Air VPN has port forwarding, been using them for years.

It is weirder to me that people back shit like this up. I have zero desire to keep a backup of chat and random images people have sent me.

I’ve only played Borderlands 2 in local split screen co-op.

But the question wasn’t give a fair assessment of a sequel to a game you like.

I realise that it isn’t objectively a bad game or anything like that and a lot of people still play it until this day and I for sure appreciate them keeping the servers up for the old game so I can still go back to play it should I choose. But the question was what sequel to a game I loved ruined it for me and anyone who played both can see they are blatantly not the same game at all.

GW2 was a complete departure from how the first game worked to a more generic MMO style, I’m sure it is a great game in its own right but for me personally, when compared to the amazing first game, it just doesnt hold a candle.

I didn’t, I remember falling asleep playing it not long after release which didn’t bode well, I wanted to like it but couldn’t. I “enjoyed” it for a while many years later as a co-op experience on a console (I forget which one) whilst getting stoned but it was more scratching an itch for that genre and playing with friends locally that really won it over in that instance rather than the game itself.

Likewise with 4, I didn’t even give it the time of day tbh, I still haven’t really seen much about it.

I’d have liked to play the remaster but I refuse to give those assholes any money and the main draw for me was multiplayer as a kid. I played the SP briefly on a pirate version but it was always about the MP for me.

Two of my favourite games of all time are Diablo 2 and Guild Wars.

Both of these games I was insanely hyped for the following games in the series and got them both on their respective releases days. Both were utterly disappointing crap when compared to their previous games and both probably contributed heavily to how I will now no longer get hyped for any game let alone buy one in their first year or two of release.

I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Some people can start losing weight quickly by making those small changes but that isn’t the case for everyone at all, so when I say it is a massive struggle for some people implementing stringent diets and exercise regimes, those are the people that making just small changes like OP is talking about hasn’t been effective and consequently their weight loss / fitness journey can be a lot more of a struggle.

I was not trying to put OP down because it is beneficial for not only themselves but society as a whole for them to live in a healthier manner, I was trying to get across the point that when talking about these subjects to be mindful of everyone’s own journey within health and fitness.

The people that do find it hard for reasons such as pointed out by your other response to this post can already be very demoralised by the journey as a whole and to just be claiming it is all so easy by making such small changes can be even more demoralising for those people by making them think what is wrong with them or what are they doing wrong which in turn does minimise and diminish the effort they are putting in.

I have no desire to put OP down in terms of making a positive change in their life and tried to write a response that put that across as we should all be encouraging each other to live healthier lives, in turn I hope OP encourages other people too to make positive changes in their lives, I just think it is important as well to not approach it by framing it as “easy” because that can be seen as dismissive to people that already struggle with health and fitness.

I’m not going to disagree with what you say because everyone can benefit from small things and should be encouraged to start small so that they don’t quit early on trying to change their entire lifestyle in one go but claiming it is easy does not help achieve that and will sometimes have the opposite effect for people that aren’t finding it easy.

Everyone has their own journey with its own issues, I just wanted OP to be able to encourage other people with his story but in a manner that won’t be seen as negative by some others :)

You are kind of disregarding and minimising the struggle that a lot of people go through to try and lose weight.

Everyone has different experiences and everyone’s body will react differently to diets and exercise, for a lot of people it is a massive struggle and despite following strict diets and exercising religiously they will still struggle to lose weight effectively.

You obviously react well to differences in diet but if you were also only around 95kg despite eating inordinate amounts of shit for 10 years then it is obvious that you don’t put weight on as quickly as other people can through having a shitty diet.

I, like you, am very lucky that I can eat shit for a while and won’t put on a lot of weight. I can fluctuate 5kg within the space of the same week so for me I prefer to measure progress through actual fitness and gains in things like stamina and strength as weight is just not a reliable indicator for me at all.

Don’t get me wrong it is fucking great that you are making healthier choices and actually getting some exercise, hopefully you stick to it for the long term and make positive habit changes for yourself going forward. Hopefully you can find some exercise that you actually enjoy and start chasing something more meaningful such as stamina, endurance or strength rather than just a number on scales. Going forward from now hopefully you will notice the improvement in your everyday life that even a minor improvement in base fitness can provide.

I just think you should also be mindful of going around thinking “this shit is easy” and getting some kind of superiority complex over people who have been struggling with health and fitness for long periods of time, it isnt a good look.

Good luck with your continued progress, I hope you get more into fitness in general and start to reap the benefits outside of numbers on a scale :)

Going back over your text message trying to trim it down as much as possible because you were a few characters over a single text limit and like fuck you were using a whole additional text message from your allowance for the sake of a few characters.

Eh I’m English, all beige food is top tier!

I realise you are having health issues from reading your other posts and you should always prioritise that!

I really have so little interest in that short form twitter esque posting that I actively reject it so if I’m being completely honest I doubt I will go there.

Don’t push yourself to post the long form posts, get better and the best of luck with your upcoming appointments. I will look forward to your return to the long form post and hopefully with accompanying info of how well you are doing physically in the future :D

You are not an imposter, you are the fediverses premier gaming journalist and I’ll fight anyone that says different xD

Have a good day!

I’ve always avoided games based “journalism” (and all journalism really) as in my experience it tends to be full of over opinionated bullshit however your posts are different.

I genuinely enjoy your posts, they are well written, clear and succinct. You offer your opinion on things you genuinely enjoy but usually as a side note rather than baking it into the news or subject you are writing about and it is generally clear you are just passionate about the things you are writing about.

Where can I join the PerfectDark fan club?

Sadly I don’t use any of those platforms and with a cursory view their website and etsy page don’t cover the actual materials and methods used to produce them (which is a bit weird for a passion project). I may have missed it though and will look properly once I’m not working.

Have a good day!

That is fine, I didn’t expect you to be as interested in the printing side but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks for the link, I’ll have a look around and see what I can find. :D

Do you have any more information on those manuals in terms of how they made them? (Or a link to where I could read the info) Things like printing process, materials used etc. I work in print so that kind of interests me and from the photos they look of an OK quality so I was just curious.

All the best with your health, I enjoy reading through your posts even if I am not commenting every time but health is always more important so I hope things take a positive turn for you!

I mean if you want to be pedantic then;

Wheel: “a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move”

So a rim or alloy can and is a wheel with or without a tyre ;)

I’m not saying it can’t be scuffed, I’m saying that personally I wouldn’t use it in that way because like you say I’m from an island that spells tyre with a y :p

I mean I disagree. A gouge would be a big chuck taken out, a scratch would be a more surface level line where as a scuff would be a patch of surface level damage. I doubt I would ever use scuff in terms of a tyre either.

That is the wonders of language though, everyone uses it differently :D

Wheel, not tyre. So I presume they curbed an alloy or similar.