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Ocarina of Time finished 100% by me and the wife. It’s just a better version of the two previous iterations but it’s a better version of one of the best games of all time so what can you say. Loved it.

I always enjoyed him. I started watching in 2000 so he was already a biker by the time I got into it so I have no qualms with his booger red phase as that was my era of Undertaker. By the time he came back as the Deadman I had watched enoigh VHS and DVDs to be excited about it and didn’t particularly care it was half arsed and he had just stuck a coat on. I think like HHH he’s massively underrated and put on some great matches with some of the best, and for a lot of them kept up with the best. His crap matches always get highlighted over his good ones, or his opponents always get the credit over him in the good matches. He successfully moved a stupid gimmick from a time full of stupid gimmicks into a modern era and kept it mostly fresh. Is it outweighed by him likely voting for Trump both times, being in a little dorky biker gang with Yokozuna and Papa Shango and having a crap podcast? Probably not for me. I rate him even if the man behind the gimmick is a braindead yank.

There’s a few decent quality of life improvements, some voice acted cutscenes and generally the game looks and plays better than it ever has, but it is just the original Ocarina of Time. If you played Ocarina of Time 3DS and thought that was just the same as the N64, you’ll have the same opinion on this one.

The bigger crime than releasing a Christmas song in early November is that instead of rhyming “Ma and Pa” with “Daughter-in-Law” she has instead made up the term “In-Law Daughter” to rhyme with “Mother and Father”. I eagerly await her contacting me for advice for the next album before she makes any further blunders.

We’re a few dungeons in but so far my favourite thing has been to follow the flow of water from the entrance to Kakariko up to the well. Such a pretty game.

Sorry Jazzy I wasn’t trying to make you feel guilty or anything! Just fuckin hate AI. Anyway Happy Zelda day everyone. I already had the last couple weeks booked off for our wedding anniversary so me and the wife are currently bunkered in playing through the Deku Tree after a quick snack run this morning. I’m in my cosy armchair, the fireplace is on, life is good.

I'm not laying blame at Onyx and Jazzy specifically because it would be massively unfair, but one of the most dangerous uses of AI is this "well they're only using it to do X so it's ok". Usually innocuous stuff like in this case coding old WWF games or playing Street Fighter 2. It's very easy to look at the wider AI landscape and see the things most people hate like creating artwork or music and say how shit it is, but the more it's normalised with minor things like this then that's a foot in the door and before you know it we'll be accepting the AI artwork because at least it's not something else worse, and eventually it will just be universally accepted. Every time one of these videos is shared and accepted of "AI is rubbish except this time, this time is fine" it's a step closer to just having entirely AI games with AI art and AI code and AI sound and there being no point to any of it except the planet got a little more fucked creating it.

I will happily up-play the condiments thread again as I've just realised that's where the Dry Daz saga started and now I'm reading through it all again. #mayointhecupboard

Lidl are selling HP Fruity Sauce. I may be wrong but I haven't personally seen it since I was a kid and my Grandad had a bottle. It's top stuff and was a nice alternative to the usual HP for my pork pie.

Is it just a long baguette full of beans and those little bean sausages?

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It's a good idea but I just can't get behind someone saying "I did this" and "I created that" when ultimately they've done bugger all. As far as I can tell his own video graphics are AI generated. So it's a guy using AI to vibe code a mod for an already existing game, using AI to design his own content and then claiming he did it. Sorry Onyx but I just can't get behind it. I'd rather someone took a year to do it by hand and it come out worse, but at least you can genuinely pat them on the back for the effort.

We moved in February to a house without a dishwasher and since then I’ve had no less than four or five small arguments with my wife, who is insistent on leaving dishes to soak. Not like a pot or pan, but combining greasy pans with cups and glasses that just needed a quick rinse and are now also greasy. Also the odd sharp knife left in the water amongst the blunt cutlery. I believe it to be weaponised incompetence because I finally caved and got a dishwasher.

A filling came out a few weeks ago, had to go to the dentist which due to binning off their NHS services has quoted me £600 for 3 fillings and an extraction. I’m doing it on finance because funnily enough I don’t have £600 laying around, so it means I can’t even attempt to book the treatment for 2 weeks until the finance cooling off period ends. Edit: I received a phonecall from them and thankfully because I joined their monthly plan for £18 a month it knocks 20% off my bill and they also deduct the £95 consultation fee I already paid just to be seen. A much more agreeable £350ish left to pay thankfully but that’s after a up-front payment and joining a subscription. Still an absolute con compared to being on the NHS though.

Get yourselves searching for “Zelda” on Google.