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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)

@stecurran.bsky.social
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Game Designer, speaker, presenter. Host @onelifeleft.com and @singmaraoke.bsky.social. Once investigated by the ICC for playing Pokémon Go at The Oval. Currently working on Mindset 🟨🔺🔵.

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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2) The game is a retro-futuristic vector racing game. You can find it in my timeline if you scroll far enough. Sorry if you do that. I'm looking for someone who can make support materials that embrace the game's aesthetic and wrap it in 1980s print design. Good fonts, good layout - not illustration.
Tempest flyer #1, showing the beautiful lines of the original annotated. I don't want an exact copy of this but you get it, probably.Tempest flyer #2, this time with the cabinets. Good sloganeering. I actually don't love this flyer but again, you get it. Maybe.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of DMs about this (thank you!) so will answer here: 1) Maraoke has strong logo, icon + elements that we like; we're looking to embrace those + better comms in a template for our regular shows that can be remixed & still stand out. I made this - your work needs to be (much!) better, obv.
Black on orange Maraoke poster. The logo is good and it communicates what we are, just about. But it's very "Ste just learned how to use figma" and you, hopefully can do better.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Date for the next London Maraoke just announced: We're throwing a party on Friday 13th November at Loading Stoke Newington. That's in seven weeks so you have plenty of time to plan & tell friends who like comedy / music / games / parties. Earlybird tickets available NOW: luma.com/3vdfpgwf?cou...
Maraoke is throwing a PARTY to celebrate its 15th anniversary. This is the poster. It's orange. It says PARTY on it. It has the date, Friday 13th November, and it has the pricing - £10 or £7 if you're quick enough. There's a QR code which is BLACK WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE BLACK WHITE BLACK etc.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m just posting this so @krisgraft.bsky.social can see where I am or where I was. It depends when he next checks BSky. Could be months. BSky if you don’t want this kind of stuff on the public feed then let me send photos by DM!!! Thank you xo
A view from the Lock Laker stand at the Oval. Cricket is good you should try it
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Christmas came early 🥰
FOUR MINCE PIES FOR ME MINCE PIES MINCE PIES MINCE PIES. IT is the fifth of September Summer is DEAD
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thought about it, turned back
A sign above a doorway in a bookshop reads "Through to crime".
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
lol I wish
A partial screenshot from a word game. It says "PUZZLE COMPLETE: CAPITALISM". The word game, FWIW, is called "WRD SRCH" and maybe I'll show it to you if I see you at Gamescom.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Maraoke fans may remember our now-retired version of Sia's Chandelier, about @ramiismail.com. If 15 people buy tickets for our gamescom show using this code I will rewrite a new Rami song. luma.com/0707ykws?cou...
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Looking through old Maraoke photos for a thing and... who wants to play spot the @ramiismail.com? (Also @joonturbo.bsky.social and @jtoresson.bsky.social??! Anyone else???) Discounted tickets for our Gamescom gig available for the next few days: maraoke.com/GC26 Go go go be quick.
A blurry crowd shot of a Maraoke from Nordic Game 2015! I think this was the one where SOMEONE spilled a glass of gin and tonic into the Maraoke laptop. SOmeone.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It comes with a sticker sheet.
A sticker sheet of gay frogs. One says "This friggin' frog is gay".
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Saw some sad bangers at the O2 and my ears are ringing and my heart is full
Crowd shot of Robyn singing at the O2. A strobe blitzes the arena into white-blue light.Shot of a giant videowall, Robyn silhouetted against an orange sun.Robyn at the O2, looking a bit Prometheus after smearing silver glitter over her face and hair and killing Dancing On Your Own
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The many replays of that goal at half time are very "You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half"
Shot from the Simpsons. Ralph Wiggum having his heard broken by Lisa Simpson: "Watch this, Lise. You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half."
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
5 days since OR released the video for stupid song (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9t...) and still no "stupid song (cat video)". Not sure what she's playing at tbh
OR playing the piano in a grocery store with a number of cats
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IDK, if you're a keynote speaker who is struggling to create content that "sounds like you" then maybe you should not be a keynote speaker!
Linkedin Spam:

"Ste - I've been working with a few keynote speakers recently and they're all struggling with creating content that sounds like them.

How are you managing it these days?"
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
it's ok i have everything archived
Popstarz: STORM DAY
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
@lukeplunkett.com A little bit of personal news 🥰
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I made a game and now the game is... a nail??? (FYI you can get Mindset GO! for iOS / Android here mindset.game/app, in print in The Observer every Sunday and also apparently at your local nail salon)
A hand showing decorated nails, one of which has a playable Mindset GO! level. Credit to Galina 35 on the Mindset Discord.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Transferring projects to a new Mac and took the opportunity to fix bugs + clean up Chuckie Egg: One Life Left, my very unofficial Chuckie Egg daily run remix. Has (some) mobile support now and better global leaderboards. Also you will not beat my score today. stecurran.com/chuckie
A screenshot from today's Daily Run, showing Harry the farmer at the bottom of a series of green platforms, pink ladders and blue hens. A golden goose in a cage lurks ominously in the top left of the screen.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Friends: it's Maraoke in London this Friday @loading.bar. Maraoke is a night of amazing songs that you already know, rewritten about games. It's 50% comedy show, 50% collective euphoria. You do not have to sing. There will be no forced fun. IT IS GREAT. And it is FREE. Do it: maraoke.com/booknow
The Maraoke poster, purple and black. It says

YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS REWRITTEN ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE GAMES

SING LOUD
JOIN THE CROWD

FREE ENTRY

APRIL 10TH.

