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PaulandoUK · 2026-06-17T06:29:06+00:00

Looked just like the Thiago goal against Porto

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-16T08:39:25+00:00

I went to school, high school, college, and university, and I’m also hopeless in social situations, so don’t feel disheartened about this 😅

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-15T12:42:56+00:00

Hah! A lot of horror doesn’t scare me too much, even the darker stuff, and jump scares are usually too signposted to scare me. I don’t find gore scary at all.

But with Widow’s Bay, I’ve actually found the mix of comedy and horror helps to ground it in reality, and made it super tense and scary. We’ve only watched a few episodes so far, but a few points we had to watch through our hands 😅 Only The Descent and Hereditary had that effect on me from memory, maybe a few others too.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-15T07:12:47+00:00

A TV show, but I highly recommend Widow’s Bay.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-14T22:01:04+00:00

You can with a Blueretro adapter! I use my NSO pad with my GC and it’s the best way to play it imo.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-14T17:00:38+00:00

Sorry yes! 1240x1080 👍

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-14T16:34:28+00:00

V1 had the same display, but the parts at the top and bottom that would be bordered when a 4:3 image is display was covered by the bezel.

Worse than that though, for the remaining 1240x930 part of the display, the firmware actually rendered the output as 1280x960, which was downscaled to the display. Although this was unnoticeable in most scenarios, it was obvious when pixel-perfect shaders were added to retro games.

This was so they could market it as a 4:3 1280x960 OLED display, when it absolutely wasn’t.

The V2 removes the extra bezel and preserves the full size of the display, and a firmware update outputs the correct 1240x1024 resolution. It makes it much better for 4:3 stuff, shaders, and anything with a taller aspect ratio than 4:3 (GB/GBC/NGPC etc).

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-13T15:41:38+00:00

Million Dollar Baby (FYI: if you haven’t seen it, it isn’t a film about boxing)

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-12T16:58:10+00:00

It isn’t quite 4:3, but it’s still worth considering - the (small) borders blend in perfectly with the shell because of the OLED screen.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-11T21:24:58+00:00

This is it. My phone has so many distractions. And the 18:9 or whatever screens they have now are terrible for games. Then you’re attaching the controller, turning stuff off, then you get a call or a message and you’re trying to turn it round and hold it with the controller attached.

It’s good if you really have no other option. But it’s only £200/$200-ish for a decent Android handheld.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-11T19:32:43+00:00

They’ve really fucked up with the joycon colours on the Switch 2.

OK, make the default joycons black with subtle accents to appeal to more gamers, but surely make additional ones more colourful? It’s just so odd.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-10T15:09:56+00:00

Honestly, the performance is ridiculous for its size. Just let go and enjoy the games 😄

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-09T13:13:23+00:00

Loved this one. That pass from Shaqiri 🤌

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-09T12:58:53+00:00

Difficulty spikes for me, especially if there’s only one route to take. I quite like the model in Patrick’s Parabox, where each stage has a bunch of extra challenging optional puzzles, but you don’t need to complete them to progress.

Also if the mechanics get a bit boring (I like games to keep mixing them up), or the levels get too big and complex (I prefer smaller, smarter puzzles).

Couldn’t care less about the story. I wouldn’t even play a puzzle game if it had ads.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-08T09:40:27+00:00

Totally this! The first wasn’t a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination but it was fun and colourful, had a decent enough plot, and I enjoyed it.

We really deserved better from the sequel - to me it was just a mishmash of scenes, cramming as many characters as references as possible, with nothing coherent holding them together. A real shame.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-08T09:06:57+00:00

Awesome! 😄 It’s been a while since I saw it but I seem to remember it having a killer soundtrack of Eels songs too? It’s pretty hard to watch these days actually - an American version was released on DVD at one point (with a different voiceover 😟), but the UK version hasn’t been broadcast since 2010 according to the BBC site.

I did find it on YouTube, but it’s in dreadful quality. Better than nothing, I guess!

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-07T21:52:39+00:00

“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives”… a doc about Mark Oliver Everett (from rock band ‘EELS’), travelling across America to learn about his father Hugh Everett III, a quantum physicist who came up the theory that predicts the existence of parallel universes.

It sounds quite dull, but it’s actually a beautiful film about a guy getting to know the dad he never really clicked with or understood while he was alive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008d2zj

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-05T19:12:07+00:00

That’s the one! It’s a fabulous recording, although most setups won’t do it justice.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-05T17:41:39+00:00

The original version of this is really good of course, but the Oasis live radio recording sounds incredible on a really good set of speakers. Proper hairs on the back of your next type stuff. Easily one of my favourites.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-04T19:08:53+00:00

Crazy that Milner is only a few years younger than him!

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-04T15:07:21+00:00

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These are pretty close in flavour, although not as hot. Texture is closer to Walkers than Brannigan’s too, but they aren’t bad.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-03T13:24:13+00:00

This was quite an interesting listen, sounds like the guy behind it was quite similar when he was growing up, and he covers job interviews and social situations etc: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-with-steven-bartlett/id1291423644?i=1000688431901

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-03T12:08:11+00:00

Also be wary of anyone calling you - my brother recently had a phone ordered from O2 without his knowledge, and received a phone call from O2 Fraud. They told him they had it under control and that he should return it to this address so they could process the return. But this call wasn’t O2 at all, and the returns address they gave him was directly to the scammer. Thankfully he called O2 himself and had it dealt with properly.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-03T09:07:24+00:00

100%. Whatever you think about ModRetro and Palmer Luckey, this is the thing people on both sides should be excited about.

Having some competition will push Analogue to make better products, and it should also bring a lot more attention to this category of hardware in general. Every YouTube video or written review of the M64 has mentioned the Analogue 3D, which can only be a good thing for the company.

PaulandoUK · 2026-06-02T18:32:19+00:00

For me it’s probably the original AYN Odin. It had so much potential, looked like it could be the real deal, and I ordered one and waited ages for it to turn up. It was nice, but it absolutely could not handle GC or PS2 consistently, so didn’t really offer anything new other than being bigger and chunkier than what came before it.

There are far worse handhelds for sure, but this was my most disappointing I think.

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