James Arthur

I got a Steam Deck at the end of 2023 and it‘s one of the best things I‘ve bought. I’ve played more games in 2024 than the previous few years combined. So rather than list my top games of 2024 here’s a list of ALL the games I’ve played last year, almost all on the SD… 🧵

Not now, Something

Stand by for a DATABLAST! Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine! Or read very, very fast! 😅 #VideoBytes

🧪 Check out this very interesting thread of @altmetric.com mentions of papers on twitter vs bluesky. Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter. #פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

Late to the party but finally reading Matthew Ball’s state of the industry and man alive, there are some eye-opening slides in there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪

Just another day.

I used to think this episode was a bit too weird but here we are in 2025

Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop?

This is a great read

🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌 Glad to see this step toward more good news!

We are only days away from a Temu Grok

Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative" After playtesting:

Horrendous day. I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections #ubisoft

Here’s the researcher who studied rats driving cars. Long after they were very familiar with the cars and how they worked, the rats would use the cars even when they’re weren’t necessary to get to a treat. theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

'Critter Café X Lofi Girl - 'Chill Beats for Serving Treats' 🍰 Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership. Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW... #crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames

Share if you’re Gen X and you grew up: - Licking lead paint off the walls - Drinking leaded gasoline straight from the pump - Chewing on a big bar of lead whenever you were bored And you turned out fine!!!!

oh my god #TheTraitors

Thanks, Tim!

I feel like there’s something similar going on in games, except the dominant phrase is “the data says this genre of game will find a market” instead of “this is fun, people might like this”

Just turned on Big Jet TV. First 30 seconds he disses the mainstream tv broadcasters for only planning to turn up at his spot after dawn when there’s something to actually see, then says “it’s like the Somme out there”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=egwa...

Like a boss

Total worth of the UK games industry in 2024: GBP£4.6bn

‘A Simple Ban on Political Lying Could Radically Transform Our Politics’ Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/a...

75% of the way through Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and the schtick is wearing thin…

Reminder that the bluesky app lets you do this

It seems like a small W but it’s one that will improve lives. Still more to do but it will make renting in the UK suck slightly less.

The abandoned ending of Predators (2010) "A ship lands, smoke comes out, Predators start walking out, you’re entirely f***ed. You don’t have a chance (...) These guys are coming out, the smoke clears, [one of them] pulls off his helmet, and it’s Schwarzenegger."

If NASA failed at this rate there would be protests to cut the budget..... Failure in science and engineering is inevitable, but the private tech approach of "move fast and break things" (not to quote the berg) has very questionable ethics given the resources required for space faring. 🔭🧪🚀

URGENT: AI Consultation Survey. Help Association of Illustrators respond to Copyright & Artificial Intelligence UK Gov consultation. AI developers want free legal access to all creators' content online unless you 'opt out'. We believe this is unfair & unworkable www.surveymonkey.com/r/ai_consult...

Judging by user reviews, the average Steam user believes that an Early Access game should be fully complete and stable, while complete and stable games should be constantly updating and adding new experimental features. I think something has gone wrong here.

Something many of us know but still it's useful to have it rigorously established and formalized in this manner:

Assassin's Creed devs seeing this: GODDAMMIT

azhdarchid.com/why-cant-you...

This is about as embarrassing as when people said the Silicon Roundabout was a rival to Silicon Valley