DarkFruitsRam7

Never had mental health issues and I don’t have them now. But just found out some terrible family news that will change everything I’ve ever known. Going to be extremely difficult to adjust to. Posting on here as this forum has some great people.

Never had mental health issues and I don’t have them now. But just found out some terrible family news that will change everything I’ve ever known. Going to be extremely difficult to adjust to. Posting on here as this forum has some great people.

Never had mental health issues and I don’t have them now. But just found out some terrible family news that will change everything I’ve ever known. Going to be extremely difficult to adjust to. Posting on here as this forum has some great people.

Best thing you can do is speak about your 'news' and share it with people (perhaps even join a support group) - that will help you deal with it and realise you're not alone in what you're going through. Don't bottle it up. Take care of yourself too.

Howzabout this for a rack of ribs, there's a quarter chicken under it anorl..
 

The big pull for Fortnite, and similar games, is the fact that you're playing with and against real people rather than AI bots - no matter how good the AI is you can usually adapt or come up with a strategy to guarantee a win, people however play in thousands of different ways and are always coming up with new tricks.  Add to that the fact that you are beating other people rather then the computer itself it is more satisfying. 
I'm not so good at Fortnite myself but do find it strangely compelling, especially late at night when you can jump in tired, not engage your brain to have some fun.  I much prefer MMORPGs (Star Wars Galaxies being my all time favourite) however and the same principle applies, you're playing with and against real life people building up your character or empire in a social environment - I know people from all over the world that I've kept in touch with for in some cases around 20 years who I've never met nor will probably ever meet in real life. 
For me at least, its turned a sad, lonely hobby into a bit of a social event.

I think I might have bridged gaming and DCFC by potentially arranging something with Timi Elsnik and Kyle McAllister playing with the #1 UK Fortnite player to promote the Fortnite community I run. I will post up times and dates of the Twitch stream, I am sure DCFC fans would be interested in seeing and hearing DCFC players playing a video game.

The problem is full AAA releases carving up games, withholding content, inbalancing the game just to get money from microtransactions. EA are the biggest scumbags of the lot. Absolutely destroying that Star Wars game to the point where they had to patch the progression system once they disabled the microtransactions after the huge backlash - just proving the point that they were completely game altering to a fault. Yet they don't care, because they still make billions because they invented ultimate team game modes on every sports franchise they own the monopoly on.
Other games have had microtransactions bolted onto the game after the fact due to greedy producers, again, ruining the entire game. Biggest example of this would be the newest Deus Ex, which Square Enix ruined by doing this. But they're not the only ones.
If you pay for a full price game, you should get the full game. This is just the latest iteration of the games industry finding another way to get all of the money, rather than just a boat load of it. They have tried before with online passes required to try and kill the preowned market, massive pre-order bonus culture to entice presales to pay for the game before it's even made and alike.
I don't have any issue with free games, like League of Legends, or cheap games like Rocket League making their money through skins and other cosmetics - which have no effect on the balance of the game. Where Rocket League and League of Legends does it right, is that there's a very limited number of items you can possibly get in any given Rocket League box, of which you can trade afterwards anyway, and League of Legends lets you buy the actual item you want. Even then, it's not ideal, but at least these games don't charge you £45 to play it to begin with, before letting you know you've only got a small portion of the game, and you have to grind an ungodly amount of time to do the cool stuff with shelling out yet more money.
The Asian market has at least taken the step of making games disclose the odds on each item in loot boxes, it's a small step, but it's showing how it is being now thought of as gambling.
Games like Overwatch are always given an easy ride on this, but they shouldn't be. Mainly because it's Activision, and they tried to patent a matchmaking system which would literally put people without any DLC items against people with them, to make them want to buy them. They have loot boxes with a huge number of items in them, with such tiny odds, and it very much preys on the haves and have nots, and specifically a younger audience.

By the same token anyone can kick a ball about. Is it not just another form of paying for entertainment, when all’s said and done? We might perceive a qualitative difference, but it’s just a different choice. 
Only playing devil’s advocate, I know nothing about it. 

I've started a monthly Games Board evening with my Dad, brother and son last year - an excuse to get together in a pub midway between our houses as much as anything.
We have mainly played games from my brother and my childhoods where possible and they have ranged between great and interesting, the games played so far have been.
Kevin Keegan's Matchday
Emlyn Hughes' Team Tactix
Terry Venables' Manager
A Gary Lineker games that my brother got of the internet and was so complicated you needed Steven Hawkins involved.
Bucanneer (A pirate game)
Astron (A space game from the 50s).
 
Any suggestions?

You must have been on the pizz a gain if you think that is a naan ?

Hopefully the name of the restaurant isn’t what you end up with afterwards  

The story of a certain man .
As he stood in front of the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind St Peter.

He asked, 'What are all those clocks?' 

St. Peter answered, 'Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock.

Every time you lie the hands on your clock move.' 

'Oh', said the man. 'Whose clock is that?' 

'That's Mother Teresa's', replied St. Peter. 'The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.' 

'Incredible', said the man. 'And whose clock is that one?' 

St. Peter responded, 'That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that 
Abraham told only two lies in his entire life.'

'Where's Gordon Brown's clock?' asked the man.

'Brown's clock is in Jesus's office. He's using it as a ceiling fan.' 

The Big Short.
A film about hedge funds and banks betting against housing bonds sounds terrible, but it's actually really good.
9/10.

Mesh “pants” in swimming shorts. 
Cant be just me who cuts it out every time I buy new ones? Just bloody uncomfortable. 

I see it came with chips.

Wrong thread, there is a children’s one somewhere.. 
Full of aminal shaped fare just for you.
The bowl is chipped as well.. Head shake.

5* lunch today:

I can actually cook fairly well when I want to, but would rather spend my time doing other things to be honest.?

Sausages now we’re talking, bootiful! 
Can’t be arsed with lambchops though (not the member....most of the time), pulling meat off the bone is something that should have been left behind with the cavemen. 
I only want what I can eat on my plate, otherwise what’s the point in it being there? Garnish, I’ve got a mirror if I want to look at something pretty, I’m hungry, time to eat.
In one hole and out the other, all comes out the same.....kinda, a good curry being the exception to that.

Hash Browns have no place in a full British Isles breakfast.

What are you eating tonight @JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta?
 

In sunny Tenerife:

Just passed my driving test with no faults.

Keep the ninja one. Better than anything Apple has to offer.

So this is it boys and girls. This is it until June. 
It's been a brilliant last few months with the Rams absolutely ****housing the league. The away days have been fantastic and I'll miss making the drunken match reports.
However, my future career has to come first. Hopefully by getting banned on here, I can fully knuckle down and focus on my revision, as I have very big plans for the future. Have to go out and smash it now.
Thank you @coneheadjohn for being my forum father and for all the brilliant support you've given me, all the best for you and Joel in the future. Thank you @angieram for being my forum mother and the most professional away day poster on the forum. Thank you @Parsnip, @reveldevil, @Boycie and many more for making this place funny as ****. Thank you @Steve How Hard? for liking all of my posts.
All that's left now is to say that @David is a bald **** who can **** off for setting up this fantastic forum. I think that deserves a ban taking effect from 10pm tonight until 20 June, don't you?
Mark my words, when I'm back we'll be a Premier League club. Hopefully I'll be with you on that journey home and away.
Up the ******* Rams.