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Hollow Knight: Silksong is confirmation that I’ve become a gaming boomer
This time I can’t claim ignorance. Having played the original Hollow Knight I knew what I was in for. Some piss-boiling boss fights, levels festooned with unforgiving environments – vindictively so, reminiscent of Trap Adventure – and irritating enemies, with … Continue reading
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Tagged £5 Starbucks lattes, Black Myth Wukong, Boomers, Cognitive decline, Craw Lake, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring, Godskin Duo, Halflight Spear of The Church, Hollow Knight, Hunter’s Marsh, Logan’s Run, Miyazaki, Oldies cannae hack gaming, Silksong, Sinner’s Road, The Path of Pain, Trap Adventure, Twitch streamers performatively smashing up keyboards
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Song Of The Day – Closer To Heaven (Extended Vocal Mix) by Leonie
From the single “Closer To Heaven” (1991)
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Tagged 35 years old!, 90's, Closer To Heaven, Extended Vocal Mix, Leonie, Short & Curly, Song Of The Day, Streetsoul
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Song Of The Day – Alone (Sax Ambient) by Don Carlos
From the single “Alone” (1991)
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Tagged 90's, Alone, Don Carlos, House, Italo, Sax Ambient, Song Of The Day, Summer sounds
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Fool me just once more? Sure, for old time’s sake.
Sadly, being ambivalent often achieves nothing. And I was completely disinterested in the upcoming Scottish elections. Then serendipity intervened. On the same day as I received my postal vote, the Labour candidate came to my door. His pitch, wisely, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance to Liberate Scotland, Boris Johnson, Captivity, Catch 22, Covid, Independence, Independence for Scotland Party, Independent Green Voice, Josef Fritzl, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Lord of Darkness, Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandleson, Pro-plutocratic, Prostate gland, Reform, Reform UK, Sacked Civil Servants, Scotland, Scottish Christian Party, Scottish Common Party, Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Family Party, Scottish Greens, Scottish Labour, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Socialist Party, Someone has to live in Giffnock, Stockholm Syndrome, The SNP, UKIP, Unionists, Workers Party of Britain, Zionist Nu-Labour adults
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Song Of The Day – L’hôtel Particulier (Prise Complète) by Serge Gainsbourg
From the reissue “Histoire De Melody Nelson” (2011)
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