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The new generation of consoles is here and currently, there are not many games for them. However, if you have the Xbox Series X or S, you have the benefit of Xbox Game Pass. Over the past few years, this has become the big selling point of having an Xbox and while I have complex feelings on the disappearance of game ownership, it's still a pretty incredible value prospect. Much like Netflix, you pay a monthly subscription fee and get unlimited access to a huge suite of games, for as long as you continue to pay your membership fees. Strangely, it also comes with a "Surprise Me" button which allows you to get randomly recommended a game. Seeing as there appears to be absolutely nothing else happening at the moment, I'm playing six random video games for your enjoyment! Let me quickly set out the rules. I picked six games using the "Surprise Me" button and played them all for at least 15 minutes. I don't have an Xbox Series X, I have a humble little Xbox On

Star Wars was a mistake. I don't just mean this in a hyperbolic "the human race was a mistake" kind of thing (though partly I do), I also mean that the original Star Wars was genuinely an accident. It is very common knowledge by this point that there was a lot of chaos on the set, in which a still novice director named George Lucas tried to make his sci-fi riff on old Kurosawa films with a Flash Gordon vibe. On getting to the edit room, editor Marcia Lucas found something of a mess. There were strange shifts between scenes, it was unclear what the tone was meant to be and everything felt incredibly amateur. Even today, you can go back and look at some of the original footage and it looks pretty terrible. That original trilogy salvaged something mediocre and turned it into a phenomenon. But then something incredible happened. In post-production, this hot mess of a product came together. Marcia Lucas gave scenes a flow that previously didn't exist and added the now icon