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That's awesome! Well done. You into lifting now?

The atmosphere in work has been awesome all week. It really is bizarre thinking about Bournemouth playing in the Premier League next season, nobody here can quite believe it. I had a kid tell me that his dad was in tears when they were on the pitch the other night after the game. Amazing stuff, really.

Ok, whatever makes you happy, brah.

I'm a little annoyed with myself. I'm trying to be consistent with the training but I am so tired tonight and have football tomorrow...think I'll do some ab work and then lift on Saturday. I lifted on Sunday and Tuesday but I've hardly sat down all day and my feet are aching.

Which ones of these games that you mentioned have you actually played yourself? Tomb Raider, for example, is just in a completely different league to its predecessors.

Hooray! What an ordeal! That would have driven me over the edge.

I'm delighted with that list! I know nothing about Ether One, but I've been looking at Guacamelee! Hohokum, The Unfinished Swan and Race the Sun recently. I've been eying them up for a while and almost bought The Unfinished Swan a month go. Race The Sun looks awesome. So, really happy.

I teach year 5 and it's my favourite year group. The problem and joy with the job is that it's entirely unpredictable. You have absolutely no idea how good or bad a day will go because there's too many variables. Parents can be a pain in the arse, maaaaan. However, I've seen them at their best points too, so it's not entirely bad. There's a lot to be said for supply teaching. I did a year of it and it's nice because you just get to do the fun part of teaching....teaching! You go in, you teach, you leave. Sometimes you have to mark, but it's not too terrible. The downside is that you can literally end up anywhere and there's no real job security. You could be needed for two jobs one day and nothing the next, unless you've got a contract with a school or something. I've got some good friends from uni who graduated the same time as me and some of them are looking for a way to get out of teaching already. It's sad how the wrong school or location can drive you out. On the whole, I love the job around 95% out of the time, but that 5% can be soul destroying. Fuck me, I've got so many stories about parents you would shit through your eyeballs.

I've seen the comparison made between Netlfix and PSNow and I think it's a good one to make. I stream tv (NowTV and Netflix), I stream music (spotify) and I regret absolutely nothing. I'm all for it, it's very good value for money. What excites me most about the PSNow stuff is that the technology is already there and it works. It may or may not work perfectly 100% of the time, but that technology will simply get better and I'm convinced it is the way forward. I remember I originally signed up for Spotify free and songs would initially cut out when I lost connection, but the service is absolutely flawless now. Best tenner a month I spend. I'd be happy for Nintendo to do something similar, or at least offer something subscription based. If they did go down the streaming route, it wouldn't put so much pressure on them to actually put a decent sized HDD in the system to begin with, as both the Wii and WiiU's storage is pathetic out of the box. I've seen tons of people mention on here how they'd sign up for a subscription virtual console, I think it would take off.

Totally agree with this. Best decision I ever made was moving out. I don't think I would have achieved any of the things that I wanted to/have done had I stayed living with my family.

Konami can go suck a fuck! So...fucking angry right now. You can't release THAT demo and not give us the full game. That's...that's just cruel.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I've heard some gems over the past year or two. *on a conversation about the future* "You should get a house, get married and have kids. Doesn't everyone want that?" *after a friend has given birth* "Jim, now you should have a kid so you don't feel left out and are part of the group." Can't even remember what I said back to that one! Can't have been pleasant. I don't know what it is, whether it's a generational thing or something, but it's almost like you're expected to drop your hobbies once you get to a certain age and are meant to then develop newer, more boring things to take an interest in. People keep asking me when I'm going to stop exercising or playing music and I keep saying...uh, never? I like it. Like a hobby or interest is supposed to be tied to an age. I wonder how many people there will be still gaming when they're 60, for example. Considering that many people grew up with it in the 80s and 90s and now 00s, surely there will quite a lot of people still doing it when they get to that age. I wonder if that'll be a more acceptable thing in future.

Fine, you can have Terry but Fonte has been better than Cahill and I'd make a case for Clyne over Ivanovic. (I would put Aguero in there but I don't have the heart to drop Costa or Kane. I think when all three have been at their best, Costa and Kane have edged Aguero, even though I think Aguero on average has been just as good as Costa) We were shocking against Everton today. The team looked like they were playing with a hangover or something, very slow football, very predictable, very poor choices when attacking and defending and very little leadership. Probably our worst game of the season. We were better in the first half but lost all control as soon as Falcao came on and Fellaini went off. I would have taken him off, but I'm past caring about Falcao now. It hasn't worked out and he's been a completely and utter disappointment. Certainly one of the biggest flops we've had the club considering his status and salary. I loved Valencia when he first came to the club but he hasn't got much more to give, imo. We need a proper right back in the summer. I feel for McNair because he's done well for his first season in the big time but he isn't near enough ready to be first choice in this team. If I could have three positions in the summer, it would be a pacey striker, a commanding/defensive central midfielder and a leader at centre half. If we can't have one of those three, I'd give anything for a right back. On the plus side, Shaw was looking good going forward and wasn't really at fault for anything today. Everton played well and McCarthy had a stunning match. He was everywhere.

