Steven Bailey

A box of used nitrous cannisters left on the pavement, somewhere in Hoxton at 8am on Sunday morning.

Since nitrous possession was criminalised, weekend mornings are no longer a glittering river of spent capsules, but you'll still hit the occasional ox-bow lake.

Deathloop’s Reputation: The Definitive Review The Impossible Life Of The Spectacularly Failing Masterpeice

We do not talk about #deathloop enough, and it's my personal mission to praise #arkane until there are more Deathloops in the world.

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Hot honey becoming the glitterbomb of the fast-food world.

"About this item: - Revel in perfect design - Choose among 12 iconic dark characters - Engage in epic boss fights - Enjoy a flawless online and local multiplayer experience - Outstanding Unreal Engine 4 powered graphics

Amazon page blurbs for games are often worth skimming, often deviate in odd ways from from download-store descriptions listed elsewhere. REVEL IN PERFECT DESIGN!

I didn't see this??? Insta-buy right this moment (but on PlayStation, soz)

I'd have stopped playing Rise Of The Ronin quite some time ago, but my goodness... so many hats.

Any modern review-scoring scheme really has to dispose of 'Replayability/Lastability' and replace it with 'Hat situation'.

A pale blue and white cinema ticket from the Ipswich Film Theatre at the Corn Exchange. The film title reads “Blade Runner.” Certificate 15. Price £1.20. Showing time Thu 14 Dec 89 at 19:30. Serial number printed on the right. “Admit One” along the bottom with box office telephone number. Perforated edge holes visible on the right-hand side.

Original theatrical poster artwork for Blade Runner. A painted montage featuring Harrison Ford as Deckard holding a gun and looking intense, with Sean Young below him holding a cigarette. Futuristic cityscape with neon lights and flying vehicles fills the background. Tagline at the top reads, “Man has made his match… now it’s his problem.” Title “Blade Runner” in bold orange lettering at the bottom above production credits.

This would’ve been my first time seeing Blade Runner on the big screen — the original theatrical cut. The superior Director’s Cut was still a few years away. What more is there to say? One of the greatest films ever made.

#admitonedaily #bladerunner

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Had a dream where the new Resi game was an absolute disaster, so much so that I did a genuine cartoon WHEWF upon waking and reality rushing back in.

Still not gonna pre-order, though. Nice try, algorithms!

(Revelations 3, though, I'd stump up £60 in a heartbeat)

I spent a fair bit of 2024 rediscovering stuff from 2014, just for the novelty of going back a decade. It was awesome.

If you want to sell me a next-gen console, just fill its games with loads more little boxes and pots and crates for me to punch into pieces as I pootle about the place.

I'm that easy to please.

SMS California Games was a immense, a friend let me have a lend of his Master System plus CG for a week while he went on a family holiday.

Must've hit the full gauntlet four or fives time every day, but never got anywhere close to mastering flying disc.

FINE, Kindred is more Clerkenwell than Farringdon, but I just think of it as where I go to pick up missed parcels.

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Can't believe how terrible London's becoming, IPC and Gorgon City played a storefront gig in Farringdon AND I MISSED IT.

Even the roving death sqauds (sic) wouldn't have put me off.

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"amedama lorilei naiad"

My list of games to play next sound like I'm trying to communicate with the book of the dead:

Rise Of The Ronin doing that thing where you think, oh nice, the world is big but not *that* big, maybe I'll have a chance to collec-- SURPRISE!!! The map is actually three times bigger than initially appears. Sigh.

I think this stopped being the nice kind of surprise back in 2011 or so.

Another new one on me! Getting some Nothing But Trouble vibes from that poster.

A vintage paper cinema ticket from Gallery Cinemas in the Queensmere Centre, Slough. The ticket is for Batman (1989), certificate 12, dated Thursday 10 August 1989, with a 22:15 screening time. It shows screen 6, row Q, seat 19, showing a price of £3.25. The ticket is white and purple with perforated edges and a “No Smoking” notice.

The teaser poster for Batman (1989), featuring the iconic black-and-gold bat symbol centred on a black background. The logo appears metallic and glossy, with subtle highlights. The release date “June 23” is printed in small white text beneath the emblem.

It’s difficult to overstate just how pumped me and my friends were for Batman in 1989. Just that teaser poster alone had us in giddy with excitement. Just as Roger Moore is my Bond, Keaton is my Batman. Looking back it’s all a bit patchy, but we didn’t care at the time.

#admitonedaily #batman1989

Rise Of The Ronin update: Collected 17 cats.

GAME (The Shop): The Definitive Review Retail Receivership Relays Rare Rewarding Remembrances

What does the symbolic death of physical videogame retail mean to you, and how many times did you hide in bed, sobbing uncontrollably?

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A screenshot of the skill tree from Rise Of The Ronin, with the pop-up warning text: "You don't have enough intellect points"

Jeez, even my trusty video games are calling me out

Video games are alright, yeah.

Screen cap of PlayStation web store entry for Escape From Duck. It has a 1-star rating, after 29 user reviews.

Finally! PlayStation has re-added screenshots to its web store. Between that and the user ratings, now barely any need to fire up YouTube in order to start sussing a game out.

The main character from the show, Brent, is surrounded by light, and the caption: "Is this my happy place?"

Two characters are sat at a table in club, one whispering to the other: "I think he's making fun of you!"

Corner Gas is certainly serving up some decent reaction caps

Rise of the Ronin deserves 10/10 simply for giving you an equipment bag that has room for 2,000 items.

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Was also regular use of custom soundtracks at the time, and mainlined London Elektricity's Billion Dollar Gravy for the whole of that session.

The core memory is: Finally completing the level, to the sound of Main Ingredient.

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Didn't get to bed until 3am, after finally seeing off one of the hardest tracks in the game (including some full, forced restarts). Was nearly at the track reset limit, too.

Proper jittery state. I was still a smoker at the time, so must've gotten through 20 rollies in that one sitting.

I was living in a hospital as a property guardian at the time, so: No internet, and no eyes on me bar the glow of the BT Tower looming through my window. Started at around 10pm, aiming to have a quick muckaround before winding down for bed.

I played every Trials game that hit console, but none hit quite so hard as Trials HD on Xbox 360 in 2009.

It's the only Trials game where I'd successfully completed one of highest-difficulty tracks.

Now this, this I'm actually envious of.

Cinema ticket for The ’Burbs from Gallery Cinemas, Queensmere Centre, Slough. Dated Saturday 29 July 1989 at 21:50, price £3.25. Blue and white ticket with perforated edge and “No Smoking” printed at the top.

Film poster for The ’Burbs featuring Tom Hanks standing barefoot in a suburban street at night, wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown, holding a garden hose and barbecue spatula. Storm clouds and lightning loom overhead, with neat suburban houses behind him.

Tom Hanks’ name may be above the title, but Joe Dante was the real draw. Like Sam Raimi, he was one of those directors that my film-loving friends and I gravitated towards. Apparently this originally had a much darker ending until Hanks was cast — would have loved to have seen that version too.