No, James. Weirdly, I won’t knock £80 off when you buy two items that are listed at £90 each. My customer service is the ACTUAL best. But these people who think they’re on Bargain Hunt can fuck all the way off back to the boot sales now. Had enough.

OCH AYE

“Listen Barbara, I’ll be at my sister’s until you can get your shit together. Please don’t forget to water the plants.”

Sat down to give FM26 a go at about 11am. It's 6:30pm and I've done nothing since. Uninstalled. I can't do this again. Especially given how buggy it is. Here's my Swedish 2nd Division team for some reason winning a trophy after the first game of the season. In silence, because audio just...stops.

Decided to see how bad it could be. Boots with no audio. Every selectable haircut seems to be a skin fade. Not that it matters, because I couldn't see my manager's head when choosing his hair anyway since the camera was zoomed all the way in on his ballsack the entire time.

I can’t even. All copies are the same grade and price, but lucky me, I got the one with writing on the disc, an ink-stamped manual, and the wrong case. In the same envelope as a copy of Black on PS2 with no manual.

Imagine if you met someone irl who kept talking like people do on here, throwing under the bus, kept the receipts, lives rent-free etc, you'd quite rightly punch them in the face

Had some credit left. Bought PSMove, PSMove gun attachments, a PS3 camera, Time Crisis, and HOTD Overkill. They will likely all arrive on fire or covered in cigarette burns or human excrement. But then I will be free from CEX and will never do this again.

I can’t even see the logo without getting flashbacks. I only worked there for three years and the weekend dads, rich kids, and the deaf shoplifting gang made me hate society. Doing one to three hours unpaid mandatory overtime per day didn’t help, either.

In fairness, the BR player from CEX turned up and still had the Currys security tag intact so…that’s a win. I mean, not for Currys, who have clearly been robbed. But…y’know.

CEX Roulette continues. Still more to come (including the BR player that was apparently shipped Saturday.) Beat Down: No manual, scratched. £90 of SC5 Part 2: Scratched. Gitaroo Man: Scratched. BRs look like somebody has been dragging their sweaty nutsack across them.

Hard to photograph, but DAMN, CEX. Every single game disc is in this condition. I can get them cleaned up, but not everyone has a few grand’s worth of disc repair equipment in their house. YOU DO IN YOUR STORES, THOUGH. Lazy, cheap bastards.

HOVERBOARDS WERE FAKE NEWS EVERYBODY

Tin Tin Out - Strings for Yasmin just span in on shuffle. Always linked to what is probably the best football advert of all time, despite the poor pacing. youtu.be/XCZRjHY3HYI?...

Turns out there was a second CEX delivery. Two PS2 games are missing manuals. Two have discs that I would consider borderline unsaveable due to the scratch depth. PotC boxed set looks to have been kicked up and down the stairs. I’ll admit this may have been a poor idea.

I can't even.

CEX Roulette continues. PS2 discs all need resurfacing. Couple of the BRs could do with it too. Beetle Racing box is clinging on for dear life. Good job I’ve got a disc resurfacer. Weird I need to use it given that all their stores do, too.

CEX Roulette continues. The most expensive game I went for. It wasn’t described as ‘mint’ and it did have a protective case. Not amazing, but it’ll play.

The CEX haul begins. Seventeen packages still en route. Nice 4TB upgrade for the Ally, an awesome steelbook of one of the top three movies of all time, and the world’s most sun faded copy of OutRun 2019. 66% hit rate.

I need to stop watching the random UK videogame collector videos that YouTube keeps recommending to me. It makes me too angry.

Proper slick mix up from Iksi today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOL...

Your MoUnT RuShMoRe of game consoles/handhelds.

It's a Dreamcast. A bog-standard PAL Dreamcast that was £150 because the box somehow doubles the price. Saved you 27 minutes.

My father has an extremely thick West Country accent, takes four hours to tell a story, and has just discovered videos of Jethro doing standup on YouTube. It’s not good.

Parents, acceptable children's ages are: <x> weeks up to 3 months. <x> months up to 1 year. Then you're onto years. I might allow "one and a half." After that, you can cut the nonsense. Ain't nobody sane out here telling the world they've got a goddamned 23-month-old son.

