Luxury Gaming: SteelSeries was founded 25 years ago with a specific focus on quality gaming peripherals and esports partnerships. Now, the company is adding a brand-new “quick switch” technology to its portfolio to support both PC and Xbox ecosystems. It’s a “premium” gaming solution that, unfortunately, also requires a premium financial commitment.

SteelSeries recently unveiled the Aeon Pro, a “luxury” controller designed to serve the needs of multi-platform gaming customers. The wireless device includes a patent-pending “QuickSwitch” system that lets users pair it with a gaming PC and an Xbox console at the same time, going back and forth with no need to change any setting or Bluetooth connections.

The Aeon Pro comes with a massive $260 price tag, which is quite a lot even when compared to premium gaming peripherals such as the Xbox Elite Controller Series 2. SteelSeries said that the new controller can provide an innovative solution for gamers who play on multiple systems. However, the quick switch option is just the first entry in a long list of features targeting customization and reliability in different gaming scenarios.

The Aeon Pro comes with a QuickSwitch Dock System, which can be connected via USB to a PC, a modern Xbox console, and even mobile devices. After proper connectivity is established, the controller can “instantly” – and hopefully reliably – switch between the different systems with no need to re-pair, reconnect, or move cables.

Another feature of the Aeon Pro is the “Unlimited Battery Life” option, which relies on two rechargeable batteries. Players can use one battery with the controller, while the other charges inside the docking base – a method also used by some headsets. The base can also be used to store additional thumbsticks, charge spare batteries, and provide a more organized gaming setup.

The Aeon Pro’s chassis hosts an OLED Smart Display, which can work both as a power level monitor and a native customization feature. Gamers can use the display to remap controls directly, manage profiles and settings, and more. Additional customization options are available on PC through the SteelSeries GG software application.

Speaking of controls, SteelSeries guarantees potential customers that the Aeon Pro packs a lot of buttons and levers with plenty of different features they can choose from. The Hall Effect thumbsticks are allegedly free from drift issues, while mechanical switches provide tactile feedback and should survive millions of hasty clicks.

The Aeon Pro is currently available in black and white finishes directly from SteelSeries’ store, plus select retailers and online stores across the world. Suggested price tags are $260 in the US and Asia-Pacific nations, €260 in Europe and other EMEA markets, £230 in the UK. I think I’ll rely on my original Sony DualShock 3 PS3 controller, which works quite well for PC gaming and PS3 emulation, for a few more years.

EPISODE 17 The new Boss is keen to acquire knowledge. So keen that he wants a quick rundown on our content management system so he can avail himself of our copious workplace documentation.

“WELL,” I say, bracing myself for a long session, “first things first, you’ll need to get a strong coffee.”

“Why?”

“Because our CMS is a place where documents go to die.”

“Surely it can’t be that-“

“Oh, it’s bad. So bad that no one will ever admit to being on the selection committee that purchased it.”

“Were you on it?” the Boss asks pointedly.

“What, put an IT person onto a project to select an IT system to store the entirety of our electronic data? Why would you want to do that? No, a selection committee for a project of that importance needs to be made up of people unencumbered by the intellectual weights of reliability, safe data management, and backupability.”

“Backupability?”

“You know what I mean. Anyway, a selection committee needs to focus on the big decisions – like the highlight color of tags – and how many different tag colors there are. And whether you can add colors. Then there’s the avatar facility.”

“Avatar facility?”

“Yeah, you know, so your avatar appears next to any document you upload. Apparently, it encourages people to contribute.”

“It doesn’t sound all that ba-“

“Oh, it’s bad. It doesn’t have a proper index, because it uses AI to create tags and keywords dynamically.”

“That sounds like a pretty good ide-“

“Yeah. Though it regenerates those tags every night, based on keyword frequency and lazy theme frequency matching.”

“Lazy theme frequency?”

“Yeah. Say I upload a bunch of documents, each discussing something of vital importance to senior management, like, I dunno, the decline of manila folders. AI runs through overnight and creates tags for manila and folders and then a theme keyword of stationery.

“The next day, the PFY slaps in a news item about traffic jams in the Philippines. That night, AI will associate Manila with manila, surmizing it’s a typo, associate stationary traffic with stationery for the same reason, and before you know it you’re getting a 20-year-old travel expense form when you go to order staples.”

