Vale

Act dumb, get the thumb.

Timesplitters 2 also.

In a surprise to no-one, that’s Caroline Street (aka Chippy Lane) in Cardiff.

Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it.

I watched Starve Acre earlier this week. Really enjoyed it. Read a couple of reviews after that bemoaned the relative lack of scares, but it’s pretty faithful to the book and has good atmosphere.

We have the Cherry keyboards and mice at work and they’re really good.

It’s the OST - really nice edition.

My Splatoon-obsessed son recommends In Filtration from Splatoon 3.

From Streets of Rage 2: Slow Moon by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima.

Great choice. I’ve got this album on vinyl and it’s excellent from start to finish.

Great riff in this. I saw an excellent tribute band a couple of months ago and this was in the set list.

“oogling”

3.6. Not great, not terrible.

I’m enjoying Control. It’s pretty good fun to play, but the story has really grabbed me.

Cwtch is the most obviously Welsh word there.

I learned about these from the Simpsons episode where they go to Japan.

He’s my friend and a whole lot more! Ew.

Talk of the Devils (Manchester United podcast) The Athletic FC (general football) Kino Kingdom (movie podcast by two of my friends) By Far The Greatest Team (football history, my uncle is one of the hosts) The Rest is History (er, history) Doom Tomb (doom metal) Page 94 (UK politics)

Not sure these new Enid Blyton books capture the spirit of the originals.