You know the kind. The kind we like to vent about in our nightly off-topic discussion. Well this is the place, now is the time, and this is the beer. Shit, I’m out of beer.

Who’s ready to chat about things that aren’t video games? And who else is excited to get up tomorrow morning to see what a multi-billion dollar corporation will be selling us in just 24 hours?

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The Swiss set a record for the longest tunnel ever dug, 56km through the Alps, connected yesterday. How awesome would it have been to attach a giant Cthulhu head to that borer for the moment it broke through?

Warning: this episode of our daily off-topic post, where anyone is welcome to comment on anything they want, might have an odour. Temperatures at Kotaku Towers West today reached a toasty 45C and things got a little sweaty.

Gang, I know you’ve got serious gaming plans for the weekend, but before you leave us at the end of the work week, how about a little off-topic conversation? For me? Please?

So my friends and I have undertaken the inevitable moustache-growing contest. Right now, I’m sporting about five days of completely full-faced unshaven stubble. But I’m wondering if I should spend all this growth on a Hulk Hogan-style Fu Manchu.