Sad to hear about Quentin Willson passing away. A proper motoring journalist who sidestepped all the snark and macho crap and saw straight through the anti-electrification propaganda too.

Trash Goblin won TIGA's Diversity In Games award last night! For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"! Woo!

I installed Leechblock this week to help me focus more on work. So I only have a few minutes of social media an hour. This lead to a slow drip-feed of surreal Dick Cheney memes that have had me baffled until I finally saw the news.

Could be worse. Probably will be.

Can anyone recommend an air purifier? Bonfire season is literally killing me. Hard to know which to buy since they should just be a fan and an hepa filter, but for some reason they all cost £50-£250.

Can't post my Halloween pics because my smokey eye makeup is too slutty for Bluesky. 😔

I went on the bad site to check something.. and there are still people posting there. Accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers only getting one like or a single retweet. They say this site is quiet, but at least it's not a bunch of dopamine addicts trying to chase something long gone.

Always put in my everything to work. Literally slipped a disc during one of the busy periods of Fall Guys. Took about 6 months after being laid off to remember what being human without work felt like. Still feel adrift not having a permanent role over 2 years on

To everyone getting angry/confused/enraged at that Amazon games exec's Linkedin post: This is how I feel about the games industry 24/7.

Heads up. Linkedin are about to use everything they have on you to train their LLMs. You can opt out of Microsoft using your private data for AI training here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

Jamaica is currently being hit by their strongest hurricane in recorded history. With 175mph winds predicted, a 4 metre storm surge and 75 centimetres of rain. It's going to be catastrophic, and to compound it, many people won't go to shelters because they have been mismanaged in the past.

nobody with any creative control or financial power in the commercial games industry has any fucking idea what people like anymore

I joked about it before but quite a few people have genuinely suggested I Youtube this stuff, but I'm not really sure there's an appetite for it. Especially since I'd be starting a new channel to avoid annoying people subscribed to me for video games.

Two of my London-based creative short project freelance clients have both been posting looking for gen AI people. Hopefully just feasibility tests to appease their corporate, but grim none-the-less.

It's done.. or I'm done! My third finished mini! ComStar Rifleman RFL-3N ready to lay down some covering fire! #Battletech #minipainting #paintingminis

Streaming more Battletech mini painting on Twitch now! Gonna tidy up the base coat on the legs of this rifleman and also start on the second arm. www.twitch.tv/simoroth #Battletech

Feeling too ill to code tonight. So might do another painting stream. 🤔

Whilst I'm in the against camp, it is good that they have a clear and detailed policy here. Something a few other projects need to start writing..

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Streaming some Battletech mini painting on Twitch. www.twitch.tv/simoroth #Battletech

Streaming some Battletech mini painting on Twitch. www.twitch.tv/simoroth #Battletech

"Whoops we just realised that we actually don't have the rights to this game currently" is a hell of a statement to post publicly steamcommunity.com/app/4113570/...

We're too late. Those firms collapsed months ago, others are incoming and unavoidable now. They need to be taking measures preemtively. Do we really need to wait for the bank runs to start? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After yesterday the games industry chat is about server hosting, and I think some of them might not know what they are talking about. For a small game from a medium size studio, self hosting, or having some of your own hardware in a data centre is actually viable, and could even be advantageous.

Dangerous levels of sass from Mora today.

Wait, so you are saying that there are a lot of loans that have been mis-sold to those who cannot afford them? I sure hope they haven’t been combined in the securitisation process with better rated products and spread throughout the market. Gosh I wonder what these "sub prime" loans could cause. 😑

Weeks later I am still getting likes on this... It seems posting mini painting WIPs gets so much more engagement than games or photography. Maybe it's time to become a Youtube miniature painter. 🤔

Worst of all. The big games on your resume are meaningless to the people looking to hire, because even relatively recent video games history is being lost at an astounding rate.

I brought this up at @oxfordindies.bsky.social drinks this weekend.. Specifically in the indie space. You see so many teams with a decent mix of gender, nationality, and race, and they'll advertise it, but nearly always, most their team will be in their 20s. automaton-media.com/en/news/crea...

HMRC has been hit with this! Which really should raise the question "Can someone in our government please explain why our national tax services are dependant on Amazon?"

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Got my flu jab today. Has anyone paid to get a c-vid jab in the UK? The price delta between them (£21 vs £100) is a bit much. You can't put a price on health, but oof.

Still annoyed about this. Just walk outside and take a photo on your phone. Set it on macro mode and shoot something up close. Collage some old magazines. Message someone on Deviant art and offer them a few dollars. License a stock art photo. Find an artist and suggest a collaboration.

Listening to a playlist on Youtube. Decide to buy the tracks to support the artists. See their Bandcamp full of Midjourney album covers Close window. Nevermind.

Now that even the extremely cautious economists from central banks are starting to talk about "sharp market corrections" in the AI space, it's quite wild to see so many companies still associating with them, yet alone trading stock. The level of contagion here is breathtaking.

"Nature's Labubu"

Build a living city on rails in Steel Artery: Train City Builder #SteelArtery #CityBuilder #Gaming #PCGaming

I talked to Glen Schofield about maybe the most fascinating and volatile moment of FPS history - when he took the reins of the world's most anticipated game amid the breakdown of Infinity Ward. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Almost every games site has one of these articles or worse, a whole damn live blog! Grim.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Just the sort of email I want to get from Unity on my day off.

for anyone who hasn't seen these things happen before everything said by EA here is lies. not optimism, uncertainty, or naive confusion - just fully aware, calculated, researched, expert lying. no one in giant deals like this goes into it for business as usual or gets surprised by not planning ahead

I didn't know there was a Deus Ex remake coming out and I would like to return to that state.

Industry Events Have COVID Protections Challenge failed

The Peacemaker intro Fortnite saga is so pathetic. The intro dance is an interpretation of the plot of the season, it was last season. Them having to remove a swastika emote is obvious, but it's absurd it even went in. Why is Peacemaker even in Fortnight, it's an entirely adult show??

Much like how the rest of Fortnite has no creative intention

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