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Professional Computer Toucher. Thinks he can release a video game some day. Doesn't have a podcast, and neither should you. Streams games just about every day on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/thedarthmoogle/
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Bullet jump sliding back into Warframe after about a year and still in awe at how batshit the story presentation is. How the big flashy main quest just blasts through new concepts and expects you to roll with it. Until, you slow down, do a little digging, and it becomes so deceptively simple.

I know am a serial Not Getting The Hint offender, but at this point I realise it's been several years of 'man that thing we did was fun' and then me not organising another round of it because no one directly told me they wanted it

took the tanks out on the road again yesterday, another victorious group of players! unfortunately there was one casualty, the green tank got a bit squished. one more playtest to go this month! #gamedev #trrpg #wargaming

Tried some Copilot today after struggling with some automation and it's still a load of shite. But I can see how powerful a managing upwards tool it is - if your boss believes Snowcrash is an instruction manual then 'AI says do it this way' is a cheat code to getting what you want.

Final ham update! Finished overnight, not as pink as I wanted but it had been frozen before cooking. Finished with sea salt and a malt vinegarette, topped with gem lettuce.

have been visited at work by a small monster

ham update, 2 hours of cooking complete, I'm not allowed to touch it for at least 4 while it cools and sets

ham update, all wrapped up and in the pot. timer set for 2 hours

ham update, I somehow didn't get enough parsley for this. need to clean up the edges and wrap

ham update, I gotta chop up the green stuff and somehow get all of it inside the pink thing

it is time to ham. will provide Ham Updates throughout the day

I don't wanna dox my location, so you'll have to take my word for it that I currently have LED lit up Morris dancers outside my flat. It is 3°C in January at 8pm.

team went for coffee, I pushed for a tiny independent place in an old building, with just enough room for us all. I completely forgot the layout, specifically the heating arrangement. we're just huddled up there still with our coats on in front of a teeny electric fan heater. excellent coffee tho

Played tanks! Got some incredible feedback from the board game devs, and they even wanted to play twice which still has me reeling. Made lots of notes, and I'm putting this in front of two completely different crowds later this month, which could produce completely different results! #rpg #gamedev

Taking the tiny tanks to a board game dev's meetup later. last time I went every one of them was a seasoned pro unlike us losers in the indie gamedev meetup. Still, the feedback was great and encouraging and I didn't get any hint that I was a fool for trying, so hopefully they like the updated game!

I've admired Deus Ex's commitment core world building idea of 'what if every conspiracy theory was actually true', and often wondered what repeating that idea would look like >20 years later. Playing Ready Or Not, it seems the answer is "it would look completely rancid". Fun game though!

Bones! Saving the tracks for later because I still need to plan out the IK for them, and it's gonna be a hell of a lot easier to add this many bones in Blender (each piece of track and link is gonna need one D:) The experimental UE tools for doing this are neat though! #unrealengine #gamedev

and he has arrived in unreal engine! now to make the turret wiggle and the wheels spin and bounce up and down and the tracks move and oh my god my brain is going to explode #unreal #blender

making a tonk. currently feeling weird about adding bones to my tank, would prefer my tanks without bones in them #gamedev #blender

currently thinking about hexagons

currently in the kitchen, making something called "food"

The Helldivers grand Galactic War, centred around players choosing which planets to attack is great in theory, but is completely non-functional when you look at what the crowd is doing - constantly attacking planets they cannot ever actually conquer

Thinking of kicking off streams again from Monday because 1) I am addicted to Helldivers b) I'm looking at my game code from 4 months ago wondering what sort of crack I was on when I wrote this

I have become spherical from all the food over the holiday and I've still got snacks to finish. help

instead of prematurely giving myself the dopamine from telling you all my plans for 2025 I will simply do them instead and show the results here

found a friend in the IT cupboard at work. gave him a hat

finally got helldivers 2, and having just finished a big mgsv playthrough I'm pleased they ripped the movement from that game for helldivers because it's fantastically smooth. having an absolute blast so far

Making a deranged steel foundry in Minecraft's Create mod, on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/thedarthmoog...

definitely want to start streaming game dev again next year. The game's been too rough to have a visually appealing stream, and the stream setup's been too rough for me to have a desktop view. both of these should be fixed soon enough!

Building trains and a little village in Minecraft Create mod on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/thedarthmoog...

just saw a reply along the lines 'he looks like your aunt that eats cat food' with a not inconsequential number of likes, and now I'm frantically re-analysing my childhood memories to see if I belong to this supposed universal experience

blue utensils gang stays winning

very cool that I'll just do exercises to exhaustion fine, but rolling over in bed wrong just obliterates my muscles and now my arm won't go straight

last week of work for the year, as if I'll actually get anything productive done though. Read Only from here on out, I think

We made a train in Minecraft, and a bunny drives it. Going live with more Create mod on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/thedarthmoog...