Category Archives: Odds & Ends
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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Black Myth Wukong – the noob friendly soulsplayer?
It’s not good for me, I know, but I’m in the midst of a soulsplayers binge – Elden Ring, Elden Ring DLC, Dark Souls 3 and now Black Myth Wukong have been played in succession. When I’m finished with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 4Chan, Alan Watts, Black Myth Wukong, Buddhist, Chinese politburo, Dark Souls 3, Darkeater Midir, Elden Ring, Erland, Game Science, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Incels, Isshin The Sword Saint, Journey To The West, Malenia Blade of Miquella, Noob, Promised Consort Radahn, Sekiro, Sister Friede, Soulsplayer, Terry Waite chained to a radiator, Tiger Vanguard, Yellow Loong, Yellowbrow
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If A.I. is here to make life easier, why do I have such an aversion to it?
Originally, it was the scaremongering that was irritating, but now it’s hard to avoid the tiresome talk that the A.I. revolution is truly here and how it will shape our future. The claims are becoming increasingly ostentatious, both of its … Continue reading
I’m officially past it, and I’m bitter at the cause of this realisation
Health is wealth. Specifically, physical wellness and mobility is wealth. For the last five weeks, and for the first time in my life, I haven’t had full mobility and it’s been an absolutely fucking miserable experience. As hardships or ordeals … Continue reading
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Tagged Ankle, Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call New Orleans, Big Toe, Chemotherapy, Coldplay, Death and taxes, Doug Rocket, Faith No More, Free Taylor Swift tickets, Gaza, Getting better but declining, Gettng Old, Midlife crisis, Nicolas Cage, Self-pity piece, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is your mobile phone old and shite? Don’t be a daft, turn it into a coaster
So, I finally capitulated and bought a new phone, a Samsung A54, with my Samsung S7 (big up 2016!) finally calling it quits after eight years. It’s been a trooper, one my best ever value for money purchases, to the … Continue reading
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Tagged A54, Dead phone, Detachable hippocampus, Google, I'm a sad sack, Miserly cunt, Mobile phone, S7, Samsung, Toddler with ADHD, What a waste
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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