The Kraig

Kind of amazed this seems to be the latest Gridiron Manager type game. I am 100% more interested in watching someone play THIS manager game than FM, since it's all new to me. Maybe you should watch someone play FM and see if you fall in love with the beautiful game? Wait a second...what the flugel is this?! https://store.steampowered.com/app/547900/Front_Office_Football_Eight/

And with that news, I've been back to streaming random stuff from my mega backlog. Instead of accumulating games I never play, I shall play games until they bore me and people can watch like filthy voyeurs. Twitch for recent Amnesia and Shinobi goodness. Megami Tensei should be featured soon. YouTube for old stuff (usually with better audio/video quality), such as Corpse Party and Chicken Run. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_DiyaUoqWyY9HDgcAx0ZA

Not sure if anyone is still paying attention to Smash, but man...I really didn't expect this fighter despite all the previous shocks.

This has aged quite poorly.

And further to that, games which are almost entirely designed as online multiplayer games whose servers are dead within 3 years. I guess fuck the players' time and money they invested...moving on now, look at our new game you think you need. I also thought of something earlier. When micro-management becomes part of a game. I remember Fable III and Mass Effect being tedious bogged down with micro-management, and in Fable's case it directly effects your final outcomes. In Mass Effect it does effect your overall fun, in my opinion. An automate/skip button would have been grand.

Literally started typing this response. Brexit's made the game so hard at times. I spend so long scouring the US and Gibraltar leagues for decent catches. I've also realised at the tail end of 2026 that my search filters are wrong, so I was missing out on potential partial British/Irish nationals in my player searches! It's been a pretty mental last half of the season as a result. Clydebank have risen to the top! 2021 - Saved from relegation (6th tier). 2022 - 6th tier champions. Beat the other two 6th tier champions to gain promotion to 5th tier. 2023 - 5th tier champions. Beat the other 5th tier champions, and then the lowest club in 4th tier to gain promotion to 4th tier. 2024 - 4th tier champions. Automatic promotion to 3rd tier. 2025 - Struggle. Almost get sacked after Christmas but JUST meet the board's criteria for staying. Relegation avoided. 2026 - Promoted from 3rd tier via play-offs to 2nd tier. 2027 - Promoted from 2nd tier via play-offs to 1st tier! Only now has the board decided to turn professional. Unbelievable stuff. I prepare to be absolutely spanked now unless I can find decent frees.

Shit voice acting. Absolutely ruins some games. I think they run out of budget before getting to that stage, and in this day and age, there's so many great voice actors who aren't asking for more than they bring to the product. I'd also go as far as to say poor soundtracks too. A great game without a great soundtrack is immediately not a great game.

Just amazing stuff. So chuffed for her after all the shit she got at Wimbledon. Even just beating Belinda Bencic (Olympic gold medalist) is a big deal. To go on and win the whole thing is Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon levels of amazing. But even more unexpected and impressive. Hope the media don't start interfering with her and let her enjoy this success at least.

Ooof. RIP Sheriff.

So, I made a few key signings in the transfer window, and we played well with some unexpected wins and unexpected losses. I guess we kind of finished mid-table like I wanted but...fuck me. Glad it's Forfar and not us going down. I need a better striker, the number of chances squandered has been baffling. They need to add a shout command that simply says "STOP PASSING THE FUCKING BALL TO THE OTHER FUCKING TEAM YOU FUCKING FUCKS" and this will be the best FM ever. 'Berate' just doesn't give me the satisfaction or reaction I need.

I absolutely loved him on QI. The ridiculousness of some of the questions and answers he would get so pissed off at and have some hilarious rants. He was so quick-witted, he really did improve any show he was on, and wasn't afraid at going for the obvious cheap laughs as well. He obviously enjoyed his job immensely, because it showed. He'll be sadly missed. His sudden Walter White appearance makes sense now.

I totally agree. It's the same for OCD, ASD, etc. Describing someone as having a "disorder" just for displaying vague symptoms of the same is pretty childish and I sincerely meant my apology. Sorry, man.

Was meant in a complimentary and non-serious way, but genuinely sorry for the offence possibly caused to anyone. Certainly wasn't meant to sound negative, but either way, I shouldn't use clinical terms in a jokey manner.

