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Salutations. September doth continue onwards, and university is nearing its beginning. Hence, I thought it might be time for a little blog update. What have I been up to? Well, lots of gaming! As I should be in the summer holiday. And also a few days out with friends. Keep your eyes on the Cuppa Conquest page because there might be a new review or two soon.

Splatoon 3's Grand Festival was last weekend, and grand indeed it was. Me and my friends got together as we always do, and it was great fun. Though, it was unfortunate that Team Present did not pull through. And, I'm glad that seasonal Splatfests will still continue. Also, Big Run was great. We managed to defeat The Triumvirate a few times which was cool.

I've started my second playthrough of Fire Emblem: Engage with my friend Ophelia. It's fun getting a second chance to make funny builds and try out units I didn't use the first time over.

I think the last thing I can really think of that I've been up to is MTG with my friends. I'm starting to collect the cards for my Gisa, the Hellraiser deck, since it's one of my favourites. And I'm currently building Azami, Lady of Scrolls, because it is astonishing that I haven't built a wizard tribal deck yet.

I think that's about all for now. Things are winding down before I head back to university. Which is probably when I'll make my next blog post. See you then.

Hello, readers. This month has been going pretty alright. I went on a day trip to Oxford recently which was quite nice, and definitely a highlight of recent times. A friend of mine was in a play which I went to see, and it was very good. I didn't manage to get any spectacular photos, so here's an average one I took of the river, and one of a beautiful painting in G&D's:

Also, while I was there, my friend and I made white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake. (Recipe is by iconic Mary Berry, and can be found here.) We also used his bread machine to make chocolate bread. It was certainly an unusual beast to say the least. It was surprisingly like normal bread, only truly tasting like chocolate when proper chunks were in your bite. I didn't think to take photos before they had begun being devoured, but here they are nonetheless:

Another bake of mine recently is classic scones. I made a batch for Mother's day to make a cream tea in a box. Recipe is, again, Mary Berry's, which you can find here.

In the gaming department, I've been playing a lot of my new copy of Splatoon 3, which is a game I've been meaning to get for absolutely ages. Found it in the local CEX for £30 and thought "why the hell not". It's as spectacular as I expected. I'll be representing Team Keyboard in next weekend's Splatfest, so watch out!

That's about the highlights of my life since last update. I don't have much to say right now, cause I'm quite tired. Thankfully, it's the end of term now, so I'll be heading home soon for a much needed break... If you can even call it that, because I've got 5 exams to revise for and 2 programming courseworks to do. It's whatever. I'll hold out, because I always do. See you then.

Hello all. Here's a brief blog update.

Today (or, well, now yesterday) was Pokemon Day. The Pokemon Presents livestream was very good. I am pleased that the leaks about Unova or Johto games were wrong. It was very nice to have something not predicted by leaks. A lovely surprise indeed.

Though I've not been playing it, I've been listening to a lot of the Splatoon 3: Side Order OST. Splatoon music always goes hard, but man, this is another level. And I'm a big fan of dedf1sh too. It's cool that the game properly commits to them being non-binary, cause that's not something that gets represented properly nearly enough.

Also, here's some blondies I made last weekend: Recipe is here.

Lastly, university is going pretty ok. I've just got to wade through the end of term turmoil induced by having two big programming courseworks to do now. Then, on the other side, all that awaits me is the further despair of revision. Such is university indeed... See you in the next blog post.