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+1 for Balatro, one for the poker fans as it's a poker sim. Very small game (only 65 megabytes!) but plenty of stuff to do in there with item unlocks and achievements. Although not as new, I also enjoy Poker Night 2. Both are single player games and got both from Steam. That's impressive if...

Is this to do with those Kobi / Kodi (not sure on spelling) boxes? I heard that the police actively crack down on those so not worth the risk. I did ask this question in a thread in the Box Office forum but never got an answer. My question was: if I paid £240-£300 a year to subscribe to 3...

Going varifocal is a gamble but it worked out for me and there is no turning back. I'm using them now for a 27" screen at arm's length, a mobile phone at reading/book distance from my face, walking down the street, crossing roads and looking at lasers and other visuals when I go to gigs. You...

Poker Night at the Inventory and its sequel, Poker Night 2. The devs would need multiple franchise licenses such as Borderlands and the Venture Bros, but I can imagine the dynamics between the assorted characters could be made into a film. They do banter together throughout the game and there...

Yeah 5G was my best indoors option as CityFibre etc haven't yet come to Stafford. The speed I posted a few posts ago was indoors and I use it as my main ISP. Sometimes I can get 1.2Gbit. The only other option would have been cable internet (Virgin Media) who charges through the nose and ups...

I know this is an old / necro thread about 4G, but some of us are now on 5G, if the local conspiracy theorists haven't yet burnt down our 5G masts. Stafford here, on Three, £17/month unlimited everything.

Have you tried AdAware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Norton Antivirus 2003?

I guess my house counts as 'hire', until its 25-year mortgage is done in a few years time. I have heard of hire cars, although pretty sure they're normally called lease cars if they're for long term. Hire cars would imply short term like if holidaying in the US for 2 to 3 weeks. Hire TVs and...

I got a PC for the very first time in March 1999 and bought the latest version of Office, which was '97. I kept the CD and just stuck it on every subsequent machine I've had over the next 25 years, obviously formatting my old machines before selling on so that I'm still its license holder...

This :D Typing "Windows 12" into Wikipedia redirects to the main MS Windows article.

+1 for Surfshark, and for those mentioning Nord in this thread, Surfshark is owned by Nord.

I have an EVGA 3070 which is currently tier E. Passmark's web site scores as 22,415 in its database. Because my card is manufacture-overclocked though, Passmark (on my local PC) scored it as 24,651 which is just a cat's whisker underneath a 3080. This moves it up to a tier D. No doubt it...

Mr Mackey, m'kay m'kay m'kay :-)

I've now seen Mad Max 4, Fury Road. It seemed to me about 80% Mad Max 2 with the full-on road chases and about 20% Mad Max 3 with the tribal element. I liked the spiky 'hedgehog' cars in the 1st chase, although I found the editing confusing when they entered that electric storm. The 3rd and...

Thanks for the ideas everyone - keep 'em coming :-) I will do Mad Max 4 (Fury Road) next as I only got that recently and there have been mentions of it here then will look at some of the others like Ronin, Blues Brothers and onwards. The Italian Job is a good shout too. I have seen it before...

@Scougar - being USA, did you catch yesterday's eclipse? I can do better than that because I have lived with criminals in a house-share. And I don't mean a student house-share where someone got given a caution for mooning or other similar studenty stuff. We're talking a normal adult...

I believe that Bullet (or Bullit) and The French Connection were credited as 2 of the first films to have car chases. I've just revisited Mad Max 1/2/3 and some of the chases in there are outstanding. Mad Max 2 in particular has a final chase sequence that must had lasted 15 minutes! It was...

I'm half-and half. Being a Disney fan, and DISNEY only, I kept all of my Disney blu-rays, then sacked off Disney+ as all they're interested in these days are Star Wars and Marvel which doesn't interest me. Then everything else is streaming on my 4K TV.