Alice

Congrats on the next phase in your career as a professional Tomboss!

I'm a sucker for being nice to everyone in RPGs and Rogue Trader made me feel I was a real rube for not at least considering a spot of fiery purging or perhaps a fetching jacket of screaming human flesh.

Finally finished Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and I like how it makes kindness seem a bizarre choice. Dogmatic megamurder, oh sure you gotta, for the Emperor doncha know. Wacky heresy, ah yeah, people do get into that, don't they. But compassion and consideration, mate I gotta ask, are you okay?

Aw that's grand!

Ah that's very kind, thank you! And I'm delighted to hear there was a WAWAPATWAPAW meetup of sorts.

A clown accepts a toilet brush from a clown.

Anyway, the best thing at the festivals for a second year running was the Clown Olympics, where clowns from around the world compete in clown sports in the park. The winners take custody of the Clown Olympic Flame (a toilet brush). Dominating victory from Japan, who hadn't even planned to take part.

I only noticed because I was in the front row and recognised the flash of metal tape from the guts of the Doom Piano. It's such a tiny detail but so pleasing. And yet: at times I wondered if the technoaccordion was doing anything at all, because we're all wearing headphones with a soundscape so

Like, you don't carefully conceal copper tape inside paper letters if you don't intend for them to have an effect when alligator-clipped into the guts of a technoaccordion, do you. Do you? No one would notice if you faked it and only a few could even recognise you're doing it for real. Agh it's cool

I would love to know more about the tech because I spotted some edges that could be such cool and clever ideas but I don't know if you'd bother because the effects would be easy to fake and who would notice anyway, so I'm left wondering how much actually is real, and if it matters, and why.

A photo of a theatre stage where white plastic sheeting covers several mysterious boxes.

I won't reel off Edinburgh festival picks but if you're following me because of PC games, Stampin' in the Graveyard makes magical transformative use of trashed PCs. I was delighted by each turn as they were variously worn, illuminated, gazed into, held aloft, more. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

I am admittedly torn between "Oh god" and "Wait why does that sound like something I would have done, oh god."

(complimentary (somewhat))

Your first little guy is this good?! Damn.

Hip hip hooray, yesterday was the Burryman's day!

Sexy Tyranid.

A Tyranid just having a good time not doing anyone any harm.

Tyranids hanging out being pals.

A leary Tyranid.

That's a bit unkind of Nate; Drukhari are cringe tryhards. Have you considered bug friend?

You done good, and did it for longer than anyone should.

I spoke to this conference's organisers and they told me that the code of conduct you agreed to when you signed up means you have to invite me to your birthday party.

Ugh that Brutalism 2 hub #blewmeaway, just delighted poking around. Took me ages to even start playing the maps.

On your first day of NCT, go up to the biggest dad there, tell him he's your son now, and give him 50p pocket money.

"The piece as big as me?"

This is making me start to feel a little bad about signing copies of your books in bookshops, and accepting free bookmarks as thanks.

I'm sorry that Ian Games Network didn't realise a second Alice was the one calling him Ian Games Network and punished you in my place. Probably should've apologised to you sooner but

If I never write about video games ever again, let this be my final plea Will every lousy unwanted PC game store launcher actually remember my password when I tick the box telling it to remember my password.

Checking in on my last (final?) gameswords one year later... Epic, EA, Rockstar, and Ubisoft's clients have all forgotten my password again since I last used them. A perennial post. www.rockpapershotgun.com/if-i-never-w...

It's now a year since I left Rock Paper Shotgun and I still haven't written anything longer than a Christmas card. I'm still looking for something new and don't know if I'll ever write again. But I have learned dry stone walling and volunteered lots on river cleanup and landscaping, which is nice.

Whenever I make a new nemesis, I forge a new breastplate from a poster of their favourite licensed property. What are you going to do, bro, stab through Momo Ayase to get me? Unlikely.

Full suit of plate armour fashioned from Displate metal posters.

Can only say I'm pogged out of my gourd.

I don't know what that screenshot is meant to prove but I GOT AN ORB.

V wears a shimmering dress and a multi-eyed, orb-like helmet in a Cyberpunk 2077 screenshot.

Okay but after the addition of transmog and an expansion's worth of clothes, I did buy every single garment in the game and play a lot of dress-up.

I have kept updating my blog of mod readme files every now and then, by the way. Interesting ideas, funny phrases, unavoidable pornography, and such. readmedottxt.tumblr.com