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Oh, it's a time portal.
From the name and the slight hint at blue and orange I was hoping it was going to be a mash-up of Battlefield and Portal!

If there's ever a year where Battlefield is going to end up on top, this is it - we'll see.

Anyone watch Twitch Rivals yesterday?

Was quit funny seeing a bunch of people that are normally roaming all round the map wiping people out have to change tactics and camp the same building for most of the match, waiting for the circle to close!

I'm not sure if I'd trust a speedmaster in the water given the push buttons but I've worn my Seamaster in the sea loads of times - that's what they're made for right?

Obv suntan lotion goes on when getting dressed at the start of the day, watch then goes on top.

Difficult - Verstappen had to turn at some point, was leading so what else was he supposed to do?

It was tense wheel to wheel racing up to that point but I think Hamilton was either unlucky with the understeer or got caught with his blood up in that corner.

Why is the British GP all about Tom Cruise? This is a new low even for channel 4.

I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with the sprint format; the sprint race was alright & I'm fine with the finishing positions being the start positions for the main race - I just don't think having a full qualifying session on the Friday makes sense as it doesn't leave much room for the order to be mixed up. Maybe just standard practices then 1 flying lap attempt each would make the sprint race actually mean more?

Most days are omega days for me.

Ah you're one of those people!

That spot is on my usual run route - there's normally a queue to take your car pic there. It's actually a pretty grim ramp when the cars aren't there, I didn't realise for ages that it's a popular picture spot & looks good through the camera!

Now this is a nice thing to see - well done to the people showing support.

I need to catch up with motoGP - are the highlights free somewhere this year?

Marquez is an incredible rider though - the only rider I've ever seen lose the front, slide, then somehow get it back up onto the wheels!

There's a reason decent office chairs cost a load, not to mention they give you the option of having your console plugged into a monitor & only sitting an arm's reach away. Don't think I could go back to sofa & TV now!

Gaming the matchmaking - I like it!

I have played with people like that though - so obvious when they can't hear things, makes you realise how much of the game experience is sound.

Will be interesting where Warzone goes in the coming years, mixing it up so some games are current period, some are WW2 would be interesting (obv they'd have to keep the load-outs separate). Would be nice to have a change of scenery and guns but then also be able to use the modern ones sometimes too!

Certainly made a difference from my usual random teammates of an Italian guy having an argument with his girlfriend & the other one that has their game sound coming out of their TV so their mic is picking it up & retransmitting to the rest of us, both of whom then quit as soon as they inevitably lose their gulag so I have to finish the game 1v3, though at least in peace.

I've only ever seen that hardcore mode once - it was fun though very difficult! Would be good to see them do a private lobbies tournament of that!

Played a game of WZ with a German streamer today (randomly paired up), I'd never heard of him but checked his stream out after the game and he had a decent crowd watching.

You could tell the difference in quality, I could hardly keep up across the map. Every time I caught up he'd killed everyone.

Still was good to play with someone decent, makes the game much more enjoyable.

Still only came second though!

Cool - maybe drop me a PM when you know?

Anyone got suggestions for fitted/curved ended rubber straps to fit a Seamaster (300m)? Like those crafter ones but they only seem to do Tudor & Seiko.

The clasp on my bracelet needs fixing so would like to try the watch out on rubber.

There has been a fair bit on the guardian.

Not at all surprising, we live in a deeply racist country & the culture around many (*not all etc...) people that go to football matches is the worst of dog whistle, lowest common denominator, toxic behaviour.

I genuinely don't know how to change that though, you try to act right & influence the people around you but it's like the rest of the country is unreachable.

Yeah, it's just a difficult cross over time. Maybe by autumn the next gen will be more easily Accessible so not a problem, just a bit of a shame as is imo.

No cross play between console generations is a bit rubbish.

Anyone been following the fallout from this week's New York Subliners Warzone tournament?

It's been clear for a while that streamers are gaming the match-making system using fake teammates to get into easy lobbies, I'm not sure how a team of four is doing it in quads though? The winners obviously did something but it's not as obvious as the extra-console trick some streamers do.

Warzone.

Genuinely entertaining to watch the good players play.

Playing it with ransoms is massively infuriating but if you know anyone with two thumbs that's even vaguely capable of communicating then it's fun to play too.

This coming from someone that's played a lot of CoD, middling amounts of apex & Fortnite and a tiny amount of pubg.

Oh yeah - it's not better but if you're good at abusing it it can really give you a benefit if you're playing for kills. The whole no-scoping in CoD4 and quick scoping in every other installment were super annoying but showed it's strength.

That does make sense they've made one!

Interesting you think that - a lot of the best CoD/Warzone players use PC+controller as they get the best of both worlds (better graphic/FoV benefits plus controller aim assist).

I play on PlayStation (controller) but started on PC (mouse & keyboard) - I have to admit I'd struggle to go back to mouse & keyboard now, whilst the aiming is obviously easier with a mouse, I'd find keyboard too limiting for the movement I think.

I think big block colour changes stand out from a distance - How about vinyl wrapping the back half (either following the door line or a diagonal cut across the rear 30% of the doors) black then massive black logo on the doors?

Is there a trick I'm missing with Apex? I feel like I often get the jump on people (as they're seemingly unaware of how loud their footsteps are) but it feels like I'm putting whole clips into people and they're not going down but then I die in seconds/hardly any shots landed!

I keep flicking back to it from WZ but then get frustrated with the pace & how long it take to kill people Vs me dying so just go back to what I know.