Come along. You won't regret it. It doesn't say that. I am saying that.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just had so much Dopamine
Robyn on stage at the Hackney Empire
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Excellent work @riversidefm.bsky.social. First image when I use Firefox (because I'm trying to move on from Chrome). Cool, I'll try go for Safari, then. Oh.
Logging in to Riverside.fm with Firefox produces a notice that says "We work with Chrome, Edge and Safari"... And logging in to Riverside.fm with Safari produces a notice that says "We work with Chrome and Edge". I am not going to try Edge.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It's lunchtime so why not play a version of Chuckie Egg that critics are called "hacked together" and "why did you do this": Daily randomly-generated levels! Scoreboard competition! One life only! Chuckie Egg! stecurran.com/chuckie/
A screenshot of Chuckie Egg. Harry the farmer stands on the bottom platform perplexed, about to begin his quest for eggs. All that stands in his way: some blue chickens and a massive golden goose.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ahhh, memories, and dread:
A photo of Stockport's Wembley Record, as displayed on Sky a second ago. Look I am a big believer in alt text but I am not going to transcribe this because it was hard enough looking at this and even harder BEING THERE
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hello BBC Political Editor Chris Mason, the dogwhistle of family voting will only become "part of the conversation" if the media make it "part of the conversation", which you are doing, so maybe back off the passive voice and own it?
A clip from the BBC News opinion piece on the byelection result:

"A final thought that will be part of the conversation in the hours and days after this by election – the suggestion of significant "family voting" as it is known.

The group Democracy Volunteers reported what it called "concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton" - which it defines as "where two voters either confer, collude or direct each other on voting".

Manchester City Council insisted "no such issues" were reported by its staff at polling stations.

Labour Party Chair Anna Turley told the BBC the reports were "obviously extremely worrying and concerning" and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed the by-election was "a victory for sectarian voting and cheating"."
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
OK, this is nearly done now: stecurran.com/LUGE2026/ reddit.com/r/LUGE20XX/ Also the instructions pop up is the best thing I have ever written.
The LUGE 2026 instructions pop up.

WELCOME TO LUGE 2026

1. Left / Right / Shift to brake
2. Avoid hitting wall for high score
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It was a different, and in many ways better, time
Photo of a Robyn ticket from 2007. £6. There is no record of this show on setlist.fm.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I'll go on about this a bit tomorrow but I've just put up a new version of LUGE 2026 for testing. * Race up to N rival ghosts, where N is however many players have submitted times or depends on your device * Do the same with your own local ghosts stecurran.com/LUGE2026 New track in 30 mins.
A screenshot of LUGE 2026 showing a rainbow collection of vector capsule racing on a white vector track. I've added a pause function now so you, too, can take screenshots, assuming you can hit shift-P while racing which honestly is pretty tricky and I should have thought this through.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
It's my birthday, or was until 20 minutes ago, so there's a new version of LUGE 2026 up: * Quick restart once you're done with the Daily (cc: @dreofthedead.bsky.social) * New "ALL MY GHOSTS" feature (in settings) which is cool stecurran.com/LUGE2026/
Quick screenshot of LUGE 2026 showing me racing some ghosts. It's a vector based arcade game, clean white lines denoting the circuit and a red lozenge racer travelling at speed, and about to crash into a wall because I'm taking a screenshot.

Apparently taking that screenshot was too much for my Mac btw, because the screenshot area is still highlighted despite the screenshot moment having passed long ago and I'm gonna have to reset. I want to say it was worth it. I want to believe it was worth it.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hello, here is some free advice for those of you starting to think about VALENTINES WEEKEND: maraoke.com/booknow
A Maraoke poster. White on hot pink, as is the way. It reads: 

"THE MOST ROMANTIC THING YOU CAN DO ON FRIDAY 13TH FEB IS ATTEND

MARAOKE

AND SING SONGS WITH ME BECAUSE IT IS MY BIRTHDAY*

13/02/2026
LOADING BAR N16 0PH

*IT IS MY BIRTHDAY ON THE 14TH BUT YOU ARE USUALLY BUSY THEN"
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Here is a small reminder that I 'released' a new puzzle game on Reddit at the start of this year. It's called Stackword and you build towers of words by removing, adding or changing letters each time. It's tactile and good and now works on iOS and Android too! Try it here: reddit.com/r/stackword
A Stackword tower, grey blocks on a sky blue background showing a series of letter blocks piled on top of each other. The base is the word TOONS; the S has been removed to form TOON, then an O to form TON. Switched out the O for an I to get TIN and then an F to make FIN and, appropriately enough, that was The End.A zoomed out picture of the Stackword tower. 21 floors. You can do better, I'm sure.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@frankcifaldi.bsky.social
Maraoke lyrics projected on the wall of a basement in South London: 

