It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

I play all sorts of different games though, some where you’re not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal

Yeah I get that too now you’ve said it!

It looks like a shady dealer in an orange hoodie.

It’s not really that surprising that the average user wants the most popular search engine instead of yahoo (of all things) baked in, whatever your views on Google.

I remember having to change things I got from… places… from epub to mobi using calibre for my old school kindle to recognise it years ago. I don’t even have that device anymore.

Glad they’re accepting what appears to be the standard format tbh.

This is about misinformation on social media plays a part in war and journalism

I mean that shows the self-awareness that he knew that that was part of the humour really!

Summer Lightning was one of my favourites. You can’t go wrong with that one.

I do quite enjoy Wodehouse for Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings although one unemployed summer spent a lot of time binge reading them and they become quite repetitive!

Have updated comment above 🙂

If anyone wants the Radio Plays I can share a Google drive link

EDIT Here you go

Includes original radio series and the noughties radio series (adaptations of books - not as good but has the original cast and is entertaining)

The 70s records - essentially the commercial version of the first radio series - has the Disaster Area sequence in the for ‘Black Ship’ instead of the shapehifting aliens.

The Dirk Gently radio series with Harry Enfield. Inferior to the books but the most faithful adaptation.

Funnily enough gay sex was fine in ancient Rome (as long as you were the dominant one) but having sex in the light (whether natural or candle light) was seen as a massive taboo.

(Amongst the upper and middle classes anyway, I doubt the majority of people cared)

Paywall free link

I mean I do think that whatever encourages people to read is great, but I know I’m getting old when I read in the article like this:

Filming themselves finishing a book in a single day against a backdrop of hundreds of them on shelves is all part of the performance, and viewers will be extra impressed if the book looks thick.

And just think “wtf?”

Obviously - I guess I’m more surprised at The Register in that case. They’re a very savvy industry magazine. Presumably they get a hefty wad.

Thanks for this - this is something that has passed me by. So essentially plagarising another website’s content for traffic plus the usual Google shenanigans? Nice

Thanks for the info - was not aware of this before. Yet more wonderful business practices from the world of big tech…

Sorry for that, but I don’t actually understand what you mean…

EDIT OK I’ve googled it and it seems to be a page that is sponsored by Google but I use Firefox and it worked fine with that - so is the problem that it doesn’t work with certain browsers?

Someone I’m in a Discord group with wanted an invite to bluesky because it was more familiar to him than Mastodon.

He pretty much wanted a like-for-like replacement for Twitter, though to his credit he had already tried Mastodon before dismissing it out of hand.

It’s not that he disliked it exactly, but he wasn’t that interested by what he saw so didn’t stick with it - to each their own

Tbh, I think the first two books are the best and it finishes perfectly for me there. It feels like that’s where he was on a roll creatively and his heart was really still into it. That might not actually be true, but that’s how it feels.

Douglas Adams himself didn’t like the third book although I still like bits of it. The fourth and fifth I don’t enjoy much - they’re not bad books, just not very funny.

I mean this isn’t miles away from what the writer’s strike is about. Certainly I think the technology is great but after the last round of tech companies turning out to be fuckwits (Facebook, Google etc) it’s only natural that people are going to want to make sure this stuff is properly regulated and run fairly (not at the expense of human creatives).

No sorry, this is an extremely trivial thing to send death threats over. The PR for this achieves the impossible and gains sympathy for Unity