I have a small round tub of extremely high-end salted caramel chocolate ball things, and when I eat one, I do not care what they cost, because they are like pure transcendental bliss and joy in confectionary form. I want them at my funeral.

I really hate the 'man in the pub' logic. I have heard it for over 10 years about EVs, and solar panels, and now I hear it about AI everywhere. People who have never experienced the product are 100% convinced that everyone who has must be wrong, and its rubbish and they know best just *because*.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Wow. The pathetic state of UK journalism. This guardian reporter was flown to the COP30 climate conference. But what are they most interested in? Their coffee portion was too small. Really? That is your insightful analysis and takeaway? FFS how do they think this comes across? funny?

Presidential pardons are an absolutely ridiculous idea, that any civilised country would consider a sign of fascism. If sentencing is too high, change the guidelines. If something should be legal, legalize it. But pardons are like a roman emperor sparing people from execution based on a whim.

TBH I didn't spend much time on it, but I redid the Ridiculous Space Battles store page to have wider images on the about screen. I don't think I'll ever be so bored as to go back and edit all my existing games store pages. store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...

I really cannot be bothered to debate AI with anyone. If you are anti-AI, then unfollow me, and leave me alone FFS. I have been an AI programmer for over 30 years. You are following the wrong guy if you want edgy memes about slop.

Woohoo! My space auto-battler game, currently in development, now has 5,000 wishlists on steam! Awesome. Its a spiritual successor to Gratuitous Space Battles, from 15 years ago, But bigger, better, bolder & more ridiculous :D. Wishlist it! Or Share this post! store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...

Will AI one day replace teachers? Yes. And that day is probably as fast as the systems can be set up. At least for some topics. The one-on-one, incredibly patient private tutor who is an expert in every field will soon not be a staggeringly pricey rich-parents phenomena, but commonplace.

The bumper says 'rugged working man'. But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’. Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.

Currently avoiding 4 websites which I was in the habit of reading on a daily basis, but which, in a sudden moment of clarity, I realised always made me stressed or unhappy. It sounds silly, because why would you ever voluntarily engage in such an activity then? But I bet that is common.

“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:

Indie game dev in 2025? It might not be a viable industry any more. www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2...

The director of new netflix political drama 'Death by Lightning', is matt ross. Who many people will know best for his time as CEO of Hooli as Gavin Belson.

Here is your exciting #ScreenshotSaturday post with a screenshot from a battle in my space-based auto-battler game 'Ridiculous Space Battles'. Coming at some point! (and you can wishlist it now at store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...)

Embarrassing fascist shambles slings desperate insults at the BBC for reporting actual facts. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... From the authoritarian morons who praise 'fox news', and think the UK is an islamic or communist state. Absolute muppets.

Just bought and played Master Of Command. Its mount n blade meets Napoleon: Total War. Kinda good! store.steampowered.com/app/2878450/...

Pretty much every social media comment by an American about China is just Fox news propaganda and bullshit. I am just going to try and avoid talking to anyone from there. They have been absolutely brainwashed by fox news and the fascist rapist corrupt ignorant mango they elected.

It bugs me that tech billionaires are suddenly 'Oh we need to rapidly build out new power infrastructure'. When this was just vital to protect mankind from catastrophic climate change that is destroying the food supply, they totally didn't give a fuck, but if its slows down their AI datacenter...

UK budget talk is all about income tax and 'mansion tax' and so on. Air passenger duty is never even considered. It raises about £4B in a typical year. On a London->Spain flight its £13, rising to £15 in April. This is peanuts, and not dissuading flights one bit. The chancellor should double it.

Pretty cool progress by the UK here. Looks like we are about to dip below global average, which is good for a modern economy. We need to do way, way better, but its interesting to zoom out now and then. #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

Auto-dubbing has bee enabled for my youtube channel. I presume every channel? But amusingly you can now experience me droning on about games programming in German, Italian and Indonesian. Its pretty amazing. I can preview it, but I presume it tracks the viewers language youtu.be/_rrH6MPrPGM

I have a new PC on order, and I paid a bit extra for a 'priority build' so it arrived before I went away for a week. But now it says 'awaiting parts'. Sigh. Maybe don't take people's money for a 3 day build if you know you cant make it? Bah.

Social media was a bad idea. Small groups of like minded people chatting online is fine. But giving random 'influencers' unfiltered megaphones that reach 100s of millions of people for them to spread conspiracy theories... yeah thats probably not fine. We should turn it off at least 1 day a week.

This idea to tax EV owners and ONLY EV owners per mile is absolutely ludicrous: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n... We are hurtling at insane speeds towards a climate catastrophe, and they want to dissuade people right now, from ditching a carbon guzzler to an EV? Who is this aimed at? Farage?

A reminder for anyone who missed it that I have started doing a video series about how I code in C++ and using DirectX to make 'Ridiculous Space Battles'. Done 2 videos so far, here is the latest one: youtu.be/_rrH6MPrPGM #directx #programming #gamedev

Who needs to ensure people get food stamps when you are busy adding tacky gold bits to the windows and outside of your office! I'd be embarrassed to work in an office with this on it. Its no un-classy, its like the anti-matter equiv of class. Its amazing.

Currently doing battle with the jobsworth time-wasting inefficient bullshit that is the UK energy distribution network oligopoly. Yup, not a free market at all BTW. Your local power company for distribution is a 100% local monopoly, and you can tell this when you try to get them to do 1 minutes work

So do I have to update Democracy 4 AGAIN, to increase the default number of socialists that you start with when playing the USA?

Politicians are getting very up tight about the costs of the Motability scheme, where the govt pays for cheap or free cars for people with disabilities. My policy tweak to this is simple: Mandate that all future Motability cars are EVs. The govt is pro-EV, and taxpayers pay for the cars so...

The insane stupid thing our government thinks about doing all because its too scared of the daily mail to 1) Raise inheritance tax, or lower the threshold for it. 2) Raise, preferably double, the air passenger duty. 3) Actually stop the ritual of cancelling the fuel duty escalator Grrrr.

I sent a newsletter today, got my eyesight checked (its fine!), did some gardening and also sent a bunch of emails about solar farms. All of this takes time, but I always feel like the day meant nothing until I write a bit of code!

I have got out of the habit of promoting my stuff, but as a lot of Americans have an election event of some sort today, I feel I should point out that you can see just how difficult governing really is with my game Democracy 4 :D store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/... #elections #USElections

I wonder where the British public could have got this idea

Republicans get very angry and think its hyperbole if you call Trump a Fascist. But as he is repeatedly calling a democrat mayoral candidate a communist, then so be it. There is an ignorant fascist, rapist, convicted felon, corrupt Russian-puppet, traitor and pal to Epstein in the white house.

Not a single business energy supplier in the UK will quote me for half hourly business electricity prices unless I speak to them on the phone. This is 2025. The internet is not new. Nor are computers. I am EMBARRASED for my country that we still work in such stupidly inefficient ways.

New programming video! This is the second one in my series about programming a PC strategy game from scratch in C++ using directx. This one is all about where the code starts, and the flow of the code into the main game loop. Enjoy! And share/like/whatever :D. youtu.be/_rrH6MPrPGM

I just uploaded the October 2025 generation data stats for my Solar Farm here: positechenergy.com/generation.h... About what was expected. Hoping for a slightly better summer in 2026 though...

“Someone else can pay for it”ism seems to have infected huge swathes of British politics. Left variants include wealth tax, more tax on the ultra rich, “debt doesn’t matter”, etc. Right variants include deporting people on welfare, “efficiency” cuts, etc.

This is what a UK energy company wants to charge my solar farm to import electricity over night just to run some CCTV cameras and a wireless transmitter. £11 A DAY for having this connection. A connection I paid over £150,000 to have installed. The UK energy distribution market is a sick joke.

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

A fun datapoint for those US right-wing clickbait 'influencers' on social media getting all excited about a stabbing incident in the UK today. Homicide rate by country, per 100,000 people: UK: 1.1 France: 1.3 Germany 0.91 US: 5.7 src: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... So yeah...

New programming video! This is the second one in my series about programming a PC strategy game from scratch in C++ using directx. This one is all about where the code starts, and the flow of the code into the main game loop. Enjoy! And share/like/whatever :D. youtu.be/_rrH6MPrPGM

This would be an insane policy: www.theguardian.com/environment/... What local 'services' are EV parking spaces actually using? they pay for their own grid connection and power, and the roads are paid for by car tax. Whats the justification for this nonsense? Does the govt support EVs or not?

I am amazed that House Of Dynamite is not getting more attention and is not being praised more. Its an excellent film. A thriller, a bit political (but not partisan), not action, not violent. Very thought provoking, and very well cast and directed. You should give it a go. Its on Netflix.

“If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!” Trump added. This is how twelve year old boys communicate. The USA has 347 million citizens to select from for its president.

I have drunk half a bottle of very very nice fizzy fruity alcohol and eaten a bunch of very nice chocolates. I know billionaires will not be happy without a moon-base and the worlds biggest warehouse of GPUS, but honestly fruity booze and quality chocs feels like a win to me. Whose the real winner?

I got a lot of boring and annoying work done today, including tedious PAPER forms, and similar nonsense. This means I am free to record another C++ video tomorrow. Yay!

I have a lot of sympathy with this: www.eurogamer.net/battlefield-... Amazingly people playing games to escape from the world don't want that escapism to feel like a shop with pushy sales-staff constantly yelling at you, Or in other words a 'live service' game.