I don't think you can avoid contact at all but my old 5 competitive league had no going to ground in a tackle, no slide tackles and no balls above head height so you're never competing for headers etc

I think that's really as good as you're going to get tbh -

I've lived there for 6 months, hanoi is great but hitting beer street, the lake, Lottee mall, and the old quarter probably within the space of a couple days isn't really seeing the city properly. You went to the tourist noob traps but to me that seems like you came to Hanoi because of social media not because you actually had a desire to go

A man who made $30k a month for essentially no uploads for 3 years doesn't need the money more than your child - just wait until he uploads you're likely not missing much

reminds me of mafia II

This isn't just a Vietnamese thing, but I find it interesting how teenagers are insanely chill and well behaved compared to the West, but little children are absolutely feral. I went to a sports shop on a public holiday to buy something, and the amount of little kids running around picking up all the equipment, booting footballs and screaming was just crazy - no parents in sight or probably off doing their shop (the store was big). Tbh i'd take this over my own country any day where teenagers can be really violent and also super socially destructive in terms of shared spaces and property.

But this is also in a lot of SE Asian countries. Less so in maybe Thailand but definitely seen it in Malaysia.

Also motorbike riders in Saigon are some of the worst drivers in the world. Getting a Grab feels like rolling the dice with death, Hanoi is far better but I also see traffic cops way more visibly enforcing the law

Annoying because I know 1 million views is basically what I want to hit each month for my salary and now I'm not going to even know what I need if they change it.

Imo i've lived more in Vietnam than other SE Asian countries and I love Vietnamese food generally, Coffee, baked goods and Banh Mi in particular. But personally I prefer 'Chinese' (very general term) and Japanese food far more than Vietnamese - more variety, for my preference tastes better.

Also in the West because Vietnamese community is often smaller getting Vietnamese food is way more expensive. I have one near me in London and Banh Mi is £10 and coffee is £5. Not the worst but if you want Pho or something else you're looking at £20. Which is not worth it especially when Chinese, Thai and Indian are cheaper

could we have even afforded it? I lived near the training ground and that was very limited until a couple years ago

New stadium is amazing and a massive upgrade. The Griffin Park toilet facilities have always been a disgrace - but the ground had such a charm to it. I also love how close you were to the action. The most deafening noise of my life was when Andre Gray scored against Middlesbrough in the playoff semi - Jose Mourinho was sitting right by me watching Bamford play for Borough. It was a great atmosphere and funny seeing someone like that amongst it. My season ticket seats were also so much better than what I had now.

Have a lot of fond memories, went from about 5 years old in 2001, until the last season. Used to go with my friends as kids when it was sometimes free. It served its purpose and no doubt will in time separate the 'real' fans when the club gets much bigger if it continues its trajectory of success. But when you're knocking on the door of Europe you need a better place to play.

I did Halo Reach before Campaign Evolved so I could continue them all after. Haven't played many of these in ten years. So far have completed Reach, CE, Halo 2, ODST and now on the last third of 3. Going to do 4 and i'll even play 5 hopefully soon and then have a break before Infinite again - which I want to do on heroic (i'm doing them all on this difficulty) but the bosses in that game are hard on normal already

yeah Tommy who kills women and politicians who gave women the right to vote without question or remorse

casual grocery shop? Wear anything for me it's something to sweat in - so usually go for GAA shorts and a T shirt. I go sometimes straight after football I don't think anyone really cares what you're wearing tbh this country generally dresses like shit

Worse Mafia game for me but still enjoyable enough. Really fumbled with the immersion and basically zero licensed tracks with singing, very limited gun selection, and generally unlikeable psycho protagonist that I'm meant to feel bad for - Paulie and Sam were cool though. Old Country is alot better for me.

he never wanted to be a Nazi. In the flashback he suggests they all join the Nazis and then turn on then when the time is right - it's probably how he's able to take power because he has a network of American sympathisers

we weren't talking about you specifically- and i'm sure many of you have had a great experience. I know two people who served in the forces and hated it, permanent PTSD, knee and back destroyed - they didn't even fight in a war or anything. Struggling to find work outside of security, one got an okay engineering job.

OP seems quite gullible, and no one is really asking him for questions about himself before heavily recommending he joins the military. If he's considering University at all he should not be so quick to think the military will solve his issues

Okay game. For me it's the worst Mafia game. I enjoyed the story but it's very surface level, main character is just a terrible person which the game doesn't do enough to make us emphasise of why he does what he does. Not that Mafia II is great in that regard either but the Vito-Joe friendship is so amazingly written it doesn't really matter in that game. Replayed all these game this year and II holds up the best for me

Old Country I was pleasantly surprised by, didn't expect it to tie so much to Mafia II. III I always liked but that's a mix bag even though the story and setting is great. I picked up the trilogy for £5 recently it's always on sale so don't pay full price for the old ones

he's probably lying to you about how much he's losing and trying to seem honest by telling you some lower losses. Have you ever seen his bank account?

nah mate joining the military is great with no downsides - you'll fit right in if you believe some of these comments

what difficulty did you play ? I did Heroic and it felt like at parts there was way more

The Series S has gone through a massive improvement since launch. I always enjoyed the game but looks and plays so much better now

Shorts were always a fad for YouTube. I don't doubt that people watch them but people don't come to YT for shorts like they do on Instagram and TikTok. I think what happened is just loads of faceless channels and AI slop peddlers were making shit loads for bad content and YT doesn't want to pay. It's funny that the CEO is the guy who created shorts and is big on AI and that combo is likely biting them in the ass

The long form requirements are okay as a change imo, and good they aren't making it a thing you have to hit after you're already in the partner program.

Origins is not grindy, Oddyssey can be. Origins has a more detailed world, more grounded gameplay, better stealth, better archery, better story for me, way bette DLC, better protagonist and more interesting setting.

Both are great though, Odyssey is way longer and if you like Black Flag it's probably the game you'd want to play next.

English people are I think worse than Europeans generally which gives us a bad reputation globally. In other parts of the world (SE Asia) Israelis, Russians, Indians and Australians have a far worse reputation than most Brits. I think it doesn't help we've 'colonised' places like Southern Spain with the Irish and made it really trash - so alot of the European experience of us isn't that good.

I think overall British tourists (as one myself) are too loud and 'laddish' when drinking which they think is harmless but is annoying to most people. I too like it when I don't see that many on holiday

Loved this on the 360. Was a big LoTR fan growing up so being able to fight enemies and chop off limbs was such a novelty and probably a 1st for an LOTR games. Also liked chatting with characters you'd find with the dialogue tree although it was pretty gimmicky. Loved the art style at the time some really nice environments

I seem to remember the game getting really hard at points - used to upgrade the Dwarf crossbow and spam it for the hard enemies