King Ellis

Yeah that got some coverage in the Leeds circles, he has a weird job title now like MLS Canada Head Coach or something. At least he's off our payroll now, enjoy the narrow football.

Dragon Age Inquisition (GOTY Edition) is free on Epic Games Store as well

Well, Wembley it is then lads...

I've always meant to watch that batch of films he made in the 60's based on Poe stories as the cast in those is like a who's who of classic horror icons; Price, Chaney Jr, Lorre, KARLOFF and of course, early fame Jack Nicholson. I did see, and I think I still have it around on DVD somewhere, The Terror which was apparently the result of still having use of a castle set and Boris Karloff for 2 days so you might as well make a movie.

Maybe it's just confirmation bias but does a positive team talk ever not immediately backfire? Last day of the season, already promoted and winning 4-0 against a mid table side who didn't a sniff during the first half. Tell my boys they've done an amazing job and they promptly let the opposing teams striker score 4 and cost my guy the golden boot. Luckily 2nd place cocked up as well so we still won the league but it's just reaffirmed to me that I should never deviate from my team talk flow chart: If winning - No complacency If drawing/losing - You're all shit, sort it out

Everytime these guys announce they're giving 12 to Switzerland and starting singing 'woah oh oh' it sounds like they're about to break out into some Shania Twain.

I know bait and switching on Abba should be seen as a negative but Crying at the Discoteque is a certified banger.

It might just be my Eurodance bias talking but between the song itself and the Austin Powers 'hiding the nudity' schtick, I kinda dug that.

Of all the indiscretions the EBU have made this week, putting this woman on is amongst the worst.

I saw a thing as well saying they were putting in some YouTube/Twitch guys like DenkOps and Johnny from NL. That's really cool from a community aspect, giving something back to these guys who helped promote the game through their audience. But, as @The Buscher aludes to, that only makes it more weird that someone like Uno still isn't in given the lengths he went to promote the thing.

I don't know the sales figures but Hi-Fi Rush I think was very well regarded from critics and fans alike. By pretty much any metric it can be considered a success so it's a kick in the teeth for their studio to be closed. There's been that idea that a studio is only one bomb away from being closed but when you make a good game and still get the boot I imagine it must make you very anxious to be in that industry and feel like you have very little job security day to day.

I know they had that spell in the Premier in the not so distant past but they've otherwise been floating around the relegation spots or lower mid table these past few years, even dropping into League One at one point. So to end 3 points off the playoffs and get sacked for it is pretty ridiculous. Maybe he's been sniffing around for a job elsewhere and they're not tolerating it?

I can assure you that hope is in very short supply around Leeds currently.

I can tolerate 200 year old zombies but exploding bullets are a step too far.

Finally finished Mario Wonder recently having been chipping away at it from time to time. To echo what I said in the Nintendo thread at release, it's an utterly charming game that has given the 2D element of the franchise a real shot in the arm after the stagnation of the NSMB games over the last 15 years or so. I've managed to snag all the secret exits, wonder coints etc so I'm pretty sure the last thing I've got to do is the final final final level of the Special World. This has so far proved slightly tricky, and whilst it feels a bit cheeky to frown upon what is a bonus section only meant for true aficionados of the game, it has annoyed me slightly. It just feels like trial and error gameplay where you're expected to react to things you couldn't have possibly seen coming so it turns into memorisation where you get so far, die, but then realise what you have to do, so you replay the level and pass that bit you died at, only to die about 4 seconds later and the whole thing repeats itself.