Tuchel and Bellingham need to cool down tension with England so close to history
The latest episode of Thomas versus Jude does not have to descend into a drama and team cannot afford to be distracted heading into the World Cup semi-final
Thomas Tuchel lobbed a grenade into the mix. Jude Bellingham picked it up and threw it back. There was an explosion of honesty in Miami, where everyone was struggling to maintain composure in the stifling humidity, and it needs to be dealt with before England try to reach a men’s World Cup final for the first time on foreign soil. livefromquarantine.club
It is time for cool heads. Tuchel was searing in his immediate analysis of England’s quarter-final win over Norway, telling ITV’s Gabriel Clarke that the performance was sloppy, not fast enough and full of technical mistakes. Praise for the side’s mentality was there but slightly lost in the noise. It was the criticism that Bellingham was asked about and the way he responded, punching back at Tuchel’s comments with some forthrightness of his own, ran the risk of England’s campaign falling down because of a public disagreement between the head coach and the star player.
Continue reading...Going from skull-cracker to safecracker in Dishonored 2
From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #302 (UK, March 2017). You can still subscribe to PC Gamer to get new issues of the magazine (in print!) every month.
My playthrough of the first game was more disaster than Dishonored. At the time, I didn’t quite grasp that slitting every throat I met in those early Dunwall levels would send me spiraling toward the dreaded High Chaos ending, never to return.
As the hours rolled on and the increasing swell of rats began to gnaw on Corvo’s bootstraps, I thought that maybe, just maybe, I might be able to redress the balance by going full stealth, stifling the screams of my foes without shuffling them off their mortal coil.
Alas, Arkane’s Chaos system was more severe than I’d anticipated. The rats continued to scoff their way through the mounds of decaying flesh strewn about the city, and poor Emily might as well have been crowned Queen of the Dunwall rodents by the end, her citizens having long since been digested in a million tiny rat stomachs.
No wonder Corvo felt so sluggish when he possessed them—his hosts had been binging on the Great Dunwall Rot-off. Fortunately, Arkane evidently managed to get the exterminators in before the events of Dishonored 2, and I finally got my chance to do things right.
In a fit of madness, I decided to embark on a perfect, no-kill, no-detection run—a tall order for someone whose last attempt at stealth ended up elbowing half of Prague to death in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
40 hours later, I finally succeeded, but not without having doused my trigger finger in several vats of anti-itch cream first. Indeed, there were several moments during the Clockwork Mansion mission where I almost gave in.
After five hours of quick-saves and hasty restarts (yes, five), I could have happily shot Kirin Jindosh in the face during our eventual confrontation, but the opportunity to strap him to his own electric chair and reduce him to a babbling idiot felt like better revenge.

Even the Grand Designs team would struggle to piece his house back together, let alone someone who can’t even spell their own name anymore.
Little did I know that Jindosh would have one last laugh, as just a couple of chapters later I encountered his infamous Jindosh Lock, a sealed door that you can only open by solving a riddle. I could have squeezed some hints out of the local neighbourhood gang lords, but I was determined to solve it peacefully. So I sat there, staring at it. I don’t know how much time passed, but even my monitor got bored waiting, going into sleep mode long before I cracked the combination.
Paper case

Damn you, Jindosh, I thought. This scrambled brainpan isn’t going to get the best of me. So I put my keyboard aside, grabbed a pen and reached for my dusty gaming notebook, something I haven’t touched since scrawling my way through The Witness earlier in the year. I tore out several scraps of paper and made cards for every last variable, shifting them around until, at last, my brain whirred into life.
Admittedly, it was immensely satisfying solving Jindosh’s last remaining masterwork, but it did make me wonder whether I should have been so merciful just a few hours before. I won’t spoil the solution here, but I will say you should definitely start with the alcohol (both literally and figuratively). It helps. A lot.

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HotelPlanner Tour: Van der Vight triumphiert bei der German Challenge


Lars van der Vight gewinnt die German Challenge in Neuburg. Hurly Long wird bester Deutscher auf Rang fünf, Julien Sale verpasst den Sieg knapp.
Die German Challenge powered by VcG der HotelPlanner Tour wurde auf dem Platz des Wittelsbacher Golfclubs in Neuburg an der Donau vom niederländischen Profigolfer Lars van der Vight gewonnen. Die German Challenge ist das einzige Turnier der HotelPlanner Tour auf deutschem Boden und besitzt daher insbesondere für die deutschen Teilnehmer einen besonderen Stellenwert.
Der siegreiche Niederländer machte es bis zum Schluss spannend, blieb auf den entscheidenden Schlusslöchern jedoch fehlerfrei. Dadurch verhinderte er ein nervenaufreibendes Playoff, obwohl seine Verfolger in Schlagdistanz lauerten. Van der Vight erwischte am Finaltag einen wechselhaften Start: Auf dem ersten Loch gelang ihm zunächst ein Birdie, das er jedoch mit einem Bogey auf Loch zwei direkt wieder einbüßte. Anschließend spielte der 23-Jährige fehlerfrei und sammelte drei weitere Birdies ein. Auf dem neunten Loch musste er mit einem Doppelbogey erneut einen Rückschlag hinnehmen. Trotz dieses Fehlers ging van der Vight mit einer insgesamt positiven Bilanz auf die Back Nine. Seinen letzten Bogey des Tages auf Loch 11 konterte er souverän mit zwei weiteren Birdies. Seine abschließende 70er-Runde brachte ihm ein Gesamtergebnis von 17 Schlägen unter Par und damit den alleinigen Sieg.
Bis zum Schluss setzte der Franzose Julien Sale den späteren Sieger unter Druck. Mit sechs Birdies, einem Eagle auf Loch 15 und lediglich einem Bogey auf der 10 machte Sale am Finaltag noch deutlich Boden gut. Dank seiner starken 65er-Runde rückte er bis auf einen Schlag an van der Vight heran, verpasste den Turniersieg und ein mögliches Playoff jedoch denkbar knapp. Den dritten Platz teilten sich Quinnton Croker und Wouter de Vries mit jeweils 15 Schlägen unter Par.
HotelPlanner Tour: Hurly Long als bester Deutscher in den Top 5
Der deutsche Spieler Hurly Long überzeugte am Finaltag mit einer starken 67er-Runde, die sieben Birdies und zwei Bogeys umfasste. Mit insgesamt 13 Schlägen unter Par belegte er den geteilten fünften Platz.
Der nächste deutschsprachige Spieler im Klassement war Tiger Christensen aus Hamburg, dessen Vorname an Golflegende Tiger Woods erinnert. Der 22-Jährige spielte am Sonntag eine solide 70er-Runde und sicherte sich damit den geteilten 15. Platz sowie eine Top-20-Platzierung. Die beiden Deutschen Christian Bräunig und Amateur Thomas Schmidt belegten mit jeweils neun Schlägen unter Par den geteilten 25. Rang. Bester Schweizer im Wittelsbacher Golfclub war der 36-jährige Benjamin Rusch. Mit acht Schlägen unter Par landete er unter Anderem gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Jan Schneider auf dem geteilten 36. Platz.
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