Recent content by charltjr

It saved me hours today converting some gnarly database views from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Didn’t get everything right because it didn’t know the schemas but when I asked it to correct one example based on the schema it did it. Nothing I couldn’t have done myself with Google and time, but it was a...

Nah, £70-£80 a game? Screw that. Yeah, so I just played through the first big section of HL:Alyx after you get the flashlight. You know that thing HL:2 did with the dark areas, jump scares and sound effects? That. In VR.

Lovely jubbly. Booked.

I get that completely, but I thought it was a decent way of doing a tutorial-but-not-a-tutorial thing once I was through it. It’s definitely not always intuitive but worth persevering with IMO. Half Life 3 soon! Whoooooo!

it’s a very different game to half-life, because you don’t have any armour and it’s absolutely not a run and gun game. It’s more logical puzzling with some shooting action. Where it is exactly the same as half life, is in the atmosphere and the general quality and polish of the game. I’m...

Finally dusted off the VR headset and started Half Life: Alyx today. Bloody brilliant, so atmospheric.

Having the usual fun at my place. We were bought about a year ago by a private equity shop and merged with a complimentary company in the same sector. Unusually, they don’t do the exact same stuff as us and the products mesh together nicely which will improve cross-sell. Actually a smart move...

Ah yes, good old naming conventions. Had a couple of servers at a previous place of work, ASMAB and ASMAC. First one was short for “All Senior Managers Are b******s” You can guess the other one yourself 😂

I bet those wheels will be dirt cheap on eBay etc as people swap them for alloys later on. Bit of a bugger to get them shipped to the UK though 😂

Still hands down one of the best single player story driven games ever. Trevor is such a great character.

Yeah, that video was tedious. Would hardly have taken them any longer to take the bits off the car properly FFS and all the jumping around and yelling for something that was blindingly obvious…. Just why. What Taylor brought to it for me was a bit of chemistry with Alex, they had me in stitches...

This is why I never organise any events 😂

You need to get the fault codes read, the anti-pollution message could be caused by a multitude of things, evap system leak, lambda probe going bad, cat going bad, ignition system, the list just goes on and on.

No-one knows yet, the reviews should be out in a few days. Nothing wrong with an AMD card if it meets your needs.

I think the Mk4 is really underrated because the Fiesta ST came along and was just that bit more fun in the group tests. But then everyone with a Fiesta as a daily wants to change the s**t suspension. I’d like to run a mk4 for a while too.