The built in AI in Google annoys me far more than it should.

Like, if I'm Googling something, I've already made a conscious effort not to use ChatGPT for that question. I don't need you automatically piping up and wasting water.

Yes I'm aware of the -ai flag. Yes, I still forget it every time.

I just want your body, Sheba
I don't want your brain
Scarlet gets what's left of my remains

Haven't been able to get out and do things as much as I'd like for a while, but I've still been busy writing.

Do you know what several years worth of unrealised writing looks like? My musician folder is bursting at the seams. Enough album material in there to outlive me now.

Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but I didn't really feel like I was sold on Twin Peaks until Fire Walk With Me. That's the point in which everything just seems to come together solidly for me.

On the final Black Sabbath album there's a riff which sounds identical to the theme tune from the 90s Dilbert show, which kinda dilutes the menace of it all, really.

"Do you want to use OneDrive to send this file?"

Literally never. Stop asking.

Trying to be active daily with development. Hard coming back to it after months, trying to remember how the hell everything works. Took 3/4 days, but my level editing approach, plus custom binary packager are both working nice again. Can actually start with proper #gamedev from tomorrow now #devlog

Absolutely terrible. I love it.

Starting to get back on track a little. Not a lot, but enough. Super happy with direction of new album, Ramshackle Engine is progressing (and no longer locks up my PC...), got some books I'm starting to write. None of its fast, but I am starting to be creative again, and get that passion back.

Currently irking me: the revisionism by retro gamers insistent on apply CRT shaders to their games that don't look a thing like CRTs do, and just make everything look like a dark muddy mess.

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago, and it never looked that shit.

Getting increasingly narked off every time I sit down at my computer in the morning and it's sat there pretending that it hasn't secretly done an update and restarted during the night. Aye yeah, nothing makes me want to stick with Windows more than it lying to me. Great.

Just spending a relaxing afternoon shouting 'BURN!' into a microphone. Hope the neighbours don't mind.

Been a rough year, not gonna lie. Haven't really ever felt like I've got back on the horse - feel like I've spent all year being dragged along by it.

But man, I've been running some of my scripts this morning and some of the dev work and hobby stuff I've picked up I'm actually super proud of.

Have you ever seen those bricks of condensed sawdust? Have you ever tried to eat one? Because I feel like the experience wouldn't be that far removed from watching Dune: Prophecy.

All bass tracks down. Currently bitcrushing the ending of the album to hell, then moving onto all the Moogs. Then probably mixdown for second demo to send back out for review.

Think I've spent a solid three or four weeks gushing over bass tones. Nothing's come close until tonight - out of nowhere just suddenly honed in on exactly what I wanted. Only needed to route the signal through three different levels of distortion.

Recording "final" basslines now. Finally.

Been stalled on a music project for weeks now. Can't explain it, something feels off or not right. Feel like I'm edging towards fixing it, rounding it off, but bugger me it's been a slow process getting there.