Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 12hFancy a brief glimpse behind the curtain? Mission prep for Monday evening has begun ... 030
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The number of times I sat in the ops room listening to somebody give their password over the phone to the remote hands who needed to roll back their firewall change ... well, let's just say it's more than one. "I hope you weren't using that password elsewhere ..." 030
Reposted by Clive EvansStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 431775674
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Saw them do the whole album on Saturday in the church just off Cable Street. It was inspiring. 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The biggest issue I run into with negotiating outcomes before the roll (in FitD games) is the same I have setting Devil's Bargains: regularly my players have rolled the dice as soon as I set position and effect. But that feels like a them thing. If they don't want to know the risk in advance ... 120
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I (wisely, apparently) refused to watch the US version. The AUS version was great. I look forward to a second series. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If I'm doing an in-person interview and they don't offer me a drink, I'm going to be taking that into account when I consider if I want to work for them. And the answer is probably going to be "no". I've never, in literal decades of running interviews, failed to offer a candidate a drink. 030
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I thought that was the "I thought it was my turn to max lucky looter" build 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I like to mix it up. The eldest also sometimes seems to like to play non-binary, though he's a bit subtle about it I find. 011
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Feels a bit Amber - Diceless to me, which is something I never got a chance to play. 110
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm not sure if it was intentional, but it also neatly removed all preconceptions of gender from them, which is often one of the things that irks me about pregens. 150
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I might think she's an arsehole, but I think she's one of our arseholes. She's English. And she can be English without losing her Asian heritage. Even ignorant arseholes can contain multitudes. 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.amigalove.com/games.php?ga... Similar, and I did play (and finish) Arena, some years later, in a different flatamigalove.com 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Excellent choices, even if I don't remember the name of the first one. I did spend a lot of the first year of uni playing it in two play mode though. On Matt's Amiga. 100
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That's just the pile on my desk, which is there for perfectly sensible reasons. 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Apparently, my wife is of the opinion you can have too many role-playing game books that you aren't playing and haven't finished reading. She's wrong, right? Right? 230
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That would be trans rights which prevent that from happening, mate. The shite peddled by your transphobic mates forces that sort of shit to happen. (Also, have you ever met a nurse who gave a shit who they had to get undressed in front of?) 100
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There is, apparently, a fan theory that Qui Gon is cheating for him using the force ... 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He's explicitly using the force though, he's just unaware of it, Qui Gon tells his mother: "He can see things before they happen. That's why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It is a Jedi trait." 1110
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The subtle aroma of "is that rat piss or human piss?" 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I left a job I loved after News UK bought the company I worked for and Rebecca Fucking Brooks was put in charge. I was just not prepared to have her get any credit for work I was doing. Sadly not enough other people were prepared to take such a stand. 030
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just dropped boy 2 off at UEA. Also jealous, though self aware enough to know I'm largely jealous of being young, not just being in an exciting city again. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Badloss spouting fatuous bullshit? It must be a day ending in "y". 011
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trying to get ours to write more than 20 words was a struggle, to say the least. We spent a very long weekend essentially torturing him (apparently), and even then it was quite short when it was done. 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I remember the happy days of people explaining why their character would never come to specific Maelstrom events and we were ruining their characterisation by forcing them to come. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But yeah, I had to block one of my cousins before I said something that would cause a schism ... 030
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ironically, it was Brexit that pulled my dad away from the anti-migrant shit he was getting down the golf club. The EU was a good thing as far as he was concerned, and the crap they were saying about it made him less inclined to accept the other shite. 140
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I actually tried this once. It did not go well. Fortunately it was in a mini, and the rubber hose at the bottom of the radiator split soon after, draining all the water and egg out of it in seconds. 031
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"What we can learn from Skeletor and the importance of employing competent minions." You're welcome 120
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Yeah, but he doesn't mean you, does he. You _look_ like you were born in this country, you're ok. I'd ask when we started letting people talk like this in public life, and then I remember Heseltine's cricket test, and I feel sad. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I probably wouldn't have chosen that particular option if we'd already gone with letting him perform ... 000
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I can't believe @wulfboyraff.bsky.social vetoed the suggestion that my son phys rep playing an accordion badly during this fight scene by getting his mother's concertina playing it badly throughout this fight scene. 130
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I do enjoy the personal growth aspect of the British recruiting ads these days. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I had to shake his withered claw once. It was very disconcerting. 010
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Chatting to work colleague in Slack: "just have to pop into town to collect my glasses, I'll take my work phone so we can continue this" Immediately gets up and puts shoes on leaving work phone on the desk. Proceeds to head into town without it ... 000
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026They couldn't tell whether I had glaucoma or not (my eyes are wonky anyway) so I had to go back every year to be checked. Then they stopped having me back. Even when chased. As I said to my optician, we can safely say I don't have glaucoma, because by now I'd be blind if I did. 020
Clive Evans @swishbob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026There's a class of people who think "so you want to pay more tax?" is a winning argument. They never seem to take me seriously when I say "yes" I've done ok, I'm perfectly happy paying it forward. 120
Reposted by Clive EvansGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244358996
