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He's done very well to take advantage of his opportunities, but he's been massively helped by his opponents' capitulations. He'll probably need to make a much better start in the final.

Si is only 20, so he's still got plenty of opportunities coming up. This will be hard to take, though.

F1 Manager 2023 has been announced. It seemed as if it might not happen, so I'm glad. With any luck, they'll add in some new driver/staff interaction features.

I appreciate that Jerry Springer came to regret the impact his show had on mainstream popular culture. Sadly, it inspired the likes of Trisha and The Jeremy Kyle Show, which were unequivocally exploitative and nasty.

Luca Brecel was often touted as a future champion when he was a teenager. Maybe this is his time. He's said that his preparation for the tournament involved getting drunk and playing FIFA. Whatever works.

I've always preferred the 3pm kickoff for the final.

It's interesting that it was the issue of cloud gaming that was the stumbling block. It seems that there are no concerns about the impact on the console market, presumably because the PS5 is outselling the Xbox consoles by quite a margin.

The UK's regulators have blocked Microsoft's purchase of Activision. Microsoft will appeal, meaning that this whole tedious affair will probably continue for a lot longer.

I often feel like this. I could have so much more fun playing these kinds of games if I had other people to enjoy them with.

I always found "classic" Resident Evil games to be more tedious than fun. All the backtracking to find and drop off items to complete obtuse puzzles just ended up annoying me, especially if you died halfway through and had to remember what you'd already done since your last save. While some people like the old tank controls because they make you feel more helpless against zombies, they make moving around the rest of the time really finicky. I got the Resident Evil 2 remake for free and got about halfway through. I was glad they put in a better control system and the zombie encounters were better, but the game still wasn't particularly enjoyable for me. Maybe it isn't supposed to be "fun" as such, but it didn't significantly engage me in any other way either.

I think I see the "big" however many teams as the ones that you can more or less guarantee won't come close to relegation in the near future. Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs are all having bad seasons by their own standards, but they're still comfortably above any kind of danger. Meanwhile, Leicester and West Ham could earn top six finishes in the last few years, but have been involved in relegation battles this season. There are a certain few clubs that have a safety net that realistically keeps them above water, be it through financial might or reputational pulling power. Most Premier League clubs can lose a few good players to bigger clubs and then be in the mire.

Forest will be one of them.

Yeovil's relegation has been confirmed. Dropping four divisions in ten seasons is quite brutal. In the space of 26 years, they've gone from the sixth tier to the second tier and back again.

I just looked that up. Budweiser recently partnered with a trans rights activist, so Kid Rock bought several cases of Bud Light to shoot with an assault rifle. It showed that he's well 'ard or something.

The reviews are out and it sounds like a thoroughly middle-of-the-road big budget game.

A protestor just jumped on the snooker table at the World Championships and threw some orange powder on it. Snooker is wild.

That's the cheapest it's been physically, as far as I can see. I had a voucher I forgot about, so I can get it for £5. I wasn't going to buy it at launch, but I will now. If it's not to my liking, I can lend it to someone else or sell it for a healthy profit.

I don't really see it myself, but a lot of people have reacted really positively to this.

Technically, Xbox doesn't really have proper exclusive now because Microsoft's first-party games come out on PC as well. If you're looking at games that aren't on Playstation and Nintendo systems, I'd recommend: Rare Replay (collection of 30 historic Rare games - there's bound to be something you like in there) Gears Tactics (basically XCOM in the Gears of War universe) Microsoft Flight Simulator (self-explanatory) Pentiment (stylish adventure game set in 16th century Germany) Forza Horizon series (open world racing) As Dusk Falls (choose-your-own-adventure) Grounded (twee survival action) All first-party games come to Game Pass on day one, and pretty much all Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox One exclusives are on there too.

The long rumoured Dunk and Egg series has been confirmed for the new Max platform. GRRM will be an executive producer and one of the writers because he clearly has nothing else he needs to do.

I'd prefer it if he just stayed at Dortmund.

Final Fantasy 16 will get a twenty-minute gameplay showcase tomorrow.

Scunthorpe's relegation from the National League was confirmed on Monday. This time thirteen years ago, they were in the same division as Newcastle. Next season, they will be playing South Shields, Banbury and Spennymoor.

I suppose it depends on whether or not you plan to go for the Series X at some point. The Series S only plays digital versions of games, so you won't be able to use any discs for backwards compatible games. As a Game Pass machine, it's well regarded, especially at the price.