Josh64

Remember when Nintendo had to recall a bunch of Wii U systems and repackage them because they were selling so badly? I've never known a company as woefully incompetent at keeping decent stock levels of their products. And yeah I'm always wary of getting accessories from there too. When I got a used PS3 I felt so dirty using the controller. I eventually got a new controller to go with the old system.

If they got rid of Mario and Sonic at the Olympics that would be the final nail in the coffin for me

I really hate that on Tinder. The worst for me is "hey how are you?" "I'm ok you?" "Yeah, I'm good! What have you been up to today? I see you like [something], I loved that show too. What was your favourite episode?" "I'm ok thx" So I had my third date with Hernando today! We went to see Spider-Man. I loved it, I usually hate Marvel stuff but Spidey is always the exception as it's usually a bit funny/lame and doesn't take itself too seriously. I also loved that it has The Ultimate Fighting Champion from F.R.I.E.N.D.S in it. After we did our usual mill around Tokyo Toys and stuff and then we went off to get cocktails at this nice place (no idea what its called). On the way there I jokingly asked him if he had a boyfriend and he laughed and said no so I said "Oh man, if only there was someone here right now that could go out with you" Fast forward a couple more lame Chandler Bing type lines and we're now a couple!

Thanks for the Birthday messages guys! I've had a great day! And thanks for reminding me of the wonders of Seaman @S.C.G - Given the crazy Mic prices it's one Dreamcast classic I've yet to get in my life! My brother got me this awesome videogame violinist on CD though so I've hooked up my speakers to the DreamCast and am having an unconventional SEGA day.

Happy Birthday KaeGae!

What is the point of disc games if they automatically download to the hard drive? Do they perform better when loading from both disc and hard drive? Or is it just a glorified instillation disc these days? I have No Mans Sky a whirl, it was ok on my first playthrogh, I enjoyed collecting and crafting stuff for my ship to go on my initial space travel but then when I arrived at another world to do the exact same thing I wasn't sure how much longer it would grab me for. it also seemed to perform pretty terribly, when entering a new planets atmosphere the loading wasn't subtle /at all/, huge mountains and structures were popping into place right in front of me, I'd have thought they'd try to hide that at least a little bit with fog/clouds etc. on the ground things looked even worse with 2D N64 type bushes all over the place and then the game eventually just crashed as I was chasing some creature. That was all before the update had installed though so I decided to cut it some slack. On my second playthrough after the update everywhere looked a lot nicer and the game didn't crash. It's not bad if a bit slow, I'm just starting to wonder how many things I can make? If I can start setting up a base then I'll get into it but if it's just a case of constantly collecting materials for my ship then I don't see myself playing for long.

Met with Hernando on Saturday! We went to the Sealife Centre and saw all the cute fish, the puffer fish were espcially amazing. It felt a lot more natural this time, I didn't worry about things to talk about they just happened, we also just had casual hand holding/arms on shoulder kinda stuff which felt so normal which isn't usual for me as years of hiding my sexuality made it very hard to show normal signs of affection in public for so long. We did somehow accidentally end up in a 3D showing of Octonauts with a bunch of parents and kids during the aquarium visit lol. It was cool though, had bubbles and water spraying for the scenes, we were pretty out of place though. It was on the normal route, how were we to know?! After we went to get food and by chance it was the world food festival so we went around a few stands and got a mix of awesome food in the city centre. Super spicy indian chicken, cake from... somewhere and Strawberry cider! We then ended it with some shopping in Tokyo Toys, Selfridges and HMV for Chinese DVD's. There was also a Thailand festival type thing going on so we saw some awesome dancers. Anyway, we've been talking a lot the last week and I haven't turned into my usual crazy self yet and backed away at the first sign of getting close to someone. He watched Pokemon the Movie 3 today and plenty of Scatman John videos, truly the most self-indulgent and insufferable I could get and he seemed to like both! We're meeting again on Wednesday to see Spider-Man.

