Blastronaut

Hey fwiw I'm only shitting on it because I'm bitter about not having the free time to play and fully appreciate games like this these days. Looks good, like Kojima watched the Walking Dead and said "hold my beer!". UPS simulator shouldn't be taken a negative either. Our local UPS guy is one of my favourite people. I couldn't tell you his name but he brings me loads of my favourite things, cunt even found my keys once.

Aye but even most Welsh folk don't speak Welsh. The easiest solution to your problem is to be Polish and watch the game in Poland.

Be Polish?

Hope this is sarcasm man. Open World? The Hideo Kojima game that was heavily marketed with Norman Reedus as the protagonist? Guaranteed to be basically on rails with a load of wank "choices" tied in to give the illusion of free will and multiple outcomes. Haven't played it, but in the wise words of Paul Calf: Bag of Shite.

That's interesting, even the old line 6 Spider amp footswitches were momentary rather than latching. Bizarrely they connected to the amp with Cat5 cable. I hated those amps. They had some weird gimmicky sub octave setting called "Insane" mode that was even less usable than the other models.

Mad that the screenshot for their promo video has a pile of floppy discs. I love akai gear for the most part but that's just taking the absolute piss. We've come full circle with digital gear masquerading as old-school analogue. I'm not shitting on it fwiw. This is just jealousy. I want one. It looks like the compromise between Cubase and a 4-track that aging degenerates like us didn't know wanted.

Bielsa at Leeds is one of the greatest managerial anomalies of all time. If they get promoted again they should get him back in and write it off as a glitch in the matrix.

That result sank my coupon today. The silver lining is that I'd taken Rangers ht/ft so it was in the bin by before the second half started and I able to enjoy the full time result.

I like this guy. He reminds me of me before I had kids and got bored of weed. The arcade machine pedal has piqued my interest, I've been fucking around with the Data Corrupter circuit a bit this week. It's cool but it got me thinking how fucking weird it is that we've now got analog guitar gear trying to emulate 80's and 90's digital sounds, and digital gear doing the complete opposite. It's almost come full circle. As an aside I also know a guy called Andy Gill, but he was never in Gang of Four to my knowledge. Last I heard he was "fixing broken Dyson's" in the East-End of Glasgow which could mean fucking anything.

Guilty as charged. Aye the Bino's who unfortunately share the SAFC acronym. Memorable highlights of my lifetime supporting them are beating Ally McCoist's Rangers when they were in the fourth tier and that time we got a baby faced Robert Snodgrass on a 6 month loan. I'm just on the wind-up with tenuous links tbh. The Albion used to play at a stadium called Annfield and we're managed by Bill Shankly's brother, Bob. Bob is better known for his record with Dundee (cunts built a fucking statue for him) but was back at Stirling on the board when he passed away. Speaking of "Real Scotsmen", Jocky Scott is another former Stirling manager that's better known for his earlier exploits as Dundee manager (for all the wrong reasons). Cunt managed the riduculous feat of bossing the 2nd tier with Dundee sitting 10 point clear and still managing to get sacked. "The real Leigh Griffiths blog" by Dundee Barry gave us all some insight:

Thats Football in a nutshell. Poetry without the poets.

"I've working on a novel, you're the protagonist!"

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. I get it with wykiki who is clearly in denial about being madly in love with a Scouser workmate. The rest of you I'm a bit worried about.

Aye. I didn't watch it either and I'm a Liverpool fan. It's the league cup, nobody cares. Too many folk take this game and their "allegiances" waaaay to seriously. 😉

It's basically open world with a heavy slant towards cartoon violence. So can cycle up a mountain on a BMX if that's your thing, hijack a plane and crash it into a high rise, or drive around and pick up prostitutes and then murder them to get your money back..Whatever floats yer boat. I haven't played it in years but if I remember correctly my favourite activities were just sitting around listening to the radio stations in-between killing-spree sessions and hijacking taxi cabs and driving unsuspecting customers into the sea. I'm too old for it now and the last one felt a bit formulaic and phoned in from what I played, but your 12yo would fucking love it.

