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Could have, should have. At least it's no Tids.

*Brian Blessed voice*

LAZYBONES IS ALIIIIVE!?

Vidja gamez blog: Bit more Xenoblade. Didn't feel like going up against the new big bad that wiped the floor with me last time so opted for a change of scenery. I thought I was done with side quests when I spotted some unfamiliar ones in a side quest guide. Managed to complete one quest and send another character to Colony 6 but according to whoever compiled the guide there's still more and I don't know how to unlock those because all I have is the title of the quest(s). I love the difficulty of the game in this respect but at the same time it's obscure enough to drive anyone potty.

Another lively episode of Trails in the Sky the 3rd in the Sunday stream. Andrew plays all games with a controller as God intended, but after 3 unsuccessful attempts for the first time he grudgingly had to switch to mouse when this turn-based RPG suddenly threw in a turret defence challenge. A reminder that the game was first developed for PC. None of us could imagine how this section had been handled in the PSP port or indeed in later PS ports.

Wine blog: the PM and I had some great times raiding the Abbé Auchan for French wine and then filling the rest of the car with Majestic's South African selection. But without him I'm drinking a lot less wine in general and red wine specifically. I miss those fun times. Sheep is right about those Ventoux wines.

Lunch blog: chicken pakora with lemon juice, mayo and flatbread plus a few crunchy mini cucumbers. All the stars.

Hi.

I upgraded my PSPlus to the 'Extra' tier last night, because I am kind of a big deal. I then downloaded the following: Returnal, Ghosts of T, Telling Lies, Outer Wilds, ABC Murders, Observation, Soma, Spoderman Miles Morales. Quite impressed that they all fit on the hard drive and that they downloaded so fast. I'll never play them, obviously.

Games: Frantics, a surprisingly good couch multiplayer game.

Elden Ring: up to the second main boss and getting my onions thoroughly assed every time I try to moyder her. Multiple rage quits. 4 stars.

Been playing the time-loop game '12 Minutes' on and off for a few feeks, finally got to a couple of the endings last night and this afternoon. There's a big third act twist that I'm not really sure how I feel about. It was never going to have a 'Groundhog Day' Hollywood finale, but I'm feeling less than whelmed. The ending I found today boots you back to the very start of the story and bins your save game, so it seems unlikely I'll bother to see if it gets any better than that

So Sheffield Hallam University is suspending its English Literature course because the government is penalising universities for low graduate employment. Because if graduates can't get professional jobs it's clearly the fault of the education they received and not, say, the government failing to create graduate jobs.

But I thought that the promise before the Brexit referendum had been that the government would make up any funding shortfalls that were a result of leaving the EU to make sure that UK universities stayed "world class"? And I would have thought that a British university cancelling an English literature course is a bit of an embarrassment? And did those feet in ancient time?

I now feel trivial after Tent Hen's post.

How is McDonalds going to get trained staff?