Thanks guys, after getting into MineCraft last year I have really been searching for more chill out games like that so I'll definitely pick it up!

Oops whats everyone's opinion on No Mans Sky? I've always been interested in it, I know it got a lot of backlash, was that justified? Or was it more to do with overhyping it and getting disappointed? I ask cause it looks pretty and it's like £10 at CEX

Picked up steelbook Fallout 5 for 9.99 from the GAME sale - always been interested in the series but never sure if if like it. With £6 on my GAME card it came to 3.99 so I figured at that price it's worth a try!

(Also just went giddy at how cute a GameCube Mini would be, imagine the little handle!)

The Wii Mini is why I didn't realise how small the NES mini was for so long. I assumed it was still relatively big like that big red and black thing so I was very surprised when I finally saw one IRL.

Happy Birthday Sega Sammy!

Snake Pass looked great on PS4, sad to hear it suffered on Switch though I'm guessing it's something we'll have to get used to given the hardware.

I kinda liked it in the early Wii U days, running around to different shops trying to get my hands on certain amiibo, or games that only had 1 in stock, or the freakin' Wii Mini. But after a while I noticed I enjoyed buying the stuff more than actually using it. The more I thought "would I want to buy this if it was available everywhere all the time?" the more I realised I was just burning loads of money for no reason. So yeah, I just buy stuff if I really want it now and if I can't find it then I think whatever, I'll leave it for now. Which means I may never own a Nintendo product again :p

http://n-europe.com/news/nintendo-classic-mini-snes-arrives-this-september Comes with two controllers too! Pretty good for Mario Kart and the like.

Snake Pass update should be available now for Switch. Adds a time trial mode. Get slithering, boys.

@MagnusI think that's the main problem, the recent ones seem to try too hard to be crazy and hyper whereas it felt naturally weird the first few seasons. I also just think the series as a whole would have been better with a clear start and end. We never hear much about the bunker now (which makes sense as they've covered it) but now that it's over and the novelty of Kimmy being a stranger to this new world is over, it seems kind of lost on what to focus on. The episode at the end of season 2 where she found her mom was great, if they had one more episode after that just to tie everything up and ended it there I would have been happy. And yeah they ruined Titus a bit, he seemed to be growing as a character when he was with that boyfriend but spiralled back into Season 1 awful-ness afterwards. The old landlord is probably my least favourite character and I hate listening to her long dialogues.

That's great news about Cities Skylines, I've seen lots of great videos and gif's of peoples creations on Reddit and stuff. It seems like the kinda game I could get lost in for hours. As for me, I saw Ape Escape 2 and Everybody's Tennis were on offer (£3ish each) so decided to give them both a whirl as both are series I've always meant to get into but never got around to it. Haven't played Ape Escape yet but had a couple of hours on Tennis and it was great, I'll have to check out if there's any modern versions with online and all that stuff. Still desperately waiting on Night Trap, does anyone know the situation on its release? And is there anything else similar right now from a live action perspective, I've had a look around but not come across anything and I'm still fairly new to the PS4 so not sure what developers to look out for.

Been speaking with Hernando over text since Friday and getting to know a bit more, his family situation doesn't sound too great as his parents keep asking him when he's going to get a girlfriend, uh oh. Anyway, we're going on our second date on Wednesday! This time to see Pirates of the Carribean! I haven't seen one of those films in ages but I'm sure it'll be fine, it was between that and Baywatch and as much as I love Zefron, that film looks like /complete/ garbage, I could barely make it through the trailer.

I'm never sure what to think, generally I think it's pretty average but every now and then they'll be an episode that I love. I had to admit I did get a bit bored with Season 3 too. I watched the other ones properly but Season 3 ended up just being background noise for games and stuff after a few episodes.

I had another interview today and it went a lot better than the ones I had last week, I also much prefer the look of this job so I'm hoping I get it. They're doing interviews until Friday so I'll have to wait a while to find out!

Switch and Odyssey! Sonic Forces PS4 maybe an Xbox One

Happy Birthday boyyyyyy