT
Nerds
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 28, 2018 23:55:46 GMT
For 2 to 5 players.
Age 12 upwards.
Virgins only.
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 28, 2018 23:56:39 GMT
Sorry*
*Sort of.
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 29, 2018 0:12:25 GMT
I know, I know it takes forever ro get through the LotR rules... and believe me, it took a serious effort to get through the rules and the first boards, because it all seems incredibly, needlessly complicated. Early game you begin thinking wtf is the point. Honestly, the early bits we enlivened that first time by each taking turns in setting/answering questions about the board location in the book or the character in play. For two thirds of the game, 2 of us just played the quiz, moving as directed... But as we started discussing who would best be sacrificed ... you see, what's hidden to some extent id this little balloon game; we lost that first game because, like the balloon game, we couldn't help competing to 'win' that balloon game. 'Samwise' was crowing that he'd won because he'd lasted longest... the rest of us told him that if he thought winning was getting a jolly bout of butt sex with Sauron before getting fed to the orcs, he was nuts.
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 29, 2018 0:29:37 GMT
I'm confused. Bed time for me. Good night all.
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