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To misquote someone who might have come up with a little bit of art in the past:
AI games are a Choose Your Own Adventure, designed by an idiot, full of noise and explosions, signifying nothing.
AI games are a Choose Your Own Adventure, designed by an idiot, full of noise and explosions, signifying nothing.
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
To misquote someone who might have come up with a little bit of art in the past:
AI games are a Choose Your Own Adventure, designed by an idiot, full of noise and explosions, signifying nothing.
AI games are a Choose Your Own Adventure, designed by an idiot, full of noise and explosions, signifying nothing.
Oh, I like that!
August 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Oh, I like that!
Is the nearest tube station on the Circle Line?
August 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Is the nearest tube station on the Circle Line?
Dammit. He's not in jail.
August 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Dammit. He's not in jail.
Is there a sign in sight of you that mentions the name of a (Standard UK) Monopoly space?
August 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Is there a sign in sight of you that mentions the name of a (Standard UK) Monopoly space?
I dunno, it's a XOR point.
(#punsprobablytooobscureforanysensibleaudience)
(#punsprobablytooobscureforanysensibleaudience)
April 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I dunno, it's a XOR point.
(#punsprobablytooobscureforanysensibleaudience)
(#punsprobablytooobscureforanysensibleaudience)
When you're suddenly *very aware* of your knees.
April 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
When you're suddenly *very aware* of your knees.
That's not the Doctor, that's *pure* Iris Wildthyme!
March 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
That's not the Doctor, that's *pure* Iris Wildthyme!
Categorically *not* Henry's Cat, then.
March 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Categorically *not* Henry's Cat, then.
One thing that I've thought back on in recent years is how much school *history* lessons from 30 years ago put me in a decent position to handle modern media; the emphasis on primary and secondary sources, and the tests you should use to consider and evaluate them, have proved useful long since.
February 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
One thing that I've thought back on in recent years is how much school *history* lessons from 30 years ago put me in a decent position to handle modern media; the emphasis on primary and secondary sources, and the tests you should use to consider and evaluate them, have proved useful long since.
"I'm sorry, I was told this was Avogadro's number?"
February 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"I'm sorry, I was told this was Avogadro's number?"
This was sort of the impetus behind the old Desktop Adventures series of games; randomly-generated half-hour or so mini stories roughly in a Zelda style, themed around Indy or Star Wars. They were never massive but filled the "I just want to play a small, contained Chunk Of Game" niche pretty nicely
January 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This was sort of the impetus behind the old Desktop Adventures series of games; randomly-generated half-hour or so mini stories roughly in a Zelda style, themed around Indy or Star Wars. They were never massive but filled the "I just want to play a small, contained Chunk Of Game" niche pretty nicely
The impression I got is that they were visible in person in principle, but they were scaled and positioned precisely to be seen properly from the location of the BBC cameras. But I'm not sure how accurate that is!
January 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The impression I got is that they were visible in person in principle, but they were scaled and positioned precisely to be seen properly from the location of the BBC cameras. But I'm not sure how accurate that is!
Ooh, thanks! I was hoping to get around to it myself, but time kept slipping away from me.
December 29, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Ooh, thanks! I was hoping to get around to it myself, but time kept slipping away from me.
I love the fact that the line is incredibly pointed and on-the-nose, and is *absolutely* there in the original text.
Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic throughout, but having Gonzo as narrator giving Dickens' own words is what makes it perfect.
Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic throughout, but having Gonzo as narrator giving Dickens' own words is what makes it perfect.
December 25, 2024 at 10:03 AM
I love the fact that the line is incredibly pointed and on-the-nose, and is *absolutely* there in the original text.
Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic throughout, but having Gonzo as narrator giving Dickens' own words is what makes it perfect.
Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic throughout, but having Gonzo as narrator giving Dickens' own words is what makes it perfect.
I let slot 7 out of purgatory. It gave me a pound. I sent it right back into purgatory.
December 22, 2024 at 2:58 AM
I let slot 7 out of purgatory. It gave me a pound. I sent it right back into purgatory.
But surely dictators have someone else to do the writing? It's right there in the name!
December 10, 2024 at 6:06 PM
But surely dictators have someone else to do the writing? It's right there in the name!
Having had faith in slot 7 would have done it!
December 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Having had faith in slot 7 would have done it!
Hah, fair enough!
December 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hah, fair enough!
I think it's probably got more in common with Just Dance really, but fair enough!
December 5, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I think it's probably got more in common with Just Dance really, but fair enough!
...and it's big enough to get a Hatsune Miku crossover, if that's a metric!
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 AM
...and it's big enough to get a Hatsune Miku crossover, if that's a metric!
It depends somewhat on where you class 'major' as starting, since it's certainly not an AAA high-profile title, but Fitness Boxing tends to quietly get to over a million sales regularly, is from Imagineer who have been a dev/pub for ages, and all four titles in the series are on Switch.
December 5, 2024 at 11:44 AM
It depends somewhat on where you class 'major' as starting, since it's certainly not an AAA high-profile title, but Fitness Boxing tends to quietly get to over a million sales regularly, is from Imagineer who have been a dev/pub for ages, and all four titles in the series are on Switch.
There's now a HOW TO USE tab, which also includes a quick-'n'-dirty mid-solve example crossword you can play with.
December 3, 2024 at 3:41 PM
There's now a HOW TO USE tab, which also includes a quick-'n'-dirty mid-solve example crossword you can play with.
...that's *far* more sensible than what I was doing!
December 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
...that's *far* more sensible than what I was doing!