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Paraphrasing a Kinda Funny discussion of the game: Greg (a dog person): I just wasn't feeling that the cat was emotionally invested in any of this. Janet (a cat person): Of course not, it's a cat! My cat loves me, but if someone came in here and shot me she would be upset because there was a loud noise.

Treated myself to a new watch. This time it's the Orient Kamasu. Got it for £300 and it's absolutely gorgeous. I may end up switching the band out as I'm not a massive fan of metal bracelets, but aside from that I think it might be my favourite watch in my collection.

Oh yeah, that reminds me... saw this a while back and it's amazing... I'm definitely getting a new watch next bonus paycheck. lol. https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Stray Also known as Kitty Simulator 2022. This was an adorable little game. I wouldn't quite call it a walking simulator but it is a very guided experience. The platforming is pretty much automated but I actually think that was the right call here because cats are famously agile and surefooted animals and it would be pretty immersion breaking to have total control over the cat's jumping onto tiny surfaces only to constantly miss and stumble. The gameplay of this mostly consists of interacting with the characters, doing some simple puzzles, a few stealth segments here and there, and navigating your way through environments by finding out where the cat can go that the robot NPCs can't. It's not super deep but it's pretty charming and it doesn't wear out its welcome. I finished it in roughly 5 hours, though that was without hunting down every collectible. The cat's movements and behavior are quite realistic and, while I hate to sound like IGN here, it really does feel like you're playing an actual cat. My favorite thing about the game is how many of the puzzle solutions require you to act like a little asshole. You know, like a cat. You knock things off of shelves, steal things, scratch up furniture, make messes, and just generally do dickish cat things to progress in the game, which I found very amusing. If you're not already a cat lover then maybe you might be underwhelmed, but if you're not a cat lover then why are you playing the kitty simulator to begin with?

You guys convinced me, and I convinced my wife by telling her that it's apparently the best depiction of Native Americans ever in a major movie. As soon as I told her that they had actual native people not just as consultants but as actual highly involved people at all levels of the production she was like "well then let's watch it, I want to support that," so we're watching it this weekend.

Ditched Hotwheels. As I mentioned before, it wasn't scratching the itch that I want a FH game to scratch, so rather than continue to push against it I've jumped off entirely. Not really playing anything at the moment, however I did get a chance to load up Multiverses and I got as far as the games opening menu before I was told I HAD to have a WBgames account to progress further. At that point I closed the game and I'm not sure I'll be going back. I don't remember being forced to sign up for an account in any other game before. IIRC even Rocket League only forces you into an Epic account because of the cross-play, and even that allows you to play without an account.