I found this amazing list of gameplay videos from a crazy old gamer like me:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7872581F9459C8B7&feature=plcp

And I am falling to pieces right now as the memories come back so strong they hit me with force. I remember so well what it felt like to waste all those hours.

And the thing is I am ASTONISHED by how many games I played. How many games Mum and Dad bought for me. There must have been so many.

I just really REALLY want to say thank you to her again. It hurts that I can't.

Climate

The person who released the private emails of the climate change scientists in order to try to sow doubt left a message at the end of their last missive "''Every day nearly 16,000 children die from hunger and related causes,'' it said." Their point was that research into climate change takes funds away from more worthy causes such as aid for poverty etc.

This shows a complete lack of understanding about the problems associated with climate change. I wish people understood that the dangers of climate change are exactly those this idiot points to - it will mean the poor people of the world will be in an ever worse position, there will be more hunger and displacement than ever before.

It's so upsetting that people can be so unbelievably short sighted and, frankly, so stupid.