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Bit of a shocker this is my first completed game this year. Pokemon Violet: B- At no point would I say this was a great game, it ran like shit, the story wasn’t overly interesting l, and the world was dull but…it did enough to make me want to finish it. I’ll never touch it gain however and unless Pokemon has a major revolution, I probably wont come back to the series unless they pull on the nostalgia.

I’m on holiday so I’ve brought my switch with me and cracking on with Pokemon Violet. I’ve finished all the gyms, found all the herbs, and have one Star base to go. I just want to level up a Dratini into a Dragonite, then I’ll see out the various storylines. Update: just been levelling up and now my whole team is between 62 and 68. Probably time to go fight the end bosses and then delete this silly, silly game. Might go back to Tears of the Kingdom and wrap that up, or make an equally silly move and play Paper Mario, Banjo Kazooie, or Majora’s Mask and try and compete them for the first time ever.

Donkey Kong 64 - it was a mega start but the need to excessively collect to progress made it harder to enjoy.

Being off work and having a headache and general feeling of blah, I’ve been watching movies over any gaming or reading. So far: Green Book Dunkirk Goldeneye I really like all of them so it’s been a comforting ride. Just watching Ling Richard right now which I’ve not seen.

Getting some antibiotics after a quick chat with my local doctor, only downside is I can’t go back to work until Thursday which is a long time off in the world of teaching!

90% sure it’s tonsillitis or strep a

It feels that way, but I’ve always had a weird reading with our digital thermometer (35C) and generally anything over 36C is me unwell…I definitely flit between being freezing cold and hot as hell.

Even if it was serious, I doubt I’d get an appointment for anything!

I woke up on Sunday with my body aching, sore throat, very tired - and thought it might be a hangover (though my alcohol intake wasn’t exactly hangover related worthy). Carried on all day then at 4pm staring to fee really shaken and cold - so had a nap and woke up worse. I slept about 12 hours last night r still feel achy, massive headache, no appetite…. Thoughts and prayers please

Probably worth doing this one too, really make the crisis official

I’d be worried about all the spooky things that apparent may happen there!

If I was buying new, it would be on finance (so essentially renting) as that comes with free repairs etc in the UK. We’ve bought used and, due to UK law have it checked once a year to ensure it’s road legal (and worthy). Never been an issue really. Just don’t buy something you can’t cover the costs of massive failure.

I wish I worked in an area where actual trios were a thing…were more of a ‘go to a training at some other school for a day’ kind of sector.

My mother-in-law gave me a spare copy of Year of the Locust, which has been action-y, spy book - then in the last 100 pages has become shite.

I would gladly only eat the top inch of any lasagne and call it a day.

Need to finish Pokemon, buy Mario RPG and then this.

At some point, there needs to be an overall conversation and a ‘sorting out’ of lawful ‘preservation’ for media that is not available via a streaming/download service and is also not still being produced physically. I can understand not being happy about the availability of anything that can be purchased in a manner the IP owner receives money, but everything else, on any platform, if the IP owner hasn’t made it available, should be fair game.

I played it once at launch and loved it. I’ve got the trilogy on PS5, so I should revisit them - especially as the first game always goes on my top 10 lists.

I really enjoyed Three Houses…would you say the experience is better or worse?

Blast Corps, which is such a fun, little game. We’ve got a stupid amount of work to do at home (and work in general) so my gaming this week will be limited - but I’ll imagine I’ll do a few more quest points in Pokémon Scarlet, maybe some more Nintendo Online silliness, and I want to try out Remote Play on my laptop at some point and see if it’s worth pursuing or not.

If you haven’t, get the Online Expansion. It’s affordable and at least for me, has already been value for money - and I still have about 8 games I actually want to finish, no just play for 20 minutes and think “that was nice.”

Twice this week I’ve had some pretty bad dreams. First was being a POW during a war and being part of a group that decided to escape, except all he others tried to dash across a field and were shot, so it was me left trying to get away with dogs and soldiers after me. Last night was being at a park and seeing a satellite fall from be sky with a fighter jet tailing it. Assumed it was a controlled fall, but the jet just smashed into the ground after it, then a load of planes, objects etc just started falling out of the sky. Though the planes were moving really erratically, like the pilot had some control but it wasn’t working correctly. Ran back to my family to find my wife and daughter at home, unaware. We drive away to find my sister and find a basement to then see a load of missiles, essentially carpet bombing the ground. We decide to leave the country, so drive away again but as we’re going we all begin to feel light headed and relaxed. I then see people lying down in the street, so realise a gas must have also been released. So run to the car, drive to a rural part of the country and stay there. Suffice to say, once I woke up, it was very much a ‘fuck that!’ moment.

I shall be getting this and all of the rare games will be played.

I’m not expecting it, but it would be nice to be surprised. Pentiment I would however love to play.

More Pokémon because I’m ridiculous. I don’t even think I like it, the loop is just enough.