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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 21h

Post a vampire? Yeah, alright. What? You're gonna tell me Lu and the merfolk aren't vampires?

Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If they wanted to finally admit that the Red Tories are a lost cause and move their support to a party that would actually listen to them, the Lib Dems and Greens both officially reject transphobia in their party platforms.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder, if it was needed, to not allow me to create business presentations.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Britain has reached the "sailing out into the channel and trying to drown people" level of racism. And the feckless, useless, faux-centrist shitweasels in charge will do nothing. And the complicit police will do nothing. And the media will lie about it. Fuck that fucking country. Glad I left.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Goddamn it. Another little studio making masterpieces folds while Green Armour Man Shoots Lame Guns At Lame Aliens 7 is announced by companies that will be here when the Earth is dust. I begged and yelled and threatened people to buy these games. Fs in chat. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/mos...

gamedeveloper.com

Moss developer Polyarc has shut down

The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pure recklessness. The consequences of decades of propaganda against regulation of rich fucks.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember how last week everyone was celebrating Xbox saving Kojima's project, while forgetting who Microsoft are? And now this week Microsoft are going to do more Xbox layoffs? Yeah going from idiots to bastards isn't a win.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I recently had the probably-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be very naughty and spend quite a bit of cash on objects of no material value. Which I did. But now I own several frames of a film so precious to me that all of my cats have been named for it: Watership Down.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry but if you've been coding professionally for more than a few years and your exception "handling" is still just to catch, log and ignore.....sort your shit out.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We standardised so much about PC motherboards over the past thirty years - I'm gonna need you arseholes to decide which button opens the BIOS settings screen, and which opens the boot menu, and just fucking agree on it. Or maybe show the prompts for more than 0.5 femtoseconds on an SSD-based system.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got a commission of my redesign (magical form) from the ever fantastic @zambicandy.bsky.social Got to work on his everyday form now, and get a ref sorted!

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Me: Googling if any consoles are using HDMI 2.2 yet. Google's dumbass AI: "There is no HDMI 2.2 standard." First result under Google's dumbass AI: "HDMI 2.2 was finalised in 2025."

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm not saying I did it again, but.... That's mostly because i don't need to. You already know I did.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PAINFUL levels of cringe today. The Sloperator returns, confidently asserts that he's got all the answers, gets (professionally) told he's talking shit, then comes back an hour later to say NOW he has the magic bullet. Lasted one question. People really need to learn to say "I don't know."

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Never send me anything with UPS, holy shit. My package was given a date, rescheduled, then held at customs for missing brokerage information when UPS are the broker. They wouldn't talk to me because they'd "contacted the addressee". That's me. No they hadn't. Now it's coming when I'm not home, AND

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When you go looking for drivers for a Win98 system thinking it's going to be arduous, and they're just....on the manufacturer's website. In a fully functional product support page that's 21 years old. Huh. Props, Asrock.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah, the most fun part of creating something cool instead of leaving the office on time: opening the code review and documenting why Copilot is wrong, stupid and a huge waste of my time on every single shit comment it leaves for me.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My favourite dev, whose laziness caused him to heavily embrace the "prompt engineer" lifestyle as soon as management encouraged it, is currently in deep shit for vibe-coding breaking changes to APIs and rolling them out without even checking for existing clients or compatibility issues.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Publishing all the costs and casualties of the illegal war you started and classifying the reason is so on the nose it feels like it must be satire, but that's where we live now.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The first version of DBeaver to push an AI assistant on me is the first version that keeps crashing on me. Slop infecting my FOSS tools now.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sadly, the Jump Space devs (correctly) assessed that chain hits were OP as hell, and nerfed them hard. But they also...buffed melee weapons...to make them more powerful. So my chain hits do the exact same damage (one fewer chain, admittedly). And Klang is now...this.... MHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 05/03/2026

When product design used to be unique.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New trailer for The Lift! Extremely different vibe from the lonely-but-hopeful feel of the first trailer, but still looks like something that could hook me. A fix-em-up with a weird sci-fi alt-history campaign. Yes. Gib. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCt8...

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The Lift - Official Story Trailer

YouTube video by Indie Games Hub

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every time a phone reviewer talks about "smaller phones" and then references something with a 6 inch screen, I want to scream. My first tablet had a 7 inch screen, that's not small! Nexus 5, one of the best smartphones ever. 5 inch screen. Nokia N900, the best smartphone ever. 3.5 inch screen.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really hope Jump Space makes it over the finish line and irons out all the early access kinks, because the asymmetric teamplay and movement systems in this game alone have the makings of something that really scratches that part of my childhood labeled "Starsiege: Tribes". High speed thievery!

