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I've only had my licence for a year and I decided to massively over prepare for my test by constantly watching videos of driving instructors on Youtube. There's a guy called Ashley Neal who puts out TONS of videos on the most mundane of driving scenarios, he can come off as a bit of a dick sometimes but his advice always comes from a place of trying to reduce accidents, I still find his stuff useful to watch.

My general tip would be, you are far less likely to get in an accident if you are taking your time and doing extra checks. You may annoy the drivers around you but I'd rather mildly annoy someone than crash into someone.

I know E3 is bad and everyone who attends it sort of hates it, but the last few summers have felt empty without those big stupid shows.

I hope that this reworking of the show somewhat resembles what we had in the past.

Generally no, but for Neon White specifically I have been. The story and delivery of said story is not interesting to me and seems at odds with the fast paced nature of the game.

I might actually have to dedicate an entire separate post to my favourite memories, there are far too many.

We've been here a while friend.

I still can't get over how little of a send off he got. It's fucking Jeff Gerstmann, the only one left standing since the start of this whole thing and he gets a few mins at the start of the podcast and a paragraph in a shitty statement. I want to be clear that I'm not blaming any of the current staff as I know that they all have huge respect for him and would probably have liked to do something big as a send off but fuck dude.

I'm so glad Jeff's voice will not go missing from this industry, he's one of the realest fuckers out there and that is needed more and more as the lines continue to blur between publishers and media.

Anyway, here's some of my favourite Jeff memories:

Motorbike QL - Jeff and Vinny play a terrible Trials rip-off and Jeff laughs more than I've heard him laugh pretty much ever

Rogue Warrior QL - Jeff and Ryan get sweary

Darkest of Days QL - Jeff and Ryan think about fried chicken

Jurassic: The Hunted QL - What the foxtrot? Maybe the only time anyone has ever walked out of a QL out of disgust

Jeff makes a bad swine flu joke - Context starts at about 1:13:25

Jeff's fall - Jeff plays a prank

Jeff talks about Duke Nukem Forever on The Hotspot - Been a threat for 3 decades and counting

Jeff gives his balanced take on NiGHTS - It's so fucking badumb

This is just a small sampling as I'd have to spend about 3 hours writing this comment to actually capture everything I'd really want to, but suffice it to say, Jeff is a fucking legend of this website and the wider internet and I hope we continue to hear his unique perspective for years to come.

Hot takeouts were great! The cited reason for stopping them was that Jess became a full-time member of staff which, imo, makes no fucking sense. Surely if she works here, she has *more* time to work on videos for the site?

That's a month's worth of Premium content, 4 UPFs and 4 Bombcasts. Pretty sad.

Twitter in small scale communities can be sort of cool. On a larger scale it fucking sucks and is riddled with exactly the same problems as "old media" where conflict and controversy is what drives the platform.

It's definitely soured my overall view on the game. Up until finishing the capital I thought this game was a shoe in for my GOTY and was my favourite gaming experience in years.

Now picking it up again feels like a chore.