Posts by Thrik

I think you should watch JJ first for maximum appreciation, as it also introduces Luke Cage who's getting his own Netflix series later in the year. I have no idea if he'll turn up in DD season two but it's possible. I think they're kind of meant to be watched in chronological order because I think if you were to watch Luke's show without having watched JJ you'd be missing out on a lot of backstory, because he's a major part of several episodes.

There are various notification settings here:

https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/notifications/options/

I believe it also now prompts you to use your web browser's built in notification system if it supports it (e.g. Chrome). If you've enabled that then I assume the setting lies in your browser.

Just watched this and Jessica Jones. Like HP I was blown away by that one-take fight scene! I think overall Jessica's show was better and the subtle crossovers were cool. Really uncomfortable to watch at times though, jesus.

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On 3/6/2016 at 6:24 PM, Quotingmc said: Everyone's profile has a "Community Reputation" number yet it has no apparent affect or cause.

The only thing in some of the older profiles "Reputation Activity" is status updates but seeing as they are gone now, what actually impacts this number?

Even if something such as likes increase it, what is there to decrease it and what purpose does it have all together?

This number is purely determined by likes. It's your total number of liked posts, but it doesn't affect anything aside from allowing you to track how many of them you've received. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=":)" width="15">

It is a bit sporadic, I assume it's down to the connection it makes in the background to look up names lagging. I have some maintenance updates to install shortly so I'll see if these provide any improvement. If not I'll file it as a recurring issue with the vendor to see if it can be addressed.

Came across an electronica/chill album I like. Really reminds me of Bonobo and Emancipator.

Been enjoying some more laid-back stuff today. OK maybe not so much the first one. :cool:

Hi everyone,

Just in case anyone noticed a little discussion about this on Twitter and/or status feeds, I thought I'd clarify that we've recently been undergoing some changes to the site's structure. Things have slowed down a little, and I'll hold my hands up and say that this is largely because of myself having considerably less time than I have in previous years to keep things moving forward due to various personal things and other projects. While I've no intention of leaving after being part of this wonderful community for 15 years, wearing so many hats has become too much and I've become a little burnt out.

MapCore staff have contributed a lot of time bringing you things like our contests and articles. However, in a bid to make it even easier for them to do so I've decided to move two staff who've been particularly productive during the last couple of years — FMPONE and Sprony— into a more prominent role so that I'm no longer a bottleneck when it comes to decision making and coming up with nice new things. As you'll see from the updated staff directory, this means that my site management role has now been split out and given to them, while for the foreseeable future I will remain on hand for coding, technical administration, and advice. Essentially, day-to-day decisions are now theirs to make.

Both Shawn and Sprony know that we have a great formula here, and that anything going forward is all about enhancing and improving on what's been a great few years for the site. They've done superb work to make that happen and I have no doubt whatsoever that between them and backed up by our experienced and seasoned staff the site will continue to flourish. On that note, a number of new staff from the community have already been approached and will be brought on board to bring their vision of better and more frequent content to life. This is also a good time to point out that if you'd wish to write something, Shawn and Sprony will probably be delighted to hear from you!

Hopefully everyone will be supportive of these changes so that the community can continue to grow and thrive. And hopefully I'll have more time to simply post on the forums now that I have less things to worry about.

I think it's safe to say that my body is ready for this. It's not going to be easy to equal or even surpass its magnificent predecessor though! :oops:

Sorry guys, it's been a pain in the ass but I just got through installing updates that look like they might relieve the speed issues. From what I can tell it's mainly been about caching issues with the software, a recurring theme since the new version came out. Nonetheless I've been testing out all kinds of server-related things but the server itself is very snappy.

My hope is they finally figured it out now. I guess they didn't test enough with forums with 12 years of data like this one.

I've done some things which should hopefully speed things up, including just rebooting the server. I suspect something went wrong and started using more memory than it was meant to. If it isn't better let me know but it seems to be from my current machine.

There are now some maintenance updates to install, so I'll (briefly) take the forums down to do those some evening soon. It looks like various bugs have been fixed including some caching performance stuff so that might help with whatever's causing this nonsense.

Very sad to hear that Mazy. Hope you're doing OK.

He looks about the same to me, just more detailed. :???: Especially compared to his Blood Money rendition. Forgot he looked so ugly in the original Hitman.

Yeah PS4 has been offline-only every time I've played. The game's so broad that there's more than enough to do until FOB is back in action I guess.

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So after a Maltese platter, a pizza, and two bottles of wine, I had to clean up after my girlfriend sick. (The sink doesn't drain properly in the apartment we booked.)

I'm still up just in case she's sick again…

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Just wait until she's pregnant. Then you can spend you time holding her hair while trying to eat your own food without throwing up as well. Good times.

You know it's love when you don't mind doing that.

Right you early delivery BASTARDS, I'm getting this tomorrow and I can't bloody wait!!!!!

Yeah me neither, you absolute bastard.

Put them on imgur now.

Like an absolute bell end I managed to burn my arm by reaching over my just-boiled kettle for some kitchen paper. The steam did this in about half a second:

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I was advised to keep it wet and dressed as it's apparently faster healing that way rather than scabbing. Unfortunately this means a lot of pain each time you change the dressing and if you fuck it up and get the adhesive on the damaged skin like I did...

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Yes that fucking hurt! So keeping it wet can get stuffed. I'm going to keep it clean but dry so it can hopefully scab over and if it takes longer to heal or scars then whatever. I'm also missing out on swimming because of this nonsense, so hopefully once scabbed I can resume.

I know what you mean, I've literally grown up with these crazy-ass characters like Snake and Revolver Ocelot. I played my first Metal Gear Solid game when I was... 11? And I'm now 28. It's all so silly but when you've spent so much time following the series it becomes something else. What else has run for so long and been consistently good? Not many games, mostly Japanese ones.

To see a huge missing part of their evolution as characters brought to life and also the best Metal Gear game yet in terms of gameplay is going to be brilliant. Also the fact that it looks like we'll see the return of some other much-loved characters (although perhaps not in a lovable way) — wonderful.