Matthew Hanlon
@thebag1981.bsky.social
🏴 •Lead coder at Playsport Games •Co-founder of Bit By Bit Games •ex-Lionhead gameplay & AI coder (B&W2, Fable 2 3 & H) #BAFTAGames he/him
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In July 2004 I joined #Lionhead in my first pro game dev job as a coder of Black & White 2. I've just found some screenshots from dev, so have at it.
One of the first things I did was add a villager behaviour so they'd go to the cathedral under the guidance of
@MrFlabyo (not on here)
One of the first things I did was add a villager behaviour so they'd go to the cathedral under the guidance of
@MrFlabyo (not on here)
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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This is honestly extremely funny
February 14, 2026 at 10:12 AM
This is honestly extremely funny
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Happy 35th #Lemmings anniversary!
Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.
#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th
Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...
Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.
#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th
Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Happy 35th #Lemmings anniversary!
Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.
#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th
Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...
Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.
#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th
Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...
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Growing up in a household where you want to share in a nerdy parent's interests certainly gives you a different perspective. I was absolutely trying and failing to understand complex history stuff from early primary school time. Hell, we were reenacting the iron age in class when i was eight.
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Growing up in a household where you want to share in a nerdy parent's interests certainly gives you a different perspective. I was absolutely trying and failing to understand complex history stuff from early primary school time. Hell, we were reenacting the iron age in class when i was eight.
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This is wild. Russian government using AI to generate fake YouTube videos where well known Ukrainian supporters & influencers make pro-Putin content.
Expect much more of this. Especially in the run up to the midterms-
youtu.be/88tYt6FOMkQ?...
Expect much more of this. Especially in the run up to the midterms-
youtu.be/88tYt6FOMkQ?...
Russia Just Declared War On My Channel
YouTube video by Paul Warburg
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This is wild. Russian government using AI to generate fake YouTube videos where well known Ukrainian supporters & influencers make pro-Putin content.
Expect much more of this. Especially in the run up to the midterms-
youtu.be/88tYt6FOMkQ?...
Expect much more of this. Especially in the run up to the midterms-
youtu.be/88tYt6FOMkQ?...
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)!
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM
The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)!
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
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We ask ourselves what would we have done if we had been around during the rise of nationalism in Europe... Pam Bondi appears to have made her approach pretty clear.
Try to impress Mussolini.
Try to impress Mussolini.
Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
We ask ourselves what would we have done if we had been around during the rise of nationalism in Europe... Pam Bondi appears to have made her approach pretty clear.
Try to impress Mussolini.
Try to impress Mussolini.
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Goddamn I need a VPN to view example Unreal blueprints in the UK now.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Goddamn I need a VPN to view example Unreal blueprints in the UK now.
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Sure would be nice if journalists writing about the tech industry had, at bare minimum, enough of a science education to debunk their claims.
Idk guys. I feel like you need to be more than a cheerleader or you’re just a useful rube doing free advertising for evil people.
Idk guys. I feel like you need to be more than a cheerleader or you’re just a useful rube doing free advertising for evil people.
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Sure would be nice if journalists writing about the tech industry had, at bare minimum, enough of a science education to debunk their claims.
Idk guys. I feel like you need to be more than a cheerleader or you’re just a useful rube doing free advertising for evil people.
Idk guys. I feel like you need to be more than a cheerleader or you’re just a useful rube doing free advertising for evil people.
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They shut down an airport and intended to keep it shut down for a week so they could shoot down a balloon with a new toy.
February 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
They shut down an airport and intended to keep it shut down for a week so they could shoot down a balloon with a new toy.
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Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...
Markwayne Mullin defends "show me your papers": "If you're here legally, there's nothing to hide. Most people already are walking around with a government-issued ID, meaning your Real ID or your driver's license. If you go board a train here, you gotta show your ID."
February 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
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One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
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Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The abject hypocrisy of this toad
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The abject hypocrisy of this toad