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My Gaming in 2026: nerdypaul.com

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The band Boston: “What if we start with a greatest hits album and go from there?”

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The world doesn’t talk enough about what a great band Boston were!

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Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave is excellent. It is my first Fire Emblem and now I will need to go back and play Three Houses once I finish this. That is twice this year Nintendo has grabbed me by the short and curlies in a franchise I hadn’t played before (Splatoon Raiders being the other game)

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OK, “slop” has officially become one of my most despised words, up there with “mid” and “woke”. It is been overused to the point it has lost all meaning and is now just a lazy vocabulary choice for the unthinking.

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“They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things? I now like hock, which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash. I...

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Life is great when you are not on any social network site

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Recently got a new pair of the best headphones I’ve ever owned (AKG K712 Pros) after my previous pair fell apart last year after 8 years of abuse. I also pulled my ifi Zen DAC out of the drawer. I almost forgot how good music could sound on a quality pair of wired headphones

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It’s funny how life goes. When you’re young the world is full of bossy old people telling you what to do all the time, then when you get older the world is full of annoying young people who never listen to a word you say.

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Physical Games: nerdypaul.com

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At least I have the Discworld to lose myself in. I started reading the Death series 2 days ago and am enjoying it a lot

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I am so glad I am just a dumb gamer on the internet and not actually in charge of making any decisions in the industry. Companies would end up bankrupt and I would have a nervous breakdown.

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I’m looking forward to no game release November so I can catch up on all the games released in September by companies looking to avoid clashing with a game I have zero interest in (GTA6).

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A short defence of the internet: nerdypaul.com

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Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the Switch 2 release and it has been quite a year.

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Honestly, I have a PS5 Pro and I have a MSI Claw 8, and over the past year I have actually found myself picking up my Switch 2 more than those other two devices. Switch 2 has kind of become my preferred way to play...

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The best thing about summer is strawberry season. Mmmm strawberries

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There is no way I would ever want to be a teenager again but if I could have the spare time of one that would be lovely. Throw in the body of a 20 something and the sensibilities of a 40 something and that would be perfect.

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Wild by Ashley McBryde is a great album, truly a masterpiece of southern rock music. Songs about religion, addiction, toxic relationships, redemption and hope. Not enough people are talking about it.

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I got a wee bit obsessed with the music in Mixtape. Cracking soundtrack

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I should listen to more Joy Division

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Experience Vs Performance When Playing Video Games: nerdypaul.com

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The real reasons I play female characters in games:

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I am an big, hairy middle aged man in real life so I want to role play the opposite in games.

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Glamours; male characters always have the worst fashion/glamour options in games (realistic to life I suppose). Game developers need to step up their game in this...

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“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day”

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I still find it mad bonkers that I would rather play third party games on my Switch 2 or MSI Claw 8 than on my PS5 Pro. In theory, the PS5 Pro being more powerful should be a better experience but I find I just prefer the flexibility of a dockable handheld. I guess that explains why Playstation are...

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The capabilities of modern gaming technology never cease to blow my mind. I grew up with the Commodore 64 and Sega Mega Drive, and it amazes me that we can now play games that look like Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Assassin’s Creed Shadows on a device as thin and light that draws just 13 watts...

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I hate how high production YouTube videos have gotten. Just give me videos of a person talking into their basic laptop microphone and camera (camera not even essential) knowledgeably and passionately about the things they enjoy.

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@DandelionUtilitarian I think it’s also a testament to how good Apple trackpads and gesture support is.

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