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@funambulism.com
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Stories, games, philosophy. Jew. Currently: Total War 40K, (TBA), ZEPHON, 40K: Gladius Previously: PUBG: Black Budget, Tides of Tomorrow, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Absolver... linktr.ee/griddleoctopus

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gril @funambulism.com · 30/09/2026
Looking at you and @vben.bsky.social and being very glad I'm not into game music.
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gril @funambulism.com · 29/09/2026
ZEPHON players live to troll me.
A massive structure representing ZEPHON lore, resting on a single tiny column labelled "a writer who thought Amoetia sounded cool."
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gril @funambulism.com · 10/09/2026
RP your home river.
The Irwell, where it turns into the Manchester Ship Canal.
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gril @funambulism.com · 09/09/2026
Just picked up Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar. Is it the first CYOA?
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gril @funambulism.com · 09/09/2026
Under this button in store preferences, I think? Weirdly they bundle reviews in other languages with "off-topic reviews", so you have to accept them as a package.
Review Score Settings on Steam
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gril @funambulism.com · 17/07/2026
I put every single writer (including you and Ben Gelinas) in a specific credits section on the very front page of the lore wiki, to ensure we all got credits when we left. And raised it internally before I left, made sure Those Who Remained knew about it. Even have a screenshot of it!
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gril @funambulism.com · 17/07/2026
Huge change to Mobygames - you can now comment on any credits you've received. Very handy if e.g. you gave your blood, sweat and tears for years, then only got a 'thanks'... (No, you're bitter.) Only for claimed profiles, not sure if requires sub. e.g. www.mobygames.com/person/61849...
The location of the new 'actually dude I did this' button on your developer profileAn example comment.
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gril @funambulism.com · 15/07/2026
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gril @funambulism.com · 02/07/2026
Bang goes my teenage buddy holly look. Might go for this look instead tho:
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gril @funambulism.com · 29/06/2026
Huh, that's the first time I've seen someone's cause of death listed as... death.
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gril @funambulism.com · 22/06/2026
'Starmer is resign.' (Never change Grauniad.)
Starmer confirms he is resign.
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gril @funambulism.com · 18/06/2026
Didn’t realise I’d gone so dark in my dotage…
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gril @funambulism.com · 18/06/2026
The lyrics of Shiny Happy People remapped to a terrible, terrible pyramid.
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gril @funambulism.com · 17/06/2026
Though I was apparently on the BBC News for about a second because I was sat beneath a shrine to Modrić yesterday…
Two old geezers in a Croatian bar in Whitstable. Gril is the old geezer on the left.
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gril @funambulism.com · 17/06/2026
Venus directly above the moon…
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gril @funambulism.com · 15/06/2026
(context)
As it is, once the power of Doom's graphics has worn off (they're amazing, so give that at least a week or two), you'll be longing for something new in this game. If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances… Now, that would be interesting. [7]
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gril @funambulism.com · 12/06/2026
Heyyyy that’s not Plato’s Atlantis shtick! You’re doing biased *storytelling* to push your moral case… to be fair, Plato would probably approve.
Plato’s Atlantis story from the Timaeus.
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gril @funambulism.com · 11/06/2026
Oh my feed:
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gril @funambulism.com · 07/06/2026
Slightly proud of my Rude Raiders rhino and Forgefiend. Think I’m just going to go full on graffiti with my chaos boys.
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gril @funambulism.com · 26/05/2026
Perils of a colourblind cook. Does this broccoli look normal? It looks weirdly bright to me, which makes me worry it’s not actually green…
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gril @funambulism.com · 13/05/2026
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gril @funambulism.com · 13/05/2026
I know very little about what Wes "Mumsnet Zippy" Streeting believes (beyond his anti-trans stance and that he's owned by private healthcare interests...) but I do know he reminds me physically of Peter Creedy.
Lovely Mr Peter Creedy from V for Vendetta.
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gril @funambulism.com · 03/05/2026
Richard Dawkins talking to Claudia, his named chatbot.
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gril @funambulism.com · 30/04/2026
Holy crap. Forget ‘build a better mousetrap.’ Someone designed a (fantastically simple) self-inflating whoopee cushion. I am now optimistic for the 21st century.
The self-inflating whoopee cushion. Fantastically simple. Several air inlets allow it to refill from any orientation.A bouncy foam interior means it self-inflates when compression is removed.
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gril @funambulism.com · 29/04/2026
Asking an AI trained only on data up to the 1930s (hence copyright-free I assume) about the prospects for AIs in the future... talkie-lm.com/chat
The AI answers: "I think such a result is barely possible. I hold it to be by no means impossible that machines may be so improved, in the course of years, as to be capable of receiving and obeying impulses from without, and of acting upon them in a manner bearing a certain analogy to the operations of the human mind. At present, however, I confine myself to machines purely automatic."
