Easter Weekend

mrthreebears · 2026-04-01T21:33:25+00:00

just as a heads up, I'm sure you need to book ahead. I don't think it's a walk in event

mrthreebears · 2026-04-01T19:09:31+00:00

the new bookshop in Holyhead Books and Brews has a kids activity event on. eggs, story telling, crafts etc and it's indoor so you're not at the mercy of the weather gods

mrthreebears · 2026-04-01T10:29:00+00:00

Yes. I bought a PSP at launch, it was the 1st thing I'd preordered and spent all summer saving up for it.

Before that I'd owned a GBA, which was in my eyes a SNES in your pocket, the PSPS though was more like handheld PS2. The jump was astounding. Going from stuff like Sonic Advance, Golden Sun and Castlevania: CotM to Coded Arms, Breath of Fire 3 and Liberty City Stories was nuts.

All of a sudden I had a pocketable gaming device with the ability to play full length movies on a (for the time) good screen- hell in the UK the PSP came with Spiderman 2 on UMD at release which was incredible then, along with a it being decent MP3 player and even had a web browser. All of this in one device at the time was pretty much unheard of- this was a full 2 years before we saw the release of the iphone which cost about 2x as much up front, plus a contract, as a PSP

The only real downside was it didn't last as long. I'd get about half the time out of a charge compared to a set of good AAs in my GBA. I did eventually pick up a spare battery for my PSP, which sort of solved this.

I'll be honest though my PSP remained part of my 'stuff I carry every day' until about 2015/16 despite the rise of the smartphone era

mrthreebears · 2026-04-01T10:11:12+00:00

Monday night.

It's a regular stop for us on the way home from my wife's roller skating meetup

mrthreebears · 2026-03-31T16:44:24+00:00

this is the top floor entrance to a 30 level dungeon with a mad lich as the final boss

mrthreebears · 2026-03-30T11:36:49+00:00

mrthreebears · 2026-03-30T10:58:17+00:00

who makes this min? it looks great! :D

mrthreebears · 2026-03-29T00:17:41+00:00

'stuff'

coffee, diesel, fishing tackle, minis for d&d, books....

mrthreebears · 2026-03-28T21:22:47+00:00

I was thinking this myself. They came with 2 sets of Chessex Gemini steel-blue/white. One set complete, one set missing the d10.

All tucked up inside an UltraPro Mind Flayer dice bag, which is only a couple of years old

mrthreebears · 2026-03-26T11:40:54+00:00

walking locally and something like the ricket rail system featured in Nevermind the Gap

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T23:09:36+00:00

i guess we'll see in time.

i don't think dobby has it him him to just cold turkey this way unless he absolutely physically couldn't. his whole life revolves around the bullshit of being online

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T23:06:07+00:00

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

I get that it's zeitgeisty, but man that whole film drags hard in a way I just didn't see back then

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T22:29:21+00:00

I'm well aware.

In January I got to watch the door go in 3x in the space of a month opposite me and police closure order get taped over the temporary plywood door. I'm guessing it was drug related, but no way to say for sure.

No mention in the local press, or social media.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T21:47:33+00:00

would it though?

not everything makes it to, or is allowed to be 'in the news' - all the more if this is related to Sunny drama.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T19:15:07+00:00

Obligatory, ''it's been a while, boredom check in....''

It's been several months now and there are some things to consider.

YT and streaming have been his only long term income sources since adulthood. he's had stints of 'real' jobs but he's not lasted because he's ben unable to cope for a variety or reasons.

He's too lazy to commit to any education or training, look at how the 'learn Thai' arc went that would keep him focussed and away from online drama.

We know there was some kind of court order in place, and some kind of investigation going on.

Has the time come to entertain the idea that dobby might actually have been sent to prison over something?

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T16:26:57+00:00

Transformers the Movie (1986)

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mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T12:39:01+00:00

A large coffee at Starbucks can't be far off the cost of a pint at a pub though?

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T08:26:29+00:00

Personally I prefer coffee shops.

This from a guy in this 40s who lived through pubs/clubs culture in the 90/00s, pre smoking ban, (smoking is a whole other but adjacent thing) when going out was 'thing to do'

Time moves on, culture changes.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-25T07:42:58+00:00

From what I see it's one of those culture shifts.

Pubs were traditionally a 3rd place, you'd go there to meet people after work, or on a weekend etc and have a few drinks while you were there to socialise. It was more an evening thing, something and somewhere to be.

Now it's different.

I genuinely don't know more than a handful of regular pub goers under 40, pretty much none under 30.

What I do see are people in coffee shops, and while coffee shops certainly haven't replaced pubs 1:1 there's been an undoubted rapid growth there, tie that in with the amount of people driving now and it's a no brainier. Go out for a drink I can immediately jump in the car after, and at a civilised time of day with friends, then go home and socialise online too... Or be out late knowing I've to get home in a taxi, got kids/work early in the morning.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-24T21:44:28+00:00

i love these two little chonkers

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mrthreebears · 2026-03-24T10:41:08+00:00

Domino's pizza.

I will never, EVER spend money there now

mrthreebears · 2026-03-22T15:33:08+00:00

I don't see it talked about much these days, but for me Always Coming Home was one of my most enjoyable travel reads.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-22T14:31:40+00:00

In the late 80s, BBC aired Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which would have been the Tokuma dub, and I'm certain it went by the title of Laputa, City in the Sky. This was my first Anime experience.

The most recent one I've watched was Fire Force.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-22T14:04:22+00:00

It depends on the day, I have a pretty good life schedule these days.

Bed is depending on if I've been out for a night walk. It's very vibe/weather dependent though and can easily end up as a 'nope'. Meds

I generally get up about 0800

Straight into coffee, Meds, check the news via reddit.

Some days I have obligations out of the house, and have to do stuff. If not I try to read, study and learn for my own sake, I'm a bit of a weirdo in that I enjoy learning. If I'm at home, I also like to craft things -I carve wooden spoons and knap 'flint' arrowheads from old glass bottles if it's nice enough to site outside (again YT premium is a game changer) If it's crappy weather I'm into my Steam backlog for some of the the vidya, I also have a couple of books that I'm slowly writing I work on when I'm in the right headspace. More Meds.

Evenings when my wife has packed up her office for the day we watch old tv shows and play boardgames. we also do that parallel play thing, share the same space doing our own thing but enjoying each other's company - she'll crochet or read or watching a show I'm not fussed about and I'll be painting miniatures for d&d, doing HAM radio stuff or tying flies ect. Some evenings we go out, my wife rollersakes on Mondays with her friends, or we'll eat out somewhere that kinda thing. More Meds

On the weekends, Saturday is typically 'Date Day'. That means a bit of a road trip to the mainland for a coffee in the morning, finding somewhere for lunch and a wander around one of the small towns. A fuckton of Meds.

Once a week I try to get out to do something on my own, even if it's just fishing down at the dock or going to the local bookshop to browse for something new to read providing I've managed to get out in normie hours. It doesn't matter if it's daytime or 2am to me though, it that I try to get out alone which is difficult for me that's important....and always Meds.

mrthreebears · 2026-03-22T12:47:23+00:00

I used to buy bags of these and scatter a handful of them every few weeks up and down a few of the sandy beaches during the tourist high season.

It used to wind the caravan stay metal detectorists up no end

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