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Programmer, player of #Splatoon, #Doom, and other games. @zandronum team. Afflicted by chronic pain and mush brain. 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

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Also the #tomodachilife had a Direct today. It looks very good. I could not help myself, I preordered it...

Gotta get that photo frame. It'll look great next to my Splatoon 3 gym bag... in my cupboard... never touched...
Order summary for a pre-order of "Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream" (including a photo frame preorder bonus)
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Sorry I just read it again and noticed they buffed short range weapons. This is good for me as a dapps main. I am happier now
"Expanded the collision detection size for each main weapon’s attacks to make it easier to hit opponents with attacks. Also made it so that the shorter the weapon’s shot flight distance, the greater the increase to the collision detection size will be."
January 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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I love when I go into the sweaty tryhard mode and tryhard sweatily
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
Splatoon 3 match results, X Battle Rainmaker, 23 kills 4 deaths
January 23, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Add this to the list of reasons I love the Dapps NOC-T
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
January 14, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Anyway, following on from my recent (somewhat turbulent) #netbsd adventures: I dug out my Radeon HD 6670, an awful 14-year-old graphics card and shoved it in my PC.
Here's ClassiCube, a recreation of Minecraft Classic (and my server for it, Thirty) running on NetBSD, cause why not.
Photo of a monitor showing NetBSD's default window manager; two terminal windows for ClassiCube and Thirty; ClassiCube's launcher; and the game itself. The game's chat window shows information about the GPU, and that the server is running on NetBSD 10.1.
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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When the hell did I get good at this game
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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THE PANIC
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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I hella lucked out with this shot, especially considering I didn't actually mean to pick up the Rainmaker
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Insert some joke about the match taking a year or something

#Splatoon3
stat.ink screenshot Battle Start 31 Dec 2025 23:59:32 GMT Battle End 1 Jan 2026 00:02:32 GMT
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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It only took 2.5 years but I finally got gold #Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Apparently when reality crumbles it counts as a loss and you lose 70 power
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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*teleports behind you*

#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
December 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I got a new toy…
A poorly lit photo of a Raspberry Pi 5 4GB board
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Tonight's 1am debugging session
Commit message in TortoiseHg: [tip] Set client socket fd to INVALID_SOCKET after closing it, and check it before closing it Previously it was mistakenly set to 0, which is the FD for stdin. When a client disconnected, client_disconnect set it to 0, then client_destroy would try to close it again, inadvertently closing stdin. When a client connects after that, FD 0 might be reused for their socket, so command_tick_readline would poll on it thinking it's stdin, and rl_callback_read_char would swallow a byte from it, causing the new connection to fail due to malformed data.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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So I guess OpenJDK doesn't support JIT on 32-bit ARM anymore
Shell screenshot: sean@birch:~ $ cat Hello.java void main() { IO.println("Hello nerds"); } sean@birch:~ $ time java Hello.java Hello nerds real 0m49.369s user 0m49.110s sys 0m0.291s
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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So how's your weekends going so far #Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
1295.3 Splatfest power
October 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Possibly my best Big Run yet ...I didn't know it could show a percentile rank.
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
September 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I'm just best with anything not my main
September 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I love bombs
#Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thanks to the Online Safety Act, Steam has added the requirement that I have a credit card to view mature content. I add my debit card, it doesn't work. It has to be a credit card. I don't have a credit card, and therefore have no way of even viewing mature games on Steam. What an amazing law.
Screenshot of Steam account settings reading: The following payment methods are currently associated with your account. Visa ending in [redacted] Screenshot of Steam account settings, showing mature content preferences, with a notice reading: Under the UK Online Safety Act, Valve is required to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature sexual content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid UK credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences.
August 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Also did this, because my skill level was particularly high tonight #Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
August 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I got stuck in a fence #Splatoon3 #nintendoswitch
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Let me just have that
#dragxdrive #nintendoswitch2
August 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Heh, the #fedora installer does not seem to cope well with openSUSE’s snapshots.
August 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Speaking of #gnome... guess the tab which is active and which isn't.

The answer is that home is active, even though it's greyed out, and the inactive tab blends in with the content being displayed. Literally the opposite of basically every tab view I've ever […]

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Screenshot of GNOME Files (Nautilus), showing the title bar, tab bar, and table header. The left tab reads "Home", has a grey background, and an X (close) button. The right tab reads "Documents" and is white, blending in with the content.
August 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM