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• Post #4419285

  I made a short film! First time in 12 years. "Christmas Caltrops" is a black comedy about a lonely woman who gets a surprising visitor one morning after her wife goes out to work. (CW: Plenty of swearing) https://youtu.be/cY_BQQjEwsM

• Post #4405375

  Quite a few friends of mine are academics, teaching in universities. One was just saying she hit a new low - not one student, not ONE in her tutorial had done the reading. All just read a chatGPT synopsis. She's utterly despairing, as the uni itself just makes motions to hand-wave it. They have to pass students, you see, to get their money. They can't just fail all of them. Or even most of them. It's gotten so bad she outright said "I honestly wouldn't trust a degree hande...

• Post #4372133

  My self-education in slashers continues with the second part of tonight's double feature. It's already a lot less good than Halloween.

• Post #4236628

  "There's a storm coming."

• Post #4052041

  The problem with making things, is that when you're done the thing exists, and that's not always a good thing.

• Post #4050695

  It's a Friday, meaning I want to throw all technology in a skip and go drink paint thinner at a bar.

• Post #4023726

  Computers are not Computering correctly today. I may require a second coffee. Or to simply defenestrate all Computering Objects and return to the sea.

• Post #3973917

  Me, watching A Bridge Too Far: "Y'know, I don't think this Operation Market Garden thing was a great idea, actually."

• Post #3870922

  Finished my first re-read of The Hunt for Red October this century. I loved it when I first read it, and re-reading it now I see why: it's competence porn. Very smart people doing their jobs very well. A few stray thoughts (no spoilers for the book or the film adaptation) follow:

• Post #3796022

  New partner last night: "I miss when the internet was a place you WENT to." I mean, it's a sentiment I've heard before but it was really lovely hearing it said by her.

• Post #3795959

  A non-exhaustive list of things I hate this morning: * Discord Seriously, fuck Discord. I hate almost literally everything about it and I hope it enshittifies so much people stop using it. But, mostly, I hate that there's functionally no competition for it.

• Post #3645927

  Re-watching Con Air as I work today. I love how '90s movies so often, no matter how absurd their core premise or plot got, played it dead serious, without the post-Whedon wink-and-a-nod to the audience that modern flicks feel obliged to include out of insecurity.

• Post #3645926

  My re-watching-Con-Air hot take: The Fairchild C-123 Provider is a fucking beautiful plane.

• Post #3645925

  (BTW due to my AI-sucks averaging-machine blog post going viral my mentions are all over the place right now, so apologies if I miss an @ from someone. I'll come back to check on it once things slow down a bit.)

• Post #3645924

  Anyway, now seems a good time to show prototype 4, or [sekrit project]. I posted some hints about it months ago, but since then I've been spending my spare time and most weekends working on it. Art by the amazing @marceles_pixel and myself. #GameDev #IndieDev

• Post #3645923

  I've pushed Dungeons of Freeport 1.0.10 up to the open beta branch on Steam. A small bug fix in this one, and some new work I've been doing on the aesthetics of certain dungeons. Pretty happy with the results but it needs a bit of testing. And just a reminder - #DungeonsOfFreeport, my play-once-a-day classical roguelike extraction game, is still 30% off on Steam and Itch! And you can even play it on 64-bit Raspberry Pis from itch. Just a reminder - if you own it on steam and...

• Post #3645922

  Today's background watching while working on Deck & Conn:

• Post #3575956

  Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year. It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets. https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

• Post #3385277

  Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines: - That TV show you love is cancelled - That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe - Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world - Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before - Cat photos tho

• Post #3177746

  Exciting personal news: I finished watching all 5 seasons of Miami Vice for some reason, including the Lost Episodes which I inserted so I got it all in roughly intended airing order. Ask me anything, I guess. Now I gotta watch another Miami-shot TV show I guess... (Yes, I've already seen all of Dexter & spinoffs, Burn Notice [which rules], Bad Monkey, RJ Decker and even Florida Man [which isn't great, and mostly isn't even filmed in Florida]. I don't count StartUp as it&#3...

• Post #2625301

  So it looks like I'm releasing a video game AND directing a short film on my birthday tomorrow, unless something else goes wrong. Everyone cross fingers for me.

• Post #2625300

  Typed 'bs' and hit enter expecting the usual auto complete to bsky to go over to Bluesky. Didn't quite autocorrect fast enough, but DuckDuckGo 100% gets what Bluesky is all about.

• Post #2625298

  De-lish!

• Post #2625297

  Aziz, LIGHT!

• Post #2625296

  Certain people I know on here are going to love this one.

• Post #2625295

  Anyway, good morning! This weekend I'm directing a short film, because that's the kind of thing I felt like doing. So I'll be a little sparing in my social media usage, beyond posting the odd image. Have an excellent weekend, and I'll see y'all on the other side! Time to slam an espresso and look at that shot list...

• Post #2625294

  Outstanding day, too tired to function, so going to go head out to see a friend before my legs stop functioning. Will reply properly to folks tomorrow but for now - Our little project is sort of inspired by terrible low budget 1950s scifi - what if the Martians decided to invade Earth... but all Martians are Aussies? For prep before hand we watch stuff like Plan 9 from Outer Space. Most of it shot in one day, just got some pickups and miniature work to do tomorrow (YESSSSSS fuck I love miniat...

• Post #2625293

  Dungeons of Freeport, our play-once-a-day extraction roguelike is now fully out on steam and itch! Huge thanks to @marceles_pixel, @Nekomancer and all our testers for making this happen. https://funtimeelectrics.itch.io/dungeons-of-freeport https://store.steampowered.com/app/4579170/Dungeons_of_Freeport/

• Post #2625292

  Good Morning! Welcome to UFO Weekend, day 2. With my birthday over I'm spending today dumping footage captured yesterday (many of the fabled gigabytes), sorting them, and preparing for a later start today as myself and a more minimal crew of *checks notes* one go get some miniature shots and pickup shots to complete shoot. I'm going to need a bigger coffee...

• Post #2625291

  The problem with game graphics these days is that when I make the near-terminal life-mistake of opening Instagram, I'll see a video of an epic low-and-slow flight of a Cub and go "wow what nice graphics - I wonder what bush flying sim that's from?" before realising it's just some drone footage of a Cub flying over a swamp or something.