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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 18:11 
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Beef lasagne: shit. You’d rather have horse.

Yeah, we all know the extent of your culinary ideals, Findus.


I'll have you know that horse was just resting in my pancake.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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My rigorous vetting process to see if I like cake:

Step 1: Is it cake?

I like it.

I used to think like this, but then I came across the most unholy courgette cake. Nobody liked that. I believe it went in the bin. (after about 15 people had tried it, none managing to finish even a single slice)


I've enjoyed a nice courgette cake before. Though it's very important that it's not JUST a courgette cake. There needs to be some fun flavouring in there, as the courgette is just bringing the moistness.

It had lots of chocolate. The courgette mainly brought the superglue. (As in the damn thing set solid in your mouth.)


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I have to say, it's quite nice being able to listen to test match special on my morning commute and be able to have the cricket on TV in the office. As a bonus, it's actually looking to be a decent contest.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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N00b tears and wants all games to have all the ways to play them. Thanks to meatyangel for commenting o it on Facebook.

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Sticking a bonnet on B.J. and infantilizing the player by analogy isn’t exactly an invitation to explore playing Wolfenstein 2 differently. Even just calling one difficulty setting “normal” implies the others are deviant. When you’re fighting to liberate the country from people who believe in eugenics in a game that celebrates difference and diversity, moralizing the difficulty around the struggle (easy equals lazy/bad, hard equals virtuous/good) feels archaic.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I don't get it. Are people upset about being passively mocked for playing games on easy? id games have always done that.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Let's also spare a second to contemplate on how seven difficulty levels is clearly too fucking many difficulty levels. Some product manager needs to read The Paradox Of Choice.

(Also, new Wolf and Doom aren't by iD, haven't been for years.)


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I don't get it. Are people upset about being passively mocked for playing games on easy? id games have always done that.


Nazi kill him when he wants to pick Edelweiss so shouldn't there be a game mode just with Edelweiss and no Nazis. The overblown masculinity also semi to cause issues.

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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(Also, new Wolf and Doom aren't by iD, haven't been for years.)


True. But it's the same... (idiom, sir?) ... yes, idiom.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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Curiosity wrote:
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Beef lasagne: shit. You’d rather have horse.

Yeah, we all know the extent of your culinary ideals, Findus.


I'll have you know that horse was just resting in my pancake.


:DD

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You know, since the horsemeat scandal, cheap burgers and lasagne are way worse. Bring back horsey burgers!

(I have horse jerky, and thats awesome. The only way I like horses is in my belly.)


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I have to say, it's quite nice being able to listen to test match special on my morning commute and be able to have the cricket on TV in the office. As a bonus, it's actually looking to be a decent contest.

Err what? It's a shellacking

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I have to say, it's quite nice being able to listen to test match special on my morning commute and be able to have the cricket on TV in the office. As a bonus, it's actually looking to be a decent contest.

Err what? It's a shellacking

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I have to say, it's quite nice being able to listen to test match special on my morning commute and be able to have the cricket on TV in the office. As a bonus, it's actually looking to be a decent contest.

Err what? It's a shellacking


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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N00b tears and wants all games to have all the ways to play them. Thanks to meatyangel for commenting o it on Facebook.



I agree with him.

I've played through Wolfenstein 2 on 'Bring it on!', and it really is quite uneven difficulty wise. SOme bits are bloody infuriating, some bits are easy as pie. There's bits where it seems to want to be nu-Doom, (here's a small area, defend it, but enemies come from everywhere so don't try to find cover and turtle), but BJ ain't Doomguy, he can't take as much punishment.

I can see how dropping it to easy might help even things out.

If I was designing a difficulty menu for this particular game, I'd go with:

*Story (easy combat and stealth)
*Stealth (focus on the stealth aspect, slightly dumber enemies, slightly weaker enemies, more punishment for getting caught, but ability to reset the alert status by hiding)
*Rock and Roll (combat focused, tougher BJ, more ammo, more health and armour pickups, no stealth aspects at all)
*Full Monty (Game as presented)
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I have to say, it's quite nice being able to listen to test match special on my morning commute and be able to have the cricket on TV in the office. As a bonus, it's actually looking to be a decent contest.

Err what? It's a shellacking


The last 24 hours or so have brought about that most dangerous of thing. Hope!


Oh man. 2-0 down would still probably lead to a huge overall defeat. But my, it's close overall. I am in Adelaide (outskirts). I did not go. Tomorrow, entry is by 'gold coin donation' (so, a quid). I am on a bus.

Still freaking excited. After 2013-14, just being in a contest is enough for me. But...but...it might be more.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I agree too. It's the worst kind of toxic masculinity on show.

And the cricket too. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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N00b tears and wants all games to have all the ways to play them. Thanks to meatyangel for commenting o it on Facebook.



I agree with him.

I've played through Wolfenstein 2 on 'Bring it on!', and it really is quite uneven difficulty wise. SOme bits are bloody infuriating, some bits are easy as pie. There's bits where it seems to want to be nu-Doom, (here's a small area, defend it, but enemies come from everywhere so don't try to find cover and turtle), but BJ ain't Doomguy, he can't take as much punishment.

I can see how dropping it to easy might help even things out.

If I was designing a difficulty menu for this particular game, I'd go with:

*Story (easy combat and stealth)
*Stealth (focus on the stealth aspect, slightly dumber enemies, slightly weaker enemies, more punishment for getting caught, but ability to reset the alert status by hiding)
*Rock and Roll (combat focused, tougher BJ, more ammo, more health and armour pickups, no stealth aspects at all)
*Full Monty (Game as presented)
*Legendary (for the masochists)


Western developers can't seem to even do 3 difficulty settings right (usually higher difficulty is just upping enemies HP and damage) and you want even more difficulty settings? If they aren't willing to put as much effort as japanese developers into the difficulty settings, they should just focus on one.

And I wish developers wouldn't listen to the kind of games sites like Kotaku and Polygon. They are a joke but apparently their opinions still have some weight in the industry. Why should every game be for everyone? It's perfectly fine for some games to be hard and others easy and the consumer to choose. It's better to developers to focus on their vision and make the best game they can. Nintendo games have been laughably easy for ages and it's fine (haven't played the latest zelda so can't comment on that one). They're just not for me.


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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I’ve often thought this in the past. Largely when I was shit at a game, and on limited lives (and restart from the beginning) you would often be denied the whole game. Not so much an issue these days but still.
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 Post subject: Re: Bits and Bobs 49
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I’ve often thought this in the past. Largely when I was shit at a game, and on limited lives (and restart from the beginning) you would often be denied the whole game. Not so much an issue these days but still.
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As more AAA games focus on open world design, the idea of needing to “earn” the exploration parts by completing familiar repetitive tasks like “go kill some dude” or “collect a bunch of random stuff feels” almost criminal. People spend years of their lives creating different parts of a game that most people, even the ones who buy it, will probably never see, especially if it’s toward the end.


“Thanks for your money, but you’re not good enough to play all the game you just paid for”


I agree with that. I disagree with "shooting games must remove baddies so we can collect rainbows all day"

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I’ve often thought this in the past. Largely when I was shit at a game, and on limited lives (and restart from the beginning) you would often be denied the whole game. Not so much an issue these days but still.
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As more AAA games focus on open world design, the idea of needing to “earn” the exploration parts by completing familiar repetitive tasks like “go kill some dude” or “collect a bunch of random stuff feels” almost criminal. People spend years of their lives creating different parts of a game that most people, even the ones who buy it, will probably never see, especially if it’s toward the end.


“Thanks for your money, but you’re not good enough to play all the game you just paid for”


I agree with that. I disagree with "shooting games must remove baddies so we can collect rainbows all day"

No one has said that. As per usual you miss the point. No one is taking your shooty games away.

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I've been playing Horizon Zero Dawn a lot lately, and on one of the loading screens it basically says there's nothing wrong with 'easy' because it let's you get on and enjoy the story. Which is why there is so much effort in making it a good story.

Games costs lots of money to make so need marketing to the widest audience before they make that back, let alone turn a profit. If you want a great game that is engaging and looks good then you have to accept someone's 12yo neice who got a PS4 for Christmas might want to play it on easy to get to grips with it. That is what keeps people interested in playing and spending money on games, it wasn't so inclusive there wouldn't be the same level of investment and there wouldn't be the amazing range of games and pursuit of technology that there is now.

I'll go back through a game on easy to mop up the collectables if I'm inclined to. I wouldn't bother if it had a single difficulty setting and I knew I was going to get my ass repeatedly handed to me again, until I eventually got through. I might attempt it on super hard mode if I really want a trophy but I don't think I've ever done that. Why should my gaming experience be reduced, or confined to 'kids games' because of that?

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Lonewolves wrote:
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
I’ve often thought this in the past. Largely when I was shit at a game, and on limited lives (and restart from the beginning) you would often be denied the whole game. Not so much an issue these days but still.
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As more AAA games focus on open world design, the idea of needing to “earn” the exploration parts by completing familiar repetitive tasks like “go kill some dude” or “collect a bunch of random stuff feels” almost criminal. People spend years of their lives creating different parts of a game that most people, even the ones who buy it, will probably never see, especially if it’s toward the end.


