Clarity

New York City Wrestling - A TEW2020 Diary <table width="300" border=0" cellpadding="3"><tr><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/jbMdfxW/NYCW1988.jpg alt="NYCW1998" /> <br />1988 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/Z1d367J/NYCW1997.jpg alt="NYCW1997" /> <br />1997 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/RggVQHq/NYCW2005.jpg alt="NYCW2005" /> <br />2005 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/sgYtWp6/NYCW2008.jpg alt="NYCW2008" /> <br />2008 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/1KYVrww/NYCW2010.jpg alt="NYCW2010" /> <br />2010 </td></tr></table> New York (shortened to NY), often called New York City (shortened to NYC), is the largest city in the United States, located in the state of New York. New York’s population is similar to London in the United Kingdom with over 8 million people currently living in it, and over 22 million people live in the bigger New York metropolitan area. It is in the south end of the state of New York, which is in the northeastern United States. It is the financial capital of the US since it is home to the nation's stock market, Wall Street, and the One World Trade Center. A leading global city; New York exerts culture, media and capital internationally, as well as attracting great numbers of international travelers. It is also the home of the United Nations Headquarters. ------------ <p>It was snowing again. Of course it was, it always snowed in January. He hated the snow and it made his joints hurt. Years of taking bumps in the middle of a ring will do that to you and the long walk here hadn't helped. He would have got a taxi, but he didn't want to be recognised coming here. He yearned to be inside with the radiators on and a bourbon in his hand, but there would be time for that later. He had a meeting to attend. He took a deep drag of his cigarette and stood outside the entrance for a while lost in his thoughts of years past, of friendships made and friends lost, of titles won and last days. They were some of his best and worst memories. He flicked the cigarette to the curb, composed himself and pushed open the door. The stairs to the office was covered in old photographs. As he climbed they transitioned through the 80's, the 90s and he eventually stopped at the one of The Stomper winning the Empire championship in 2001. He wondered how Derek was spending his retirement. 'Better than me I bet' he thought to himself. Last he'd heard was that he'd taken up golfing and he couldn't think of anything worse. Continuing up, he glanced at some of the newer pictures but recognised fewer people as got to the top. He pushed open the door and noticed that little had changed. The place still stunk of sweat and cigarettes even though nobody had been allowed to light up in here in almost 20 years. It had soaked in to the pores of the building and was never coming out. In the corner of the room sat the same old worn out sofa with hole in the arms and springs that will catch you if you are unaware. He could remember spending many a night passed out on that sofa and next to it covered in dust was the TV with a built in VCR where they'd watch back shows and heckle each other. It was memories like that, that made him feel like a dinosaur. 'Do you need something' came a nasally voice from the side of him. The receptionist, he guessed must have been an staff members daughter, as she looked barely out of school. He could barely see her over the old CRT monitor on the desk, and upon moving closer saw she sat there barely looking at him frantically tapping away at her mobile phone, and he reckoned there would be a few choice words aimed at the work phone if it even considered ringing and making her actually do her job. 'Yeah, tell Larry i'm back' </p>