“Surely you can just correct that?”

“It does it every night. And worse still, there’s some all-encompassing word association going on inside it which means that if you delete the document, AI will retain the keyword and try and match it to the next ‘best’ document.”

“But surely you could tune AI?”

“What for?”

“To stop that happening.”

“Why would I want to stop that happening?”

“I… to fix it.”

“No one wants us to fix it. Remember when I said it’s where documents go to die?”

“Yes, but…”

“The staff love it. Say you’ve half-completed a report that was due a couple of weeks ago, and you’re under the pump to deliver it. Just put it in the CMS and that’s the end of the matter. No one’s going to look for it.”

“At my former workplace we used to use ShareP-“

“Don’t say that word. Or the T word. It’s worse than Candyman.”

“Why?”

“Well, they have the ‘prior art’ when it comes to sending documents into Neverland. No, we’re happy with our system, which is almost as good as one of those shredders that slices the paper up before chopping it up into confetti.”

“I don’t think that senior management would accept that sort of syst-“

“Senior management were the ones who asked for it! We make the system available to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on a regular basis. It takes about three weeks to convert a forensic accountant into a mindless ghost watering invisible plants in a mental health facility.”

“It can’t be that bad. I mean, why would we keep it – at a functional level, I mean?”

“It did cost a lot of money.”

“How much money?”

“No one knows. The original invoice is in the CMS.”

“Well, just download it.”

“We could, but you’re pretty much guaranteed never to get served the same document twice.”

“What does that mean?”

“Well, you know. There was a negotiation process. Lots of letters of engagement, counter-letters of engagement, example contract, pre-draft, draft, pre-pre-signing, pre-signing, amended, cross-amended, legally reviewed, counter-legally reviewed, signed in principle, signed, countersigned, amended countersigned, etc.”

“You said amended countersigned… but you didn’t say amended signed.”

“No, I didn’t, did I? Maybe that’s not in the system, but then again, maybe it is. After you’ve downloaded 17 documents – all slightly different, some dated, some undated, definitely NOT added in chronological order – you’ll start to feel like you’re getting somewhere. Then you’ll get the 18th document, which refers to another document you’ve never heard of, which supersedes all the documents thus far.”

“But surely you can find it?”

“I don’t want to find it,” I reply.

“But I want you to find it.”

“And I think you’ll find I don’t have to find it for you. It’s in my contract.”

“And don’t tell me, your contract is in the CMS?”

“I put it there myself,” I nod.

The two companies operate 10 fitness and yoga outlets across Singapore

True Fitness and True Yoga are set to shut their Singapore operations, as parent company Kontafarma China Holdings moves to liquidate the businesses amid mounting financial losses.

The Hong Kong-listed company said in a bourse filing on Thursday (Sep 10) that the directors of True Fitness and True Yoga had resolved that the companies could no longer continue operating due to their liabilities, CNA reported.

Insolvency practitioners Goh Wee Teck and Lin Yueh Hung of RSM SG Corporate Advisory have since been provisionally appointed.

Extraordinary general meetings for both companies are scheduled for Oct 7, where resolutions for creditors’ voluntary winding-up will be proposed. Meetings with creditors will follow.

The two companies, collectively known as the True Singapore Group, operate 10 fitness and yoga outlets across Singapore under three brands: True Fitness, TFX and Yoga Edition.

The centres are expected to cease operations as the liquidation process gets underway.

True Singapore’s struggles

The Singapore business has been struggling financially despite continuing to generate significant revenue.

For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, the True Singapore Group recorded about HK$181.2 million (S$30 million) in revenue, but posted a loss of about HK$34.3 million (S$5.7 million).

At the end of 2025, the group had total assets of around HK$149.7 million (S$24.2 million), compared with liabilities of HK$555.5 million (S$89.8 million).

The situation worsened in the first eight months of 2026.

According to unaudited management accounts, the Singapore business generated about HK$118.4 million (S$19.1 million) in revenue during the period, but recorded another HK$19.1 million (S$3 million) loss.

As of Aug 31, its assets stood at about HK$204.5 million, while total liabilities had risen to HK$633.8 million. This left the business with net liabilities of about HK$429.3 million (S$72 million).

