It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.

Our company is in a pretty weird spot. On one hand we're getting invited to prestigious award shows and getting a lot of validation for our games. On the other hand we can't even afford the entry price.

GAME DEVS. I got tired of mind maps spaghetti, so I built a game design tool that lets me see exactly what I need to see. It lets you scrub dependency depth: see only direct connections, or expand the chain when you need it. This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀

"We, the techbro community, are delighted to announce our new device that allows you to ejaculate immediately. Where messy sex and blowjobs used to take minutes or even hours to complete, our new tech will allow you to reach climax in *nanoseconds*, allowing you more time to do work and chores."

So the new Fatboy Slim video is slop. Totally forgettable. A technology that inspires the tamest, most trivial, boring ideas. "What if the Rolling Stones and Fatboy Slim were young and playing this song?" Board room drivel.

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

Forgot that I called a Toast Time level "Enter Snowman".

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COVERDRIVE is a small zine I made, all about how to make an album cover. I have some physical copies, and you can download it in pdf form here: lukeoram.itch.io/coverdrive #art #albumcover #guide #howto #doit #zine

Re: Steam controversy. Capitalism as an infantlising force.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

My reply to a thread elsewhere about 'most embarassing moment in audio'...

If the main channels of music distribution infrastructure on the internet are going to continue to enshittify themselves to death, the only logical response is to enact a digital dubplate mentality in your community both IRL and URL.

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Hello, you can now buy this pdf of all my old landscapes and a few new ones ones too that you’ve never seen before ko-fi.com/s/889e6eec9f

+1 @starkholborn.bsky.social and I talked about this so much when we were working on it (for years 😅 ). Burying narrative/meaning/theme into every corner. Making strong connections between disciplines, mise en scene etc. etc. A privilege to be on a project where that was rewarded, encouraged.

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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

talkin' about the AI bubble

The triple-threat of degraded search results, people burying advice in video content and imgur being blocked in the UK makes resolving software issues a real joy. 😑

Finished the pet project that helped me recover 😊👍 #retrocomputing #computer #retro #kc85 #rendering #cgi #modeling #maya

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Last night I dreamt of the economy and toilets. I'm sure it didn't mean anything.

RIP to one of the most original and brilliant British filmmakers. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

Obviously pretty much everything's dogcake but here's a really good tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnU...

Black Mandrakes

nice nyt piece on berio's "sinfonia" no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

Peak organism.

To Laika.

trump remodelling the white house

Just remembered that at the NFL in London the other week they played about 4 seconds of Voodoo Ray into the stadium before it got interrupted by something else. Feel like it was the one tune that the whoever was responsible for the music slipped in of their own accord. Fair play.

Elsker gamle hi-fi-reklamer ❤️🔊

Francis Ford Coppola remembers Diane Keaton.

Respect to whoever retrieved/remodelled/remade the Artificial Intelligence cover to animate this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jays...

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

Good morning, please enjoy this lovely badger who is a current regular on my camera trap. Female, I believe. Enjoying the cherry plums that drop from the branches I can't reach.

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

I finally sprung for Parawave's Rapid. Seemingly neglected but one of the best sounding sofftware synths I've heard. Always interesting and rich, it has that magic property of constant pleasant surprises. Quite a few of the more popular synths favoured by sound designers sound kinda boring to me 🤷

"We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality." - Ursula Le Guin

Wholeheartedly agree with this review; When There are Wolves Again is a fabulous book; and if you're in Bristol I'll be interviewing @catamaroon.bsky.social about it on October 14th at Stanfords! bristol.stanfords.co.uk/2025/08/15/e...

Themetic FSOL poster.

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

I'd love to work on a remaster like Deus Ex and just go incredibly hard on the existing aesthetic. Push further into 'that'. Not an update. Not even a remaster. Just a fever-dream alternative.

Intelligence appears to be a property of a system. And that system need does not have a central node that coordinates all other nodes. Yet AI, as it manifests in the US context, is all about centralised networks.

Massive consolidation of entertainment conglomerates has an unexpected downside for them: when one of their subsidiaries capitulates to fascism, it threatens their entire portfolio. ABC, Disney, Star Wars, theme parks, cruises, Hulu, Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, etc. are all now fair boycott targets.

The Discreet Archive Earthphone 2025 Every so often I buy a microphone purely out of curiosity. The Discreet Archive Earthphone is one such purchase I acquired recently. It’s an unusual sound gathering device which invites the user to go exploring! Based on a geophone design the Earthphone has a…

Here's a thing I routinely do: write about DIY tape labels for @bandcamp.com. Sometimes it can feel like culture is calcifying (and maybe it is IDK), but then you have heroes like Cooper Bowman releasing primo experimental music out of pure, raw love. daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r...