Team of the year. De Gea Ivanovic - Terry - Cahill - Bertrand Sanchez - Matic - Coutinho - Hazard Kane - Costa Definitely agree with the goalkeeper, the two centre forwards and the majority of that midfield. Question marks over Coutinho and the two centre backs for me. Think another Southampton player should have made it. It looks like they've chosen more of a team of the month rather than the team of the season because I think one or two are being chosen for their form lately rather than across the whole season. On the whole, most of it I agree with.

There's a lot of pressure that's put on people to "grow up" and I guess to conform to certain conventions, like being married, having kids, having a £40k a year job, having a fancy car, etc. I'm 28 now and I get constantly asked by people in work about when I'm going to have kids and get married, like it's some sort of end goal...at 28. There's a lot of things that I enjoy doing and I know that as soon as I have kids I'll have little time for those things. I've got friends who straight after school went down the marriage-kids route and are happy, but I personally couldn't do that. To me, the end goal I think is being independent and being self sufficient. Being able to "make it on your own" without the need to be attached to your parents and being able to do the things that make you happy whilst also fitting it in with work. At the moment, I'd say I'm pretty happy with that balance. I enjoy my job, but then I still get plenty of time to exercise and game, which is the stuff I enjoy doing. I do think people change and they "evolve" so to speak, but it's not necessarily a binary thing between being grown up and not grown up. There's lots of different levels in between. I guess some would find those milestones important, and to some extent they are. They show progress. To me, I see that progress in a different way. Moving out from home to go to uni was progress, getting my first teaching job was progress, moving in with Ine was progress, and so on. I definitely look back at how things were five years ago and think yeah, I've changed but in a better way and I'm doing things better than I was five years ago. So, I'm happy.

I love my job and understand that I'm quite lucky in a lot of ways. But...fuark, sometimes the kids piss me off. Particularly with how they manage to wrap their parents around their finger or how they play the "innocent victim" card. It really winds me up and it's got to me a few times this week. Hmm, maybe it's the actual parents I'm more annoyed at than them?

Have you seen Mr Nobody? I think you might have mentioned it before. If you haven't, watch it, it's just brilliant. I'm pretty relaxed about the character anyway and I've read nearly enough comic books or graphic novels to be THAT wound up if they don't go for a traditional joker or if they don't go for one particular angle. I don't mind having something a bit different, as long as it turns out good, which I think it will. It's stuff like Will Smith as Deadshot which worries me, because that could go either way...

I wouldn't say he was injury prone, but rather he's had one bad injury. It kept him out for an entire season and then some. I think the fee isn't that far off what he's actually worth, so I'm ok with that. It's really about whether he'll fit into our system (I think he will) and whether Van Gaal and the medical staff can sort out his injury issue.

I'm actually surprised by some of the general reaction to this because it's not just exclusive to this place, but rather the entire internet seems to be divided over this look. My initial reaction was...fuark, he looks deranged/creepy/unusual/bizarre, etc. I still think all of that now and I've also just remembered it's going to be Jared Leto underneath that makeup, probably one of my favourite (one of the best, surely) actors on the entire planet right now. It's only one image, too. It'll make more sense to see how it'll all come together when we actually see some footage. I'm convinced he'll work in the role.

I've just done 2 hours of football and exercised yesterday as well after a busy week of work, so naturally I've been falling asleep at my laptop. I was halfway asleep when my mate updated his facebook status with something about Gundogan. I thought he was talking about some tabloid rumour, but I saw the words sky sports. Went there and it's under the breaking news section that we're closing in on a deal for him. Now I'm wide awake. What da fuuuuarrrrk? I love the guy and think he's a perfect fit. Only downside for me is his potential fitness/condition after his injury. If this happens, it has great potential!

They'll see it yes, possibly. But, that doesn't mean they'll add it in. Somewhere along the way during the developmental process of this game, the subject of voice chat has come up and it's inclusion has been rejected. That's Co-Director Yusuke Amano. That's coming right from the very top. It's not about 'what the fans what', but rather what 'Nintendo hopes gamers will gain from the experience of the game'. They perceive voice chat as a negative and associate it with negative experiences. That mindset from Nintendo will need to change somehow if we're going to have these sorts of features in the games (and I don't mean just restricted to lobbies, because that's shit) otherwise we'll just go through the same scenario again in the future.

Best introduction to a game ever?