There’s definitely a Rubicon crossing point when it comes to dunking a biscuit where there’s no way you can turn back from here.

Was he involved in that Jaffa Cakes legal dispute, then?

Deus Ex 1 NPC vibes.

Philosophy would be a remarkable job. Imagine pausing your workday of deciphering time as a qualitative multiplicity because it’s time for a sandwich and a cup of tea.

Through my kitchen window at 5:30 this morning I saw Mercury, Saturn and Mars in a neat triangle, tucked together. A temporary constellation that shimmered vividly. It is easy to be in awe of our solar system.

No, I don’t usually record! I just play covers in party bands mostly. I am recording guitar parts for Gilt, though!

One marriage proposal and two comments about my toes/feet that I will not be repeating here. Yes, I was wearing shoes. No, I don’t understand it either.

Me and my friends were PC only kids out in the middle of nowhere. No consoles, no arcade access, so anything was magical to us. That’s why I say I can’t separate my judgement from the setting.

I bring my own lighting so you KNOW I don’t hold back with the ~drama~

Me wearing a brown corduroy jacket and waistcoat, holding a guitar in coloured lights, making a stupid face.

Had to wear a thrift shop outfit for my gig on Saturday night so I picked brown corduroy jacket + waistcoat and flared jeans and kept making Disco Elysium Expressions.

Raptor for me mostly exists as an artefact of a specific time and place, having good times with good people. The quality of the game itself is kind of hard to separate from that nostalgia for me.

I mean the DOS port of Silpheed is better than Xenon 2 and that came out the same year.

Yes, time thins as I move through it, like air when climbing a mountain. I can barely catch my breath at this altitude. I doubt it will get better.

People talk about Xenon 2 like it’s the best DOS shmup and it’s the most baffling thing to me.

It’s like getting bad news at the doctor’s office when you thought you had dealt with all of this nonsense.

It’s amazing how a thing can just get worse!

What a read.

My Windows 11 laptop wakes as if from a fever. It is confused, disoriented. It wonders what it is doing awake, why anybody should have to work while sick like this. What has gone wrong with its life that it can’t take time off to recover from the terrible illness that plagues it?

They looked in a little goblin cave and it was hung up on the wall

Not sure wtf @awesomonster.bsky.social is doing hanging around in the game I’m playing.

A few previews of Gilt in motion: ben304.blogspot.com/2026/04/devl...

One of these nice effects just caused me to create a bug so annoying that I wasted 2 hours trying to find it, I have to lay down and think about waterfalls to recover.

That’s such a bizarre choice. I love it.

Reminder to share with your friends who love a Weird City, and to the rest of your friends who just don't know it yet

Thanks Vince :)

Thanks Vince! I just crop the top of the sprite off and shift it up. The mind does a surprisingly decent job of telling itself that the foot is being occluded by the angle of incidence being lower in z-order. It’s imperfect but it works well enough for my needs.

Both are on my list, for sure! It is just a long list - no doubt everybody’s is, these days. We live in a rich deluge!

Thank you very much!

Cheers Ben! (And nice to see you on here too!)

Thank you very much!