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Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that's no beginner's distro. He's very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.

That's so that you can safely stay 12 feet from anyone else at all times once Bob Kennedy's vaccine-hating ways trigger another pandemic.

Resident Evil Village uses that, doesn't it? If you obtain a, ahem, Denuvo-free version, it's absolutely buttery smooth. Makes a great job of interiors, exteriors, character animation, and particle effects - especially smoke and fire. It just stutters like fuck to the point of unplayability if you try and run the version that you'd get through Steam.

Yep, this is what finally broke the camel's back for me. Had been meaning to get off it since Dan Ek decided that supporting Trump and Joe Rogan was the thing to do, but hadn't got round to it.

Cancelling Spotify and subscribing to Qobuz took all of five minutes. The sound quality is much better, the albums of the week are actually interesting and curated by human beings, the app works perfectly and streams to all our devices, and we're no longer giving money to that dickhead.

Other alternative music streaming services are available. Go on, it's easier than you think.

Well, at least she looks good in it.

Having hired suits and whatnot before to go to weddings, I'm not quite seeing the logic here. $19k "tax the rich" dress seems a bit of a tasteless disconnect between medium and message, but renting it for $1k doesn't seem crazy. Committee "did their own research" and thought $3k would be more appropriate, when most attendees pay nothing at all? Surely getting her fee refunded would be more in-line?

The two-boss combo => Ornstein and Smough? It can kind of go two ways:

• the first time you play DS, you'll get to that point in the game, and then the fact that your build is probably sub-optimal in many ways, combined with not really having had to fight two enemies with different movesets before, means that you're going to have a really bad time. Can't kite these boys out to fight them separately. Anor Londo isn't particularly great for grinding - you get a lot of souls, but the drops aren't great, so you're probably going to be going back a long way to get better stuff.

• every time you replay DS after beating it, you know these guys will be coming, and you'll have a decent build and decent weapons specifically for them. AL is about the point where a magic build really takes off and you'll finish the entire boss battle in the time it takes to cast crystal soulmass about three times, but there's plenty of viable builds for them. Last few times I've played it through, I've beaten them first time - it's a completely fair fight and it's not hard, exactly; just very unlike anything else you've had to do in the game.

Alas, defeating O&S means that you've pretty much finished the good bit of Dark Souls 1. It's a near flawless-game up until then, enough to rate it as one of the finest games of all time, and then they ran out of dev time. Duke's Archives is good, but brief. Londo Ruins is fine, but the boss is DPS race. Tomb of the Giants is ass. Lost Izalith is beyond ass; should have remained lost. Fortunately, the DLC is excellent and you can go and play that instead.

If he dies while he's over here, I'm all for chucking the cunt in the Moray Firth. It can be an 'ocean current lottery' to see which country finally receives him

Thanks, appreciate that ;-)

Um Jammer Lammy remake when? Not that it's the kind of game that needs an HD update, but getting it low-latency enough to play in an emulator is tricky.

Nice. Am envious of that bread - my dough-from-scratch usually turns out like a loaf, completely wrong for the task at hand.

That sounds pcocainenful.

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, perhaps? Not that it's a bad book by any means, and the idea is superb, but the execution isn't quite so great - it was his first published novel. The film is exceptional, though.