Ross Alexander (he/him)

Scotland wasn't messing around today. An outstanding 22km walk was absolutely what I needed to clear my head today.

Trying To Get A Job In Video Games Right Now Is Like Crawling Through Hell - Aftermath The application process has become a dehumanising, demoralising grind

I feel like things may be worse in the states, but this is far from encouraging. Heads-up, folks. We'll "crawl through hell" together.

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Every day

there could not be a better metaphor

It's been a rough ol' time of late.

What a treat this was.

Tweet: can anyone explain why putting up flags and painting roundabouts helps protect women and girls from sexual assault? Reply: because the offenders are busy painting roundabouts or are up a ladder

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It's time to talk about something very personal. Receiving an invoice from a freelancer is very triggering. There, I said it. The thought of money leaving my account gives me distress. That's why it can take me 6, 10, sometimes even 15 months to transfer it. There is nothing more anxiety inducing than having to pay someone for a job they've done for you. I once received an invoice from my gardener and immediately threw my phone into the ocean. It's debilitating. I wish I could pay people on time, but my emotions won't let me. So please, if you are upset, just remember the person on the other end refusing to pay you is also a human. And they're going through a lot.

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

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Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

"But what if I get so ill I can't leave my bed for a week, but can somehow still bring myself to play video games in bed?" - My inner monologue while I did the exact same thing.

The first 40k meme i can recall.

It took me a few weeks to finish Witcher 3 when it came out in 2015. I loved it. A serious contender for my best game of all time. Then I sold my console, lost my save file, and the DLC came out. It's taken me this long to finish Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone. Ten years to properly finish it.

While Graphic Design and basic art skills may be firmly outside of my wheelhouse at the moment, I did have a lot of fun coming up with this logo and self-portrait. I'll be putting it on my portfolio and website. It might not be flashy or refined, but it's undeniably hand-made. Still better than AI.

Is that a picture of Tiramisioux land?

Also, Glen Tilt is lovely. Even when it's raining.

During a long walk today, I had the idea of making myself a logo for my website and portfolio. After a good bit of research, I think I'd like to do something stylised, with a cartoony self-portrait and my name in a retro badge. For the life of me, I couldn't draw my own teeth. Nightmare.

I loves me an old tree, I does.

The Fortingall Yew is quite surreally understated. It's also in the middle of the church yard, walled off for it's own protection.

Nothing exemplifies the sunk cost fallacy more than the spider who decided to build it's web between my wing mirror and car door. It keeps working away, then scrunching up when my car goes over 20mph. 😄

There is currently an advert in the UK from Paddy power (an online betting site) that makes fun of budget airlines being "bloodsucking ghouls" and the hypocrisy makes me laugh bitterly every time I see it.

It's not often you hear me praising a Conservative politician...

Very well said @kitmalthouse.bsky.social 👏👏

Once again I remind people that laws should not be your guiding heuristic on how you view or treat others.

Laws are built on the biased and often bigoted sensibilities of the powerful.

Empathy and basic decency (as defined in a way not dependent on anyone's legal status) are a better foundation.

Israel commits a terrible war crime. The evidence for the crime is overwhelming. The Israeli state issues a pack of lies, which the Western media eagerly laps up. In some cases, the lies are comprehensively debunked, but the rebuttal is given inadequate coverage or simply ignored.

Rinse and repeat.

"An assault on the creative spirit led by the chronically boring" is my new favourite way to describe Generative AI.

Hong Kong is frickin' awesome. That's it. That's the post.

I speak from 1st hand experience. They'll be fine. They're probably on first name terms with the ER nurses.

What way are you going? That looks a bit like Waverley station, but it's hard to tell. I really like the sleeper train. It's cool to fall asleep in Stirling and wake up in London.

Oooh! Get a load of "Mr. Six Lines" over here! At this point in the day I have opened my docs, checked slack, read some emails and I already want to go back to bed.

This is gonna start a cascade where I eventually actually play PoE 1 & 2 afterwards. I can just tell.