Kara Jane Adams

I can’t even play Robocod now they’ve ruined Penguins, it just doesn’t feel the same.

I haven’t been into a Pizza Hut since the release of Phantom Menace.

So this is probably my fault.

Be wary of anybody who tells you that you’re expendable for the greater good.

For there is no greater good where any of us are expendable.

It seems bizarre that supermarket own brand knock offs are now preferable to the real thing.

At least with Patreon it’s a platform that takes a percentage of earnings, as opposed to a platform that decides how much they’re willing to pay out.

For the time being.

People think convenience is a benefit, but it’s not, it’s just the lie they used to sell us a broken model, as consumers it robbed us of both ownership, and anticipation, I don’t want a subscription model, the entire value for me is in the ownership of a product produced by artists.

You don’t have to support legacy media that doesn’t represent you.

“I’ve always done it” isn’t an excuse to keep doing it.

Isn’t that true of every day?

I have shelving to build, but I find myself in a non-shelf building mood.

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Isn’t this supposed to be the reason OFCOM exists?

A staple of every Pick 'N Mix, probably due to the price of a Pick 'N Mix being based on the weight making "foam" sweets one of the better cost to benefit ratios.

As has become apparent in the United Kingsom, trans folk seemingly have the ability to exist in multiple states at the same time depending exclusively on the whims of the observer.

"Some respondents expressed concerns about how to teach about gender identity while complying with duties in the Education Act to be politically impartial.”

So if being anti-trans is always described as NOT a left/right issue (lol), how can saying trans people exist be a political issue?

Today I learnt that the significant portion on the internet that relies on AWS also happens to be the significant portion of the internet I seemingly avoid.

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

The one thing this ably demonstrates it that it doesnt really matter who you are, Starmer is prepared to throw you to the wolves if he thinks there's political capital to be gained from it.

The police, refugees, trans people, football fans, etc.

A Tel Aviv derby football match has been cancelled this evening (19 October) just minutes before kick off. Israeli sides Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv were set to face off in a huge derby match in the Bloomfield Stadium, the home ground shared by the two teams. The match was cancelled after riots at the stadium due to safety concerns for both the players and fans.

In a statement Israeli police said the game was called off “following disturbances and risks to human life”, Sky News reports. The force said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown at the stadium, which injured 12 civilians and three police officers. Police said officers arrested nine suspects and detained 16 others for questioning.

From The I Paper.

A Tel Aviv derby football match was cancelled yesterday between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv after riots broke out, with police citing risk to human life.

Nine people were arrested and a further 16 detained for questioning.

Catching up with the weekend viewing, you gotta love the Master System.

The idea that GenAI would ever be able to make a feature length film of any value is a pipe dream.

But I look forward to an AI commentary track where it tries to explain it's artistic choices for whatever three minute slop clip it's vomited forth.

Before you arbitrarily block those US government accounts because somebody flagged them into your feed.

Remember that you might just want to look at their follower lists to see if there's any free blocks to be had there as well.

"I was just thinking about our uniforms."

"What about them?"

"Have you noticed the color of our shirts? they're brown."

"Yeah, but it's a light brown."

"Undoubtedly it's a shade to the right of Latte on a Dulux color chart, but still brown... I mean we're literally brownshirts."

People can rationalise anything.

See also: Facebook, Substack, and Threads.

I grew up in 80s Britain.

We had some decent television, music, movies, comics, comedy, and video games.

Everything else really fucking sucked.

I'm of an age now where I'm around the same age (an in some cases older) than a lot of politicians.

So its somewhat galling being asked to ignore periods of history I lived through and clearly remember in order to swallow their rosey tinted rewrites instead.

They can get fucked with that bullshit.

He can give up all the titles he likes, but he'll forever be known as Nonce Andrew.

Outside of certain sports/driving franchises I couldn't really care less about realistic graphics.

I'm more interested in aesthetics, and that can be 8-bit pixel art, cell shading, hand drawn, polygons, etc

Every time I pick one up I'm hoping it will be the one I finally click with, but I never do

I run around it like an open world sandbox, cause a little mayhem then get bored as soon as I dive into the mission structure, inevitably hitting a point a few missions in where I just cant be arsed anymore.

Flash Gordon, the first film I saw at the cinema.

It was the winter of 1980 in Blackpool as a four year old and holy shit it was pure magic, it fired my love of film and the whole cinema experience which would inform and shape my life from that point on.

It's the reason I am who I am.

I had a lot of fun with the original top down games.

The shift to 3d for me was where I lost interest, I can appreciate them and their place in history, but as games they do absolutely nothing for me.