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Transatlantic Sessions, what a treat

The musicians of Transatlantic Sessions on stage at the Southbank The musicians doing their bows at the front of the stage

When I was 21 and doing poetry gigs several times a week it used to drive me mad when older poets said “keep writing!”. Found it so patronising. Now I am 31 and just wrote my first poem in over a year and I think maybe they were onto something

So I finished Baldur’s Gate 1, and while it’s a fascinating artefact of its time it’s not actually all that enjoyable. Baldur’s Gate 2 is, from a technical standpoint, almost identical, yet an hour in and it absolutely whips? Overjoyed, frankly

Went up to Leicester yesterday to do a tasting for the food for our wedding and now I’m somehow even more excited.

Some little canapés on a slate. The two nearest the camera are little taco looking things, the others are lamb in brightly coloured tiny bread rolls

She has other ideas

A black and white cat climbing along my leg with a plaintive expression

People fear he’s writing poems again

Holy shit Severance rules

I’ve been recently playing Dragon Age Inquisition, maxed out at 4K with Auto HDR, and I’m increasingly of the belief that games simply do not need to look any better than this.

Nvidia deserve to lose their market share for this “AI 4x frame generation” nonsense when “sloptimization” was RIGHT THERE

A little update from me and Bearwaves: our as-yet-unannounced Game Two is well underway, and while we’re not ready to show anything publicly yet we’ve been testing with friends and family and the response has been really positive. DM if you’re interested!