Having to watch the bulk of Jean Rollin's The Night of the Hunted at 1pm on a Sunday afternoon because I keep trying to watch it at night when everyone else has gone to bed and falling asleep after about 5 minutes. Well I guess this is growing up.

Reposting this feels a bit like grandstanding but here we are again.

There's a lassie on Virgin Island who's conventionally attractive and is there for religious/medical reasons, and I've seen her described as "smurfing in low elo" and I can't share how funny that is with anyone I actually know.

IT WAS RELEASED 15 YEARS AGO, MATE

Is PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu still part of the broader cultural diet?

There's a recurring musical motif in the 1993 erotic thriller Snapdragon, featuring Pamela Anderson, that uses the same notes as the end of the verses to Fall On Me by REM. You don't get that kind of insight in snarky Letterboxd reviews.

I've probably given more money to Charles Cecil over my lifetime than any member of my own family.

Only for one stage, mind. He might be some sort of psychic paedophile? Hard to tell but I enjoyed it. It's a decently good game, I'm telling you.

No-one told me so it was a fun surprise but there's no chance you're thinking of playing High On Life 2 so I'll just ruin it for you now: Joe Pera is in it.

Easy Delivery Co. on Game Pass worth a couple of hours of your bank holiday weekend. A Short Hike meets Euro Truck Simulator. Seen some folk mention an undercurrent of Silent Hill but not for me, Clive. Could have stood to do with more game to it but it's enough to keep away the real world.

Had the "how the fuck is it 2am?!" jump scare.

Delighted that this was actually recognised by the game as a relevant plot point. Both the Paranormasight games are subtly so clever.

Going to do a live talks over of the fake live stream of that lad who killed his girlfriend. (Actually wild that you can just go and watch it on YouTube right now but I suppose it itself is not a crime. Fascinatingly grim)

Didn't happen after the Manchester synagogue attack during Yom Kippur. Or after the Bondi Beach shooting during Hanukkah. Or today after the most obvious display of antisemitism on a simple Monday. But I still hold out hope that I will eventually see some support for the Jewish community On Here.

Found you in Pokopia.

Becoming the world's first and only Tilly Norwood stan.

Played the Steam demo of Shutter Story and really liked it: store.steampowered.com/app/3798860/... Didn't shit me up but gave me the willies. Something quite chilling about being tasked with looking at photos and purposefully *trying* to see horrible things.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Getting so pissed off at Drilbur saying his habitat isn't dark enough when it's basically a cave. Nearly 40.

Thought of this and had to get it out of my system. Sorry, thanks.

We've not had curtains in the living room for a week due to alterations and I've struggled to do my pre-bed wind down gaming as drunk students have been heckling me out the window for my errant deductions in Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments.

Idly wondered whether Róisín Murphy was still dabbling in the old transphobia, since she's dropped off the cultural purview. Seems she's stopped dabbling and has Scrooge McDucked into a big shining sea of the stuff. Like one of those ASMR mums who got big into "adrenachrome".

To counterbalance two gripes: I thought Relooted (store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...) was a multiplayer heist game so ignored it but it's actually a single-player heist game and does cool stuff with settings and characters and it's mainly been missed by everyone except racists so give it a go.

Another minor irritation with the world: starting watching Down Cemetery Road and while I understand shows constantly spoil the next episode or series because you won't put your phone down, this OPENS with "here's what's about to happen in the show you've just started". Ridiculous carry on.

Been spoiled on a character reveal in Resident Evil Requiem by the Steam trading card I just got. You can't just enjoy things in peace anymore.

Shout out anyone else who spent the first hour of the new Paranormasight completely maxing out their diving stats before doing anything else.

Fancied playing Avowed but, alas, I have Gamer Brain so have started Pillars of Eternity instead - for fear that I'll not get a reference I probably won't notice unless pointed out to me. Having a great time with it, at least. Not played a proper nerd CRPG for a while because I'm a grown-up.

WiZmans World Re; Try released today and has provided you with the disparaging reaction image you've been looking for.

Listened to the live album while doing the washing up. Great stuff overall. Kylie did add "In My Arms" for the South America leg and I found out she did "Turn It Into Love(!)" once in Japan (not on this release). I don't think I'd bother turning up to life after getting that.

Realise I might get cancelled for this but I've had enough of trying to be right-on and respect prevailing opinion: I like the tasks in The Traitors.

My slight issue with TR-49 is that, due to professional interest, I keep thinking it's called IR-35.

People (men) retelling their multiplayer game adventures is like listening to someone describe a dream. Not in it, wasn't there, don't care.

Sorry to say but I've given in and just refer to all film discs as "DVDs" in the house now. Not worth getting into the format wars or explaining the benefit of a dual-layer blu-ray.

As a former musician, I don't believe bands *should* get paid as it directly affects and contradicts the purity of artistic expression, so this Spotify story is actually good. TONE: half serious (whatever happened to selling out?)

Been watching the 4K boxset of Seinfeld this year (yes, yes, somebody's earning). Besides it still being the funniest sitcom ever made, it's just superbly shot. Not to say people don't care about their craft these days but I think technology means people don't need to care as much. (AI bad, etc.)

Maybe of interest to one other person but David Renwick can't get any money for Jonathan Creek so he's written an episode as a play, but he also can't get money for that, so now it's a book on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/idi...

In the festive spirit so have been playing Carrion again on Game Pass before it disappears at the end of the month. Second time around and I think it's so meticulously designed. A search action-ish game with no map and yet it doesn't get confusing. It's been 5 years but nothing from the developer?

Been playing Resident Evil 4 with the HD Project mod and I fear we've stopped asking "is this as good as Resident Evil 4?" when it comes to appraising the quality of games.

I'll have what he's having (life imprisonment with no parole)

You could have made just one of Rob Reiner's films and you'd have been been satisfied that you meaningfully added to the cultural history of the human experience. Unreal output. Sad stuff.

Samus reaches for the teleporter keys like Charlie Simpson chasing after his teacher in the fields in the video for What I Go To School For by Busted. Timestamp is 2:25 if you simply don't believe me.

Good performance piece would be to stream Metroid Prime 4 and constantly misread psychic as "physic".

I've got to hold my hands up and admit that 10cc were class. What if the Beach Boys were recording Pet Sounds but Brian had just bought a Big Cheese fuzz pedal and wouldn't stop saying "maybe here I could rip a solo" and Mike Love kept singing in a succession of silly voices? 10cc (self-titled)

It still freaks my nut out to this day that "Sing Sing" is the name of an actual prison and not just the way '50s mobsters and wise-guys talk about jail.

Contacting everyone who's posted about the Pope's four favourite films and asking if they want to appear on the new series of Mock The Week.

Fuck it. We're stepping into Christmas TODAY.

Always funny when an article about a left-leaning politician says they plan to actually improve people's lives and then there's immediately a line about how "party moderates" aren't sure about that.

Anyone know the number for Have I Got News For You?