Ben Barrett
@chaossmurf.bsky.social
The Urien of ignorance. The Dead Sea of men (he/him). Games. Biz Dev @ Quantum Tech Partners. BD & Marketing Consultant. Prev: Firesquid, GLHF, CA, Focus, PCGN, etc. Cat pix sent to: ben(at)quantumtechpartners(dot)com.
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Bloodborne, 2 vinyls up for preorder
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Bloodborne, 2 vinyls up for preorder
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
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AIBros being creepy stalkers who are addicted to revenge porn?!
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
AIBros being creepy stalkers who are addicted to revenge porn?!
it's not happening is it
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
it's not happening is it
HOW ON EARTH
WILL OL DONNY
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIGGLE OUT OF THIS ONE
WILL OL DONNY
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIGGLE OUT OF THIS ONE
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
HOW ON EARTH
WILL OL DONNY
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIGGLE OUT OF THIS ONE
WILL OL DONNY
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIGGLE OUT OF THIS ONE
Any Labour voters feeling particularly CHATTY today? No? Any reason?
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Any Labour voters feeling particularly CHATTY today? No? Any reason?
Breaking Bad be like "imagine the most destitute White American family possible 2008-2012 - they have a pool and a 9 room house"
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Breaking Bad be like "imagine the most destitute White American family possible 2008-2012 - they have a pool and a 9 room house"
Any debate on these 6 (the 6 highest rated games on Metacritic this year) being the TGA GOTY candidates on Monday? 4 indie games is quite funny, especially given E33 is gonna win. Could see Blue Prince, Split Fiction, or DK not making it, with BP the least likely, but idk what you'd replace with.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Any debate on these 6 (the 6 highest rated games on Metacritic this year) being the TGA GOTY candidates on Monday? 4 indie games is quite funny, especially given E33 is gonna win. Could see Blue Prince, Split Fiction, or DK not making it, with BP the least likely, but idk what you'd replace with.
LOOKS LIKE WOKE'S BACK ON THE MENU
Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1)
🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2)
➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New)
🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5)
🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6)
Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
LOOKS LIKE WOKE'S BACK ON THE MENU
did the A Quiet Place/Bird Box double feature like it's 2019, and my god Bird Box is a terrible movie
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
did the A Quiet Place/Bird Box double feature like it's 2019, and my god Bird Box is a terrible movie
What's weird is I don't know anyone who thinks even concrete, video proof of him committing sex crimes would actually do anything meaningful at this point, so I really dunno what he could possibly be scared of? Maybe it'd be personally damaging even if it wouldn't take him out of office?
One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What's weird is I don't know anyone who thinks even concrete, video proof of him committing sex crimes would actually do anything meaningful at this point, so I really dunno what he could possibly be scared of? Maybe it'd be personally damaging even if it wouldn't take him out of office?
The idea of a gaming PC that doesn't have 4-8 gigabytes of RAM used up by Windows overheads and copilot is really, really fucking tempting, especially when it's so small I could take it to a mate's house.
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The idea of a gaming PC that doesn't have 4-8 gigabytes of RAM used up by Windows overheads and copilot is really, really fucking tempting, especially when it's so small I could take it to a mate's house.
Incredibly, this is somehow worse than it sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4I...
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Incredibly, this is somehow worse than it sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4I...
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GOTY
Watching a trailer for a Zelda hack, and they've just got the Asylum Demon in there.
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
GOTY
I think the AI voice acting thing that annoys me most is like - ye, okay, you don't wanna pay voice actors, voice directors, whatever. They're barks and nobody will barely notice them anyway. But, there's a thousand tried-and-true methods to fix this, all of which are artistically better/interesting
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I think the AI voice acting thing that annoys me most is like - ye, okay, you don't wanna pay voice actors, voice directors, whatever. They're barks and nobody will barely notice them anyway. But, there's a thousand tried-and-true methods to fix this, all of which are artistically better/interesting
so, so many of my suggested posts on Twitter are people saying they're going to kill themselves, or people with fatal diseases about to die
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
so, so many of my suggested posts on Twitter are people saying they're going to kill themselves, or people with fatal diseases about to die
idk about the EG thing but we gotta stop gamers doing the LEAVE MY BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE when it's devs they think are little uwu bean indie studios but actually they make more money than god (Embark, Larian, Valve, etc.)
