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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yes, I forgot to mention this was in WW2.

For her seances, she'd made a ghost out of "ectoplasm" (cheesecloth) with an HMS Duncan cap.

She didn't know that, since 1939, caps no longer had ship names on, and the naval officer investigating her was disgusted by the inaccuracy of her ghost.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 14h

The last time the Witchcraft Act was used in the UK was against Helen Duncan, as a means to nobble her for espionage.

She'd heard about the (classified) sinking of HMS Duncan, and was using that to claim she had info from the spirits of departed sailors.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16h

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody, somewhere, must have had a moment of awareness about a robot touting the benefit of "real people"

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 2d

What is Nighthawks? It's a vampire game where the vampires have been exposed to the world... but it's also different in tone from most. Vampire games tend to be cold and cynical, but this time, being a light in the darkness can be the real adventure.

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

Nighthawks on Steam

The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...

store.steampowered.com

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 3d

The debuggers testing the replicators' new firmware

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning twice while playing Jesus in the original. I'm no Christian, but even I would have taken that as a divine message to stop doing it.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 4d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, also, universe-ending stakes every single season

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 5d

Incidentally, her teeth and tongue are the only parts of her that are rigged as well, but that's 2023-James' doing. Completely different.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know what you're talking about, there's nothing weird about her teeth being the only part with a texture/UV/normal mapping, and nowhere else.

A modelled face covered in a UV test texture. Her teeth are suspiciously detailed.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 5d

They don't have to play it *well*, the important thing is that they have fun trying.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 7d

It's things like this that drove me out of the Liberal Democrat party. They've also bought in to the "this is the status quo, things can't get better" situation.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 7d

Different Green party, that's the US Green party. It's kind of like how the Liberal Democrats party in the UK is a whole different kettle of fish to the Japanese Liberal Democrats.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

I used to have a Lib Dem membership. Heck, I even stood in an election for them in 2018, but now I've gone Green.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

"As Prime Minister, I'm keen to see the UK retain its world-leading status in Torment Nexuses. That is why this government is dedicating billions of pounds of investment towards the companies basing their torment in the UK." - Keir Starmer

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Warkus @warkus.bsky.social · 9d

House of Necrosis is OUT NOW on Steam!

House of Necrosis features turnbased dungeon-crawling as well as a tank-controlled hubworld, complete with pre-rendered backgrounds! This is SURVIVAL HORROR MYSTERY DUNGEON

💀Buy the game now, 10% launch discount!💀

store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 9d

The important question - is it pronounced "Brittian", or "Brishan"?

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 9d

"They want to run the country. They can't even spell it right."

@natashaclark.bsky.social hsa notecid a bti fo a blendur ni teh Troy Praty goodei bga...

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 9d

I had fun with American Arcadia, would definitely recommend it!

American Arcadia 📺🎮 OUT NOW! @outbluegames.bsky.social · 9d

LAST HOURS of the #SteamAutumnSale! Don't miss out on these awesome deals 👇👇👇

American Arcadia 📺🎮 OUT NOW! (@outbluegames.bsky.social)

The #SteamAutumnSale has just started and our games are on sale! Grab them before October 6th. 👀✨ 📺 AMERICAN ARCADIA (55% off): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249040/American_Arcadia/ 🌊 CALL OF THE SEA (75% off): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1042490/Call_of_the_Sea/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedeals

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 11d

So many cases that would previously "that wouldn't happen", "that's unrealistic" and people aren't that stupid," but it turns out that reality is unrealistic

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 11d

I know I'm flippant about cyberpunk dystopia fiction being overtaken by reality, but...

Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 11d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 11d

Today I learned the term 'wetware'.

Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells

BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 12d

Visited there last week, the fish and cranes seem to be enjoying it still

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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 13d

Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon by is 70% off during the Steam Autumn Sale!

Hit the blue-neon streets of Newton to follow the trail of a serial killer known as The Mindjacker!

Discover why "there's nothing like being in Trance."

Jack in here: store.steampowered.com/app/307580/T...

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 13d

On and off, in various forms. It's awkward to write cyberpunk dystopia when it keeps being overtaken by reality

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 13d

I'd love to see the exact data on how many it brought in

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 13d

Technobabylon: Enthusiastic supporter of the secret LGBTQ+ agenda since 2010

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