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Rob Mordor

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Interested in lots of things. Prolific writer. I love me a bit of history and science. BritCom & SciFi. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rob-Mordor/author/B0BQ2L9NSN http://www.facebook.com/groups/TopVillains

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Skyrim is the one that springs immediately to mind.
I was constantly re-rolling and starting again.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 2d

I’d say so. I’m quite deep in now at 90hrs on this save, and I’m not getting bored yet.

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 2d

If there was ever a tale of failure to success, it's the development of No Man's Sky. Almost universally despised when it was released, but they really turned it around. There's SO much to do now. Hundreds of hours of fun to be had.
Regretted my pre-order... but I don't regret it now!
#NoMansSky

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 3d

Authoritarianism.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 3d

No. Not the child of a friend either. Just some poor random kid who was having a hard time on the water.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 3d

I mean... *technically* not a cruise, but I was on the ferry out to Tiri Tiri Matangi island, and a kid (unrelated to me) vommed on me twice, and then sat on my bag and broke my sunnies.
NO KIDS ON CRUISES!

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 3d

100mb Iomega drive was awesome. I used to run a BBS back around 1990-1995, and I could back the whole thing up every night onto a floppy.

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 4d

I've waxed lyrical previously about the boudoir of the grape, and the ridiculously twee frippery about how certain wine is said to be replete with 'notes', describing the flavour. It's been shown time and time again that this is nonsense. #alcohol
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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 4d

Is it making it into mainstream media over there?

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 4d

Since Jacob Schweppe first sold his bottled carbonated water in Geneva the 1780s, everywhere pretty-much sells one flavoured brand or another now... even though it's still rare to find a place that sells both Coke and Pepsi...
#softdrink #hygiene #sugar
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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 4d

The event looks **massive** - I knew it was a popular game, but jeez.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 6d

I miss gadgets. We just don’t have gadgets like we used to. Certainly not if you don’t want to remortgage your house.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 6d

So what's Musk going on about?

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 6d

Among the earliest users of cryptography, we have the ancient Egyptians. They used simple ciphers on tomb inscriptions.

"Ifsf mjft Qibspbi Xjmcvs. Xf'wf ipmmpxfe ijn pvu boe ijeefo bmm pg uif hpme vq ijt cpuupn." #enigma #cryptography

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The Villainy of Cryptography

We all have our secrets… and the urge to keep them is as old as time. When language became a thing, secrecy became more than hiding stuff behind your back… you had to find ways to pass …

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps I'm out of touch. D&D was **MASSIVE** when I was a kid, and I know lots of people who still play today. It has endured, even with occasional ructions about rule changes and so forth. (Don't like a rule? Don't use it.)
BG3 has reinvigorated things fairly recently too.
How is it gone?

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 6d

The Villainy of Exercise
I'm not particularly fit. The eight-pack of my youth has become the keg of middle age, and the muscles, once taut and rippling, are now starting to go "Meh" whenever I ask them to do stuff.
#exercise #fitness #health
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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 7d

The Borstal.
Youth Crime was a big problem as Britain slipped from the 19th century into the 20th century. Treating teens as adult hardened criminals begat bad outcomes. For starters... you ended up with a lot more young hardened criminals. #crime #youth
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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 8d

“Someone stole all the toilet seats in Scotland Yard. Police have nothing to go on.”

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 8d

Black background, light from the side. :)

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 8d

At first glance I thought it was Benny Hill dressed up for a skit.

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Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 8d

My father and I used to play Indy500 on the Amiga. He’d do the mechanics and car setup. I’d do the racing.

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve just discovered Boston Legal. Shatner is surprisingly excellent. #BostonLegal

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 9d

Here is a simple wooden ladder leaning against a wall.

The ladder reaches 3m high up the wall.
The base of the ladder is 1m away from the wall.

If you move the base of the ladder 1m further away from the wall, how high does the ladder reach up the wall now?
#geometry

Rob Mordor @villainygroup.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, having a human proof-reader is an extravagance. 🙃
I'm terrible at spotting that sort of thing myself. I can proof-read something many times, and still miss a 1984 in place of an 1894.