Willard Foxton

I mean they did a doctor who regeneration on the ayatollah

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

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getting serious replies to my Travis Kelce jokes so here are the facts of the case:

has Kelce's play dropped off: yes

is Kelce good enough to keep playing in the NFL: also yes

should Kelce keep playing football after the world's wealthiest, most popular musician wrote a song about his penis: no

The gender ratio (when I last reported on this, like...7 years ago) was something like 120:100 in China, although it was coming down as basically everyone realised there were loads of hidden births and unregistered women in the countryside.

I think it's still a real social problem in China, at least. Exacerbated by the phenomenon of "Er Nai", wealthy men having multiple mistresses they fund in a semi-legal arrangement.

Single men are known as "bare branches" - Guang gun, or sometimes called "leftover men" and it's a whole thing.

We’re going see some properly tsarist “the markets are unpatriotic” shit when trump wakes up aren’t we?

Very productive evening, finishing the last (kinda) buildings for my Montcornet table ahead of HoL this sat. The townhall is a placeholder as the real town hall scratch build is delayed (I made it too large..). All are 3d prints that are reentered etc. Plus painted 30ft of latex road!

Impossible! I have very much missed you from twitter btw

Blimey thats awful, people are so horrid!

Swear to god. Guy looked like a Ricky Gervais sketch character too.

Occasionally I come across interesting AI use case & think "oh that's a good deployment of machine learning" eg a guy using it for making spreadsheets for his kickstarter fulfilment data.

Then I see an AI guy on linkedin saying he's just like a farmer because "soil automates the value in plants"

if there's one thing missing from modern gaming stuff for my palate it's the love and attention and creativity that goes into all of the immersive extras. scratchbuilding my own stuff is what got me started in making models for a living

show games like this ftw, boo to flat generic tables!

I interviewed a woman who was set on fire with napalm and she said (sort of joking but sort of not) “it was good practice for childbirth”

Sounds mad to say but I loved WORST CLUB EVER and CREATION MYTH, precisely because both were so outside my experience abd comfort zone

We should! Would be great. I can come down your way too, can just be something small:)

Btw! I miss seeing you! Would love to get a game or a pint in soon

I think THE AUDIENCE prefers audio. The algorithm and the advertising prefers video

Basically I think a lot of people are going to run right off that cliff of the money bleeding out when the organic growth plateaus, and then they’ll fall like the coyote in roadrunner when the YouTube shifts the algo

I really think the audio industry has done an incredibly dumb Faustian pact with video because the discovery is better, but I am SURE:

a.) those platforms will turn on them because they always do;

b.) the organic growth from algorithmic video will not make up for the increased cost of production;

Saw a video podcast where the audio mix was just absolutely horrible.

Now, I am an audio guy, BUT I’m also a total philistine idiot who used to insist our engineers listen to things on a car speaker through Apple Podcasts at 1.5x speed (ie like a real audience).

So trust me, this was SHITTY.

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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Can’t believe you mogged clavicular

(Hunger Games is *exactly* 100k words btw which feels like it was a target or max because it’s so dialled in)

I agree with Marie here and ALSO think a lot of fiction is just a touch too short because of these conventions.

90k max is where most genes sit now and thats shorter than the Hunger Games which is a *short* book.

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Possible it's a Coot. I can tell you it's an Akula class sub but I know boats not birds:)

Maybe you're too cool to be involved with model boats, but that probably means you've never seen a Russian submarine being chased by an angry Moorhen:)

Just unbelievably embarrassing

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding a copy of The Hedge Knight by George RR Martin

Photo of Dexter Sol Ansell, a young actor of maybe 10 years, dressed as his character, Egg. Costume consists of a set of grey robes and a shaved head. He is holding his school bag and smiling.

If you need a timeline cleanse you should know that Dexter Sol Ansell who plays Egg on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms went to school as Egg for World Book Day.