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Hollywood succeeds by out spending its competition. The biggest stars, the most lavish sets, the hugest spectacle, etc etc. So its weird that it seems to be embracing AI rather than crushing it from above with money like its done to everything else

Stanley Kubrick will be spinning in his grave now I've finally been allowed to see such sights

Extra stuff:

- a long slightly boring scene near the start where Danny and Wendy get interviewed by a doctor
- a mid-length incredibly boring scene near the middle of the film where Scatman Crothers hires a snow plow
- a very short scene near the end where some skeletons are having a tea party

I saw the shining at the cinema today, and it was the American version they showed instead of the Kubrick approved European version, so there was 20 minutes of extra stuff I'd never ever seen before.

Maybe the nobel peace prize medal is a cursed horror movie object and you have to pass it on before something crawls out of your TV and eats your soul

David Guy | Patreon creating short stories, children's books, comics, photos, more

Anyway if you want to follow my work in progress on this you should follow my patreon (which has a free tier)

www.patreon.com/cw/davidguy

At the very least you'll get a good object lesson in how not to design games/program games/write games/illustrate games/etc etc

The whole thing is vaguely based on the Tales From The Town series I've been writing weekly since 2021 or so

accumulationofthings.com/things/tag/t...

of which there's almost 250 episodes now (and maybe even about 50 really good ones)

There's not much there to play at the moment (although I did implement a needlessly complicated weather system), but hopefully evntually it'll have a nice lot of locations to potter around in and a nice lot of people for you to talk to (plus some cats)

Small Town Simulator (a work in progress) | David Guy Get more from David Guy on Patreon

I've started making a game called Small Town Simulator, where you move into a small town in britain somewhere and live a nicely mundane life for all eternity (until you get bored)

very early access demo: accumulationofthings.com/twine/town/t...

blog post: www.patreon.com/posts/small-...

Search (on all topics) seems to have been turned off 3 or 4 hours ago. I can't get a single result from later than that on anything I type in

YouTube video by Razstar barald

Oh no it BARALD!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6O...

A swan looks at an old lady and says TWEET

Amplion: The World's Standard Wireless Loud Speaker

This Film Is 100 Years Old: The Tale Of The Amp Lion (1925)

accumulationofthings.com/100/2026/01/...

A charming and lovely advert for old trumpet-style radio/record player speakers, animated by William Heath Robinson (who I never knew until today had made an actual animated cartoon before)

Tales From The Town #224: The Glass Lake

accumulationofthings.com/things/2026/...

Everything is perfectly preserved in the glass of the lake. Shoals of fish, fronds of weed, frogs, frogspawn. Sunken boats, lost footballs, fishing nets, shopping trolleys, a small fortune of coins.

football is the best run sport in the world

Man United sacking their manager because they "cannot handle the Gary Neville"

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"Alone he lived, alone he died. No one knew his ways."

1872 obituary of strange, difficult "geomancy pioneer" William Henry Black.

You can switch them off in settings, but only for the standard following feed for some reason

bsky.app/settings/fol...

Enzo Maresca: Chelsea boss could leave post before Sunday's match against Man City Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca could leave his post before Sunday's Premier League match against Manchester City.

Chelsea sacking their manager because "he has increasingly avoided wearing club tracksuits, opting instead for his own clothing."

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The bride ascends some stairs in her wedding dress in The Mistletoe Bough

The groom embraces the ghost of his bride, 30 years later (In The Mistletoe Bough)

This Film Is 121 Years Old: The Mistletoe Bough

www.patreon.com/posts/this-f...

Atmospheric ghostly christmas spookiness from 1904

The Black Cat The black cat is the only ghost with measurable weight Once it settles in place it cannot be moved While it sleeps it feasts on our dreams And we let it we let it

Ravenous The wisdom of crows accumulates through the flesh on which they feast Memories of man woman child beast It's only because they do not eat their elders that they don't contain within their hearts the souls of the world of all history of time

A Book Of Ghosts - David Guy's Ko-fi Shop A Book Of Ghosts is a collection of 50 odd poems about ghosts (with illustrations of distinctly varying quality).

A Book Of Ghosts (2025)

ko-fi.com/s/15cba5bb7d

(the only book i wrote this year)

A horrible rocking horse with Sephiroth hair

The same horrible rocking horse from two angles, half way through a fade transition. It’s all rocking horses fading in and out, I hate it

It’s that rocking horse again, a lank blonde mane covering its face. It’s not even rocking

Started watching old BBC kids show The Children of Green Knowe, thinking I’d never seen it. But I half remember every scene so semi-vividly, it’s making my brain itch. This is the show that made me hate rocking horses

Christmas review scores are in:

Niece - 6 out of 10
Nephew - 7 out of 10

YouTube video by MCshawarmaUpload P5 OST 102 Freedom and Security

Persona 5 was way too long but this song near the end made up for the 100 bloody hours beforehand

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_nE...

These films are (over) 100 years old

accumulationofthings.com/100/2025/12/...

Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases In cinemas 12 December.

Went to see these today and they were brilliant, especially the final one, where Moriarty's a right old bastard

www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-rel...

News Story #1: You can't go to Australia if you're a nazi - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

News Story #2: You can't go to America if you're not a nazi - www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

hopefully

The cover of a Murder On The Orient Express game on the PS4. Poirot is quite aggressively sexy.

Can't sleep. Sexy video game Poirot is going to fuck me

a hamster so long bluesky only wants to show about a tenth of it