u/Slugdoge

I own a small construction company that employs about a dozen staff members. One of our electricians is very good at his job, but has a chaotic personal life.

He loves a drink and has a bit of a cociane habit. He knows that I know about it but I've never mentioned it to him because it's not affected the quality of his work. Plus if I fired every tradesman that did cocaine I would run out of people to employ!

Recently this employee has gotten a new girlfriend, which his wife isn't happy about at all. When she found out, she kicked him out of the house and changed the locks. He stayed at a friend's house for a few weeks but eventually had to move along. His girlfriend is also married so he obviously can't stay there.

He came to me yesterday and said he has nowhere to sleep tonight and has no money, and asked if he could stay at the office for a few weeks until he gets back on his feet. I told him certainly not, and that he should've thought about that before he spent all his money on cocaine and cheated on his wife.

He begged me not to put him out on the street, but I said he's putting himself out on the street and told him to get out. I also told him that he looks terrible and that he better not visit clients whilst looking and smelling the way he does or I will sack him.

I told my wife about this and she was shocked. She said it was a very evil thing to do to a person that's worked with me for nearly 10 years. I respect her opinion a lot and we are usually on the same page, but she's refusing to listen to me when I say he brought it on himself and I bear no responsibility.

So I'm a bit conflicted here, but I really don't want him staying there.

I'm genuinely trying to wrap my head around how EA thought this was a good idea.

When it was announced that we were getting a story mode, I thought it would be similar to fight night champion's: fun, quick, back-to-back fights where each fight tries to make you engage with a different mechanic, with a decent story to boot. The blueprint was there.

Instead, what we got was career mode with cut scenes. That's it, an exact copy of the boring grindfest that we're all familiar with. Yeah sure, let me just mash buttons against the heavy bag for the tenth time in a row for three minutes in the absence of any fucking gameplay.

The fights themselves are abysmal too. It holds your hand and literally slows down time and prompts you on how to avoid incoming attacks. So much for beating the game yourself.

If I wanted to play career mode, I would play career mode. Not this weird bastardisation of a story mode where the main character has as much personality as a wet fart.

And I'm only like 6 fights in. I've just been skipping through training camps in 1 week and then finishing all the fights in round 1 despite having super low fitness.

I don't really see the point in continuing, the game mode isn't fun and the story isn't compelling in the slightest.

EA had 3 years to make this game and a chance to actually innovate. The inclusion of this mode was promising, but the execution was lazy and thoughtless.

So in conclusion, I don't understand why this was made, who it was for, or why anyone would play it.

I've said my piece.

This is quite a UK-centric post because I don't think many people outside of the UK know who he is.

But for those who don't he is a businessman turned radio presenter on TalkSport who covers Football and Boxing, and interviews a lot of the UK's most popular boxers.

He's also hated by a lot of big figures in the sport like Tyson Fury, Frank Warren, and Eddie Hearn and even got TalkSport banned from some Queensbury events.

This is mainly due to his unfiltered opinions and refusal appease the Egos of boxers, which some find disrespectful (see Deontay Wilder's recent meltdown).

He's very popular with older (40+, people that listen to the radio) boxing fans but I'm wondering what people on this sub think of him.

Personally I think he's a bit of an obnoxious bellend, but it's good to have someone in the sport who gives boxers and promoters tough questions.

It's been like a year and half since it was taken off Spotify.

I understand it's probably a licensing issue but surely it's in both parties' interest to get it put back on the platform?