I’ve been playing, for the first time, the original Deus Ex. I’m trying to do it by stealth and knockouts, but unfortunately I’m really bad at stealth games and so I’m finding it quite a slog. Also... the way I remember PS2 games was that their graphics were pretty good, but playing this now I can’t help but notice…

Congratulations! Welcome to the joys of fatherhood, and also having to arrange child future birthday things just after Christmas!

“Being a Jew on Christmas meant that I had some great time to spend finishing games”

I’ve just now realised that grizzled Marine Corps dude (Lt. Col Robert Burns. No really!) is Oghren from Dragon Age.

You shouldn’t have a microwave anyway. ‘Tis the Devil’s toaster.

Well in that case I’ll have an awkward conversation with my wife this weekend about how I want to quit my job to concentrate more on video games, and that it’s really important that she supports me at this difficult time. Wish me luck.

If you decide to quit your job so you can concentrate on video games, please let me know how it turns out, because I’ve been thinking of doing the same thing.

How the heck do you force line breaks?

For my birthday a few weeks ago, the Lady McLurk kindly bought me a PS4, and so I’m currently playing... PS3 games that I really meant to get around to but didn’t until now. (I’m good at deferred gratification).

He was certainly quite prickly. Unnecessarily so.

The A.V. Cl - nope apparently it’s still reddit.

Well alright then. You must have just been posting in places I wasn’t lurking. Last time I saw you, you were engaged in a long-running argument with Teadoust.

You don’t appear to be in the greys anymore.

And a short internet search later, I discover that Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is on GOG.

Fallout 3

“Cate Blanchett is one of those actors that seems almost supernatural, capable of disappearing into roles as large as Bob Dylan and Galadriel.”

We went with shades of cream and grey, with some animal stickers on the wall near her cot.

I really enjoyed it the first time (and yes, both the mansion defence set-piece and the punga fruit trip were really well done). But somehow on replay... I dunno, maybe I’m just getting grumpier in my old age.

Fallout 3

My first one of these in our post-Kinjapocalyptic age: