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I mean the guy had this "I don't give a fuck" vibe that made him insanely likeable and charismatic. Plus he had some of the most epic voice acting and lines:

"Bang, you're dead Max Payne."

"Scout's honor detective. I have mended my ways, evolved to a higher level."

"I hear she is a stone fox. I would fuck her."

"Dearest of all my friends."

Even something as minor as "You coming?" when he arrives to pick up Max after Punchinello's restaurant is set on fire, is delivered with such charismatic dead pan that I somehow started using it in real life.

In MP3 it looks like they tried to keep things more grounded and in the process ditched all the larger than life support cast. I mean in the first 2 games basically every character you met was memorable, from Alex to BB to Bravura to even the random mobsters and henchmen. And that's not even getting to the characters that had bigger roles like Vinnie, Vlad, Woden or Mona.

In MP3 you have none of that. Villains are totally forgettable and even your sidekick Passos is less memorable than the armed hobo from MP2.

I've been watching a bunch of older crime movies and I'm loving all the cool tropes that they keep repeating over and over again. Things like:
"You're suspended, hand over your gun and your badge."
"The feds are breathing down my neck!"
"I hate to pull rank, but..."
"Ya got no jurisdiction here!"
"Meet yer new partner, newly transferred from XYZ precint"
"Special Agent John Smith, FBI, I'm taking over this investigation! You boys in blue should stick to your doughnuts and stay outta my way!" * followed by a fight where the protagonist cop breaks the FBI agent's nose *

So which movie tropes about the police would you say are the most and the least realistic, not necessarily from the list above.

Ok, ok, not "all Breguet watches are inferior to all GO watches", but I've been shopping around for rose gold dress watches for a good few months now and I've narrowed it down to either a GO Senator Excellence time-only vs a Breguet Classique 7147.

So pros and cons.

GO pros:

• 100hrs power reserve
• in-house caliber
• substantially cheaper
• thicker which makes it more versatile imo

GO cons:

• Lacks the hand finishing you find on the Pano models, but the price is much higher because it's gold
• Maybe viewed as less prestigious than Breguet?

Breguet pros:

• Maybe viewed as more prestigious than GO?
• Spectacular grand feu enamel dial

Breguet cons:

• 45hrs power reserve
• Very thin so it only works as a dress watch
• Substantially more expensive
• Outdated and unimpressive Blancpain caliber

I am struggling to find reasons to like the Breguet more than the GO, but I can't. It feels like a watch that is coasting on the Breguet name but offers very little for the price.

I've written about accidentally dropping my PML on reddit before here and here.

First thread was after dropping it twice, second one after dropping it three times.

Well, a couple of hours ago, it happened again. I put the watch on my wrist to take a photo, but didn't secure the pin buckle because, hey, what's gonna happen, right? Of course, I raised my arm about chest high and then the watch fell off on the hardwood floor. Straight to the timegrapher and yet again, timekeeping parameters were same as the day I got it 18 months ago.

GO is the true tool watch brand lmao.

Edit: and in case you were wondering, no, it's not beat up to hell after all that. Case and sapphire are intact.

One of my long-standing pet peeves is this myth that Rolex movements are somehow mechanically superior to other watch brands.

Whenever a debate starts about how Rolex can't compete in finishing and hand-crafting with higher tier brands, someone always brings up the argument that yeah, they're machine finished, but holy trinity watches are brittle and will disintegrate when you so much as look at them, as opposed to Rolex which is the epitome of reliability and durability.

Well I'm here to tell you that's false. I just traded in my current gen Rolex Sub because I was completely disappointed in the current 3230 movement. First incident was when my toddler dropped the Sub from a coffee table (so about 50cm in height) on the floor. I put it on my timegrapher and the timekeeping had gone crazy - accuracy from +1 spd to +11spd and beat error to a whopping 1.1ms. So I had to take it in for service to try and restore the original parameters. I honestly expected the "super robust" Rolex Submariner to be able to withstand a shock from such a small height. 6 months after that, it was hit by the dreaded low amplitude issue that a lot of people have reported with the 32xx family of movements (see https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=786299), so I had to service it again. That's when I had enough and traded it in.

I also own a Glashutte Original PanoMaticLunar. This is considered a dress watch, albeit pretty thick at 12.7mm. The finishing on the movement is splendid for the price point, including hand engraved elements. Over 1.5 years of ownership, I had the misfortune of dropping this watch 3 times on the floor from various heights, including a chest-high shelf at one point. Guess what? Absolutely no impact on timekeeping. Runs the same as the day I got it.

In conclusion, Rolex movements are super reliable until you actually test said reliability.