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LazerFX

@lazerfx.co.uk
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The internet stranger. Very strange! Dad, husband, reader, developer, gamer. I'm not going to be on one subject. Pro-ethical-AI, which means anti- most current LLM implementations. There are no silver bullets.

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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 25/09/2026
That's only incidental - I had a pocket TV back in the day that was very similar (Though not exactly the same) as this. Tweak the dials and buttons a little, and you've got the layout on the game. I'm sure it's probably based on a real device, at least loosely.
A Casio TV-400 pocket TV
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Monument Valley 3, A beautiful game of exploration, puzzle solving in a reactive world. Less than 9% have completed the first main area, and only 10% of them have actually explored it enough to open the petals on flowers as you go past. Such a shame as so many are missing out on a beautiful gem.
A screenshot of achievements for monument valley - two are shown.  The first is "Making A Splash" - Complete the hidden fens.  Rare - 9% of players have.  The second is "Botanist" - Open all of the lily flowers in The Hidden Fens - Rare - 1% of players have.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 15/07/2026
Verify your age. I still have the Dark Wheel novella somewhere...
A BBC model B, with Elite running on it.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 09/06/2026
Post a cartoon you remember that nobody else remembers.
A screenshot from Bucky O'Hare
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 08/12/2025
And to prove it - I wrote a review.
A screenshot of a Steam review of Little Rocket Lab by LazerFX.  "This is such a cute little cozy-Factorio. I mean - honestly, it's like someone crossed Star Dew Valley with Factorio and a touch of Satisfactory (So. Many. Conveyorbelts!) Sure, there could be more depth - but it's a cozy game! Sure, it could be easier - but it's a Factorio-like. The characters are lovely, the world is nicely realised and there's lots to keep you going - and rebuilding, and restructuing and... huh, maybe if I move these things around I can make 100% utilisation?

I'm no where near completed, but I'm enjoying it so far."

The review has a thumbs up.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 13/10/2025
Rip Ozzy - what a great game, and what legends.
The Guardian of Metal from Brutal Legend, played by Ozzy Ozbourne... a Druidic Metal dude with pink glasses, long flowing dark hair, a black robe and lots of rings.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 02/08/2025
On holiday in Dorset... A week away with extended family. Been to Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens. Had a great wander around, some cream teas, fun feeding some fish... Saw some carnivorous plants...
A blue damselfly on yellow flowersSmall Venus Fly TrapsA bumble bee on a plant
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 23/07/2025
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
Poster for Groundhog DayPoster for Groundhog Day
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 21/07/2025
I introduced my 12 year old nephew to Civilization with the epic store giveaway... I've since had to apologise to his parents... Mission achieved. Thanks to you and the team for many decades of fun...
WhatsApp text message: "hi uncle Peter I have just got civ 6 and it is MEGA fun thanks for the recommendation" "Awesome, glad to hear it"
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 16/07/2025
And we've got it... Supposed to be on Sunday, but the loan was approved but took way longer than said to clear (thanks Santander, you suck). It's shiny. It's electric. I'm... Still slightly freaked out it's so expensive... But it's so nice!
A shiny blue Mercedes EQA
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 10/07/2025
If you see this, drop an old pic you still love. Me and my daughter, grinning at each other. A snapshot of a moment, my wife takes the best photos.
Me and my daughter, grinning at each other
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 06/07/2025
Skircle? Skircle... Skircle. Such a silly name.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 01/07/2025
Agreed.
Custard.  Half-pint, full fat, sugared, thick enough to stand your spoon in, Birds proper custard, fresh out of the microwave.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 01/07/2025
Oh that's amazing! One of my favourite animals at our local zoo is the giant otters... They came out and posed for us last time we were there...
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 30/06/2025
You go. 10/20 vision coming up... Ignore the warning sign, it's not relevant.
Yellow Laser Danger sign, saying, "DANGER Do not look into laser with remaining eye"
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 26/06/2025
I grew up on these streets
Micro Racer for the BBC-B
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 24/06/2025
And because someone had to do it... HL3!
Half life 3 logo
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 24/06/2025
I know, another one, but there are so many to miss... Given the original is a pure, near-perfect-for-its-time game... I want another real, 3d, sands of time.
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 24/06/2025
Another one I miss...
Logo of Ultima X: Odyssey
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 24/06/2025
Good one... Given how much I liked Privateer and Wing Commander, this bites deep. Yes, I backed it. Yes, I try the alpha every so often. Yes, I never get to a ship, getting stuck in a lift or in a door or on a tram.
The Star Citizen logo
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 23/06/2025
Monday vibe check.
Frazzled owl, with caption "No coffee, No workee."
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 18/06/2025
This is who runs this account...
Young me...
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 14/06/2025
For those interested, the custard in question, demonstrating it's real, good, thick custard.
A pint of custard, fresh out of the microwave. Made with Birds Custard Powder, Whole Milk and a touch of sugar, it's demonstrating it's best quality: the spoon is stood up in it.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 03/06/2025
Meme image.  Top caption says, "Stop.".  Below it, on what looks to be a leather book cover, is a standard claw hammer and a bottle of Tesco Thyme.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 01/06/2025
Am I fuck. And you can't stop me.
Completion stats - 24% average of over 900 games
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 30/05/2025
So... Nice Day for Fishing is out. It's based on Vive the Dirt League, and is itself, very Meta. But we've gone a level deeper - this is the Steam Page for the game. Where we have an actor that features in that video series, that features a made up game, that has become a real game he's playing.
Steam page for "Nice Day for Fishing", showing one of the actors who plays a character in the Vive la Dirt League YouTube series, playing the game that features the character that he plays.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 28/05/2025
Barely anybody there today, and I thought there would be with it being half term... Still, got a photo of a bat peeing, so there's that.
A bat at Chester Zoo, flipped right way up hanging on to it's branch with its wings, peeing.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 28/05/2025
At @chesterzoo.bsky.social ... Meerkat came over to say hello to my daughter
My daughter is in a "dome" in the meerkat enclosure with a meerkat looking at her. A strangers finger looks like it's pointing her out.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 27/05/2025
Old man eats breakfast with coffee! News at 10...
Me, with a coffee cup
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 18/05/2025
89% L from Death Note (Haven't watched/read it, only summaries, so can't comment. 88% Alex Dunphy (My favourite character from that show) 87% Egon Spengler (The best ghostbuster!) 87% Temperance Brennan (Awesome). Yeah, I'll take that - the characters I know are spot on what I want to be/feel I am
L from Death NoteAlex Dunphy from Modern FamilyEgon Spengler from GhostbustersTemperance Brennan from Bones
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 17/05/2025
Just checked, looks like clearsky doesn't think I'm on any AI pfp list at the moment...
Image of clearsky profile check site, which shows my account (@lazerfx.co.uk) is on only one list, "Google"
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 08/05/2025
Others seem to be doing this so... Here's mine again.
A Skircle with lots of cool peeps
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 07/05/2025
I don't think that's a Pyrenean... but it does remind me of ours (He was a monster). Wonderful looking animal!
A picture from somewhere either late-70's or early-80's - a woman and (very large) white dog posing in front of sand dunes.  The woman is my Mother, the dog is a Pyrenean Mountain Dog named Kahn.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 01/05/2025
If you this post, post a robot
A picture of D.A.R.Y.L, Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform (1985 movie)
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 25/04/2025
Car hit the funny milestone...
A picture of a speedometer, with a total vehicle mileage showing 80082, the classic "BOOBS" number.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 14/04/2025
Went to Alton Towers with my daughter. Ended up in a mini sealife centre watching a shark named Hercules. 10/10, would go again.
A giant aquarium wall, with a spotted shark in the background, and a girl in the foreground
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 27/03/2025
Now that's better. Still a stupid mistake, but I needed to get off the bog anyway.
Block blast high score screen showing a score of 76525
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 26/03/2025
Best score in my family semi-extended family... I keep making stupid mistakes that drive me nuts.
Picture of "best score" with a score of 39474.  Game is Block Master.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 11/02/2025
Gave blood today... There's a little more O+ out there.
A puncture mark in an inner elbow curve, on the vein.  There are plaster marks around it.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 09/02/2025
For no reason.
Three frames.  The first two are from Star Wars on Hoth.  Luke Skywalker striking the AT-AT with his lightsaber and then the next frame, it collapsed in the snow.  The final frame is Lord of the Rings, Gimli, with the caption, "That still only counts as one!"
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 09/02/2025
Heaven. Distilled.
Coffee pouring into a cup from a barista-style espresso machine
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 08/02/2025
It's a, "don't top up with water, just do the whole cup with espresso pulls" sort of day.
A partially drunk cup of coffee, the crema nearly all gone.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 07/02/2025
Ok, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and @dnellicious.bsky.social - stop being reasonable, this is social media, you're meant to fight to the death for your opinion! /s Seriously though, this is why I like bsky. Opinions can be different *without* the vitriol of other places. Thanks!
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social: nobody needs a Buffy reboot. Buffy is perfect left just as it was after seven sessions. What we need is a 1970s-set prequel centred around the mysterious misspent youth of Rupert Gilles.

