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I heard about this a few weeks ago but now it's official from Sony. They should be the first to tell people not the last but that's another story. I'm sure the stores themselves will shut down a bit later as what happened with the Wii e-shop some years ago. I own all three systems mention so I need to look through the store and get what I can before it all closes. If any of those systems break down in the future there will be no way to play a lot of that stuff again. Hopefully Sony can move some of the more popular stuff over for it to work on the PS5 but I doubt it.

Just Dance Wii U (Japanese edition) and a Wii Taiko Drum (3rd party one). I promised myself a long time ago that I would get a taiko drum one day so just waiting for the games to arrive from Japan now.

His character is more fleshed out in Klingon Academy, a PC game from 2000 that passed me back in the day.

RIP Christopher Plummer. (aka General Chang) Klingon Primer: Heart of Virtue - YouTube I'm slowly going through the Star Trek Continues series at the moment.

I remember my first real use of social media back with 'Friends Reunited' in the UK. Initially I felt really happy that I could find out how everyone who I went to school, college, university were doing and then I compared that with what I was doing and I felt incredibly depressed with it all. I guess that experience has shaped my overall view of social media. Rule 4 'compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today' is a good rule for me to live by. I'm on various platforms but I rarely post because it just doesn't interest me. I'm still interested in the link between prolonged social media use and depression. The goal of social media is for the user to be on their platform for as long as possible (seek validation from others), get dopamine hit and to come back regularly. It sounds a bit like a drug really and if that is the case try going without it for a week and see what happens. Not sure how social media platforms can really police themselves without the government stepping in but then again most politicians don't really understand the full issue. Social Media Depression - YouTube

I know why he said it but the sentiment still rings true.

President Biden represents to many a return to normality from the last four years or so by Donald Trump. A neo liberal, global agenda one with some social justice measures thrown in. I don't think it will be easy for his administration to fix the divide in America which partisan media helped in part open up but he will have to listen to people including the very ones who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump who felt that their voices had been forgotten about. If Joe Biden just repeats Obama/Clinton, don't be surprised if those voices get someone else to listen to them. As for twitter, I think the final word should go to the person who impersonated ex President Trump on SNL - 'Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming. Not much of a party. Goodbye for now.' - AlecBaldwin(HABF)

America should be being a beacon to the world not a siren to stay away from. From the riots in Portland to the storming of Capitol Hill, it's embarrassing.

I bought the Wii version of Retro City Ramage DX when VBlank first announced it in 2020 and was hoping for a PAL version of Shake Down Hawaii for the Wii U but they only released a North American version. I soft modded my Wii ages ago just so that I could play some Japanese games but haven't touched anything on the Wii U. I hesitated and then the Wii U versions were quickly sold out. In the end, I bought the PS4 version even though I don't have a PS4 yet and then months later they announce a Black Friday deal. From what I read on reddit the cosmetic damages were very minor.

Never put your unwavering faith in politicians (regardless of their side); they will always let you down. Not sure what the media is going to talk about in 2021 when Trump, Brexit and Covid 19 (eventually) disappear. I must admit 'they' have done their best to divide us but unlike politicians no one has ever voted for them. The Game Was Rigged From The Start - YouTube

Back in the day, I was a loyal GameCube owner and this game kept coming up in gaming magazines as an exclusive, only for the game to come out on the PS2 a bit later on with extra's added. It's been ported to numerous platforms since and given an HD polish so I think there is enough of an audience to see this game remade. Capcom showed with Resident Evil on the GameCube that they could take the core of the PS1 game and turn it into an improvement on the original. There is a lot of love for RE4 but for me the RE remake on the cube remains my favourite. Capcom did a decent job with the RE2 remake only to mess things up a bit with the RE3 remake from what I've seen. It will be interesting however to see how Resident Evil Village shapes up as I guess they will take that core engine and build RE4 around it. The original RE4 packed quite a bit into the game in terms of game-play length and extras. How this translates into a future version is anyone's guess.

When the Wii version came out the games producer Masachika Kawata said that the Wii version was the definitive edition. Resident Evil 4 Ships for Fourth Time - IGN

Change? "Harman, the world won't change. All it does is turn". - Kun Lan (Killer 7)

I will put up my Christmas tree in about a months time. It's too early now for me.

I looked at Nintendo's site in Japan and all I got there was it has a 2.36 inch colour display. No details at the moment about the resolution.

