Carrick
@mistercarrick.bsky.social
@str8upgames.com podcast (I know, I know). I like video games, tech and the business around them (when it's good news).
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Carrick
@mistercarrick.bsky.social
· Dec 8
👋 Dear the algorithm, and fellow Bluesky folks, this is what I am about.
🎮 Video games
🎮 Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo
🎮 Bioshock
🎮 Portal
🎮 Banjo Kazooie
🎮 Inside
🎮 Command & Conquer
🎮 Chants of Sennaar
🎮 Singularity
🎮 Elder Scrolls
🎲 Table top RPGs
🎲 Monopoly addiction
🥃 Bourbon 😅
#promosky
🎮 Video games
🎮 Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo
🎮 Bioshock
🎮 Portal
🎮 Banjo Kazooie
🎮 Inside
🎮 Command & Conquer
🎮 Chants of Sennaar
🎮 Singularity
🎮 Elder Scrolls
🎲 Table top RPGs
🎲 Monopoly addiction
🥃 Bourbon 😅
#promosky
I only played it last year but Prey was absolutely banging.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2017, and what you would say your favourite game of 2017 is now, if it differs
(The grid is to jog memories, you can pick things that aren't on it. For a more comprehensive refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...)
(The grid is to jog memories, you can pick things that aren't on it. For a more comprehensive refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...)
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I only played it last year but Prey was absolutely banging.
Really sad to hear about the passing of Udo Kier. I may have to once again play through Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge. Those games are such key parts of my childhood.
a man in a military uniform is talking to another man with the words is it done yuri
ALT: a man in a military uniform is talking to another man with the words is it done yuri
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November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Really sad to hear about the passing of Udo Kier. I may have to once again play through Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge. Those games are such key parts of my childhood.
Hear that? That's the sound of 3D printers firing up around the world as people work out how to create a printable gamecube handle for the gabecube steam machine...
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hear that? That's the sound of 3D printers firing up around the world as people work out how to create a printable gamecube handle for the gabecube steam machine...
This simply has to be an option when this thing comes out. I NEED it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This simply has to be an option when this thing comes out. I NEED it.
The options for smart downlights with a decent light output and good connectivity is shocking but finally I have smart lights in my kitchen diner! Last room in the house!
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The options for smart downlights with a decent light output and good connectivity is shocking but finally I have smart lights in my kitchen diner! Last room in the house!
I'll have to buy that LEGO Enterprise D then won't I.
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'll have to buy that LEGO Enterprise D then won't I.
Is there a finer crisp than walkers max paprika if you really think hard about it?
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Is there a finer crisp than walkers max paprika if you really think hard about it?
That's game pass renewed at less than the old price til the end of 2027! We'll see what hardware I'm playing games on from Xbox by then I guess...
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
That's game pass renewed at less than the old price til the end of 2027! We'll see what hardware I'm playing games on from Xbox by then I guess...
Hello and welcome to the @str8upgames.com podcast!
October 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hello and welcome to the @str8upgames.com podcast!
The price of chocolate is fully taking the piss at this point.
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The price of chocolate is fully taking the piss at this point.
This series of Star Trek Strange New Worlds just being whatever it wants to be has been a total delight.
August 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This series of Star Trek Strange New Worlds just being whatever it wants to be has been a total delight.
The Strange New Worlds theme continues to be an out and out banger.
August 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Strange New Worlds theme continues to be an out and out banger.
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A fantastic time had in Cologne at Gamescom! I dare say we'll make the pilgrimage again in the future. Episode of our time there coming sometime soon. With summer coming to an end you can expect our weekly schedule to return too. Speak soon!
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A fantastic time had in Cologne at Gamescom! I dare say we'll make the pilgrimage again in the future. Episode of our time there coming sometime soon. With summer coming to an end you can expect our weekly schedule to return too. Speak soon!
Gamescom flight fuel! Now time to board.
August 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Gamescom flight fuel! Now time to board.
I've had the oven on twice today like some sort of psycho.
July 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I've had the oven on twice today like some sort of psycho.
Sorry folks, we've struggled to get in the same room recently but we will be back! Keep us on your subs list and we'll be a (nice?) surprise in your up next sometime soon...
Hi folks, aware we’ve been on the missing list,
Please hold…..
Please hold…..
July 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Sorry folks, we've struggled to get in the same room recently but we will be back! Keep us on your subs list and we'll be a (nice?) surprise in your up next sometime soon...
I miss Uncle Buzzcocks.
July 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I miss Uncle Buzzcocks.
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'You, Zack in Manchester, someone who's never in a billion years going to be required to pay it, are somehow on the side of people who don't think they should.'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social puts a caller on the spot over wealth tax, as Neil Kinnock says Labour should consider it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social puts a caller on the spot over wealth tax, as Neil Kinnock says Labour should consider it.
July 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'You, Zack in Manchester, someone who's never in a billion years going to be required to pay it, are somehow on the side of people who don't think they should.'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social puts a caller on the spot over wealth tax, as Neil Kinnock says Labour should consider it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social puts a caller on the spot over wealth tax, as Neil Kinnock says Labour should consider it.
If you see this, post an image that you saved because it made you laugh.
June 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you see this, post an image that you saved because it made you laugh.
I still find this very funny.
June 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I still find this very funny.
The official Nintendo Switch 2 travel case hard shell thing smells of Shoe Zone to the point it's giving me a headache.
June 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The official Nintendo Switch 2 travel case hard shell thing smells of Shoe Zone to the point it's giving me a headache.
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
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TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
Switch 2 Pro controller continuing the legacy of it's predecessor in that I still haven't had to charge the thing.
June 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Switch 2 Pro controller continuing the legacy of it's predecessor in that I still haven't had to charge the thing.