El_Funko

My usual thing is to keep my ears open during the year for when my girl mentions something I can use as a callback present.

She mentioned having lost her copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales when she moved house years ago, and the book really meant a lot to her and she's still bummed about it. I found a really nice faux-leather bound copy (she's an animal rights activist, so leather was out) with gilded edges and write a nice note in the front of the book. It didn't end up costing much, but I know she'll appreciate it.

Step back from the semantics and think about why they even do a Game of the Year podcast/awards in the first place. Can they really have a list of the best games of 2017 that doesn't include PUBG? Or relegates it to a token category?

What other game has dominated the crew's time, content, and discussions even half as much as PUBG this year? Released or not, early access or not, 2017 has been the year of PUBG.

Pansy's casting was fantastic.

@laseragna: I was in that game too! My squad killed yours :) We fought around the church north of Pochinki, while fighting about 3 squads I think, then finally took you and your last squad member out just inside the blue circle north of Pochinki. My team ended up coming second because we miscounted our opponents and got caught out. We thought it was a 2v2v2, but it turned out to be a 2v4 at the end. Still, our team got 15 kills total which felt good. Our perspective was streamed here (linked where the action starts): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/168054173?t=04h09m09s

How crazy is it to be playing in a PUBG custom match against the GB crew, Austin from Waypoint, Danny O'Dwyer, Will Smith, Gary Whitta... all these people I admire and respect, and I had the chance to murder them all on an island.

Video games are great!

I've been recording some of my games using Shadowplay (which is a cool program if you have a decent GPU but not a good CPU and can't run recording software like me) and then trying to record commentary over the top about why I'm doing various things for some of the more interesting ones.

Looking at my pubg.me stats, I've had 18 wins in solo (not including custom games and PTR matches) and I'm at around 520 hours played in Steam. I'm not the best player ever, but I think I'm decent.

Edit: It just occurred to me that this thread might be more about cool chicken dinner stories rather than advice/tips, so I'll offer one of the more amusing ones.

The best games are always where the final circles come down to an interesting landmark like Quarry or a city, rather than an open field of grass for everyone to roll around in which is unfortunately far more common. I had one end in Yasnaya Polyana amongst all the buildings, and I found a garage building with a tiny gap between the building and a stone wall behind it. I squeezed my dude in there and hid out like a coward for the final 3 circles because no one could find me. It got down to me and one other dude, and he had no idea where I was. I started blindly throwing all the grenades I had in random directions to throw him off, then when the final safe zone shrank to nothing, I popped out and shot him in the head. He had no idea.

Nailed it

Looking to tier one some cocaine up my digital nostrils, anyone still got a spare code?

Edit: Someone hooked me up, thanks!

That looks even better than I thought it would! Thanks so much

I've used this avatar on everything for almost 10 years now, I'd love to have a santa hat version for the holidays!

Thanks so much!

The base building is okay, but the freighter building aspect of this update seems great. Can you fly the freighter like a normal ship? Or does it hang in space like a station except you can warp it to different systems?

Actually, I guess there's not much point being able to actually pilot the freighter if you can't dock it in space stations or fly down to planets. Still, very cool addition.