I don't know what it says about me that I spend my week off work doing more work - just different work. Friend of mine says it's because I am a Creator, capital C audible. I think it's understimulation being a real issue for me. I guess both can be true.

Spent over 24 hours trying to find the issue that causes my streams to go to "Network Error" despite VOD still saving. Took until today to actually try testing broadband speed and getting, "Oh dear, this isn't good. You need to book an engineer". So much for a week of streaming demos...

Looooong day. I will sleep well tonight. Productive, though.

For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI. I wish them all the luck they deserve.

Any of y'all who like Warhammer and really awesome music, check this out. There's still like two weeks left on the Kickstarter, which has already smashed its goals but could do more. So if you like this, and want a copy no one can take away from you, have a look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIP...

No, seriously - survival horror farming sim. This feels like a me-thing, and would probably appeal to damn near everyone I know.

No, seriously, check out the Am I Nima demo at some point. I hope Night in Delirium is as engrossing!

"I'm gonna have a week off!", I said. "I'm gonna pay off my sleep debt!", I said. But apparently I get zero heads-up that there's construction on the outside of my building and I get woken up before my normal day-to-day wake-up by them putting up scaffolding. Loudly. AAAAAAAAA

Yeah, tonight's ends with a couple of hours of Bye Sweet Carole and tomorrow's spoken for by my smaller Saturday D&D group, so not exactly US-friendly on the weekday or a Saturday when everyone wants to sleep in. Still, always VOD.

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Translation: I will spend my week off doing MORE STUFF. But seriously, the size of my demo collection is scaring me. It's in a good cause.

Yeah, this one was fun.

Hey @adelphauk.bsky.social - I played the Nighthawks demo on stream tonight and one of the folks watching wants to meet you "because I gotta know where this kind of supply comes from". You recommended *well*.

Lost Horizons, by Abney Park. I love a lot of bands' first albums so I went for the one with the debut I loved more than all their others.

Because once again, my friends know what to throw at my head.

Repost two characters that bring you joy:

This remains one of my favorite bits of comedy of all time. (It's on my Bad Day YouTube Playlist.) There are a couple of loud curse words if you're without headphones/near kids but it is... just. Perfect. "Do you remember... the lads?"

The review of the Ledgerbound demo is now up! A few frustrations but those could be put down to the lateness of the hour and AWS fuckery. Check it out here. ko-fi.com/post/Demo-Di...

Anyway maybe we shouldn’t let Amazon run things that decides if we can access our money or get into our houses. Just saying.

Not the biggest reason I hate this fucking country, but it's in the top 10.

No, seriously, it's my day off and I did errands and a pork roast is going in the slow cooker and you're going to be lucky to see me for dust at this point because New Shiny Game.

okay i will allow one king

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Y'know, of all the anti-AI arguments (and there are so many good ones), I think "How Trump and his cronies are using it right now" is another really good one. If you need to follow in his unsteady footsteps to feel accomplished, you might want to rethink, frankly.

I decided to give Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a shot. It was on sale, and I heard great things, and I thought maybe with story mode I wouldn't suck too badly. And ... with story mode I am actually performing *counters* and shit. Only downside: visuals are a bit headachy. But I love it.

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

The Muppets Take Manhattan

So, yeah ... Alice in Wonderland meets Watership Down, *go*.

Religion note: This is the same Presbyterian minister from the viral clip of him being shot in the head with pepper balls by DHS agents.

Examples include Enter Sandman, House of the Rising Sun, We Are The Champions, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, and The Philosophers' Drinking Song.

...Disco Elysium. I know, I know, it's people's darling but it felt like trying to play a semi-lucid fever dream and I noped out when it tried to make me lick a puddle of booze off a bar table.

Eh, fuck it: define (some of) your music taste in eight artists: Colm McGuinness The Qemists Lindsey Stirling Pop Will Eat Itself Stray Kids Deftones Me Mom & Morgentaler Neoni

No, seriously, Bye Sweet Carole looks amazing, but Cabernet is ongoing... But new shiny...

No ... no, see, Ms Knightley, I'm not "respecting" any "very different opinions" that advocate for the torture and murder of trans people, nor those of perverts who spend way too much time thinking of the arbitrary contents of people's undies. Fuck ALL the way off.

Had to call the pharmacy today because they still hadn't sorted my prescription in a week and I was running out of meds. Turns out they received the authorisation (made last week) yesterday, got me my meds on time only because I called. Hard Mode Adulting: 100% ACHIEVEMENT.

No, seriously, this is just about everything I could want in a game of its type. Please let TBA be soon...

About to start streaming Life Below (follow at @lifebelow.net ) - come check in if you've got a minute! www.twitch.tv/ceebee514

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer. Not one. To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

No, seriously - Rhianna Pratchett also wrote Lost Words: Beyond the Page, and that one was phenomenal, so I have *really* high hopes for this one.

Cocks Populi, Vox Dei.

Seriously, I have some PTSD-type reactions towards failure and yet I still got on pretty well with this one just 'cos it's interesting and clever. 10/10, would fail again (and again, and again)...

I have a 500-song playlist worth of covers and I can't pick a favourite, but here's Take Me To Church (But It's EPIC) by Reinaeiry - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHcM...

I've been looking forward to this one.

I know they're made from the same thing, but you cannot substitute tofu for soy sauce in a recipe so why the hell Sainsburys thought that was a good substitution, I will never understand.

Amazing

I has the lurgy. Blegh.

I was glad I set up the second demo, and that it worked. I blew through the All Living Things demo in eight minutes.

So many of my best friends, and a D&D group I love dearly.

* Second demo if I can get OBS to behave. Should be okay.