Hates stuff the west does.

Loves stuff China and Russia do.

It's the same stuff.

Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks were pretty cool. I played both with the stylus because the DS control pad is tiny as fuck, literally painful to use for more than a few minutes.

Same with the Layton games.

That would just be men's sports, which in fairness is all most people seem to care about anyway...

Not even Branston beans. What a disgrace.

Looking at the domain name, they're in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

Says he'll save it if they pivot to selling right wing nutcase ideas to kids. Will try and ban it anyway if he gets into power.

I'll never forgive him for what happened at Black Mesa.

The PS5 controller is pretty sweet.

But the PS1 Dualshock is the original version of that, and has influenced basically everything since. It's the Ocarina of Time of controllers.

That second analogue stick fixed everything to do with cameras in early 3D games.

For VR it's the Oculus Touch. Takes everything about the classic Dualshock design and adds hand tracking.

Would a DVD shop be ok with me taking a portable player in, watching a movie, then putting it back on the shelf?

Gremlins 2. Not sure any other movie quote captures the absolute cocaine fuelled Hollywood of the early 90s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM

There's also a terrible John Leguizamo movie called The Pest, that I'm genuinely amazed didn't end his career right there. The wife was suprised I hadn't seen it, and as we started she just went "you're going to hate it".

She was not wrong.

I live in the East Midlands, so I'd agree. Just about everything around here is a former something town, be it mining, manufacturing, whatever. Anything that isn't is some picturesque place is a scrabble of smackheads and vapeshops.

Really need to start giving tax breaks to big companies to build their shit in unpopular places and have good public transport so people can get to it.

If there's more than one, I'm going to server transfer...

So did I, which is why it's extra creepy when Glen Powell, the most generic white guy imaginable, tries to bang one of them.

I'd almost completely forget the whole movie by the next day, but my wife continued to think about it and then sent me this about the ending. Which makes it even worse than the ending you'd guess at about ten seconds into the film.

I can't begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they've lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn't be easy to say goodbye to that.

It's easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don't use.

Probably spent that buying the land off some councillor's uncle.

Anybody that's ever spoken to a salesperson knows that they're talking out of their arse most of the time, and I doubt this is an exception.

He's said this because he thinks that the people he's talking to will give him more money if he does.

If it was happening at all you'd have seen proof by now. Like people pulling apps apart and finding proof, not just "I spoke to Bob last week about cameras and now I'm seeing ads for cameras".

The truly terrifying part is they don't need to listen to your conversations to know what you want.

If you're upset over this because you're genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you're entitled to. Chances are there's something you can claim.

Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.

Is that a great idea? Most of the New Towns became shitholes.

I know somebody from Skelmersdale, and the only place they'd been that was worse was Blackpool.

If I remember correctly, the problem was the scheme explicitly forbade the council from building a replacement house.

I think that was later changed, but by then the damage was done and the housing stock was decimated.

I do think you should be able to buy a council house that you've been living in if you want, but at the full market rate of building another equivalent home, and it should be enforced that they do build another. If a council currently has no plans for building more, then tough titties, you'll have to go on a waiting list.

Although that's mostly because physical media sales are in the toilet.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-fall-and-slight-rise-of

While Blu-ray and HD-DVD were arguing over what comes after DVDs, they were both consigned to the dustbin. And while I like to not be reliant on subscription services, I've got to say a bunch of files on a Jellyfin server is much more convenient than a shelf full of plastic and foil discs.

With modern internet speeds, there's no reason you can't have full UHD-BR quality streamed over the internet.