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Video Game Developer, dabbler in various dark arts (astronomy, light bulb replacement, napping), model railway enthusiast.

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Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

14.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 3541 πŸ” 1077 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a pity there's no convergence like that of the underground and overground near Wimbledon Common. Would set up some great memes :)

12.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I liked the idea of the ammo crafting in NV but it was over complicated and the different types/calibres were confusing to a non gun nut. The end-game plot choices were a bit crappy too.
Fallout 3 felt more free to roam and explore. Also a bit more of the Fallout atom punk style.

08.02.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Dwarf Lab's New Dwarf Mini Smart Telescope Telescopes are getting smaller. It’s strange to think: smartscopes have been with us for over half a decade now. Since 2020, we’ve tested units from Vaonis, Unistellar and more. In a short time, these...

It’s strange to think: smartscopes have been with us for a half a decade+ now. In a short time, they've revolutionized amateur astronomy. We had a chance to put Dwarf Lab’s new Dwarf Mini through its paces.

Here’s our review @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/rev...

05.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Stephenson's Rocket locomotive, tender and coach. Built out of Lego using 1970 style blue rail era bricks.
Coach has a switch on top as it's built on the 4.5V motor and includes a Li-ion battery.

Stephenson's Rocket locomotive, tender and coach. Built out of Lego using 1970 style blue rail era bricks. Coach has a switch on top as it's built on the 4.5V motor and includes a Li-ion battery.

Another random Lego trains post. I made Stephenson's Rocket (and power coach) 70s blue rail style.

10.01.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. It’s because I finally had a clear sky during daylight to test my Dwarf Mini in sun mode. So the sunspots all hid.

21.12.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15.12.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 198 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Does this also mean you see a modern electric or diesel loco and immediately exclaim "What devilish trickery is this?!"

08.12.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Side view

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Side view

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Front view

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Front view

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Side view

Lego Class 23 Baby Deltic locomotive in British Rail blue. Side view

Taking a slight rail diversion into Lego trains with my own MOC of a Class 23 Baby Deltic (using only parts up to the early 80s for blue rail 4.5v Lego)

25.10.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why you should leave X A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

πŸ”΄ NEW - Why you should leave X

Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.

πŸ“ latest Substack πŸ‘‡πŸ»

14.09.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 1539 πŸ” 566 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 72

Also the Pee Tapes summit

16.08.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time to bring back the word Pseud :)

08.08.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really enjoyed the F1 Movie. Definite Hollywood level suspension of reality required to watch it. But still really fun to watch. Think F1 on alternate timeline stuff :)

25.06.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a classic example of MIMO. Moron In, Moron Out.

21.06.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€πŸ’₯🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

19.06.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 5174 πŸ” 719 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 42

Poison the well. Host enough toxic material (random garbage, entire books that are just the word la repeated etc.) in such a way that the bots can happily scrape it, but it won't be served to the users and they'll stop recognising it as a valid source of training. That or just get more stupid.

18.06.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Supposedly one of the rules for any of the Guinness 'biggest food thing' records is that the food mustn't be wasted. If I were the previous record holder I'd be putting in a complaint.

18.06.2025 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who came back to the hobby after the initial eurogame β€˜change’ I tend to think of it all as β€œmodern board games” vs old. There’s still some bangers in the old stuff but you have to go into them remembering it was a very different era.

17.06.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Panel One: A man is playing with iPhone Clean up feature, erasing an unwanted object that appears in the background of a picture of his cat. He says β€œI like this Apple photos Clean Up feature! You can disappear the annoying things in a photo!”
Panel Two: The man sits up in his chair and says β€œWait a second, this gives me a great idea for a Vision Pro app! We can see he has a Vision Pro on the messy table behind him,
Panel Three: A few weeks later… The man is viewing his room through his Vision Pro goggles, and reaches out to remove a household cleaner bottle from the kitchen counter. It’s disappears. He says β€œOMG, It works!
Panel Four: He continues looking around the room. It is clean and tidy. He says β€œIt’s perfect!”
Panel Five: We pull back to reveal the man standing in his room, wearing the VR goggles. In reality, the entire place is a pig stye, full of clutter and garbage, dirty dishes, dirty rags, boxes of papers, empty bottles and dirty coffee cups, old bowls of food, popcorn and dirt on the rugs. He says β€œ Clean Up for Vision Pro! Finally a killer app!”

Panel One: A man is playing with iPhone Clean up feature, erasing an unwanted object that appears in the background of a picture of his cat. He says β€œI like this Apple photos Clean Up feature! You can disappear the annoying things in a photo!” Panel Two: The man sits up in his chair and says β€œWait a second, this gives me a great idea for a Vision Pro app! We can see he has a Vision Pro on the messy table behind him, Panel Three: A few weeks later… The man is viewing his room through his Vision Pro goggles, and reaches out to remove a household cleaner bottle from the kitchen counter. It’s disappears. He says β€œOMG, It works! Panel Four: He continues looking around the room. It is clean and tidy. He says β€œIt’s perfect!” Panel Five: We pull back to reveal the man standing in his room, wearing the VR goggles. In reality, the entire place is a pig stye, full of clutter and garbage, dirty dishes, dirty rags, boxes of papers, empty bottles and dirty coffee cups, old bowls of food, popcorn and dirt on the rugs. He says β€œ Clean Up for Vision Pro! Finally a killer app!”

A killer app for Vision Pro! www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/jo...

13.06.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It can't even beat an Atari 2600 at Chess on easy mode at the moment.

11.06.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah right. Thanks for the clarification. With all the β€œThis is an XBox” PR they’ve been doing for XBox Cloud play the immediate assumption was that it just streamed like any other portable/desktop/phone/fridge and was equally bad :)

08.06.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah right. So it is a proper portable XBox then?

08.06.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So is it just streaming XBox cloud games or actually playing them offline locally? Because if you have to be tethered to good broadband to play you might as well have an Xbox and a proper size TV.

08.06.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
"Let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools even though I personally don't have a kid in school. It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people." -- John Green

"Let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools even though I personally don't have a kid in school. It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people." -- John Green

08.06.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
View of O Gauge Inglenook layout from the sidings end with freshly laid and glued ballast.

View of O Gauge Inglenook layout from the sidings end with freshly laid and glued ballast.

Now waiting for glue to dry.

08.06.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
O Gauge β€˜Inglenook sidings’ layout with track being glued down. Viewed from sidings end with a Terrier 0-6-0 in the middle siding.

O Gauge β€˜Inglenook sidings’ layout with track being glued down. Viewed from sidings end with a Terrier 0-6-0 in the middle siding.

Finally got some pva glue and ballast to properly lay the track on my O Gauge layout (repost as forgot alt text)

07.06.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Was digging through my files and rediscovered my old Totally True D&D Facts memes (which are all 100% true) and decided to clean them up a bit.

05.06.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

It's the programmer equivalent of "No plan survives first contact with the enemy" :)

Often first responded to by the coders with "You did what?!"

03.06.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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25.02.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 103820 πŸ” 19059 πŸ’¬ 1329 πŸ“Œ 659

@nothoodlum.bsky.social πŸ‘‰πŸ»

31.05.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0