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
idk about the EG thing but we gotta stop gamers doing the LEAVE MY BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE when it's devs they think are little uwu bean indie studios but actually they make more money than god (Embark, Larian, Valve, etc.)
While I'm pretty pro "writing in games could be better", cmon man. Yeah, dozens, they're just not all multi-multi-multi-million sellers.
Any contender for good writing in a video game besides Planescape: Torment and Disco Elysium?
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November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
While I'm pretty pro "writing in games could be better", cmon man. Yeah, dozens, they're just not all multi-multi-multi-million sellers.
"The scale of the potential payout has drawn criticism, but the Tesla board argued that Musk might leave the company if it was not approved - and that it could not afford to lose him."
I wonder what on Earth they think he's providing that they can't afford to lose.
I wonder what on Earth they think he's providing that they can't afford to lose.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"The scale of the potential payout has drawn criticism, but the Tesla board argued that Musk might leave the company if it was not approved - and that it could not afford to lose him."
I wonder what on Earth they think he's providing that they can't afford to lose.
I wonder what on Earth they think he's providing that they can't afford to lose.
I will definitely go watch V for Vedetta in the cinema
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I will definitely go watch V for Vedetta in the cinema
MY SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDES
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
MY SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDES
Saw a comment about how bad that new lawyer drama with Kim Kardashian is, went to the wikipedia Reception section, wasn't disappointed. Then I watched the trailer. I've GOT to resist watching this, I can't spend time this way any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVJ...
![Text from Wikipedia that reads:
Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the series was "brain dead", stating that "characters are so thin, their storylines so flimsy and their motives so underbaked that there's no recognizable emotion underlying any of it, and thus no feeling to be provoked by watching it". The Guardian's television critic Lucy Mangan gave the series zero stars out of five, writing that "I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad. I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock knowledge of how to do it that now prevents any entry into the art form from falling below a certain standard. But I was wrong." The review was the paper's 15th zero-star review in its 204-year history. Ed Power of The Telegraph gave the series one star, calling the show "a crime against television" and a "mind-bending horror sure to trigger nightmares in the unsuspecting viewer". USA Today's television critic Kelly Lawler called the show "the worst TV of the year", detailing that it was an "unmitigated disaster of [...] outlandish proportions". Ben Dowell of The Times specifically criticized Kardashian's performance, stating that she "must have quite a healthy ego to star in what may well be the worst television drama ever made".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqajwjjjriezsivzvx2gn2ms/bafkreigkvo4ifwayxbqpgywqiqd2lubposq32liijggyas73skgtv7n73e@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Saw a comment about how bad that new lawyer drama with Kim Kardashian is, went to the wikipedia Reception section, wasn't disappointed. Then I watched the trailer. I've GOT to resist watching this, I can't spend time this way any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVJ...
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
pretty big deal this, poncle onboard, first game to ever crossover two warhammer universes afaik, auroch are obviously great, would expect it to be very good
Warhammer Survivors is an officially licensed Vampire Survivors game, coming 2026
www.eurogamer.net/warhammer-su...
www.eurogamer.net/warhammer-su...
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
pretty big deal this, poncle onboard, first game to ever crossover two warhammer universes afaik, auroch are obviously great, would expect it to be very good
if you'll forgive some of his more artistic tendencies, this is a very good episode of Dean of Doom, about some maps with some real soul www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhQ...
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
if you'll forgive some of his more artistic tendencies, this is a very good episode of Dean of Doom, about some maps with some real soul www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhQ...
you ever wanna see something weird, bring up that you think twitch mods should get paid in any random stream chat with more than 500 viewers
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
you ever wanna see something weird, bring up that you think twitch mods should get paid in any random stream chat with more than 500 viewers