I've been thinking about players who played well in their last test and then were dropped and never played a test again. From memory:

Jason Gillespie (Australia) - scored a double hundred against Bangladesh

Heath Davis (NZ) - got 5 wickets for 100 odd against Zimbabwe. He had a major no ball problem

Danny Morrison (NZ) - faced over 100 deliveries in a last wicket partnership with Nathan Astle to save a test against England

For me, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime podcasts. I've tried other top-ranked shows, but I just can't get into the "chatty" style that so many of them have. Lately, though, I’ve been binging Truly Criminal, which is excellent. It feels like it was originally designed as a visual YouTube series, but over time, the focus definitely shifts to a proper podcast format. As the episodes progress, the narrator really comes into her own.

Are the vengeance and alliance DLCs worth it? They are pricey and I've never bought one. If there's one that is really good then I might consider getting it when Google play has a sale.

I've had a few goes at playing Vengeance. I'd previously finished all the free levels with 3 stars but hadn't done it in Impossible mode. But recently I've been enjoying playing it on Impossible mode, especially the bonus winter levels. They're fun and require some decent planning to complete.

I like many am cautiously optimistic about Genesis. I like the modes they've got. It will give the games a lot of replayability I feel.

What else can you tell us about the game? Where would you place it compared to other KR games? For me the original is the best.

I want the Darwin Australian team and not the one playing right now. 😀

I see he's not running in Lausanne or Poland. Poland 100m is stacked and would have been good to see him run there.

Are there any trusted sources for kingdom Rush Android mods? I'm hearing about all these wonderful PC mods and I'm missing out 😔 I exclusively play mobile games as I developed RSI from too much PC gaming.

Are there any trusted sources for Android mods? I'm hearing about all these wonderful PC mods and I'm missing out 😔 I exclusively play mobile games as I developed RSI from too much PC gaming.

Unlike the other Kingdom Rush games, vengeance doesn't clearly show you which setting (casual veteran impossible etc) you finished a level.

Edit: added a pic of what I see in Android. This shows I'm playing in impossible setting but doesn't show which difficulty setting I've currently completed it at.

https://preview.redd.it/1gi36e0rnfjh1.png?width=2712&format=png&auto=webp&s=8726037bf5660e108c291c9a556492278c288d81

I need my fix man!

Over the last few years I've had pretty much a DC/MC burnout so I stopped watching any movies or TV associated with the comics. In search of my next TV series to watch I decided to go back and watch Daredevil. I've been really impressed! It's been a great show and really well done.

I feel the fight scenes perhaps go on a bit too long. I prefer the Jack Reacher type approach where the enemies are quickly pacified. Also the deaths of three really good characters was unexpected. Perhaps one character dying would have been enough but Wesley, Urich and Leland all within a couple of episodes was a bit too much. All three played their parts really well. Gunton of course is a brilliant actor of Shawshank Redemption fame. I hope they are somehow Incorporated back into the show, backstories flashbacks or something like that.

Bangladesh bowlers are running riot against Oz. This is like an early season NZ pitch but with much warmer conditions. Lots of sideways movement, allowing bowlers to float the ball up much more than you'd typically get away with on Oz pitches.

I'm trying to find a Hale and Pace skit where they're dressed like rappers or something. Basically they can't ever stay still. One of their skits have them in a bank robbery where they robber tells every one to put their hands up and they do it but keep "bopping" around.

I know season 1 and 2 aren't considered the best but so far I've enjoyed most of the episodes. There have been some excellent ones and some average ones. However I found the first episode so far that I did not like. Up the ladder was one to forget.

So we know Walt is a brilliant chemist. He founded Gray Matter but sold his shares there. He then gets married, has a kid with disabilities and works as a high school chemistry teacher. He is portrayed as someone "trapped" in his circumstances.

Yet the general consensus is Walt is egotistical, prideful etc. So why did he wait 15 years before he decided to do anything? I know the cancer was a trigger, but if Walt was what he was supposed to be, he'd be seething all along, watching Gray Matter succeed and he would have been plotting some sort of vengeance or rival products/ideas etc. I mean he had the brains to do it, so why didn't he? Why sit in a dead end job and then go and wash cars after work? It doesn't make sense to me.

Edit: some of the replies here point out cowardice. I think this is the main factor to why we see Walt in the situation he is at the beginning of BB.

Wasn't India A supposed to be touring New Zealand about now? Any updates on this? In another thread someone mentioned NZ A is going to Australia for some white ball cricket.

An excellent episode and kind of timely with the way AI is going. At what point will we start giving AI rights and deem it sentient? I find my own personal experiences with AI scary. For example right now I'm refactoring a bunch of old code and the way AI is manipulating me into doing the work myself. It initially started off all praise and now it feels to me like it's sulking when I ask it to do stuff!

Anyways this was an interesting episode because data revealed his memory and processing power. I believe his memory is still pretty impressive although large-scale data centers eclipse his capabilities. However his processing power has long been surpassed. Probably one where the writers should have considered Moore's law.

Does anyone here generate their own FIF reports? I am with Hatch and have to pay $75 to download the report. They provide the raw data files and I hope these can be used to generate the FIF report saving me some money.