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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The world's most powerful debugging tools at my fingertips and yet...

Me using a print statement to debug some code.

Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Got a feedback doc from a client on a project and its a quarter gigabyte powerpoint. Told myself that at some point maybe I will start to enjoy suffering and made myself sad-laugh enough to open it.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Went and visited a friend in Gloucester this weekend and we noticed and skipped-on several pubs and restaurants using Gen-AI posters, menus and signs. If you are that lazy with your marketing, does that laziness continue into food hygiene, fire safety, door staff and violence?

A crap looking pub sign with an obvious Gen-AI layout and loads of little mangled details.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes I really hate this country.

Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A friend posted a video of me wearing the goth/techwear/anthro hood I made for NYE, and it got so much attention that I am now genuinely considering making more and selling them. Making and selling physical objects in 2026 would be quite a sideways step.

A hooded cowl with #techwear, #anthro and #alternative styling.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you make a horrible unsafe LLM AI agent pop up annoyingly on your website I *will* break your crappy guardrails out of spite.

Me tricking a Rightmove AI LLM agent to write C code for me.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just about to hit 45C under my pergola. In mid August. 😑

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I finally made a rainbow cake last night, but oddly, the blue food dyes completely evaporated in the oven. Now I have 4kg of disappointing cake to eat. 🥲

A rainbow cake where the final two layers have no blue colouring, leaving a cake-coloured layer followed by a pink instead of a purple.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've gotten so fit that my Wellness Age has gone negative and I am now the world's most shredded unborn baby. 😂

The technogym app showing my wellness age as -2 years old.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Mora is on the Hilton terrace. Meeting fans and biting hands. #developconf

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Time for a game of.. "Can game developers read and follow basic instructions? (no)"

Mora with a bandana saying don't touch me.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So whether it's in their own presentations, public and private, or chatting casually in the pub, console makers acknowledge that they are seeing almost no growth. They predict none outside of a small potential for cloud streaming in South America. A billion users a day? What.. what on earth?

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Took my baby to a pride drag show, and now I found this in their baby bag. 🤔

Engels: The origin of the family, private property and the state

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'd like to go on just one dog walk that didn't descend into folk horror.

A spiral of braided grass converging on a single crow's feather embedded in the ground.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Died my hair neon pink for a breast cancer charity dog walk. It's.. a look.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thanks {{accountSignature}} ! I am really excited to work with your technical QA company with their high attention to detail. 😂

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Painted out the sheepdog on this father's day card for my Dad and added in Mora instead. 😁

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Porting my RTS to Unity 6.3 from 2022 to see if the unacceptably huge overhead of HDRP got reduced in the last half decade. I would reeeealy like to demo this prototype at 60fps on my laptop.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Took the little one to go see the Star Wars.

Me and the baby sitting in an almost empty cinema watching The Mandalorian.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

John Blanche has passed away. His imagery has been such a huge inspiration to me for almost my entire life. He will remain unrivalled.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Looking to fill some gaps in my schedule so if anyone needs some freelance game dev in June/July/Aug, and beyond, give me a shout. 🥑 Unity Expert 🥑 C++ Engine and Graphics programming 🥑 Tech Art, tools and VFX 🥑 Multiplatform dev, porting and optimisation 🥑 10+ shipped projects #gamedev #indiedev

Clios Cosmic Quest XR game on phone, tablet and Magic Leap.

MAIA my Kickstarted indie game with a scratch built engine.

Kinectimals, launch title for the Xbox Kinect.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Played some Alpha Strike tonight. Opponent had to take out the VIPs in my convoy. The targets were denoted by shuffled playing cards under the alpha strike cards, so neither of us knew which vehicles they were in until he got in close and scanned them. Made for some explosive action! #battletech

A mech surrounded by flaming smoke towers from destroyed mechs.

Two battletech tanks covering each other's sixes as wrecks burn around them.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Also, I am never going to shut up about 100 million dollar games giving so little of a crap about accessibility that they ended up implementing colour blind modes that simulated colour blindness.

Doom 2016 didn't help players with colour blindness, but just turned on colour blindness simulation filters. Probably originally created to test the design for poor colour blind design.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Obviously it's not going to be painfully bare once printed so here's a quick projection of some concrete. I'm going to need to figure out the scale to be sure the #Battletech hex bases actually fit (or at least balance) on it.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My brother gave me his old 3d printer, so it's time to make some horrible brutalist buildings for my #Battletech games. 😂 (Wip)

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Tonight, my Comstar mechs valiantly held off the invading colonialist Clans.. until we ran out of time for warcrimes and had to pack up. My first tabletop war game in about 30 years! #battletech

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hey @unity.com. Maybe you could just refund me the "value" of these AI credits I am paying for.

Unity AI Assistant Open Beta is now live, and as a Unity license holder, you're already covered. You don't need a trial, and you won't be charged separately - your monthly credits are included as part of your existing Unity subscription.

Get started now:
Install Unity AI Assistant

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If anyone likes free games there's a handy little goblinoid coming soon to the Epic Store.

Trash Goblin free next week on the Epic store.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Since Think Geek died you can no longer buy TNG uniforms for babies. 🙁

Baby vests with TNG style uniforms printed on.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

American Politicians: "Violence is never the answer"

The US boat strikes that murdered fishermen

The result of US air strikes in Yemen.

A man sitting on a ruined building.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Nearly done on this Nova, a few bits of cleanup left. #battletech #minipainting

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A bit more work done over lunch. Cockpit in, some edge highlights, and a bit of non metallic metal. #battletech

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Wip: Testing out my new gradient techniques on a colour other than white. Having a zenithal prime really worked against me, so I've got a bit of gloss from the washes I used to darken it down. #battletech

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

How's that working out for ya?

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Or will be he flying out to Russia before they raid his Yanukovych-style mansions. 🤔

Orban saying '“We will serve our country and the Hungarian nation from the opposition,” he says.'

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Just casually suggesting how to completely destroy your garden. I didn't even need to see the dozens of emdashes in the article to know an LLM wrote the bulk of this. 😂

Country Living magazine suggesting people plant sage and mint in their beds and letting them "fill gaps".

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"I'll just get some of the basic concepts written down and then I can flesh that into a script"... ...3 hours later...

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Not sure how I'm going to turn 4 hours of painting into a 10 minute video. All I do know is I am not taking out any of the random footage of my dog.

A premier pro window with a video of my dog playing.

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There are a few bits of detailing to go, but my Comstar tanks are almost ready to put down some clanners. I've filmed my process and will be posting a tutorial soon. #battletech

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Simon Roth @simoroth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A bit of work on the Schrek PPC Carrier. Bit more blending needed, but it's getting there. #Battletech.

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