The wife is not happy that the BAFTAS have pre-empted Call The Midwife....

This is me.

At this point, it's not worth negotiating a trade deal with the US currently. Trump just rips them up whenever he feels like it, because he has all the impulse control of a toddler.

This week's review, amazingly the 41st review on the channel is Tales of Phantasia, the PlayStation edition that stayed in Japan. As the first in the long running Tales series, this 2D masterpiece on the PlayStation is a stunner, but does it have the gameplay, story and world making to go with it?

To all the people who are sad the Winter Olympics are over, I've got amazing news for you... The Winter Paralympics starts on 6th March!

Most people in our country are not Christian in identity, in beliefs, or in practices. Much of our heritage is influenced by Christianity, but pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post Christian influences are just as important. Christian heritage can simply never be the basis for a national identity.

We have a new video up today: the final, lost video from The Ghoulog channel where Ghoulash covers Beetlejuice The Animated Series and the Ghost with the Most's various other spin-offs! Click here to watch: youtu.be/I8YcERm5NNA

I forgot. I can't be bothered. I'll do it later. Are these the reasons Capcom didn't have these games converted? Who knows? Watch the video and still don't find out! youtu.be/tcakz7tvzyc

And a list of films that while not as genre defining are also incredible in their own right: Dawn Of The Dead Friday The 13th The Beyond Suspiria An American Werewolf In London Return Of The Living Dead Hellraiser Candyman

A list of vital, genre altering horror films people need to see: Night Of The Living Dead Last House On The Left The Hills Have Eyes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Martin Halloween The Evil Dead A Nightmare On Elm Street.

When I was doing my degree, back in the early 2000s, I wrote an 2000ish word essay on how contemporary Hollywood was being dominated by filmmakers who came up through the low budget exploitation ranks. Raimi & Jackson at the time, Gunn etc now.

I draw a direct line from Night Of The Living Dead, through The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, to The Evil Dead. There was a serious run of ferociously original and daring horror films made in that span of a dozen or so years that all stand out like beacons. Each brings something new to the /1

I also really liked being able to rank the entire series on the 50th anniversary of the original. Rewatching all of them, back to back, was an illuminating experience: www.vulture.com/article/texa...

After Reform, came Restore. After Restore comes.... Renovate Britain! (Seriously, that's what I'm expecting the next far right dumping ground for crap MPs/wannabe MPs to be called).

The final solution? 🔎 Holmes Investigates the case of Jack the Ripper! #ChristopherPlummer #JamesMason in MURDER BY DECREE (1979) 8pm with #DavidHemmings #SusanClark #AnthonyQuayle #JohnGielgud #FrankFinlay #DonaldSutherland drama #TPTVsubtitles

Picked this up today for £15. Complete, in box. Manual etc included. Very happy with it.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of VGDensetsu, I have put online an illustration gallery dedicated to the Mega Drive with over 400 box art for which I have identified the artist(s), as well as various illustrations. vgdensetsu.net/megadrivegal... 1/3

Just opened one of my retro storage boxes. CHRIST! Still, should fetch a couple of quid on ebay.

HANG UP YOUR FLAIL, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE THE THOUGHTS THAT WOULD STEAL OUR JOY. AND YOU WILL WIN.

40 years ago, Sinclair turned its back on microdrives and decided to go with proper disc drives for its 128. A decision that was sadly too little too late. Meanwhile Commodore managed to lose $50m over Xmas while ol' barrow boy Sugar was coining it in thanks to the Amstrad 8256.

I had to sketch that amazing photo from yesterday, to make sure I never forget it.

The most disastrous and shit computer magazine of all time. CPC Attack. Where a publisher buys a predominantly Amstrad technical magazine and decides what the readers want is console coverage and Tank Girl rip offs. It's worse than Amiga Action. It's THAT bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6X4...

Want to stop Nintendo from fleecing their fans by charging silly money for reissuing old games? There is a simple solution: Don't buy them. No, really. Don't buy them. Nintendo will keep doing what they do as long as people keep buying. So don't buy.

I bloody love the Master System version of this. Surprisingly accurate.

the video game industry is a mess

Labour lost three council seats last night. 1 each to the Greens, Lib dems and Plaid. Reform were 2nd or 3rd in each. The Greens also won and beat Reform in another local election. So when they say vote Labour to stop Reform, they couldn't be more wrong. Vote almost anyone but Labour to beat Reform.

Reform UK has another Russia problem. #Gorton & #Denton candidate Matt Goodwin has been shown to have been paid significant Russian oil money via Orbán’s Hungary. #GortonAndDentonByElection

Yet these people will vote for Reform despite the hideous actions of many of their "entourage".... Make it make sense.

This is the only Mario platformer I've ever successfully completed.

For anyone looking for something practical to do for Ramadan.

Although some might count Monday 21st February 1977 – and even, very wrongly, 26th February as 2000AD’s official “birthday”, it was out in the wild before that https://downthetubes.net/2000ad-49-years-and-counting/

This is completely wonderful & really leaves the UK look like bigoted dweebs scammed by billionaire meddling again

I Never Thought The Leopards Would Eat My Face, sobs woman who wrote innumerable opinion columns about how there were reasonable concerns about how regulations banning leopards eating people’s faces endangered women

A.I. generated games can fuck right off into the sea.

Oh cool, Arch Enemy are playing Manchester in August... It's at REBELLION?!?!?!?! What the actual Fuck? (Rebellion is a 450 capacity club. And that's including the bar area. It's fucking tiny). Don't think I'll be able to snag a ticket to that one. They will be gone in a flash.

The SU tape was magnificent (more so that the YS "Magnificent Seven" tape), simply for including the brilliance of TLL and Cyclone.

I spent a lot of time playing Earth Shaker and Dun Darach. Buggles, not so much... My brother put the hours in on Dynamite Dan II. We didn't get Crash, though.

I'm really looking forward to this. Issues 1 & 2 were excellent, so I don't doubt that this will be excellent also.

*Handsy Andy flipping through a history book, learning what happens to British Royals who get arrested* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh Wait, I'm not technically royal now... *Looks up what happened to the only guy to actually face consequences for the Epstein stuff* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

God, you can just imagine him thinking the arresting officer was a stripper.

HAHAHAHA!

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

This the unreleased DOS conversion of Team17's little Amiga classic overhead racer Overdrive. Developed by a small Italian team, compared to the official DOS conversion, it runs much smoother and features 4 opponents on the track, instead of 2. Download here: archive.org/details/Over...

"... where the young employee is paying the employer..." Not content with stealing everything through AI, the 'AI founder' wants to steal employee time and money, whilst profiting from their productivity. Fuckhead.

Gonna go berserk on the Vectrex 😜 #vectrex #retrogaming

U2 have released some new music.