Get a fucking room already. That's essentially the first chapter of a Mills and Boon novel.

Same, just an irrational fear. I should've got over it by my age but I'll always remember an good friend of mines playing the hard man act at a barbeque and literally catching one with his bare hands. Cunt stood there proudly, fist clenched telling everyone "it's just a wasp, you're all shitebags". Then he opened his hand to prove he had truly caught it, at which point the wasp stung him and he cried like a little girl.

That's a shout that, worth a try. Noticed the loft hatch was slightly ajar so assuming it came from up there. I'm an absolute shitebag when it comes to wasps. A few summers ago in the old digs we had a nest in behind the cladding near our back door. In my infinite wisdom I grabbed a sealant gun and filled in all the gaps they were using for access, opened the door about half an hour later to be confronted by a cloud of angry wasps. Think my missus and kids might still have PTSD from me slamming the door shut and running through the house shouting "shut all the fucking windows! NOBODY GO OUTSIDE!"

Aw Jesus cunting fuck. Just been alerted by Mrs B who saw a "really fucking massive wasp" at the top of the stairs in our new house. Got there in time to see something drop from the ceiling and then just fucking vanish. Fucking February in Scotland. I was liking this house but now I'm gonnae need to climb into the bastard loft and actively look for a fucking wasps nest. Global warming can fuckoff. As can wasps.

Aye, Vai has went full Michael Angelo Batio.

I was doing something similar in the wake of Anselmo's white power thing. Not trying to justify, but simply not condemning it as much as I should have. Pussy footing around the issue saying stuff like "everyone's always known Phil was a headcase, this isn't news. Read his lyrics, he's been hiding in plain sight" Mate of mines opened my eyes a bit by just bluntly saying "of course its news. Nae cunt is saying Charles Bronson can't paint but this guy just sieg heiled and shouted White Power on stage after decades of denying he was a white supremacist." Funny thing about Wattie is that he vehemently denied ever having Nazi tattoo's, except for the times he was asked about it in countries with somewhat active fascist groups. Anyway I'm getting a bit ranty here and this is veering off topic. Neither Anselmo or Buchan even played guitar and Wattie Buchan is the musical equivalent of a retired boxer that took one too many blows to the head.

Video link broken but I think get your point @sammynb. I knew a few kids that were "army brats", not necessarily horrible people, just quite hard to get along with. One of them I was really friendly with for a good while in my early 20's, when I was growing up. Described himself once as a "social chameleon" which should've been a warning sign. Unsurprisingly he turned out to be a mad racist. As an aside, A few months ago I noticed some kid cutting about here wearing an Exploited t-shirt, couldn't have been much older than my pre-teen kid and I had to do a double take to be sure it was an Exploited shirt being sported by a pre-teen in 2023. Got me thinking about my own takes on stuff like Phil Anselmo's antics, Clapton reciting Enoch Powell and how often Ive regurgitated shite phrases like "separate the art from the artist." rather than just admitting "aye I agree they're awful people but I really don't want to think about that too much because they wrote some really good songs". One of the few good things about the social media age (don't get me wrong, I genuinely believe most of those platforms are absolute poison) is that folk like Anselmo and Wattie Buchan's wouldn't fly and they wouldn't have been able to bury and deny so much of it for so long. Every time Wattie said "that's a lie, I never had a swastica tattoo, we were never a nazi punk band" there would have been scores of folk sharing photos of his old tattoos. "This you, Wattie?"

If you're all drinking that I'll have a glass of evaporated water.

I mentioned the 'copters and Entombed a few posts back. Nicke Andersson rocked a mossrite in the early 'copters heydey. Dunno a thing about his political slant but I wouldn't be surprised if they were suspect like a lot of that scene. Hell of a songwriter though.

Obligatory "Johnnie Walker Black is £22 at Morrisons". Just incase anyone needs to know which supermarket I've favoured this week. And I fucking hate Morrisons fwiw.