Started Metroid Prime 4, and I can maybe see what's rubbed people up the wrong way – it's pretty railroaded at the start. Hoping it eases off and lets you explore a bit more as the game goes on.

There's a lot of cool new games out, but I've just realised Just Cause 2 works on the Steam Deck and oh boy, that's exciting.

Just happened to be in the right place at the right time and saved a stack on a Christmas present I was going to buy anyway - I do love a bit of serendipity.

Gonna fill a trenchcoat full of dodgy old RAM sticks and start me some legitimate business.

I don't get the obsession with scanlines. I used CRTs growing up, but they're just not part of the memories I associate with them. Is this a PAL thing, all that extra vertical resolution squishing the lines down to be less perceptible? Or is it just my terrible eyesight and not sitting point-blank?

oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I don't get how HMRC keep fucking things up to this degree, but on the other hand: £225 tax refund!

I'm too far gone not to play it now, but I am NOT THRILLED by this nonsense.

Man, if the price is right I'm going to buy every single bit of that new Valve hardware. Steam Deck has been a revelation and I'm surprised by how compelling the idea of a console-style equivalent is. Six times the grunt of the Deck is likely more than enough for anything I care about.

レーシング

Ight lad #supermariobros #wallaceandgromit #3dart

How many trees have TV Licensing burned through delivering idle threats about the live broadcasts I don't watch?

Some fucking dickhead with a flatbed truck and obnoxious strobe lights immediately outside my bedroom window. I would quite like to do a violence.

Checking in on your posts

Picked up a PSVR2 - surprisingly solid with the PC adapter on my laptop, which is not what I was expecting given how jerry-rigged it seems. Drifted around Google Earth VR and Half-Life: Alyx for a few hours; good stuff!

Apparently Edinburgh council are responsible for the common areas in my block, and they sure don't seem too fussed about fixing the door entry system. Front door is wedged open all day and I can't really leave because any passer-by could boot their way into my apartment without much effort. Oh boy.

Happy Halloween 🎃

Both keyfobs for getting into my block aren't working (which probably means the reader itself isn't working, honestly). Fun!

I hate 99.9% of what's come out of this wave of AI bullshit, but the line “leave her alone, she's open-source” might just live with me forever.

I wonder who won

Please look forward to the new Halo remakes retconning the bit where the AI character that shares a name with the Windows 10 AI assistant goes off the deep end and tries to snuff out humankind.

Cloned the office's wireless doorbell with the Flipper Zero, because I can. I'm not sure I could get away with anything more substantial than that.

Ugh, there's that rent increase again. Not as large as last year, but still: to the ombudsman we go.

Engagement bait.

TOO HOT FOR CANADA

It's a ‘waiting for a delivery’ kind of day and man, I hate this. No clue at all when they're going to show up, and not much confidence they will at all because hey, it's Evri (Hermes). Ugh.

Blowing my next energy bill refund on a Playdate, I've decided.

Social media needs to institute a ‘?’ button on posts that I can press when I don't have a single fucking clue what you're talking about.

Looking back over old phone photos from my time in Austria, circa 2014. Apparently I stumbled across some Boris Yeltsin-branded flavoured vodka at some point.

Had a dream a while back in which I discovered the existence of the "Grave of the Fireflies/Super Mario World 2-in-1" for the Wii. It basically functioned as a DVD except for a "special features" section that literally only had an SNES emulator playing Mario World. It went for absurd prices on eBay

Had a real nostalgia for sitting at my own desk at home, blasting some music, doodling nonsense on my Wacom and streaming it out to the tiny group of semi-regulars who'd sometimes show up. I used to really enjoy doing that. I really need to move somewhere a little more conducive to that.

Christ, that was some wind and rain, today. New umbrella handled it pretty well, but I think it's past time I got some actual wet-weather gear.

Midlife crisis continues unabated: today I've ordered a Flipper Zero, hoping to learn horrifying things about how insecure wireless devices might be, among other things.

Kept bumping into squirrels while I was at work the other day. Maybe it was the same squirrel, I dunno.

New sub! Ep. 356 - Hurry! Run! "Wit’s" pastebin.com/raw/TunM9dYf Translating this entire season took us to our wits’ end. “But what about the Tamage DVD special, Nuts & Milk, and Metal Gear Soli”–ssssshhhhh

This is good game jam fodder

...Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang...

Apparently they're doing work on an exchange in Waverley and my internet, having just gone down, might not be back until midnight tomorrow. Fuck me.

Hold on a fucking second, the replica VB for Switch doesn't even come with a controller?

…okay, how much is that stupid Virtual Boy shell?

Ah, the feeling of an Amazon delivery notification accompanied by a photo of a door you don't recognise. Fun times ahead.

I don't know if they're in on the joke, but this sure does look a certain way.

incredibly good stuff

Gah, my nice earbuds are gubbed and I'm really not happy about it. Still under warranty so probably fine in the long run, but I really rely on these things and I don't want to send them away, blown out right ear or not.

Very into how some Indonesians refer to foreigners as ‘Outdonesians’.