Blackmist

30? The guy has like 5 years at a push before that inevitable cardiac arrest catches up with him.

He's a big man, and he's out of shape.

Is a lack of tax really a subsidy?

I would think most of the subsidies are governments paying companies to extract it locally rather than import it from a cheaper country, so the country is less exposed to world events.

Where a non-subsidy version of this would be to tax the bollocks off any foreign imported fuels so it makes more sense to extract it locally.

Of course the reality is that most countries need both locally extracted and imported fuel to meet demand, and that you, the taxpayer, will be picking up the bill in either case.

It would be better for everyone if we just left that shit in the ground where it belongs, but we ain't there yet.

Ah, Fextralife. For when you want the top half of the screen taken up by a video advert, and the bottom half taken by a giant consent form.

The day we strayed from GameFAQs was a dark day indeed.

I've seen that second Borat movie. I know more than I want to about "America's Mayor" and how he acts around young women. :/

That's probably the only time I've seen the word "loc" outside of Don't Be A Menace.

Don't really think the school has a leg to stand on here. It's a neat and tidy haircut. It's not something I'd get done, but that's mostly because I'm a mid-40's balding white man.

Suspending someone for having a black haircut is asking for trouble. Even in Texas.

You officially become an adult the day you realise everyone else is doing the same thing, and has been all along.

It's chancers and blaggers all the way to the top.

I'd rather play great games 18 months after they come out, than mediocre games on day one. What's hard to understand here?

The industry needs that day one £60 a box money, the same way the film industry can't do without cinema takings.

If it doesn't get it, we devolve further down the predatory DLC route.

They take so long between entries that there'll be adults with a PS5 who don't even know what The Elder Scrolls is, let alone get excited for it.

We've had The Witcher 3. We've had Baldur's Gate 3. Another clunky Bethesda "RPG" isn't going to get the juices flowing like it did... fucking hell, 12 years ago.

Seeing another BBC article on it, the following caught my eye.

But a drivers campaign group said it was "delighted" by a potential delay.

Fair Fuel UK said the costs of policy would outweigh the benefits and it was "always doomed to be dropped".

I wonder who Fair Fuel UK are? Sounds like a good honest grassroots drivers group worried about what's going to happen to petrol!

Oh, it's run by somebody called Howard Cox. I wonder who he is...

Oh, he's a Reform UK swivel eyed loon.

What is it with the BBC and going to mentalist Kipper types for their opinions?

The higher tiers. Not sure about the top one (Premium) any more. I got it because I thought I might want to play the older games, but it turns out there's plenty of PS4 and PS5 games to keep me going, and frankly not enough choice of PS1 and 2 games to tempt me. A more complete library would have made sense, but I've literally got more on my shelf than they've got on PS Plus Premium.

And my internet is too rubbish for me to want to stream the handful of PS3 games either. It hasn't even got MGS4 which would be the one interesting thing that hasn't been anywhere else.

They're not selling large amounts of either.

MS is in the subscription selling business now. Their entire gaming future hinges on GamePass, and while I like the idea of games on tap (I've basically bought BG3 for my PS5 and nothing else in the year since I bought it, enough on PS+ to keep me going and I can barely catch up let alone keep up), I suspect the big devs that spend hundreds of millions on making AAA games are less than enthralled with the idea and if GamePass and day one "free" games win, the outcome will be more games that I'm not really interested in.

PS+ is not as good a product as GamePass, but I believe it's healthier overall for the gaming industry.

Because eventually the aliens will play Zelda, and learn to look behind waterfalls in real life.