The primary goal of a business (apart from not for profit) is to make money and of course make profit. That is the goal pure and simple. Anything that can be capitalised upon can and will in today's world. Just look at 'some' of the mess in video games with loot boxes and road maps to video games. This isn't every game but still it's worrying. Do you want to buy hot cross buns all year around? Do you want to buy Christmas stuff in August? Do you want to buy Easter eggs on 2nd January? Do you want to buy a poppy pizza? Apparently if they sell, customers want them. Back in 1997 was the first sign for me that things were changing with the old poppy. As time moves on you have to try and get younger generations involved so I knew what people were trying to do back then. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/18054.stm) As for all the mess on TV with people wearing or not wearing a poppy how does that translate on the street with people wearing them. If anything I've seen people wear them less over the years. And there seems to be a small but growing group of people who are vocal about people wearing them as if they support nationalism, racism or colonialism. If you want to buy Easter eggs at the start of January. if you want to buy FIFA 21 on the Switch, if you want to buy a poppy pizza then it's your choice or not. Maybe the least we could do is reflect on the 11th November, what people did in the past to protect the freedoms we enjoy today. That costs nothing.

Going forward I guess you mean from January 2021 onwards when Joe Biden officially takes over. I agree the news won't be the same but nor will most late night comedy/political shows across the US. The media's job is to report the news without fear or favour. Perhaps a bit idealistic but that's the way it should be.

That's true for European politics too and this flows down to discussions about video games and films now. Nuance and rational debate is dying. I don't see Trump or Biden fixing this really although Biden has the edge in improving things.

Disagree. I believe Trump asked Mike Pence to be his VP partly as a way to keep the evangelical Christians on side. I've seen interviews from Trump, Pence and Biden and they have all spoken about their faith. I get the impression that it means a more to Pence and Biden. For me Trump represents the businessman turned politician, the business protectionist, anti globalist, isolationist and American first idealist warts and all. A blunt instrument. "Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upwards surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA". - Gordon Gekko (Wall Street - 1987)

Imagine being the UK government back in March, one set of scientists saying the government is doing too much and another set of scientists saying we aren't doing enough. So what scientists/experts do you listen to? Pressure from the airlines and big businesses to keep everything open as normal and pressure from others to close/reduce air travel. Pressure to just drop everything and act like Sweden with less limited restrictions.The government acted at times like a rabbit stuck in the headlights unable to fully appease anyone. Also as we got to understand more about the virus the advice changed. At the start of this, I looked at what was happening in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and to a lesser extent Japan and followed the advice there about wearing masks (this is just one example). Very few people wore one back then in the UK and I certainly got a few stares but I didn't care. Had the government started giving the advice about masks earlier things would have changed in my view. People have too much faith in governments, just look at President Trump in the USA he thought wearing masks was a bad idea (and influenced others) and he got COVID-19 recently. Biden who wears masks is fine. We have to ask ourselves how much faith can we put in governments and what we must do ourselves? I don't really know the end goal of the UK government here and when all of this is finally going to end.

Easier to control COVID-19 in smaller places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Also I'm guessing the anti mask, anti vaccine group of people in those places are a lot smaller than in the UK and the USA.

Most governments can be quite inept at times regardless of the party. No one should ever put complete faith in whatever government even if you voted for them or in my case I didn't. As for listening to the experts, what scientists should people and the government listen to? The ones who told the UK government at the beginning that wearing face masks were ineffective or the ones that said we should wear them? I checked it up myself and have been wearing a face mask when going shopping since March while Boris and co couldn't make up their minds. The situation across Europe isn't really any better. France went into a second lockdown a few days ago and the situation in Spain and Poland isn't great either. I also have an appointment with the NHS (minor compared to you) and this probably means it will be pushed back and countless others will suffer as the system is stretched and no one seems prepared yet again. As for government leaks, again another ineptitude which will cause panic. A friend of mine went shopping this evening and sent me a photo of the shelves already been cleaned out just like what happened in March. And so it has begun again...

I watched some of the debate live when it happened and was not that impressed. I would have loved to have seen Biden more in his prime debate against Trump but I didn't see much of that here. Trump can be measured when he wants to be but clearly wasn't here. The bull in the china shop show isn't impressive all the time. This is a side issue but there is a saying that when America has a cold Canada has the sniffles but that saying applies to Europe now. We are influenced perhaps too much by what happens in America as a kind of one size fits all mentally that boils down to issues about most things including the mentally and debate about race (which is clearly an issue in America) and I think we all need to think for ourselves. I like America and American culture but I am not an American. The US TV style debates are now part of UK political life. It's a circus show at the end of the day and we often forget the other player in this circus show which is the media whose job isn't just to report the news but to hype everything up and ultimately divide people in the process. In that respect the UK and I guess other parts of Europe (and elsewhere) are no different.

I've never tried licking anything with a mask on. Don't suggest anyone does either!

I travelled down to London on Sunday and there were less people on the train than normal for a Sunday. Have travelled about a month ago back from London on a week day and the tubes/trains were less busy than normal. There is still a percentage of people who are working from home or now work part time at home and then the office once or twice a week so the numbers on the trains should be a bit less than normal. Avoid peak times if possible, wear a mask and use the hand sanitisers around the stations and you should be fine.