The difference between Japanese and UK/US marketing covers continues to amuse me, the one I always think of is when SNK's Athena got converted to home computers in the UK and we went from a cute warrior girl to an amazon based on bodybuilder Lisa Lyon.

Zaccaria Pinball on Steam just had a massive update, with an updated UI, new graphics options including ray tracing and yet another deluxe table added. I need to update my DLc since I think I'm missing about six of those that they've been releasing regularly. store.steampowered.com/app/444930/Z...

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

35 hours in and defeated first major boss in Borderlands 4, L32, still having a blast. Was worried for a character but they survived. (Yes, I still haven't forgiven them for that moment in BL3) I guessed at the identity of a character but was pleasantly wrong.

Why yes, I am still absolutely butthurt that this Atari arcade stick was a Microcentre and US exclusive, I dream of having an arcade stick with both a spinner and a trackball and all the other options I've seen are either mahoosively expensive, mahoosively big or just do one or the other.

It be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Quote with a gif you can hear.

The greatest cinematic mystery to me is exactly what was Little Enos about to say about the Bandit's mother in Smokey & The Bandit?

Everyone is correct, is one option working for you, good, use that, boloocks to anyone saying you're wrong and bollocks to sites trying to clickbait and start arguments.

Grabbed Puzzle Quest:Immortal Edition as I'm a massive fan of the game. this version includes all the DLC that never came to the original PC version, plus updated visuals and proper widescreen support. Only £11.99 and has a 20% discount for first two weeks. store.steampowered.com/app/3236710/...

Only a bit of Borderlands 4 today, since throat infection is laying me out. Watched the Krull 4K, great stuff and as with a lof of 4Ks, a massive step up from the old DVD release, although that does have the Marvel comic adaptation synced to the movie audio as an extra, so that's going nowhere.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

The Black Flag rumour reminds me that I've still to finish the original version along with Syndicatw, Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla before even thinking about starting a new one. (Also why my next big game will either be RE9 or the new Lego Batman, got so much still to play)

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

And I just had Borderlands 4 crash my PS5 to the extent I had to power it off at the mains, I look forward to the usual passive aggressive "The PS5 was not powered off properly' complaints when I turn it back on.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. As a kid I loved this movie, I still love it, be it for the battle cruiser made from the insides of an old TV or the bit with the space torpedoes and the windows that caused a laughing fit first time I saw it as an adult.

Free character skin, Echo skin and Legendary shield that is your level in Borderlands 4 :)

First two arrivals of the month thanks to a friend, Krull 4K steelbook and blu ray of The House That Dripped Blood.

Found and completed my first vault in Borderlands 4, took a few attempts due to me being a bit rubbish at at grappling, but managed it, Just hit L24 and having a grand old timethen headed off to have a wee look at the newly opened other areas.

Got to talk to a random cat today while putting recycling out, so today is a win.

Will be continuing my Halloween night tradition of two John Carpenter movies, this time with the 4Ks of Halloween and The Fog. LAst year I got to see HAlloween in 4K at the local cinema on Halloween which was lovely, it's The Fog's 45th anniversary, would be really nice if we got that this year.

Just heard a random Ripper shout "We're just normal men!" mid-battle in Borderlands 4. 😁

Even just random bounty board bounties are a lot of fun in Borderlands 4.

Everytime I see Destiny 2 advertised on my feed I have to resist the temptation to reply with "Have they put back all the content I paid for that they arbitrarily removed yet? If not, then they can get themselves tae absolute fuck."

i've let out one big belly laugh at Borderlands 4, it's the cutscene right after you finish the prologue and it's mostly down to the sound effect. :)

So, my only actual criticisms of Borderlands 4 - The sorting/filters resetting every time you exit the menu, having to sort by level/whatever every single time I go to the inventory is tedious and bloody annoying. HAd some performance issues when farming a boss using a Moxxi machine...

Ok, got Harlowe to level 10, about to give Vex a go as I honestly couldn't decide between them before launch and want to at least give everybody a couple hours playtime before deciding who to carry on with.

Couple of hours into Borderlands 4 and really enjoying it, still not quite used to the opennworldness and new UI, but gunplay and combat feels great, like the more serious tone, have laughed out at least once, just got my jetbike.

I swear the only reason I want 2010 in kK isn't just to look at all those lovely buttons, screens, switches and consoles on the bridge of the Leonov, honest guv'nor.

Why do I have a sudden urge to shout "It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, IT'S TRICKYYYYYYY! TRICKY! TRICKY!! TRICKY!!! TRICKY!!!! ?

Hell yeah I would. ANd kind of related, if anyone reading has never played the Scooby Doo game on the Megadrive/Genesis, go have a look, it's a lovely wee point'n'click adventure I don't see being talked about enough.

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

Kyun-chan, a shy Japanese pika disguised as a deer, is the tourism mascot for Hokkaido.

Already own it on PS5 but couldn't resist picking up The Ascent for a couple of quid on Steam, no trouble running it at ultra settings at 1080p at 60fps.

As usual, fuck Nintendo for patenting mechanics they blatantly didn't originate (Chaos on the ZX Spectrum from 1985 would like to have a word) and fuck the patent people for granting the patent.

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

I feel personally attacked. 😁🤣🤪

Let's go! This is in my top three Vampire Survivor style games, alongside Holocure and with Vampire Survivors of course, on top. Love the asthetic and still got plenty to unlock after 22 hours of play.

Tsurugon, the happy green dragon mascot of Tsurugashima City, takes it easy.

What's that, uploading gifs just works now? 😁

The evolution of the good ship Trigger's Broom over the past two weeks in No Man's Sky. 😁

Regarding some recent nonsense, stop thinking the history of videogames is just the USA, the amount of absolute bollocks being talked by people who forget Europe also existed from the 70s to the 90s is getting to the point I may have to bring out the cricket bat with the breezeblock nailed to it.

Beautiful retro video game #shmup art by Daniel Vendrell Oduber. Pictured: Gaiares, Phelios, Aleste and Arrow Flash. See the DeviantArt "Vendrell" profile for more paintings.

Movies I would love to get a lovingly restored 4K release? The Black Hole Blue Thunder 2010 Assault On Precinct 13 BIg Trouble In Little China Movies available elsewhere I would love a standard UK 4K release of? The Keep Halloween III:Season Of The Witch Battle Beyond The Stars Rollerball

I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear

OK, maybe two people. 🤣

You someone's going to pick this up just to play Darius on without needing a microscope to see what's going on.

And another absolute childhood favourite of mine ordered on 4K, along with it's cool and interesting sequel. Still have my 20th anniversary DVD for Tron and the blu ray two pack. Bollocks to £10 extra for the steelbooks and I prefer the regular covers anyway. 🤪

Looking forward to this, Thunserbirds is a show I grew up with m thanks to repeats and some home video releases and it's been lovingly restored for an anniversary blu ray set and two of the best wpisodes have been restored in 4k and being shown in cinamas. youtu.be/LptEoJFxDhg?...

Today also marked the day I have matched how much I played Borderlands 3 on PS5 with how much I played on PS4, 128 hours each 😁