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Cake day: September 2nd, 2025

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  • It’s not just you! Forza Horizon has been the main series of video game I looked forward to. I loved 3 and 4.

    It didn’t take long for 5 to concentrate fully on the weekly bullshit and making the game more about puzzles and Hot Wheels-style excitement than driving.

    This is the first Horizon game in over a decade that I couldn’t care less about. It just feels like a sad shell of the previous games.


  • It’s such a funny example. He was so famous in the 80s!

    Never Gonna Give You Up was literally #1 in 25 countries in 1988. He was nominated for a Grammy but lost to Tracy Chapman.

    He’s sold 40 million albums.

    During the period between his debut release and his fifth single (in 1988), Astley outsold every other artist in the world. (From his Wikipedia article)

    I would argue he wasn’t accidentally famous at all, as he partnered with the Hit Factory. They produced Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” in 1985.

    “I knew, though, that when I got my turn, it would be a big thing, because Stock Aitken Waterman were becoming this big hit machine.”

    Having a big hit is why he started working at their production studio as a “tea boy.”