The True Singapore Group also owed about HK$309.7 million (S$50 million) to the wider Kontafarma group as of Aug 31.

Kontafarma said the Singapore fitness business had been facing “unprecedented” challenges, including increasingly fierce competition and rising costs associated with attracting customers.

The company pointed to the growing popularity of boutique gyms, as well as gyms located within condominiums and residential developments, which have reduced some consumers’ need for external gym memberships.

Competition is also coming from outside the traditional gym industry.

Online training programmes, mobile apps, video platforms and virtual coaching have made it easier for consumers to exercise at home or outdoors, further intensifying pressure on traditional fitness operators.

At the same time, the business has continued to face high operating costs and tight cash flow.

Kontafarma said that despite efforts to control costs and improve operational efficiency, the Singapore fitness business had become extremely difficult to sustain.

The parent company had also provided cash funding to support the Singapore operations, but said the businesses continued to underperform and face significant liquidity pressure.

Kontafarma shifts focus to pharmaceuticals

Once the provisional liquidators take control, they will assume responsibility for the affairs, businesses and property of True Fitness and True Yoga.

The powers of the companies’ directors will cease, while operations at the fitness and yoga centres are expected to stop as the provisional liquidation begins.

The creditors’ voluntary liquidation will formally commence after the special resolutions are passed at the Oct 7 extraordinary general meetings.

Kontafarma said the liquidation would allow it to redirect resources towards its pharmaceutical business.

The company said it does not expect the move to have any other material adverse impact on the financial performance or operations of its existing businesses.

Its pharmaceutical segment accounted for 76.7% of group revenue in the first half of 2026 and 78.5% of its total assets as of Jun 30.

There is also a separate debt exposure involving True Fitness.

Kontafarma has guaranteed a bank loan taken by the company, with about S$2.3 million outstanding as of the date of its announcement.

The parent company said the final amount owed by the Singapore businesses will be determined by the liquidators, while any recovery will depend on the assets realised and the statutory order of priority for creditors under Singapore law.

For Kontafarma, the closure marks a retreat from a loss-making fitness business as it shifts its focus towards pharmaceuticals.

• Read other articles we’ve written on Singaporean businesses here.

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from the these-are-people dept

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human.

“They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to stop thinking of them as if they’re still alive.” – The Walking Dead

“They’re not human. Look at them. They’re just… meat.” – Shaun of the Dead

The point is that there should be no ill feelings towards the treatment of a zombie, because they aren’t like us any more. They aren’t worthy of compassion. They deserve no quarter, only violence. They are a threat to our very survival and doing away with them, or at least keeping them away from where humanity exists, is the only solution.

Or, if you’re the Trump administration, you use this same justification as a bank-shot for immigration policy by hosting a Tetris clone game on the White House website.

The White House’s “Build the Wall” game asked players to stop a “Zombie Border siege” by stacking Tetris-styled bricks in an attempt to “hold the line.” Unlike in Tetris, though, the blocks in “Build the Wall” don’t disappear when you complete a line, meaning each brick contributes to an impassable barrier for the pixel-art “zombies” marching in from the “Southern Border.” That change makes the gameplay pretty uninteresting for anything but cheap propaganda, and it also means that every game quickly and ironically ends with a “Border Breached” message when the blocks inevitably fill up the well.

Amerika Garcia Grewal, co-director of Texas migrant rights group Frontera Federation, told AFP last week that the makers of the game “have lost touch with what it means to be human and care for others.”

The game is now thankfully gone from the site, though several other obvious game clones remain. This is not new ground for this administration, of course. Team Trump has made a habit when campaigning and while in office of using video game imagery for all kinds of things, such as touting MAHA nonsense, shitposting about the horrors of its own immigration activity, or bragging about the body count of the wars Trump promised he’d never start.

So, why did the game get taken down? Did someone in the administration realize how horrible and racist the whole thing was? Did Trump himself suddenly suffer from a spasm of moral clarity?

Doubtful. More likely it was this.

In a statement on Friday, a spokesperson for The Tetris Company said it was “reviewing the matter” and that the company “was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’ and did not authorize or license the Tetris brand or intellectual property for the game.” The company reiterated that message in a social media post Friday afternoon, writing that it “believe[s] in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them.”

