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I started watching in February and I'm now on episode 12 of season 7.

My first experience of Aaron Sorkin's work was the Newsroom (which I loved, despite popular opinion) so the dialogue in The West Wing almost seems slow in comparison.

Have to agree about Two Cathedrals, it was fantastic, but my favourite run of episodes is the end of season 5 and start of season 6. Unbelievably tense. 

On 11/03/2017 at 09:31, Quom said:

Holy frame rate issues Batman. I was fighting an enemy near Death Mountain (Wii U version). The frames must have dipped below 5 for a solid 5-10 seconds, at one point it was under 1FPS because I thought the game had crashed.

I dunno how I feel about the game. For about 20 minutes I'll think it's the best thing I've ever seen or played, then for the next 20 minutes I'll be wandering around a vast empty wilderness wondering why my weapons need to break every single time I fight something.

Yeah I'm experiencing really bad frame rate drops at times on the Wii U version, particularly in areas when there's a lot of enemies around the same location.

I can sympathise with your second paragraph. I had a few moments like this when I first started playing last Monday and over the few days after, and was actually asking myself if it was the type of Zelda game I wanted to play as unlike others I had no real issue with the sandbox style of the previous games. This game felt like it gave too little guidance and the weapon system had me scratching my head as to why such a drastic change would be necessary. Now however after putting in around 10 hours play I'm really starting to enjoy it, and after doing a few bits of the main quests I'm engaged with the story a bit more now too which was another stumbling block for me originally as I was questioning why I was even doing what I was doing.

On 06/01/2017 at 18:15, RPS said:

Yeah, I wouldn't listen to it. George Michael was a pop perfectionist. He wouldn't want somebody else to master the demos or his "final" version of song and release them without George having a say.

I wouldn't be so sure.

I'm pretty sure there is completed, unreleased music, based on information from George himself as well as other sources (a dance album that was almost certain to be completed back in 2012 for one), and the only reason for it being unreleased is because George was in no fit state to release and/or promote music for the last 3 years or so of his life.

Rehab in Australia at the start of 2013, falling out of a moving vehicle shortly after that, an unexplained trip to hospital a year later followed by a year long stint in rehab in Zurich.

There's a documentary about the release of Listen Without Prejudice due out at the start of March alongside a reissue of the album. If there's no new music before the end of the year I'll be very surprised.

26 minutes ago, MDK said:

WHAT?!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/westworld-season-2-release-date-hbo-sky-atlantic-2017-2018-new-episode-count-renewed-a7418051.html

Aiming for late 2017 but most likely to be 2018.

8 hours ago, Hellraiser said:

Big spoilers for episode 07:
 

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He was so good in that scene and the scene before that in which they demonstrate the "bug" in the hosts to him and Bernard too. He didn't even have that many lines there. It is the look on his face after the android starts to go haywire that sells me on that scene. The people on the room probably read it as shock about what just happened when in reality he is probably angry because they think they can fool him that easily.

The only thing I didn't like about the final scene was the set-up in which they give the twist away. Shortly before that scene Bernard tells Theresa that nobody knows about the recreation of Ford's childhood home because the surveys of the park are done by hosts who are programmed so that they are unable to detect the place. He tells her that as they go into a room where Bernard has been before. He doesn't find anything suspicious. Theresa then enters the room and finds a door on the wall that Bernard just passed and that he doesn't seem to notice until she opens it. That was a bit on the nose. And it took some impact away from the moment when she finds the blue prints of Bernard because they already told us that he was a host seconds ago.

 

 

Also episode 7 spoilers:

Hopkins has such presence. Really hope he sticks around for season 2, though I hear we're going to have to wait until 2018 for it.

damshow hit the nail on the head when he said the show has so many layers, as I've rewatched a few of the early episodes already and have noticed a few things I didn't pick up on before. Although that's probably partly because I didn't have a clue what was going on.

When I heard the concept of Westworld back before the first episode I wasn't at all convinced. How wrong I was.

On 2 August 2016 at 16:01, TheWho87 said:

For a limited time, stop by your local Smyths store to get two Shiny Legendary Pokémon for your Pokémon Omega Ruby, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon X or Pokémon Y game. From 19 July to 16 August, pick up a code that will unlock Shiny Xerneas. Then, from 17 August until 15 September, return to get a code for Shiny Yveltal. Simply ask for a code at the till, and then enter it in your game to unlock the Pokémon.

Thanks for this. Got one today for my "wee brother" >_> 

31 minutes ago, Jericode said:

For serial code distributions, you just go to a participating store (for UK it's just any Game store) and ask for the code, they print it off, and you just input it in the Mystery Gift section.

Ahhh right gotcha. Thanks.

What about Zygarde? I've read that it's just available via Mystery Gift over the Internet but then I saw something about a Nintendo WiFi event.

Yeah how do these serial code distributions work? Because I've read that but then I've also read that Darkrai can be downloaded via mystery gift as well.

On 25 April 2016 at 23:52, Chris2K said:

I'm sure Ronnie's ready to announce his retirement because he's bored and everything's rubbish.

Actually on this occasion he's not.

He's already said he'll be back next year, and any post-match interviews I've read are surprisingly upbeat considering the manner of his defeat.

What the fuck like. I really hope 2016 doesn't continue like this

RIP Prince 

14 minutes ago, Ruki said:

Also, I like the backstage segment stuff to boost your personality and stuff (do those do anything for you?). 

