TheFlyingGerbil

Animal Crossing - I was worried Pocket Camp had put me off the series, but I love it as much as I hoped I would. I'm cautiously optimistic I'll stick with it as I've not really been playing games much at all recently. Yoku's Island Express - I've been wanting this since before it came out but only fairly recently got it and while I'm really not great at pinball mechanics but it's not frustrating me. Quite the oposite - I'm enjoying it. Though if the percentage when I load it is anything to go by it's a lot shorter than I was expecting.

I can't believe I actually looked up if there was going to be a sequel. Mind you, you never can tell with Nintendo.

That is pretty impressive to have a clear backlog, well done. The only way I clear mine is selling consoles.

It looks digital, so it may be worth doing each feature on its own layer and then you can play around with size and position easily to see what looks good.

I liked my brother printer while it lasted. Do hate printers in general though. Have to say I do like HP instant ink so far - I chose the free option so can print 15 pages a month (miles more than I use) and never need to buy another cartridge. May be worth a look if your Dad's a light user. I literally have given up on printing from my laptop at this point though and just email anything to my phone and it prints fine from there which seems a bit odd.

Also, I actually meant to post that I've started watching Christmas movies which I freely admit are generally terrible, acting and predictable plot wise, but I just seem to love them. I did finally find my limit though with a story about a telepathic dog. The acting was extra bad with the adults, and so bad with the children you could actually tell they were just trying to remember their lines.

Wasn't Jack Whitehall in some homophobic brouhaha with beauty and the beast too? Maybe one too many bad memories haunt him from public school...

Came to post that I got a free month of xbox ... ultimate.. game pass? Or something like that. All the free games. Will need to decide what to play before I redeem it else it will probably go to waste. Also, this appeared when I went to post so turns out I forgot to post this from a while back. loved the first one more than the average reviews. Do not know how I'll cope without the Drippy though as it was such a pleasant surprise to hear a Welsh accent - not sure I've ever heard it in a game before.

Leaving the EU with a bad deal, 5 more years of Tories to get us fucked over by US trade "deals" and all their other for the few, not the many shenanigans. Literally could not be a worse outcome. Genuinely impressive that Labour has managed to remain unelectable in the face of this mess.

I get where your Mum is coming from, but he could just as easily be doing the same thing to people who can't afford to take a $3,000 hit (not that that excuses him in any way) and causing all sorts of trouble for them like unpaid rent/bills etc. so instead of just helping him she could be helping several more deserving people by getting him investigated.

I don't know, tbh. It worked when I went in there, I'm not sure how all the ranking and such things work yet. I'm playing at 150cc as it doesn't seem any harder and you get more points.

Anyone playing the Mario Kart Tour app? It's surprisingly good so far. My code is 4175 0234 3626, though I believe you should be able to see me in your list if we're already friends on switch, where I think I'd show up as, "Joe"?

I've been listening to this song a lot again recently.

We've rescued a Romanian girl who is currently nameless which is getting a bit frustrating but nothing seems to stick. She's a nervous little girl but changed so much in just the week we've had her. A long way to go as she's 4 and never lived in a home and not been treated great so doesn't understand how to live in a home or how to interact with humans that want her around. edit: She's called Ada. When we told the lady who runs the rescue she said that was the name of her first rescue dog from Croatia which is why she decided to set up her own charity to rescue the Romanian dogs so that was nice and helped us feel it's the right name.

are carnivorous plants a viable solution to keeping down flying critters to a manageable level?

you can use the self timer if you don't have a remote. Most cameras have a short option like 2 seconds for the very reason of reducing camera shake, rather than thinking you can dash into a photo that quickly and so you don't have to annoyingly wait 12 seconds for each photo.

You'll be wanting the switch 2 for that...

Never change, Nntendo

I haven't played this game in a while so don't remember exactly but If you press left on the d-pad and click on the mission you can restart the checkpoint/quit it.

Brave Yourself games has made a Zelda game with Crypt of the Necrodancer gameplay. Good to see Nintendo opening up their franchises like this.

I didn't realise there was a dragon quest builders 2. Still need to play the first one I've had sat about since it launched on PS4. Yono just appeared when I went to reply so I guess I didn't post about buying that. THere was a big Sale on the eShop so I bought a few point and clicks and this which is a Zelda-lite sort of thing as far as I can tell.

So I'm not currently playing yet, but which games do you all recommend on Rare Replay before I sell my XO?

I finished the Assissin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy. China was OK, India improved on it in several areas and I preferred the styling of it. Russia was really frustrating. So many timed events where you had to be absolutely perfect and the controls were not good enough for that, so many times I'd try to jump off a ladder and automatically catch back on to it and that one mistake was enough to fail the section I'd even have to repeat some sections half a dozen times or more with literally no errors but still not be fast enough - it had to stop playing a few times because it got so annoying. The other problem was while playing through the first two games I got the first bonus on each level every time and sometimes the second bonus, but on Russia I did not get a single bonus, so had to complete the whole game with one bar of health. Since it was the last in the series it soured the experience a bit.

Yeah, I don't know how much I believe what I wrote, so much as that is the level of restraint I aspire to. One thing for certain is that I have finally learnt my lesson with xBox so unless they do something completely bonkers that will not be sat under my TV next gen. Certainly a streaming subscription box does not appeal.