Simon Roth

I considered putting a little status post on Linkedin to the same effect, but I was barraged by some of the worst lunatic-posting I've seen in a long time, and immediately closed the window to save myself.

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

I'm starting to fill up my freelance calendar for next month onwards. Get in touch if you need an extremely experienced and adaptable freelance games developer.

Why didn't the UK do it too? Why were our MPs quietly begging them to take highly illegal content down? We know, of course, but it would be nice if UK journalists could buck the will of their masters and press the point.

Mw5 Clans screenshot

Mw5 Clans screenshot

Mw5 Clans screenshot

Mw5 Clans screenshot

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links The former cabinet minister says he does not want to

So he should have been booted several years ago. I am amazed he hung on so long. Now the question is why did Labour fight to keep him around, at this point they are complicit too.

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a resurfaced twitter screenshot from 2020 where elon musk replies to me 'to the best our knowledge, he never toured SpaceX. Don't know where that comes from'. another user has superimposed this reply on a screenshot of a 2013 email from Jeffrey Epstein to Elon that says 'thanks for the tour, you would have had fun at xmas'

ok wow. in 2020, as a former tech journalist, i had a large twitter account, so i asked elon musk to comment on why he had been photographed with ghislaine maxwell and whether the rumors jeffrey epstein had toured space x were true

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YouTube video by Tech Ingredients DEFEATING LRAD

DEFEATING LRAD

(Tinnitus warning)

TLDW: Foam plugs are good. Workshop ear defenders are great. A riot shield is also good and can be inverted into a parabola to bounce it back at the operators.

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Quite nightmarishly. All night clusterfeeds every hour for like three weeks now.

It's alright I'm sure there are loads of local drop-in support groups for male parents.

*tumbleweed*

It's been 20 days of having a baby and dozens of appointments and not a single healthcare professional has asked how I am doing. 🥲

Obviously there is a greater priority on the birth parent and kid, but half the time they look annoyed that I am even there.

The final window on the roof of the town hall in Oxford.

Also fun fact. This was the Machine Studios Ltd office 2014-2017, in the roof of the town hall.

Thanks to the "Stalinist" congestion charge in Oxford (pictured), I was able to make several life-and-death rush-hour trips to and from the JR hospital recently. I used my free passes to drive (Yes, Drive!) smoothly through the Bolshevik 20mph zones instead of sitting in traffic.

The award winning movies, books and TV shows are also often completely and offensively fantastical.

This boardgame sounds more like a teaching aid. What a sad angle.

novel about the troubles: booker prize
film about the troubles: golden globes
tv show about the troubles: baftas

board game about the troubles: THIS IS DISGUSTING HOW DARE YOU

Ash from Alien covered in the white goop.

Thanks to a sleepless night I poured formula into a bottle without putting the rubber valve in the bottom, emptying it all over myself and my kitchen. Baby in my arms also decided to spew up too. Lovely.

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Grok is so much worse than you think.

Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me It seems it will be easier to be Steam Machine Verified when compared with Steam Deck Verified, according to a Valve designer speaking with Game Developer.

Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me
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All the people telling me to enjoy this magical time, whilst I spend all said time driving between hospitals and haven’t slept for week. 🥲

Indeed intense untreated burnout can literally progress into regular CFS. You can become permanently disabled to make a game that will get cancelled a month before launch.

We, as an industry, need to teach people that crunch-induced burnout can be permanent. It's like Long-Covid or ME/CFS, you might spend years managing it and fighting off flare-ups, and for some it can be permanent and completely debilitating.

Crunch kills.

Dreams.
Relationships.
Lives.
People.

Work. Dream. Live. Succeed. Never crunch.

Signed 'a crunch survivor'.

Initially I thought I knew what was going to happen because it's got some obvious set-ups early on.. and starts very similarly to a 90s Outer Limits episode.. But then it just continues to escalate, derails and then becomes something entirely and shockingly different.

I read Blood Music last week right before the baby came, and it's the first ever book to give me nightmares.

I recommend it, but be warned.

When discussing our concepts with GW and showing them our prototypes, we mentioned working-in the inspirations that GW's artists had in the 1980s/90s.

This REALLY irked them. They must, at least publicly, pretend that all the ideas in their art and games are original, unique and immutable.

Having been involved in GW IP licensing negotiations a couple of times, and also having received a letter from their lawyers in the 90's, you have to consider the fact that under UK law nothing made by a machine can be copyrighted.

Games Workshop's business is Intellectual Property, not plastic.

Yep. I have two USAF bases nearby. Doesn't really bare thinking about. Of course the US admin hasn't actually done any thinking about it. Maybe some generals will. Maybe.

The US has historically not fared well in wargames with any of the countries who might send troops. They also are absolutely crap at Combat Identification. I used to work on CI systems to train Nato troops to stop shooting at each other. They just won't have the training to engage NATO forces.