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It's insane how expensive gaming has gotten. Definitely tge biggest victim of the rampocalypse. Glad I got my Steam Deck when I did

I hadn't realised how bad the situation was until I checked the price of a new XBox Series X on Smyths just there. €800 for a bit of kit I paid €500 for back in 2020!! Madness.

Having not had a modern console since the Xbox 360, I just bought a new Xbox today. Partially as a way to connect with some friends back home, and partially because I want to play the new GTA (and Baldur's Gate). Now I have to try and figure out what has happened in gaming after a 15yr absence...

Are you gonna fork out for the Game Pass? It's gone up in price quite a bit over the years but I still think it's worth it, and there's a huge library available.
If not, there's still loads you can pick up for quite cheap in its physical format, such as Red Dead Redemption 2. The Resident Evil 4 remake is still amazing and holds up well, even if you played the original to death.

Trying to think of a Godflesh tune to lash up here but it's more all of it than particular stuff again

I'm gonna go for three bass heavy rippers off Songs of Love and Hate, namely Circle of Shit, Kingdom Come and Almost Heaven.

Well yeah, I suppose...but I can at least give them a degree of credit for Demanufacture and Burn my Eyes. That Fafara lad is like one of those compulsive liars we all know...story is all over the shop and changes like the seasons. I've read interviews with him where he takes credit for pretty much starting the nu-metal scene (btw, what a thing to take 'credit' for!!) when any of us unfortunate enough to have witnessed the scene at its 'peak' will recall that Coal Chamber were a bargain basement knock-off that followed very much in the wake of Korn, Deftones etc. And, of course, as soon as the bloated, stinking corpse of nu-metal started to outstay it's welcome, he was quick enough to jump ship onto the latest fad. And naturally back again, now that there's been an unlikely resurgence in nu-metal.

Certainly not what the OP had in mind here but I'd just like to nominate that Dez Fafara lad as the biggest spoofer in metal. If anyone doesn't know who im on about, id recommend you stay blissfully ignorant. A few interviews with him have popped up of late on YT and you'd swear he was one of the most influential figures in heavy music. Lad has no idea how utterly inconsequential his garbage bands have been in the overall scheme of things, but you wouldn't think so the way he bangs on about it. An absolute chancer.

I wish I could claim ignorance on the whole matter but unfortunately Im a divil for the old doom-scrolling so I'm more clued in than I care to be. It's all a load of nonsense really, from both sides. Amazing how people, knowing that Sheeran has been peddling the most inoffensive, boring shite to the masses for years now, somehow expect him to have some kind of political savvy or even principles in general, for that matter. It's being

Picked this up last year in airport before heading off on hols (not the most appropriate poolside read tbh, but it held my attention), worth a look if anyone interested in the background to AI. Fairly readable from a layman's perspective

Supremacy (book) - Wikipedia https://share.google/jPOfrxe6TRhO1rQoQ

Dunno if it's an exact fit for this thread, but had a good long look at this today while taking a shite. It certainly passed a few mins, in fact the shite had air dried itself by the time the video finished.

https://youtu.be/ePDl1JNqjpM?is=m2ZHQe4wiAR4gk28

I'd be reasonably confident now should the need ever arise. Anyone else here ever successfully land a passenger plane? Is this info reliable?

Nah, we can safely assume on the basis of that video that they are utter shit. They look like a bunch of spastics as well, like something from a Hot Topic catalogue.

It's def something that used to come up on the old MI forum, and probably something that I would have posted in my more youthful, idealistic days, but there's not enough of a demand for it here...or if there is, not enough to justify bands travelling over.
The only way around it would be a festival that draws a similar crowd to Roadburn, ie heavy music that has a crossover appeal to the alternative/indie types. The turnout for Chat Pile was great on both nights, but there was very few metallers to be seen.
The Siege is still going isn't it? Haven't been in a while so no idea what the turnouts have been like. 

Christ...congrats to the poster though, if that's not the lowlight of this thread then it surely must be up there.
What a waste of musical ability though. I've no skills in that regard whatsoever, despite trying over the years. Just because you can play doesn't mean you should, I suppose.

Does anyone else here overthink completely random shit and wonder how the fuck it works?
I just watched a video where they were pressing vinyl. Just looked like a blob of plastic being pressed into shape. So far, so so. And then I'm thinking, how the absolute fuck do they get the sound onto that material and then get it to come out through speakers? I'm absolutely flummoxed here, and this is old technology. Sometimes I wish I had more of a 'scientific' brain, so I could at least have an understanding of the basic principles underlying this stuff.
Definitely yes, I'm overthinking stuff here. Just switched broadband provider the other day, everything transitioned perfectly well for the first day when the new modem arrived, now nothing works at all. I thought I was reasonably tech savvy but that's obviously now not the case and the ocd part of me can't get over that completely inessential shit, like the Nintendo Switch and Ring doorbell, wont work. Do we all need a big reset? Back to books in the evening by candlelight? Thoughts please

For the uninitiated, Kingfishr and Amble are the soundtrack to Junior B victory homecomings.
Fontaines DC gigs are an opportunity for boggers to mingle with supporters of People Before Profit in a non-judgemental social setting. Metallers typically fall outside of either group, therefore this thread can now close.

Edit...never mind

lived a "nomadic lifestyle"

Sure what the fuck does that even mean like? They moved gaff a few times, or were part of some weird hippy commune?? Anyway, someone with a surname like Chatten who calls their child Grian isn't short of a few bob, or comes from good Protestant stock. Anyway, too much of a discussion here for something that doesn't warrant much attention on this particular forum (and yes, I'm contributing to this on my own way) but to echo a previous post, not a great band, possibly not even a good band, but preferable to the likes of Kingfishr and Amble which is so inexplicably popular atm. And as I said already, the bar for Slane has been set incredibly low...Luke Combs last year, Robbie Williams years ago...the list goes on.