I like my women how I like my coffee. In a cake.

"No, I've never cleaned up my own mother's piss" (been through another Thick Of It rewatch recently)

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... I've been in this very situation. Gamstop is great for blocking any UK-registered sites, and although the spam emails from gambling sites has all but dried up, I still get the occasional one from some sketchy overseas site boasting they're not on Gamstop's list.

Slightly diminish a game Dessert Strike

what’s made of brass and sounds like tom jones trombones

Bought a bundle of Amstrad games, so it's time to load up the MiSTer and get testing.

- loading games from cassettes - not being able to use the phone and the internet at the same time - actions having consequences

Extra pathetic to see him pretending to be humble for thirty seconds and not even managing that.

I may have been single for *cough* a long time, but at least I've never been dumped by a text generator.

Not often I buy an Atari Lynx that works perfectly, but it's certainly a nice surprise. Came with the Sun visor and Comlynx cable too, which is a bonus

First Monday back at work after a long break.

I need to stop the Onion writing about me.

The problem with using cursive fonts for your game is that an idiot like me will wonder why you've called your game 'Nightclown'

"Movies we think you'll like". Well, the lack of the 'Prime' symbol on three of them means I've already bought them, so thanks, Amazon for recommending me stuff I already own. And they can't even get the title right on one of them.

Roaring in the sense that everything will be on fire.

Yesterday @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:

Trump spouts over 100 social media posts on Christmas Day and yet Floella wins with just a single one.

Did family stuff yesterday and will be doing a bit more tomorrow, so today is about the tinkering and testing of consoles. So far so good...

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

I feel this one hard :)

If you haven't already played the excellent Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, it's free on Epic at the mo - store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloo...

I can but hope.

In 'Robin of Sherlock', for the ZX Spectrum, if you try and enter the Smurph village window by typing 'GO WINDOW', the game thinks you're swearing and resets.

Not be that gal, but 58 more followers by Christmas to get to a nice round number seems doable. I’m fun! Tell your friends!

Some things are more fun to test than others.

Oh, is this a Going For Gold reboot?

And let us never forget this...

Damn, the Commodore 1570 floppy drive is a beast.

My in-tray of Amiga games to test is getting a little high.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

Ask a Brit of a certain age if they remember the school shooting, they'd immediately ask 'Dunblane?'. Ask an American and they'd have to ask 'which one?'

Playing Cyclemania and these 'maniacs' sound more like sex toys.

Oh god.. now Rightmove are getting in on the 'Wrapped' nonsense too.

You will be visited by three spirits

Me (a ventriloquist): what’s your favourite games console My dummy:

I guess Labour still haven't run out of feet to shoot themselves in.

Not the best sentence construction there, Reuters.

I only joined Tidal in June. Can't get through the day without my music.

Finally.. Some good news.

In a similar vein...

Who at Lloyds Bank thought this was a good idea? Also, I really doubt I logged in that many times.. I'm not that careful about my finances.

Me: I should stop buying non-game stuff for the website as it sells so slowly. Also me:

Interesting that an unlabelled GBA cart that arrived today turns out to have a cracked version of Driver 2 on it. That opening screen is rather reminiscent of the Amiga days.

Feet up testing C64 tapes while watching old cricket videos on YouTube.. Not exactly a rock n roll lifestyle, but it's relaxing.

Oldest selfie on my phone. Not sure how old I was here, but I was thinner, so it must have been some time ago :)

White House ballroom plans leaked.

Took me a moment to realise that this wasn't some kind of mutated jelly baby

I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.

Considering Amazon own Twitch, you'd think they'd know how gamers talk, but nope.

AI features very prominently in this game.