Bluebird Hewitt

Sorry to hear about that.

I've always had VR as a bit of a gimmick myself, though at the same time, the thought of trying the likes of Resi 7 and Alien Isolation in VR would give me a minor heart attack.

Cheers. I've heard the difficulty spikes later on in the game to the point that it becomes very challenging. Only a good thing really so might try my luck on that.

Have fun. Still have the N64 cartridges of both, though I will warn you that Goldeneye has not aged well at all. For me, I've finally completed Kiryu's journey with Yakuza 6 and while I have Judgement ready and waiting, I need a chnage of pace after going through 3-6 in succession. Crash 4 is next @Mpache.

I might do at some point, though I've just been struggling for time more recently. The idea of being a Pirate King sounds appealing though.

Haven't played any of the Tropico games myself. Can't remember which version it was, but one of them was free as part of PS Plus in the past. Didn't get round to aying it though.

Not for a while methinks. Got a bit of a backlog to get through before getting anything else.

Finishing off Yakuza 6 now and then going to start Crash 4. Been playing the Yakuza series non stop for the past few months so need a chnage of pace.

Think Will of the Wisps is available on Switch (or at least confirmed for it). Might give it a shot at some point, among many other things.

In fairness, the games are a good 20 years old (Red Alert 2 at least).

Still got my copies of Red Alert 2 and Generals. Really enjoyed them but they won't run on my Mac.

Got Horizon on Black Friday as it was very cheap (about £8). Haven't started it yet mind. That lot should keep you going for a while.

Yeah, there are moments where it can get tough. Cracking remake though, even if the story was a bit messed up this time.

Ah ok, fair enough. I attended a funeral in England just over two weeks ago and there was no wake afterwards, so assumed it was a general ban as they're banned in Wales as well.

While I agree with how the media has been in general around this from all angles (left and right wing) and agree that this was nothing more than a brief blip, something like this isn't helpful when the leader of your country makes an error while telling the public they must do this or face fines. Also, @Inverted would be able to confirm this but I thought wakes were generally banned (I know it is with us now and I think it's the same in England as well).

According to Walesonline, Wales currently has the worst Covid infection rates in the world. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/worst-covid-coronavirus-rates-world-19506904 Obviously with us being a far smaller country than the likes of England, America, France, Germany etc, any surge in cases will make us look worse, while any reductions would be swift and bring it down quickly. At the same time, considering how many people keep saying that Drakeford and Gething are doing a great job, it's still pretty damning. Also, nice to see the nationalists immediately blame Westminster for the Welsh Government not being able to have a longer second lockdown. One that the Welsh Government did off there own back.

For anyone interested. Alien Isolation is currently free on the Epic Game Store. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-12-21-the-wonderful-alien-isolation-is-free-on-the-epic-game-store

Don't think any government in the UK can say they've done well in all honesty.

I might be thinking too simplistically, but I'd have thought a strain more contagious would likely lead to more hospital admissions due to it spreading quicker.

The likes of the Guardian and the Daily Mirror at least (regardless of what you think of them) do challenge a lot of the stuff they say or do mind. The likes of BBC and Walesonline (the later part of the Mirror group) will barely challenge the Welsh Government, if at all. From the national side, here's the Guardian spinning Stephen Kinnock's breaking of lockdown rules to celebrate Neil Kinnocks birthday (which was before Cummings trip and a good distance as well) by criticising the police for putting up a tweet about it. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/29/stephen-kinnock-targeted-by-police-for-visiting-father-neil His defence was that he had to deliver necessary supplies (which I quickly checked is about 180 miles between Aberavon and London, a bit of a distance to provide necessary supplies and, coincidently, on Neil's birthday). No action taken by Welsh Government or Labour in general, but both sets immediately demanding Cummings to resign immediately after his travel broke out. Got no issue with calls for Cummings to resign. I just hate the sheer hypocrisy. Add to that the nationalists in Plaid Cymru (who basically prop them up while 'trying' to challenge them) and anything the Tories say or do gets immediately shit down here, that part in bold is not too far from the truth really. I had heard one thing (obviously I can't confirm it either way) whereby a media outlet had ciriticsed a council on something. As the publication is funded by said council, they threatened to pull funding if they did it again. Gething even tried to argue against the Sun (not a bad thing in most circumstances) over the story they mentioned about him breaking his own rules (he did). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-55349983 Don't be mistaken. The point of all my posts (even if some have gone to extremes) has been to prove my point that ours can literally do whatever they like at a moment's notice (that got passed through the Senedd) and barely anyone bats an eyelid. Anyone criticising them immediately gets shot down as 'you don't care', 'you're a Tory', they did this 'because of the virus' (people actually believed that for the non essential ban, by the way) etc etc.

Not to be outdone by Boris and on the basis of absolutely fuck all once again, Drakeford has decided to bring forward the lockdown. From 28th December to midnight tonight, with the only exception being Christmas Day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55379237 But naturally, like everything else in Wales, they won't be contested, the media won't challenge like they do with the UK Government and the lapdogs will lap it up once again. Only need the non essential ban back with no preparation time again to round it off.

Boris has announced a press conference for 4pm. Not another lockdown already surely.

Despite having a four nations approach agreed for Christmas and discussions around it, Drakeford has once again decided to be different for no reason by spinning the agreed approach and saying that two households (plus one singular person who lives alone) can meet up for Christmas. This is also to be made law because why the fuck not. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55336452 Good luck enforcing that once again.

Third lockdown announced for Wales from the 28th December. Not sure how long for yet as it's still being announced. Wonder if they'll do the 'non essential' bollocks again like they did during the second lockdown. Waiting to hear that come out again. Also seen that 1 in 5 are testing positive in Wales at present, despite the more cautious approach. EDIT: Now announced as an open dated lockdown and reviewed every three weeks. So locked down for most of 2021 it is then.

I'm a bit lucky in that I have a good chunk of my family nearby, the only exception being my mum in the south west, who I won't be seeing this year. A pain not to see them, but it was expected unfortunately.