Now, I’m not going to sit here and cheer on the enforcement of our overly broad copyright system. But I sure as hell understand why the Tetris people don’t want there to be even the barest chance for them and their game to be associated with something as disgusting as Trump’s Build The Wall “game.” And ArsTechnica is right to note that the Tetris Company has a long history of being very protective of its intellectual property rights, which government lawyers almost certainly are aware of.

Whether taking the game down will be enough to keep the Tetris Company from acting, I do not know. What I do know is that this administration is filled with deeply unserious, racist, and troubled people. Immigrants, illegal or otherwise, are not zombies. They shouldn’t be compared with zombies. Whatever immigration policy you prefer, they are people.

And that really shouldn’t have to be said out loud.

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Sonos has started rolling out Sonos 27, the latest version of its audio operating system, bringing AI control, redesigned app navigation, and one of the more practical home theater ideas we have seen this year: compatible portable speakers that can automatically become wireless rear surrounds and return to portable duty when the movie is over.

The free software update is available across Sonos S2 products, although individual features depend on the hardware. It also lays the groundwork for direct Wi-Fi headphone linking with the new Sonos Ace Ultra, which becomes available September 29.

Considering Sonos’ recent adventures in app development, asking existing customers to embrace another major software overhaul requires a certain amount of courage. Sonos 27, however, appears focused on adding useful capabilities rather than merely rearranging the furniture.

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Portable Speakers Become Rear Surrounds

The standout feature is Portable Surrounds, which works with matching pairs of Sonos Move 2 or Sonos Play speakers and compatible Arc Ultra, Arc, Beam Ultra, or Beam Gen 2 soundbars.

Sonos Positioning Technology uses brief high-frequency audio signals to determine the distance between the speakers and soundbar. Put two supported portable speakers into position and they can automatically assume rear-channel duties; remove them afterward and they revert to standalone portable speakers. Sonos says the bonding process takes roughly eight seconds.

That is genuinely clever because conventional wireless surrounds become semi-permanent fixtures once installed. Sonos is letting hardware serve two purposes without making users repeatedly rebuild the system inside the app.

The feature also strengthens the case for the recently announced $699 Beam Ultra, which adds dedicated Dolby Atmos height drivers and is one of the supported soundbars.

Sonos Opens the Door to Outside AI

Sonos 27 also introduces Sonos 27mcp in Early Access. Built around Model Context Protocol, it allows outside AI systems including ChatGPT and Claude to communicate with and control a Sonos system. Users can request music or system actions through supported AI tools without first opening the Sonos app.

Sonos’ own 27voice assistant arrives this fall and is designed specifically around music, mood, and natural-language requests. Sonos Custom Agents are planned for 2027, potentially allowing users to create assistants with their own models, voices, and personalities.

Whether your loudspeaker really needs a personality remains debatable, but Sonos’ willingness to support outside AI platforms rather than locking everything behind a proprietary assistant is the more interesting decision.

Ace Ultra Finally Becomes Part of Sonos

The $449 Sonos Ace Ultra also addresses one of our biggest complaints about the original Ace headphones.

Beginning September 29 in Early Access, Headphone Linking lets Ace Ultra connect directly to a Sonos system over Wi-Fi. Users can push or pull audio between nearby Sonos speakers and their headphones without relying solely on a smartphone or Bluetooth connection.

That finally makes headphones bearing the Sonos name behave more like an actual Sonos product.

The App Gets Another Makeover

Sonos 27app introduces Home, System, and Search tabs, native swipe gestures, room pinning, revised volume controls, and additional grouping options. Sonos is also adding iOS gestures, Android widgets, and deeper Shortcuts support as part of the current rollout.

Additional features arriving this fall include a virtual volume knob, quick presets, Siri and Shortcuts support, an optimized iPad interface, and new system-status screens.

What Makes Sonos 27 Different?

Sonos is treating its ecosystem less like a collection of wireless speakers and more like adaptable hardware whose role changes through software.

Portable speakers becoming temporary surrounds, headphones operating as Wi-Fi system endpoints, and outside AI agents controlling playback are individually interesting. Combining all three inside one interoperable home audio platform is what makes Sonos 27 noteworthy.

