The Kraig

What a lovely passing team goal. USA didn't deserve that, looked so good so early on.

Captain Tsubasa weeps.

You married Michael Owen?

I know it's 0-0, but I'm quite enjoying this match, both Denmark and Tunisia look like they can score if given a chance.

So...I've played a lot, just free-roaming and ignored the menus for the most part. My dex is already 100+. Taken down one Titan and beat one gym. I've also been playing docked the entire time. There's no other way to say it than this game feels the most incomplete of all the mainline Pokémon games. It feels unfinished. The most confusing glitches are images of undiscovered beasties showing up when you flick through the dex, and how your motorcycle-mon jumps and bases itself on the ground. Also, the dex shows outlines for mons I haven't actually seen and kind of ruined a few evolutions for me. Even with lots of polish, these massive fairly-empty environments are not fun unless you can fly. Legends Arceus was fun without flight, for direct comparison. Speaking of which, why are the skies so empty-looking as well? P.S. Whoever designed the menus is a mega-douche. Give me convenience or give me death. I'l try to focus on some of the missions but this has been quite disappointing. The creature design remains excellent though.

I'm on the Violet side of life. Also...the anime having Ash win after all the OGs stopped watching is peak anime.

You know me, guys. Already had it pre-ordered when I saw the starters and concept. Wigglett for Hall of Fame glory!

I'd say Villarreal and Lazio are the favourites. But looking at the pool of teams, I think Braga, Başakşehir and AZ are in with chances to realistically win it too. Then there's the part of me that would love it if Djurgårdens or Slovan mount a route to the final, bit of a change from the norm. It's definitely gonna be interesting for a fan like me. If West Ham were having a better season I might see them as favourites, but not right now.

Weird seeing Dnipro back from the dead.

One might say it's Senegalling.

Meanwhile, Rangers finish their group stage with 0 points and -20 in goal difference and are now officially the worst group stage team in history. In contrast, Plzeň finished with 0 points and -19 in a group that included Inter, Bayern and Barça.

I'm obsessed. I love this band already.

I unusually downloaded a phone game. It's called Cats & Soup, and you have a bunch of cats and you make food products. The game can stall when you run out of various currencies, but if you watch adverts (or ignore them while doing something else), it gives you money to play around with. It also accumulates money when you're busy away from the game, which is nice. It's not that engaging, but it is extremely cute and chilled me the fuck out yesterday.

Hearts joining the Glasgow clubs in showing everyone how strong Scottish football is at the moment.

Getting beat by Georgia also led to Scotland wearing this kit only once and never again (if I recall). We have used a pink 3rd kit for a while, but this was deemed as cursed. We should bring something like it back and try to kill the curse! Am I fantasy booking football? Maybe.

Haaland smashing my country? Sign me up! In dreamland, I see Norway top with Scotland second and a lacklustre Spain in third.

LOVE Lechonk. LOVE Girafarig getting an evolution. LOVE being able to obliterate weak pokémon on the overworld and essentially skip all that time spent waiting for animations. Grinding has become easy. LOVE the idea of having a temporary type, but this terastylising thing is pretty lame. The critter design is really good this generation.

He was my last one as well! Also turned out I had Casemiro in my swap bunch without realising, he was the last one I put in my album, because I am dumb. :-)

So...this is not a Diglett variant. This is apparently an example of divergent evolution. I love it.

He really does sound like the coolest guy. A shame to go so soon.

So, I am moving to NZ and I was wondering why fly if I'm at no obligation to do so? Maybe I could find a fun route via road/sea? Anyway, my online searches led me this introspective docu-blog film by a German lad. I felt obliged to share it, it deserves more recognition. After watching it...

If there's a story to this and the Falklands host a portal to hell, I'd be so invested.

The Doubler King!

Just need a draw against Ukraine now. It'll be fairly interesting to see how we play in League A. Wales could also be going down. I guess the big teams take the pedal off the accelerator a bit when it comes to the Nations Cup.

I feel like words are barely enough to express how empty tennis feels without Williams and Federer. The Laver Cup was the perfect send-off.