@timstandish.bsky.social
Writer. Historical technology, craft ale, video & board games, occasional monoliths. Author of Alt-historical thriller The Sterling Directive. https://timstandish.co.uk/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sterling-Directive-Tim-Standish-ebook/dp/B0C1NDW92Q
Because if you maxx zero, you still have zero.
Fantastic to have the opportunity to see Blade Runner (Final Cut) on the big screen last night at @odysseystalbans. What a brilliant film - sublime soundtrack, exquisite visuals. And the pacing, the rhythm of scenes and conversations is amazing. An intimate story in a chaotic, uncaring urban sprawl.
Finally got round to shelling out for Apple+ and watching Slow Horses. Very enjoyable, great cast, only occasionally silly. Obviously Oldman & Scott-Thomas are brilliant but I’m especially enjoying Jack Lowden doing Simon Pegg in Spaced impressions. Also very good at running and getting beaten up.
where the what are found relative to their nostrils and ears?
"Have Tim Henman killed"
BIG GOAT LITTLE GOAT is this month's free one page game.
One of you is a big goat. The other is a little goat. If you need to know more than that, this game is probably not for you.
PDFs and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/128931...
From today’s @theguardian.com - welcome to the UK, the land where satire died.
This 😁
Cheers all! And a very Happy (and hoppy) Easter. Beautiful weather for a beautiful DIPA - Track/Factory brewing collab at the ever fantastic Beer Shop #StAlbans
lol yes, I mean I’m sure we all have our challenges but I think they could have phrased it a little better!
Met up with friends for a day of boardgaming yesterday - we tried our hand at the Civilisation boardgame. Elegant design with a fair few moving parts to hold in mind, it does a fab job of recreating the Sid Meier experience: tech, trade, resources, wonders and, of course, war! #boardgames
I always know I've enjoyed a play when, not only does the experience stay with me the next day, but I also have the overwhelming urge to read around the subject matter. Retrograde did both for me. Sidney Poitier's biography here I come...
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2. Started watching the new Daredevil series on Disney Plus with some trepidation given how superb the original series were. The start was a bit shaky for me given how tropy it was but I should have had more faith. It's still superb & Charlie Cox and Vincent D'onofrio are on great form.
Been cheered by a few recent moments of brightness in the midst of the pervasive gloom.
1. Gary Numan's album The Fury is finally on Spotify. Was the first album of his I encountered as a teen & I was sold as soon as I heard the Bladerunner samples. A delightful mix of samples, synth & saxophone.
It’s true what they say - no matter how bad things are, there’s always someone else who’s worse off - really puts things into perspective… via @thetimes.com
Third time lucky when it came to a marathon Arkham Horror session this weekend with my brother. Such a great game despite how almost impossible it feels for most of a game but how victory feels glorious on the rare occasions that it occurs. And my character was an author! Which was nice.
Tom Hiddleston = Zakalwe.
Saw ENO's Pirates of Penzance yesterday. Haven't seen any Gilbert & Sullivan for an absolute age - thoroughly enjoyed it! The minimalist Ellsworth Kelly adjacent set design might not have been everybody's cup of tea but I liked it. Great performances all round. Police squad antics nicely done.
…forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice. – Octavia Butler
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Had a blast on @hostsintheshell.bsky.social recently talking with @jonrichter.bsky.social & @cleric20.bsky.social about William Gibson's The Peripheral & the Amazon series based on it. There are spoilers for both so read AND watch before you dive in!
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Hello all - a quick intro!
We're a cyberpunk podcast where writers @jonrichter.bsky.social and @cleric20.bsky.social (aka Jon Richter and Matt Adcock) host other creatives to talk about their work & their favourite pieces of cyberpunk media.
Head to hostsintheshell.buzzsprout.com for a listen!
Coincidentally, at about the same time I decided to check in on the excellent @hostsintheshell.bsky.social and realised the lads had done an episode on Iain M Banks. Nice one gents!
BTW I thought "unintended consequences" would be a great name for an even-more-secret-than-SC Culture team!
Iain M Banks is one of my favourite Sci-Fi authors & a major inspiration for my own writing. I read Player of Games again recently and, despite the fact that it's probably the 5th or 6th time, I still loved it. One oh his most accessible & straightforward books IMHO and one of my favourites.
I can't help making up stories about the virtual civ-citizens who have to live with the aftermath of my often less than optimal settling decisions. #Civilisation
Civ sledging.
Towards the end of what will likely be my last game of Civ6 so to mark the transition to a new era (and as a way of getting myself into the habit of posting) here are a few old twitter posts about Civ. This first one is a bit niche.
It really is. I’m mainly enjoying the niceness of Bluesky, or at least the absence of toxic lunacy, and gearing myself up to start posting regularly. I was thinking of re-using some old tweets. Does that count as cheating???
It's much nicer isn't it! Yes, all good, though a stupidly busy period of work and trying to get back into writing. Good to @hostsintheshell.bsky.social on here - I'm catching up with the later epsiodes.
Hey Jon, good to see you’re on (in? Under? At?) Bluesky!
