I love coffee but nowadays I tend to drink tea a lot more. I don’t like the taste of instant coffee, and that’s all I can get at work - so I stick to tea. I also can’t handle caffeine as well as I used to, so I have decaff.

At home I’ve got a nice coffee machine. I buy decaff beans and grind them - it’s all about the taste for me.

I finally got round to picking up a PS5 this week and have been really enjoying Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - it’s just beautiful to look at and genuinely fun to play. Looking forward to more of that over the weekend! I’ve also been trying out Astro’s Playroom, the free tech demo that comes with the console. I was half expecting it to be a gimmicky piece of advertising - but it’s really well made! The platforming is excellent and all the little references to games are cute.

Fuck yeah - there have been some great homebrew plugins for this, but having a dedicated tool with the ability to trim clips is awesome.

The S10 is such a good phone! Things like samsung dex and being able to cast to TV are really useful - I’m guessing the later models have these, but I’d hate to lose them either way. I rarely use the headphone jack nowadays but it’s still nice to have. Hopefully I can get a few more years out of my S10.

Does it require the touchpads for mouse control?

Anyone know how well these work on Steam Deck?

As for a book from a different cultural background, I remember reading The White Tiger by Indian author Aravind Adiga about 10 years ago and really enjoying it.

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Oh that’s neat! I’ve played Prime 1 before so if I fancy playing it again I’ll try this out. Prime 2 and 3 I’ve never played (well, I did get a little ways into 3 on Wii years back - but I’m planning to start from scratch). Thank goodness for Primehack!

I do love going back to older games! The Steam Deck is particularly great for that. Will take me years to catch up on everything I want to play 😅

I’ve been meaning to play FFIX, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, FF7 Rebirth, Baten Kaitos, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Persona 3 Reload to name a few!

That’s a lot of RPG to get through!

No nothing’s been announced. I’ll probably just emulate them

I recently started Digimon Cyber Sleuth! I’ve never played a Digimon game before but this one has been fun so far. There definitely seems to be more of a push to constantly evolve your mons than Pokémon.

I’ve never played the Mario & Luigi RPG games, but this looks fun. The artstyle is really charming!

Ohhh looks beautiful! I hope it’s good after all the delays. Reminds me, I need to play Prime 2 and 3…

I wasn’t sure what to make of ‘gay furry Mario-like’… But the gameplay actually looks pretty polished - clearly inspired by SMB3! I’ll give the demo a go.

The comments are where the real mildlyinteresting is 👌

Yeah the guy is dressed up like Leon with the leather flying jacket and haircut - it’s a pretty iconic outfit

Yes you’re right about having more time and better reflexes back then, but at the same time I feel like I pick up on cues and understand more what the developers intended for the player the older I’ve got. I remember playing the same levels over and over as a kid and eventually losing motivation to continue (this is somewhat balanced out by the fact that yes, I’d have more time, and also I didn’t have as many games - so I had more incentive to keep playing one to completion). Whereas nowadays I’ve got more patience and I can work out ‘oh I’m probably meant to go that way’ based on my experience of playing lots of different games over the years. I’ve built up more of an intuition for these things.

That said, I’m not sure I could beat many NES games!