Scotland didn't deserve to win or even draw tonight against Morocco, but my WORD the refereeing was terrible. I don't think he liked McTominay one bit, he left so many fouls (including a penalty) unpunished. I get wanting to let some things go to keep the game flowing but it went too far.

I pulled Qatar in the World Cup sweepstake a week ago. Don't think I'll be winning anything come the end of the tournament 😅

6 episodes into One Piece. Having watched the live action series on Netflix, it's been very interesting seeing how they remixed the story to make a bit more sense in that format. I am enjoying watching the anime a lot though. Only 1160-ish episodes and 14 movies to go!

Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Season 3 got finished, so now I'm all caught up and ready for the final one. Now I'm going to do One Piece. I've been putting it off for long enough, so I'm going to go for it. By my guess it's going to take about a year to catch up. Be fun finding out!

England's second half needs to be England's every half if they're actually going to go on and win the World Cup. With a performance like that I can't see why they can't, but whilst Croatia are a very good team there are better ones no doubt waiting down the road.

Isn't it widely accepted that Einstein was possibly on the spectrum? He didn't turn out quite so badly, as I recall. But then this idiot possibly doesn't accept science as being a real thing so it probably doesn't count 🤷‍♂️

I'm usually not a fan of putting names and numbers on the back of football shirts I own, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not tempted to buy a Norway shirt and put my surname and year of birth on it. The Nordic rune inspired font is very nice.

Here's a first hand account of why using AI can actually make an easy-ish task harder by having to check everything it's doing: We decided to use it at work for a World Cup sweepstake. Decided pretty late that we were going to include everybody in it, thought it would be easy to do.

The jokes are writing themselves with this one, right?

The absolute joy of watching the World Cup is that, in the same day, you get an absolutely amazing game like Spain drawing with Cape Verde, and then you follow that up with the utter dross that Saudi v Uruguay has been in the first half. Second half has to be better, surely.

Finished Talos Principle II with a runtime of just under 35 hours. Tried not to use a guide unless I got REALLY stuck - which meant I used one for most of the star puzzles and golden gates lol. Got through about 95% of the game without one though. Looking forward to the third one now!

So what are you going to do with all this free time now SNS is done, Gav? Well, here's a funny thing: I think I have a story I want to write. It's swam around in my head for months, so I think I should flesh it out and see where it goes.

I've got an idea for the 2030 World Cup: FIFA should partner with Meta or somebody like that and let you watch FIFA World Cup games on a VR headset, using the referee cam. Could be a laugh. I'd watch one.

The scam is revealed: Months after announcing the Speed of Sound tour, NOW it looks like there's three tiers of concert. Advertised as having state of the art holographics, you won't get them in a "Standard" concert. You don't even get a "Crush 40" concert if it's an "Unplugged" one!

I....erm. I think my brain is broken.

Further to my post yesterday, I'm considering actually just shutting this, Mastodon and Threads down and just keeping IG and FB as my only profiles, and then being more active with people on Discord as well. No final decision yet, but I'm just tired of The Everything being...well, The Everything.

Think I'm going to take the evening away from social media. Wanting to be excited about something and then seeing loads of people ramming why you shouldn't be happy about anything isn't my idea of a fun night. Bye.

Decided today to try and offset some of the loneliness I feel when Mena falls asleep and I'm still awake by starting to actually interact in the Discord servers I'm in. Also up for joining a few more if there's cool places to chat, otherwise I'll just post here and see who responds XD

So, with all the SEGA news yesterday I picked a good week to stop doing SNS didn't I? 😅 Ah well, we can talk about it here!

K I'm back (was in the RS Discord). I'm happy that FFVII Part 3 has a title and a release date that doesn't seem too far away. The rest of the show that I wasn't reacting to in here was...fine I guess. The Sonic stuff was cool.

I've got The Summer Geoffs on. Yes, I KNOW I said I wouldn't watch it, but if there's going to be anything FF related it's going to be here isn't it? This is a hatewatch, and I have gin so I'll be alright.

Help me understand: Other than the new version of Escape from the City, the other 21 tracks are likely existing ones, so why - three weeks out from release - have SEGA chosen NOT to share the tracklist? NGL, kinda hoping Endless Possibilities is the 2025 version too. Won't be, but I can dream.

Saw the Pokémon Center UK website is selling the chonky Pikachu plush and snagged myself one before it inevitably sells out (some people said it already had but I managed to get one so 🤷‍♂️) I'll get a Jigglypuff (best Pokémon) eventually but Chonkachu is a very close second.

Mena has just thought up what could be the best movie ever. Groundhog Day/Happy Death Day, but with Jesus. He has one day to figure out how to save humanity before he is crucified and has to start all over again the next day. She called it Saviour.

"what was your biggest impact on the internet" Probably this: www.radiosega.net/media/?show=...

