I’ve named mine after Immortan Joe’s “wives” in Fury Road.

My first one was yellow and ancient so had quite a short life expectancy (a 2003 Suzuki Ignis, bought in 2020) so it became Splendid.

Next a white Fiat Panda, The Dag.

Now I have an electric in silver (I didn’t have a choice of colour) so I decided to sort of break the pattern and named it Ms. Giddy after the teacher of the “wives”.

Hopefully the next one will be red and will be called Capable.

Makes sense, it’s not like he’s planning on leaving.

There have been some great games with development times that long.

Can you name some? I don’t mean to be derisive, I just literally can’t think of any right now.

Unfortunately they’re not significantly more fun despite that.

Yeah, I’ve been watching from the sidelines and still haven’t seen anything that moves the needle sufficiently.

Where are the games?!

Best of luck with that, idiots. How are you planning to tell the difference between my personal VPN and my work VPN?

Essentially I found the implementations of many puzzles annoying. As in, I’d figure out the solution but implementing it was tedious or unclear (the hot air balloon, that awful cave maze, submarine navigation, the Atlantean maze section…).

When it was good I enjoyed it but much of the time it let me down. Perhaps I had excessively high hopes but people praise that game so much. I replay the first two Broken Sword games every few years and love them but Fate of Atlantis was just kinda meh for me.

That, uh, wasn’t the issue. I had both speech and the best quality music available.

I wish I could agree. I was so disappointed when I played it earlier this year.

I often work “Don’t stop 'til you reach the back of their teeth!” into conversation…

Hehehehe “slots”

Jesus, put him in a fucking home already.

…wow. What the fuck.

The 4A was about the upper limit of what I like - switching to the 6A has been a royal pain in the arse!

A small phone I can get a good grip on - bigger phones feel like a balancing act during use.

You want one even smaller than that?!

Yes…?

I want to be able to hold it in one hand and use it properly, like I could with my iPhone 3GS. If I need a bigger device, which I often do, I grab a laptop. If I want a big screen I use my home theatre. If I want handheld gaming I grab my Steam Deck. My point is, I’m not a luddite who feels that smartphones aren’t useful - I was an early adopter (Shout outs to Symbian Series 60!) but I’m finding the recent generations of devices to be cumbersome. They’re massive in my pocket, I need two hands to use them, they’re much easier for me to fumble and drop, and using them strains the tendons in my little finger as I try to stabilise an ungainly lump.

It frustrates me no end that phones just get bigger and bigger. Having the option is great, no complaints there, but could there be something that suits me too?

You may want to specifically look at phones marketed as being small.

The issue I’ve had there is that their cameras are generally rubbish, unfortunately.

I’ve not checked the sizing but I thought the whole point was that the A variants were smaller? My 6A is already much larger than I’d like. I’m not trying to watch movies on these damn things! 😂

Could the same not be said for the 6A?

Right, so which phone should I buy second hand that has a great camera and doesn’t cost the earth?

I had a 4A, currently I have a 6A, and I was going to get a 7A but apparently that’s a bad idea too. Fuck’s sake.

Only two out so far. The third is arriving in December.

I felt it was significantly worse than Crystal Skull.