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DO you still have your PS3/GTA setup? 1 2
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Who in the crew has moved to PS4 but still has their PS3 and GTA?
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Changing PSN ID 1 2
by ScottyB- 2 followers
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If you could change your PSN ID, even for a small fee, would you want to do it? Do you think we will ever get the opportunity to do so like people on Xbox can? GTAO was my first online game and when I made the PSN account, it was only to access RSC for the stupid gta app as I didn't have a big data limit and never gamed online at the time. By the time I decided that I wanted to change it, I was a fairly high level and didn't want to reset it all. I really wish that I could change the online ID to something a bit more unique and be able to build an "online profile" that I can use for everything online without losing all my trophies and GTAO stats. It's a bit of a cop ou…
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Static IP and Port Fowarding on the PS4
by zztop911- 1 follower
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How many here have done with your router and have you seen improvement in connections and better P2P performance?
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Do you have your own website or blog?
by JustHatched- 6 replies
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Do you operate your own website or blog? Could be for anything, if you do would you like to post the link? I am just curious how many of us do this.
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LG G3 smartphone
by Jaggy- 1 follower
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Anyone here have this phone? I'm really missing my Galaxy S4 and its amazing camera. My current phone never really tried hard with a good camera, it's like 8MP. As someone who uses their phone as a camera instead of a phone because my kids are seriously adorable, I'd like to upgrade. If you have it, do you like the camera? I'm an Android only lady, so please do not recommend Apple over this phone. I'd go back to a Galaxy, but don't want to spend $650 for the latest Galaxy S6.
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Does anyone have this headset? If so, have you run into any issues keeping it paired with your PS4? I swear every time I turn the headset off for a extending period of time it becomes unpaired from my system. Does anyone know how to fix this? As of right now I can't get my PS4 to even find it at the moment.
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Lightsaber!
by BryannosaurusRex- 1 follower
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https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/ Click the link then grab your smartphone and follow the instructions (it doesn't work on some older phones)
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Ps4 video and picture upload issues fux
by truelife98- 1 reply
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Recently had trouble uploading a saved clip from my ps4 to YouTube. After little digging around I found a video that said to go into your notifications and then uploads and unfortunately there is no mass delete so you have to go thru 1 by 1 but once I deleted a bunch my video uploaded no problem. Just wanted to start this thread incase others have had or are having same issue
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Nintendo NX
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Something new from Nintendo is on the horizon http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/nintendo-nx-release-date-news-and-rumors-1289401 I think this one just based on Nintendo's history will be a great machine, the WiiU bombed for sales but it was probably a solid machine (never owned one). And while I doubt I will invest in an NX I don't Sony or Microsoft is any competition for young kid gaming. What's your thoughts on the NX or Nintendo in general?
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New Share Factory tools for video making.
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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Hey guys check this out. Share factory now has the ability for slowmotion, time lapse and a few other features to help create videos. http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/12/09/new-sharefactory-update-adds-slow-motion-time-lapse-more/?emcid=social_20151209_56151756&adbid=674682439554326528&adbpl=tw&adbpr=36969785
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PS4 and Wifi
by Pen0sIRE- 1 follower
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hello, just wondering if anyone else has been using wifi on their ps4 as oppose to wired? I am having issues downloading atm and im not sure if i have to open ports or change settings on my router to get my normal download speeds? i havn't had much of an issue playing games online but downloading updates has been very slow, i have 4gb/18gb of a destiny download since yesterday. any advice appreciated and if i find what the issue is from my googling ill post it up here too!
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Playstation Now?
by silenttigercd- 1 follower
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I presume you've all received this email from Playstation: We’re building a streaming service that will change the future of gaming and now is the time to join us on the PlayStation Plus Beta with a subscription for only £12.99 a month! Experience classic PS3 gameplay with no downloads or updates - 100 games are now available with more being added over time. Free your PlayStation Now experience across a wide range of Sony devices and play the way you want, with individual game rentals or our monthly subscription. Download the app on your devices from the PlayStation Store. My thoughts are that this is going to be absolute shit! Often the lag is bad enou…
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so im looking to get a mic/headset and a gaming mouse for my daughter Preferably purple,I seem to be coming up short, I've seen lots and lots of purple headsets without a mic but very few that have one and the only mice I've seen have pretty poor DPI. any help greatly appreciated guys!
