Nicktendo

Yeah same for me. Russia were shocking in the first game, I think Finland could nick a point or even a win today. Turkey were very poor against Italy, Wales should have enough for the three points.

I'll bring it with me.

Yeah I can come over. Don't have any spare DIYs. Anything you'd want in return?

Liepaja

Don't think I have that one, let me check. Edit - according to Nook Link, I don't have it. Wanna traaaade?

Everything they've shown about this game has me so excited. Camelot finally getting back into the swing of their circa 2000 domination. There's nothing better than a meaty Mario Sports title.

I've got a Perfect Painting if anyone would be able to trade it for another real piece of art / statue. Bought a second having not realised I'd already donated one to the museum.

Game and Watch marking 35 years of Zelda is reprehensible. No way I'm buying that garbage.

Surprised that Metroid got mentioned at all. This looks good (gameplay, not graphics). Never got that 3DS game, so will happily spend money on this. Looks to be taking the series in a nice new direction.

I was expecting a Fire Emblem announcement. Will definitely take this though, never played the series. Another day 1 purchase.

Unexpected and excellent. Day 1.

Didn't think I'd ever spend money on a Mario Party game again, but here we are.

7.9 Good.

Yes yes yes!!!

Take Two really going out of their way to lower the bar even further for Nintendo tomorrow. I have zero faith they’ll be able to top THAT.

This looks so, so good.

Guess my decision to watch the football was a wise one. Sneaked in a bit of Xbox’s conference. Meh at Jack Sparrow. Halo Multiplayer looks EXCELLENT. Forza Horizon 5 looks superb. Low bar for Nintendo to beat overall. They probably won’t beat it.

Local Apple store was having a sale this week so decided to replace my nearly 3-year-old iPhone 8 Plus with a 12 Mimi at 15% off. Feels like an old 5s, which was my favourite design, so no complaints there. Still getting used to the lack of a button and how small it is. Melts into the pocket though. Also picked up my first ever MacBook for a cool €1000. It’s the 2020 model with the M1 chip and means I can free myself from my desktop for work after 18 months of being stuck there for 8 plus hours a day. shocked at how dinky and light it is but it still seems to pack a punch. Will be great for commuting to a co-working space once they open up next month. Part of my drive to try and get out the house more now that lockdown is ending. Being self-employed means I don’t pay tax on either purchase, which really makes today’s buys a bargain! Once I get rid of my old phone and laptop I’ll be looking at €1200. Hoping they both last me a good few years A dog is the next thing on the list. We’ve got an appointment at the local shelter next week and have our eye on a 5-year-old staffie-cross. Will try to keep my inner Greg under control and avoid trading him in after a week!

Kalvin Phillips, take a bow son! So happy to see a Leeds player back in the England squad. First 15 mins were great from England. Hopefully a sign of things to come. We controlled the game well and the overall performance was much better than in the World Cup as others have pointed out. Three points on the board against the last WC finalists. The hard work from this group is done (sorry Scotland) and I hope GS gets a little more experimental in the next two games so we can really see our best 11 going forward.

They're both still great on Rare Replay. Blast Corps is still a beast on original hardware (JFG not so much). Highly, highly recommend giving them a go if you ever get a chance. Two of the best and most unique games from the N64 generation.

No, having tyres that explode is unnecessary danger. I blame Pirelli and the rule makers entirely for it. The sport has spent 10 years talking more about the tyres than anything else. Each car is built to the best spec possible but the tyres are designed to be shit. I'm all for degrading tyres, but they shouldn't explode and delaminate at 300kph. It is utter stupidity. And ALL the teams were running the same strategy, plus we had 5 laps behind the safety car, so there's no way they were on the limit. You can still have a mandated pit stop and the two compound rule without the garbage tyres. If you bought something that was designed to last 5 years and it conked out after less than 4, you'd want your money back. So please spare me the excuses. It is unacceptable. What happened to Kimi in China 2012 when he went for a very risky long strategy (way over the mandated tyre length) and was losing 6-7 seconds a lap on very old tyres that had "fallen off the cliff" would be fine. He was in 4th and fell back out of the points in 2 laps. Though I suppose that doesn't have quite the same appeal to TV viewers as a huge crash. You've proven my point in your final sentence - everything for the show at the expense of sporting integrity. Same with these tyres. 49 laps of hard work thrown out the window for the show. I don't even like Hamilton, but he was done over in this race. A rolling start would have been much fairer with two laps to go. They could have had a VSC with the cars going through the pits if they had (rightly) wanted to keep the gaps. The least interesting option, but one that doesn't drastically alter the race result with 95% of the race done. There's a reason drivers are still classified rather than DNF'd if they finish 90% of the race distance. I'm not going to pretend F1 is less interesting than it used to be, because it isn't, it's still extremely fun to watch, but after decades of bad financial decisions and declining viewership, the sport's ideals are now slowly being eroded to chase millennials and YouTube likes and comments at the expense of sporting integrity and history. F1 is a unique form of motorsport that is very, very different from US variants. Watching them plunder it into the ground and try to remould it as "action every second" for the modern ADHD audience with dumb rules like the tyres, DRS and a new-found fetish for red flags and standing starts is just sad.

They said the hard tyres would last 40 laps. Stroll's lasted 30 and Verstappen's 35. Verstappen would have been on lap 39 at the finish line, hardly pushing the limits in terms of risky strategy. It's not acceptable to have tyres exploding at 320 km/h, especially when the only reason they're made like this is to "spice up the show". The whole sport should be ashamed. They've done so much for driver safety, but only when it doesn't ruin the spectacle. As I said, it's done entirely to appease the fans of American sports who need constant action. I appreciate that not many people want to watch a race with no overtaking or drama, but when a driver gets t-boned at 200 miles per hour, those at the top won't get any sympathy from me. And what about Hamilton? Robbed of a hard-fought second place and the championship lead because of an unnecessary lottery. Of course, the race highlights wouldn't look as good on YouTube if it had ended under a safety car, gotta get those likes and comments. Great show. Very happy with the podium, but an embarrassing excuse for a sport.

Doing a standing start with 2 laps to go is beyond stupid. It's supposed to be a sport, not a lottery. Pirelli have a lot to answer for after this, absolutely embarrassing for them. As much as I enjoyed the final couple of laps, it's clear F1 is bending over backwards to become more American with every year.

The Xbox buttons have been a pain in the neck for me too. I'm hopeless with the face buttons. Especially cancelling and confirming. Switching between the Xbox and Switch is a nightmare.

Forgive me Nintendo Gods.