Andy Hodgetts

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@Nickenstein79 @rj_pz @mashpotassium @Batsphinx Lol, yeah. I've seen a few of these things now where there are vast chunks where stuff is just seemingly made up :D

@rj_pz @CaptainBinky @mashpotassium @Batsphinx When a historian writes your biography from scratches in the sand... Behold: Blinky and the Cow-Dron! :D youtube.com/watch?v=ClRSdd…

@thetooncentre I know we played well with 10 men but steady on ;)

Osula out on loan, Isak out the door we can absolutely cook in our 4-2-2 🔥😂 #NUFC #NUFCFans ⬛⬜

@JamesSlate98898 @BoughtonRed @bensmithppc And Newcastle say the same, so ought to walk for the same reason. That neither has so far, to me, speaks to both clubs desperation to sign a striker.

@JamesSlate98898 @BoughtonRed @bensmithppc The moment he declares a preference, the other party withdraws immediately. Frankly, the fact that he's not prepared to risk it publicly with Man U ought to make them walk given their supposed stance on only taking people who really want to be there.

I’m not saying we don’t want him but I can’t help thinking we’re being slightly used. No United offer, no Sesko answer so there’s nothing really to talk about from our POV. If NUFC feel like they can get this done then do it.

@JamesSlate98898 @BoughtonRed @bensmithppc The only way this delay makes any sense to me is if he privately prefers Man U, but knows that Man U cannot make the bid without sales or convincing Højlund to leave as part of the trade and wants to keep Newcastle as a backup.

@BoughtonRed @bensmithppc you see i think this is the danger though from sesko's side. he seems to think he has forever to wait for you guys to potentially step in and make a bid but so far that hasn't happened. from our side we aren't prepared to wait around much longer hence the 48 hour deadline we set

@mode7games The 90s were peak-crazy for the entire industry. Kind of ridiculous to single out the journalists as if the rest of the industry was all suits and professionalism ;)

Poisonous nonsense. I'm eternally grateful to the journalists who went out of their way to cover obscure indie stuff in the early days - without that coverage I wouldn't have a career.

@Mike_Batt I don't disagree. But really the entire system is ultimately unjust and in order to have influence, people need to listen so there's a big old collective responsibility element here too. It'd be nice if we were better recognising nonsense ;)

@CaptainBinky I myself spent millions of pounds on TV ads to make Katie Melua famous. So I understand your reasoning . I guess in politics it’s a question of scale. There has to be a tipping point where it becomes unjust to buy influence. Corrupt, immoral, even.

OK @elonmusk I AGREE that FREE SPEECH (albeit a loose description) is desirable/essential. But should PAID (NOT FREE) SPEECH be entitled to more attention than FREE speech? In other words, should the rich have louder voices? Should one be able to buy influence? Because that’s what you are doing.

The Zomboid community raised OVER £17,000 for @SpecialEffect! 🥳 Thank you to all of the fantastic content creators involved and to those of you that donated! I'd also like to say a HUGE thank you to the team at @theindiestone who MATCHED your donations to raise this total! 🤯

@notch Woah woah woah, don't be hasty - is it even really a videogame if half the render time budget doesn't go on the sky?

Then after that I spent the day reading up on rayleigh scattering and came up with a perfect solution: artist controlled lookup texture. Not sure why I was trying to implement sky colors from first principles, but it sure was interesting to think about.

Talked to the fellas at the office. Looks like we're making Levers and Chests! Tipping point was PC Gamer saying it seemed interesting, lol. Yeah I still love PC Gamer.

@PCGamesN More accurately, it's "Legally Distinct Craft".

Notch has "basically announced" he's making Minecraft 2.

@notch Not being funny but it sort of sounds like you are discovering the concept of actual real friends ;)

So I'm doing this experiment where I try to be as honest with myself as I can and openly invite people into joining in on the fun. The terms are basically, if they really, truly feel like something is true after thinking about it while truly feeling like their mind is not stressed, they should be willing to admit it if asked. We are friends, we should be honest. I will not hang with you if you don't do it. I'll see how long i manage to keep up that nonsense, but the experiment is to see how long I can do it. And maybe it's good. I might be misguided and accidentally creating a cult, but so I'm announcing this so I can get feedback through the usual means (social media is bad, pffft) and to also open myself up to receiving question that I can practice being honest about. Just please don't ask a genuine question about something super embarrasing, or my experiment will be embarrassingly short.

@notch Spiritual successor to The Amazing Adventures of Mr F. Lea, please.

Honest and legitimate request for feedback for once: The new game I'm passionately working on is currently set to be a traditional roguelike (i.e. ADOM, nethack, etc) mixed with a tile based first person dungeon crawler (ie Legend of Grimrock (esp 2), Eye of the Beholder) But then I gots to thinking that maybe there are people who like my work but might not share my taste in retro nostalgia and would prefer for me to make a spiritual successor thing to Minecraft, and I mean sure, I'd take that cash. So market research. I'd be happy to oblige either, which one would make you happier?

Build 42 UNSTABLE has arrived for #ProjectZomboid! Find out what's in it, what's coming soon, and how you can join in the testing here: projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2024…

@nosebleedgames I approve of the literal North-South divide :D

Was looking at something in Woodgal's Adventure for reference and suddenly rememebred an... easter egg?... The map... The Princess' castle is actually in Newcastle on the map of the UK. Had totally forgotten I did this!

My Twitter experience nowadays is receiving notifications about tweets from people I do not follow about topics I do not give a shit about. 10/10 UX. Well done to all involved.

@pbak_unofficial @Real_Child_Dog Wrong. It's the Grandpa.

Who would you say is the main character of Lost Boys; Michael or Sam?

Just a reminder that I'm increasingly on the Blue place now given how this place is getting increasingly unusable.

@joseph4th The best I could offer is either an incomplete tool with all the caveats which go along with that (for instance, the loading failed if there was data in the spare page as I never figured out how that was stored in the file), or I can give you the C# code for the file loading.

@joseph4th Not easily, no. I did start writing a pixel art tool years back which supported loading ANM files and from which you could then save to an animated GIF but I never found time to finish.

@CaptainBinky I just ran across your old blog where you talked about Deluxe Animator on PC. You know of an easy way to load those files into a modern program. I want to go through my old artwork from my Westwood Studios days.