Sheepdog trials. Though mostly it’s about making things go through the gates.

I had the ZX80. It was terrible.

I don’t ‘try’ to do either.

Either the film’s production and marketing draw me in the intended direction or they don’t. When their vision and my experience fail to align, I expect I’m less likely to enjoy the film.

…That or film was garbage. YMMV

Rainbow Warrior means something quite different in NZ.

It requires careful preparation to really enjoy.
Storage is easy though.I like to keep a whole shelf of the stuff.

Preferably in a building, maybe a store, a properly safe distance from where I shop just in case anyone accidentally discovers it and brings some home…

Indeed they are - to a reserve here

No no no… This, that, and those other ones…

:)

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind…

(Credit to Douglas Adams for the quote… But I’m taking the credit for personally dodging the FB platform)

Definitely B5. For all of its issues it’s one I still enjoy.

If I see any other clones show up I’ll add them to my private clone as remotes.

This way I can easily collate any updates they receive and, if they all start disappearing I’ll be able to re-publish it somewhere anonymously.

Hopefully that provides another tricky target for take-down whack-a-mole.

I have a Note 10+

With the way it’s measuring up today for performance and battery life, if it were going to keep getting OS updates and security updates it’d keep being a great phone for another couple of years yet.

…And compared to some I know, I’m updating frequently.

I really do wish they’d squeeze another 1-2 OS updates into it’s life-span. But at this rate I’ll still be replacing it with whatever its up-to-date peer is in another year or so…

…and re-purposing this one - it’s still awesome (awesomer if it allowed root without losing updates and pay-services)

I loved the C64 (and my eventually '030 expanded Amiga B2000).

I played the hell out of Lode Runner (and on Amiga) and Archon / Archon II.

The others on this list didn’t grab me as much.

Other C64 titles I remember I played a lot were:

• The Bard’s Tale set… I have a sneaky suspicion I have some of the maps lying around in storage somewhere.
• Zork series (I recall getting a guide via a BBS back in the day)
• Paradroid (and Paradroid 90 on the Amiga)
• International Karate +
• The Boulderdash series (and constructor kit… sharing levels back and forth with friends)
• Commando (another title with Rob Hubbard’s musical magic tricks with SID)
• The Pitfall games
• Elite (and now Elite Dangerous on PC)
• Arkanoid / Arkanoid II
• Green Beret
• Wizardry games (I didn’t play the Ultima games until the Amiga)
• Spy hunter (having played this well before seeing Blue’s Brothers, I thought it freaky they were using game music - ah naive young me)
• Pole Position (I think there was a sequel but I don’t recall if that was the C64 or Amiga)
• Ghost’n’Goblins
• The Monty on the Run games
• Nebulus (with some clever overlapping of colour and mono sprites for better resolution)
• The Sentinel (and my book of oh so many level codes - I have never found a satisfyingly playable PC port but the Amiga had a good one)

Some I really missed finding good ports on the Amiga (but then I had a ton of other choices on the Amiga too)

All large shops in England have been legally required to charge for single-use plastic shopping bags since 2015 - a move that has seen bags drop by mor then 95 per cent, according to the government. The legal charge was initially a minimum of 5p, but this was raised to 10p in May 2021 in a bid to further reduce usage.

Doesn’t this approach risk promoting elitism by wealth? Past a given income level that fixed overhead becomes irrelevant.

So those on a lower income, who are more cost-sensitive, are made to be more responsible for reaching pollution-limiting targets than the wealthy.

I prefer the level-playing field better I think (if only we were applying that to more things here).