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Finished watching Giri/Haji.

I keep thinking of those nutters that have 13 children and tell myself that we should be able to look after just one.

Do you type this comment out each time, or do you have it saved to the clipboard for easy access?

I was allowed in for most of the day, so it wasn't too bad. We're home now though, and it's absolutely terrifying so far!

So my wife gave birth! Woohoo!

Well he's probably going get banned on Twitter for a start

The David Squires football comic in the Guardian always summed up the Poppy fury season to me. It's a running theme, so Google it for some crackers, but here's a great one:

Booooooooo!

It's not stupidity, it's a calculated move to claim that he won it on the night, and then point out that the Democrats 'magically found' enough postal votes in the coming week, and declare voting fraud etc.

Just throw the whole country in the bin.

I can't believe how difficult Arsenal's start to the season is. Having to play against Liverpool, Man City, Leicester and Man Utd in the first 7 games. They're not doing so great at it either... Edit: whoops, sorry guys. I might have jynxed that.

No i don't think I spoke to anyone like that, although if it's at the start of the game then I could have forgotten, since i started it more than a year ago. I don't really use the objective tracking thing though either, unless i get really lost, so maybe I did? It was fun just stumbling across them, and working out where to go next. I don't know why you'd need to be shown where the beasts are though, you can see them from halfway across the map!

Mongol as an insult isn't really based on someone from Mongolia. It's more to do with 'mongoloid' being an outdated term to refer to someone with Down's Syndrome. So if you call someone a Mong, you are saying they have Downs.

It's definitely the best Zelda game i've played so far. To be honest, i've never really been a fan of Zelda games. I've played most of the 3D ones, and only ever completed one. The others i've got maybe 1/3 of the way through and my interest fizzled out. I think the reason this one is different is the way the gameplay is so much less structured. I hated the way that there was only one way of playing through the other games, you had to go to this room, with this boss, and defeat them with this weapon. If you couldn't do it, then that was it, you couldn't go any further. In this one, you can just skip past the enemies if you wish. None of them are actually required. I liked that at the beginning you have to get the shock arrows from the centaur, but you don't actually have to kill him, you can steal them from under his nose and run away (running away if one of my favourite strategies in games). And if you do decide to fight someone, there are so many ways of doing it. You can freeze them and spam them with arrows if you want. Or just chuck bombs at them from a rooftop. Or actually lob your sword at them. Or drop a metal crate on their head. The exploration too is amazing, you always feel like there could be something interesting just over the next hill, or if you find a lone tree, there could be some secret to find nearby. The only thing i'm not really digging is the story-line. The 'plot' for each Divine beast is exactly the same; champion of old dead, find younger version of champion, do some minigame around Beast, younger version fucks off for some reason, do dungeon, get magical reward for defeating Ganon ghost. They could have mixed it up a bit. I do like the Beast dungeons themselves though - climbing around a huge, moving, statue is incredible. Anyway, yeah, it's good.

I just used https://ezgif.com/resize and set it to be 40% of the original.

So it appears i'll do the fourth Divine Beast straight off the bat. The fourth one seemed to be quite a large spike in difficulty compared to the second and third. I actually had to use Revali's Gale to solve one of the puzzles getting around inside the camel. I'm assuming there must be a way to do it without, as you can do the Beasts in any order, but I cheated and just jumped up to the top of the humps after faffing about for ages trying to work out how to get up there. The fourth boss was really hard too. I couldn't work out how to block his super speedy rush attack, until I just started hacking away with the Master sword, which seemed to work. I also forgot until about 3/4 of the way through to drink a shock resist potion, which helped a bit, as I kept dropping all my weapons. I ended up going through three or four full yellow health bars, and a Zora revive thingy, but eventually the dude died. So I have done all the beasts, and am free to storm the castle. I won't do that for a while I don't think. Want to do a few more shrines and explore more of the west side of the map first. I also should practise taking on the giant spider robots too, i guess, since there's supposedly lots of them in the castle, and i've gotten this far in the game without killing one.

Trying again because the ones I posted before were time limited. Does this work @drahkon?

How small does it have to be?

After faffing about in the middle of the map for a while, I decided to Go West properly and look for the fourth Divine Beast. Crested a large hill, and finally saw the Gerudo desert stretching out in front of me, with the Divine Camel strutting about in the middle of it. Paraglided towards what looked like the main town, and found out to my surprise, that deserts are hot! So I switched to my super duper Goron clothing that I had been wearing happily in the middle of a volcano only to find that my volcano costume is only flameproof, and not heatproof?! Excuse me Nintendo? Apparently I need different clothes for wandering in the desert?! Ridiculousness. Eventually got into Gerudo town with a bit of nifty cross-dressing, before making my way into the bad guy's lair and defeating the fat ninja. I don't know if i'll head straight out to do the fourth divine beast ASAP or explore a bit more.

We're watching Giri/Haji on Netflix right now. I assume it was originally on terrestrial tv since it has a BBC log at the beginning, but we missed it at the time. It's really good so far, we're halfway through, and it reminds me of a cross between a Yakuza game and The Bill.

Ah of course! That would have been the button combination we would have tried next! Such a shame they ran out of other buttons that could have been run. All those other buttons that were being used for such a complicated control scheme.

I haven't enjoyed a Pixar film for years. I hate the way they seem to focus entirely on sadness as a theme, rather than making a fun family film. They've definitely fallen pretty far in my eyes. Each of theirs used to be an unmissable hit, but they are pretty missable. Disney Animation by contrast seem to be getting better and better, so hopefully Avatar: The Last Dragonbender is great.

I want to know how much those four paid to get a dedicated button on the remote.

I hope it's another strand type game.

I was just going to say that the synopsis sounds like Avatar. Swap Dragon for airbender, and it's the same story.