junglistgamer

I'm a quality analyst for an insurance broker. Basically I listen to recordings of insurance sales/renewals and make sure that our salespeople followed all the right processes and gave good advice. The nice part of my job is I provide feedback to sales people and some of them are great so I get to write really positive encouraging things. Sometimes I protect our customers by identifying genuinely shifty sellers. Mostly of our guys are ok but some of them are terrible. The major downside is that if I "fail" a call because the salesperson fucked up then they lose part of their bonus and that's no fun for anyone! I'd like to work for the regulator at some point. Top tip - if in doubt, just tell your broker about that thing whatever it is. It's better to pay more for a policy that covers you than save money on premiums for less cover.

My main "fuck you, bloodborne" goes to the use of consumable health items. My only other souls experience is Dark Souls and even when it was ball-breakingly hard (O&S solo) I at least knew that I wasn't burning through my supply of health. It wasn't a huge issue for me until I reached Martyr Logarius and used up shitloads of blood vials trying to beat him. Eventually, I just summoned a co-op helper and wiped the floor with him but I've had to spend ages grinding blood vials since.

I will also mention that the unseen village can eat a KFC family bucket of dicks. Three NPC hunters?! After my tenth attempt, including one where I summoned just to try and kill them, I said "cheese it, it's the feds!" and ran past them. I got to The One Reborn and killed him on my first attempt, no problem, easiest boss fight in the game. Seriously, I'm not sure if he glitched out of something but I only used about 3 or 4 blood vials, stuck close to him and wailed on him with the kirkhammer - a massive let down.

My condolences to you, Patrick.

For context, because I'm in the UK i'll try to stick to stuff that's available on both sides of the pond. A lot of my early drinking (15 - 16) involved cheap whiskey & coke or cheap, bland American beers. I remember drinking a lot of Budweiser and Coors, chilled till it's practically solid. If you get that shit cold enough, it's almost tasteless which helped when I was young and unfamiliar with the taste of beer. I soon switched to some better European lagers: stuff like Grolsch, Stella Artois, San Miguel, Corona and Kronenberg. If I had to make a suggestion to a total newb, I'd go with a Corona or San Miguel on the lager front, they're an easy and inoffensive drink and if you pace yourself and stick to just a couple of bottles, you'll get a nice little buzz without getting totally wasted.

When you first start drinking, it's tempting to go with the easy stuff. Jack & Coke, Vodka & basically anything fruity or sugary, alcopops and so forth are by far the most dangerous because it's easy to drink them as quickly as you would a non-alcoholic beverage. Stick with premium lagers and you'll be cool.

This game needs to include,

1. An F-14 Tomcat (Ace Combat)

2. All 8 trillion Suikoden characters at the same time.

3. Dude from Cool Boarders

4. Deceased Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna from Ayrton Senna's Kart Duel.

Though all five signs (spells) are useful, Quen is by far the most important during the early part of the game. Until you can parry from all directions and get a few of the swordsman upgrades, Quen is absolutely essential to surviving any combat scenario.

Celtic Legends for the Amiga 500+.

That's my joke example to show my knowledge of obscure Amiga 500+ games. My real answer is, of course, James Pond 2: Robocod.

I feel really awful for the people who'll lose their job as a result of this news but I can't say I'll miss shopping at Game. I don't really care about customer service but their prices were always really high so it's just way cheaper to shop on Amazon or download a PC game from Steam or Origin.

I've been playing WEE today after listening to the latest Three Moves Ahead podcast where they discussed it.So far I'm really enjoying it though some of its systems seemed a little obtuse at first. In some respects it reminds me of the old Close Combat games, which I used to be a huge fan of.

It strikes a nice balance between the standard RTS games that I'm a little bored of and the more complex wargames that I've always found a bit intimidating.

I was going to write a long, rambley post but fuck it, I'll keep it simple. I hope GB stays awesome. I'm happy that the guys are moving forward (backward?) in their career and that they seem excited about it. I'm sad that the Whiskey media family is breaking up. Best of luck to everyone. Don't fuck up my credit card details.