James Tarn
@jamesbtarn.bsky.social
Dungeon Master, cat dad, computer guy, all round nerd.
Personal account, all views my own.
29, he/him, Liverpool
Personal account, all views my own.
29, he/him, Liverpool
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UK blueskier 90% of the time: It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
Uk Blueskier when an american lib UK posts:
🎵 Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Uk Blueskier when an american lib UK posts:
🎵 Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
January 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM
UK blueskier 90% of the time: It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
Uk Blueskier when an american lib UK posts:
🎵 Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Uk Blueskier when an american lib UK posts:
🎵 Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.
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'Another Warrington has hit the North-West'.
January 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
'Another Warrington has hit the North-West'.
Here's my preferences out of the ones I've actually played:
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Here's my preferences out of the ones I've actually played:
Slightly diminish a game
Weight Effect
Weight Effect
Slightly diminish a game
Metal Gear Flaccid
Metal Gear Flaccid
Slightly diminish a game
Devil may weep
Devil may weep
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Slightly diminish a game
Weight Effect
Weight Effect
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This is how they played The First of Us
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
January 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
This is how they played The First of Us
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You want to watch this. And you want the sound on. Trust me on this.
January 9, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You want to watch this. And you want the sound on. Trust me on this.
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This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
Then: I was born this year so not much for gaming.
Now: Easily has to be Quake. Very fun campaign, with a unique aesthetic. Very glad to see it being reappraised in recent years.
Now: Easily has to be Quake. Very fun campaign, with a unique aesthetic. Very glad to see it being reappraised in recent years.
Now we come to the furthest back I'll go, the year of my birth
Quote this with your favourite game from 1996 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Quote this with your favourite game from 1996 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Then: I was born this year so not much for gaming.
Now: Easily has to be Quake. Very fun campaign, with a unique aesthetic. Very glad to see it being reappraised in recent years.
Now: Easily has to be Quake. Very fun campaign, with a unique aesthetic. Very glad to see it being reappraised in recent years.
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'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
THEN: I was a year old.
NOW: Gran Turismo.
NOW: Gran Turismo.
Quote this with your favourite game from 1997 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
(Please make clear which is which)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
(Please make clear which is which)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM
THEN: I was a year old.
NOW: Gran Turismo.
NOW: Gran Turismo.
Then: I was two years old. Now: Half-Life.
Quote this with your favourite game from 1998 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 6, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Then: I was two years old. Now: Half-Life.
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
Then: Jak and Daxter.
Now: Phoenix Wright, with Halo CE as an honorable mention.
Now: Phoenix Wright, with Halo CE as an honorable mention.
Quote this with your favourite game from 2001 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Then: Jak and Daxter.
Now: Phoenix Wright, with Halo CE as an honorable mention.
Now: Phoenix Wright, with Halo CE as an honorable mention.
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Let the People Rejoice!
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!
GOD BLESS NEW YORK!
Mamdani carries all boroughs but Staten Island.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
wideawakes.army 👁
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!
GOD BLESS NEW YORK!
Mamdani carries all boroughs but Staten Island.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
wideawakes.army 👁
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Let the People Rejoice!
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!
GOD BLESS NEW YORK!
Mamdani carries all boroughs but Staten Island.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
wideawakes.army 👁
THE PEOPLE TRUE TO LIBERTY.
NEW YORK REDEEMED!
SHE REPUDIATES CUOMO.
THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!
GOD BLESS NEW YORK!
Mamdani carries all boroughs but Staten Island.
AN AVALANCHE OF FREEMEN.
SHOUT BOYS SHOUT, VICTORY IS OURS, FREEDOM IS TRIUMPHANT.
wideawakes.army 👁
Somewhat tangentially, I've wondered if the 'space-filling empire' thing is a consequence of these same maps depicting the Holy Roman Empire as a giant blob in the middle of Europe.
On some level I blame those maps they put in children's history books too. Seeing "Kingdom of" before so many different names on the map of Europe tricks the reader into thinking that Scotland, England, France, Poland and Castile were run exactly the same way or even particularly similarly.
Look, all I'm saying is, while you /should/ depict your fantasy people as semi-regularly miserable and prone to caving people's skulls in, it's entirely possible they decided to cave skulls in a regional assembly of local smallholders, not because Lord Borys Jonson ordered them to.
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Somewhat tangentially, I've wondered if the 'space-filling empire' thing is a consequence of these same maps depicting the Holy Roman Empire as a giant blob in the middle of Europe.
Then: Ratchet and Clank
Now: idk... Still Ratchet and Clank? Maybe REmake.
Now: idk... Still Ratchet and Clank? Maybe REmake.
Quote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2002, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
(That's Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the first was 2001)
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
(That's Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the first was 2001)
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Then: Ratchet and Clank
Now: idk... Still Ratchet and Clank? Maybe REmake.
Now: idk... Still Ratchet and Clank? Maybe REmake.
How - and why - do you 'automate' a post box?
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
How - and why - do you 'automate' a post box?
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JOSHUA BEN JOSEPH HAS FALLEN
NOW I, STARSCREAM, AM THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
NOW I, STARSCREAM, AM THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
JOSHUA BEN JOSEPH HAS FALLEN
NOW I, STARSCREAM, AM THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
NOW I, STARSCREAM, AM THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
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How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party
One problem with a cat resting on you like this is how to get a nice photo without disturbing them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One problem with a cat resting on you like this is how to get a nice photo without disturbing them.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM