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Swansea's players had two days off last week, so they could go to Ibiza and go to the Beach. There is a beach in Swansea. I've been on it. It's opposite the University.

They were the original Austin Aztex for two years, before they became Orlando City. Founded 2007, in a Pub in Stoke on Trent. On a rainy Tuesday night, obviously.

I'm paraphrasing, but after the Arsenal vs Stoke game last week, Wenger was talking about how Leicester last season and Chelsea this season had an advantage in the league because they weren't it Europe. So someone asked him if, had Arsenal not qualified for the Champ's League every season for the last 20 years, would they have won more league titles? And he left the press conference without answering.

Started re-watching The I.T. Crowd because I realised Xav had never seen it (and now he's nine days away from turning 13, he's old enough to understand it). It's still really funny. The early episodes with Chris Morris, I'd forgotten how good he was as Denholm Reynholm.

I've had that happen. It would let me move around the map if I turned sideways, jumped and evaded in the direction I wanted to go. But I'd find myself losing health and shields at random times when nobody was firing at me. I did manage to join the Hack, but all I did was Nova and jump melees, because all the enemies were behaving oddly.

Just watched Bellator from London. It was very predictable. Cheikh Kongo is a really boring fighter now. McGeary vs Vassell had more action in the first 60 seconds than Kongo's whole fight. Nice to see it in HD though (Spike UK is just old rubbish definition, but because this was a live special rather than an 8 day tape delay it was on proper Channel 5). Kevin Ferguson Jr looks like he's on the CM Punk level just now, but he's only 25 so he has time to improve. And he has natural power like Punk doesn't seem to.

This is the only thing I've seen that looks at drop ratios (it's quite a way in):

See, I've been playing the Insurgent and carrying a Shotgun, but I'vebeen doing it on Bronze (low level) and mostly using a Carnifex. Makes no sense that I'm next door to useless with a Sniper Rifle, and Headshots for days with a Hand Cannon, but I'll take it.

Immortal were worse than he Bullet Club. So were Fourtune. Although on paper, you'd think Fourtune would be awesome. The Main Event Maffia however, were fantastic.

Angaran Insurgent, maybe? Short range specialist, in terms of a 'hold this location' aspect.

They did leave a few too many things hanging. At the end of Mass Effect 1, there's only really one cliffhanger, the Reapers are coming eventually (but we've delayed them, and can now prepare). Whereas there's a whole bunch of unfinished storylines at the end of Andromeda. Which I was going to list until I realised not everyone's finished it yet. I'm guessing there will be at least one DLC though, the one that will bring a whole host of new (or, for that matter, old) characters to multiplayer.

The promoter of Five Star Wrestling (that's running the 128 man tournament in a few months) has publicly offered CM Punk $1 million to come out of retirement and wrestle for him. Which will almost certainly be ignored, but it's a publicity stunt anyway.

Splitting play time between two Krogans (the Engineer and the Vanguard) got me another level one bonus stat, when they were 14 and 15. And I'm close to a fourth from my Asari Adept (and one bronze match with a Salarian Infiltrator that confirmed once more that Sniping isn't really my thing). Really should start playing a Soldier to work towards the other bonus as well, but I'm waiting for a proper Assault Rifle with autofire. My best Rifles right now are the Mattock and the Zalkin, which fire once per button press (well, the Zalkin can charge up a three shot pulse, but if you're going with Overdrive, you want something that's as close to a Minigun as possible, right?). Managed to do the Silver Apex mission in the Vault twice. It was a lot tougher with the Asari, because it's hard to get away from Observers and she can't absorb damage the way the Krogan can.

Wasn't that more that certain people on the roster didn't like to do business, and when one person is seen to get away with something, other people decide they might as well be pushing their luck too?

I'd just been doing Strike Team stuff in the multiplayer menu, but it told me I had to go to single player because I'd maxed out Pathfinder rewards. I had 200 of them. Selected 'Collect All' and then just stood still for ages while countless clumps of credits and research data scrolled up the side of the screen for about five minutes. My Strike Teams are now Levels 20, 20, 20, 19, 17 and 15.

You can't actually be Chargeless though, because at level 1-1 you have a point in Charge. But you can just use Charge as a melee delivery system... which works better with the Krogan, because he needs the melee kills to go Rage mode and become truly effective. If you make sure you don't have Charge above level 2 (because level 3 is a Damage & Force upgrade), it doesn't do enough damage to kill a Fresh Raider or Chosen on Silver, but it does leave them stunned and right in front of you. Melee splat, berserk, everyone's happy. Also, Fortification slows you down, whereas Charge gets you places quickly. I think the art of using the Krogan Vanguard at the top skill level is in timing the Fortification Purge explosion to get loads of kills.

You know what's annoying? When you're a Krogan, and you need melee kills to get into Rage mode, so you can regenerate health. But every time you get something trapped in a corner and start headbutting it to death, the bloody Kineticist Pulls your victim away and throws them off the map. And then you die because you weren't in rage mode.

Did an early shift at work because the boss asked for a favour. 3 hours sleep! It's very odd being at work in the morning. Everyone's in a hurry but nobody's really miserable, and you get miserable people in the evening. People actually buy newspapers on mornings! There are far fewer sweaty people in gym clothes. Which is a shame, because some of them are quite nice sometimes.

Don't you just love it when you run halfway across the map to revive someone, die as soon as they get up (because they didn't run for cover while low on health), and then they run off and leave you to be executed? I tried to equip two XP bonus consumables at the same time. You can't do it, it de-equips the first one.

Shitty Ice cream, i hear you say?

Well, King Arthur died on it's arse. I guess they aren't making the other six (!) planned movies in the series now.

See if a guy has an Apex rating of 134, that means he's done one mission, right? Or maybe just the tutorial. Because I did a mission with a guy with that, who was playing with a Turian Soldier. Level 1, of course. Yes, we were playing on Silver. Yes, he didn't know what he was doing. And he wasn't a guy inclined to revive teammates either. He was in fact, bloody useless.

But his whole gimmick is that he's unhinged. So the shirt is saying he's not a good Dean.

Playing with the Asari Adept on silver is a pain in the arse. It's a pure hit and run style - leap in, Biotic Combo, shotgun, leap out. But it only really works if you've got someone playing Vanguard at the same time and confusing the enemies with movement and big impacts. If other people are playing cagey camper, you just get targeted from all sides and die quick. I'll just play a Krogan Engineer instead. That looks like fun.