Matthew Bloch

Reading Murder On The Orient Express, confused for about 2s when I thought it had gone all Inception on me.

I made another Claude assisted thing. It was still a good 6+ weeks of work and probably not possible without it. Squeezing 210K of arcade ROM, with hardware tiles and sprites, down into my beloved BBC Master. 1942! bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/... #bbcmicro #retrogaming #arcade

So the security of quite a lot of web sites was hanging off 2 × D16s?

“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) was entirely improvised. The director James Cameron liked it so much he kept the movie in the movie.

A real writer wouldn't blame his editor. Instead he should shake his head, sigh and say "once again, my less attentive readers are missing the larger point I was making" without clarifying in any way.

Someone stopped me in the street and asked if I was @nerdcubed.co.uk! Sure, if he'd had a hard decade and made some permanent mistakes with a crimper.

Whoa, cowboy! hold your horses. I'm your pal - Bart Stutton - and I'm all about selecting the option you want! When you've practised I'll introduce you to my cousin - she's Russian - but that Stef Tlick, she knows all about moving from option to option. Between us, we'll get you into a game in no ti

Anyway, let's enjoy the original ending of Little Shop, about how America is a stupid country full of grasping consumerist jerks.

Orly's Draw-A-Story is a beautifully-animated & voiced kids CD-ROM title from 1997, made by Greg Johnson & Mark Voorsanger who did ToeJam & Earl. I made a patch so it works on Windows again. Try it on your kids! Let me know if anything breaks, I'll try to keep it working: github.com/matthewbloch...

Genuinely: who do I have to talk to if I want to be an IGF judge? I want to so bad, I'm sure I know someone who can tell me more, or know someone who knows someone? Reposts appreciated, my DMs are open (I think).

The yoga studio has just changed the names of all its classes and I don't think anyone there would appreciate my immediate response

Been teaching myself Unreal and built this moody office scene while learning the basics of lighting, VFX, camera control, animation, cinematics, and blueprints. Wanted to make it feel convincingly cluttered and lived-in, which involved placing 600+ props by hand. Sound up for maximum atmosphere.

Orly's Draw-A-Story is a beautifully-animated & voiced kids CD-ROM title from 1997, made by Greg Johnson & Mark Voorsanger who did ToeJam & Earl. I made a patch so it works on Windows again. Try it on your kids! Let me know if anything breaks, I'll try to keep it working: github.com/matthewbloch...

Took a day off to organise the house, so naturally I'm now 2hrs into resurrecting 1997 edutainment title Orly's Draw-A-Story for modern Windows 🙃

Sean living his best life

These are the games I played with all the best people (via my9games.net/en/edit)

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

I’m all for a bit of library sounds ASMR, but this is… well…?

Have you seen my snooker table, Doris? No farmer Griffiths. I haven't seen any snooker tables at all this morning.

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Very pleased and excited to see that this generation of anti-smoking ads are going with the Cronenberg angle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhr...

This is the route Rockstar should have taken

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

Well blow me down, the sociologist defending the racist professor (sorry I mean academic freedom) is really into AI for classifying people (sorry, survey efficiency), and thinks the supreme court has been *perfectly* clear on gender. If that means nothing to you, be thankful, go free, enjoy life.

My post-punk playlist has obliquely reminded me that I won an in-house competition for best bookseller anthem with the suggestion “(When I Think About You) I Dust My Shelf”

Richard Tice looks like Richard Madeley's Wario

My brain still translates all alarm noises into this 30yo Spitting Image sketch youtu.be/CNJ4LEcZ4ak?...

He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

Just run this and you can forget about every Microsoft innovation since about 2008 github.com/Raphire/Win1...

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Christ, also a lesson for people implementing web service signup forms 😬

I enjoyed Everything Everything closing Deershed like the headmaster in this Fry & Laurie sketch youtu.be/zxru0HDs5_g?...

this is a good game

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space