The closest mainstream competitor remains Bose, whose smart soundbars and speakers support multi-room playback while SimpleSync can connect compatible Bluetooth headphones for private listening. Bose also offers dedicated wireless rear speakers, but it does not currently match Sonos’ ability to automatically repurpose portable speakers as temporary surrounds or integrate headphones as Wi-Fi endpoints in the same manner.

The Bottom Line

Sonos 27 is more interesting than another app redesign because it makes existing hardware behave differently.

Portable Surrounds solves a legitimate space and flexibility problem, while Ace Ultra Headphone Linking fixes an integration gap that should never have existed with the original Ace. Opening system control to outside AI platforms is potentially important as well, provided it makes playing music easier rather than turning the living room into another AI experiment.

Sonos still has to prove that the redesigned software remains stable as these features roll out, but Sonos 27 shows where the company has an advantage over most competitors: the hardware does not necessarily have to be replaced for the system to become more capable.

Price & Availability

Sonos 27 began rolling out on September 8, 2026 as a free software update for Sonos S2 products. Portable Surrounds and Sonos 27mcp are available now on supported hardware, while Headphone Linking launches September 29 in Early Access with Sonos Ace Ultra. Sonos 27voice arrives this fall, with Custom Agents planned for 2027.

For more information, visit the Sonos 27 website.

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Demand for OpenAI’s newest and most powerful model, Astra, has led the company to temporarily pause subscriptions for its $200-per-month Pro plan, citing strain on its infrastructure.

The move was announced on X by OpenAI’s product leader, Thibault (Tibo) Sottiaux, who leads core products like Codex and ChatGPT at the AI lab. He said that the Pro plan puts the most strain on its systems, which is why sign-ups for this service tier are now being disabled.

“We wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible,” Sottiaux wrote. He added that the company’s other plans, including the API and lower-cost Go and Plus plans, remain available.

The company warned on Wednesday that such a change might come. At the time, Sottiaux wrote, “Demand for Astra is really unprecedented. We’re pulling all the levers possible to sustain the demand, but I’ve not seen anything like it until now and we went through very steep growth before. Priority will always be to keep excellent service for existing users, but we might have to pause new Pro subscriptions for a bit if this continues.”

OpenAI hasn’t said how long sign-ups to the Pro tier may be disabled, or how many people are signing up daily, to give an idea of the scale of the demand.

The company raised usage limits for Codex users as recently as last month, suggesting the strain is a recent phenomenon.

Launched on September 3, Astra has been rolling out across OpenAI’s plans, including Pro, Plus, Enterprise, and Business accounts, in addition to its AI. The model promises a major leap forward in areas like AI reasoning, coding, and computer use — all areas of steep competition. OpenAI even heralded Astra as the beginning of the “AGI era,” and a generational leap, stoking demand even more.

This is Bending Spoons’ second acquisition since going public in July.

Italy’s Bending Spoons, which buys and revamps existing businesses providing digital technologies, is acquiring California-based workplace collaboration platform Miro for $1.35bn.

The deal values Miro at approximately $1.79bn, a significant step down from its last valuation of $17.5bn in 2022 – a downward trend attributed to the major AI-led disruption in the SaaS sector in recent years.

The company, co-headquartered in Amsterdam, was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. Its platform, used by companies such as Ubisoft, PepsiCo and Comcast, allows workers to connect various tools and AI outputs into one governed location for collaboration.

Miro’s customer-base has grown multi-fold in recent years – up from 30m in 2022 to more than 100m this year, including nearly 4m paying customers, up from 130,000 in 2022.

The company recorded $600m in annual recurring revenue, with nearly all of it coming from its business and enterprise customers. Miro employs around 1,600 people in 14 hubs around the world.

As part of the deal, a number of Miro shareholders have agreed to invest $295m into the newly-issued Bending Spoons equity, the two companies said in a joint statement.

“We acquire businesses with the intention of owning and operating them for the long term, and Miro will be no exception,” said Bending Spoons CEO and co-founder Luca Ferrari.

“After closing, we plan to invest substantially in the fundamentals that its customers value: performance, reliability and functionality that supports critical collaborative work.”

