Rob

My immediate reaction to Metroid Prime 4 is that it's not a Prime game. Why? Well, there's more than a couple of factors

Absolutely has its advantages still; and serves as a frequent reminder that streaming services often limit access to, or simply don't have, additional content that physical media does -just as an example, Aliens and Alien 3 Directors Cuts, which my Quadrilogy DVD boxset has, but Disney+ doesn't.

It really has.

Store mine in the garage now - did clear out some when we moved, but a lot I couldn’t part with for one reason or another.

Brits got ahead of the curve here thanks to Brexit - “actually it’s a *good thing* you all have to eat turnips now”

Yeah, Small Human watches things on her phone all the time, even though there’s ’the big telly’ downstairs which no-one is using…

So a DVD? Forget about it.

Princess Zelda and Link in the opening cut scene from Tears of the Kingdom. Zelda is holding a lot torch to provide light in the cave.

Sadly the upgrade to the Switch 2 has not seen the end of No Man’s Sky crashing on me 😫

Back to Tears of the Kingdom it is then.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

As the owner of an Anni misprint, I would strongly recommend getting your peepers on whatever gets added - not only will it be some cool shit, but it'll have its own little sense of uniqueness too.

To this day I listen to Ash and struggle to decide if I like them or not, so they just sort of stay in the rotation.

Mine is very much 'tastes softening'

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

Once again, the Supreme Court ruling on the interpretation of women has nothing to do with whether a private organisation can admit trans women or not. The WI can adapt its constitution as it wishes.

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Canadian Mr Miyagi.

5 year sentence for viewing material on making small boats?

*Hides copy of Swallows and Amazons*

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

The "British Public" voted for Brexit and a decade and a half of the Tories.

There’s probably a network somewhere that will pay for a different kind of reality TV show where she plays a rocket scientist or something.

Looking at either something like taking Truro to the Champions League (so starting all the way at the bottom), or maybe it’s time to give South America or J-League a go. Get out of Europe for once.

Lost my mojo with Football Manager. Couldn’t get on with #FM26 (your experience may differ, & that’s totally cool), but cannot get into an #FM24 save.

Might try something new. I’ve been vanilla when it comes to FM for years, either my fave team (Newcastle) or rotation of Roma, Valencia, or Ajax…

🎶 ‘cos tonight baby, I wanna get freaky with you 🎶

*sends a dozen memes*

Meet me at the Statue of Andy on Freak Island.

May I propose a different meeting point every second Thursday? Just to mix it up. The Statue of Andy gets great views.

I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.

‘You Only Move Twice’ is on.

It’s my favourite Simpsons episode.

Do with this information what you will.

Thiaw the best CB in #NUFC history? Recency bias says yes.

Wife and I have a running joke where we add ‘there’s a Skarsgård in it’ to anything that a) has a Skarsgård in it and b) we might potentially watch, maybe, before we end up watching the same things we’ve seen dozens of times before.

“I was just following otters.”

Quite. And I think/hope at some point we'll see something like that, but you need a groundswell of politicians willing to do that 'together', especially among main two parties - and right now I am not sure that exists. Which is objectively mad, but another example of our current level of discourse.

At the risk of repeating myself for the however many-th time, "everyone is tired of experts" has *a lot* to answer for.

If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.

Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.