Michael Reed
@rhydermike.bsky.social
Writer. https://www.unmusic.co.uk/
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Did I give my video a clickbaity title for the sake of promoting clickage? Absolutely. Am I ashamed? Not nearly as much as I ought to be.
youtu.be/InzC7fFaSRY
youtu.be/InzC7fFaSRY
All good things must come to an end.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Did I give my video a clickbaity title for the sake of promoting clickage? Absolutely. Am I ashamed? Not nearly as much as I ought to be.
youtu.be/InzC7fFaSRY
youtu.be/InzC7fFaSRY
In her darkened hovel, the crazy, DOS-using woman threw the magical dice onto the table in the vain hope that they would help her to divine her sound card base address as she cackled, alone. Outside, a woman pulled her child closer as they passed by.
Oh wait, inspired by the symbols on the dice?
Oh wait, inspired by the symbols on the dice?
#HalloweenStoryDice
No. 3 of 7
💀🧟♀️🎲 Reply or Quote Tweet with a story inspired by these randomly thrown thingies.
No. 3 of 7
💀🧟♀️🎲 Reply or Quote Tweet with a story inspired by these randomly thrown thingies.
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In her darkened hovel, the crazy, DOS-using woman threw the magical dice onto the table in the vain hope that they would help her to divine her sound card base address as she cackled, alone. Outside, a woman pulled her child closer as they passed by.
Oh wait, inspired by the symbols on the dice?
Oh wait, inspired by the symbols on the dice?
You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts (or Acorns in this case).
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts (or Acorns in this case).
The Morrissey lyric we didn't know we needed.
Last night I dreamt I left my jumper at someone's house.
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Morrissey lyric we didn't know we needed.
Hey! Thanks for the repost, Naomi. This is the disorder I've had for 33 years, and getting a diagnosis was a long, difficult journey.
Great article by Michael Reed (from 2020) about his experience with Sighted Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder. I remember feeling so thrilled when I first read this.
#Non24 #Circadian #Sleep
@rhydermike.bsky.social
metro.co.uk/2020/11/15/w...
#Non24 #Circadian #Sleep
@rhydermike.bsky.social
metro.co.uk/2020/11/15/w...
What it feels like... to always be tired
Family, friends, tutors, employers - I think they all assumed that I was being lazy, but I was trying my best. This illness has the dual baggage that comes with being both rare and invisible.
metro.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hey! Thanks for the repost, Naomi. This is the disorder I've had for 33 years, and getting a diagnosis was a long, difficult journey.
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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The irony is that today is also International E-Waste Day. Wonder how much this will contribute to the pile.
October 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The irony is that today is also International E-Waste Day. Wonder how much this will contribute to the pile.
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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With the current Steam sale, the game I worked on is practically free. But hey, if you don't have it and it seems like something you'd like, be one of the first three to hit me up in the DMs while it's still on sale and I'll gift it to you.
store.steampowered.com/app/1362780/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1362780/...
Save 80% on Guildmaster: Gratuitous Subtitle on Steam
Command an ever changing party of four heroes into turn-based tactical combat, in this challenging and irreverent fantasy adventure.
store.steampowered.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
With the current Steam sale, the game I worked on is practically free. But hey, if you don't have it and it seems like something you'd like, be one of the first three to hit me up in the DMs while it's still on sale and I'll gift it to you.
store.steampowered.com/app/1362780/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1362780/...
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Doesn't look different, but a decent rewrite has prepared me for the next stage, which is the map itself stays central, but when zoomed/panned the grid lines alter etc.
Need to add position labels to the grid ticks...
Think Powermonger or Zarch :-)
Need to add position labels to the grid ticks...
Think Powermonger or Zarch :-)
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Doesn't look different, but a decent rewrite has prepared me for the next stage, which is the map itself stays central, but when zoomed/panned the grid lines alter etc.
Need to add position labels to the grid ticks...
Think Powermonger or Zarch :-)
Need to add position labels to the grid ticks...
Think Powermonger or Zarch :-)
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Deus Ex Remastered?
Well. Is it REALLY Deus Ex, if a guard doesn't give up his search for you after two minutes, then announce 'Maybe it was just a homeless guy" before standing next to the corpse of his friend, whom you just murdered in front of him.
