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A slightly clearer photo of the awards Chokepoint Creative took home from Game Republic awards at @gamayo.bsky.social last night. So proud of the team, it has been an amazing journey so far with them!

Yesterday I was kicked out of Wetherspoon. Not because I kicked off or anything, but because I’d brought my cat, (I’d just got off a train so stopped there for a rest break). No fault to them there, rules are rules. But I’m still angry with them for taking steak off the menu.

I’m thinking of taking my son to see the RSC stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro for his birthday next month. This is a surprise, but he’s 7 turning 8, so does not have a Bluesky account

I’m rewatching some mid series of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I’m loving the Ferengi episodes especially, but I’m so reminded of how Cop Landlords was the greatest joke in the entirety of Lower Decks, and that’s a very high bar to reach

I got sent my 7-year-old’s new math curriculum, and home support guidance so I made a Python program: generates multiplication & division problems, randomised encouragement, and XP to save for Robux or whatever. Couldn’t settle on a title, so I randomise from a list of 20… all thoroughly cringe.

So a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller can be persuaded to calculate and render out Mandelbrot using Python without too much bother at all

I am doing taxes this morning. I hope your day is more exciting than mine!

Playing Portal 2 in the evening shade on a Switch with a beer and my cat. Just like god intended

Happy international cat day to my beautiful adopted adult cat Jones I love the little shithead

I was chilling on the grass outside my house and I met this one just vibing

My Orange cat Jones. Captured with a Gameboy Camera

I think Uber might be having a bit of a wobble today. I got some refunds through for trips I rated 5* without asking. A driver didn’t show up, but picked someone else up across the city. And I got a pet uber that wasn’t communicated to the driver that I was bringing a cat. They were chill though

I’ve been watching the Alien movies recently for reasons. And I maintain that Alien3 is the finest movie in that series

Rabbit chilling in my park ❤️🐇

I genuinely must apologise to my parents. They were correct. The perfect bolognaise includes anchovies fillets Put them in mine tonight. It was a total game changer

I've been a little worried about my laptop today, it's been making really loud noises just doing basic things, like was it overheating? After searching for the issue for about 30 minutes, turns out that my house's water heater had kicked in.. 😭

Playing some Little Kitty Big City, and my own cat Tommy is intently focused on it

Eugh. I so need to deactivate my Twitter account. I keep on getting notifications of likes on my posts, but it's all bots, and they are ancient posts

I am loving using the Chinese app Xiaohongshu/RedNote that folks are flocking to It's so super wholesome, and I've mostly been using it for food recipes for which it has never failed to deliver!

Turned 41 yesterday. Grabbed a bottle of wine to share with my parents tonight - got carded at checkout. Apparently, I still pass for under 25? I'll take the win. 🍷😏

More Star Trek Voyager. Closing out season 4 now. Love that this new starship set is shamelessly redressed between scenes and has breakfast table stools appear for some shots for some reason

In my ongoing rewatch of Star Trek Voyager. I've noticed this ongoing running gag where in all the worst timelines, Neelix is in security. Either this means when the going gets tough, they get that desperate. Or you need to keep Neelix away from security at all cost! It will result in bad things!

I’ve been playing a bit of Indiana Jones, and some Half Life 2: Episode 2 in the downtime between Christmas and whatever comes after. And mother fuck. Tony Todd really is the best video game voice actor I’ll never get to work with. RIP legend

I woke up with a full glass of CndP wine waiting for me next to my bed. It was like drunk exhausted me was, yeah, you've got to rest crash for a couple of hours. But here's something to enjoy when you wake watching Doctor Who Unleashed. Which apparently is a thing that is called that on purpose

As it happens it was a 33 minute delay. I have been assured that when I arrive in York there will be a taxi waiting for me to complete the journey that I've otherwise missed my connection for

I love trains. Taking one now to my parents. It's had to halt for about 20 minutes around Durham. I get the caution, and it's a guy having a tough Christmas Eve on one of the big bridges, and I sympathise. Who doesn't have Christmas period trauma between any of us? I don't want that pain on anyone

Enough time's passed since Star Trek Lower Decks finished, I think is probs my favourite Star Trek (and I love them all). I'm thinking about how they brought back past characters really well. With standouts especially. And yet, they did not bring back Captain Shaw! And that is frankly unforgivable

Today I made my son's packed lunch, got him ready and walked him to school on time. Sometimes days when you get those tiny early small wins is all that matters

There were so many subtle references in the final Star Trek Lower Decks episode. Kobayashi Maru was *almost* name dropped. And I'm confident there was a Bynars reference (one of the TNG episodes I watched last night). I'm certain the spoiler state of grace has not expired yet, so I'll say no more

Just got the Christmas Tree up. The cats are so confused. They are curious, and kinda clinging onto me. But also very curious about it Real tree, Nordmann Fir. Love the smell I pray to God none of them pull it down overnight! 😆

Game development today has taken me out. Not bad, can't say good. But wow, some days are indeed days

Yeah questioning life decisions was on point. The game awards are so stupid! and I love it

I am currently questioning some of my life decisions, and also watching the Game Awards

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My son just pointed me towards the newest Skibidi Toilet episode, episode 77. And wow, the lore on this series has really gone places. Outstanding presentation

I haven't started the Indiana Jones game yet, just watched a bit of the Digital Foundry video, and is it just me or does the game somehow look incredibly "clean"? We've started to get too used to excessive post processing that adds this layer of gunk onto every frame, and this game seems to not