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David Millington
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Current project: Cathedral City, cli-fi adventure/horror in the post-sea-rise dystopia of flooded Estonia.

https://daveon.design

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This prevents the Elastic issue, but it also prevents someone making a genuinely useful fork and providing that. Ie the terms are as restrictive as commercial licenses.

I’ve seen many companies rest on their laurels because there’s no competition: doesn’t this create the same under a FOSS guise?
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Things move fast online but in practice we’re 1/3 through the game. So the real world may be slower for some folk :)

I am one person only but I’d love to see your analysis.

I’m incredibly struck by the art and rendering, including lighting, personally. Far more than (slightly tedious?) gameplay.
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Not sure if I explained the question well. I get the effort someone went to and “killing” the coin or face is fascinating.

Is it okay when I infer things like the emotional reason (I used the word vindictiveness, erasure)? I feel like if I saw someone today deface like that, it would be personal.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Compared to this photo the original one you posted looks incredibly thorough. Hard not to read into it some kind of vindictiveness, thoroughness, absolute erasure.

Do archeologists speculate like that? I don’t know how valid it truly is to draw comparisons.
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Was there a face there originally? I did some googling which said this was Celtic and common practice but was full of speculation on why.
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Read this a couple of days ago. kotaku.com/roblox-new-y...

Read that subtitle. You don’t even need to read the article.

I had thought Roblox was a safe space where kids built things, a kind of electronic construction set. The thread you posted (and others! I saw this on HN) are horrifying.
Roblox CEO Makes A Fool Of Himself In Car-Crash Interview
David Baszucki spoke to the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast about the app's pedophile problem
kotaku.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Yeah. I stopped. It became too much
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I felt they were so gratuitously violent, with a trapped protagonist (forced to perform acts, remember the foot?) that there was a sense of meta-horror: a question about what issues our society and readers have where the books resonate. Are they catharsis?
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Goodreads summary looks great. What are your thoughts on it?
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Yeah, I am, thanks! Hope you are too!

Definitely think the privacy and personal info laws are there for a reason and to be wielded when appropriate. Fight the big corps. Go for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
You showed integrity and solidarity. I respect that and I think many, many others do too.

I empathise with the exhaustion from it. But I hope in a sense it _is_ worth it because you publicly did the right thing and stood up for everyone else too.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Time for some kind of GDPR-ish request?
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What was your thought on it?

Did (or could) the AI deliver it? The soul of what his lyrics were trying to say? The emphasis?
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
You can play it on Switch 1! Though if you want a 2 maybe I shouldn’t have told you that ;)
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I think it was hopeful, but in an internal sense… characters had their own small areas of resistance. So not a story of escapist hope.

Ursula Le Guin recommended it, FWIW.

I totally get the OP not wanting a ‘nazis win’ book btw — too much risk in 2025 it would be read as positive not as horror.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It didn’t re-fight the war so much as showed the psychological impact of Axis ideology, maybe?

I found the book haunting, and its sense of isolation and chance / fate was something I’ve never quite got over. The bad guys winning led to a feeling of fear, dissociation, seeking spirituality.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One of my favourites too.

You were kind to him about State of Fear; I read it as strongly anti-environmentalist. And I remember Rising Sun made me feel very uncomfortable in its portrayal of the Japanese.

So a flawed writer? You’re spot on with his strengths!
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM