I did the thing.

I do feel somewhat silly just continuing to make my silly little games and tell my silly little jokes.

Need to remember to sign up for Limit Break tomorrow. Keep missing the application window.

We were buying some stage lights a while back and needed ones with a specific function and the sales guy just asked ChatGPT and anyway we ended up returning them because they didn't have the function we'd asked for.

Radio 4

I want @bjalborough.bsky.social to join the #SNLUK cast as Terry Wogan. Or just give him his own show. Either works.

You can tell me Bluesky is dead, irrelevant and actively hostile, but you have NO IDEA how many point & click adventure games I've played.

This train is taking forever to get where I want to go.

I know it's tempting but please don't make jokes about smashing your fists into duck feather duvets, it might seem funny but it's actually punching down

A lot of my research into the history of play covers tensions around gambling and play. There’s a real history of people being more concerned about the aesthetic of gambling as “corrupting” compared to the design of it.

man i flipping love Day Of The Triffids. i think about it all the time. huge plants running around being weird. i love it.

It's been two years since my last tattoo. Should do something about that.

One thing I get praised for a lot is the quality of my joke writing. Like whatever else needs improvement in my sets, structurally and technically they're great and surprising and clever. I'm not going to achieve that by asking the plagiarism machine to spew out an approximate average of a joke.

Every time I see the posters for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie I am flooded with reminders of how much I love the Super Mario Galaxy games and then I realise I can just replay those again instead of watching a bad movie.

Nothing says “the future of technology” like having your terms and conditions feature the same disclaimer that appears at the start of every episode of Most Haunted.

This is my trans agenda

I think this Edinburgh I want to try find some more improv-y/panel show type slots rather than just stand up slots to perform on. Definitely feel happier after improv shows than standup shows.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

#TDOV Twirl

Blizzard is a wonderful night, and this lineup is incredible, and devastatingly I am already booked to see Jess Fostekew that evening else I'd be there.

No one has ever been "thrown out for laughing" at a comedy show.

Pub song started and yes, this is exactly why you get Two Hearts on the writing team. Maybe we can find the off switch for prison rape jokes in Weekend Update though? #SNLUK

tv critic: snl uk won’t work, it’ll be too american snl uk: [do a sketch where jools holland goes around taking the souls of anyone who doesn’t put their clocks forward]

Please do not give me choice in your games because 1. I am only ever going to pick the "nice" option 2. Giving me ethical dilemmas isn't a fun time 3. I want to hear the story you are telling, I'm an idiot who will try to take all the tension out of it

That... Could have been more transphobic than it was. It was mostly about the irresistible sexual allure of being trans and amish and also maybe an alien.

There's a clip of Sam Nicoresti being brilliant on Cats Does Countdown and part way through there's just a shot of Jimmy Carr looking slightly uncomfortable and not laughing and... Very deliberate editing choice, I feel.

tbqh I'm not even sure what people mean when they say "indie will save us". save who. save what. do you just mean "well interesting indie games will continue to come out"? sure. do you mean "indie games can absorb the tens of thousands of workers laid off from AAA studios"? that's insane

I should probably get round to reading the original manga at some point.

I’d love to see a CEO defend having a female protagonist with the insistence they reserve for AI. It’s the future! Everyone’s doing it!

Hosted our monthly show and it went well and improv is wonderful.

I've a dinosaur that's been giving me dating advice for my relationship with the actor who played Scott Pilgrim. "Next time things are getting frisky," he said, "Try Cera tops."

"Earthsea was better" sure, but if Ursula Le Guin was alive and funding Nazis then you would need to boycott her too, whether they're good books is beside the point

Were people in the past just as annoyed about good comedians appearing a lot on the telly? Like were people going "Ugh, Morecambe and Wise again, why is the BBC putting them in everything?"

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

As Nick Clegg’s in the spotlight again, here’s a short thread of the time I took his bizarre 2020 Politico photo shoot and turned them into Edinburgh posters. 1/4

I can't even bring myself to finish watching Lewis because one of the actors is now a professional bigot I can't understand the conundrum of not supporting the continued financial and reputational support of someone who has stated all their money is going to removing the rights of trans people.

Hell yeah Kathy is a delight and absolutely deserves this.

Okay, yeah, #SNLUK is great. Looking forward to the rest of the series, congratulations to all involved.

At a price tag of about 70 million, building an entire fuckin' theme park expansion is ironically less than it costs to make most AAA games nowadays.

I watched The Mummy for the first time today at the encouragement of a friend and I'm sad to report that it has not made me break out in uncontrollable lust. Good film though.

hello, i am paid to be a tv critic and today i will be asking: can *british* comedians make a sketch show? it has never been done before so i have my doubts!

... I've only just realised that with SNL UK being, you know, UK based, I could have actually tried getting tickets for it. Whoops.

I love games that are unapologetic about being games as opposed to movies and therefore take the opportunity to truly play with the medium. I'm going to have to pick up Rhythm Doctor.

I think about this a lot.

Sabeen Bhatt, 30, has mentally computed the answer to a previously unsolved physics problem, but, after 40 minutes of being stuck sitting on the edge of her bathtub in just a towel, has been unable to do anything about it.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos