Ben
gamer, bad movie enjoyer, amateur chef, professional computer nerd, occasional adventurer
- Best nights sleep in two weeks / most hideous day at work, the pattern is always the same.
- Oh Virgo 🫤 pretty sure an old theatre buddy was lighting an exhibition he was at not long ago, and as the article notes he was commentating The Masters like two weeks ago. Crazy. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
- Peaceful orange war-monger butthurt that creating global trade turmoil causes others to desire less trade with him. FAFO? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- I don't understand my new Fitbit. How can it simultaneously want me to exercise 5 out of 7 days and achieve 10k steps/day while throwing messages about going too hard... pick a lane man.
- The BBC keep using this phrase which feels a weirdly short time period to keep repeating until you remember we had the revolving door of like 20 Tory PMs in that time.
- Spicy pillow 🔥
- Smoke weed every day?
- Plumbing tonight; new taps and tails.
- Wrote some code yesterday that worked but was a bit inflexible and unsatisfying. Decided to sleep on it and maybe refactor. Triumphant this morning like "oh I can do this and this and this yes yes this is brilliant I'm a genius this is so elegant" 😂😭
- Substituting dry January for sad January 🥲
- Trying to get back in to Deathloop after like a year and forgot to switch it in to single player, so got melted by a player and sent back to start of the day before I'd even remembered the controls 😭
- Been watching some early Murder She Wrote and I feel like there should be a supercut of our Jess addressing people as "child" in a southern drawl that comes out of nowhere.
- Randomly loaded up Blinx the other day, promptly fired a bomb at myself and fell through the floor 😂 at least retry minimizes the inconvenience.
- The photo of Trump beaming as he receives "his" Nobel peace prize is belly-achingly hilarious and distressing at the same time. What a baby. Just a nucleur-armed baby. You could mesmerize him by jingling your keys.
- Morons Frend Set Rasperry FlavoWogurt?
- My love of MST3K is well documented, and I was really taken with Demon Squad when they covered it. A remarkable film for "no" budget. I liked it so much I helped crowdfund the follow up, Tooth & Claw. Finally got to watch it just before Xmas and it's great. Seek it out. youtu.be/iGywkUeLFtA...
- Halo 2 E3 2003 "demobitch" running on real hardware in my living room. Was starting to think we'd never get this one... I may have wept a tiny bit, my white whale at last.
- Whoever leaked these Halo builds was clearly having fun writing the readme 😂 Getting ready to set the Xbox up so checked for Cerbios updates, blows my mind the latest release was in the last month... for a 25 year old console 🥲
- Jesus Mary and Joseph did I somehow miss the Halo 2 E3-ish builds on pstencil leaked at the end of December??? Time to get the 128mb Xbox out 🤩 tcrf.net/Proto:Halo_2...
- Hidden Palace New Years stream soon, something PC? Worth reading this article for the adventure they had dumping the Shadow proto disc from Xmas, really technically interesting.
- Hidden Palace's holiday streams never fuck around. Happy Sonic-mas to all who celebrate, some great stuff in here. youtu.be/hECnWouq8Bo
- Good to see the RAC are still scummy as fuck. There's a checkbox to disable auto renewal but clicking it does literally nothing, similar UI if you log in to the website but there it does actually say you have to phone them... why even show the checkbox 😭
- I hadn't kept up with Adam The Woo but I binged his urbex stuff many years ago and would dip in to a vlog once in a while to see what he was up to. He just seemed like the nicest person, terribly sad to see he's passed away.
- Zampella had a golden touch. A great and shocking loss. www.theverge.com/news/849297/...
- Got this laptop battery and the sticker with the "DODOMORN" brand obviously stands out. Took another second to notice they'd also Sharpie'd over the word "Asus" everywhere it appears 😂
- Why does the Postman desktop app update like 3 times a day does HTTP change that much?
- Meteor shower outside is cool, saw 8 in ~5m just looking out the end of my garden.
- Anyone else had an Xbox Series X from launch day and keep it in power save mode? I've been noticing recently how LONG that boot takes, I'm sure it was way faster at launch? Am I going mad?
- Batgirl release when? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Slightly embarrassed my 2nd most listened is a nightcore version of Last Christmas but fuck it apparently I'm 24 🤷🏻♂️
- Why, according to Google Play, does my current phone (on which it is already running) not support the eBay app, but my 5yo phone does? Answers on a postcard?
- "people like you" feels like I'm being hate crimed
- Feel like I took so many screenshots during Double Fine's Keeper, it's a very pretty game with great vibes. I enjoyed it a lot.
- Counterpoint from someone who doesn't care about sport but used to work at a sports e-tailer: please buy fake shirts, the amount of money I saw changing hands every time a club had a new kit is obscene. Esp. once they introduced 3rd shirts, +50% to the take. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
- "Ctrl+' to open a terminal is fine, right?" /me screaming "I was just pasting a string" 10 times a day.
- Late to the party but KPop Demon Hunters is pretty freaking rad, did not expect to enjoy it so much. I might have to watch again. And damn sure I'm going to have that soundtrack on 🫡
