Small Cat is 5 today. A fine accomplishment, given she sailed to the very edge of death twice in that time.

More Zoid customisin' to keep myself sane in dark times

"and that's how Peter Mandelson's underpants resulted in the UK being briefly governed by bauble-faced christian transphobe, mental illness denialist, disabilities defunder and NHS privatisation enthusiast Wes Streeting, in a short period of chaos before..."

Life goals: just trying to survive until Slay the Spire 2

The last mile of dev from the narrative side involves dealing with a tsunami of questions from translation teams. On the one hand, it is a massive headache. On the other, it's a keen insight into how the world is gonna interpret what you've done, and some surprising cultural variances.

Re last rt: mingled pride and sadface to see fine folk leaving the website we built in order to escape corporate bleh, in order to escape corporate bleh. It's like the end of The Wire.

I like all these people a lot! My confident prediction is that this will be a lovely website.

Perfect. No notes.

There was a planned but unreleased red version of Ultrasaurus for the 80s Zoids Euro line. Red Zoids are best, ofc. Therefore I've been busy.

Cannot make this cat angry

I also picked up a Zoids holy grail, the enormous if desperately slow Ultrasaurus. Involved a 90 min road trip to a very a strange house, then a day clearing a gruesome, inch-thick layer of someone else's dead skin cells off every part, plus disassembling the dead motor. I loved every moment of it.

back on my Zoids bullshit

Love to be closing a major videogame while my neurodivergent 7yo has completely stopped attending school. One of these weeks I might actually leave the house again.

My favourite bit in Stranger Things S5 is when the baddie uses a complicated psychic spying plan in order to discern that a character who has been in a coma for months is in.... the local hospital.

Happy Christmas one and all

I really love Pluribus

N.b. by follow up I do not mean sequel - only that this is Wot We Done Next

Funny that Saros shared a stage last night with the superb-looking Total War 40K - which is a game I'd very likely have been writing for had I not landed the Housemarque gig. Sliding grimdark doors!

Returnal follow-up Saros is a wee tiny bit delayed til April, which is great for all sorts of reasons. Here's yer pre-order trailer. youtu.be/xmsc_GokLPI Saros' story + writing is by me & Housemarque's excellent narrative team. We're nearly there now - can't wait.

A Million Robots returns, after the most hectic month of my life. And we're looking at The Big One. millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/omega-and-...

A Million Robots returns, after the most hectic month of my life. And we're looking at The Big One. millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/omega-and-...

A Million Robots resumes next week

Am on The Good Drugs after five days of constant agony and zero sleep. The cause? Acute tendonitis in the hip as a result of trying to help my 7yo learn to ride a bike. Old and pathetic.

@nickroche.bsky.social hello sorry - just wondering how long your hallow's eve drawings should take to arrive? Not being pushy at all, perfectly happy to wait - just a bit worried my postie now has a lovely Soundwave picture on his wall.

Tron: Arcee

New robo-talk from me, after the accomplishment of decades-old wish-fulfilment millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/the-transf...

New robo-talk from me, after the accomplishment of decades-old wish-fulfilment millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/the-transf...

I've waited 39 years...

Bought the cat a docking station

Very nearly shipped something describing a character as 'unfappable' rather than 'unflappable.'

The point at which I realised social media was a great and boundless evil was, on The Other Place years ago, celebrating the presence of tea in my life. Only to then be aggressively sub-tweeted by a peer of some repute about how people who drink tea rather than coffee are pathetic.

Strong recommend this, for going heartbreakingly deep into the effects of councils' hostile and immoral treatment of autistic and other SEN children. Am on that path myself RN - an emotionally exhausting battle, but merely a game to the local authority. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

If you enjoy finding piss on your shoes every morning, get a 20-year-old cat.

Very pleased by this: it's exactly what I hoped for with this endeavour. Less an education in toy robots and more an exploration into the psychology of collecting ridiculous things.

ICYMI, I'm back on the toy robot newsletters. This time looking at the extreme rarities of vintage Transformer collecting - weird and wonderful recolours. (And, cos I'm me, the psychological downsides of it). millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/the-shadow... Pls sub if you like it (free!).

The twisted endgame of toy robot collecting

New robo-talk from me, this time about The Weird Guys millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/the-shadow...

having executive function sure would be useful

Tracking an oven delivery in real-time. It's in Crawley! Now Hayward's Heath! Home stretch along the A23! Oh boy, this is living.

Sadly didn't get to meet him due to geography, but we always had Rahul in mind for Arjun, and I'm delighted by his performance and commitment.

Stoked to finally share #SAROS gameplay with you all 🎮 This is just a taste of what we are bringing. So proud of the team, what we are building and how the game plays 🔥 Can’t wait to share more on our story and NPCs next ☀️ Come back stronger. March 20 2026.

Pleased by the response to this. Hard to stand out on a day that also saw Wolverine and Deus Ex: Remastered step into the light 😬

Wot I've been doing for the past few years

On paper, Alien: Earth is a show made for exactly People Like Me. In practice, it's grating. I don't know if that says more about the show or me.

Treat myself to a one-minute sit-down in between urgent tasks, but it immediately turns into twenty minutes. Thanks, cat.

Might be some of my stuff in this

Hellish deadlines have continued, and robot blogging has therefore been impossible. But soon - and with plenty of new material...

AM radio is the future

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