Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 17 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 17 Notes

    • The house has been turned into a laboratory.
    • BB has selected “Professor Ali” and “Professor Dean” with interns Hanah and Lily to take part in the task.
    • Housemates are dressed up as rats. Ali, Dean, Hanah and Lily are the only ones that can pass the shopping task.
    • They must correctly predict the experiments in order to win.
    • Intern Hanah is in the DR – Feels like work working with Dean and Ali. Still unhappy with Izaaz and Khaled being switched. Nothing to say to Ali.
    • Emma snogged Mick Hucknall from Simply Red after a concert.
    • Will the lab rats work under pressure? 1 pair will be tested without any pressure and another will be tested with pressure.
    • Interns have a buzzer to shock the rats, and the professors have to encourage the rats.
    • Will the lab rats work under pressure? Dean tells BB that they would better under pressure.
    • BB has chosen Izaaz & Nathan and Sarah & Baked Potato.
    • Izaaz & Nathan will be working under calm pressure. Sarah & BP will be working under intense pressure.
    • Very different situations in both rooms. Both teams complete the task.
    • Its lunchtime. The professors and interns have given proper food. The rats have been given a bowl of vegetables and nuts.
    • Lab rats are outside getting some fresh air.
    • Lily ate 1 and half chickens during lunch.
    • Nathan and BP are talking to each other through the cages.
    • Will the lab rats resist temptation? The professors predict that they won’t eat anything.
    • Emma & Thomas has been chosen. They resist eating the sweet treats in the DR.
    • Khaled and Marcello are next. Will they resist temptation? The professors predict that they won’t eat anything. They don’t eat anything.
    • Segun is in a bubble ball rolling around the garden.
    • Emma revealed that Hanah had a crush on Ali on the first day. Ali thinks that Marcello ‘turned’ on Ali when he found out that she is a lesbian.
    • Dinner has been served to the rats. The rats have been given raisins and nuts. The scientists have been given takeaway. Lily is sick from eating.
    • Sarah is in the DR – She is ‘done’ – She has reached her limit.
    • Lily pukes.
    • Final experiment: Does women have better intuition than men?
    • Lab rat Martha and Segun will see 2 of the same item, but one is good and one is bad, and they must choose the good one. They need to get at least 2 correct to pass.
    • Martha must take a bite of a donut now. She chose the incorrect donut. It contained hot sauce. Segun eats a jelly donut.
    • Martha chose an envelope. It had “Good Egg” in it, and Segun had “Bad Egg”. Under a cloche was an Easter egg and a regular egg.
    • Segun is to smash the regular egg on his head. No hesitation in doing it.
    • Martha must choose a ‘bin’. She chooses the correct bin and gets covered in confetti. Segun gets covered in bin juice
    • Segun in the DR – The bin juice is flowing around him.
    • Lily: “To Scientology!!” and everyone else was like “noooo”
    • The scientists have been brought back to the house.
    • BB has the results.
    • The scientists incorrect predicted that the rats would work under pressure.
    • The scientists correctly predicted that the rats would resist temptation.
    • The scientists correctly predicted that women would have better intuition than men.
    • They have got 2 out of 3 correct. They pass, and they have been granted a luxury shopping budget.
    • The rats has been set free!
    • Most of the housemates outside listening to Marcello rapping.
    • Ali in the DR – She tried to have small bits of interaction with Hanah today. She believes Hanah only cared about the friendship with the boys that are nominated and not the rest of the house. She doesn’t have any negative feelings against Hanah.
    • Lily in the DR – She wants sweets and chocolate and full fat Coca-cola. No meat, no veg, “Who the fuck adds coriander to food?” “It’s not ethical”
    • The housemates are in high spirits after the passing the shopping task.
    • Khaled in the DR – Hanah is a very honest person. He prefers to around the ‘boys’. Doesn’t speak with Ali and Lily at all. Khaled knows that they won’t be friends.
    • They are playing ‘Who’s most likely’ Nathan asks “…to lie to make themselves look good?” Lily blurts out, “…to be fake?” Lily points to Segun for calling Ali a ‘red witch’.
    • Martha in the DR – Thanks BB for the nice evening after the task.

