Hey, don’t bring me into this! ;p

This will be controversial as as far as I am aware it isn’t held in that high regard but in my opinion the best Sonic game made is Sonic Spinball.

It is an odd mix of things, there are a few sections where you need to do some very simple platforming but other than that it is basically a pinball game where you can influence the direction the ball (sonic) is travelling in a very small way. You need to hit certain objectives on each level to acquire chaos emeralds that then open up a boss room. I tend to return to it and complete a play through each year!

As a Sonic adjacent game I also always liked Doctor Robotniks Mean Bean Machine which is a match 3 type puzzle game where setting up combos of colours will trigger blocks to drop on an opponent and you have to survive whilst trying to push their game to the ceiling. Nothing ground breaking but I always enjoyed it.

Aside from that all of the original 2D platformers are decent and Sonic R on the Saturn was alright at the time, although not sure how it has held up over time.

All of the 3D offerings I have tried have been utter shite imo

Listened to a couple of Outlanders then moved on the book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Just finished that last night so I’ll jump back into more outlanders for a bit whilst I decide what to read next!

Sonic was my first ever video game at Christmas when I was around 4 or 5 and I loved that shit. Loved all of the sonic games on the mega drive and have always thought Mario is fucking dog shit in comparison.

Then the Saturn came along and the only sonic game really worth playing was sonic R seen as the 3D sonic we were promised only materialised as that sort of tech demo that came with Sonic Jam.

After that it was steady downhill for me. I think Adventure 1 and 2 are massively over rated and I never really enjoyed them except for having a Chao on my VMU.

I was still a sonic fan though and ended up getting a sonic half sleeve tattoo for whatever reason.

As time goes on I have realised that every new sonic game that comes out is just not interesting to me. I really liked the demo of 06 and thought it was going to be great but then they had the were hedgehog things that was utter dog shit and ruined the whole thing for me. I have now moved on and don’t really have any interest in anything they produce with sonic in but it was still my first ever video game.

Fast forward to now and I wouldn’t even try a new sonic game and just presume it’ll be crap. I’m blacking out and covering up that old tattoo and Mario is still over rated trash.

Thanks for the reply. I’ll have a look at some documentation and compare to see if I can improve it!

I remember renting PS2 games and then ripping them onto the PS2 HDD using HDD Advance onto my 40GB IDE drive.

No, and as time goes on I’m leaving the house more and more often without that shit. Give me a physical ticket and some cash any day!

If it is Heritage Auctions and WATA then it is corruption. This game is never worth that amount and no one has actually bought it for that amount it is just an ongoing scam and any “publication” reporting on this trash as if it were anything else should also be considered compliant of this obvious market manipulation bullshit.

“What’s the retail on one of those!?”

“More than you can afford pal!”

This week I finished the Lee Harden series of books and thus finished all of The Remaining books by DJ Molles.

My reading order was definitely screwed up by the site that I used to get a reading order from and I feel I would have enjoyed some of the earlier books I read a hell of a lot more if they had been put in their proper places in between the Harden series of books. I know understand some things that went on a lot better but this didnt ruin my overall enjoyment of the series at all. It was great!

I’m now back to some Outlanders for a bit whilst I decide where to go next. I will probably check to see if some other series I am into have any new books released before then searching for some new things!

Mate. You ain’t that big.

I don’t know what country you are from but you weigh in around 118kg which really isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things and unless you are going to go to a sketchy as fuck place you are going to struggle more with getting a pair of shoes to fit you than your weight.

Just look for a bouldering center near to you, where I’m from you don’t need to pay memberships or anything like that. Just find a place, probably book a time slot then rock up and try it for yourself.

Every place I have been supply shoes to rent but that may be more where you have an issue so may be worth asking ahead if they are able to supply you with ones your size. The shoes make a lot of difference to your experience so I recommend using them.

Every place I have been will supply you with a brief tutorial if you haven’t been there before with their rules and then you just knock yourself out and climb. Maybe they do have their own “culture” if you go regularly and start climbing with other people but this is nothing like martial arts. You don’t need a partner and that trust of training and sparring with someone you can just climb by yourself and have fun. I’ve been many times and bar the staff not spoken to anyone at all so if there is some kind of culture I never experienced it :D

Go give it a try man, it is fun!

No worries :)

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I can’t offer you any solutions unfortunately but I have been fighting a similar issue for nearly two years now. I was starting to think it was my cassette as I have a sunrace on there and thought maybe not going shimano was causing my issues with the shifting not being entirely perfect.

I have the same derailleur but paired with the GRX shifter up front.

My largest two cogs (11-42) are fine like you. Then my third cog is the worst, often when going from large to small down the gears it doesnt want to go into third and will sit clicking on the second. Other times it’ll just jump the third entirely and go straight to forth. Even once it is in the third cog it still clicks as if it is trying to shift up to the second cog and isnt entirely aligned properly on the third.

4the and 5the are also a little sketchy but will usually go into them a lot more reliably but they never fully sound / feel 100% aligned. Sometimes if I put a lot of power through the cranks in these gears it will skip a tooth aggressively which worries me that I will end up snapping a tooth off of one of them.

I am constantly tweaking my barrel adjuster trying to get it better but it always tends to just move the problem around slightly on the cassette and never solves it.

I have changed the cable out as well just in case but that didnt help. I have also changed the crankset in this time which had a very slightly different offset resulting in mm changes in my chain line (I went from an FSA crankset to a GRX one) which i hoped maybe would inadvertently smooth out those slight kinks. It did make it marginally better but overall the improvement was negligible.

So I’m sorry I can’t offer any insights but you aren’t alone and reading this post makes me think maybe the issue is the derailleur all along for me as that would be the common denominator between us.

I’ll pop back to this thread to see if anyone can offer any insights but I have had professional mechanics look at mine (as I usually do all my own work) but that offered no improvement.

These are my feelings exactly! I tried a fair few times to get into 2 but it just never stuck for me but the first game is amazing and in my top 3 of all time probably.

I’ll be interested to see some guild wars 3 stuff but I don’t know if I’ll ever actually play it myself!

Your analogies make no sense either.

I presume the headline is alluding to how eventually people accepted cars are better than horses but then your “better” analogies make no sense.

Auto vs manual, neither is “better”, it depends more on situation and personal preference. I’d take a manual over auto any day personally.

Power steering vs not again depends on application. I’d rather have no power steering in a little sports car and get more positive feedback but would rather power steering on some heavy unwieldly vehicle.

A map vs sat nav bullshit. I’m guessing more people would argue the latter being “better” in this case but there are plenty of people who would rather read a map and know exactly where they are rather than blindly follow shit.

So yeh I really don’t understand what you are driving at with your analogies and don’t think they work for the context unless I’m misunderstanding :)

I am coming towards the end of the fifth book in the Lee Harden series of books. It is a decent continuation of the story and I don’t regret delving into it but that damn dog had me choked up again in this fucking book! XD

You are thinking of BuyMort the Shopocalypse Saga and it is also great!

More litRPG would come in the form of Beware of Chicken which is actually referenced a few times later on in the series of books when he talks about the cloudy sword sect and Raul the Crabs general existence seems to be to nod to beware of chicken.

Also Solo Levelling is great too

Currently a Sony NWZ A15

Fuck yeh!

I loved the first GTA but I played on PC. I still have the game music files I copied from the PC copy on my mp3 player now. I really loved that soundtrack!