Unfriendly Black Hottie @dnellicious.bsky.social: I'm happy with a Buffy reboot if SMG wants to be involved. It's my favourite show and her being comfortable with it make[sic] me comfortable with it. If I end up not liking it, I'll simply not watch and it will have little to no effect on my feelings regarding the original run.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 10/01/2025
I had to re download it, but only because I'd recently cleared my downloaded items folder. This was my PFP for a while...
A frazzled owl, looking tatty, with the caption, "no coffee, no workee"
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 08/01/2025
My daughter wrote me a note in Minecraft. She's 7... And my heart is melting.
A photograph of a steam deck, with a Minecraft book open, with the words, "I love you so much Daddy I will  love you so much Daddy."
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 08/01/2025
My daughter is in Chester today, playing at being a Roman :⁠-⁠D
A group of school kids, with faux Roman shields and foam swords, going through Chester town centre near Carliccios.  They all seem to be having a great time with big grins on their faces.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 06/01/2025
I'm good. These ladies kick ass. Though... I may end up embroiled in something way deeper and twister than I thought.
The cast and main characters of Warrior Nun
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 02/01/2025
Just dropped the bins out for pickup tomorrow AM, and saw these beautiful frost patterns on the car bonnet... Lovely.
Beautiful frost fractal fern patterns on a car bonnet
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 28/12/2024
I fixed stick drift on my daughters PS5 controller - she was gutted as the stick was 'snapping' to full-left when slightly touched... followed iFixit's guide, cleaned the 'wiper' disks, and... it's working at the moment. Happy dad moment, as she was very upset. Let's see how long it lasts!
The interior of a PS5 controller, showing the 'wiper' disk compartments snapped openThe wiper discs of a PS5 controller thumb stick, showing a 'gunked' one on the left, and a 'clean' one on the right.
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LazerFX @lazerfx.co.uk · 24/12/2024
I usually hate copy/paste memes, but this is just my 43 year old ass so much. Life is just a constant struggle with this and nobody acknowledges it.
Post from twitter by @ida42069 saying, "Hold on so you're telling me when people say they're lazy they mean it's cause they chose not to do something and not because their body and mind is physically stopping them while simultaneously screaming at them to do it?"
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