This is Bending Spoons’ second acquisition since going public in July. Last month, the company announced that it was acquiring US automation company Airtable at an implied equity value of around $2.25bn. The company also owns more than 50 brands, including Evernote, WeTransfer, Eventbrite and AOL.

“Nearly 4m paying users depend on it, across every industry and region we serve, including more than 750 customers with over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue,” said Andrey Khusid, CEO and co-founder of Miro.

Bending Spoons shares gained marginally at market close yesterday. The company’s shares have been down nearly 23pc in the last month.

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Storage still coughs up late-90s leftovers for Clint Basinger of LGR, and the latest one is a molded kitchen that sits on a PC keyboard and pretends to bake. Easy-Bake Kitchen, sold by Hasbro Interactive in fall 1999 for about $40, arrived as a CD-ROM plus a strap-on playset aimed at ages three and up. Box copy promised to turn a Windows 95 or 98 machine into a kitchen full of fun with no waiting and no mess. LGR found his copy years after a viewer named Ryan Kitty mailed it in, then pulled it back out after a hurricane soaked the downstairs collection room in what he calls storm juice. A scrub later, the plastic was ready for another shift.

That year, Hasbro focused heavily on CD-ROM playsets. The Tonka Workshop and Star Wars Millennium Falcon overlays had already demonstrated the concept: take a cheap, molded toy, insert some genuine keys, and couple it with a slideshow of colorful software that requires no additional ports. Just this year, Playskool received a cash register version, Mattel tried Matchbox, and Easy Bake Kitchen followed the same basic concept.

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This small playset has eight utensils on the overlay. When you press a measuring cup, it will tip. Pushing an egg against a bowl causes it to fracture. When you command it to, a mixer descends into the well. An oven door opens, and a dial turns on or off. Dough can be stamped out with a knife or cutter when desired. When you press down on a piping bag, it offers a slight squeeze. A lumpy piece of plastic dough is flattened with a rolling pin (which is the only loose piece and will most likely be lost first by families). Each of these actions involves inserting a pointed bit into an actual key. That’s it for the interface; the guidelines also advise against using laptops or ergonomic keyboards. LGR discovered this the hard way after extensive testing, and sure, a basic desktop keyboard, including a robust old Model M, can happily accept the straps. A wooden Dell Inspiron 600M simply slides across the desk because laptop keys are too shallow for the small nubs to catch.

The CD was manufactured by KnowWonder, the same company that created the Microsoft Magic School Bus titles. A Pentium 90, 16 megs of RAM, 50 megs of disk space, SVGA, a sound card, and a mouse were the minimal requirements. When you launch the software, a greeting animation shows Sally Sprinkle finding an empty cookie jar, asking her sister E.B. for help, being turned down because E.B. is at the movies, and dozing off into a baking dream. Billy Batter and Maggie, the TV cook, are helping her out. Kids can use the on-screen recipes to produce a variety of delicacies, including muffins, brownies, biscuits, cakes, pies, pretzels, and a variety of cookies. Or they can simply put a bunch of random ingredients into the mixing bowl and watch what happens. Leaving the thing for too long causes smoke to roll across the fake counter.

You can clean up the mess with a mop icon, and there are extra rooms for decorating, a gingerbread man hunt, a speed-bake competition, a game where the cookie dough gets out of control, an icing game where you have to hit as many cookies as possible (and not worry about frosting anything else, how fun is that?) and a tea party where a dinosaur, a dog, and a grannie all eat up the finished plate and leave crumbs all over the place. If you want to get creative, there are prints for gift boxes, party invites, and even real-world recipes if you’re feeling adventurous enough to get flour all over your actual kitchen.

LGR chose to put one of the muffins through the entire baking process: oven on, flour in the cup, milk and oil, two eggs, mixer, tray in, door shut, wait, door open, oven off. Decorating the object required the use of a squeezy bag. LGR saw that the visitors at the tea party ate their food so quickly that he assumed they were a bunch of ungrateful little monsters. He also said that a third of the minigames available are simply designed to keep those same eight nubs busy, because, at the end of the day, the item is just a keyboard disguised. He went so far as to remap Doom II utilizing the thing. The mixer moved forward. The egg turned left. The dough went right. The oven door opened, revealing maps. The piping bag actuated the trigger.