The more I learned at uni about how chips are being made, the more baffled I was that we're able to make any chips at all. This video is a good example of the many technical challenges. youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?...

There's darts on TV but I must say I much prefer #BluePrince rules.

Enjoying this murder mystery podcast. If you have a Knives-Out-shaped hole in your heart, give it a try.

Make a Bond film casual No Thyme to Dry (Use Only Sieved Rice)

Happy Christmas or whatever that is. #FeetDownBelowHisKnees

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

Congrats to all the TERPECA winners this year! And good luck & lots of strength to all my fellow enthusiasts trying to book certain games. terpeca.com/2025/ #EscapeRooms

@misterabk.bsky.social Had to think of you!

Finally our report from AdventureX for @adventuretreff.bsky.social is online. Was incredibly happy to see it's back, and it's back so strong. www.adventure-treff.de/features/176... #advxconf @adventurex.bsky.social

Punchdrunk has a new show out with Lander 23. Some really good bits, some underwhelming bits, but to me much more enjoyable than Burnt City. #immersive (If you want the real deal, plan a trip to Belgium and play Demise of the Gricers.)

Finally got some more art for my flat.

I wrote the @adventuretreff.bsky.social puzzle advent calendar 6 years in a row. When I stopped, the community took over and continued making it. It's now in its 20th year. Proud of what I started, and grateful to the incredible community! #puzzles

There are many aspects to the budget but the biggest sign that it can't be too bad overall is how silly the attacks of the right-wing press are.

The evenings of unnecessary detail are back!

Unpopular opinion: If your vox pop is just wrong, maybe don't publish it?

What a treat to meet @darmato.bsky.social at #AdventureX! But what do you ask Guybrush Threepwood incarnate when you get the chance? Anyway, I now know where to get the best schnitzel in Phoenix, AZ. Thanks Dominic!

Can't believe #AdventureX is over. It's incredible that a new team, in a new venue, delivered such a brilliant event. There were wonderful talks & games bursting with creativity, but above all it meant meeting the most delightful & talented people in the nicest community imaginable. #AdvX25

What's better than @robbotron.bsky.social's cult comedy show The Dark Room? It's The Dark Room with a BSL interpreter! #AdvX25 #AdvXConf

So happy that #AdventureX is back, already spotted a lot of great games. And great people too! :) #AdvX25

National Space Invaders tournament champion in 1980. Founder of Interplay. Dev on The Bard's Tale. Founder of Logicware. Ports of Wolfenstein 3D, Half-Life, Baldur's Gate 2. EA, Amazon, Microsoft. Kernel code for PSP + PS4. And so much more. A superstar has left us.

Someone with "legitimate concerns about foreigners" just dropped this statistic on Facebook and I can't stop thinking about it. Imagine population growth drops very slightly below 0 this year and suddenly net migration accounts for -5,000% of the population growth...

BBC News be like: * Country X devastated by even more bombs * Escalating tariffs: Is the world economy about to crash? * Shock on Celebrity Traitors as someone's wife has a hiccough

Some extraordinary Scrabble on steam today... youtube.com/live/rbPVKW8...

Far-right rhetoric and far-right policies from a Labour government. This will win over 0 Reform supporters. I'll make sure my local MP knows they lost yet another vote.

You wouldn't steal a car. But you would watch this great documentary about how you wouldn't steal a car. youtu.be/Fi0yWWEdfxQ

I don't know @castpixel.bsky.social but their art is always a delight on my timeline.

This is good advice by the way.

Meanwhile in Germany... #HobbyDogging

In Brazil. So far it's nothing like the film.

Oh no.

I'm always fascinated by the race question in British forms. What's the point in making categories so narrow that even a plain white dude like me has to select "Other"?

Another fun live recording of @lateralcast.com. Some highbrow art history about Hans Holbein the Younger's 1533 painting The Ambassadors served on a bed of cock jokes. Don't get that mix anywhere else.

Lovely to get together again for an #EscapeRoom in London. Slightly easier to get to than the Belgian countryside...

I would buy a management sim about tax law from Size Five Games but this looks like an incredible lineup even for normal people.

Stop what you're doing and book a trip to Torchdale's "Monster Mashers" in Belgium. Then don't read anything else about it so you don't get spoiled too much. It's an incredible >2 hour experience. My mind has blown. #EscapeRooms

Met some of my favourite YouTubers at DASH this weekend. #CrackingTheCryptic

It's me on a hill in a silly outfit - must be DASH again. #playdash #dash12 Had a fantastic day helping to run the London edition again. Lots of great people & great puzzles, thanks to everybody involved!

Knives Out 3 isn't out yet so I watched The Residence instead. Loved it! Can recommend. #whodunit

This is making some good points.

Can't believe it's already been a week since leaving #gamescom behind. Such a great time has been had, meeting so maybe wonderful people from the world of games.

Great Humble Bundle with some really clever #puzzle games. (And some that I haven't played yet that are probably also very clever.)

If you know me, I will have told you this already, but just in case: Both of these games are excellent.

Can confirm that you get a pretty nice view of London at Horizon 22.

That's it from #gamescom this year. Once again it was so much joy meeting all the great creative talented friendly people there. Hugs to you all!

Back in Cologne, investigating #gamescom.

If you like narrative games, you don't want to miss this.

If you're anywhere near Edinburgh, make sure to book yourself into Uncle Barry's Birthday party. A simple yet incredibly effective and joyful immersive (and highly interactive) experience: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

I grew up on these streets

Country / region identifiers are hard, Ryanair revisited. Switzerland under "A" in the list of EU countries (just above Gibraltar's "A" entry). And Faroe Islands prefixed "Von der Inselgruppe". 👍

RIP. youtu.be/QHPmRJIoc2k?...