Honeymoon period  

4 hours ago, Lineker said:

I was wondering that myself. I have no idea! they look fine when I post them and then going back later, blank space is added. I open up the post editor to fix it, but the post appears as it should in the editor! Any ideas @kliq?

Can you link me to where you copied this from.

Ahhh I (stupidly) thought the VC per match would go up once you started competing on Raw/SD/PPVs.

I started out with all the best intentions, won the NXT title in July and played every match up until February. Then I started getting bored of constantly feuding with the same people (Balor and Owen mainly, the only time I've feuded with anyone different is when I've chosen a feud myself) so I started getting myself deliberately DQ'd or counted out to try and build certain heel personality traits but as that didn't seem to work I just started quitting the matches. I've defended my title twice, and the latest feud with Balor has resulted in around 10 singles matches back to back which I assume is because the feud isn't progressing because I've been constantly quitting the matches.

My main aim at this stage is to hold the title for 365 days to Achieve that HOF goal, after that I'm gonna go for one of the main roster titles, but I'm starting to have serious doubts about playability.

It would be nice if they mixed it up with some tag matches, or gimmick matches, but in the entire time I've been playing I've been in one triple threat and one fatal four way. I guess the whole joke about it being realistic is true, but it doesn't have to be like this, and it shouldn't be either.

Like how the fuck do they expect anyone to achieve that goal of losing every match for 3 years? It would be soul destroying.

There's so much good, but like in real life there's so much bad as well.

As for the submission system, I just have no idea how to get it to work consistently, and that's the key word here. It seems I'm not in the minority either based on what I've read elsewhere. 

@stokeriño what's the backed up save shortcut? 

It's just a complete PITA to have to even go into them in the first place, there should be a way to skip altogether. I could understand it if they served a purpose, because in the 6 I've had I've been visible at ringside once and even then I couldn't do a single thing, but it's as if they were meant to and someone forgot to code it.

I've finally started MyCareer, currently ranked #3 and I've had feuds with Breeze, Owens and now Balor. One thing I don't get is the point behind spectating your rivals match. You can't do anything can you? Seems completely pointless. Half the time I'm not even at ringside.

Not too sure about Undertaker's swinging hair during his entrances.

Also don't like the way it doesn't always have video content to support the next stage of the showcase mode, particularly with the jump from SummerSlam 98 to the title match in November. Especially considering what happened at Survivor Series and in the months leading to it.

edit: thought they could still use the term "World Wrestling Federation" as well, just not WWF. Sounds weird to hear World Wrestling Entertainment championship.

2 hours ago, apsham said:

It's optional as well - but yeah, it's rock-paper-scissors. If you both choose the same one you get the push into the corner or against the ropes spot where the referee splits you up. If you lose the initial button press you go on the defense.. you have to find the sweetspot and hold it there to fill up your bar faster than the other wrestler. If you're in charge it's the exact same, except you can hit the strike button up to three times to pause and kind of change where the spot will be next time.

2 hours ago, Avenged said:

Chain wrestling is Rock Paper Scissors basically. Each button beats another button. 

It's the "sweet spot" thing I can't figure out, much the same as the submission system.

Don't want to turn shit off because I can't do it  

Forgot to mention that I'm struggling with the chain wrestling system also... I just do not understand how it works.

Hmmm I'll have to have a proper look tomorrow, clearly I haven't been paying attention >_> cheers!

4 minutes ago, apsham said:

2. The pinning system is new this year, yeah. You get three chances (sometimes only two if you're really damaged) to stop the bar.

6. The bar at the very bottom of your guy's UI? That's your reversals. It can be turned on or off, but basically most guys have 3 or 4 while others will have 5. Once you do a reversal, the bar empties and then recharges. If you have no reversals left - you don't even get the option to hit R2.

Is that the purple bar? I noticed it depleting and refilling but didn't know what it actually referred to. I didn't even notice that I wasn't getting the R2 option, hitting the button is just force of habit now probably!

So I got this for my PS4 for Christmas and got stuck straight into the showcase mode. Some initial thoughts:

1. As has already been mentioned - the submission system sucks, and I'm really struggling with it no matter what I do. Had to play the first Bret Hart match at least 15 times because he kept making me submit. Surprisingly the submission match was okay  

2. Has the pinning system changed since '13? I'm struggling with that too  

3. How can that horrible face model of Vince still be in use? And that ridiculous entrance walk? I know Vince's actual walk is over the top but there's no resemblance whatsoever.

4. The level of detail in the showcase is amazing. 

5. Experiencing a lot of collision detection issues with trying to get in and out of the ring near the turnbuckles.

6. Did I read something about only having a limited number of reversals per match now? Because I'm noticing that the longer a match goes the harder it is to reverse anything, which combined with the submission and pinning systems is making the game extremely more hard than I feel it should be.

Can someone try and clear something up for me? Gonna stick it in spoiler tags just incasey

So I'm going to get this game and actually play this year, unlike last year where the reviews were so bad that I didn't even open it.

I have a question about MyCareer tho. Is it only available for created superstars? I don't have any imagination so I would struggle with creating a wrestler. Ideally I would like to use an existing superstar  but if that isn't possible then what options are available to me? Can you download a created wrestler and use it?