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I agree that Sony are speedrunning colossal idiocy this year, but I don't get why everyone is celebrating Physint being bought by Microsoft. Are we....are we not remembering 2-3 months back? The past 5 years of Xbox? Is Kojima somehow *less* fucked now?

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The way companies have slowly drained the colour from everything must be intentional at this point. Macca's looks like a Starbucks, NA cars come only in shades of grey, etc. Culturally, we're told to never paint our houses with colours in case it harms the resale price. It's gross.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please, I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl seems like the kind of show that should be instant appeal for me. Is it weird to say I hate the art style? I don't even hate it. I'm just....tired of it. You're doing a magical girl parody, why does it look like Scott Pilgrim?

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Normalise not needing to respond to people immediately. ...No, nothing to do with me forgetting to respond for weeks. ;-) Just weird that since text messaging and DMs became a thing there's a social anxiety that you're supposed to respond NAO. Bitch, we use to write letters. With pens.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I thought the Insomiac Spiderman games were overall a bit mid. They had fantastic story missions and really good movement/combat mechanics, and absolutely dogshit mid-tier-gen-7-360-game sandboxes. Wolverine apparently has awesome combat and a shit sanbox, so....yeah. Yep. Kinda expected that.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So I found this melee weapon in Jump Space and it's hysterically broken. It accidentally has an SMG buff on it that chains hits.....and it works. And you combine it with Forceful Recycling (heal on melee kill)...and it works. I smash one drone with this thing, I kill FIVE. MHUHAHAHAHAHA

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can we kick the US ambassador out yet? The fascist scumbags are openly proclaiming their expansionist desires. Fuck America.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Having your route to work be a trucking route is maddening in a country where nobody knows how lanes work. 18 wheelers 3 abreast doing half the speed limit, holding up the entire highway.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sensational. Criticised fascists, got yelled at that "both sides are bad". Except, no. That's not what they yelled at me. What they actually reflexively posted in response to criticism of far right wankery was: "Both sides are bad, Jew!" Incredible. It's just... *Chef's kiss*

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Police protecting fascists, to the surprise of absolutely fucking nobody. They all showed up wearing the same thing, come the fuck on.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I want five minutes with whoever decided that screw lengths should be in Imperial, but their diameter should be in metric, but all the drill bits should have their diameters be in Imperial fractions.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I may have done something silly. Well, it was only like 5 bucks so not THAT silly, but pretty silly. I sure didn't need to add things to the repair queue I don't get through, 8 weeks from con. Still... If I could get it working, cool thing to have.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today in "my hobby got ruined by grasping money-grubbing cunts":

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's kinda fuckin' weird (and entirely expected) that Chris Mason frames this as "Farage's aide involved in...." when the person sat right next to him, in the video, nodding along, is Nigel fucking Farage. No lengths they won't go to to protect him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law

A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Third-person is for cowards! Honestly, of all the ugly-ass designs I've built in Spengies, the Thug (my work skiff) is the one I'm proud of. It's nothing, just a flying slab with a grinder and welder, but it's elegant. Everything I need, nothing I don't, and compact enough to fly *through* ships.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please crash the AI bubble in the funniest way possible.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Might have an opportunity to get my Golang up to scratch with a little project, and every time I see "goreleaser" my stupid furry-addled brain reads it as "gore-laser". So I guess that's what it's going to be forever now. No, don't draw that.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey, you. Yeah, you with the YouTube channel. If YouTube recommends me a new channel, and the video thumbnail is AI, I hit "never show this channel", because I assume you're a lazy engagement-hunter who doesn't put enough effort in to know anything. FYI

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

YouTube autoplayed to the official upload of the .hack//sign theme tune, the subtitle track sprang to life, and I got....this. After Googling the words, it turns out these are....Hunter Biden's text messages? ..........WHAT

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just saw someone returning a 98 inch HiSense TV. This is something that has always baffled me. You put down the money, effort, space and arguments with the wife to have a 98 inch TV because you want that home cinema...and you buy a fucking HiSense??

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Too corrupt for JOHN ROBERTS. Fuck's sake.

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every story like this is marketing. These systems are not conscious, they're not alive. An oversized probability table with a human language interpreter in front of it is not a person. If I write IRC bots to talk to each other with randomised English sentences, I didn't "build a civilization".

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Silvershock 💖🐀 @silvernicktail.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't play Total War, and I'm a long-lapsed Warhammer tabletop player, and it's still going to infuriate me forever that they called it "Total War: Warhammer' and not "Total Warhammer".

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