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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 1d

FWIW I think his gnome books for kids are his best

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 1d

Agree. I think you can see the HHG influence in the first few books; travelogues loosely linking amusing/"amusing" ideas. He quickly gets more into plot and character and generally becomes more accesible, funny, and just overall better than Adams ever managed.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 1d

Interrupting hiatus to say that I really appreciate @wyrdscience.bsky.social @johnpower.bsky.social
Sure, you can google games articles, but the very act of curation is one of love. And to have such a publication available is special!
Gives me the same feelings as Under the Radar from college days

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 1d

... and there's plenty of health and safety/ bureaucracy complaining across the series which obviously plays well with small govt. anti "nanny state" ideas that the conservative party love.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 1d

Pratchett's left cred has been somewhat burnished since his passing I think. There's stuff in the books which would work for a young tory too; a certain new atheist/ internet arguer vibe to some of the discworld books (e.g. Small Gods) ...

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 2d

Just checked in on him, nowadays he's a "Fractional Ops Fixer"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 2d

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working on a freelance project working with a guy who had this as his linkedin bio...

a linked in bio screen-grabbed:
"Automation sniper. Ops Slayer. Occasional pitch roaster. No Mercy.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 2d

@timclare.bsky.social 👋 hi! I played my first couple of games of Joraku last night after getting hold of it off the back of seeing your YouTube video. I love it! So just wanted to say thanks

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 3d

n n n n nineteen?

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 3d

(my more out-there opinion is that we should use a log scale to delineate live stages)

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 3d

yeah, i've always thought 0-30 = young, 31-60 = middle aged, 61-90 = old, 91+ = living ancestor makes sense. i understand people not wanting to be middle aged because of cultural stereotypes etc. but tbh not accepting you're aging is the most culturally middle aged thing you can do.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 4d

I replied instead of quoting🙃

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 4d

Last 4 albums.

The Egyptian lover king of ecstasy (his greatest hits) a black guy in an 80s suit looking at us over his dark glasses whilst leaning on the door of his black Mercedes

Kal el astrall voyager. A sci-fi /fantasy illustration of a woman in armour with a cape standing on a a rock in front of a Rogers Dean style landscape

Conan, violence dimension. Fantasy illustration of adventurers approaching a big doorway to the stars

The armed, the future is here and everything needs to be destroyed. A Thai man driven a tricycle loaded up with cardboard and scrap

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 4d

Last 4 albums.

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 4d

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 4d

Show us the last four albums you listened to

DJ K - Radio Libertadores - a guy with a watch and gold chain in front of a scary clown face

Addison Rae - Addison - a young woman behind lots of yellow gauze

Bonnie Banane - L’Orguasme - two capering people in medieval garb

LSDXOXO - DGTL ANML - a robot drawing against a trippy blue background

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

isn't it an aesthetic like an accent? we all have one but can only notice other peoples

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

A highlight of NOW 13 for 10yr old me

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 5d

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

no probs, I know at least a couple of people who follow me on here are Dorothy L. Sayers fans

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

(screengrab is from the email you get if you sign up for news of the change)

Presumably this is a) some AI bloat b) subscription model, at which point why wouldn't I just go back to Adobe?

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

Urg! Affinity Designer and Publisher are both really great and the reason I like them is that they just let me get on with doing the job at hand, run decently fast and have fewer bugs than the competion. Can't emphasise enough how much I don't want "a shift in how creative freedom is defined"

"You've chosen to see the future first. Now you're at the front of the queue for what's next. This isn't just another update. It's the beginning of something new. A shift in how creative freedom is defined. Keep an eye on our social channels. We'll be sharing glimpses of what's about to unfold."

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 5d

a clear human rights violation

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 5d

On the off chance: Does anybody have these two Dorothy L. Sayers books *in these editions* and are willing to part with them for money? I'm finding it impossible to get my eager hands on them.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 7d

... tend to stick to non-microtransaction stuff these days like Slay The Spire but I do miss the competetive side.

Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 7d

I played Snap for a couple of months over the winter when it came out and decided I needed to step away. Like, I love that kind of card game but the full on addictive design and treadmill aspect to them too easily gets the hooks into me...

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 7d

Getting to legend was what finally freed me from the game. I spent £50 on the bundle and played at least like 2-3 hours a day for the season and still only just scraped in.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 7d

…No place for the kinetic joy of Super Mario World, the logistical puzzles of Factorio out the wild statistical playground of Disgaea