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Happy Nebula subscriber here (persuaded largely by you to sign up). If I have one criticism it's that the number of creators on the platform could be beefier, although I don't know how well the business model scales with more creators.

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I would have seen you at the party but I had also decided not to live in England and not to make videogames.

(I might make videogames again, but not those games, or with those folks. And I'm doing other interesting stuff in the meantime)

It took me ages to understand Streeting's comment about "lessons for progressives", but I think he wrote it because he thinks _he_ is a progressive. Which is fucking WILD.

Can confirm that it's a great game. Simultaneously realistic in its science/tech grounding, educational, optimistic, thoughtful, simple to teach/play and actually fun. Which is a hell of a list of things to achieve given the darkness of the subject matter.

i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

BEHOLD!

My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game!

"i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm.

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!

I mean, it's not hard to picture Mandelson sitting down with a list of all his friends to pick his favourite, and that list just not being very long.

Oh, that's a good set of credits to find yourself in :)

"Don't feed the trolls"

I can't look at Andrew Wilson without thinking about this guy:

As I understand it, that's been the most popular pronunciation for 100+ years. At some point the wrong thing gets repeated enough to become correct (but I'll die on the hill of pronouncing "nuclear" correctly)

I can't stop looking at it. It's exquisite. This should go in a museum, or an art gallery, or something.

(More seriously, I can absolutely see this appearing in a lot of school statistics textbooks in future)

It's such a shame when people treat politics/economics/social justice like it's some kind of team sport. Sure, keyboard warrior, you picked the correct team, but you've gone full hooligan and now you're just being a waste of oxygen. Get some nuance.

This will never stop being funny

Worse than wrong: CONFIDENTLY wrong.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Given Tom Lehrer's influence on my attempts at comedic songwriting, and given the industry I work in currently being told what games it is and isn't allowed to sell by shithead payment processors, this is the song I pick by way of tribute. RIP, Mr. Lehrer - and thank you.

youtu.be/iaHDBL7dVgs

A prog rock style album cover inspired by Roger Dean, featuring 2 vikings and a historically-inaccurate jester looking across a fjord as the Bifrost bridge stretches up to Asgard

People are posting their lock screens, for some reason.

Mine is a crop of the cover of the album my band recorded a couple of years ago, that nobody bought. I think the art is nice and the music deserved better.

YouTube video by IGN Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - Official Trailer | SDCC 2025

This is looking pretty great IMHO

www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DD...

Saw the Quinns Quest review and am definitely keen to give it a try at some point.

This is great news. I had honestly been worried about you folks being in Sumo for a little while, so it must be a weight off to be masters of your own destiny again.

I've decided to just believe the AI slop on this one, because if they don't screen it every year, they should.

I had a lot of fun in my teens coding up dumb-as-a-rock chatbots based on Markov chains and whatever source text was freely available. Almost anyone who can code can do it in a couple of hours, and it gives one a surprisingly solid grasp on what LLMs are doing now.

Trying to imagine how much sympathy George Osbourne would have got for crying in parliament. None, I suspect. I don't see why Reeves would deserve any more than Osbourne.

And if I'd searched first I would have seen that he's on bsky, in fact. ‪@bdolan.bsky.social‬

YouTube video by B Dolan B. Dolan plays Citizen Sleeper at night, pt. 1

@jumpovertheage.com I don't know if you're aware of B. Dolan - IMHO he's one of the finest and most thought provoking rappers out there. He's just started streaming Citizen Sleeper.

youtu.be/gM0_tydROpk?...

Bollocks to your naysaying, those are good, solid watercolours. Be proud.

Room 46, day 46. I know there's a whole warren of increasingly mad rabbit holes that come after this, but I think this is where I get off. I'm not sure I even want to inherit this bloody mansion now.

It's ridiculously good. My favourite thing to do when watching it is to try to forget the premise. Then it looks like a TV set filled with utter psychopaths.