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10% Off PS Store Purchase
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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Sony Unlocks PS4’s 7th Processing Core for Developers
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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Full Article
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ps3 november update?
by Pen0sIRE- 7 replies
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just wondering what it was for? the rockstar page says very little past anti-cheat and bug fixes. also wondering if anyone on ps3 has experienced any issues ? i havnt played since was released and im having a nightmare trying to get online atm
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40% off games and gear at RockStar!!!!
by zztop911- 1 reply
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This maybe only in the US. This can save new PS4 converts some $$$. http://www.rockstarwarehouse.com/store/tk2rstar/en_US/home
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Fancy some free PS4 avatars? Then you'll be pleased to know that Sony has released a new batch via the PlayStation Store this week. Sony has released a free batch of PlayStation 4 avatars as part of its North American PlayStation Store update this week. Those of you looking forward refreshing your PSN identity on Sony's current-generation console will have plenty of options to select from, including characters from popular video games such as Batman: Arkham Knight, Tearaway Unfolded, LittleBigPlanet 3, and Warframe. There's even a little nod to popular gaming culture with the official logo for gaming forum, NeoGAF. Check them out below and see if there's anything…
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As some of you might remember, my dog ate a Sony wireless headset. I tossed the Bluetooth dongle when I got a new set of Sony Gold headphones. Now my friend needs one but Sony will not sell just the dongle. If anyone has a spare, maybe from a headset that broke ( or was eaten by a dog) please let me know.
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Star Wars 1TB PS4
by Skorpion- 1 follower
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Just preordered myself a new PS4
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No More PS3 Updates 1 2 3 4
by revbouncer- 3 followers
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According to Newswire there will be no more updates for GATV on PS3. They say the console will break with more updates as it has reached it's capacity. This is a bit disappointing as GTA really is the only game I play atm and they're essentially forcing me to update. I only replaced my PS2 because it was broken and I was hoping to get full usage from my PS3 as well. I'm trying to finish story mode 100% as when i tried the 1st time the game was glitched and 1 of my missions locked on me leaving me stranded at 99.2% completion. I'm in the 90% finished range atm so when I've got 100% i feel it will be time to update. I don't really want to spend $600 Aus just to …
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Writing Comments on Facebook 1 2
by CandyRotten- 2 followers
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I'm not sure if anyone is aware or not so I'll just explain it quickly. There's an entertainer in American called the Fat Jew. He's been getting a lot of flack about plagiarism recently. Mainly what he seems to do is share memes and other random photos. Personally I don't see the problem with it. After all, the idea is to share things like that. My main point of this post is that I wrote a comment on Facebook just saying my opinion, I rarely do it anyway. It's amazing how many people insult you over petty things. I'm not really offended as I just think they're childish for not being able to have an adult conversation. Have you ever had any problems like th…
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Playstation Survey
by Jaggy- 8 replies
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Check it out, you guys! http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-survey-asks-if-you-want-to-change-psn-id-have-/1100-6431704/ There was a question that asked if users wanted notifications when their friends sign on. I know we were all discussing in another thread about changing our PSN ID's. So let's see if any of these options are actually ever added.
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PS4 skins
by Ninja- 8 replies
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So i just recently bought a skin for my ps4 2 controllers and a lightbar sticker. It's really cheap and a nice way to cheer things up!
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yes or no
by lIIlCompleXlIIl- 8 replies
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OK, so this, I think, is pretty cool. Maybe over priced for what it does, but, you tell me. Is it worth 150.00 american dollars? http://korfx.com/ He plays GTA online with it at 9:00 minutes in Ish.
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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