Watched an SGDQ run of a game I worked on, only to see the credits roll by and apparently I was missed off them. Love this industry.

I've just noticed that a subconscious reason I put my noise cancelling headphones on when going out is that it means I'm either less likely to hear people yelling at me or it gives me enough plausible deniability to not react when they do.

On the train to Manchester for a very SNL UK day. Previews from Chris Cantrill, Bella Hull, and Paddy Young.

My favorite thing at the start of videogames is adjusting brightness until the image at the side is barely visible and then always feeling like I’ve somehow answered wrong

9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors is basically the opposite of everything I would normally say I like in my narratives and yet it is somehow one of my absolute favourite games. I shouldn't cry doing sudoku.

I... Am not sure what I make of the new Ghost in the Shell. It felt very hectic.

Had to walk out of a comedy show because of the heat tonight. Turms out there are serious, real world consequences to climate change.

In case anyone missed my little X-Files point and click daydream

It appears that most of my friends have scheduled their Edinburgh shows to start at 7-8pm. Which is extremely unhelpful. Please spread yourselves out more.

Just realised I can see my own legs when I look down. That's a nice touch by the developers

For Pride Month at work I was asked to suggest some queer media. I suggested "The Matrix, directed by two trans women, some people claim it's a trans allegory. They're wrong, but it's fun anyway." That was then copied into an email and nearly sent out to everyone, so that'll teach me to be snarky.

I have just seen a second, separate festival with a similar ratio. How red are these flags.

Post new material night.

This is the problem with writing and performing. I can see all the mechanics of it! I know that that's a deliberate pause! I know how clunky that load bearing sentence is! The punchline feels so obvious! But that is because I wrote it, audiences do not have my brain.

"One Billion Players a Day" isn't a business declaration, it's a bullet loaded into a gun aimed at everyone you *didn't* lay off today. It is setting an unattainable standard to justify further missed expectations.

Announcing massive layoffs and a goal to reach one billion users in the same memo is just the ultimate bad vibes move. Earnest or not, no one sees that prospect as an exciting challenge to overcome. It looks like you’re being prepped for some Amazon-style piss in a bottle workloads.

Okay I love this LOTR map dress but I don't know if it's too low cut for my lack of bosom. (It's on sale for another two hours) blackmilkclothing.com/products/mid...

Every time I put on Charles Mingus or Charlie Parker I'm always....... Oh yeah I should actually pick up trumpet again.

I think it's very BlueSky that I've now read 100 takes on how chaotic the match last night was, but also have no idea who won or what the score was.

There's someone in Whitby who has a Union Jack flag with Stop The Boats on it, which feels shortsighted given their main industry requires them.

Oh no, Black Milk have a sale on. And two Disturbia dresses are back in in my size. I'm meant to be saving for Edinburgh.

I'm watching an X File and Jack Black is there

Josie and Robin are two of the best.

Getting ads for a comedy festival which seems to have a lineup of fifty men and seven women and non-binary acts. Which does really make you go hmmmmm.

Felt I'd massively underwritten for tonight's gig, I tend to do about half a page a minute and I only had two pages done. Then realised I'd not put double spacing on.

Apparently we've found the limits.

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

So... Something that has surprised me about watching X Files is that it's definitely a horror show, but I've also never actually been that scared by it. I tend to think of myself as a wuss when it comes to horror, and yet I keep being fine with allegedly scary things.

Once again I can't believe that my side hustle of the fucking comedy industry might actually be more stable a career choice comparatively for me right now.

The Overton window keeps sliding.

It's so draining and embarrassing being part of the video game industry Some of us are *really* trying to do good work, and it just feels completely, constantly overshadowed by fucking idiots doing what they describe as "business" Honestly just don't even like saying I'm part of *this* anymore

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!

Okay, S2 of X Files done. Run in the middle of episodes which made me go hmmm but also then just some of the best episodes of television ever made.

One of the reasons I love improv is that, even when there is the framing of competition, you shouldn't be playing to win. Sometimes you have to take a dive because that's the most fun thing you can do, and sometimes you just have to be confidently wrong when you have no idea what to do next.

I too have attended a local open mic.

Aw no, Penelope Keith 😞

I have booked myself onto a new act/new material night on Thursday so now I have to write something.

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

Okay, no longer going down to London tomorrow, as it turns out my hotel has bed bugs and that plus a coach in this heat there and back is outweighing my desire to see video game music in concert.

There is also a cinema preview for the new Ghost in the Shell series tonight, so I could go straight from therapy into that which would be an interesting mental state to put myself in.

I have to go to therapy soon. In this weather. I can't spend my therapy sweating and crying at the same time, that's too much liquid. What's next, showering with my therapist???

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

I'm booked to go on the coach to London and back this weekend and I'm not feeling enthusiastic about that.

I don't generally have autistic literalism apart from when it comes to adverts, which my brain just immediately goes into "well that's not true" mode for unprompted.

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

Amazing Digital Circus occupies the same space in my brain as Homestuck, in that I can see very clearly that a lot of people adjacent to me are very enthusiastic about it but I have absolutely no clue what it is.

Gadsby doing the Fringe whilst I'm up there, which is nice of them.