Probably not anyone dead either
03.03.2026 22:53
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Probably not anyone dead either
There is not a single person alive who has watched all of stargate
excellent
Clouds
of anxiety
rolling
over me
Who knows when itβll rain
I just know
that it will
Tales From The Town #232: Curling
accumulationofthings.com/things/2026/...
βWhat are you watching, Daniel?β Claire asked.
βCurling,β Daniel said.
Tales From The Town #231: The Forgotten Vending Machine
Standing sentry outside an abandoned shop
the forgotten vending machine still takes your coins
still dispenses its wares
still waits loyally
day after day
for its old masters to return
just the usual partial void
And also I have very nearly finally actually oh god I promise if I write this message I have to do it etc actually almost nearly finished the third and final part of the female kill machine trilogy. So please god someone read these first two so it's not just being released into a complete void
I actually sold a copy of this today, which was nice. For money and everything.
(But also it's available for free so don't let that put you off reading it)
Female Kill Machine 1 & 2
ko-fi.com/s/8d8891ca9a
An exciting dystopian cyberpunk satire about a robot who must kill every man she sees (because every man she sees is awful).
Contains at least one funny joke per chapter, and also there's a penguin in the first book (the penguin does not die)
so much of my life
has been spent
attempting to
pacify my
own mind
I watched First Love yesterday (Takashi Miike's 103rd film, apparently), and both the film and this track from it are absurdly great fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pag...
"There's the fellow in the moon there, pounding out the mochi... all I got down here are pancakes." #LunarNewYear
When the internet was small
it seemed vast beyond measure
Now it's vast beyond measure
it's tiny
Hollywood succeeds by out spending its competition. The biggest stars, the most lavish sets, the hugest spectacle, etc etc. So its weird that it seems to be embracing AI rather than crushing it from above with money like its done to everything else
Stanley Kubrick will be spinning in his grave now I've finally been allowed to see such sights
Extra stuff:
- a long slightly boring scene near the start where Danny and Wendy get interviewed by a doctor
- a mid-length incredibly boring scene near the middle of the film where Scatman Crothers hires a snow plow
- a very short scene near the end where some skeletons are having a tea party
I saw the shining at the cinema today, and it was the American version they showed instead of the Kubrick approved European version, so there was 20 minutes of extra stuff I'd never ever seen before.
Maybe the nobel peace prize medal is a cursed horror movie object and you have to pass it on before something crawls out of your TV and eats your soul
Anyway if you want to follow my work in progress on this you should follow my patreon (which has a free tier)
www.patreon.com/cw/davidguy
At the very least you'll get a good object lesson in how not to design games/program games/write games/illustrate games/etc etc
The whole thing is vaguely based on the Tales From The Town series I've been writing weekly since 2021 or so
accumulationofthings.com/things/tag/t...
of which there's almost 250 episodes now (and maybe even about 50 really good ones)
There's not much there to play at the moment (although I did implement a needlessly complicated weather system), but hopefully evntually it'll have a nice lot of locations to potter around in and a nice lot of people for you to talk to (plus some cats)
I've started making a game called Small Town Simulator, where you move into a small town in britain somewhere and live a nicely mundane life for all eternity (until you get bored)
very early access demo: accumulationofthings.com/twine/town/t...
blog post: www.patreon.com/posts/small-...
Search (on all topics) seems to have been turned off 3 or 4 hours ago. I can't get a single result from later than that on anything I type in
A swan looks at an old lady and says TWEET
Amplion: The World's Standard Wireless Loud Speaker
This Film Is 100 Years Old: The Tale Of The Amp Lion (1925)
accumulationofthings.com/100/2026/01/...
A charming and lovely advert for old trumpet-style radio/record player speakers, animated by William Heath Robinson (who I never knew until today had made an actual animated cartoon before)
Tales From The Town #224: The Glass Lake
accumulationofthings.com/things/2026/...
Everything is perfectly preserved in the glass of the lake. Shoals of fish, fronds of weed, frogs, frogspawn. Sunken boats, lost footballs, fishing nets, shopping trolleys, a small fortune of coins.
football is the best run sport in the world
Man United sacking their manager because they "cannot handle the Gary Neville"
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
"Alone he lived, alone he died. No one knew his ways."
1872 obituary of strange, difficult "geomancy pioneer" William Henry Black.
