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Finally found the perfect job. Too bad I'm not in the UK.

No such luck here. When it's what friends & family do, not participating isn't really an option. Still, I might still be able to pick up a couple of things before the sale is over. If not, the spring sale is usually pretty good too. Though I kind of preferred the old format with flash sales. The current format isn't very engaging. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can't be bothered. I never seen the other 6, so starting with #7 seems kinda pointless. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ah the winter sale. Some of the best deals at a time when I have no money left after Christmas shopping. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, I've seen you post similarly light music before. My problem is that relaxed invariably leads to asleep. I still listen to the majority of my music while I'm driving, so that would be a very bad time to be taking a nap.

At least I'm not trying to get any work done. This would be the kind of stuff to zone out on and/or fall asleep listening to. I need something a bit more upbeat while staying awake.

That could work. Used games aren't usually worth enough for the trouble though unless they are very recent releases.

So wait until you get some money from Christmas and buy both. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tough month. Hoping Xbox has some Christmas sale start soon. Got notified by Microsoft that I have like $12.50 in bonus credit that is expiring on the 23rd. But no good sales means nothing I really want to spend it on yet. Would love to see the Telltale Game of Thrones or Borderlands games go on sale soon.

Welcome 2015 First of all, Happy New Year! As we transition into 2015, I'd like to thank everyone who has been with us for your support and contributions. A forum survives only through activity, and your participation has made us a great place for video content. To those members who have just recently joined us, I welcome you and hope you enjoy our little community. Free Subscriptions To welcome the New Year, I'd like to offer anyone who is interested a free 60-day Premium subscription. All the same features as the paid subscription, and no payment info is required to take advantage. Just head over to the Subscriptions page and pick the Promo package. This promo will only be available on New Year's day, so grab it quickly. Update: Of course our subscription wouldn't allow for free options. I'm working on something. Update 2: Alright, so the free subscription thing is doomed to failure. So I did the next best thing I could come up with at 3am. Instead of 60 days free, the offer will be 90 days of Premium for $1 US. But, if you want the 60 days free instead, I will totally honor that too, it just can't be done through the automated system. Just shoot me a PM and I can set it up for you. For new members, you still have to register and validate first, then send me the PM. You can also post the request here in this thread, it might take me a bit longer to spot than a PM though. This was supposed to be a January 1st only promo, but thanks to things not working as anticipated both offers will remain open until January 7. [EXPIRED] Forum Update The company who produces the software this forum runs on has been hard at work on a major new version for some time now. A final version should become available in the early part of this year. I'm looking forward to the upgrade to bring new modern features that will enhance the site on both standard PC and mobile browsers. The version of the software we are running was originally released back in 2009. While there have been a number of small updates and lots of bug fixes along the way, this is still almost 6 year old software. For SoccerShouts, I anticipate a third quarter roll out of this new software. I never upgrade right away as it gives the developers time to fix bugs and for themes and custom modifications to catch up. Later in the year I will share more details when I begin setting up the new software for testing. The End of Shouts.tv Figured I might as well put this at the end, because most of you have no idea this even exists. Shouts.tv was an experiment in creating our own URL shortener service for use exclusively for links on SoccerShouts. It works okay, but its use has been limited. Trying to open it up for wider use just meant lots of spam. I can't say I will be sad to see this one go. If you are using the Shorten URL link near the top of the forum, I'd advise using bit.ly or goo.gl. The Shouts.tv project will shut down in early March and will be removed from the forum even sooner. tl;dr Happy New Year and thanks for being with us. Get 90 days of Premium for $1 on the subscriptions page. Big forum updates coming later this year. Stop using Shouts.tv if you ever did in the first place.

Added a new category to the videos section for FIFA & Sim type videos. Seen a couple of new videos that covered this sort of thing, and they really didn't fit into any existing categories. New forum software is running on a test site here and I'm still hoping to make progress with an update by the end of the year. Until a few vital plug-ins are updated, we don't have much choice but to wait it out.

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Spotted a new game on Steam just now. Soccer Manager 2016, and it's a free to play game. Looks like it just came out last week, so thought I'd give it a shout out here in case anyone here plays the management type sims.

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By now, at least a few people may have been presented with a notice regarding their use of an ad blocker here on the site. I hope you can all understand, but I'm just trying to keep the site alive. Over the past couple of years, our daily traffic has continued to increase, but ad revenue is actually heading in the other direction. Several weeks ago, I ran some monitoring software from a company called PageFair, and was only slightly surprised to see that as many as 40% of our visitors are blocking ads. Please, disable your ad blockers for this site. The only ads come from Adsense. We don't like agressive, noisy ads that move around the page with you. So you won't find them here. If you still hate ads, consider purchasing a subscription. I'd like to think the cost isn't too high, and you do get some extras. This way you are still supporting us but never see ads. Lastly, there's NoScript. With this you will stop the ad blocker notice from appearing. This is a forum that uses a lot of scripts though, so without some configuration you may find functions on the board doesn't seem to work right. I'm sure some of our tech-savvy users are already running NoScript. If you really don't want to support this site, this will really help you out, but it will make me sad.

Well, if you do decide to give Win10 a shot, let me know what you think. Also, while some of the spy theories are a bit excessive, the new system does do quite a bit of tracking. I'd take a look at this article about what privacy settings you might want to change right away.

Yes and no. Specifically, I wouldn't try typing my password or credit card number into the Cortana search box. Since those searches ping off Microsoft servers, that would likely be equivalent to Googling that same info. But it's not like it's going to be recording what you type as responses to forum posts in the web browser. Recording you and taking camera snaps? Nah, no way. That would break so many laws in so many countries Microsoft would be fined out of existence.

I don't blame them either. In fact, the only way for the new gen stuff to really move forward is to stop trying to make things that can also be ported to last gen. I look at it this way: when I do eventually get a new system, there will be a nice sized library of stuff for me to pick from. And the earlier games will probably be pretty cheap too.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/307780/ It has full controller support. That would be my solution at this point. It was clear when they only released the XB1 and PS4 versions that the last gen stuff wouldn't be a priority. We're hitting that point when the last gen stuff will start being abandoned. I don't see much new stuff on the horizon either.

Toño, how do you not fall asleep listing to that? I like ambient music, but anything like that and I'd better be planning on taking a nap. Newest Butcher Babies. Actually listening to the whole album on Spotify right now, but this is the only video for it.

I haven't renewed my Xbox Live in a while now. I think Battlefield 4 was the last I was playing online. At this point, the 360 audience has to be shrinking, so I probably won't do any online gaming again until I get a newer console. Still, I have many single player games to keep my busy until that time comes. Once the weather starts to cool down a bit, my time for gaming usually increases quite a bit. Plus, with hardly any more new games coming to the old systems, I really have no excuse to buy new games and can start going through that backlog finally.

On a more gaming related note, I noticed a Gears of War 4 on Amazon as well as the new Deus Ex. They don't seem to have any solid release dates so far, which is probably a good thing for me. A few more top tier titles like that and I may have no choice but to start putting aside from money for a new console.

I went into Windows update and hide the Windows 10 download. I still have to hunt down the update that created that annoying icon and remove it. That should stop it pestering me.

In addendum to my previous post: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging/ On the upside, I have seen that Win10 is allowing a 30 day period to roll back to your old install. For me, I'm keeping it to the virtual machine until next year and I will see how it's going then.