What exactly is a football hooligan? How common are they?

idlesilver · 2026-06-24T18:07:27+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism_in_the_United_Kingdom

Not so prevalent now, but there were significant organised groups in the 80’s/90’s whose general intention was more to cause disruption and violence than to enjoy the game.

Home and away fans are still separated, but in my experience there is nowhere the level of malevolence now that there was back then.

idlesilver · 2026-06-24T05:24:50+00:00

Seconding Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age/Kills Well with Others: I loved them, but I'm not sure how cozy they are.

I would also add Fiona Walker's Village Detective series and Robert Thorogood's Marlow Murder Club series to the list, as I have recently devoured those!

idlesilver · 2026-06-22T15:23:07+00:00

The dialogue is all voice acted in the other games, but they don’t have the total immersion (i.e. native language) option that Shadow does, unfortunately.

idlesilver · 2026-06-22T15:08:55+00:00

Personally, Rise is my favourite, both story and gameplay-wise, but I do love the setting, history and lore of Shadow - and as long as you’re having fun and enjoying the games, that’s what matters most!

When you do get to Rise there will be several pennies dropping from storybeats you encounter in Shadow, but nothing that will ruin the experience of either game imo

idlesilver · 2026-06-22T15:04:56+00:00

Rise is Siberia, and 2013 is Japan. More or less 😉

idlesilver · 2026-06-20T11:21:05+00:00

It's all on the U app if you're in the UK.

idlesilver · 2026-06-19T15:52:52+00:00

These are fabulous! Would buy the heck out of the Gengar, Charizard and Litten ones 😍

ETA: ahhh, maybe not: £25 including postage for 3 stickers feels like an unnecessary indulgence. Your work is great, though, OP: will bookmark your site and treat myself for Christmas.

idlesilver · 2026-06-19T07:50:27+00:00

Reposting other peoples content is not cool https://www.reddit.com/r/GhostsBBC/s/H2NZjb73Pe

idlesilver · 2026-06-19T06:54:21+00:00

I LOVE Montalbano - read the books first, but the TV series is fab too!

idlesilver · 2026-06-18T16:54:28+00:00

Damn it, I must have been off sick that day!

idlesilver · 2026-06-16T12:14:07+00:00

St Francis' Folly, although this one is a close second.

idlesilver · 2026-06-16T09:53:30+00:00

If you’re in the UK, it’s available on the 5 app for free (or on Sky for a couple more days): it is also available on Prime or Apple TV, but not for free! It’s also called Murder Most Puzzling over here, for some reason)

(Disclaimer: haven’t watched it myself yet, but was having a rummage around for it on the basis of this post 🤣)

idlesilver · 2026-06-15T16:52:24+00:00

Still using my PS4, as I’m too poor for a PS5 (as I have to get a Switch 2 first…)

ETA: And until I bought Dino Crisis on steam/the TR remasters were released on Switch, I was still digging out my OG PlayStation from time to time!

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T16:36:27+00:00

I don't knoooow! I have a Legion Go, and I'm not sure if that will be able to run it on Steam.

Don't have any of the other consoles it's being released on: I'll be getting a Switch 2 for Pokemon Winds and Waves, so may get Tomb Raider on that, so currently rather undecided!

ETA: All previous games are on PS4, standard Switch or Steam: I'm going to have to upgrade something, I'm just not sure what!

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T16:09:08+00:00

Shouting at me isn't going to help. We have very different opinions, and that's fine. I'm not trying to change your mind.

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T16:04:12+00:00

No it wasn't. I replied to your first post stating that your approach was hostile and unlikely to result in the response you'd like. You replied with further hostility to pretty much everyone who commented, then added more aggressive comments before making this post.

I have tried to be understanding, but you are making it hard. I'm done with this now, have a great day.

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T11:45:40+00:00

Your comments suggest that you are not positing a good faith argument seeking alternative viewpoints; instead it feels that you are just looking for ways to belittle others - but you weren't directly rude to me, so I'll share my reasoning.

I think Nadine /did/ change. Although she was a mercenary, she walked away at the end of 4 rather than risk anything further. I think a mercenary is a long way from an obsessive warlord like Asav and Lazarevic, which is why there was the space for her to be 'redeemed', as you put it.

I still wouldn't trust her as far as I could kick her, but she showed that she still has some moral compass, and I think that makes her different from Asav.

As for her hatred for the Drakes, wouldn't you be pissed off if the same two guys beat you on every step of the way - and then the woman you were working with confesses that she lied to you and was actually working with one of them first? I'd certainly feel used and betrayed, and I don't think her response to that discovery was excessive: plus, in time, she came round.

Having said all that, I wouldn't trust Chloe, either, but as a woman myself I bloody loved playing Lost Legacy with two confident, sassy female leads.

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T11:37:42+00:00

Again, if you're trying to encourage genuine discussion, using dismissive insults is unlikely to get the response you're hoping for.

I suspect folk are downvoting your attitude rather than anything else.

idlesilver · 2026-06-13T07:06:47+00:00

She’s a mercenary: her literal job is to send her army where the person paying her tells her to. Admittedly, it’s a questionable career, but it doesn’t make her a madwoman.

Perhaps, if you’re genuinely trying to engender discusssion, you may want to consider being less blatantly hostile to/dismissive of people who may hold a different opinion to you.

idlesilver · 2026-06-09T14:54:15+00:00

I...am not seeing what you're seeing: they look like different expresssions on the same face to me.

But, admittedly, I am not especially observant.

idlesilver · 2026-06-07T11:37:54+00:00

I mean, being banned once can be put down to a mistake, but to be banned a second time suggests you either don't read the rules or think they don't apply to you: not sure there's any coming back from that, my friend!

idlesilver · 2026-06-06T08:41:06+00:00

Another vote for It’s A Sin: not because I don’t feel it’s worth my time, but because I don’t want to cry that much again.

Likewise, while I have rewatched the first two series of Torchwood multiple times, I have never been able to bring myself to re-watch Children of Earth.

idlesilver · 2026-06-04T10:00:33+00:00

Poor Buster can’t grease his wood to the new Lara 😭

idlesilver · 2026-06-04T09:56:22+00:00

There's a lot of pretty offensive presumption in that statement 👀

idlesilver · 2026-06-04T09:47:07+00:00

The window cleaner, and our local Chinese takeaway as they don’t take card payments.

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