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Today’s four World Cup games

My suggestions on how to improve the World Cup: 1) The Hydration Breaks need to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine. 2) Whenever the Hydration Breaks aren’t on screen, all the players and officials should be asking, “Where’s the Hydration Break?”

When they announced the end of Destiny 2 development, I made a silly purchase. It arrived in the mail just in time for the final patch.

The Man with the Platinum Trophy.

You ever have a meal so spicy it activates your fight-or-flight response?

I want to like Mina the Hollower, I really to. But throwback or no, the controls are nowhere near as responsive as the game’s combat or platforming demands.

Crossy Road E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is gonna sweep the mobile charts

‘Appreciate the friction in games’ is being overused by podcasters and critics to the point of becoming a cliché. It’s also just a lesser, meeker version of ‘Git good scrub’.

Putting this on repeat youtube.com/watch?v=163_...

Eurovision last night was a decent one. Bulgaria saved us from disaster, and Delta blew us all away with a helluva live performance. Some of my other personal favourites didn’t end up doing as well, but that’s Eurovision for you.

Mixtape (2026)

We got negative gearing changes before GTA 6

And that’s the true ending of Saros done. Game’s good, though I prefer Returnal for many reasons.

I am entering my Vinyl Pervert era.

Katseye good

It may be called the Sound Burger, but the only thing that will be gobbled up is my wallet to feed it vinyls.

I just put down an order on the Ayn Thor (…Ayn Rand-held?). I took a look at the subreddit to see what the community is like; this is the first post I saw.

I’m playing Saros right after playing Pragmata. I keep pressing R1 to dash, because that’s the dash button in Pragmata, and instead do an ineffectual melee attack instead. Whoops.

Another 7-win draft. Moment of Reckoning was basically an 'I Win' card whenever it resolved.

I swear this Vampire Crawlers run didn't last 90 minutes. Then again, it is the type of game that is dangerously capable of making time disappear.

First draft with the new Magic set, first 7-win run with the new Magic set.

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then American Psycho is an Easter movie.

I got hit with the system-level age check. At least it doesn’t send any vital information to the apps, only that I am over 18 years of age. It’s definitely preferable to sending my selfie/lewds to Peter Thiel.

Apparently at least 80,000 people were in line to get presale tickets for the NFL Melbourne game. It truly is The Eras Tour for day drinkers.

That was a solid race, even if it wasn’t as battle-filled as the last two. Even if the safety car scuppered Piastri’s chance of winning, it was still good to see him do well. Or, as he put it:

My shiny chunky boy

I've finally unlocked the sweat zone in Marathon. I look forward to losing all my gear in seconds.

I can get cheaper petrol by going through a parking lot with a fuel siphon and a breath mint — and that would be the more dignified option.

It’s baffling and hilarious that Amazon offers tours of their warehouses. I wonder if there’s a VIP package where you get to pee in a bottle mid-shift (bottle not included).

It’s hard to be mad at either the Matildas or Nadeshiko Japan in that game. Both gave it their all without any dirty tactics. The soccer gods didn’t favour any of our chances and the sole Japanese goal was world-class. GGs. Let’s met again in the 2027 Women’s World Cup.

Anyone mutuals still playing Marathon? Playing with randos is stating to lose its lustre.

🎵 Sing along with the common people, sing along and it might just get you through 🎵

I was on a walk. A car pulled up next to me and yelled something at me. Taking my earphones out, he yelled again, "You shoelace is untied." I looked down, my shoelaces were still tied. I looked back up and he was driving off, cackling. I almost admire the quaintness of the bit?

After all the doom and gloom of the new car regulations going into today's Grand Prix, we ended up getting laps of thrilling battles and overtakes. We probably would've gotten even more if Ferrari didn't blunder its strategy. It almost lifted my mood after the Piastri DNS. Almost.

Finished Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but it’s a pretty good game.

The Olympics figure skating gala briefly turned into Fortnite.

We’re all keen to play Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen on a 2010s handheld device, right?

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t compete in Olympic cross-country skiing

Cooper Woods has won Australia’s first gold medal at this Winter Olympics! Time to blare this on loop youtube.com/watch?v=M5jw...

The ski jumper that gets fourth place:

For the last summer Olympics, every event was streamed for free on 9Now. For the upcoming winter Olympics, almost everything is locked behind the Stan paywall. This stinks.

This article from The Guardian has me really pissed off. It’s basically ‘What, you haven’t been paying extra on your mortgage? What are you — some sort of Poor?!’

It’s curious listening to my podcast feed discussing Highguard. It’s as if they’re trying to counter the outrage YouTubers by trying (very hard, mind you) to find the qualities of that game. The ragebaiters are bad, and Highguard is a messy experience that I didn’t find fun. It can be two things.

Say what you will about Highguard, but people dogpiling on it because it isn't Half-Life 3 is incredibly dumb.

Triple J will try to champion the fact that 54 tracks from this year’s Hottest 100 come from Australian artists, but will ignore the fact that 47 of those came from Spacey Lame and Ocean Agony.

Boy howdy, this really is just a shameless ripoff of LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends, isn’t it? Just without any soul, substance, payoff or talent.

Ah the Hottest 100, that time of year where I yell at the radio about the yoof music in order to distract myself from my own irrelevance and mortality. Having said that, <insert band with whiny vocals here> sucks.

The greatest lines in cinema: - “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” - “Here’s looking at you, kid.” - “We need to build the car for combat.”