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They're classified as motor vehicles in the UK (unlike electric bikes) which means they have to be registered, taxed, insured etc. It's basically impossible to register and insure a privately owned e-scooter at the moment, effectively meaning the only legal e-scooters are the rental ones. A normal beat officer might not stop you if you're lucky but a road traffic officer probably would stop you.

I would get a bike. Cycling is fun and you can get a decent bike for the same price as an e-scooter, or even less. Obviously an e-bike would set you back a bit more, but you might not need an e-bike. Cycling a traditional bike isn't as hard work as you might think.

@noboners: I had scrubbed the groovatron trophy from my memory, you're right that's a bitch.

I loved my time with R&C 2016. I don't generally care about achievements and this remains the only game I've platinumed. My memory is that there weren't any massively challenging trophies so it's probably a good one to go for a platinum on. Probably not a game I would go back to anytime soon, but while it lasted I had an absolute blast.

In terms of story, I'm in the Dan Ryckert school of thought. If a game has a stand out story then that's great but it's not what I come to games for. The story was completely forgettable here and that's fine.

Not demos as such but if anyone remember Net Yaroze, the PS1 devkit that was released to the public so people could make their own games.

The UK Official Playststion Magazine would sometimes include one of these homemade games on their demo disc. Anyway one issue they included a disc with all the best Net Yaroze games on it and I played the absolute shit out of it. They were mostly really basic, janky games but at the time it was a real novelty to play what were essentially indie games before indie games really became a thing.

EDIT: I would love if that disc could be sourced for Demo Derby, I think it may have just been a UK thing and being homemade games I don't think they were released in any other manner.

Subscribed, thanks for sharing. The game of the year streams they recorded together were great so I'm really looking forward to a regular podcast. Dan's work ethic is insane.

@noblenerf: It's not necessarily a whataboutism because both things ultimately require the same solution, which is clean energy. Our energy use as a species is only going to increase in the future, there is no reversing that.

@imhungry: You're comparing Giant Bomb to the entire Crypto space though. Compare video streaming as a whole to crypto. Say it was to be mandated that all businesses offering video streaming from Giant Bomb to YouTube to Netflix could only stream at a maximum of 720p. That would result in a pretty significant reduction in carbon emissions.

Edit: here is a recent article from the BBC about the environmental impact of streaming video at high resolutions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5516441

I watched quite a few of Jonas' videos when I got really into Tetris 99. It's worth watching the Tetris championship final from 2018 when he lost the title to Joseph Saelee, incredibly classy and gracious in defeat and genuinely delighted to pass the Tetris torch on to a new generation.

He and his wife Heather also did some fun Tetris 99 live streams, they had a great relationship. It's really sad to hear of his passing. Good to hear the Bombcast give him a mention earlier this week.

Thanks for posting this here, I'm so happy Dan got to preview this game. It looks like more of the same, which is perfect as they nailed it with Hitman 2. I am so hyped for Hitman 3, I played the previous two installments to death and I can't wait to get back in there. IO deserve so much credit for revitalising this series, especially after Square Enix dropped them.

GTX 1060-6GB, i5-8400, 12GB RAM. 1920x1080 resolution, high graphics preset, frame rate locked to 30FPS. On low graphics settings I'm only getting around 45FPS so I've settled on High@30FPS. Good enough for me, wasn't expecting better than that on a 1060.