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  A year ago we basically took over my Niece’s education (using actual tutors) because she was forced out of school due to bullying. The school would do nothing, the parent's didn't care and my Niece is not the kind of person to fight back. Yesterday my Niece tried to go shopping and the ringleader found her and got a bunch of girls to harass her until she could hide and call my sister to pick her up.

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  Not much, but a beginning

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  Received another Neo Geo Pocket Color, one of the best handhelds made. This one was cheap because it was missing the battery panels but I figured I could make those myself - turned out I didn’t need to, a couple of brilliant 3D designers had done it for me - and it works!

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  I have actually updated my personal website to mention my books - which is probably important to actually sell any https://www.johnnyblanchard.com

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  Explaining to my dog what a meeting is because she doesn’t seem to understand why she had to wait ten minutes to go and sniff the bit of the garden where a cat dared to stand

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  Camputers isn’t just a parody of the single most ridiculous retro hardware shoveler around, it’s also a t-shirt shop - and I’ve just added a couple of Blake’s 7 related garments to the Book, Film and Television category https://camputers.com/shop/

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  Here we are, the first Epoch Super Cassette Vision dev cartridge - because I know everyone was clamouring for it. Will release it soon (#opensource of course) #RetroGaming #IndieDev #RetroDev

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  We're all believers in free speech, but that doesn't give anyone the right to be a dick. On Mastodon, the fediverse gives us more control to help minimise the effects of people who use free speech to harm and abuse others. If your server admin won't help you, Mastodon gives you tools to move to a server that will. #noxp #SocialForThePeople

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  A productive bank holiday, progress on porting DoTT to Unity and now my head is rebelling from using a VR headset i'm back working on Terratoka. Battle AI is somewhat implemented. I've also done some of the magic work - each factions magic user has a different ability #IndieDev #ScreenShotMonday

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  Whilst I was joking with Chinny yesterday I actually don’t get anything from YouTube for my videos, nor much of the software I’ve made and none of the OpenSource / OpenHardware projects I’ve released. If you do want to help fund my work there’s my merch store at https://www.camputers.com or buy Gaming In the Obscure from my pinned post

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  I’ve just noticed that the vanity publisher I use for Gaming in the Obscure has stuck an extra £10 on to the price, looks like I’ll have to find a new publisher

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  This looks good, at least it fits in the SCV, the fingers are a little wide but shouldn’t be an issue. Positive and Negative are in the right place. When I get a chance I’ll try building one

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  I’m getting closer to understanding how to get animation working in Godot. Or rather, the animations I want because Mixamo will just fail to upload random FBXs. I’ve managed to get animations removed from FBXs and added to my models - but it seems a coin toss if you can edit the animation or not. I’m guessing I’m missing something

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  I am no longer 50, I am now “in my fifties”

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  A new Sharp X1 has arrived, it does show a picture but accompanied with the sound of a tortured fan and a whiff of burning components, so I’ll need to take a look in the PSU. It’s a lovely silver one though, and yes that’s a 3” drive

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  Well that was a surprisingly easy pass for Max, because it couldn’t be anything else because they’re definitely different teams #F1

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  I've had a bunch of weird errors trying to get my VR version of Halls of the Things working. So i've decided to change engine. I love Godot, but I don't think it's making my job easier here. I'd have loved to use Unreal, but the editor runs so slow on my MacBook - so Unity it is. I'm not especially fond of it but let's see. I've got much of the game working, I haven't properly tackled VR yet though, so this might be a h...

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  My new Speccy game, DunDeck, is available for $1 over on https://tonsomo.itch.io but you can now also download every version of Jurl and Mille for any price (including zero). I've also uploaded my MacOS screensaver that lets you use a folder of speccy SCR files, also free #IndieDev #RetroDev

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  A day off from work so i've started doing some work on my new game Terratoka - a simple strategy game / think a combination of Risk and Archon. Here's the first try at the overmap, randomly generated but I might try adding some textures to it

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  A rare non-Japanese delivery has arrived (1 of 2 today I think) 🧵

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  Second parcel has arrived - this was was an especially fast delivery given that I only won the auction on Tuesday 🧵

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  Danke schön Klaus, also for confirming the pitch on the Super Cassette Vision cartridge

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  Well, finally deactivated my Fiverr account. I found some great people on there before AI slop and scammers took over. I could navigate that and still find real musicians but with Fiverr refusing to do anything about a very obvious scammer it's obvious that's part of their business plan now.

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  I've now converted the react version of SCRN to Java and made a MacOS app, at some point i'll find a device to make a Windows and Linux version, or i'll just got the runnable class route, but anyway - it's up for pay what you want (including nothing) on https://tonsomo.itch.io/scrn. and, obviously, the web version is still available

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  Do I have anyone here I can commission to do a book cover? My normal artist, I think, is too busy at the moment and the poor guy will work himself to death rather than let anyone down.

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  I went over my content and realised I didn't have a playlist for French computers, so I made one. It's mostly about the EXL 100 because I have a deep love for that machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_zFVDuRcIM&list=PLtUQIrRochl_uA_dTb58EO25Z250vHv8w #RetroComputing

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  @Gammitin

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  Having watched another video saying Y2K wasn’t real - my standard clarification Did the media blow the situation up? Yes Was it a real issue? Also yes. The reason not much happened was because hordes of developers worked tirelessly to fix systems, I know, I was one of them. Trust me - stuff was going to break, I saw code for Banks, Hospitals and Mass transport and it was all going to fail

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  Wanker https://www.ebay.com/itm/167983949584

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  I know Jurl isn't the greatest game ever and i'm sure the high and mighty in the SMS community won't miss me, but i'll never release another game on the Master System. I found out today that the dick who downloaded my game from @itchio and gave it away is now selling it on cartridge The guy is well in with the pack and his actions seem to be both known and accepted. I charge £1 for Jurl - i'm hardly price gouging and that money helps me pay for anythin...