New York City Wrestling - A TEW2020 Diary (Maybe!?) <table width="300" border=0" cellpadding="3"><tr><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/jbMdfxW/NYCW1988.jpg alt="NYCW1998" /> <br />1988 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/Z1d367J/NYCW1997.jpg alt="NYCW1997" /> <br />1997 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/RggVQHq/NYCW2005.jpg alt="NYCW2005" /> <br />2005 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/sgYtWp6/NYCW2008.jpg alt="NYCW2008" /> <br />2008 </td><td align="center" valign="center"> <img src=https://i.ibb.co/1KYVrww/NYCW2010.jpg alt="NYCW2010" /> <br />2010 </td></tr></table> New York (shortened to NY), often called New York City (shortened to NYC), is the largest city in the United States, located in the state of New York. New York’s population is similar to London in the United Kingdom with over 8 million people currently living in it, and over 22 million people live in the bigger New York metropolitan area. It is in the south end of the state of New York, which is in the northeastern United States. It is the financial capital of the US since it is home to the nation's stock market, Wall Street, and the One World Trade Center. A leading global city; New York exerts culture, media and capital internationally, as well as attracting great numbers of international travelers. It is also the home of the United Nations Headquarters. ------------ <p>It was snowing again. Of course it was, it always snowed in January. He hated the snow and it made his joints hurt. Years of taking bumps in the middle of a ring will do that to you and the long walk here hadn't helped. He would have got a taxi, but he didn't want to be recognised coming here. He yearned to be inside with the radiators on and a bourbon in his hand, but there would be time for that later. He had a meeting to attend. He took a deep drag of his cigarette and stood outside the entrance for a while lost in his thoughts of years past, of friendships made and friends lost, of titles won and last days. They were some of his best and worst memories. He flicked the cigarette to the curb, composed himself and pushed open the door. The stairs to the office was covered in old photographs. As he climbed they transitioned through the 80's, the 90s and he eventually stopped at the one of The Stomper winning the Empire championship in 2001. He wondered how Derek was spending his retirement. 'Better than me I bet' he thought to himself. Last he'd heard was that he'd taken up golfing and he couldn't think of anything worse. Continuing up, he glanced at some of the newer pictures but recognised fewer people as got to the top. He pushed open the door and noticed that little had changed. The place still stunk of sweat and cigarettes even though nobody had been allowed to light up in here in almost 20 years. It had soaked in to the pores of the building and was never coming out. In the corner of the room sat the same old worn out sofa with hole in the arms and springs that will catch you if you are unaware. He could remember spending many a night passed out on that sofa and next to it covered in dust was the TV with a built in VCR where they'd watch back shows and heckle each other. It was memories like that, that made him feel like a dinosaur. 'Do you need something' came a nasally voice from the side of him. The receptionist, he guessed must have been an staff members daughter, as she looked barely out of school. He could barely see her over the old CRT monitor on the desk, and upon moving closer saw she sat there barely looking at him frantically tapping away at her mobile phone, and he reckoned there would be a few choice words aimed at the work phone if it even considered ringing and making her actually do her job. 'Yeah, tell Larry i'm back' </p>

Nemesis has died

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MrJeeps" data-cite="MrJeeps" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Did you try to do something to make kids' lives better?<p> </p><p> If you did, hell yeah it counts.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I know for a fact that I made some kids lives better. I dealt with students with bereavements, gender identity concerns and medical issues that reduced lifespans.</p><p> </p><p> I'd still be doing it if it wasn't for all the education cuts and redundancy</p>

Not a teacher, but spent 5 years working as an attendance officer/pastoral support.. does that count?

Never played as much of TEW16 as I wanted to but 20 is definitely peaking my interest. Feeling tempted to start up a new diary (bar a few quickly aborted attempts would be the first in 8 years) as well as a few skin ideas

Since we are all stuck waiting, I began wondering about how much extra room we'd have with the new resolution. This much apparently: https://imgur.com/0rXpvHC

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="pat666" data-cite="pat666" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47515" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The problem with that, the game will certanly make Lesnar Or Reigns win as they have highest Pop.. thats my opinion.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> True I guess, just have a major dislike of WWE 2K games</p>

<p>Just throwing it out there, but why not sim it in TEW with no winners picked</p><p> </p><p> Could advertise the new game at the same time <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<p>Yip.. Still around and putting out occasional renders (albeit years apart these days)</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://postimg.cc/xJrcMGHF" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="2019.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/PxJYG2qh/2019.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></div><p></p><p></p>