“Thanks for your money, but you’re not good enough to play all the game you just paid for”


I agree with that. I disagree with "shooting games must remove baddies so we can collect rainbows all day"

No one has said that. As per usual you miss the point. No one is taking your shooty games away.


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In Wolfenstein 2 difficulty affects how quickly things die, including you. Sometimes it also changes how many enemies there are and where they’re placed. Story beats and how environments are constructed remain the same though. Rather than offer different modes that emphasize different ways of playing the game, like focusing on stealth or limited combat exploration, the settings are just a knob waiting to be cranked up to 11.

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I've been playing Horizon Zero Dawn a lot lately, and on one of the loading screens it basically says there's nothing wrong with 'easy' because it let's you get on and enjoy the story. Which is why there is so much effort in making it a good story.

Games costs lots of money to make so need marketing to the widest audience before they make that back, let alone turn a profit. If you want a great game that is engaging and looks good then you have to accept someone's 12yo neice who got a PS4 for Christmas might want to play it on easy to get to grips with it. That is what keeps people interested in playing and spending money on games, it wasn't so inclusive there wouldn't be the same level of investment and there wouldn't be the amazing range of games and pursuit of technology that there is now.

I'll go back through a game on easy to mop up the collectables if I'm inclined to. I wouldn't bother if it had a single difficulty setting and I knew I was going to get my ass repeatedly handed to me again, until I eventually got through. I might attempt it on super hard mode if I really want a trophy but I don't think I've ever done that. Why should my gaming experience be reduced, or confined to 'kids games' because of that?


Apparently the problem with Kotaku is that they got offended over the joke of Wolf2 difficulty settings. Most AAA have these multiple difficulty settings, so I don't know why they are arguing about. But if i'm thinking about a lesser evil situation, better give me all those difficulty settings but don't ever put level scaling in a game like in Oblivion.

And is it bad business to exclude part of your audience due to difficulty? Cuphead and Dark Souls did it and were massive successes.


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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
I’ve often thought this in the past. Largely when I was shit at a game, and on limited lives (and restart from the beginning) you would often be denied the whole game. Not so much an issue these days but still.
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As more AAA games focus on open world design, the idea of needing to “earn” the exploration parts by completing familiar repetitive tasks like “go kill some dude” or “collect a bunch of random stuff feels” almost criminal. People spend years of their lives creating different parts of a game that most people, even the ones who buy it, will probably never see, especially if it’s toward the end.


“Thanks for your money, but you’re not good enough to play all the game you just paid for”


I agree with that. I disagree with "shooting games must remove baddies so we can collect rainbows all day"

No one has said that. As per usual you miss the point. No one is taking your shooty games away.


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In Wolfenstein 2 difficulty affects how quickly things die, including you. Sometimes it also changes how many enemies there are and where they’re placed. Story beats and how environments are constructed remain the same though. Rather than offer different modes that emphasize different ways of playing the game, like focusing on stealth or limited combat exploration, the settings are just a knob waiting to be cranked up to 11.

Offering different modes is not taking your game away. Read it again.

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I've been playing Horizon Zero Dawn a lot lately, and on one of the loading screens it basically says there's nothing wrong with 'easy' because it let's you get on and enjoy the story. Which is why there is so much effort in making it a good story.

Games costs lots of money to make so need marketing to the widest audience before they make that back, let alone turn a profit. If you want a great game that is engaging and looks good then you have to accept someone's 12yo neice who got a PS4 for Christmas might want to play it on easy to get to grips with it. That is what keeps people interested in playing and spending money on games, it wasn't so inclusive there wouldn't be the same level of investment and there wouldn't be the amazing range of games and pursuit of technology that there is now.

I'll go back through a game on easy to mop up the collectables if I'm inclined to. I wouldn't bother if it had a single difficulty setting and I knew I was going to get my ass repeatedly handed to me again, until I eventually got through. I might attempt it on super hard mode if I really want a trophy but I don't think I've ever done that. Why should my gaming experience be reduced, or confined to 'kids games' because of that?


Apparently the problem with Kotaku is that they got offended over the joke of Wolf2 difficulty settings. Most AAA have these multiple difficulty settings, so I don't know why they are arguing about. But if i'm thinking about a lesser evil situation, better give me all those difficulty settings but don't ever put level scaling in a game like in Oblivion.

And is it bad business to exclude part of your audience due to difficulty? Cuphead and Dark Souls did it and were massive successes.

It's only a funny joke if you're a 12yo gamergate edgelord. If it's satire then it's very poor.

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Offering different modes is not taking your game away. Read it again.


You read what Mali said again. He's saying that games shouldn't just remove bad guys from the game for easy mode. It should be the same game, just easier. You've completely got his point wrong.

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Offering different modes is not taking your game away. Read it again.


You read what Mali said again. He's saying that games shouldn't just remove bad guys from the game for easy mode. It should be the same game, just easier. You've completely got his point wrong.

What difference does it make to him what they do for easy mode if he isn't interested in using that mode?

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Offering different modes is not taking your game away. Read it again.


You read what Mali said again. He's saying that games shouldn't just remove bad guys from the game for easy mode. It should be the same game, just easier. You've completely got his point wrong.

What difference does it make to him what they do for easy mode if he isn't interested in using that mode?


He's not mentioned once not being interested in easy mode. Are you having both halves of a conversation on your own, here?

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Anyone who's annoyed because someone else was allowed to choose a slightly different experience--and, crucially, a choice that doesn't impact anyone else in the slightest*--is just flat-out being a fucking idiot. Did you get to play the game you wanted? Yes? Then shut up for god's sake. Your dick isn't any smaller just because someone else enjoyed a game you like on an easier difficulty setting. All this 'n00b tears', 'git gud', 'games don't have to be for everyone' whining shows a weird fascination in what other people are doing rather than getting on with just enjoying your own stuff.

That Kotaku article though is the other side of that same coin and is equally horseshit. Going on about easy and hard being loaded terms and how he was apparently peer pressured into feeling guilty over dropping the level is just nonsense.

*And before Grimm predictably tries to make the equation: loot boxes in a multi-player game aren't the same as difficulty setting in a single player experience.


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Anyone who's annoyed because someone else was allowed to choose a slightly different experience--and, crucially, a choice that doesn't impact anyone else in the slightest*--is just flat-out being a fucking idiot. Did you get to play the game you wanted? Yes? Then shut up for god's sake. Your dick isn't any smaller just because someone else enjoyed a game you like on an easier difficulty setting. All this 'n00b tears', 'git gud', 'games don't have to be for everyone' whining shows a weird fascination in what other people are doing rather than getting on with just enjoying your own stuff.

That Kotaku article though is the other side of that same coin and is equally horseshit. Going on about easy and hard being loaded terms and how he was apparently peer pressured into feeling guilty over dropping the level is just nonsense.

*And before Grimm predictably tries to make the equation: loot boxes in a multi-player game aren't the same as difficulty setting in a single player experience.


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Anyone who's annoyed because someone else was allowed to choose a slightly different experience--and, crucially, a choice that doesn't impact anyone else in the slightest*--is just flat-out being a fucking idiot. Did you get to play the game you wanted? Yes? Then shut up for god's sake. Your dick isn't any smaller just because someone else enjoyed a game you like on an easier difficulty setting. All this 'n00b tears', 'git gud', 'games don't have to be for everyone' whining shows a weird fascination in what other people are doing rather than getting on with just enjoying your own stuff.

Yes. Not that I've seen anyone saying that, but yes. Except for when they do impact everyone else, because the Devs change the game.

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That Kotaku article though is the other side of that same coin and is equally horseshit. Going on about easy and hard being loaded terms and how he was apparently peer pressured into feeling guilty over dropping the level is just nonsense.

No. You don't get to tell people what upsets them.

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*And before Grimm predictably tries to make the equation: loot boxes in a multi-player game aren't the same as difficulty setting in a single player experience.

Who?

If you mean Grim..., he did that ages ago, do keep up.

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I…agree with Grim… but not Bamba? Weird day.

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Boys are better at everything than girls are.

Except cooking and cleaning, AMIRITE fellas??


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Certainly better at tennis.

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Grim... wrote:
Boys are better at everything than girls are.

Except cooking and cleaning, AMIRITE fellas??

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Normality is restored!

Ironic sexism is still sexism. It impacts in the same way even if the intentions are not the same. And that is more important, imo.

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Normality is restored!

Ironic sexism is still sexism. It impacts in the same way even if the intentions are not the same. And that is more important, imo.

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Define "by iD"

Doom 2016 wasn't by the same people who were in iD software that were around for the original doom (as, barring one person, they've all left) but it was still developed by iD software.


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In London for a Josh Ritter gig. Looking forward to this as he's touring with his band and I really love his new album.


How was it?

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In London for a Josh Ritter gig. Looking forward to this as he's touring with his band and I really love his new album.


How was it?


Had an excellent time and was quite close to the front too. Been about seven years since I last saw the full band, and the bassist's moustache was just as awesome as ever. Didn't buy a t-shirt this time.

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Going anywhere?


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