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Ten years to the day since Gerrard slipped on his fucking arse. A joyous holiday to those who celebrate this momentous occasion and I hope to see a fitting tribute from van Dijk today.

You can be done all you want, you're still wrong. No-one said JRPGs aren't associated primarily with Japan. We said that not all RPGs made in Japan are necessarily JRPGs. There's a reason no-one credible calls Elden Ring a JRPG even though it's a(n action) role-playing game made in Japan. But also indie games like Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes are clearly JRPGs even though they're made in Quebec and Germany respectively. Because, like I say, despite originating from being RPGs made in Japan, there are genre markers that we associate with that term and both those games fit them to a t.

Get your tits out for the lads

I mean, I know Belgrade has much colder extremes than Newcastle but your averages are not that far off. Like I say, I live in Berlin which is colder than either and while the NE doesn't have anything to compare to a -15 day, I'm telling you, that wind stings. (there's a lot less data on wind speeds but what I did find suggests Belgrade's average windspeed in winter is about half of Newcastle's). I bet some of our Nordic friends would have us all beaten though

Can someone put the topic title into ChatGPT please?

To be fair, Geordies famously don't give a fuck about the cold. But also: in NE England it's the wind that gets you. Like Berlin's a lot colder than Middlesborough on average but when I lived there the wind constantly coming off the nearby highlands was nasty.

Monster trainer and collectors, yeah. I'd put Heroes more as a strategy RPG, since the fights are on a tactical map, though I can see where you're coming from. Pokemon does use the basic turn-based fight system that is traditional to JRPGs, though 1-on-1 isn't usual in the genre. But yeah one big difference between Pokemon and, well, most RPGs is that the story is basically unimportant (though later games and other games inspired by it put more focus on that). It's all about the collecting and then the fighting (and Pokemon's battle system is deep, though you can get through most of the single player campaigns without getting too into it and I've never really played online etc so I've never needed to delve). The monsters are typically far more important than the characters.

Well, it's an RPG made in Japan, so in the literal sense, sure. But in terms of JRPG being used as a genre marker (which I know is contentious in some areas anyway, but I feel like generally people know what is meant by it- especially in older games), it probably isn't a lot closer to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest than it is to Baldur's Gate or whatever, no. It's really its own thing, and is a subgenre-defining game in its own right. To be fair though like, Fire Emblem is also not a JRPG in that sense and I'm not sure Persona (which I've not played) is either (though I've heard it said that the series is getting closer to it as it moves along). Heck, might be the right move for someone not into them to approach JRPGs via the gentle road.

I admit I was hesitant to speak for her without checking in first but tbh the reason I eventually felt I had to is this is nowhere near the first time we've been around this block on the forums and she's expressed her frustration before. On the observation that people have quoted and responded - true, in a literal sense they have and 'taken absolutely nothing on board' is hyperbole. But people have been picking out specific points and running with them. The tone of the discussion she was trying to set is lost. On the last part, of stifling discussion - this particular part is from me and I don't know if Karradin agrees, but I need to be clear that I don't just mean the people with opposing views. I obviously disagree with them and there are some posts that come off in context as callous, but Karradin engaged with this topic specifically to share her perspective for some of people with different views, it's not about shutting it down. But there's been people who in principle share views with me and presumably with Karradin who have just taken this as a chance to yell accusations or have a drag-out argument about their own position on small parts of the whole wide issue and it's completely stifled the tone and a substantial portion of the substance of what she was saying. Apologies Karradin if I have misrepresented you over anything here

I've got to apologise here coz I seem to have thrown a bomb on the table that might do this and then gone to work. I'll respond to things Ran and others are saying response when I can. But yes broadly what infuriated me was the last few pages became a point-scoring exercise by both 'sides' when it isn't about sides, it's about people.