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gril @funambulism.com · 29/04/2026
Currently running at very positive - 90% on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2678080/... So pleased for them, one of the loveliest, kindest teams I've ever worked with. (Especially, ledrien.bsky.social, who made En Garde, who stepped up as Game Director!)
90% of reviews say it's just lovely.
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gril @funambulism.com · 24/04/2026
-and thought as my body got all prickly all over, “this is a dumb way to die”. But I didn’t! (I don’t think.) And the boy got his boat back! And I feel like a hero! SoI rewarded myself with a lovely eggnog-ice-cream coffee or two and did some work. How was your day? Xx Gril
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gril @funambulism.com · 24/04/2026
-and he said “oh”, so very sadly, his chin moving chestwards, “oh, my son‘s boat, the battery died. It is out there-” and pointed. Way out on the waves was bobbing a little remote control boat, so I turned around, went back into the freezing water to get it-
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gril @funambulism.com · 24/04/2026
Went for a swim in the Schliersee today. 11° and lasted about 30 seconds before my feet and hands went numb. As I stumbled out, a very serious German glasses-beard in a bright orange suit came over to me and barked “Are you going back in?” I assumed that he was going to tell me off, so I said “no”-
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gril @funambulism.com · 04/04/2026
Oh, what a book that was! Felt like the Cambridge Latin Course, but with dinosaurs. That cover image! (I only just realised there was a series of books! Mind blown.)
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gril @funambulism.com · 04/04/2026
The ultimate power fantasy. You are... Donkey! Romancer of dragons! Friend of Shrek! Parent to frankly disturbing donkey-dragon hybrids!
You are Donkey, romancer of dragons! Friend of Shrek! Parent to frankly disturbing donkey-dragon hybrids!
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gril @funambulism.com · 01/04/2026
Yes, I had to use it to post this. If you win, you get to use social media for a bit and a link to: archive.is/2026.03.28-1...
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gril @funambulism.com · 01/04/2026
Bwahaha. Opal (an excellent focus app) has updated the minigames you need to complete to use social media, etc… Alt-text: “Mark Zuckerberg’s decapitated head flapping wildly to avoid lawsuits.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s decapitated head flapping wildly to avoid lawsuits.
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gril @funambulism.com · 31/03/2026
So glad someone took the time to paint hazard stripes around Perturabo’s head. Be awful if someone got hurt. #40k
New Iron Warriors artwork.Perturabo’s noggin.
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gril @funambulism.com · 13/03/2026
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gril @funambulism.com · 10/03/2026
@berkbig.bsky.social haha. Random 'death prediction' labeller says you'll drown at sea (very SoT)... in a mini-bar (very sot.)
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gril @funambulism.com · 10/03/2026
:partridge shrug:
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gril @funambulism.com · 10/03/2026
bsky.app/hashtag/What... Quarter of a century in games and I STILL HAVE ALL MY OWN TEETH, DEAR. Freelance writer/designer on Nightingale, Tides of Tomorrow, Warhammer games, weird indie 4xes, and anything philosophical. (funambulism.com/portfolio/) Lover of line art.
Sometimes I'm a vampire.Sometimes a tiger! RAAARRRRRR
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gril @funambulism.com · 26/02/2026
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Friends.
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gril @funambulism.com · 26/02/2026
Just giggggggling and giggling!
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gril @funambulism.com · 24/02/2026
Hark at the golden age when pies were currency... (A 1949 stamp worth 9 pies from the Princely State of Bahawalpur.)
A 1949 stamp worth 9 pies from the Princely State of Bahawalpur.
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gril @funambulism.com · 13/02/2026
LOL at the r/patientgamers mods policy on Hogwarts Legacy.
"Like many of you I have 27 kids and 3 jobs so I then have to choose between spending my afternoon with my family or reading a hundred hateful comments. As much as I like banning Nazis, I'd much rather play some Deep Rock with my progeny.

Hogwarts Legacy posts will be auto-removed until one of the following occurs:

Reddit gives us the anti-brigading tools they promised a decade ago

The world finally stops being dicks to trans people

JK Rowling drops dead so she stops getting money from the game

We figure out a better way to do this"
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gril @funambulism.com · 08/02/2026
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gril @funambulism.com · 08/02/2026
Our bigmode jam game about “a life, through tongue”.
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gril @funambulism.com · 26/01/2026
Taking great pleasure in staring at the texture in this. Mmm.
RUST (not the Hobbesian game, duh.)
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gril @funambulism.com · 22/01/2026
Conway Hall is using this photo of me and two other beardies to promote their ethical gala… mailchi.mp/conwayhall.o... I am very flattered! (@conwayhall.bsky.social)
Three big old white beards, almost ethically entangling.
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gril @funambulism.com · 22/01/2026
Here! Being grasped by an octopus.
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gril @funambulism.com · 13/01/2026
#FFF8E7 is the average colour of the universe’s galaxies, known as ‘cosmic latte’.
Cosmic latte colour.
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gril @funambulism.com · 06/01/2026
These tiny fences, bottom right. Futhermuckers!
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gril @funambulism.com · 18/12/2025
Haha. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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