  • Gaming News – 23rd October 2024

    Gaming News – 23rd October 2024

    • Monster Hunter Wilds open beta is scheduled to start on Tuesday 29th October at 3am for Playstation Plus subscribers with non-subscribers, Xbox and Steam users being able to play from November 1st until November 4th.
    • Minecraft has launched on PS5 with Hardcore mode and ‘inventory bundles’ – PS4 digital players can obtain it for free via the store. People who have the physical copy for PS4 just need to insert the disk to get it.
    • Nintendo is launching “Game Trials” for the Nintendo Switch, it allows Nintendo Switch Online users to play 3 games per week. Cursed to Golf, A Little to the Left and Minecraft Dungeons will launch from today and are available until the 30th. Users in the US though will get Vampire Survivors instead of Minecraft Dungeons. If they wish to continue playing those games, there will be a discount available for those games.
    • NCSoft (Lineage, Guild Wars 2, Wildstar, Throne and Liberty (in Thailand)) has reportedly laid off staff after their CEO stated that the company has been “deteriorating financially”. They signed a deal with Sony last year to create a Horizon MMORPG.
    • The team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is currently being disbanded at Ubisoft as all the free content and one piece of DLC has launched. They will finish up by releasing the game on Mac this winter. The team are going to be working on other projects. A dozen of the developers are working on a Rayman remake in Ubisoft Milan.
    • Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania themed DLC on October 31st titled Ode to Castlevania – It will be available on all platform that the base game is available for €3.99.
    • Remember The Day Before? The game that lasted 4 days on Steam after players found that the game was a scam and was an asset flip? Well, the studio Fantastic launched a Kickstarter on September 26th for a new upcoming game calledEscape Factory. They were hoping to raise S$20K for the project. The Kickstarter was ended earlier today as the project didn’t “generate enough interest”.
    • But wait, there is more! In the same announcement that Fantastic stopped their Kickstarter for Escape Factory, they have started development for an entirely new game titled: Items which is an ‘action-horror prop hunt’ game. But the company has already released (and delisted) an ‘action-horror prop hunt’ game that was released in 2021, Propnight
    • The Fallout: London mod has hit 1 million downloads.
  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 16 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 16 Notes

    • Sarah is in the DR – Says that Nathan is not up for eviction because of him, but because of Izaaz.
    • Nathan and Emma talking about Nathan’s potential last week in the house.
    • Martha is checking on Ali – Saying that Dean had stronger opinions about pairing Izaaz and Khaled together.
    • Emma and Nathan thinks that Khaled is in the right. Dean and Martha thinks that Ali is in the right.
    • Ali is in the DR – Thinks that Dean’s choice for swapping Lily and Hanah for Marcello and Izaaz wasn’t thought out and that she get the worst outcome from everyone.
    • Hanah and Segun talking about Ali and Dean. Hanah believes that she was only paired with Lily so that Hanah is a scapegoat for evictions.
    • Nathan in the DR – He sort of knows who nominated him. Thinks Martha is 2-faced and nominated him. Thinks Ali is also 2-faced.
    • Izaaz apologies to Marcello for past interactions
    • Some of them are doing the “Gimme my money trend”
    • Thomas in the DR – Food situation is bleak. There are 9 cabbages.
    • Emma is prepping some chickens for dinner.
    • Nathan thinks there are 2 game players: Lily and Ali. He thinks Ali’s is putting it on for the cameras.
    • BB gathered everyone on the sofa to reveal that there were multiple rule breaks. At least 4 instances regarding nominations. Hanah back chatted to BB. Segun said: “We need to get rid of the wolf. The red witch is coming”
    • The whole house has been punished. They will be living on porridge and porridge alone until further notice. Sarah and BP were to take all food away.
    • “You bloody big mouth bastards” ~ Baked Potato to the rest of the house.
    • Some housemates are having Porridge.
    • Khaled and Segun are in the hot-tub.
    • Hanah believes that she and her group is being ‘attacked’ because 2 people of her group are up for nominations.
    • Sarah is in the DR – Sarah has a bag of sugar left over when it should have been in the storeroom.
    • Dean in the DR – There are groups and the Hanah/Segun/Khaled gang don’t care about the rule breaks. But they will call out others for the rule breaks.
    • Ali and Dean are talking about what has happened.
    • Lily in the DR – Didn’t think that Segun would say the things behind Lily and Ali’s back. Lily must learn to like porridge.
    • Dean is on the bed crying, clutching the picture of him and his partner.
    • Hanah in the DR – Can’t handle porridge. Will starve if she can’t add honey or other toppings. BB says that the porridge is perfectly edible. Hanah walks out of the DR.
    • Segun and Ali are having a chat about today. He said it that it was a joke. She didn’t find it funny.
    • Dean and Hanah are talking in the bathroom about the drams that has unfolded. She believes that Ali has started a gender war to get the boys (Khaled and Marcello) out.
    • There is a cooked chicken in the oven. Marcello giving out about people talking about the chicken being in the oven. Marcello took a piece of the chicken on a fork. Big Brother’s camera tracking his moves. Izaaz is taking the chicken to the DR and Marcello takes another bite on the way.
    • Marcello is angry that his secret chicken mission and called most people in the room a “fucking numpty”
    • Marcello called Sarah a vegetarian (when she is a vegan) and that her pH levels were all over the place.
    • Emma is in the DR – A majority of people are at loggerheads with each other today.

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