Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
@mattfatmarrow.bsky.social
UE5 game dev (game mode design & code / UI coding / c++ / lua / BPs / mods / &c). 'Solo' game dev (unannounced project). UK & EP patent attorney. Pro photographer once (weddings, festivals). Writes bad sci fi. Give ☕ pls.
WHERE'S YOUR F*CKING POPPY, THOMAS
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
WHERE'S YOUR F*CKING POPPY, THOMAS
Reposted by Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
Drivers on narrow suburban roads who don't do a little wave of acknowledgement when someone lets you past: ARE YOU DEAD ON THE INSIDE??
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Drivers on narrow suburban roads who don't do a little wave of acknowledgement when someone lets you past: ARE YOU DEAD ON THE INSIDE??
If you are a lawyer and you need to take a long holiday from your busy job in litigation, may I suggest
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you are a lawyer and you need to take a long holiday from your busy job in litigation, may I suggest
I think I will have Cure songs playing at my funeral (not imminently expected, touch wood) with none of this wear-bright-colours nonsense, so that at least my goth friends can enjoy the moment. If anyone asks, point to this and tell them Yes This Is What He Would Have Wanted.
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I think I will have Cure songs playing at my funeral (not imminently expected, touch wood) with none of this wear-bright-colours nonsense, so that at least my goth friends can enjoy the moment. If anyone asks, point to this and tell them Yes This Is What He Would Have Wanted.
A propos nothing, I remember when I posted more on Facebook. I remember going to school reunions and people sometimes saying 'hey man, I love your Facebook posts'. People who never 'liked' any of my Facebook posts. I mean... wasn't there an easier and more helpful way to convey that information?
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A propos nothing, I remember when I posted more on Facebook. I remember going to school reunions and people sometimes saying 'hey man, I love your Facebook posts'. People who never 'liked' any of my Facebook posts. I mean... wasn't there an easier and more helpful way to convey that information?
Reposted by Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
No Subway For Old Men
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
No Subway For Old Men
Ok, let me give you this one for free: if you intend to construct a hilarious photoshop involving sandwich-based weapons, DO NOT carry out an image search for 'footlong sub'.
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ok, let me give you this one for free: if you intend to construct a hilarious photoshop involving sandwich-based weapons, DO NOT carry out an image search for 'footlong sub'.
I don't have anyone to buy these for (I have friends, just not ... that kind of friend) and no-one who would know to buy them for me, but maybe YOU needed a gift idea for the festive season.
Balatro - Balatro Playing Card Deck
Official Balatro playing cards are coming to Fangamer! This deck of linen-finish cards, based on LocalThunk’s original in-game designs, includes 52 standard playing cards as well as four Jokers: Joker...
www.fangamer.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I don't have anyone to buy these for (I have friends, just not ... that kind of friend) and no-one who would know to buy them for me, but maybe YOU needed a gift idea for the festive season.
I'm glad I got my rental renewal sorted before the landlord realised he owns a Lincoln Bathroom
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm glad I got my rental renewal sorted before the landlord realised he owns a Lincoln Bathroom
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It is not misconduct to unionize, and I hope that Rockstar and Take-Two face serious legal challenges for what seems to be a very clear-cut case of union-busting.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It is not misconduct to unionize, and I hope that Rockstar and Take-Two face serious legal challenges for what seems to be a very clear-cut case of union-busting.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I was feeling suspiciously multicultural and outward-looking, but Crewe station has fixed me
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I was feeling suspiciously multicultural and outward-looking, but Crewe station has fixed me
Reposted by Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
Reposted by Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Oh come on
October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh come on
I'm making a (not yet) public Trello board, and I swear the games industry needs to come up with a better term than this. It would cut down epic bantz relating to European country names by at least 90% (full disclosure: I am myself frequently guilty of this).
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm making a (not yet) public Trello board, and I swear the games industry needs to come up with a better term than this. It would cut down epic bantz relating to European country names by at least 90% (full disclosure: I am myself frequently guilty of this).
The problem with being old is that when you accidentally do something utterly cringe in front of nice helpful people in shops and cafes, you obviously can't go back there ever, but eventually you start to run out of other shops and cafes. It's a cost of losing crisis.
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The problem with being old is that when you accidentally do something utterly cringe in front of nice helpful people in shops and cafes, you obviously can't go back there ever, but eventually you start to run out of other shops and cafes. It's a cost of losing crisis.
This is a customisation thing for my current game project. There is a reason you only see an arm, and there are lore-related things involved in this. THAT SAID, I am trying to find inclusive language more meaningful than BODY TYPE 1 or 2, and less rigid than MALE/FEMALE. Does this work?
#gamedev
#gamedev
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is a customisation thing for my current game project. There is a reason you only see an arm, and there are lore-related things involved in this. THAT SAID, I am trying to find inclusive language more meaningful than BODY TYPE 1 or 2, and less rigid than MALE/FEMALE. Does this work?
#gamedev
#gamedev
VisualStudio: here are 1,000 errors in your UE c++ project. I hate literally everything about your source code. Everything is broken. I just can't see a way through this. WTF man?
Me: oops... *removes accidental full stop before comment*
VS: Project compiled fine. You got this, bud 😉👍
#gamedev
Me: oops... *removes accidental full stop before comment*
VS: Project compiled fine. You got this, bud 😉👍
#gamedev
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
VisualStudio: here are 1,000 errors in your UE c++ project. I hate literally everything about your source code. Everything is broken. I just can't see a way through this. WTF man?
Me: oops... *removes accidental full stop before comment*
VS: Project compiled fine. You got this, bud 😉👍
#gamedev
Me: oops... *removes accidental full stop before comment*
VS: Project compiled fine. You got this, bud 😉👍
#gamedev
Need coffee, bad. Refilled coffee grinder. D'OH.
This is a Category 1 Lack of Caffeine error.
This is a Category 1 Lack of Caffeine error.
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Need coffee, bad. Refilled coffee grinder. D'OH.
This is a Category 1 Lack of Caffeine error.
This is a Category 1 Lack of Caffeine error.
If you are a political party and your pitch to half the electorate is 'you'll just have to vote for us to keep the other guys out', that maybe works until there is an alternative party with actual progressive policies, and then you have nothing except a miserably shit record in power to save you.
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you are a political party and your pitch to half the electorate is 'you'll just have to vote for us to keep the other guys out', that maybe works until there is an alternative party with actual progressive policies, and then you have nothing except a miserably shit record in power to save you.