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Not ashamed to say I shed a couple of tears yesterday and Wagner's message has ruined me again. He's looked more and more worn down since the promotion and apparently said he needed a rest in the summer. If that's the case it was obviously a mistake (if an understandable one) not to end it there, both for his own mental health and for the club. I suppose the pressure of managing an unfashionable Championship club with a £12m turnover is a pretty different proposition to feeling responsible for a name suddenly known around the world, with a £200m turnover and in the full glare of the media spotlight. He walked away from football before to become a teacher so it'll be interesting to see where he goes from here after he's recharged his batteries and got some love for the game back. You could see that dissipating in him week by week in the Premier League. Whoever comes in will have a very difficult job following what he achieved for us on the field but the connection between the manager, players and fans from the first couple of years in particular will likely never be repeated. He came in having not even heard of us and just 'got' the place and the people instantly. He was someone we could be proud of as the face of our club. To me that was far bigger than the promotion and initial survival. And it's the measure of the man that despite obviously struggling, he managed to cling on just long enough to ensure that Steve Bruce is out of the running to replace him.

Wagner gone by mutual consent. Dean Hoyle: “I’d like to begin by thanking David for all he has achieved at Huddersfield Town over the last three-and-a-half years. Under his stewardship, we’ve achieved things on the football pitch that surpass anything in modern memory, and that have gone well beyond my wildest expectations as Chairman and as a fan. Under David’s management, we took this Club to the highest position it has held in almost 50 years and created memories that will last forever. His achievements will rightly put him up there in Huddersfield Town history alongside great names like Herbert Chapman and Mick Buxton; legendary managers who changed the face of this Club. As I had said previously, I had no intention of sacking David this season. Subsequently David – being the great man he is – came to us and made it clear that he needs a break from the rigours of football management. We discussed making that change immediately, but he also made it clear that he would give his all for the rest of this season before departing in the summer if we preferred. After a long discussion we all felt that David staying at the Club until the end of the season was best, but we’ve kept discussions open and we all now feel that the time is right to part ways. I know the term ‘mutual consent’ is often a byword for the manager being sacked in professional football, but this is a truly joint decision. David has a real, genuine love for this Club and, like me, his foremost concern in our talks has been to establish what is best for Huddersfield Town. I cannot thank David enough for what he has achieved. Along with his family, he will always be a friend to me and Huddersfield Town.”

Yeah, this was my first thought too. Not knowing that you could manipulate the force pod in R-Type was a good one. Probably loads of arcade games too if not one-crediting them counts as finding them too hard. Home console/PC type games from the past 25 or so years though.. I can't remember sacking something off specifically because it was too difficult, I think I can get through most things if I have a mind to (like Cuphead) but sometimes I'll run out of steam or realise I'm not particularly having fun anymore. Contra: Shattered Soldier back in the PS2 days springs to mind, I was making solid progress on the one credit run but lost motivation and got bored of repeating the early stages. Something like Cuphead is way more forgiving to me since it's all broken up into pretty small chunks.

Mike Ashley is a terrible owner. Rafael Benitez is a good manager. Benitez has an incredible talent for self-promotion which large sections of the media love to lap up, either in itself or because they know anti-Ashley stories bring in the views. All of these things can be true at the same time. Yeah, they sold some big players when they went down but they went down with a pretty good squad on paper and spent a hell of a lot replacing them in Championship terms. Newcastle had a relatively OK lower half top flight setup in the division below, with a top ten Premier League wage bill. They paid out almost double Huddersfield and Brighton's wage bills combined in the year all three were promoted. He did well to keep them up (since staying up is an achievement for half the league) but his more impressive trick was to get so many people on board with the idea that it was some sort of miracle based purely on financing. A good few other managers did just as well (or better) in their own circumstances but didn't receive anything like the same level of fawning. As much as he might complain, he knows he's on to a good thing there which I imagine is why he hasn't left. He can pick up a nice, secure wage knowing that he's going to come out of that job alright no matter what.

Especially since United have only just suffered through much more than The 120 Days of Jose.

The signs were always there, he really didn't like it when Boothy went to Latvia that time.

Alright, fuck Neil Warnock. Always hated him.

This is fantastic but I think the wave of first-person horror games over the past few years must've rendered me totally incapable of shitting myself when I can see my character on the screen. After things like Alien Isolation, PT and Resi 7 this feels like a fast-paced action romp, which is obviously no bad thing at all. Maybe I should test this by playing Project Zero again since I had to go through that entirely in daylight after the first few hours way back when. It runs really well on both the Pro and on my GTX 1060 (at 1080p), only slight frame drops in the reception room and minor boosts to image quality (mostly anti-aliasing) in favour of the latter. Think I'll get it on PS4 though as it just feels right on a Sony system. I don't have anything HDR capable but found it pretty washed out even without it. I used the default settings on PS4 and manually adjusted them on PC but it didn't look anywhere near dark enough on either so I'm hoping being a bit more extreme might sort it out. The default brightness tends to be perfect in most games but I had to turn it way down in Monster Hunter too.

Slight shot in the dark - Handsome Boy Modeling School?

Yeah, that's us pretty much! Not bad in the first two thirds of the pitch but pretty clueless in the final one and especially so now no-one has any confidence left. The penalty would've been on the soft side, no doubt, but we get that soft penalty maybe once out of ten if we're lucky and at the other end it's probably given half the time (more if it's a top six club). That's what starts to get to you but no doubt you'll be having a bit of that yourselves this season. Particularly odd that Mason gave it and didn't seem to have much of a doubt in his mind until he was harangued into talking to the linesman (who had a worse view) by the Cardiff players. People are suggesting it was overturned due to a previous foul by our player, yet there wasn't a free-kick given either way. I can't help but wonder how much the shout you had first half played into his thinking. Now we're almost definitely gone I'd really like to see Warnock keep you up. He's a knobhead but I think most people who've seen him do well for their club retain a soft spot for him and I've always found it quite sad how he's been a bit hard done to in the top flight.

And a penalty to us! Until the linesman reminds Lee Mason that it's Huddersfield and he overrules himself, obviously. To be fair there probably would've been a five minute delay as the players tried to remember who the designated taker is before it being fired into row Z. So no harm done really.

Total banger.

She's had other singles go to number 5 and, a few years later, to number 3 (platinum and double platinum in the US). The hypothetical man in the street could very well struggle to name a Rolling Stones song that wasn't 'Satisfaction'.

Pretty sure they didn't have another hit but the album this was on wasn't bad at all.

Yeah, that was always huge in those games. Spend ages banging your head against a brick wall only to realise you could click on the very bottom of the screen to go through a door or something. I think Lucasarts games were pretty well designed but the ones made by other companies could be quite bad for it - Blade Runner springs to mind. I'd say even now in 3D games if I find myself wandering around stuck it's more often than not because I something crucial wasn't visually clear (door, object, lever, whatever) rather than actually being stuck on the puzzle itself. As much as I adored those games as a kid I really struggle with them as an adult (replaying Monkey Island 1 and 2 aside). Even the DOTT remaster left me cold. I haven't played Thimbleweed Park yet but I'm hoping that'll reignite the old love a bit.