ICTDirect_Dave

We can't do the migration for you, but we've got the best range of servers in the business! Given the frankly insane prices of new kit, we're seeing dozens of schools buying two or three rack servers from us and taking a five-year warranty. Happy to chat through some hardware options if you want? We've got everything from standard 1U racks to high-performance computing beasts with up to 8 NVIDIA Machine Learning GPUs.

I lost a significant portion of my weekend to Stellaris - again! I should know better. I just popped it on for the first time in a year or so, "just to see how the recent updates were affecting things." Before I knew it, I had tweaked my xenophile human faction and set my science ship exploring the local neighbourhood. 23 hours and two crises later, humanity is a psychic hive-mind and both the galaxy's protector for fighting off the emergence of The Contingency, and its greatest threat, as my experiments with the psychic sub-dimension threaten the invasion of extraplanar entities! Marvellous! I think it might be my favourite strategy game of all time.

See, I LOVE the remake! It played flawlessly for me. It looks like the game I imagined I was playing when I first put the disc in the OG Xbox and played through the campaign on a 14" CRT into the wee hours of Christmas night more than two decades ago! It tweaked the mechanics in sensible ways, kept most things the same, and the changes made to the levels were sensible. Would I have liked a multiplayer option aside from co-op? Yes, but I'll wait for the remake of Halo 2 for that. It was always the better multiplayer option.

Did they not already release a remaster for this? Or a hefty graphics update at least.

Thanks! Sounds like you're long overdue for a natter with us

Nice! Glad you've found some more inspiration to get started!

Cannot wait for this one!

I'd imagine the 7th-gen Intel laptop chips in the 260 G3 minis would be feeling pretty sluggish by now. They're drastically underpowered as desktop chips, and this model won't have received a BIOS update for the 2023 Secure Boot certs, whereas one was released for the 400 G5 in March, I think. It's worth checking to see if that needs doing on the G5's.

Is it a particular model or across several? I'll ask our engineers if we've come across anything.

You absoutely have to be sure. We've had a few slip through the cracks, but we maintain links with the original orgs for just this situation. In all cases, we've been able to get them removed from their OG org in a few hours

We got 10th-gen iPads coming up too! You're always better off looking at our stock list for current prices and availability https://ict-direct.co.uk/stock-list/

+1 for kenable for your cable needs they're brilliant! We should be able to help you with the majority of things, beyond our usual refurbished offering. Speaking of refurb, we should be miles better than the likes of Bentham in terms of quality, consistency of stock, price and after sales support.

Not Warhammer-based, but miniature-based, at least. I'm about to start a 1st Tech D&D campaign and have been getting some minis printed and painted for the characters and the odd encounter. Here's the party and their first fight.

We are very much your people! Drop me a DM and let me know how many you're after

That is a shame! If you still feel the temptation to make them, there's a host of decent Blood Raven style components on Cults3d you can download and print yourself. Shoulder pads, heads, weapons, icons ect. Stuff to give the vanilla marines some real character

Now listen 'ere! THAT is the Emperor's Toilet Brush, a relic of the UTMOST importance, and don't you dare forget it!

I'd put good money on GW still expecting you to drop £500 on a Space Marine army once again. They'll just put the prices up on them to make up for the shortfall in purchases. Excited to see your Blood Ravens though. It's way beyond time they got the recognition on the tabletop that four RTS games have given them in media.

Smaller forces of superhuman marines seems to be the aim. Marines have always been more impressive in fiction than on the battlefield. But levelling them up does bring into question the purpose of Custodes. Do they get a similar bump and become a four-person force capable of single-handedly stopping a hive fleet?

Yeah, it's excellent. Each case takes up two episodes, which keeps the pacing nice: the setting, acting and writing are all good.

Excellent! And with series two of Bookish starting later this month, we're well set for good old crime capers!

You're not wrong! 14 coat pegs in our hall. Just four for adults!

This is a lot of coats! I have a light waterproof, a big warm/waterproof ski jacket, a nice wool one I really only wear to Bett and a leather jacket for when I want to look super cool on a rare trip to the pub.

I picked up FFVII: Rebirth when it was on sale last week. So far, the £15 has been well worth it! It is gorgeous! The combat has a similar feel to Remake, but with notable enhancements. The open world is suitably vast and varied. The terrain interaction is a welcome feature, as Remake did feel like you were on rails to an extent. However, everything having physical properties means you can move things around, and your party does have a habit of walking into a nice area with lots of boxes of produce that they promptly send flying everywhere as they walk through it all! Still, it's great, and I'm enjoying it immensely.

Colour of Magic is not the best Discworld book to read first. Terry is still rather green at this point and spends much of the book explaining all of the rules of his newly fashioned world. It IS a good story, but better to return to it after reading several others, I feel. The city watch books are an excellent starting point to the series, as their characters crop up more and more throughout the other books.

He was an absolute master of his craft. Those later Discworld books, especially, should be taught in schools