I always feel bad for Karradin when this topic comes up because it always begins with her putting her viewpoint and experience as someone who knows what she's talking about across in the most clear way she can do it and engaging with opposing viewpoints politely and it always ends up with a load of people just shouting at each other past her, without taking on board anything she's said and with no concern for how certain thoughts expressed might impact someone who's living this even though she's telling us. (I'm not saying I've never been guilty of this but come on guys what are you doing the last few pages here have been horrendous)

Once, just once, before he hits the downcurve of his career I want Bruno to get the chance to play under a manager and with a team around him who'll let him focus on what he's best at for a whole season.

I doubt that. Firstly, Lamb being who he is was deeply central both to the Unforgiven tribute he was doing and to several key scenes within the plot specifically. You could have done the first part with a fresh character- Unforgiven did, after all- but not the second and in any case it was just too fundamentally a story about him. Secondly, all three standalone books feature previous characters popping up. Indeed so does the sequel trilogy. It's just something Abercrombie does, I dunno why the criticism applies in particular to Red Country. I do get why that would bother people, I've had that issue with other books and series- but Abercrombie's books aren't aiming for realism, there's an underlying sense of theatricality and self-awareness to them, so it didn't feel like a problem to me at all. Anyway I'm in the 'Heroes was best BSC was least best' crowd. I just felt BSC had one too many goes round the 'move on to the next target' carousel - it got a bit repetitive in the middle before it pulled it together for the end.

I love the fact that Graeme Souness literally as well as figuratively destroyed the boot room.

I mean, he isn't. I like to laugh at him as much as the next person and I get why he must be extremely frustrating to watch, but he's really good at unsettling defences with his movement, creating space for himself and others, generally bringing other forwards into the game, etc. He's a shit finisher and I don't know that that will ever change (though Forlan managed it) but his flaws would be a lot less glaring if your other forwards didn't keep shitting the bed too - especially since in your setup it's not really the central forward's bailiwick to be the main scorer. Like he's scored 11 goals in the league. It's not an amazing return but it's hardly bad when someone else is the main guy for that, and from what I've seen despite scoring more goals Salah has been a lot less useful to you in overall impact this season. But also I just hope Klopp one day goes on line, sees the negativity towards him coming from a lot of Liverpool fans right now, and signs on to manage us or Everton.

Sean Dyche just walked Klopp's Liverpool career out round the back with a shotgun.

I'm sorry it is ridiculous how good Bruno Fernandes is.

Naw, we've got issues coming out of our ears but 'quietly fading away into a wet fard capitulation' mostly isn't one of them. We're the new old Newcastle.

The issue isn't really that Onana dropped a ricket but that we weren't about 4-0 up at the time.

I hear that Darwin Nunez is having a 'mare Darwin Nunez is playing.

Yeah but they're Spurs

83% of the possession, a goal down. Fuck's sake lads.

Using a learned language model to help you develop your own ideas isn't the same thing as using it to output ideas for you. I know people who use ChatGPT to help the code, or to manage workload, plan things... I don't see a problem with that (well, there might be issues around how certain information got into the database, particularly with code? But if it's just rehashing publicly available info I don't see how). Obviously you have to be careful about it because of LLM's propensity to hallucinate convincingly, but it's using it to just check stuff or organise stuff or even bounce thoughts off - okay. It's when people use it to directly create things that there's an issue. Because by the way they function there's just no way for them to do it without lifting someone else's work. Yeah, it'll often be incredibly fractured pieces, but if someone writes a story in Chat GPT it's because someone wrote a story and it was put into ChatGPT. When an AI art generator puts out an image, it's because other people's images are in its database and it's lifting them to put into the picture. My dad's girlfriend is a teacher and she told us over Christmas that she used it to generate a poem to teach her students how to analyse it. I don't understand that at all because sure, you could teach the structure- but what the hell are you analysing?

Thinking about it, Cheick Doucoure at Palace might be an answer. Though I think more likely if you don't get Bruno G you'll probably look out of the league.