I was (and still am really) shit with analogue sticks. I got fairly good at playing Quake II on PlayStation with the lookup/lockdown mapped to L1 and R1. Same as the original Quake on PC, never really used +mouselook coming from Doom, just mapped them to buttons near the firing keys.
The dual-stick setup is much more intuitive though in fairness.
Of course. I can only speak for brands that I've had good experience with, there's other manufacturers like Nike or On Running or Hoka or Asics or Saucony etc.
The Brooks Adrenaline range offered the best cushioning and support for my overpronation style of running (as in, I naturally land on the inside edge of my foot and roll out - Supination is landing on the outside edge of your foot and rolling in, and neutral is landing squarely) or the New Balance 680 range got me through my first half-marathon.
My advice would be to head to a local running store and see if they do gait analysis - basically they get you to run for fifteen or twenty seconds on a treadmill looking at a fixed point in front of you, and a camera records your footfall on the treadmill to see where you could benefit from cushioning (if at all), or take your old pair of trainers down and let them examine the wear pattern (only works if you specifically use the pair for running).
Secondly, don't bother buying the latest models of shoe unless you're an athlete or at least semi-pro - find out what model number the latest range is (for example in Feb 2026 the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 26 is being sold), and search for last season's model number to get them for a fair bit cheaper.
I put so many miles through these knees in cheap trainers, when I learned about actual running hooves from Brooks or New Balance, my world changed forever...
...or at least the shinsplints and impact pains went away!
It's funny, because a boy I used to work with in a major UK city centre with lots of traffic congestion used to say "go for the gap in front of the ones with a nice car, they'll stop".
I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on "Quake III news" or "Subaru Impreza owners club" or such like.
SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything's just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.
That's utterly bizarre. I can see why some tosser would come up with the idea of jacking up the prices, but my experience of most major events like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games is that most transport is either included in your ticket, or just outright free.
Even when I've been living close to an event, I've not had the bad experience of paying inflated prices - rather just benefitted from the free shuttle buses that float about instead.
That's some next level shithousery by that bus firm.
I'd love to see the YouTube analytics of a handful of really popular videos that have embedded sponsors. Even before the "jump ahead" feature, there must be a massive drop-off of people who just skip five or ten seconds ahead until the sponsor isn't showing again.
Fallout 3 gave me one of the biggest laughs I've had in years when a door was opened in an urban area, only to reveal a wall behind it with "fuck you" sprayed on it.
I bet the environment designer is still chuckling his tits off knowing that people are getting a face full of that.
I was (and still am really) shit with analogue sticks. I got fairly good at playing Quake II on PlayStation with the lookup/lockdown mapped to L1 and R1. Same as the original Quake on PC, never really used +mouselook coming from Doom, just mapped them to buttons near the firing keys.
The dual-stick setup is much more intuitive though in fairness.