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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am finding Jane Eyre a much more difficult read than I ddid Frankenstein. I feel like I understood Frankenstein as I read it, but much more of Eyre appears to be hiding from me. I am still greatly enjoying it though, it is nice to be challenged.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All games appear on the following scale. fun <------------> not fun It is not just possible, but expected that you might put a game in a wildly different place than someone else. The meaning of 'fun' is subjective, thre scale pointless. That is my entire theory of games.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One game I really want to play is Halls of Hegra. I am not much into wargames set in real world conflicts, but this one game in particular looks like it would suit me very well as a big fan of both Nemos War and Robinson Crusoe. I am not allowed to buy it until I clear more shelf space though.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This nights are drawing in and the weather is changing which means we are nearly at the "James plays boardgames by himself" part of the year. I have some new games to dive into thus year, but first let me highlight my favorites from last year. #boardgames

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am reading Jane Eyre for the first time and it might be the best book I read ever. I can not out it down. I was not normally one for 19th century literature, but after reading Frankenstein the bug appears to have bitten me.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am old enough to remember when we called it a bug when software behaved in unexpected and unpredictable ways. I also remember when we used to write software to solve problems instead of looking for problems to affix to the software we just wrote.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A sudden need to drink a south Australian Shiraz.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Make a band bigger: SOMEFX Major Threat Medium Brown Bike More than Jake One Use for a Name. The Beastie Men.

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Athena Games in Norwich has such a cool collection of tabletop games! 🎲 You can find Hunter: The Reckoning Legacy of Defiance there! 🏹 #norwich #ttrpg #worldofdarkness

Photo of Arthur holding a copy of Legacy of Defiance in front of a bookshelf full of games.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The commodification of happiness.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have my hands on a deck of fuchsia coloured bicycle playing cards and I think they might be my favorite thing ever, but I bought them for someone else and so can not have them.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The words liminal and whimsy are already banned. Now any word ending with 'maxing' will also be banned. None of these words are viable anymore.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I had finished my summer reading books so went to the library and plucked a cometely random book I had never heard of off the shelf. The book was The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, and I am not disappointed. vibes of On a Winters Night a Traveller and We Have Always Lived In This Castle.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How's this for wild. A game, and stay with me here, that you actually play! Wild.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There are lots of book people feel like they should have read, and feel bad for not. It's OK to just not. I will not read Dracula. I tried and bounced off it. Doesn't make me a bad reader, I just wasn't enjoying it, and if you aren't enjoying it move on. Its fine, there are worse things.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My superpower is getting soft toys out of claw grabbers. 2 so far today.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It has been so long since I drank a pint, let alone one on a warm evening in a beer garden with good company, that I forgot quite how nice it is to do.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Google docs is climate issue when you could just edit text locally.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have awoken with the inexplicable urge to listen to To the 5 Boroughs by the Beastie Boys from start to finish, so that's a portion of my day sorted.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am.old enough to remember when Warhammer didn't require you to remortgage your kidneys to get started in. It used to be a pocket money hobby.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What if instead of a password you had to unlock your PC by completing a text adventure only you knew the way through?

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have been listen to the Blue Meanies a lot recently.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have been working on "The Little Green Game" for about 3 years, and have scrapped the whole thing in its entirety twice. Now it is thrice. Back to the drawing board.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So I put a bottle of Merlot in the fridge because it's hot and I waned a drink and it was hot, and all I had. I have to say, chilled red is fine.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I was told by left leaning folks to give Burnham the benefit of the doubt until whatever time and I refused. And this is the correct course of action. The benefit of my doubt will be earned, not granted.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Am I the only one excited for Rules of Meloch? I think this little asymmetric Sythe vs Expeditions thing looks pretty good.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Have you tried writing things down with a pen and paper instead of taking 'notes' on a computer? So much better.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I carefully tend and care for all the plants and make sure they have what they need to thrive, and how do they repay me? Raw eyes, runny nose, coughing. Why flowers, why? Why do you do this to me? I want to be your friend.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I was actually considering buying a PlayStation 5 the other day as one of the kids is a little older and we can find games to play together. But I'll pass if physical games will phase out because kids swapping and trading in games is part of the fun.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There is something about a day where already struggling game designers are expected to give sometching away for free to many people who wouldnt pay as a penance for barely scraping by that I find bad.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Earlier I wrote the best ttrpg that ever has, or will, exist. Not just the best ttrpg, but the best game. Just reading the rules made all past and future play feel hollow and futile. I burned it so that you might all enjoy games still and not be cursed with the knowledge of perfect play.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If AI coding tools will make me more productive and churn out more code I will expect my wages to increase in line with the rise in output. The opposite argument is that you are a class traitor.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nothing says huge change in government like a blairite bringing in more blairites to run the clown show.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I am just saying that as an indie writer you need to give yourself a break. I am currently reading a mass print paper back and have found a random "p" on a pages, an "im" instead of an "in", and a "be" in place of a "he", and a missing "r" in "rain", and I'm not half way. Your editing is fin.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Poker dice. A set of dice where each face has a different fire poker on it.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Me: I will read some nice summery books this summer. Then: Frankenstein and a Susan Hill book about coping with loss.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

As soon as anyone on the news says "strong and stable" I instantly turn off and disregard anything they said because its all obviously bullshit.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

At some point in the near future I will be banned from this platform because I refuse to hand over my papers to a for profit company to get an ID so that I may use it.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Manifesto about how games trying to be taken seriously as an art for while aso trying to be palatable products has held us back.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Bought a bottle of gin but forgot to get tonic. I do, however, have ginger beer, so I guess we drirnk Foghorns tonight.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Dr Who, but the doctor is just Columbo.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We were not meant to have every aspect of our lives quantized and fed back to us as a statistic. Its bad for us. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I am going to make some absolute nonsense with these two. How handy that the MS20 Mini has a midi input.

Machine drum and ms20 mini sitting on my desk.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What if I made some music just using nothing but my Machinedrum? Is that something interesting? I should.

A machinedrum sitting in the corner of my desk. It is a silver drum machine covered in dark grey buttons and dials. There is a coaster made from old PCB sat on it for some reason.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's amazing that when I had one child I had time for designing games and I though that when we had two it would just half the ammout of time I had for such frivolity. Turns out that the amount of work children take stacks up exponentially.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Six episodes is the perfect length for a series, and 90 minutes is the perfect length for a film.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tony Blair is a little shithouse.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I really wish there was an open source rehash of Reason 3. Reason 3 was amazing. Building your little rack, flipping it over to patch it, crap sequencer, and endless limitations made it an absolute beast. Sometimes having less is more.

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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Grabbing a bottle of alcohol free Gordon's and making alcohol free Tom Collinses. Its that weather today.

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