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trying once again to do an Unreal Engine tutorial all the way through

behold: road
One of the standard Unreal Engine mannequins, an shiny silver robot with a nice ass, stands in the middle of a two lane tarmac road stretching away into the distance. Either side of the road is an empty checkerboard pattern because I've only just started building this and haven't put anything there yet.
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Jonathan Gullis' head photoshopped onto a seagull From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Seagullis.jpg
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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past my bedtime, but look at the cute house i made in #OutsideTheBlocks
A screenshot of a small house diorama generated in the Outside The Blocks tutorial. A small red two-storey rustic barn-like structure with a steep curving green roof sits in a field, with heather growing in the foreground.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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For legal reasons, I must bring you a shrimped update
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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same spot today
A Google StreetView image of Victoria St in Manchester, with the Cathederal to the right being pretty much the only thing which is unchanged from the picture in the quoted skeet. Glass and steel skyscrapers dominate the new skyline, and the bridge over to what was Exchange Station now leads to a pair of very modern midrise office buildings
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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"There's a new word for a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, and I dunno, one of these I guess?"

Also, as a Yorkshireman, I'd just like to point out that TPUBLICAN is the person who pours your pint
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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gonna drop screenshots & pretend i'm a 1337 h4x0r
A screenshot of pg 26 of the OBR report. It has a graph of potential outpu growth and the text on the page says: Potential output, productivity, and labour supply 2.16 In our central forecast, potential output growth in 2029 is 0.3 percentage points lower than in March, at 1.5 per cent. This reflects a reduction in our forecast of underlying mediumterm total factor productivity (TFP) growth from 1.1 per cent in March to 0.8 per cent in this forecast. Our forecasts for capital deepening and labour supply growth in 2029 are broadly unchanged at 0.2 and 0.5 per cent respectively. We set out the reasoning for, and analysis behind, our new productivity assumption in Briefing paper No. 9: Forecasting productivity, published alongside this EFO and summarised in Box 2.1. 2.17 Our central forecast sees potential output growth slow from 1.8 per cent in 2025 to 1.3 per cent in 2026, before picking up to 1.5 per cent by 2030 (Chart 2.5). The slowdown next year partly reflects a further fall in levels of net migration, which affects labour supply and aggregate output but has a much smaller impact on output per person. Potential output growth picks up over the rest of the forecast thanks to a recovery in TFP growth, which rises from 0.3 per cent in 2026 to 0.8 per cent in 2030.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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"Occupied by the same family for 35 years" by the look of the main bedroom on the virtual tour, that family was The Blair Witch
The Main Bedroom on the virtual tour of the house. The 360 camera seems to have switched to a monochrome low light mode, and it's still almost pitch black.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This is gonna be so adorable when it's done
The house, sat on my windowsill
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Ok here's what I've been working on this week - I've seen a bunch of little festive houses in Lidl & thought they were almost cute, but looked too much like mass produced shit, so decided I'd make my own

This is probably like 4-5 hours work so far, & it's currently held together with masking tape
That mucky bit of plywood from my earlier posts, with the lines to cut marked again in pencil because the dirt made them hard to see. The graphite is catching the light, showing clear marks to cut. A little wooden house, with a steep shingled roof and a small porch. It is a model, sat on a workbench. The model house from the back. There's no porch on this side, and the roof overhangs much further, to shed snow (if this was a real building).
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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We continue

If you're wondering what wood stain I've used, it's dirt

I just rubbed some compost into the surface, and let's be honest; it looks good
A bit of plywood, with patterns cut into it
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Don't think there's any "probably" about it, because:
Gonâve Island has a population of about 87,000.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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i have had an idea
A piece of plywood with some rectangles and triangles marked on it, without any explanation
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Ok then
A sunflower, still trying to bloom despite it being very much November right now
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Just sayin' maybe part of the reason people want to leave is too many appalling cunts like Matt Goodwin
Matt Goodwin talking some shit, & trying to drum up some outrage clicks. Who even cares what he's saying?
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Also, this, lmao
A comment from the article linked in the quoted tweet, by Cowen. It says: "I visited Nvidia earlier this year. They were great. They were great to me. They’re super smart, but it just felt so different from walking the floor of OpenAI. I’m sure you’ve been to Nvidia. People read Twitter less. At least on the surface, they’re less weird. What is that intangible difference in the hardware world that one has to grasp to do well in it?" I have highlighted the bit about people reading less Twitter and being less weird.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Golly I wonder who will be held responsible when this thing definitely makes mistakes on a bunch of people's tax submissions? Probably Intuit and OpenAI, right? Probably the people responsible for the tool, right?

They certainly wouldn't hold individual people responsible & fine/sue them, right?
Padme Amidala, trying to laugh because she's sure that the thing she just heard wasn't bad, it couldn't be bad, right?
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Maduro is a shit, no question

But I also think the US has absolutely no right to start a war with Venezuela over it

Especially since, uhhhhh, Bret Stephens' justifications also accidentally make the case for overthrowing the Trump regime:

(unpaywalled link here archive.is/202511181444... )
A screenshot from the NYT article of the reasons Bret Stephens thinks the Maduro regime should be overthrown, literally 100% of which are also things the Trump regime has done. It reads: "Is there a moral case for regime change? Outside of North Korea, few governments have produced more misery for more of their own people than Venezuela’s. Starvation, political brutality, corruption, social collapse, endemic violence, collapse of the medical system, environmental catastrophes — the only thing more shocking than the self-destruction of this once-rich country is the relative indifference to the catastrophe"
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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My sunflower, earlier, still trying to have a go. We had a frost last night, & might even get a bit of snow later this week. Buddy I admire your commitment but I don't think it's gonna work out for you
A sunflower in the sun, steadily coming into bloom despite the fact that the days are starting to get cold now
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Just staring at this graph & going "Clearly our problem is not that our policies are unpopular, but that we need to do them even harder" over and over again, multiple times a day, every day, for well over a year
The graph from https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/ showing a summary of the popularity of the main politicial parties in the UK. Labour in particular starts high and have then just steadily shit the bed for the past year.
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Dear Pete Hegseth,

These all sound like gay porn
A tweet from Pete Hegseth listing the codenames of all his big dumb military operations: OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER = Obliteration of Iranian nuclear sites OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR = Destroy Narco-Terrorists killing Americans @POTUS Trump means business and the world knows it. Peace Through Strength.
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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wandered up to Heptonstall through the woods, then back down via Hell Hole Rocks, and saw Slanting Rock for the first time in years
A view of the Mytholm area of Hebden Bridge, from a hilltop. It's autumnal and cloudy A sandstone cliff face on a rainy day A large sandstone rock, leaning over alarmingly
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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some pics from my walk earlier

lichens didn't used to grow like this when i was younger, so air quality must be getting better
A lichen growing on the branch of an oak tree. The octagonal Methodist chapel at Heptonstall. The oldest Methodist chapel in continuous use in the world, partially designed by John Wesley. A stone archway lintel with the date 1578. The ruins of the church of Thomas à Becket in Heptonstall.
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM