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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 5h

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

James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 8h

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 · 2d

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.

buff.ly

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

"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 · 4d

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 · 3d

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

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

"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 · 4d

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

American Arcadia 📺🎮 OUT NOW! @outbluegames.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

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

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

Still my favourite review

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 8d

Technobabylon's on sale as part of the Steam sale again! So I must as always post this review to convince you to buy my favorite point-and-click adventure game. It's a hilarious and well-written cyberpunk/genepunk thriller and...well...see the review store.steampowered.com/app/307580/T...

Screenshot of a Steam review for the game Technobablyon by Nyaru:

Title: Tricked by the SJWs again!

Snap, they got me good.

Played just over 2 hours before they unleashed their agenda - suddenly I'm looking at interracial gay marriages and hagning out wiht minority trans people in a progressive paradize where it is the norm, as apparently nobody is even surprised by it.

Just past the refund period. Well, guess it's my own fault for taking my time and inspecting everything instead of rushing through the story.

EDIT: and now I found lesbians and a gay robot, and some other cringey thing I forgot.

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

Visiting Seoul for the first time since I lived in Korea in 2010. Apparently my fifteen year old metro dongle still has 700 Won on it

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

He heard "underground railroad" and knew he had to leap in to stop it

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 9d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 8d

As a wholly impartial third party, I definitely recommend getting this

Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 8d

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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Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

Fortunately, I'm quite alright with people tossing a coin to their Witcher

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 9d

My wife thinks I have some kind of vendetta against the Witcher as a result of it, no matter how many times I've tried to disabuse her of that idea. I think she likes the idea of the drama.

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