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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The thing more annoying than the continuous games and tech industry bad news lately is the inability to visit certain online spaces anymore without an immediate, relentless assault of doomerism.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

it may be disgustingly hot right now but my 8 week old slept for 7 hours straight last night at least so that's nice

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Never before have I been so glad to have the NHS than the last week. The maternity services have been absolutely incredible, across multiple hospital stays, home visits. Just amazing support, and at a moments notice without question.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

CULTIC getting me in the christmas spirit

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

www.gamesradar.com/games/tomb-r... Hold up. The other new game is a remake of the first game, and connects the reboot-trilogy Lara to the current one, which incidentally is the same as the one in the Legend Trilogy, which itself contains a remake of the first Tomb Raider game? I need to lie down.

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Tomb Raider: Catalyst picks up "years after" 2008's Underworld, finally continuing Lara Croft's story from the Legend trilogy after almost two decades

Don't worry though, it's designed "for everyone"

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Definitely prefer this version of the cover

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Total War Official @totalwar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There is no peace amongst the stars. youtu.be/KVgCDqLTaJk

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It's pretty funny how we went from "the internet is great, if one node goes down we can just reroute so there's no single point of failure that can take out half the internet" to "lol, half the internet is down because of AWS" "again"

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ah I see it's that time that comes around every few years, "Can I make it past the half way point of a Between the Buried and Me album before I turn it off"

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

need another quiet saturday night like this one again soon

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Fun fact: as a technical designer, GAS can stand for both Gameplay Ability System and Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Grabbed a JHS 3 Reverb Pedal. I'm bestowing this thing the "most satisfying pedal click" award. Everything else just feels wrong now.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

today is a momentous day as we have finally paid off our car it also hopefully marks an end to the "UWU ARE YOU SUUUURE YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT" emails from the car financing people

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

looking at the new games workshop logo and for some reason wondering if bolt thrower ever reformed they'd use this logo

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Moved into our house this week. It's great, but: lightswitches. WTF. "Let me just turn the hall light on" "Nope, that's the upstairs landing. Nope, that's the porch light. Nope, that's the kitchen. Nope, that's the downstairs loo. Wait, what, there's only 3 switches?"

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

against my better judgement I read a games tech thread on resetera today and learned that because a lot of people don't know what anti aliasing is that games don't actually need it

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I do solemnly swear that if I ever get to start my own game studio in the future, I will make a cool modestly scoped game as a foundation and not promise to redfine the entire industry with my quintuple A hubris

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

One thing in the game price discourse that makes me laugh is pointing out how N64 games were, and that they're cheaper after inflation than games are today. As if they live in the alternate universe where wages even remotely kept up with inflation and we aren't all significantly poorer than then.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I don't really have a horse in this "dev team size" race that's going on at the moment, but I'm happy that all of the most annoying people on the internet have something new that they don't really understand to be really annoying about.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

sorry random toad player, but lets be honest you probably deserved it

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The letters from the car finance people are incredible. "hey you'll have finished owing us money next month! If you don't let us know what's next we'll be forced to assume you just want to keep your car instead of taking on more debt from us!" Like yes I bought the car so I could keep it

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Lots of amazing stuff in Mario Kart World, but so far the online races feel like a massive miss to me. It's basically like the only thing that actually matters is how close to the finish line you are when your turn to get battered by 8 billion items and sent to last place comes around.

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Creative Assembly Official @creative-assembly.com · 02/06/2025

Our team has some open roles. Are you up to the challenge? ➡️www.creative-assembly.com/careers

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Every interview with Yvette Cooper

Spider-Man talking to Sauron, a humanoid pterodactyl.

Spider-Man: “With the majority Labour has, you could tax wealth, invest heavily in public services, improve people's lives!”

Sauron: “But I don't want to improve peoples lives! I want to be racist!”

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 06/05/2025

I think the GTA delay is good for almost everybody making games. Nobody has to compete with them for mindshare in 2025. Folks act like money flowing into "the industry" affects others, but it doesn't. This delay only affects GTA fans, who can wait, and take-two investors, who I don't care about.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I like the way these achievement names are written like linkedin job titles

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

doom wads, where the answer to the question of "what does this do" is always "8000 revenants, 12 archviles and a cyberdemon"

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

wow the Oblivion remaster is 120GB? I can't believe the devs didn't press the magic "compress all the assets losslessly" button, smh

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

good: the person selling the house we're buying has found somewhere to buy and it'll end the chain bad: why is moving house so expensive jesus christ

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Switch 2 preorders are weird. Official date is next week but most retailers seem to have been taking orders already, apparently including Nintendo themselves. Managed to get one ordered, but wonder if this means there's loads of stock and they're drip feeding it.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

my dog trying to wake me up at 6am

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I'd like to thank gumtree for my first tube amp

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Once a dog is an adult they should be called Cappoochinos, not Puppycinos

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

been playing custom Doom WADs a bit lately, as I want to play some of the biggest community stuff but not get absolutely pasted. Moonblood was pretty cool and honestly pretty brutal after about 10 maps. I could have done with a few fewer Archvile closets and trial/error ambushes mind.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Worked out how to do Harmonics properly on my guitar. Bad news for my wife, who will now have to put up with me playing the intro to Davidian over and over. Good practice for when I finally figure out doing pinch harmonics consistently though 😏

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"You know when you've been Tangoed"?

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I'm still in the first area but Avowed is a great and unapologetically game-y game. I've found treasure behind like 7 different waterfalls so far.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ah, another day goes by with me baffled how Confluence became the industry standard for internal knowledge sharing.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Occasionally while writing documentation, it occurs to me how weird the term "gameplay" is. Unless I've missed something and people are actually using the terms "bookread" and "moviewatch" to describe the experience of those media too.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Saw The Halo Effect tonight. Basically comfort food for anyone who loved mid 2000s melodic death metal. Great support too.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm admittedly not an expert, but I feel like "we have to sneak this on your without your permission" is perhaps an indicator that people aren't that into your product and your goals of the product making you 8 trillion dollars per second could in fact be unrealistic.

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

going to repost this every time work makes me feel this way and see what percentage of my feed it ends up being

A pair of images from the anime "Gundam Reconquista in G", in which in the first a character smugly declares himself a genius, but in the second is clearly in distress and states "oh no!"

(Yes, I did have to google what the origin lf this meme is for this alt text)

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Adam Rhys Boulton @adambysea.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'd like to thank discord for delivering unto me the perfect response to use in Teams every time someone causes me the mildest inconvenience at work

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