This is what happens when you order Vladimir Putin from Etsy.

I second this (though I did play through it on PC)

Phenomenal deep cut. If you know, you know.

I feel seen...

"Tonight, Matthew, I'm gonna be playing Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles and enjoying it while wishing the Desktop Dungeon devs hadn't overegged that game with Claire's Accessories equivalent visuals and unnecessary gameplay features"

One other thing I'd like to see this year is a shift away from post release expectations of large scale content updates for free are an entitlement rather than exceptional.

Would do a "Games of 2025" list but it would just be the usual suspects (E33, BxP, etc) with the odd "look at me" title for clout. So I would like to shout out a couple of titles which are worth seeking out, they were early year titles and also Early Access.

A small proportion of my brain thinks the decision not to book tomorrow off has aged like milk on a radiator.

Been busy this Christmas #miniaturepainting

What's unforgivable about The Minecraft Movie is the fact that it's boring. Don't give me the "It's for kids" stuff, Toy Story is for kids, ET is for kids, Goonies is for kids, none of them assume they need to punch down to their audience.

Finally, a whole ass year late, I got round to watching Fallout. I hope, given its quality and critical acclaim, Liam Neeson and Peter Dinklage are suitably ashamed of their phoned-in performances in the games.

Ashes of the Imperium is a strong opener for The Scouring stories. The historical excerpts bridging each chapter remind me a lot of the talking head sections in The World At War. I'd be very much down to hear a World War Z style book that focuses on opinion pieces and eye witness stories.

One of my favourite cheering videos remains Limmy talking about discovering Future Islands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeyB...

I can't think of a year in recent memory where games have been stuffed with absolute classics. Take E33 out for a moment and you have Yotei, Absolum, Hades 2, Blue Prince, Ball x Pit, Promise Mascot Agency, Peak...

Don't sleep on Promise Mascot Agency, it's an absolute belter.

Angmering village square looking festive.

When did we settle back into being happy with trailers that show no gameplay footage? Teasers are fine, but TW:W40k aside, I saw nothing last week featuring gameplay. It used to be that beyond announcement there was an expectation you would see actual gameplay subsequently.

Enjoyable seeing Reform trying to set up a stall in Angmering village square and being told to fuck off this morning.

Awesome, GOTY 2026, no further notes.

Sky interviewing Liverpool fans outside the San Siro about the Salah drama. One of them wearing a an Inter Milan hat. Try as they might, their wool behaviour always rises to the surface.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year..."

And so it begins...(or at least it will once I finish the Dropsite Massacre book)

Fucking hell, that France group.

<Fleabag side eye to camera> store.steampowered.com/app/2321780/...

Most ads on twitch are ghastly, but the World Gold Council's "World Gold Hunters" Roblox game makes me want to vomit up my fucking soul.

No drink should be biscuit flavoured

Is there anything more Everton than getting a player red carded for picking a fight with someone on the same team as them.

I am absolutely in the thrall of Ball x Pit. I was 40+ hours into Yotei having just completed a major story element when I fired this up for the the first time. I've struggled to look at anything else since. It just breadcrumbs the player to unlock everything.

Imagine going to Australia on the adventure of a lifetime and thinking you're onto a sure thing for a day 3 ticket to a test match, only for both teams to play park cricket for the first two days.

*blobs superglue gel on arm joint, holds arm in place* <waits 10 seconds> *releases arm which immediately slides off as if I'd used water and not glue, arm lands on back of my hand glue side down and sets hard in milliseconds after contact*

Don't scrutinize too closely, after 6 months away, I'm more or less back to square one with painting. These are my Port Royal "finished" militia. Might brave given them eyes tonight and try to healthy up the skin tone of some of them given they're supposed to be in Jamaica.

Homeowners and Landlords - We need to have a conversation about halogen ceiling lights and why installing them makes you ONE OF THE WORST HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE.

I’m going to start a running thread to catalogue the examples of the Government refusing to use power to safeguard itself, and British democracy from the obvious right wing populist threat. Call it #WeimarStarmer 1/n

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

Master-Sniper Hlaine 'Mad' Larkin from Gaunt’s Ghosts. #nightscalestudio #GauntsGhosts #astramilitarum #imperialguard #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #miniaturepainting #paintingminiature #paintingcomission #tanithfirstandonly #tanith #WarhammerCommunity

Slowly picking up where I left off in February when I stopped painting to focus on the house move. I think I need some new brushes, but I'm also out of practice. Look at these surly European Militia over in Jamaica out to spoil an honest pirate's good day.

<does Fleabag side eye to camera> www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDc...

What I enjoy most about toothache is how it waits til the period of the day where I'm at my least active and trying to sleep to *really* flare up.

At last a movie monster day that doesn't rely on region specific date structure. Happy 71st...

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

Also, before I disappear into feudal Japan, we updated Warhammer admin simulator Boltgun: Words of Vengeance this week. If 6 levels of typing based violence is your thing, it's free on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3533730/...

The last game to make me actually gasp was Ghost of Tsushima and the way it introduced one of the stances was the coolest fucking thing I've seen in a game. Safe to say, I've been looking forward to starting this...

We're on the prowl for a senior audio designer. Job description here... www.aurochdigital.com/senior-audio...

I've been in the industry for 32 years and 4years at Auroch as of this October. So I did a thing for work, getting a bit misty eyed over days gone by and how the industry has transformed. Biggest challenge was cutting it from 7000 to less than 2000 words. www.aurochdigital.com/blog/2025/10...

It was actually Brookline and the behaviour or players and fans that had me tap out of the Ryder Cup. The fans there reflect the behaviour of their golfing leader - rude, aggressive, no shame.

Oh fuck off Everton, we need to build positivity around the club and he puts a shite team out and we get turned over by the side bottom of the league. Nice to see one of the things that never changes with Moyes is he never takes the fucking League Cup seriously.

Speaks volumes of the change to Everton, we'd have bitten your arm off for a point at home to Aston Villa last season. Now it feels like we should have wrapped it up in the first half.

As promised, 5 days after registering the complaint, the flags in the village square were removed by the council.

Certainly quite the week for crowdfunded tabletop game order fulfilment.