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Steve Morton - 🔜 (Jan/Q1 2026) ‘TR-49’ from inkle!
@pvbuk.bsky.social
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Freelance QA for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Chaos Cookie, or anyone else!
Former Highways Clerk, Highway Inspector & Streetworks Supervisor.
Accessibility ally.
DMs not working for me!
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One for #MosaicMonday, from my weekend trip to the Roman Baths in.... (checks notes)... Bath.
Mosaic section showing sea creatures two loosely resembling horses at the front, with a coiled ‘tail’ at the back. Information card text says: Mosaic floor Mosaic floors were found in the best rooms of private houses and public buildings. Aquatic scenes with sea beasts were popular designs in bath houses. Probably 3rd - 4th century AD. From a house in Aquae Sulis.
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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"In a player's mind, what does it mean to spend five bucks? Well, that's five bucks. But six bucks? Well, that's still five bucks. "Four bucks is also kind of five bucks," he continued. "Three bucks is two bucks. And two bucks is basically free. "So we've got these tiers: You know, twelve bucks... that's ten bucks. But thirteen bucks is fifteen bucks. "And we found that eight bucks is still five bucks. It doesn't become ten bucks. Seven ninety nine, that's five bucks, right? "So, eight bucks going to five bucks is the biggest differential we could find in pricing, so we found it very optimal."
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Streetview from one end shows it as possibly private land section between public footway and shops, but they’re using the public footway tactile crossing as a ramp to get to it.
Not sure why a rectangle of tactiles is also in the middle of the wide section of footway. 🤔
Google Streetview image from a junction, showing a tarmac footway with a paved area between it and shop frontages, with cars parked on the paving. at one end is more tarmac footway, with a tactile crossing point to the lowered kerb pedestrian crossing point. Road marking are zig-zags for a pelican crossing and double red lines for a ‘No Parking’ red zone.
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Most of that area of Strood (if it's _that_ Carnation Road) is a mess of footway and verge parking, also verge hardening, some even at double yellows, ped xing points, school zig-zags, etc.
Streetview image of Bligh Way, Strood, Rochester, at a school entrance with zig-zag and zebra crossing markings, with many cars parked on the footway, including sections where the verge has been replaced with tarmac.
January 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Back home from a lovely weekend in Bath with my fellow trustees from Gorlin Syndrome Group UK.
Visited the Roman Baths, took lots of photos, incl several hypocausts, none of which could be stood on/in. 😉
FAO @romanpalace.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social, etc. 😋
#HypocaustGate
My photo of one:
Mostly complete open section of Roman hypocaust floor, consisting of many columns of stacks of square tiles.
January 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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See a bridge, post a bridge.
The Rheinbrücke Speyer bridge on the A61, south of Mannheim in Germany. It's an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a single pylon.
January 4, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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A friendly reminder that I class Heaven's Vault as one of the best video games I’ve played in 40 years of gaming!
The Steam Winter Sale is still on. 😉👍
store.steampowered.com/developer/in...
Facebook post from 1 January 2021, with two photos of a Nintendo Switch running the game Heaven’s Vault on its screen. Post text says: Despite putting in 100s of hours testing Heaven's Vault (& then playing it) on PC, >100 hours (>8 playthroughs & still going!) on PS4, I am loving it on the #NintendoSwitch! And it runs so well on it too! Released on 28th January on Switch!
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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What flavour blancmange?
Also, is it in an unusual case/tin?
My nan used to make it in a tin shaped like a bunny rabbit. 😋
Like this one:
A metal cake tin in the shape of a rabbit laying flat on its belly.
December 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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You do need a beast of a gaming PC for Sword of the Sea. 👍
Screenshot showing many hundreds of fishes swimming in a circle inside an underwater cave, with sunlight from a hole in the roof. Screenshot showing several orcas and hundreds of white fishes swimming above lots of light green mushroom-shaped jump platforms.
December 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Four games that defined my 2025.
(with alt-text)
Cover art of Rosewater by Grundislav Games. Cover art of Old Skies by WadjetEye Games. Cover art for Sword of the Sea by Giant Squid. Cover art for Expelled! by Inkle Studios.
December 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I’ve got a real LEGO set to build this week. 😎
A WALL•E & EVE LEGO set box front.
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Christmas dinner done. ☺️
Whole family are now full to bursting! 🤪
Christmas dinner of hoisin glazed duck leg, roast potatoes, pigs and stuffing in blankets, Brussels and sliced carrot.
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Could still do the John McClane crawl through it.
