My 2025 Wrapped Spotify

It’s here. A recap of my #SpotifyWrapped
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Browser 'AI summaries' are hilarious because 90% of the time, it's copied and pasted from @wikipedia.org, almost verbatim.

It's insane that these parasitic companies are able to plagiarize en masse with no consequences because of greed and anachronistic legislators.

Picked up a haul of the greatest Super Nintendo mag of all time.

If you know, you know.

CO-OP COERCION - Medal of Honor (PS1, 1999, Part One) YouTube video by Orange Caution

Latest vid is our run through of PS1 classic, Medal of Honor. This was recorded ten years ago and features some surprise guest appearances.

It's a game that's often overlooked when it comes to shooters of the era, but well worth playing. Holds up well.

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Watched Tetsuo: The Iron Man for the first time ever last night. Definitely not for everyone, but I thought it was a visionary masterpiece. Sublime direction, a pounding score and a visceral sense of action throughout. Hard to believe it came out in 1989, honestly. So far ahead of its time.

Xbox has been over for a long time and they treat their core userbase as an afterthought. Phil Spencer going 'all in' will have untold ramifications, as Game Pass continues to stagnate and their hardware is DOA. They'll become the next Activision within this decade, if they aren't already.

Thank you for the response, Ash. I'm sure it was tough reaching the final series with how much both of you have grown together, but I'm glad you kept it running.

It has accompanied me on many lunch walks and I've been listening since the pandemic so will very likely continue the journey!

CO-OP COERCION - Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time (Finale) YouTube video by Orange Caution

We finally wrapped up Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

It's one we played a long time ago but didn't record, so it was good to revisit it. Elements have aged poorly and its a product of its time, but it still has a lot of charm. Games of that era just hit differently

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Finally wrapped up the @underconsolepod.bsky.social original run and, I have to say, a big part of me is sad that it's over. Might continue with the other series episodes as I enjoy Ash and Luke's vibes a lot but it feels like the end of an era. Thanks for creating such a special podcast.

Timesplitters Future Perfect Soundtrack Main Menu YouTube video by Oheao

There's no series in the world I miss more than TimeSplitters. Had countless hours and sleepless nights playing the TS2 multiplayer with friends, but Future Perfect was equally fantastic and the soundtrack even more so.

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A few of the latest games I've got the full achievements on Xbox on. Highlight was definitely Ghost Trick, a game I could never get into on DS, despite being a massive Ace Attorney fan, that finally clicked for me. Absolutely amazing game that was way ahead of its time.

Just saw someone say "I'm done with modern games, they're too expensive. I'm gonna play only retro games now".

Buddy...

Beautiful

Never really understood the love for Silent Hill 4: The Room. The initial previews looked terrifying, but the game itself turned out to be a repetitive slog, with the second half basically just being a retread of the first. By far the worst of the original Silent Hill games.

I doubt he ever cared about climate change. He saw the way the wind was blowing and cynically invested, knowing that the fawning media would feed into his desires of self-aggrandisation.

He's always craved attention, right back to his Zip2 days and the media bought into it hook, line and sinker.

Not to mention, they pretty much buried the simultaneous attacks on the Philippines because they didn't think US citizens would care. I only learned about it by reading Day of Infamy.

But we all know it was Russia that won WWII, right? Right!?

You're on an inexorable march towards fascism, I'm sorry to say.

Weekend gaming session done and dusted. We completed RoboCop VS Terminator and had an impromptu visit from a friend, so pivoted to the original Devil May Cry, which has aged like a fine wine, before making it a good way into Rogue City. Heavy session but a good session.

Your mom sounds like a very cool lady!

Making my way through JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it's shaping up to be one of my favourite animes ever. Absolutely in love with the world, characters and humour.

We've decided to make it a RoboCop weekend by playing RoboCop VS Terminator (Genesis / MegaDrive) and Rogue City.

Not gonna lie, I have the fear when it comes to RVT. It's infamously difficult and we had a lot of trouble with Waterworld (SNES) last year. Could make or break the session.

Lovely little lovecraftian puzzler

Call of the Sea 1000/1000

Great narrative-driven puzzle game with luscious visuals and a healthy undercurrent of dread. Anything Lovecraft I am down for and this delivered in spaces. Great game.

One week to go until myself and my partner in crime rendezvous for a weekend of gaming. It's a little last minute, so we're still deciding on which games to play, but here are the frontrunners. Looking forward to it!

The entire early PC market was driven by boomers

Yeah, it's amazing, honestly never felt more 'seen' in terms of my beliefs and ideologies and that's great. Wish more media challenged worldviews in the way that it does.

A good way through Disco Elysium now and I have to say that it is one of the funniest, smartest, most well written games I've ever played. This scene had me in tears, it was so good.

The striking, surreal art style and unique OSTcomplement it perfectly too. Honestly, a must play.

It's highly probable that Boris is also compromised, though he may not even be fully aware of it himself. His relationship with Lebedev and the resulting peerage raise a lot of questions. Same with the burial of intelligence on Russian's output during Brexit.

That's great additional context. I thought Apex might be on there as I see tons of Japanese players playing it all the time.

As with most surveys, I'm sure there's a lot of grey areas and the narrative probably doesn't 100% match the reality, particularly in terms of mobile games, as you mentioned

Americans need to grow a set. It couldn't be more obvious where this is going.