<p>I'm actually really enjoying RDR2 at the moment, and the slower paced motion. Just feels to me like most other games has the player permanent running places and this feels more real.</p><p> </p><p> However... being a little more flush with cash this month, i purchased a <a href="http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/tflight-hotas-one" rel="external nofollow">HOTAS One</a> mostly for Elite Dangerous.. Damn that change the game up</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="steesh07" data-cite="steesh07" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Am I right in thinking Fire Pro & NJPW DLC comes to £70 on PS4?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> £74.99</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP3617-CUSA07804_00-FIREPRODELUXEEDI?emcid=pa-st-111284" rel="external nofollow">https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP3617-CUSA07804_00-FIREPRODELUXEEDI?emcid=pa-st-111284</a></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LoNdOn" data-cite="LoNdOn" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Telltale games are closing and I am genuinely crushed.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm kinda not surprised about Telltale going under. For years now they have been pumping out what were probably expensive licences and there had been comments from ex staff about what a toxic environment it was to work in.</p><p> </p><p> I'd found that it was usually better to wait for an entire season to be finished before purchasing but stopped at Game Of Thrones.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Walking Dead</strong> April 24, 2012—November 20, 2012 </p><p> <strong>Poker Night 2</strong> April 24, 2013 </p><p> <strong>The Wolf Among Us</strong> October 11, 2013—July 8, 2014 </p><p> <strong>The Walking Dead: Season Two</strong> December 17, 2013—August 26, 2014 </p><p> <strong>Tales from the Borderlands</strong> November 25, 2014—October 20, 2015 </p><p> <strong>Game of Thrones</strong> December 2, 2014—November 17, 2015 </p><p> <strong>Minecraft: Story Mode</strong> October 13, 2015—March 29, 2016 ; June 7, 2016—September 13, 2016 (Adventure Pass) </p><p> <strong>The Walking Dead: Michonne</strong> February 23, 2016—April 26, 2016 </p><p> <strong>Batman: The Telltale Series</strong> August 2, 2016—December 13, 2016 </p><p> <strong>The Walking Dead: A New Frontier</strong> December 20, 2016—May 30, 2017 </p><p> <strong>Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series</strong> April 18, 2017—November 7, 2017 </p><p> <strong>Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two</strong> July 11, 2017—December 19, 2017 </p><p> <strong>Batman: The Enemy Within</strong> August 8, 2017—March 27, 2018</p><p> <strong>The Walking Dead: The Final Season</strong> August 14, 2018—September 25, 2018</p><p> </p><p> Once they took on Minecraft, they appeared to be working on 3 games at once usually and with genre fatigue setting in, I wouldn't have been surprised by player numbers dropping off.</p><p> </p><p> What really irks is that they are apparently keeping a small crew on to work on a Minecraft series for Netflix, but cancelling Walking Deads already started season. Thats gonna bite them in the butt when the season pass holders get refunds (its cited as a 4 episode pack so they're gonna get their money back)</p>

<p>I've been playing a bit of NMS on XB1.. Its grindy but fun.. I'm tempted to restart though having learnt a lot on run number 1</p><p> </p><p> Anyone want me to join them, add me (Jizmochan)</p>

I had a couple of people checking over the data but they went dark on me and haven't been on this site at all this year. There are still changes I'd like to do, but may just release as is

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Undertaker666" data-cite="Undertaker666" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44882" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Not going to happen, i'm retired. I'm not going to do a Terry Funk and "retire" every year for decades, I plan on taking the Shawn Michaels route and remaining retired. I might cut some of my WMMA renders for TEW on the off chance that Adam wants them, but that's about it.<p> </p></div></blockquote><p> So if you're the Shawn Michaels of rendering, thats probably gonna make me X-Pac and Trell is Chyna (since the rest of us are certainly not HHH)</p>

*stands and claps* You're right. Your post showing off what you had made did get me into rendering and there always seemed a friendly rivalry between you, me, blashemywebleed and trell. Over the years, we've all kind of drifted away. I believe Blas got a graphic design job, Trell still haunts the boards but i've not really spoken to him in years, and I wound up doing the whole marriage/child/separation/career thing. I do dust Daz off every now and again and post something random, but i've been unofficially retired for years. We'll see you for TEW2018 i'm sure

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Sco xY2Jx" data-cite="Sco xY2Jx" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yeah, Fortnite has a more Borderlands (Cartoony) feel but plays better with minimal issues and it's free...<p> </p><p> PUBG is more gritty and realistic but doesn't play as smoothly. Frame rate issues, textures not loading in. But when it works, it's great. </p><p> </p><p> I enjoy both. Only got as far as 2nd in Fortnite. At the moment, I'm enjoying PUBG more though. PUBG p</p><p> Is more fun in teams though whereas I don't mind Fortnite solo.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Fortnite has my mates playing which definitely boosts its fun. They haven't brought PUBG yet (even though I gave them a link to a £19.99 version)</p><p> </p><p> I did have an interesting encounter in PUBG. Finally found a UAZ and was off to the next circle when I see a motorcyclist in front. I plowed straight into him, and not only didn't he come off the bike, he survived and got off and started shooting at me.....</p><p> </p><p> Anyone on XB1 with either game feel free to hit me up... Gamertag is Jizmochan (dont ask)</p>

A guy at work talked me into playing Fortnite and now its a regular gaming session.. Not won yet but been 3rd. That game did get me interested in PUBG (XB1 version). That game is tense as hell (although feeling FAR less polished)

