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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 17h

One last push: if you HAVEN'T reviewed the EMD demo yet please do, as it'll massively help us out with Next Fest tomorrow. Downloads and reviews get us prominence, apparently.

If you HAVE reviewed it, you're a shining example of the very best type of Terranoid, well done. Big star ⭐

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs.

It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires.

And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 17h

A pox on whoever put 'Discover' as the default for some on here, so people get helicoptered into stuff without context.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 18h

Are we sure it's his 'sweat' glands he permanently emptied back then?

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The Blender is 25, unfortunately @theblender.online · 21h

What a set of pictures!

Alex @siouxdenimes.bsky.social · 21h

If you weren't at Manchester or Sheffield on Friday or yesterday, and you're not at Todmorden tonight, then you've missed out on @spraypopmusic.com...

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just intrigued by the post rationalisation of the whole Jerome K Jerome style of hid Doctor as an attempt to find an identity as opposed to the usual eccentricities.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting 🧵 about the ethnic heritage of the Fifth Dr Who, Peter Davison.

Photo of Peter Davison's parents on their wedding day.

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 1d

The whole internet loves Mr ‘I clogged my own arse up with fizzy cola bottles’, a lovely man that eats fizzy cola bottles!

*5 seconds later*

We regret to inform you the man is racist

registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 1d

oops! he's a racist

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

I did think of Nights on Broadway, but it's not spelled like that.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 1d

So, this is a bilinear filter from first principles? I appreciate you may not know everything on this front, but what differentiates this from the more hacky stuff in, say, Supermodel?

Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

I've been watching a lot of those early UK targeted events again recently. Sky loving and hating it in equal measure, cutting out a match for a Keys and Gray plug.
Balance may be starting to shift though, now that Regal's back in people's ears.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is an error, I was referring to the venue, not the network.

Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

The bots are here, everyone

My O2 joke being picked up in earnest by a customer service thing.

Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Does that shitey Stallone Indycar thing count?

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

There's an arcade game called Dead Angle, never could understand why because it's a stealth thing. Of course, it's the localiser picking up on this rather than "blind spot".

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

If I could do that, I wouldn't need to go to the O2 for entertainment, would I?

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Spelled wrong because of incompetence, or a name dispute?

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's a blind spot for that kind of British celebrity in that world. I mean, I'll probably get drummed out, but I never had a problem with how they used Vinnie Jones at Capital Carnage, but imagine if he actually worked m

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

This the same guys? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4MR...

Taskmaster does The Wrestling 2023!

YouTube video by IsThisAStep

www.youtube.com

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in Peace and thank you John Lodge. I held steadfast to my belief in the Moodies as a great band for decades in the face of ridicule. It even cost me a nomination for the Penderyn school prefect prize in 2015. Oh yes it did. If you remember you remember. xx
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLA...

Watching And Waiting (Remastered 2022)

YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

Right, I'm clocking off, there's no topping that today.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 2d

*Rings fire bell*

"I'd like to remind the members that the sign saying 'SPRAY at Todmorden' is not an instruction."

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3d

I guess we know where he got off.

Pervert caught performing sex act on himself at train station

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 3d

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 3d

Admittedly, even the BBC only referred to him as former Radio 1. Pure self flagellation at this point m

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 3d

Lance Percival, the acceptable face of white man Calypso.

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