Category Archives: Odds & Ends
Yes, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a great Western
Can a computer game belong to the canon of great Westerns? My reflex response was no. Yet whilst playing Red Dead Redemption 2, which was finally released on PC earlier this month, I keep questioning my initial resistance. The vividness … Continue reading
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Tagged 1899, Albanian sex trafficker stupidly kidnapping Liam Nesson's daughter, Arthur Morgan, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Dutch, Frederick Jackson Turner, Gaming, Give your horse a mohawk, GTA V, Gun lobbyists, John ‘Wooden’ Wayne, Limmy, Michigan Militia, Minecraft deathpit, O’Driscoll gang, Odds & Ends, PC, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar, Virtual violence is fun and good for you, Western
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Hollow Knight – Metroidvania meets Masochism
Until recently I’d never heard of the Metroidvania genre. In my defence, I’m only a casual ‘silver’ gamer. On average I game for about five or six hours a week. These aren’t enthusiast numbers, not even close. Down the years … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Christmas song ever, Boiling piss, Casual 'Silver' gamer twat, Dark Souls, FIFA, Gaming, Godhome DLC, Heroin addiction, Life is Unfair and so is Hollow Knight's DLC, Masochism, Metroidvania, Moaning, Odds & Ends, Private Pyle is slimy Walrus looking piece of shit, Sesame Street, Team Cherry, The Nightmare King Grimm is a horrible bastard, Vanity
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Will learning to code solve my time management problem?
Yeah, I’m learning to code, rapidly nearing the big four-zero. If that seems a daft combination, that’s because it is. But don’t laugh, and I’m certainly not. It’s hard, man. I’m still getting to grips with what integers, strings, floats, … Continue reading
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Tagged Being thin never goes out of fashion, Big Bang Theory, Boolean, break, Coding, continue, Exception handling, floats, hypters, I need to deceive myself, I’m dogshit tired and I fucking hate my job - sums up the 21st century, If statements, integers, loops, Odds & Ends, Pluralsight, print('Hello, self-aggrandising shitty attributes, sex up your menial jobs, Sporcle quizzes, strings, What the fuck is a Json file?, World!'), You need discipline Private Pyle, YouTube videos
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Fuck Brexit, play Yakuza 0
For the last two years the hard line Leavers were defiantly ignorant of Britain’s weak hand, the technical complexities of withdrawal agreements and the true logistic and economic costs of importing and exporting with the your largest trading partner after … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends, Politics
Tagged 'Bring back the neo-liberals I'm sorry I didn't mean to pray for anarchy', Brexit, catfights, EU, Eyepatch, Facebook, Fuck that luvvies, GTA V, I'm shite at Mahjong, Instagram, Japanese, Kuryu, Leavers are all Beliebers, Majima, Miracle Johnson, Never mess with a Yakuza sans a pinky, Nightlife, No Deal, Osaka, Out Run, Pokémon Go, SEGA Genesis, She puts the lotion in the basket..., That Tamagotchi bollocks, The DUP hate gay seals, The late 80's, Tokyo, Twitter, Unionism, Yakuza 0
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(Belated) Home Improvement
This one’s going to be a rant with crappy pictures and videos. Sorry. Posting this does have a practical purpose – it encourages me to document the progress of the conversion so far. Not that I think this blog is … Continue reading
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Tagged Before and after, bourgeoisie bastards whinging on Grand Designs, Bovine flatulence near the M9, Building Control, but not after Brexit gets done with it, Dungeons in the sky - that is what we are..., Fracking is easier than building a conservatory - bollocks, Fuck off Twitter, GDPR, Glasgow City Council, Good views, Home Improvement, inefficacious is a word - apparently, Insecure Men empathising with Gary Glitter, Let there be light in the dungeon, May 2018, Odds & Ends, Politics, shame about the mess, Stairway to dungeon heaven, Tim Allen coitus face gif, Tool Time for the ultimate tool of tool's, Tory bastard-esque ranting, Well Leo Messi, Whinging like a Tory, Windaes, windaes are boss, YouTube upoading is a pain in the arse
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