#HypocaustGate
John McClane in the film Die Hard, crawling through an air duct, holding a lit lighter in his left hand.
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Every Beanie section in my manor was blocked within 12 months, never to be cleaned out.
I feckin’ hate them with a passion.
Here’s a nib nobbler built in 2002 that broke/blocked up within a year too:
Google Streetview of a built out junction, with Marshalls Perfecta footway slabs and a ‘nib nobbler’ covered channel, part of which missing its cover, showing it filled with dirt/debris.
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I get this popup.
The help section they link to is no help. 🙄
Popup text says Video Unavailable We're experiencing a problem playing this video. For assistance, please go to www.primevideo.com/help.
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Lurgy now mostly gone, so I walked Albert our labrador up to Cobham Mausoleum this morning. ☺️
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/c...
Met other dog walkers, fun runners, families walking, cyclists and even two young horse riders with accompanying adults. 😎
Photo I took of the mausoleum:
A square grey stone building with a pyramid roof, surrounded by grassland, with a light cloud blue sky.
December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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My office, Xmas 2013.
A year later I was ‘demoted’ in a department reorganization from unofficial Street Works Coordinator (which I’d been doing for 5 yrs) to my job title Street Works Inspector, then handed in my notice after 33 yrs working for my local council.
In hindsight, not a great decision.
Photo of me in an open plan office, standing with arms folded and a grumpy look on my face. A sight hanging from the ceiling says Traffic Management, with an added bit saying Humbug Corner. A sign on the wall behind me says Grinch Corner, The Seven Dwarfs: Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy and Grumpy.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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2021:
Tweet by Nigel Farage, showing two photos, one of him wearing a mask outside a football stadium, the other is him in a mask, sitting on the side of a hospital bed, being injected by a member of NHS medical staff. Text says Just had the the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab down at Selhurst Park. Very well-run and such a happy atmosphere.
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Reosted from a friend’s FB page:
A Reddit post, showing a grey cat laying inside the LEGO Colosseum. Text of the post says Veni. Vidi. Conveni. Consedi. I came. I saw. I fit. I sit.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A Tweet on ‘X’ by the UK Home Office: Britain welcomes migrants who contribute to our economy and society. High earners, entrepreneurs and skilled frontline workers like NHS staff will be fast-tracked to settlement - rewarding those who give, not take. 10:45am, 6th December 2025.
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I meant the space _around_ the text box areas.
Using some of that would enable larger text boxes as well as a larger font, helping localisation too:
Screenshot of the equipment screen, with yellow shaded areas outside the central text boxes, to indicate how much screen area could be used.
December 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Saw stream of #Cloudheim (@noodlecatgames.com) by #CaptainSteve on YT.
youtube.com/@captainstev...
Installed the demo and love it! ☺️
Decent sizing options for #subtitles, with line breaks! 👍
Some game text is very small/low contrast/needing opaque backgrounds, so hope it improves. 🤞
#Accessibility
Screenshot of Settings page section for subtitles, with example of Extra Large shown. Screenshot in game, showing Extra Large subtitles with semi opaque black background. Equipment load out menu screen, showing various text sizes, from large to very small, some tiny text also has low contrast (e.g. mid-brown thin font on black background). Screenshot in game, showing various examples of UI text and control icons, some text and icons are very small, low contrast tiny text also with no background, so it's lost against the game play area.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I’ll remind you next Wednesday evening to put your bins out. 😋
A Google Calendar reminder: Remind Sarah Ford on Bluesky to put her bins out. Wednesday 10 Dec · 19:00 – 20:00
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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My godsons’ German grandparents made them a Lego advent calendar in 2019, buying an Avengers Lego set, then splitting it into 25 individual bags, each with just a page or two of the assembly instructions. Each bag contained just the pieces & matching instructions, so it was much easier to build. 😊
Photo of a partly built Lego set, on top of a box containing lots of string-tied red & green cloth bags.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Not completed it yet, as I’m currently QA testing another game. ☺️
Will get back into it once that’s done. 😎
Couple of screenshots of #SwordOfTheSea on my Alienware PC and ultrawide monitor:
Taken from a high vantage point, looking slightly down. In the foreground are two large orcas, with many green mushroom shaped platforms and two more orcas far below them. In the background is an enormous ‘ball’ of silvery-white fishes, inbetween grassy/wooded cliffs. Taken from a high vantage point, looking slightly down. A desrt scene with rocky cliffs and spires in the background. The whole scene has many schools of fish or varying pale colours.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM