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Games producer, often found at Maraoke (@singmaraoke.bsky.social). He/him Words: http://www.citystate.co.uk I may put my frequently used hashtags here (tap and hold to filter): #NMS
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Linking this again. Clint's Grievances nails it, again. Still can't get my head around the comparatively small size of this channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDM...

BAFTA are asking what the most influential game of all time is. Last year they asked 'most iconic game character' and got Lara Croft, so I expect the result is going to be hugely embarrassing again, but you can make a doomed stand against a tidal wave of idiocy here: www.bafta.org/stories/the-...

Great job everyone

A movie theatre ceiling collapsed during Captain America and nobody died because only two people were in the theatre. How the hell is this a real thing that happened and not a Half in the Bag bit? Are we living in Mike Stoklasa's head? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @redlettermedia.com

Don't forget to download Paul McCartney's Love Mojis before Skype is sunsetted in May. youtu.be/7aqiAeIVi1k

I had to check, but Microsoft spent $8.5 billion to acquire Skype in 2011. All gone, replaced by Teams. *silent scream* www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-ki...

Looking through the source code of the Command & Conquer games that EA just released github.com/electronicarts. Some fun stuff in the comments.

Enjoying seeing Bluesky's user count go up and Tesla's stock price go down. Humanity has an immune system if a dickhead is annoying enough

Outside Xbox: stop saying "Mario" weird

It's true that the monopolist digital retailer on PC needlessly put up barriers to market access for the longest time, so long that many people assumed this was is normal, but thankfully they're gradually becoming less of a bottleneck.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

crikey www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfj6...

This week is the 10 year anniversary of A Good Snowman is Hard to Build! ☃️❄️ To celebrate, the price on itch is now permanently "pay what the temperature is" https://draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman

LinkedIn is sadly necessary because the career advancement route of "having your bosses make a bet that they can turn the next person who walks into their office into the next Jonathan Blow" is relatively narrow

Front-loading a retired exec's former job in a headline to intimate that their personal opinions somehow reflect company policy is tabloid slop www.eurogamer.net/xbox-co-crea...

I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...

There are replies to this that try to argue that Goldeneye holds up better today than Quake, and I already know those are the dumbest posts I'll read this year

Good Evening, "iTunes for Windows" was a 24 year study dedicated to developing the worst program ever made. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time

I’m so pleased with how this turned out & it’s great to get back to launching stuff vole.wtf/styscraper/ Tip: if you build piles of matching height you can then put a pallet across

Democracy dies uninterrupted after these messages

Unreasonably psyched about how smart and outspoken the Project Orion writing team are shaping up to be. None of the big publisher "oh no, our games are strictly apolitical popcorn entertainment" malarkey here.

offering a heartfelt "RIP bozo" to actor Chris O'Dowd

I built and shipped a new thing. Feels good.

RIP. I have fond memories of playing Flunky on the Speccy. Always wondered why nobody else copied his style of massive sprites.

To the "UK English" localisation person working on Windows 11, trying to change instances of "program" to "programme" (which is FUCKING. WRONG.) and having update messages say e.g. "Ey-up! Bangers and mash, got a cheeky update for ya!" is absolutely not convincing anyone your role is necessary

This articulates something I've felt for a long time. Friends of Jimbo detracts from the game and has so little care put into any kind of curation, which is jarring compared to the considered economy of every other part of Balatro's design.

I just spent way too long looking at this thumbnail and wondering why they were making a TNG reference biologicalrecording.co.uk/biodiversity...

The #UK government secretly ordered #Apple to give it access to encrypted personal data stored in iCloud, jeopardizing the privacy & security of millions. Encryption is our last line of defence for digital #privacy. Help us demand a reversal of the decision by signing here mzl.la/4gWz5zK

Rumpole of the Bailey Reminds me baby of you

Can't wait to see who astonishes him this week

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

The next #TeslaTakedown #London event is on 8 March, please join if you can: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...

Hotel Barcelona (White Owls Inc., 2025)

Quake II mod where you turn around to look at the drop pod and instead of BITTERMANN it says BETTER MAN. Then you notice the ultra-detailed simian arm holding your blaster pistol. You are the Williams Ape

Front page of every single UK newspaper today. Generative AI is theft.