Realistically, I would like the State of Play to show off FFVII Part 3. Unrealistically, I still hold slim hopes that FFIX Remake is real lol. Either way, I hope Sony have realised the MP/GaaS bubble has burst and offer up some different experiences. They could do with the win.

Yesterday felt weird, being the first day post-SNS ending. It's still the right call for me, but I definitely felt like I've left something behind that's been a large part of my life. I have to admit at the same time that I'm finding it weird other people are feeling the same.

I wrote a few words about SNS now that the weekly run has ended: www.radiosega.net/shows/blog/s...

One more time for the last time. One final weekly SNS episode. Two hours away. See you soon.

So, who's going Sonic Live in Birmingham? I managed to snag two tickets, so bringing Mena along for the ride. Have a good time with some Sonic tunes then a night in NQ64 I reckon!

If Crépeau goes to the World Cup as Canada's number 1 goalkeeper, I have to honestly ask if they don't actually have any other goalies. He has been terrible all season, and shipping another 6 this evening. Bad, bad, bad goalkeeping. Defense constantly looks worried. It's painful to watch.

Hard-Fi. I liked their first two albums but had missed them opening for Green Day at Milton Keynes, so didn't know that, whilst the music still sounded good, the vocals were utterly atrocious live.

I'm seeing Mando & Grogu getting poor reviews because it has nothing of substance to say and it doesn't add to the series and I'm seriously thinking - does that matter? I'm sick of people thinking movies need to add to our intelligence. Why can't we have more movies where we can have fun?

Wind an Arsenal fan up today and congratulate them on the PL win, but also ask if they'd still done it if the standard of refereeing in the league this year wasn't shit.

Regarding Saturday Night SEGA: There won't be a show this weekend as I've got friends over, so hopefully we'll be able to do a show next week. It will, however, be the final episode. The uncertainty over getting a show out week by week is affecting my MH, so it's best to go out on a high.

Playing Talos Principle II and, if you thought I'd be better at critical thinking after playing through the first game you'd be absolutely WRONG. God knows how I'm going to get through the third one - though I have to get through this one first! 😅

I don't follow Eurovision because it's all just political dickwaving masquerading as a singing competition, but I was mildly interested this year as the UK entry was actually a local guy. 1 point. Sounds about right - song wasn't exactly the greatest. Next year, could we just not bother?

Devil May Cry 2. Good game, in truth, but not "pay full price at release" good. Far too short, and having the exact same game on two discs but different playable characters was just a waste of an extra disc.

This is so frustrating because, yeah, it was 3 points and at the moment that should be all that matters BUT it never needed a 90th minute winner. We were all over Philly from pretty much the first minute and should've been 3 or 4 up at half time at least. The defense NEEDS sorting. New GK, too.

Trying to find a logo pin from Star Wars Celebration 2016 is impossible. I've got one from 2023 & 2025 (with one ordered for 2027) and I want one from the first one I went to, as I didn't collect pins back then, and it's like there's NONE online. Except for one in the US, but they want £100, so no.

I played a lot of Morrowind, and I mean a LOT, and I'm really struggling with the realisation that one of the key selling points for Oblivion was "you can ride horses now".

When I'm done with it, I don't think I will be reviewing Zelda II favourably at all. What a mess of a game that is almost impossible to finish now without a walkthrough as it's just so obtuse with 0 sense of direction. It's a miracle Nintendo made another after this.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Triple H voice sample this track uses probably wasn't cleared officially lol - open.spotify.com/track/0axh5O...

I get the rebellion against Labour because Kier has done absolutely fuck all to change things for the better since being elected but...Reform? Really? The one silver lining to this is that this hasn't translated into massive council gains (only 2 from what I can see) but still.

I'm OK with Star Fox being a remake of Star Fox 64/Lylat Wars, as I haven't actually played that one at all. Might have to give Star Fox & Star Fox 2 a play at some point, though 😅

LA is booked! Now to wait until Star Wars Celebration tickets go on sale, which is tomorrow. Hopefully there's not a mad rush for tickets, though if we're not lucky enough to get some we're still going to have a fun week around Hollywood.

Episode IX should've been called The Rise of Palpatine. Assuming no other story rewrites, at first glance it seems it's about the return of the Emperor, but it's actually about Rey. The moral then becomes about how a name shouldn't automatically be judged. It's a redemption of lineage.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU #StarWars #Maythefourthbewithyou

I'm at work on my own in the lab today, so I've got Star Wars music on because there isn't anybody here to tell me not to 😂 And if anybody downstairs doesn't like it when they come in, well they'll just have to deal. Happy Star Wars Day people!

Spent some time playing Oblivion Remastered because I just could not get back into it when it shadowdropped and, yeah, I can start to feel the hooks again. It took me over 200hrs to finish it on 360. It might do the same this time around lol.