Tim Aidley

Yeah, this sounds about right. Not sure if Toon or Paranoia came first. In any case I don't remember a single game of either of them that didn't very quickly descend in to chaos.

So once, years ago, I was seeing this woman and it was late so we ordered some Mexican food. But the restaurant closed so the order was cancelled. Instead we choose Chinese food, and we were hungry so we put in some shameful orders.

Edward Fox has a great selection of cravats in 'Day of the Jackal' (1973)

I had a fess published a few years ago about how I couldn't connect with my lifelong pals cos all they wanted to do was booze and take coke. I told them how I felt, turned out they thought the same and now we climb Munro's on Sundays. Lads, talk to your pals.

I went to a Cheesecake Factory for the first time today, and I bet it was more fun before they started putting the calories on the menu.

I think this will be great. I used to work just off Oxford St, and it would have been wonderful to be able to just easily move between shops on opposite sides without having to do the Frogger thing.

American cities are getting left behind just like American automakers are.

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Attack of the Clones (2002)

I'm just going to sleep and my wife says: "Goodnight darling - I'll see you in Valhalla" and now I'm not sure what to think

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Completed this monster commission a couple weeks ago! All hand-painted, this vintage arcade cabinet is going to a good home soon. #indiegame #art #mural #gamedev

In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game along with a couple of colleagues, and called 'Hunt for the Red Baron'. I've always had a soft spot for it, and I've finally got a port of it that runs in the browser; have a look here: tim.aidley.com/projects/hun... Best played with mouse and keyboard

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

I think 20yr old me would be pretty pleased, but (and IIRC correctly this might depend on whether it was early or late 20) very concerned that I appeared to be a godless heathen.

Petition to add 'What was the first programming language you ever used?' in to the 2030 census

This is good news, but perhaps not for that particular cod, who looks distinctly unhealthly...

This makes me worry somebody is planning to put the Suez Canal out of commission.

Whenever someone mentions Charlie Kirk my brain sings it to the Charlie Chalk theme tune. youtu.be/kZOqLaxJVZE

well

I've been somewhat surprised that there is a specific AI art aesthetic (and I feel sorry for genuine artists who had that aesthetic beforehand) Why did AI illustrations settle on that thick outline, overly orange look?

Just wondering - where can one buy a bucket of owls?

I still feel pretty proud of the dishwasher repair I did a couple of years ago

GOD Wordpress is so annoying. To do anything but the very simplest page, you need loads of plugins and it's like pulling teeth getting any of them to work together.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

A new genre of fesshole confession just dropped

How did I get into server backend stuff? I used to have a simple static HTML website but some idiot hotlinked an image costing me bandwidth so I learned enough to serve his site's users Goatse and everyone else the legit image. That's how I got started with backend stuff.

Is there anything more useless than a Nextdoor earthquake alert?