Heysus Cristo

So I got the EA Play Pro thing on PC and started a new FC account just to see. Game still a bit mid but is a 1000% better than on PS5. Self-imposed rules are: F2P, can only play using JPN/KOR players, Can only buy with coins if I can instantly evo the player. SHUTA MACHINO up front on name alone.

Turns out you can only order 30 items at a time from CEX.

Well, that's the Xbox Series X, PS5, Switch OLED, Switch 2, plus various pro controllers dropped off at CEX. The old "here's a receipt, we'll test it all and email you the voucher" thing always fills me with dread. But hey...now to start filling my online cart with things I don't need.

Mmmmm. Sweet, plasticky, uncomfortable, underdeveloped corruption.

All going (not to CEX) and all sort of alphabetised. *brain purr*

Chopping in my PS5 Digital and Series X to CEX tomorrow, amongst other things. Cannot be dealing with the hassle of selling a PAL console. Kinda considering picking up a BR player for some reason.

Didn't get my hands on Wreckreation until this morning but it makes a great first impression. They definitely want you to know that it's pretty much a Burnout game. Similar menus and UI to Paradise. Driving feels solid so far, need to put in some more time, though.

Powerwash Simulator 2. Xbox Ally. Hot chocolate. The Studio on TV. Awww fuckin yeeeee.

Why is it that when you ask someone "Oh, do you speak <insert second language here>?" they always respond with three paragraphs in that second language as if you're going to even remotely understand it? Just say "yes, I do." I didn't ask you to roll over and show me your gotdamned nutsack.

I put a sweater on and there's a fluffy blanket on the sofa and if that's not enough, I turn the heating on. I know, I know. It's like rocket science but somehow only as difficult as you want to make it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Putting an AV mod into the NES toploader. Doing a real tidy job. Only burnt myself once. Everything going well. Just need to solder the wires to the mod board. Well, of course the board has been delivered with a capacitor and pads ripped clean off. Why would any mod I do just go right first time?

Blows my mind how people seem to just be realising that Microsoft/Xbox is a company and literally anything "nice" they've ever done was for PR reasons, a tax break, or to lubricate people's wallets. When they find out that Sony, Nintendo, and every game publisher is the same way then...hoooooo boy.

Watched TRON: Ares. Is it a classic? No. Is it a perfectly serviceable movie that was entertaining for a couple hours? Yes. Job done and TRON: Legacy still exists.

Off to see Troooooooooon

Lads, I’m fucked. There was news about Halo and I don’t have a single physical Halo item to take off my shelf and photograph for social media to prove that I’m the most herdcorn gamurz. Genuinely distraught.

Halo is coming to PlayStation, huh? There are gamers who will be getting upset and having a bad day JUST because of that news. Think about that whenever you feel like you’re not doing so great.

I would be remiss if I didn't say....UP THE CITEEEEEEHHHHHHYAH www.youtube.com/watch?v=19QV...

Top tip: If you walk around with Meta glasses on, everybody already just…knows about you. Doesn’t matter if they’re by Ray-Ban, Gucci, or bloody Hi-Tec. Doesn’t matter if the little LED is flashing. People still know that you’ve probably got an Amazon subscription order for Werther’s Originals.

I’ve tried everything, doctor. It just won’t go back down.

Going to try to get an Xbox 360 emulator working on the Ally for...reasons.

Blown away by FC26 on PC compared to PS5. Ultrawide. Solid framerate. Full-speed cutscenes/replays. Controller response is miles better. No menu lag. To the point that went for a year of EA Play Pro. Yeah, I'll take the £90 version of FC26 plus Madden, F125, BF6 and PEGGLE for £110. Churz 'en.

YouTube recommended a video of somebody playing the Football Manager 26 alpha. Watched it. Swore I'd avoid it because of...like...what happens. Logged into the Xbox app. Football Manager 26 is coming to Game Pass on day one. Oh no.

Wreckreation is supposedly out next week. Really curious to see how that one turns out. The trailers definitely have a certain Burnout-meets-Trackmania vibe that make it look very much like my kind of thing.