I've been told, and it works, that to get a song out of your head, just listen to it. Its your brain fixated on something it cant fully remember so it helps it let go. But i don't WANT to have to listen to Outcasts' "Roses"! My algorithm will be fucked up!

Goddamnit winter. Stop already. All I want to do is ride my bike again.....

My favourite game of all time. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. The true OG 'modern-era' console FPS.. when CoD was still in the 1940's. 24 players on PS2, Xbox & X360. Here are some renders from the fan favourite map 'Backstab' on PS2 upscaled via PCSX2.

The multiplayer in this game was completely inaccessible after the GameSpy shutdown in 2014. We were able to get the multiplayer servers working again 2023 and built a bespoke GameSpy replacement backend to support it. Full Stat tracking too! If you want to play then check out: bf2mc.com

You know, if the AI industrial complex really want game companies to use AI, they should stop making it so nobody can afford gaming equipment... Just a thought.

Watching GDQ, donating for cancer research and chillin. You should do some of those things too! www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Aah yes. Family is asleep. Time for leftover champagne, some great cheddar and a good book.

Trying to find all the tricks of the trade for pixel art character animation. Currently using aseprite and just... getting it done. Blocking out an animation isn't a huge issue. But getting every frame shaded, consistent, proportional is another matter. I'm in awe of everybody who is good at this.

Christmas commencing....

Time for my annual Dredd viewing

I adore Claire Obscure: Expedition 33. But this mythmaking about how few they were (not once you count musicians, outsourcing, localisation etc) and how cheap it was to make is dangerous. There are lessons to learn, but it shouldn't be "oh we can tighten budgets now and win Game of tge Year"....

Can't decide if it's a big mistake or the greatest troll ever to have adopted the word Antifa for being Anti Fascist. On the one hand it gives the fascist a shorthand with which to demonize as if it was an organization. On the other hand it does make the fascists look silly to us normal folk.

Maybe they will just straight up generate Jimmie Kimmel with genai just to really make sure everyone unsubs to disney plus.

You will be visited by three spirits

Another advent day, another part of my stitch advent puzzle for breakfast.

Sometimes the algorithm lets you down. But not today. Why yes, smart-TV, i will watch the womens curling euro finals, thankyouverymuch

Now watching days of thunder. Holds up better than expected.

This will not mean anything except to the motorycling few among you. I took a ride on my triumph just for the sake of it - beautiful fall day - to my local bike shop and what do you know? A pair of Daytona Road Star GTX, my size, for less than half price in the bargain corner. Dream boots achieved.

Oh no! They started not even labeling it as AI anymore, trying to soften it with "Synthart" and "Synthography" to make it sound more acceptable and housebroken. (Also using the hashtag Illustration is an insult to people who are actual trained illustrators)

If there's thing I've learned from 25 years of making games it's that the first 80% of making a game are much easier than the second 80%

Oh no! The remix machine can be sued the people who made the stuff it stole and remixes. What .. ever.. shall.. we.. do?

Holy shit im glad i took a punt on the Beeline GPS for my new bike. Minimalistic. Makes riding fun. Cool. Practical.

I think i need to watch some 80s cartoons.

I accidentally colormatched my bike and car like I'm a cheap knockoff brand batman.

Riding my new #triumph home from the dealer on a crisp autumn afternoon, stopping for a leg stretch.

I might have bought something today....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the epitomy of understanding the brief. The right balance of cheese to serious, of message and light entertainment, of character building and status quo maintainence. Swashbuckling and sofistication. Deft writing. Imperfections and winks to the audience. Love it.

Hey America! You're doing the "Land of the Free" thing wrong!

For whatever reason I never watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid before. With the passing of Robert Redford I did now and I now understand why it's such a revered western. It was glorious.

Today I turn 30. More specifically 0x30.

As a parent, how do I look my kids in the eye to explain to them - apologize to them about - that we made AI to replace human expressions of art, knowledge, music and writing? That they will be the first generation to grow up not feeling a human connection when they hear a song or see a picture?

I find bliss in seeing AI eat it's own tail online. Google and chatGPT summarise so well that there is no money to be made publishing information or running Websites. Eventually AI will have no new info to eat and the Internet will be barren. Maybe I should start a newspaper youtu.be/M4MruTOrLyM?...

Ready for the dutch GP

Oh no! The Timea put the Mini crosswors behind a paywall! My daily routine is fucked. This is the end of civilised society.

The thing that makes me sadest about the rise of AI art isnt the theft or the way it devalues art as a profession. It's that we had, for 40.000 years, the knowledge that if we saw a painting it was the expression of another humans skill and willingness to communicate. AI has killed that fundament.

Took my daughter to try out Archery yesterday and couldn't resist seeing if i still had it and shoot some myself and, well ..not too shabby.

No Star Trek film, nor actually hardly any sci fi film, has matched Star Trek The Motion Picture for awe, scale and wonder to this day. V'Ger is such a perfect star trek plot device for the big screen

"Please judge, yah gotta listen! I only stole the work of those 7 million people to get rich, I swear. The fact that it also puts them out of business is coincidence"

Future archeology aliens will examine my front teeth and be very confused by the signs of scraping sugery paste with them, due to my Oreo consumption habits.

I've now watched and read every review of this bike, test ridden it, researched everything about it. My sensible side tells me I shouldn't go into debt to finance it, but wait until I can save up for it, maybe next year. My inner child just wants to go riding now that I have my license!

A wonderful day of test driving bikes. Wonderful weather, great company, fast motorcycles.

When you watch Blade Runner, and marvel at the amazing matte paintings of the city, consider that Matt Yurichich transferred them to film by painting them directly on the negative film *in negative color space*, by hand as to not have to do to many exposures to invert them and degrade the result.

Men only think about one thing. "Do I caulk often enough to get an electric caulker? I think I could solve a lot of problems if I caulked more"

I freaking love my new helmet.

9100 people laid off from Microsofts gaming divisions. Staggering. If they cannot get cool, sellable, profitable games made by these almost 10k talented, experienced people, that's a management failure.

@tested.com For pride month you should add a new Demerit badge. "Assuming straightness". Maybe with a rainbow striped ruler. I know I just spent half a day confused over a measurement because one edge I assumed was straight was not.

I know it's cringe 20 year old emo, but God damnit if Black Parade by My Chemical Romance isn't still an all time banger.

If your invention and industry rests on the foundation of using others work for free without asking them (wish there was some word for that, hmm), then maybe it's not a sound business?