Small update on my game. So Clydeback has went from West of Scotland Premier League > Lowland League > League Two > League One. As I expected, this league has been so much harder to gain an advantage in. At one point I ended up £60k wage budget/month when I was allocated £50k in my desperate bids to gain quality players. Beforehand I could grab guys on frees quite, but now it's hard - I am semi-pro and being outbid by pro teams. Board aren't interested in investing any money yet, quite enraging. We've struggled with a team who don't believe they can avoid relegation (I said we can do mid-table and their morale nosedived). They haven't recovered from this, and it doesn't matter what I do. We even miss penalties with a guy who has a 14 stat(!). I tried my old tactics, made a new tactic to try to accommodate all my best players which made things much worse, and now I'm using the most bizarre asymmetrical LWB, MR, DM, AMCL combination and finally won a game. Star boy Jack Butler isn't quite the dynamo he's been and has been benched a lot, despite making it to his 150th game with me. Until... It's almost Christmas and we finally got put on the bottom of the table. We had been losing by a goal here and there, or getting draws when we should have won, and repeatedly getting referee bias against us (according to the press). The board gave me an ultimatum. Get SEVEN points from the next FIVE games. Simple enough until I saw the next set of fixtures. Game 1: Draw with Edinburgh City at home. We had lost the previous seven games in all competitions, so this felt good despite them being a team we should beat. Game 2: Away, where Airdie kill us 5-1 in a derby (Airdie United were created when Airdrieonions went bankrupt and BOUGHT the original Clydebank, you should have a read about it. Think Wimbledon, MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon). I felt adrift after this. Game 3: Another away game, but a 90th minute goal from JACK BUTLER of all people to win 1-0 against Brora Rangers who had beat us three times already this season. I have NEVER reacted to a goal in a game like this before. Game 4: Arbroath yet to be played at home. They are 12/5/3 so far this season in 2nd place after being relegated last season. I need to win against them or... Game 5: Alloa, away. They are 14/4/2 and runaway leaders of the league. So of course I am procrastinating . I need 3 points. I can't just hope for two draws. I have honestly never felt such excitement playing a Football Manager game before. I love it. EDIT: So, we got spanked 0-3 by Arbroath, but somehow beat Alloa (the likely champions) 0-3. Never had a team so fucking unreliable in my life. I was ready for the ride to be over.

Once you turn the cache off and reload, just turn the cache back on. Shouldn't slow down anything.

No, he's a chaotic, hyperactive maniac, however he did an updated video re installation. It's important to stress the importance of selecting the correct view mode (which you download) which allows you to print to file (RTF) which is key to getting the correct info to export to the facepack generator. He covers everything else pretty well.

What kind of issues? It seems to miss a lot of the regens outside of my knowledge sphere, even though I added a new manager to collect that information. BUT, all the regens that are active in my game suddenly feel like real people and it's amazing. There's an issue with regens, such as my young Palestine squad having loads of dual nationals but were born in Palestine and are 100% Swedish with Swedish names and skin colour attributes...but that's an FM problem, not the pack's fault. It's trying to simulate refugee and immigration flows, but needs work. Oh, and there's sometimes a little tiny white bit at the top of the images, but I found this kind of helpful in figuring out who was a regen and who wasn't.

Guys. I've just installed the "real" regen faces mod and good lord. Amazing stuff. I've had to put the unique IDs on so I can figure out who's a regen and who isn't. Unbelievable stuff. I hope SI buy the project and incorporate it. Feels like a game changer.

Thanks for suggestions guys. If you never played Lost Odyssey, please at least listen to the soundtrack. I forgot this game existed. My second disc stopped working and I never got to finish the game. I should rectify that. Also remembered this beauty. Castlevania Judgment. Crap game, INSANE new versions of old Castlevania songs, they are just perfect renditions. Some have shown up in Super Smash Bros, much like the epic Xenoblade tune.

Keeping the co-efficient alive! Celtic and Rangers have been an embarrassment in Europe already this season. Also, we just went no restrictions in Scotland on Monday, so Perth will be PACKED.

Are we potentially looking at Barca going into administration or something? There seems to be a huge black hole now.

This has aged REALLY well.

Weirdly, St Pauli was almost called Hamburgerberg. So you're a Hamburgerberger.

Anybody know any underrated OSTs? I've never played them, but I've been listening to the Killzone OSTs at work and it's been a highly productive night so far. Killzone 3 has tickled my pickle the most. It sounds like a famous composer, but I don't want to say in case I influence anyone else's thoughts. Think it sounds like someone else's work? I always mention Halo: ODST when this type of conversations comes up, since a lot of people skipped the game. Arguably the best soundtrack to any Halo game.

He is crying, in case you thought he was trying to chloroform himself like I did. First: Final: What else needs to be said?