Happenstance

Nuts what you can do these days

X-Men X-tinction Agenda omnibus finally came in stock to order.

I don't think we know where John Walker's is from, last one we saw him with was a crappy home made one. Cap/Falcon's is the real one.

The Power Rangers deluxe editions go up and down in price a lot as they get limited runs. You regularly see some of the older ones £65 or higher.

Fixed for you 😞

Its a shame as well because they've got some brilliant bands over there. I've seen Band-Maid live twice and they were amazing.

I used to see them at those Retro Video Game Markets from time to time. Almost bought the Red Alert one the last time.

Just watching the first episode of Like a Dragon at the moment. Seems interesting so far but definitely lacks the charm of the games. Also defaults to dubbed English so I had to swap that out for Japanese with subs straight away.

You know what I miss. The massive cardboard boxes that PC games used to come in that took up way too much space.

Feels like one of those services that I might like if it was all videogame music but I wouldn't ever sit there thinking I'd like to listen to just Nintendo music.

The only thing I do hope stays the same between crashes is that another title gets buried in a secret landfill again. Concord may just be that title.

One of the things you hear from devs lately as well is that they think the industry is heading for another crash. Not necessarily the same as last time but something has to come to a head with the spiralling costs and devs being shuttered. I just hope those leaving to form more reasonable companies find themselves in a better position when it does.

I enjoy using Reddit but its definitely never been a place where I could have proper conversations. You get about 3 posts in then start to get lost.

Not devs being fired but an article on veteran devs leaving for smaller companies to try and regain some of that enjoyment from making games again (I've posted the Archive link to avoid the Bloomberg paywall): https://archive.ph/b3WaD

Grabbed the £10 upgrade for the remaster on Steam, just waiting for preload to become available so I can start downloading.

Got my ticket to go see Babymetal next year at the O2 for their arena tour.

Its always the shipping and import fees that stop me ordering anymore from them and then as you said, if they allowed Paypal then that hit would feel more manageable split over a few months.

Looks like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle will be shown at UK cinemas. Think I might have to get tickets.

Decided to move away from foldables again for a while until they start to get the higher camera specs they should at their price bracket and better large screen optimisation for apps. Moving from the Samsung ecosystem into the Pixel one with the Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel Watch 3. Quite enjoying it so far, this is my first Google phone since the Nexus 5. Also got some Pixel Buds Pro 2 free but they'll come later.

I'm still holding out for Comet the Super Horse

I thought that as well at first but after so many years of darker depictions of these characters I'm kind of interested to see where they go with this now.