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We didn't get a chance to try them, so now we get to have a taste!

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We only found them in one shop in Takayama. I wasn't a big fan of the red bean paste, and my wife actively hated it, but it seemed as common as strawberry jam over there so it was always amusing when we found it in something new (a doughnut, a cheesecake, a souffle, etc).

Red bean paste sandwich flavour. The flavour of a sandwich filled with red bean paste. Just in case that didn't parse correctly...

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For my wife and I's 10th wedding anniversary I bought her some red bean paste sandwich flavour kit kats. We saw these on our honeymoon and regretted not picking them up as we ended up buying a bunch of weird kit kat flavours and it turned out these were super regional.

A packet of red bean paste sandwich flavoured kit kats.

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That's one heck of a segue, spammer.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our house has ended up with horrible damp due to a leak, and the drying contractors have set up these plastic sheets and drying machines everywhere. It's giving off that lovely Dexter / ET vibe every homeowner is after.

Hallway covered in plastic sheets with plastic tubes ties to the ceiling.

Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In today's parenting fail, I bought my daughter a glue stick with a cute panda design, as she's obsessively into pandas right now. Today I found her using it as a lip balm. Had to explain to her again that it was glue, not lip balm. No idea no much glue she has applied to herself.

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Tuba Zef 🐟fishpersonshooter.com🐟 @tubazef.com · 12/07/2026

Very confusing series

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm really curious what this is because there are so many sections I can think of that would fit.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'd similarly like a Fallout-based game in the style of BG3. Interesting intra-party dynamics in a Fallout setting could be fantastic.

Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

With Count Binface as a potential unity candidate against Nigel Farage there is a chance to bring one element of Fallout London closer to reality.

Image from Fallout: London showing members of parliament, with one wearing a bin on his head.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@fubargames.bsky.social Hey, bonus Squardle boards seem to be down again.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Surely there's got to be a better way to phrase this?

Picture of text from news article including the phrase "Galop, an anti-LGBT abuse charity".

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I'm not going to defend anything he says, I just don't think it's rage-inducing.

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Overton window was way over there before Starmer ever started. I generally blame American politics and social media for polluting a lot of the discourse, but the asylum seeker stuff goes back decades.

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I disagree that he's been "radical" or "hard line" when you look at the right-wing discourse on those. Plus much of policy on those has been set by the courts, not the government. Starmer gives mealy-mouthed answers on these things for the most part.

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I'm certainly not going to miss him, but I'm not frothing about wanting him to go. And I'm pretty sure Burnham will be little different in terms of actual policies.

Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I in no way want to be in a position of defending Starmer, but I find a lot of the unbridled hatred for him quite strange. He's bland and uninspiring and isn't as hard left as I'd like, but he hasn't done anything heinous to justify extreme opinions like the last 5 PMs.

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Niche jams are probably a bit more insulated.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Re-sharing for the day crowd! We discuss generative AI in this month's episode, trying to ride a thread between the usual hate and hype.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For sale: Baby shoes. Not worn. They were a useless gift. No idea what my aunt was thinking. Babies don't need shoes.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

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Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Also I have particular love for this almost comicly grim bit of dialogue in the game.

Screenshots from the game Sliver of Sky. It shows a textbox with a ghost-like character named Whisper saying: "I heard a crying sound once from a deep crevasse. It sounded so pained, so tortured, that I had to go and look to see what poor soul was suffering so. But I looked and looked and could find no one. Yet still I heard it, from the deepest caves. Eventually I realised it was just an echo. The crying came from me."

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have, I think, quashed the last of the bugs in Sliver of Sky. Game is in a nicely polished state now, and as a small narrative-focused piece I'm pretty happy with it. It's nice to have a game with nothing else I'd want to add to it. darrengrey.itch.io/sliver

Screenshot from the game A Sliver of Sky. It features various enemies on a hex-based grid with a large open chasm on one side of the screen.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I got a new car and it has 360° cameras that display like a top down view when parking. Makes me feel like I'm playing Micro Machines.

360° car display showing a top down view of a car and its surroundings

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Resharing for the day crowd! We discuss over 30 of the most interesting seven day roguelikes made this year.

Temple of The Roguelike: 7DRL Shrine : 2026 7DRL Challenge Evaluation

Also the official juror results have now been published for this year's 7DRLs: roguetemple.com/7drl/2026/

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It seems good, nice and chunky decision-making, and the evoking economy is very cool. I need to play it with others though to really get a feel for it.

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We've got a new neighbour, but he seems like a complete ass. (Our previous neighbour was an absolute pig, but she passed away.)

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I recently bought Kutna Hora, a fairly complex board game, and decided to go through a 2 player game of it vs myself to learn the rules. After a tense 3 hours of complicated strategy and points scoring, the game ended 73 points each. I guess I need to up my game if I want to pull ahead of myself.

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@hapfairy.bsky.social My daughter has added her own review line to her copy of your novel. Her name is Scarlett Grey (and her sister's name is Violet) so she was really delighted to find your books. She's read the first of each series twice and is now going through the rest.

Scarlett and Ivy reader review page, with a hand-written addition: "This is really good. Scarlett age 7"

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Haha, glad it's all sorted now :)

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Reposting for the evening crowd! And happy April 1st, everyone :)

Screenshot of the game Omega Labyrinth Life. A girl wielding a sword is facing many monsters in a dungeon.

Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New Roguelike Radio episode! @rodneylives.bsky.social and I get deep into the mechanics of Omega Labyrinth Life, a Japanese Mystery Dungeon-inspired game. www.roguelikeradio.com/2026/04/epis...

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Episode 171: Omega Labyrinth Life

Darren Grey and John Harris discuss the Japanese roguelike Omega Labyrinth Life.

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“That’s a great title for a podcast but it sets a high bar.” Four minutes later: “And apparently clears it!”

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Someone found a serious bug in my 7DRL when using mouse movement. I forgot I even had mouse movement implemented! Was easy to fix with one line, but important lesson learned - don't implement game logic in your UI layer.

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Darren Grey @dgrey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I find it strangely invigorating for short periods. But it's not sustainable.