Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 1hExcept software engineers, and I'm wondering if we might be wrong. 000
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 2hIt's still a bad name (in English), literally sounds like it doesn't want to tell you what the game is about! You only remember it because it award-winning games get their names repeated a lot. The lesson is you can ignore this advice if you simply make a critically-lauded game. 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 22hI mean - yes and no. Good for preservation! But Claude hasn't hidden the fact that it's a derivative work of the PS5 SDK. So assuming Sony act, it'll have to live underground with the Switch emulators. 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 30/09/2026Like - fun! - but Sony are surely going to nuke this from orbit. 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 30/09/2026Whuh, is that just someone feeding the PS5 SDK and tools to Claude, putting a lot of coins in the meter, and asking it for a porting toolkit? 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 29/09/2026I just finished S3 & agree it's a (relatively brief???) saggy bit, juxtaposed with the very urgent & exciting a-plot. 010
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 29/09/2026These are the games I played with all the best people (via my9games.net/en/edit) 030
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 29/09/2026Yessss! Played it through on the Game Gear. I remember rinsing that game, but it was a real B-grade Sonic. 011
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 25/09/2026Oh yep it was Helldivers 2 that went from 154GB to 23GB. 000
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 25/09/2026classic! which game was it Very Recently which issued a minor update that reduced the total download & install size by 100GB or something. 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 25/09/2026Margaret Atwood must have done OK? (even if she'd reject the label) 000
Reposted by Matthew BlochBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381132807
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 21/09/2026As a creative coward I lovvvve those parts of game dev. Porting! Platform-complaint error handling! Bulletproof save code! Means players are gonna have a *reliably* good time. Give me the "boring" bits! 0270
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 20/09/2026That sounds a lot like Dinosaur Discovery - pretty exacting game with navigation, research etc. where the ultimate object was to find & hatch a dinosaur egg. Same classroom context, little groups, lots of discussion. 000
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 19/09/2026Yeah talk about not sticking the ending hoho 💉 Was explaining to my pal who'd never played the games that RE games never show normal life, the whole world is corporate zombie hell, 100% of the time. Can't break the spell. 010
Reposted by Matthew Blochgamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater 80169125715
Reposted by Matthew BlochCharles Snart (Histobat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today I found out that pretty much all the original footage from the live action filming sessions for both Myst and Riven are viewable online over on the Video Game History Foundation Library in their original quality and I think thats pretty damn neat.archive.gamehistory.orgRaw camera footageView Raw camera footage in the Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive. 1472147
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 16/09/2026Really not a fan of all these "30 year anniversary" reissues of stuff that was released surely like 8 or 9 years ago. 000
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 15/09/2026A ZX Spectrum game called Jumping Jack, played it when I was very young torinak.com/qaop/play/ju...torinak.com 110
Reposted by Matthew BlochRebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m all for a bit of library sounds ASMR, but this is… well…? 3164
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/09/2026I can't really share the poster I'm talking about but all the wonky details I mention are accurate. 030
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/09/2026AI-generated teaching material in a British school? 😮 That would be a head teacher complaint from me. I complained about an AI-generated poster to a supply teacher in my daughter's primary; haven't seen any slop from the school since. Hang on, I'll dig out the nice-but-firm wording... 120
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/09/2026is this in your wikipedia history by any chance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_...en.wikipedia.orgSexual roleplay - Wikipedia 0110
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/09/2026Either way there's nobody in Reform who knows what to do with £72m, other than steal it. 040
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/09/2026In theory they're a company limited by guarantee, so if it were wound up the assets would pass to the crown. In practice I'm sure they're already laundering the fuck out of it. 210
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 13/09/2026Is it worth the hassle of keeping up with exploits, compared to trading it in for an Anberic or similar? 100
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 10/09/2026The ground has shifted to whether we're describing vigilantes and pogroms as "protestors" or - well - lawless thugs. Also protestors about climate change are always "climate change protestors", but protestors about the existence of brown people are never "race protestors" etc. Just "protestors". 000
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 10/09/2026Thank you, immediately where my mind went. Ryanair should compensate them in bones. 030
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 09/09/2026There would be (are?) very strong antimemetic incentives on the inside of a profitable & well-embedded corporation directed by a small number of evil people. Feels like it's hard to imagine by design. 020
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 09/09/2026Has anyone seen Archie's jumper? (20 people answer "no" over the course of 6hrs) 031
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 08/09/2026They played this to my 5yo at school once and she still wants it at bedtime once in a while, a couple of years later 010
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 08/09/2026That's really rough, I'm sorry for your loss. 90s online friends lived in a faraway land beyond the modem, they are not a renewable resource :'( 010
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 07/09/2026🫶🏻 A pal of mine died at 19 and I post this great picture of him most years because nobody had digital cameras and also he hated cameras bsky.app/profile/matt... 011
Reposted by Matthew Blochtrouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Have you seen my snooker table, Doris? No farmer Griffiths. I haven't seen any snooker tables at all this morning. 15694161
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 05/09/2026Yeah a few lamppost flaggers in York somehow drew £20,000 to their GoFundMe last year, with a memecoin listed publicly as their largest individual donor. Given the strength of the public & council pushback, it didn't feel like a truly local movement. 010
Reposted by Matthew Blochonlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3829771280
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 02/09/2026I don't speak Dutch but "We hebben meer dan 100 flipperkasten in huis" delights me 180
Reposted by Matthew BlochJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth 223239798
Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 01/09/2026I've written code that screwed up this scene on 3 different platforms now! Glitchy leaves, blown-out speakers, disappearing megas, foreground masks that don't etc. etc. 110
![Hello Mr [redacted]! Didn't want to send this as a public comment but I was really sad to see an AI-generated banner for British Science Week!
I think that normalising AI output and displaying it in the school is bad. It will dampen kids' creativity and their enthusiasm for human achievement. What do they think of time spent learning to draw (or write!) when they see their role models use AI? Who cares if the solar system has 7 planets, a car has a sideways wheel, or the microscope is also a lamp? Children notice these things!
British Scienece Week gives away plenty of carefully-designed material that we could use for a banner. They even run an annual poster competition.
Anyhow, thank you for organising it but I just wanted to give you a critical voice before AI leaks into the classroom. I think it dulls everyone's instincts and thought processes, and there's always an alternative, even if it's clip-art or stock photos, which I'd much rather see.
All the best - Matthew](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udfzwukbtotf5wftdhq2bt4x/bafkreibaiaadkjp5tvllwvork4r3wm5dzcr2ibxtwgkydh3emq5sx2p5w4)
