The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.

Watch The Disaster Artist instead.

Man, that demo that cut out shortly before the first RTS section was pure fucking bait and switch. Maybe even more so than Metal Gear Solid 2.

Listen pal, I was fine with invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands, but I draw the line at France!

Not true. Blackface can be funny.

But Silicon Valley is better than either of them.

What’s his website? That’s a millennial take, from before we merged the entire internet to live in two second soundbites on Twitter, Insta and Tiktok.

I know someone who is pretty good at chess but also thinks vaccines are fake, Musk is a genius, and Ukraine belongs to Russia.

So not all chess players are smart.

Fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they had to make a bunch of changes involving CGI hair because it turns out with modern picture quality you can see a quite a lot more of Daryl Hannah than they originally intended.

We DoN’t NeEd VaCcInEs We’Ve GoT aSbEsToS!

Fake Fediverse is fake.

Fuck Turkey and fuck however they want it spelt.

Make posts there that are either critical of China, Russia (or even Iran) or positive about “the west” and you’ll find out.

It’ll simply be deleted.

They pretend to be a general purpose instance, but they’re not. It’s a tankie haven.

“Delete all IP law” say people who have never created anything of any value to humanity.

Man who runs second biggest Nazi bar reliant on Nazi money. More at 11.

No he meant it had a butch woman he didn’t fancy.

Outer Wilds.

I think where social media is particularly insidious is the use of algorithms.

No normal person wakes up and thinks “I think we should bring back the Nazis”, but like a post on Facebook about Remembrance Sunday or patriotism or even just catapults, and suddenly you’re on a fast track to white supremacist groups.

I’ve seen people go from chewing out a stranger in the supermarket for whining about foreigners, to spreading made up rumours about immigrants killing white girls.

In the past you’d hear about hate groups when they’re marching through London in Union Jack T-shirts, smashing curry shop windows. Social media lets people in on the bottom rung and ride it to that point.

I think it’s only Nintendo published games that basically never go on sale.

Rabbids is unusual because it’s got Mario in but it’s not by Nintendo.

Their whole policy on never having a sale makes me not want a Switch 2 at all.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was well received.

Their “AAAA” output is pure slop, but the smaller games can be OK.

That’s one of the many reasons why I never bought it.