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I think it’s probably now inevitable that Putin will invade, and he’ll blame “aggressive” western governments for the destruction and chaos that follows in an attempt to destabilise Nato and the EU by turning the public in the western world against both.

That’s good. I had distracting side effects from my Pfizer booster back in November. Three, four days of awful fatigue and flu lite symptoms. Better than the alternative, though.

Re-election seems to have been a smooth process. Unlike the Italian presidential election the other week, if anyone was following that (they basically forced the 80 year old president to have a second term in office, because the Italian Parliament couldn’t agree on anyone else after a week of...

Oh dear. I had to switch that off partway through. I didn’t know that the Kiss Players stuff was that… Bad, having tried to avoid it.

This is obviously Britain rather than the US, but I remember AIDS being used a reason against legalising the age of consent for gay/LGBTQ people – all the way back in space year 2001.

That’s the problem with all of this – Britain already had trade deals with many of these countries as part of the EU. And outside the EU, we’re getting shittier trade deals than we had via the bulk-bought EU deals, also while leaving us much more vulnerable to predatory action by larger...

You literally could be describing the UK there as well.

2024 is going to be a GOP landslide at this rate, whoever’s the candidate.

Ratcheting up the fash rhetoric daily, that’s the British prime minister.

That’s another issue with Brexit. The UK government is intent on trade deals with smaller countries on the other side of the world at the cost of destroying previous arrangements with a single economy of 450+ million people a short boat ride away. I mean, I support the idea of trading with NZ...

Depressingly, it looks like the government are using the murder as a excuse to bring in draconian laws controlling social media. If this was 5 or more years ago I would be assuming that they’d soon quietly shelve the idea as unworkable, but now, after Brexit, I can easily see them going full China.

Oh, games I can’t play any more? Anything on the ZX Spectrum. I grew up playing games on that computer (the most popular game system in Britain during the 1980s – the NES was completely unknown here in the UK). The system’s lack of hardware sprites and scrolling is just too apparent.

The British version of Steve Bannon admitted that the UK government never intended to honour the exit treaties with the EU (exact quote: “cheating foreigners is part of the job”).

Boss encounters are something I honestly believe are one of the worst gaming conventions. So many games I really wish didn’t have bosses, because they instantly make the game devoid of fun, e.g. Shovel Knight.

It’s not just the controller, it’s the low frame-rate and (very) low resolution graphics that ruins that for me these days. Was genuinely astonishing in 1997, but a blurry, jittery mesh now, sadly. Another game I don’t like any more? Secret of Mana. Was my first JRPG type game (of sorts), as...

I’ve had my copy since last week, but I’ve lost motivation to start playing it, to be honest. So many Metroidvania games in the past half-decade or so have worn out the appeal of the genre to me a bit. Give me another couple of weeks…

No. Not really. The police came down like a tonne of bricks on women holding a peaceful vigil for Sarah Everard, the victim, back in March: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/13/as-the-sun-set-they-came-in-solidarity-and-to-pay-tribute-to-sarah-everard Also, last week, to test...

Britain? Starvation island, more like.

Not a bad blog piece… Notes how the UK government have switched within the last week from denying there are shortages to now saying shortages are a sign of how Brexit is ‘working’ as it was always meant to. (The Tories have also fully adopted the Labour Party’s scapegoating of EU citizens as...

Tory MPs are on the TV claiming that all of Europe has the same goods and fuels shortages as the UK, but “much worse”, and the supposed journalists never challenge or question the politicians. Pure propaganda.