Let's hunt some Smurf. youtu.be/pMxNJBjsv8k?si=T6VQ…

Tonight we shall complete the Bond game. This has taken around 20 hours, of which about 3 (if we're being generous) are an actual videogame. youtube.com/live/ITkwnJt8DPM…

I hope his evil scheme is launching tedious journalists into the sun.

Solo is one of the most bafflingly dull movies ever made. It has Han, Lando, Chewie, the Millennium Falcon, the Kessel Run, Daenerys Targaryen, Vision, Freckle Jesus, the most annoying droid ever devised, and Darth Maul for some reason — and it makes all these things utterly tedious.

The Pope has clearly tried playing Pro Clubs on FIFA as a centre mid and realised that the average FIFA player has a Satanic inability to pass the ball or stay in position. I fully support this fatwa.

If I hopped across the border and started kicking a ball around with the Miami Dolphins they might consider calling the cops. Professional football is a very good example of strictly targeted, high-skilled immigration working quite well. If we selected immigrants like Barcelona selected its players we'd have fewer problems. But I somehow managed to kick a ball around on the village field as a kid without ever encountering an immigrant, so I think the sport would exist either way.

Having streamed this for about 5 hours last night, I'm sure we're nearing the bit where the game actually starts. First Light Part 2 kicks off tonight at 9:30 UK/4:30 Eastern The Living Daylights Saving Time. (This means no BSUP tonight, we'll return next week.) youtube.com/live/vp68Ao8eLtE…

If I hadn't booted this up early to make sure it was set up, the first 30 minutes of the stream would've been me frantically googling why the menu was at 5fps, then going into Windows settings and manually telling it to use the correct graphics card, something fucking Gollum could figure out for itself.

Now that we've buried The Boys, I shall be streaming the Bond game this week, beginning tonight at 9:30pm UK / 4:30pm Eastern. youtube.com/live/ByQSetwnLsI…

I would really like a journalist to calmly and politely ask all these politicians why George Floyd merited the wholesale transformation of British society, while Henry Nowak doesn't. Why does one justify riots, taking the knee, the toppling of statues, and the embedding of race quotas across every public institution, while the other does not? Do they not view this as politicising Floyd's death? Do they not think it was at all divisive? Do they not think it odd that a man dying in America is more politically important than a boy dying in Britain? You don't need to rant and rave at these politicians. It is not "MAGA" to notice the difference. You just need to ask them to try and explain their position.

"Jyn, my stardust, I have placed a weakness deep within the system. A flaw so small and powerful, they will never find it. I have made the Death Star non-compliant under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.502, incurring a cost of $16,550 per day for failure to abate violations."

"Your taxes are unfair." "So you'll lower them, right?" "No. What I'm going to do is introduce a new tax that every other country has abandoned because it doesn't work, but this one will work because I said so, and it'll fund Our NHS,and then we can tax investments too, except it's obviously going to put off investors, so on top of the new billionaire tax I'll create three new tax deductible reinvestment vehicles to offset the new tax, and then I'll—" "So you're not cutting my taxes?" "No."

I haven't had time to touch First Light yet, but I keep seeing posts like this pop up that treat really basic things (like "pedestrians should not be made of concrete") as an unreasonable ask of a AAA game in 2026. IIRC, Simpsons Hit & Run (2003) had them jump out of the way if you tried to hit them. Even Mixtape has them jump out of the way if you try to hit them. If you didn't want to put in that effort, just stand the guy on the other side of the fence, since you cannot (I assume) drive through the fence. It's not a game breaker itself, but it is revealing of design priorities, and (essentially) of a certain laziness. It's often a symptom of a broader problem. Laziness tends to compound.

Under extreme duress and in violation of just about every human rights law, I am compelled to stream Mixtape. Cruel and unusual punishment commences from 8:30pm UK / 3:30pm You Did This Eastern. youtube.com/live/Lh-2vbgvcuU

The Pope seems to believe that the current operating model of big tech companies is to secure their wealth and success by making their products available to as few people as possible. He also seems to believe that patents are products, rather than the incentive mechanism to create and deliver new products. Patents cannot, by definition, be "goods that are universally intended for everyone" — patents guarantee that you, individually, are rewarded for inventing goods that lots of people want. He seems, finally, to believe that God has decreed, in some broad and ineffable way, that all products are a) miracles, b) spontaneously occurring, c) preternaturally inclined to self-replicate and flow benevolently into the arms of the needy, and d) that the profit motive is an impediment to all this. If you believe in God, then God, in his wisdom, made humans who make markets and carry out free exchange. The Catholic Church, somewhat less wisely, prefers vibe socialism.

My computer is sitting there comfortably, with the expensive cooling system I bought for it, while I gradually melt into my chair. This is not an equal relationship.

It took me about 2 seconds to conclude that this was a bad idea.

I believe the objectively correct answer to this question is Mixtape.

Emblematic of the entire show. There were people on (and behind) The Boys with genuine talent. But they were kneecapped by the guy in charge, the sum total of whose personal and artistic ambition is pissing off some transient chud. The Boys is, in the end, a satire of its creator.