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@ManUtd Good luck Mickey

It's Carrick, you know ❤️ 🇾🇪 We are delighted to announce Michael Carrick will continue as our head coach, having signed a new contract.

@NickDiFabio1 Book

Self-publishing AI written books will be the best side hustle of the next 5 years. With Claude, anyone can do it. So I put together all the prompts you need to create your first book. Like + Comment “Book” & I’ll DM them to you. *Must Follow Me First*

@cleanwithmike Blueprint

If I had a 9-5 & wanted to replace my income with something I actually owned, here's exactly what I'd do: 1. Build a website with Claude before the week is over. Not next month. This week.

@ManUtd Kai 19

Coming soon to your phone 👀📱 Reply below for the chance to get your personalised lockscreen 👇

@DieHardUtdFans Of course, a Bruno assist

5 years ago today, Edinson Cavani scored the first Manchester United goal at Old Trafford after fans returned following COVID ❤️🏟️

@GrahamSpiers I watched it in Bavaria with my German colleagues. Unforgettable.

90 seconds left in the Nou Camp. I was there that night in the press box and have never seen such carnage among newspapermen under a deadline, or such collective dismay as struck the German press corps. As a Sunday newspaper guy, it was all a delight.

@lastchalice Hell of a take. I think it’s more about the journey that some goal.

I finished Crimson Desert. I can honestly say that in my 30+ years of gaming I have never been more confused, happy and downright frustrated all at the same time than when playing Crimson Desert. Let’s get the good stuff out of the way first. A game doesn’t sell five million copies unless it does something right and there are areas where this game truly shines. - Feels like a next gen experience - Has insane draw distances - Talented voice acting - Beautiful environments - Extremely high quality graphics - Wonderful exploration - Very impressive scale/enemy count - Great fight choreography/Action scenes - Endless systems and things to do - A solid combat system - 300+ hours of content - High quality soundtrack There is much to love about Crimson Desert. Unlike many, I was drawn into the game from hour one and was compelled to give it my complete attention so that I could properly address how wrong many of the critics were. Unfortunately, as my experience went on I only found myself agreeing more and more. The negatives: - The worst boss fights I’ve ever experienced - A truly awful story - Boring and forgettable characters - Puzzles that are not fun - Poorly designed missions - A lack of any direction for the entire product Crimson Desert does everything in its power to make sure that for every fun moment you have there is an equally frustrating one right around the corner to match it. Let me give you just one example that represents dozens of other annoying moments consistently sprinkled throughout the game. I was required to summon my dragon to destroy a shield around a base. I then went inside the base, destroyed energy depots, fought soldiers, climbed to the top and then engaged in a boss fight. It was only then that it was made clear to me that there was literally no way to defeat this boss unless I was carrying arrows or had a specific skill unlocked. I had neither. I then had to leave the boss fight and redo the entire dragon and base infiltration mission again after buying arrows. As soon as this mission was completed, the next mission began and also required the dragon. I go to summon my dragon to find out that it’s on a 45 minute timer and I have to wait to move forward. This entire headache happens ad nauseam throughout Crimson Desert as it throws one poorly designed idea or mission at you after another. It’s exhausting. I like many love Souls games, but am also fatigued by them and enjoy different styles of combat and bosses. I’ve solo’d plenty of Souls games hardest bosses. Crimson Desert has unquestionably the worst designed mechanics and general fun factor of bosses of any game I’ve ever played. It’s not difficulty either, just eat meat the entire battle and you’ll never die. As far as the story is concerned, I originally thought the criticism was a little much. It’s clear the writing is solid at each individual step of the experience, so how could it not be at least decent? Well, it turns out that if one chapter of your story has zero connective tissue to the next and is constantly loaded with uninspired dialog it ultimately results in bad writing, and let me tell you, it’s BAD. Nothing makes any sense and it almost always feels like different unrelated segments sewn together. I would love to go on for another 18 paragraphs, but for the first time ever I’m going to hit the twitter character limit, so I’ll just summarize with this: Crimson Desert has many high quality aspects that will impress. There’s a certain charm that draws you in even when you can see the cracks in the armor. That is what makes my final takeaway so depressing. There’s a complete lack of direction and vision that seeps into every aspect of the experience resulting in something quite forgettable. What I admire most is that it dared to be different, it doesn’t feel like other games, but that can’t save it from falling incredibly short of greatness. I would not recommend Crimson Desert.

On St. George’s Day - my five favourite George’s: 1. George Best 2. George Harrison 3. George Orwell 4. George Formby 5. George Cole. Yours?

@thisstuartlaws This whole thread is better than a muffin dipped in cider

I’ve been casually slipping in fake British sayings and words into conversation with my American partner - here’s the one’s she believes:

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a GIF

@HaveringHammer The best thing about watching Breaking Baf is that you then get to watch Better Call Saul @BetterCallSaul

I’ve just been given Netflix ( I know I’m late to getting it ) by VirginMedia. The first show I’ve started watching is Breaking Bad ( I know I’m late to watching that too ) My question is should I stick with it as I’m 3 shows in and not sure what all the fuss was about yet?

@TolkienWorldG Morgoth!

Pretty much done with this guy

This is the most painful mistake when starting a new business: Playing House. I see it, and I... cringe. -- It happens like this: • Your lawyer says, "File an LLC!" • Your mom asks, "What is called?" • Your broker asks, "Where is the office?" • Your business incubator says, "Get that domain name!" So a founder spends thousands and weeks doing all that stuff. "I have a business!" they think. But they later learn they skipped a huge step: Making sure customers want to buy from you. -- Now, when I start anything: I first prove that customers want what I'm selling. And all that easy stuff can happen later. --- I’m on a mission to make X only high quality content. If you agree, please like/retweet/bookmark/reply to this to help! Michael

@girdley Hotmail is doing this - Looks like it's client side.

Why do all the spammers/mass cold emailers send without a display name now? i.e., like this:

@EduardHabsburg I agree, it's a tough rewatch and didnt do that well in the cinema's either. Still, it's peppered with unforgettable scenes, which with the mind choosing to hold onto those, it staying strong in memory.

🔥CONTROVERSIAL TAKE🔥 Just rewatched HIGHLANDER after literally DECADES by proudly showing it to my son, and to my great embarrassment I found it was NOT the brilliant epic I remembered, but: Slow paced. Flashy. Clunky. Gaudy. Pedestrian sword fights. Barely noticed the Queen music. It is elevated a little when Sean Connery or Clancy Brown are on screen, but other than that, as Monty Python says in a sketch.... "whole thing's a bit silly." What, oh what was 1986 me thinking?? And what do you think?👇

@elonmusk @grok Why not add the ability to like / emoji respond to stuff Grok makes to satisfy the need to write thank you etc without having to parse that response (unless it's explicitly followed up in a prompt).

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Off to play Horus Heresy for the afternoon