What has PIP got to do with unemployment (it's an in-work benefit)? How is it notable that most PIP claims in young people are for very common, lifelong, impactful disabilities (rather than ones that predominate in older people). Just embarrassing.

There's a voice that keeps on calling me Down the road, that's where I'll always be Every stop I take, I make a new friend Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on

There is a special place in hell reserved for those TikTok accounts that upload Reddit stories but don’t include the full thing. Not even breaking it into two videos but just cutting the end off completely. I have no idea why they even do this when it would be easier to include the end of the story.

Rewatching the Simpsons and I'm currently on the episode that features my favourite one-off character.

Looking forward to the inevitable fan edit that cuts The Mandaloian and Grogu down to the tight ninety minute streaming special that it should have been.

It’s true that high end gaming and general computing is becoming more and more inaccessible but entry level is more accessible than ever. I picked up a 2019 Ryzen thinkpad with 16gb of RAM for just over a hundred quid that can access a thriving ecosystem of indie games.

Just had to raw dog an open book exam because I couldn’t access my electronic notes. It was fine though because I did the mock like ten times so I was able to knock out a three hour test in thirty minutes.

Doing some last minute exam preparation.

I love the GameFAQs forums I hope they never get removed

I was expecting a hundred dollar increase but this is almost a third more expensive. There is no way that the Steam machine is coming in at anything less than a grand.

Scored one hundred percent on my mock maths exam and completed my notes to take in with me, we’re allowed access to digital notes so I copied in an ASCII table and a full list of prime numbers under one thousand for good measure.

Found this cat on TikTok that looks like it’s trying to figure out if it left the stove on.

Eternally relevant:

dont like when jobs OR scholarships require a "video application" or "video interview". surely this is just a method for getting around rules where you cant ask people about their age or a variety of physical characteristics

zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

Burning my special playlist I made for you but on a Sony PlayStation Master Disc

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

Rewatching the first animated Mario Bros film and I'm reminded of the fact that they threw out large portions of an orchestral score that had already been recorded to cram in as many obnoxious needle drops as they could possibly manage.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 4K Collector’s Edition (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital) up for preorder at Lionsgate ($59.99) buff.ly/RWkwrpW VHS – BE KIND, REWIND EDITION $39.99 buff.ly/3Ty1VnH

It’s that time of the year again.

New game theory:

I need everyone to remember, all the time, that the Nuzlocke challenge is called this because the author of the original comics started naming his pokemon after Lost characters and Seedot was John Locke He looked like this

Rise of The Machines

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

Mike Oldfield released his debut album “Tubular Bells” on this day in 1973. Oldfield was only 19 years of age when he recorded this, playing almost all the instruments. Thoughts? #MikeOldfield

Suzanne Vega was called Suzanne Balrog in Japan.

The Andor Cut of Rogue One, edited by David Kaylor, just dropped. It adjusts colouring, editing, music, SFX, dialogue etc to bring Rogue One more in line with the style and story of Andor. Follow the link here to download or stream it linktr.ee/davidkaylor

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Thinking about Gniesbert again

I've been replaying New Super Mario Bros and this is as true as ever.

Any time you see a shot like this with an ostensibly small item in the foreground of the shot in focus along with the background it's actually an oversized replica, in this example the diary was twenty feet across and the train was a 1/24 scale model.

A lot of people questioning why a simple game like Rocket League is being used to test out a new version of Unreal Engine but it makes a lot of sense to take a game with limited scope that can be rebuilt from the ground up relatively quickly.

i think with UE5, epic put down a lot of bets that gaming hardware would get faster+cheaper quickly enough that it'd be feasible to shift a lot of Work from dev time to runtime which is rad from a workflow perspective but then that didn't happen

all hail the only good thing britain has ever given to the world

digging through mobygames when you can't sleep is fun. you'll find all kinds of games you didn't know existed, like SONIC CRICKET

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

thoughts & prayers for the rocket league team who are transitioning from UE3 to UE6 in one fell swoop, that is a hell of a jump (but yes the cars do look pretty) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d7...

As someone who grew up during section 28, it cannot be overstated how much it cannot be allowed to return in any form.

few tweets have so perfectly encapsulated up the attitude of british politico/journalist contempt towards normal people as this

As bad as this is, it's very important to state that this is not a ban in any meaningful sense because the EHRC does not have the authority to impose nor enforce one. Hate groups want trans people to think it's illegal for them to exist in public and framing it as such is exactly what they want.

put the lime in the FUCKING coconut and nobody gets hurt

Scored ninety percent on my first attempt on the mock for my final maths exam. The real test will be getting out of bed to be there for nine in the morning.

Setting up Windows 98

Nora Catty is discovering the outside world

All this shit is happening because Ford didn't punish Nixon, Clinton didn't punish Bush/Reagan, Obama didn't punish Dubya, and Biden didn't punish Trump. And each time it just gets harder.