Steve Stamatiadis

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The nice thing about having a cool Japanese supermarket just down the road is that I can grab different curry roux to try out. Tonight I made hamburg steak with House Black Curry. Very dark and rich sauce. Yummy.

Me and my thing for big critters.

OneLook: Search 800+ dictionaries at once

Give onelook.com a go. I find it works really well.

Me and my thing for big critters.

Uncovering the real reason why Solo didn't do as well in the box office.

Also, I still get teary-eyed when I watch Episode 1 and R2 first does his thing on the ship's exterior. Peak Star Wars.

Checking out the golden-looking full moon rising just after sunset, as the silhouettes of giant bats fly across it. Cool.

It’s Saturday. 📺Post a cartoon TV series you love.

It's a bit like the past but with more surprises.

Well shit. It’s February now.

Panel 1: A tech bro strides across a stage. The word “PeoplBOTS” is in huge letters behind him. He says: “Our journey began with a simple question:” Panel 2 “Can we create a robot that is enormously powerful, but also completely safe?” Panel 3 “The answer to that question was 'No'.” A huge red armoured metal robot trundles across the stage belching smoke. It has a flamethrower for one arm and large shears for the other. Its eyes glow meanly red. Tech bro announces “So I give you: Dangerbot900!!”

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

This week's Gunwale work in free Patreon form.

Serious question: Has private Equity ever made anything they've taken over better? As in, have they improved a business, or is it always pillaging and shutting down?

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Had to play taxi for my mum so I grabbed some Nando’s since I’ve been craving if for about a month.

Worth it.

First teaser for "The Ghost In The Shell" anime series by Science Saru studio.
Directed by Mokochan (+ Shuhei Handa on character designs & animation).
Coming in July.
Full official video >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-01...

After that I hit Costco and got a packet of 2 dozen Anzac Biscuits - I looked for the lighter ones because they're the chewy ones. And a bunch of other stuff that I needed in bulk... as you do.

Had a good stream this morning, thanks to everyone that popped by. Still having some issues with audio but I'm going to spend some time this weekend to sort things out.

Maybe.

Just to be clear, when we say "get rid of AI", that's a blanket term that also includes Adobe Illustrator, right?

It is.

I'm happy to answer whatever I can.

SpaceCaptSteve - Twitch Award winning video game designer, drawing guy and part time space pirate

Going live on Twitch www.twitch.tv/spacecaptsteve

Not really. So far, exactly one person has asked for it in 20 years.

C’est la vie.

I'll be streaming over on Twitch tomorrow, same time as last week, with more TY comic fun, for a few hours at least.

More news as it breaks...

And also those little full-color catalogs you'd get in the bigger toys like the playsets.

See!

Image from www.starwarstracker.com/cardbacks

I think toy companies have forgotten just how alluring was as a kid (and now even) to see all the figures in a set on the backing card. Now they're half full of legal bullshit, print that crap on a folded paper insert and have the back be cool things you want to buy and play with.

Was it really 20 years ago that I was writing up a level design for Darth Vader attacking Wookiees on Kashyyyk in a pitch to LucasArts to do a PS2 version of The Force Unleashed?

(That's what they requested for a level write-up in the RFP).

That was a real "brass ring" point in time.

Discover the amazing secrets behind talented genius artists.

They.
Work.
Really.
Fucking.
Hard.

Now you can be one too.

Also. Fuck AI.

I think the one that was a box of 10 discs with the shareware demo as a bonus. At least the disks were pretty colors. I still have that one somewhere.

And no, it didn't really help sales much.