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  Coffee update: more coffee

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  I keep thinking of the problem of LLM companies scraping private websites to the degree that hosting costs make them to expensive to continue. At what point do we just kind of, move all the human stuff to a kind of dark-web situation?

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  I remember, years ago, watching Apple keynotes and, corpo-fap aside, often being excited for some new device or other. Have felt the complete opposite for basically a decade at this point. Yesterday I got my XTEiNK 4 Pro. A simple enough ePaper device. Had a play with it, nuked the OS and seamlessly installed CrossInk instead, turning it into a MUCH better device. That? That's the good feeling. The only good feeling a device can give me these days. When it lets me do what I want with it....

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  THE UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE! The only science fiction film which DARES ask the question... what if Martians were Aussies? Watch it now! https://youtu.be/XA_1cjceSDk

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  Someone over on Bluesky is modding Deck & Conn, reskinning it to make it Star Trek. So cool! Going to have to add proper modding at some point for them. https://bsky.app/profile/nwheeler.bsky.social/post/3muqzea6bls2a

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  Deck & Conn, my dieselpunk turn-based spaceship command game is OUT NOW on Steam! It's on Linux, macOS and Windows, with a 20% launch discount! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3828500/Deck__Conn/

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  I just noticed that in the new Naked Gun, they renamed the Crypto Dot Com Arena in LA to the Ponzi Scheme Dot Com Arena. A+ work

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  Starting to think there's more going on in this "Twin Peaks" town than I'd previously considered. 🤔

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  I made a short film! First time in 12 years. "Christmas Caltrops" is a black comedy about a lonely woman who gets a surprising visitor one morning after her wife goes out to work. (CW: Plenty of swearing) https://youtu.be/cY_BQQjEwsM

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  Quite a few friends of mine are academics, teaching in universities. One was just saying she hit a new low - not one student, not ONE in her tutorial had done the reading. All just read a chatGPT synopsis. She's utterly despairing, as the uni itself just makes motions to hand-wave it. They have to pass students, you see, to get their money. They can't just fail all of them. Or even most of them. It's gotten so bad she outright said "I honestly wouldn't trust a degree hande...

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  My self-education in slashers continues with the second part of tonight's double feature. It's already a lot less good than Halloween.

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  "There's a storm coming."

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  The problem with making things, is that when you're done the thing exists, and that's not always a good thing.

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  It's a Friday, meaning I want to throw all technology in a skip and go drink paint thinner at a bar.

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  Computers are not Computering correctly today. I may require a second coffee. Or to simply defenestrate all Computering Objects and return to the sea.

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  Me, watching A Bridge Too Far: "Y'know, I don't think this Operation Market Garden thing was a great idea, actually."

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  Finished my first re-read of The Hunt for Red October this century. I loved it when I first read it, and re-reading it now I see why: it's competence porn. Very smart people doing their jobs very well. A few stray thoughts (no spoilers for the book or the film adaptation) follow:

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  New partner last night: "I miss when the internet was a place you WENT to." I mean, it's a sentiment I've heard before but it was really lovely hearing it said by her.

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  A non-exhaustive list of things I hate this morning: * Discord Seriously, fuck Discord. I hate almost literally everything about it and I hope it enshittifies so much people stop using it. But, mostly, I hate that there's functionally no competition for it.

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  Re-watching Con Air as I work today. I love how '90s movies so often, no matter how absurd their core premise or plot got, played it dead serious, without the post-Whedon wink-and-a-nod to the audience that modern flicks feel obliged to include out of insecurity.

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  My re-watching-Con-Air hot take: The Fairchild C-123 Provider is a fucking beautiful plane.

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  (BTW due to my AI-sucks averaging-machine blog post going viral my mentions are all over the place right now, so apologies if I miss an @ from someone. I'll come back to check on it once things slow down a bit.)

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  Anyway, now seems a good time to show prototype 4, or [sekrit project]. I posted some hints about it months ago, but since then I've been spending my spare time and most weekends working on it. Art by the amazing @marceles_pixel and myself. #GameDev #IndieDev

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  I've pushed Dungeons of Freeport 1.0.10 up to the open beta branch on Steam. A small bug fix in this one, and some new work I've been doing on the aesthetics of certain dungeons. Pretty happy with the results but it needs a bit of testing. And just a reminder - #DungeonsOfFreeport, my play-once-a-day classical roguelike extraction game, is still 30% off on Steam and Itch! And you can even play it on 64-bit Raspberry Pis from itch. Just a reminder - if you own it on steam and...

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  Today's background watching while working on Deck & Conn:

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  Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year. It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets. https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

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  Welcome to 2026. Your average morning headlines: - That TV show you love is cancelled - That celebrity you like is, unfortunately, a transphobe - Record storm and/or heatwave somewhere in the world - Computers are worse & more costly than even one day before - Cat photos tho

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  Exciting personal news: I finished watching all 5 seasons of Miami Vice for some reason, including the Lost Episodes which I inserted so I got it all in roughly intended airing order. Ask me anything, I guess. Now I gotta watch another Miami-shot TV show I guess... (Yes, I've already seen all of Dexter & spinoffs, Burn Notice [which rules], Bad Monkey, RJ Decker and even Florida Man [which isn't great, and mostly isn't even filmed in Florida]. I don't count StartUp as it&#3...

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  So it looks like I'm releasing a video game AND directing a short film on my birthday tomorrow, unless something else goes wrong. Everyone cross fingers for me.

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  Typed 'bs' and hit enter expecting the usual auto complete to bsky to go over to Bluesky. Didn't quite autocorrect fast enough, but DuckDuckGo 100% gets what Bluesky is all about.