I wish to God that the amount of criticism of the gaming industry and gamers was aimed at much more deserving targets. Like opera. Or the Shipping Forecast. Or cricket.

Ten year old me being able to sit up and watch Twin Peaks when I would stay with my dad was on the one hand crucial in influencing the kind of stuff I'm into as an adult but on the other was a deeply irresponsible bit of parenting.

"But what the King's daughters *don't* know is that their inheritances depend on them saying how much they love him. Let's see what happens."

Star Wars: The Rise of the Skywalker.

I see the big lads are doing the "middle class. What *is* it?" debate again. youtu.be/s9i7q2p_vHQ?...

One of Sufjan Stevens’s backing band, whose solo album in the late 00s gets 7.9 from Pitchfork.

Well, we'll always have the 360.

Glen Powell is Hollywood's latest attempt to try and make fetch happen.

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/-Z0UGGvb4sQ?...

This article is even more rage-inducing than you'd expect. And that was a pretty fucking high bar to begin with.

“WHOOOOOOO remembers breathing?”

Never feel guilty about hiring a cleaner, so long as you pay them well and are lucky enough to be able to do so.

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Dan Barefoot is no:

You'd have thought "well, it couldn't get any worse" would be utterly discredited as an opinion given the events of the past 10 years but what do I know?

This is true and can also be applied to Singing in the Rain or West Side Story.

It's no exaggeration to say that innocent children are now going to die because of the actions of cunts.

I fucking love BlueSky. Never change.

• No, you're ok, don't bother. • No, you're ok, don't bother. • No, you're ok, don't bother.

I once made Matt Smith jump when he turned into an aisle that I was walking out of in Sainsbury's and almost bumped into him.

Captain Tom.

Glad to see the discourse is finally settling on the right opinion: David Foster Wallace was an incredible writer, Infinite Jest is brilliant, his writing of women and minorities was, um, not great at best and he acted appallingly to Mary Karr (and others). And you should never, ever wear a bandana.

The only time I've read a Pagliacci joke and been glad that I've done so. Now do that horrific plums poem next.

It's impossible to say why people so keen to vote for populist parties whose whole schtick is to tear down the established order. Absolutely impossible.

The fact one of the campaigners is called O'Looney makes me believe this must be some sort of elaborate Chris Morris project.

I'd love to know what public service Question Time is serving. I'm not sure laundering the reputation of cranks counts as one.

It's a shame the Louvre of BlueSky account has gone because this is a classic of the genre.

Is it about a BlueSkycycle?

RIP Catherine O'Hara and thanks for fooling a generation of kids to believe they could afford to buy this kind of house by the time they're 35.

To be fair, "a terrible beauty is born" sounds like some absolute wank a teenage boy would say to try and impress a girl.

Am I radicalised? I sure am. I'm radicalised by Slint, Fugazi and Minutemen documentaries and what films Jodie Foster would take from the Criterion Closet.

Would they get the tarantula as well?

Being paid to protest would be amazing. Where can I sign up?

*Yellow* dots.

Distracting myself from everything right now by reading about how Donna Tartt was basically the coolest person alive at university. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Andy Burnham is the personification of:

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

You'd have more respect for the increasing flood of face saving statements such as oul Dan's if they said "you know what? I should have listened to the warnings rather than dismissed them. I got it wrong" rather than "it doesn't matter going over who's right or wrong now...".

Can we finally say anyone who voted for him was a moron and we don't have to respect differences of political opinion?

Daniel Hannan will never be topped as the greatest argument against the UK being a meritocracy.

*wells up* I'd buy an OLED Steam Deck, get the bathroom done and pay a bit more off the mortgage.

I was hoping Labour getting into power would end the Mean Girlsification of politics. It turns out that it wouldn't happen.

Liz Truss to have Robert Jenrick as the next guest on her YouTube show please.

It's me, still in stage two about Google Reader 13 years on.

There's something really amusing about being charged for the privilege to read Daniel Hannan's latest piece of undergraduate debating society standard nonsense, this time on why we should, in fact, stay on CSAM generator X www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

I can't wait for the logical end point of this where there are virtually no Fergie-era players left and they have to appoint Bebe as manager.

Fallout: New Vegas BG3 Disco Elysium Breath of the Wild Dishonored Hades Mass Effect RE4 Oblivion Pentiment Inscryption Feels about right, albeit 50 votes for New Vegas please.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

It's Blue Prince, which I classed one of the best games I've ever played after five hours, and one of the stupidest some 40 hours later.