<p>UFC3 was never really on my radar and after watching a couple of gameplay videos, I doubt i'll ever play it.</p><p> </p><p> The career mode looks dull as anything.. Pick a gym, select a training for a tiny stat increase to flash on the screen. Rinse & repeat until fight day.</p><p> </p><p> It doesn't feel like there's a lot of substance outside the fights, and the game world feels static except the division you're in.</p><p> </p><p> I'd have loved to have seen something like The Journey/Longshot for UFC, and with The Ultimate Fighter model, this could have been amazing to play.. but no.</p><p> </p><p> Also.. are they not even attempting to effort with the menus???</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="DfHWlSf.png" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/DfHWlSf.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Bought Assassin's Creed: Origins (PC). Having played most of the previous games the gameplay gets repetitive but they freshened up the combat and borrowed some RPG elements from the Far Cry series. What's impressive is the game engine. I'm running it almost maxed out at 1440p with ReShade with only a few dips below 60fps and it looks stunning.<p> </p><p> Started playing FUT for the first time a few months ago with FIFA 18. I've got 3 good squads but I'm a pretty average player and Squad Battles can be a right bitch at times. I'm not used to using an Xbox One controller so much (more of a keyboard and mouse user) so I managed to strain my left hand. So no FIFA or Origins for the rest of the week <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Also slowly getting into Endless Space 2 and Planet Coaster.</p></div></blockquote>Back away slowly from Planet Coaster. That thing can take over your life

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="codey_v2" data-cite="codey_v2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Personally 12 is my second favorite after 9, but I don’t think those are popular opinions.</div></blockquote>I loved 9. I even played through the entire game again with the princess called 'Slippers' just for a line at the end to go 'bring my beloved Slippers to me'<p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Koholos" data-cite="Koholos" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>4. <strong>Morphblade</strong><p> Tom Francis made 2 games this year (Heat Signature being the other). This is the better of the two. It’s a roguelike where the board itself changes as you play, so it rewards forethought quite a bit.</p></div></blockquote> Tom Francis is awesome. He put up a 26 part tutorial on game making at the same time as making Heat Signature and Morphblade (hell, Morphblade was just a side project when working on Heat Sig) He's up there with Mike Bithell as a cool british indie developer. EDIT - He also released Floating Point for free on Steam which is a rope swinging zen like game

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>FFXV: I said goodbye to this series after playing V & X. Got close but never finished one (I don't even remember so that says enough).</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I completed Final Fantasy's 1-10, but that was it. 11 was an MMO so didn't touch. 12 dropped the turn based combat and I didn't like it. 13 was soooooooo on rails that I couldn't finish (or touch the sequels) and 14 was an MMO</p>

<p>Well im a little late to the party but I finally finished Fallout 4 last night and quite enjoyed it (even the settlement building)</p><p> </p><p> Out of the 4 possible endings, there was only 1 option I was ever going to pick and thats based on what you were looking for the entire game.</p><p> </p><p> I now have a lot of free time on my hands (joys of working in education means im on holiday till the 8th) and struggling to figure out what to finish next.</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Witcher 3 - Had it and the expansions since release but never finished it. Not even met up with Ciri (if thats possible.. Im still spoiler free)<br /></li><li>Final Fantasy XV- On Chapter 3 and it feels so fetchquesty. '<em>I know your city is in ruins, but could you go across country and get me some tomatoes</em>'. I'm told that it gets much better once you get into the dungeons.<br /></li><li>Pillars Of Eternity - I've finished Act 1 and got the stronghold but nothing more.<br /></li><li>Torment : Tides Of Numernara - Loved Planescape and brought this but never played it.<br /></li><li>Skyrim Special Edition - I know, I know.. I usually get so sidetracked in this game that I've never finished the main quest.<br /></li><li>Fable Trilogy - I've completed 1&2 many times but never done much in 3. I have them all on XB1<br /></li></ul><p></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just bought Planet Coaster. Like most of the these sandbox strategy games it's daunting to even start with a steep learning curve. Doesn't help that there's no proper tutorial. It also runs like crap on GTX 1070 with a decent sized park (heavily CPU bound). That's the reason I bought Cities: Skylines and barely touched it but at least Planet Coaster has better much graphics. What I hate most is not being able to easily align paths, objects etc and snap everything together easily. It took me 2 hours just to figure out how to do accurate rotation <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> What I really love most is the mass of insanely awesome mods.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Look into Silverret and Geekism on YouTube. They have done some pretty decent tutorials on Planet Coaster</p>