Who’ll scour eBay for the Lucky Done Caper 
That’s one bid from Frank Cifaldi
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A reminder to all that I shipped a word game, Stackword, at the start of this year - on Reddit of all places. It now has 17 players! Some of them are better than me! Maybe you will be better than me as well. Give it a go? www.reddit.com/r/stackword/
A screenshot of my game, stackword, in which you add, remove, or change letters to build a tower of words, row by row.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Please LOCATE and ADMIRE my Mindset Christmas Cookie
A plateful of Christmas cookies, decorated by me and my six year old daughter for the school fair tomorrow. One of them is a Mindset design; another says GOTH because I don’t know you give me a black icing pen and what am I meant to do
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If I were lumines I would not have a title that looks like it says arse, on a logo that looks like an arse, positioned over an arse
The Lumines Arise logo which does all of the above
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Thanks Alexa
Screen showing an Amazon Echo display. The question at the top, asked by me when I was discussing it with my daughter over dinner: "Is pepper a fruit or a vegetable?". Alexa's answer:

"According to an Alexa Answers contributor: It is a vegetable as it isn't a fruit"
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Mindset, a puzzle so pure it would work in a newspaper, is now in a newspaper. The Observer started running it today. Cat for scale. (You can play the digital version in browser at mindset.game, or grab the app at mindset.game/app)
Troy, a ginger tabby, sit with one paw folded on a copy of The Observer, in which Mindset is running from today.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
In 12 or so hours I will post about something I've been working on for... maybe 18 months...? that is a very big deal to me. Also today one of my cats wore a tiara. You can like this post and I won't know which thing you're into but that's OK because they're both good.
A close-up portrait of Maurice, a two-year-old grey-white tabby who has soft fur and sharp claws and a stocky body, wearing a golden tiara.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I literally gasped
A screenshot of Mr Resetti making his return in the new Animal Crossing New Horizons update, announced today
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
we're painting the roundabouts red, lads
A photo of me in front of the Alice in Wonderland display at the Blackpool Illuminations. One of the painting-the-roses-red card soldiers looms above me, goggle-eyed, paintbrush in hand.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
izzy wizzy let's get cursed
Sooty display, part of the tableux at the Blackpool Illuminations. This year it's missing the top left back panel.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Probs won’t order rechargeable batteries from aliexpress again tbh
A cheap battery charger and a cheap battery, post explosion, charred and warped
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Finnish friends: I am nearly out of gin & red grapefruit!! Please invite me to Finland for Maraoke so we can collectively fix this!
A fridge full of Hartwall's OriGINal Long Drink. There is only one can of gin & red grapefruit remaining and I'm saving it for a special occasion.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
End of an Era indeed :(
A screenshot from Facebook showing me unfollowing Taylor Swift. It is over :(((
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We recorded @onelifeleft.com live on @yogscast.com today and to celebrate I remixed the intro to my game with a silly / challenging new shapeset. Playable version here!: mindset.game/yogs/
A screenshot of me, Simon and Charles recording One Life Left on Twitch.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Correct
Me beneath a sign that reads I AM FAT CAT AND I DECIDE ALL. I’m in Munich btw
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
End of the week. I am going to @singmaraoke.bsky.social at Loading in Stoke Newington. Join me? If you can't: play mindset.game/app and, if you enjoy it, leave a nice review?? Thank you! Bugs / suggestions / critiques? Talk to me directly in the discord: discord.gg/5GazDscvVH IT IS FRIDAY. xo
A Venn Diagram showing My Day and Good Times. On the left: graphs, computers, scheduling and trying to predict the future. On the right: snow, sleep, cake, holidays and cricket. And in the middle: Maraoke, Mindset and cats. I am grateful for all three.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Intense times so decided to calm brain at 1.45AM on Monday with this week's Everyman (The Observer's easy-ish cryptic). Eyes immediately fell on 5D (as '80s film' felt like an easy in) and wtf wtf wtf
This week's Everyman, The Observer's cryptic crossword. 5D is highlighted. "Resents '80s film's outlook on life (7)"
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
it’s brutal out here
Brutalism courtesy The National Theatre
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We're in @edgemagazine.bsky.social this month. There's a beautiful two-page feature (art by @charlottemadelon.bsky.social) and a picture of me scowling, (almost) exactly 25 years after I made my sulky print debut. There's also a secret on the playable page. Let me know if you solve it. NO SPOILERS.
A picture from an issue of PC Gamer from sometime in 2000. Ste pouts at the camera.

STE CURRAN:
Specialist in: Arcade (somewhat true), first-person shooters (completely made up)
Current favourite game: Pseudonyms
This month: Took to discussing himself in the third person. No, really.
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Celebrated soft-launching a game the way everyone should: by seeing @mogwai.scot in a park.
Mogwai on stage in Crystal Palace. They’re the best band.
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