Well. Is it REALLY Deus Ex, if a guard doesn't give up his search for you after two minutes, then announce 'Maybe it was just a homeless guy" before standing next to the corpse of his friend, whom you just murdered in front of him.
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Deus Ex Remastered?
Well. Is it REALLY Deus Ex, if a guard doesn't give up his search for you after two minutes, then announce 'Maybe it was just a homeless guy" before standing next to the corpse of his friend, whom you just murdered in front of him.
Well. Is it REALLY Deus Ex, if a guard doesn't give up his search for you after two minutes, then announce 'Maybe it was just a homeless guy" before standing next to the corpse of his friend, whom you just murdered in front of him.
Send him list of applicants and the code to remove his node from the list.
A dude who I failed in my Advanced Data Structures class for cheating 20 years ago just applied for a job at my company! 🤣
a man wearing glasses and a necklace is sitting in front of a wooden railing and making a funny face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a necklace is sitting in front of a wooden railing and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Send him list of applicants and the code to remove his node from the list.
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I’m feeling the same as Iain and I think it’s singing we should be able to talk about, as terrifying as I find it.
I'm 52 and my memory is getting worse...embarrassing and concerning (to me at least). Is it happening to any other men of a similar age?
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I’m feeling the same as Iain and I think it’s singing we should be able to talk about, as terrifying as I find it.
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Hi to all my new followers! I’m writing a 3D games engine for the Spectrum Next. Currently working on filled polygon clipping, hence all the posts about triangles. It’s mostly in assembler, with functions easily callable from C in z88dk. The post below shows you where I’m up to on that.
Hit a major milestone with the Spectrum Next 3D engine. The maths, rotate and render routines are now in assembler and easily callable from C or assembler. Still need to fix the filled triangle clipping, add filled circle clipping and write a vector circle routine. Other than that, job's a good-un.
September 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hi to all my new followers! I’m writing a 3D games engine for the Spectrum Next. Currently working on filled polygon clipping, hence all the posts about triangles. It’s mostly in assembler, with functions easily callable from C in z88dk. The post below shows you where I’m up to on that.
The days of spending most of your time on individual websites are long gone gone. I haven't signed a guestbook (or seen an 'under construction' sign) in years.
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The days of spending most of your time on individual websites are long gone gone. I haven't signed a guestbook (or seen an 'under construction' sign) in years.
Get a Pentium 4 PC. With the heat it puts out, alongside the massive fan it needs, it can probably handle most of those tasks, given a bit of extra ducting.
All I want is one machine that does everything I need.
Give me a god damn PC Mac hybrid air-fryer teasmade bean to cup coffee machine vacuum cleaner games console.
It’s 2025 and it’s frankly ridiculous that it doesn’t already exist.
Give me a god damn PC Mac hybrid air-fryer teasmade bean to cup coffee machine vacuum cleaner games console.
It’s 2025 and it’s frankly ridiculous that it doesn’t already exist.
September 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Get a Pentium 4 PC. With the heat it puts out, alongside the massive fan it needs, it can probably handle most of those tasks, given a bit of extra ducting.
CLICK
Your gateway to the smoothest, fastest PC graphics of the late 90s.
September 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
CLICK
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No work today, think I might just pick a random local location with a train station and go nose at charity shops
August 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
No work today, think I might just pick a random local location with a train station and go nose at charity shops
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EGA graphics at some of their loveliest. Skillfully using the limited palette to strike a certain mood and aesthetic. 💜💙
📺: Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Sierra On-Line/Two Guys from Andromeda, 1989 (DOS PC)
📺: Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Sierra On-Line/Two Guys from Andromeda, 1989 (DOS PC)
August 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
EGA graphics at some of their loveliest. Skillfully using the limited palette to strike a certain mood and aesthetic. 💜💙
📺: Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Sierra On-Line/Two Guys from Andromeda, 1989 (DOS PC)
📺: Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Sierra On-Line/Two Guys from Andromeda, 1989 (DOS PC)
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August 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
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Earthbound on 130 inch screen 🤯
August 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Earthbound on 130 inch screen 🤯
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one thing I really liked about Superman is that there wasn’t a single scene where it seemed like they made David Corenswet stop drinking water for days so his biceps would be extra veiny or whatever
July 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
one thing I really liked about Superman is that there wasn’t a single scene where it seemed like they made David Corenswet stop drinking water for days so his biceps would be extra veiny or whatever