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@Aiden42149494 @JPF369369369 @GBPolitcs @thetimes Also, I use C2C everyday, I can tell you that the main causes of delays over the last 18 months have been track subsidence caused by the heatwave and signal failures. Both of which are the responsibility of Network Rail, not the carrier. Correlation doesn't equal causation

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@Aiden42149494 @JPF369369369 @GBPolitcs @thetimes I am responding to the person who seems to erroneously believe that train driver unions have a different level of power and influence in a nationalised infrastructure. Read properly before you wastey time again

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@JPF369369369 @GBPolitcs @thetimes Nothing to do with nationalisation mate, but good try

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@JosiahMothWHU Grant? Potter? Come on now, are you new here?

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@CFCforxile Falcao

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@signalspikedev @LordAddictILP @Septic_Sauce "I don't agree with history as it happened, so I'm just gonna make up my own". Insufferable cunt

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@curatorgamingx You're slow aren't you? The figures are low because most got on games pass

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@vgmaster2001 @capnkaba Breaking news: Man discovers that followers are not required for a person to find common ground with others

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba I'm genuinely glad that you're still having those moments, and don't get me wrong, I still enjoy my gaming. But irrespective of where the industry is I know that my best gaming times are in the past, unfortunately

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba But this is a subjective area. Was Halo 2 objectively thethe greatest game ever made? On almost every measure probably not, but I doubt I'll ever get that feeling again playing online as a teenager with my friends when I had lots of time and no responsibilities

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba ...and that clearly works for some, especially PC gamers who have more freedom and choice, but I greed has corrupted some great IPs, this goes wider than games too, look at what's been done to star wars

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba I'd have to disagree. Although I agree that there are, often smaller Devs out there doing amazing work, I miss the time where you could get a triple A game and not get acrewed over. I think we've sacrificed amazing blockbuster games for a broader market of great smaller games

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Ok, so if you were to guess, you'd say MTX are no more common now than 10 years ago? Nevermind 20

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Admittedly Crisis is far less linear than the original 3 Halo's (campaign wise) but I think you're being naive if you think they didn't look at Halo in their development

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Ok, let's pause this for a second. Do YOU think gaming is in a better place now than it was in the mid-2000s?

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba No goalposts have been moved. Fact of the matter is that R6 changed nothing. It didn't sell consoles or change the expectations of gamers. It came and it went with a relative whimper

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Yeah, and Gears of War just launched and has essentially all cosmetics earnable, not just purchasable. However, these are exceptions, not the rule. This is that nuance thing again, you really don't get it

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba So hold on. You're doing your best to downplay Halo's contribution to gaming, and then in the next breath you're saying that it was so insanely popular that people were willing to pay a subscription to for something that had always been free so they could play it online?

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Oh I don't know. An FPS where the main protagonist is an augmented human trained to fight other humans and then aliens turn up. Nothing alike

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@DaChaoticLilBea @capnkaba Are you really arguing that the amount of remakes is not materially higher now than at any other time in gaming history? And that it appears to align with a period of suppressed originality and greedy publishers strangling the creativity of developers?