Stephen McCormack

I lead a team of Red Hat Digital Sales Professionals for IBM and play Guitar and Bass badly for my own amusement. Tweets are my own. (He/Him)

[Stephen McCormack @StephenMcC1979]

@SlashLP89 @Joshbroown Is Rebellion the best 7/10 studio in gaming? Regular releases in the Sniper Elite series, plus the spin off Zombie Army games, mixed in with other things like Evil Genius 2, Strange Brigade and with Atomfall on the way, now If only we could get a sequel to 2009's Rogue Trooper...

[Stephen McCormack @StephenMcC1979]

@ashmillman @Joshbroown Happy Birthday @Joshbroown I ticked over to 45 years last September, don't panic about the numbers getting bigger, just keep doing what you do life gets better the more it goes on, ignore the doomsayers who say otherwise.

All the best for your thirties and the decades beyond!

[Stephen McCormack @StephenMcC1979]

@SlashLP89 @Joshbroown Opinion: XBox making Gears and Halo available on PlayStation is an acknowledgement that many of the XBox 360 era players have moved to PlayStation and are not coming back.
They can't make those franchises pay without the nostalgia that older PS5 players have for the XBox360 era.

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@Joshbroown @SlashLP89 Best thing of 2024 was a promotion at work, that I have been working towards for 4 years. Best new Music of 2024 has been Blacked Out by The Drowns, Best films Conclave, Small Things Like These and Monkey Man, Best 2024 game was Yakuza Infinite Wealth, and I also loved Flintlock

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@SlashLP89 @Joshbroown Since you asked, Craic is spelled the way it is because in the Irish Language there is no letter k, (or j,q,v,w,x,y or z) so those sounds are made differently with other letters.

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@SlashLP89 Meanwhile his eldest son is famously a fan of jetting off around the world to kill animals. Many of his supporters too do a bit of hunting, but add picture of a non-white person carrying a goose, or a mentally ill person killing a cat and they all suddenly become animal lovers.

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@bdub3815 @SlashLP89 @EwanRuinsThings @Joshbroown There are two basic types of AI, generative which is what is used to create stuff and predictive which is used to make business decisions. Either can be good or bad, but while we are talking about AI replacing creative jobs another AI might be deciding if we get health insurance.

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@SlashLP89 @EwanRuinsThings @Joshbroown Hello Unbantled Podmen! What are your collective thoughts on a reality where 3rd Party Studios will be developing and trying to optimise games on consoles as diverse as XBox Series S and a PS5 Pro, seems like a nightmare scenario, also charging extra for a stand is peak grifting.

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@SlashLP89 He used to play football for Ireland back in the way back when.

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@Oxventure @janedouglas @MikeChannell new Lego Dungeon and Dragons Minifigure collection appears to be drawing inspiration from somewhere....

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@SlashLP89 you'll probably get a lot of these, but HMV is short for "His Master's Voice", in 1901 the HMV record label took the name and logo from an 1898 painting of the same name by Francis Barraud of a dog called Nipper listening to his owner/master on a gramophone #boringfact

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@SlashLP89 @Joshbroown @psyniac_123 No question, regarding Josh' previous take on machine guns and reload times in games, on The Division I ran a build that if you switched weapons automatically reloaded when you switched back, with an LMG as primary and another LMG secondary, swapping these I never had to reload.

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@SlashLP89 @Retr0J Howdy UBP lads, just home from watching Green Day perform both the Dookie and American Idiot Albums in their entirety for the 30th and 20th anniversaries of each. Great summer nostalgia trip. Is there a game or piece of media you go to during the summer months?

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@SlashLP89 Imagine being literally Neil Druckmann lauded the world over for your writing and storytelling skills, and then taking the AI hatchet to chop lumps out of your own profession.

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@SlashLP89 @Retr0J Also Final Fantasy Stratocaster

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If you ever find yourself in Malaga check out OXO video game museum. The while history of video games, and all the exhibits can be played, this year they have a Final Fantasy exhibition - @SlashLP89 @Retr0J

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@Joshbroown No worries, hope you have a great trip!

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@Joshbroown If you want a day out of the City take the train to Howth for a walk by the sea and stop by Beshoffs for Fish and Chips (or try the Brass Monkey on the pier for a sit down dinner). If you want more ideas let me know :) 3/3

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@Joshbroown Grafton St is the main shopping street, and leading off it Anne's St & Duke Street are both good spots to get something to eat and/or drink, Brewleys on Grafton St is an institution you should at least stop there for a coffee, Gotham Cafe on Anne's street does a great Pizza 2/3