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34m UK. Fanboy, gaymer, Digg (and Reddit?) refugee, ADHDer, occasional writer/designer/editor, lefty (handedness), and lefty (political).

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • meejle@lemmy.worldtoUKCasual@lemmy.worldWASDnesday
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    1 year ago

    It’s unsurprisingly one of those “can’t say much about it without ruining it” games, but suffice to say:

    It was very good and you should play it, but it was always going to be difficult for it to top the first one because you go into it having a fairly good idea of what’s going on.

    Also I just think this genre maybe works better with teenage characters than grown-ups, but that’s just me. 😁


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    Currently in that “trying to decide what to play next” headspace… but for a bonus point, I think the thing I completed last was Oxenfree II.

    Anyone else wishing they could buy the entire Steam Visual Novel Fest? 🥺

    I picked up Who’s Lila?, Coffee Talk, and Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane (despite not really being able to afford to 😬) and wish-listed a bunch of other stuff.


  • There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

    The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

    The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

    About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

    It was often “open” and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

    And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅



  • In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. Some have even called for the likes of Twitter to be temporarily suspended in times of great national crisis. That’d be reassuring – like the scene at the start of a zombie movie where the news bulletin is suddenly replaced by a whistling tone and a stark caption reading PLEASE STAND BY. The last thing we need in an emergency is the ability to share information.

    – Charlie Brooker on the 2011 London riots











  • Never forget that the classic video game Lemmings is itself a British creation.

    This would be my pitch:

    Alternate version and transparent PNG

    Still an official™️ Lemmings skin tone, but one from a later game I guess, in the interest of inclusivity:

    Transparent PNG in case anyone wants to remix it:

    Easy, relevant banner idea

    Use a screenshot like this one, but decide what they’re queueing for. Greggs? Woolies? Half-price biscuits? The possibilities are endless.



  • Although, people have been saying that since Ellen Pao and Voat… 😅

    I think you’re right to a point, but also, the whole fragmented fediverse thing is going to have to… at least be simplified if the “lurking voter” mainstream are going to end up here.

    Me (enthusiastically):
    “It’s federated, so you have to choose an instance! They’re all different, but they can all talk to each other! Some of them have different rules. Oh, and they can all have their own ‘videos’ community, so you have to decide which ones you want to follow. Also some of the instances are kbin and some are Lemmy, but most likely the website you log into won’t be called either of those things. And if you don’t curate your own frontpage (which doesn’t even show your subs by default) you’ll just see everything at once!”

    Average Internet user (starting a new Facebook account because they forgot their password):
    “reddit dot com has funny gifs on it”