It was great. With crossover from One Must Fall: 2097 in there etc was cool but yeah the core mechanics including multiplayer fun live on. My favourite of those top down scrolling shooters.
PhreakyByNature
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Absolutely my favourite. Met the dev team when they were working on the ill-fated sequel. The forums were a great community. There's an OpenOMF remake in progress (same game but better connectivity options and compatibility). It's being reverse engineered IIRC.
The best part was Tournament Mode where you could train your pilot for Power, Agility and Endurance stats and upgrade your 'bot's arm / leg power / speed, armour etc. Great stuff.
No worries! The community popped up on my feed and saw you were the only one contributing, so thought I'd add an old favourite!
Nah I get it. I haven't even deleted my 11 years of contributions yet. I don't mind it existing as it wasn't particularly helpful stuff anyway, but part of me did wanna replace all text with "Redacted due to API" or something but feel that will just flag content restores on their side.
I had the same struggle! Also didn't see your comment weirdly until now.
I know the answer but used Google Lens to find it... I don't know if this is against the spirit of the place, as there's no rules?
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It's a pom pom maker
I got my set years back reasonably priced in a supermarket. Now you have to get it on eBay. I think I prefer it to the current scalpel they sell. The proper knife is good day in day out and the silicone one is great for cleanup I'm sure, but I have generic small silicone utensils for that.
I use this knife which came with the toast rack and a jar of marmite. We don't use the toast rack (two of us usually and 4 slice toaster), so we got rid of it eventually. The blade came out of the handle and the Marmite sign has come off, but I've since glued the blade back in (just need to wash off the residue but been lazy).
This sent me down a rabbit hole!
I had a bulldozer one!
I have a OnePlus 7T Pro and after seeing my wife's photography performance on her Pixel 6 I have been so tempted to go back to Pixel myself, when the 8 Pro comes out, with my last one being the Pixel XL. I also had a Nexus 6P and Nexus 5 before it (and Samsungs before those). Similar to you after 12 months previous phones have started causing frustration and by 18 months I've always been eager to swap out. I really hated TouchWiz and, whilst newer Samsung UI is much better, it still doesn't gel well with my workflows. I, too, was tempted by the S23 Ultra in a view to get quality hardware, especially now it's got Snapdragon in the UK (previously it was only Exynos), but the 1TB 16GB model is super pricey at £1,599 in the UK.
I then noticed how much freer I was with OnePlus (still on OxygenOS 11), than my wife's Pixel and the locked down approach is not for me. So my eyes have turned to a recent announcement for the Zenfone 10, launching June 29th. Last year I was VERY tempted by the Zenfone 9 - yearning for a more compact phone and this gave me Nexus 5 vibes with less compromise - after the 7T Pro's battery went from sub-par to abysmal, and I cracked my screen alongside. I also won't get more security updates as I refuse to go to the ColorOS version of OxygenOS, so it's life is coming to an end, even though it runs swiftly in 85% of my usage.
The Zenfone 10 improves upon last year's model with more battery (rumoured 700mAh increase), keeping the compact 5.9" screen, newer 6 Axis Gimbal stabilisation etc, with rumours of better camera sensors etc. It also uses the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 so has UFS 4.0 storage like other flagships should have and should be more efficient. Oh and it adds wireless charging, with last year's omission being and issue for some reviewers (I am indifferent. Nice to have not necessary to have).
Fingers crossed it hits the spot, because the OnePlus 7T Pro is leaving massive shoes to fill.
What I enjoy about CS is everyone starts back from the same level on each map in terms of loadout and budget. Yet every game is different in one way or another, with different people in matchmaking or even different macro or micro decisions by familiar players. So even playing the same 5 maps means they are different each time you play. It's why I've been playing CS since 1.0 and have logged just shy of 2000 hrs in CSGO. I can't remember how many hours I have played of CS in the pre-Steam era but it used to be 4-5 hour stints I reckon. Now I play 1-3 hours or so max, and that only 1 or 2 times a week.