Anndra

@anndra.bsky.social

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Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based He/him/e

Screenshot of Menace showing the beginning of a mission on a desert planet. A dropship takes off and several squads of infantry, an armoured vehicle, and a walker are lined up. A dialogue box at the top shows Tech saying: "Some rich motherfucka is bumping coke off a hooker's ass and we're down here in the shit? *tsk* Man..."
Disco Elysium screenshot: THE DESERTER - "Because of the *racists*. Everyone is a racist in Martinaise, it's their favourite thing to do in the whole world -- listening to race-themed radio shows. In the ruins, in their lorries." He points inland.
We proved those people wrong because we changed our party, ripping out the poison of antisemitism, restoring trust on the economy, defence and national security, and becoming a party that once again stood proudly with God against our national flag.
Brian Butterfield sketch ad 'American'
Exclusive discount THE END OF THE SUN REDEEM DISCOUNT There is a swastika-derived kolovrat symbol in the middle of the O
Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands on a patterned blanket on a sofa. Her tail is curled upwards and her fur pattern is clear to see.
Jess, an elderly dilute calico cat, sits on a blanket. Her fur is quite ruffled and messy.
Screenshots of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic showing a rail junction, passenger station and coaling station as well as coal unloading point and depot with different sections marked in different colours plus signal arrows.
Screenshot of Workers & Resource: Soviet Republic. A night-time shot of a cargo ship leaving an aggregates dock. A factory complex is lit up on the hill in the distance.
Screenshots from Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. A wide overhead shot of a complex developed area - urban, rural, lots of farms, railways, dock infrastructure, etc
Why @why.bsky.team 5mo Entering day four of "no phone because it broke and I can't get to an apple store", AMA Why @why.bsky.team 5mo I left it outside in the sun and when I went to pick it up, it was saying "temperature too high! let phone cool down before using again", and then within a few hours it was gone Why @why.bsky.team 5mo Okay, so full transparency. I did dip it in a pool after it said it was too hot. I was told not to do that before doing so, but my hubris said "nah these things are waterproof" and into the swim it went. I go in the pool when I want to cool down, why can't my phone?
A video from a window, showing snow falling and lying in a residential area with a pedestrian path, bushes, trees, grass, and a tree stump.
Peter Serafinowicz as Brian Butterfield in cowboy hat and chequered scarf with "American" subtitled below him
Jess, a dilute calico cat, sits on a blanketed lap
A Highland Cow calf grazes in a field.
Page of elves drawn by Ryoko Kui, mangaka of Dungeon Meshi, with overlaid translation of the Japanese text. It's labelled "Thrills! Romance! Violence! Elves from foreign RPGs" with Marcille the elf saying "So many different kinds of people!" Left to right: 1. Ancano (The Elder Scrolls) - Thalmor clothes are cool 2. Adoring Fan from Oblivion (unlabelled) 3. Zevran (Dragon Age) - A purely hedonistic assassin. 4. Fenris (Dragon Age) - He's a beautiful elf who would look at home in a JRPG. 5. Sebille (Divinity: Original Sin) - I'm sorry that I made you eat so much human flesh. 6. Camellia (Pathfinder) - It was love at first sight... 7. Solas (Dragon Age) - A man who has charmed many players. 8. Aloth (Pillars of Eternity) - A lot of complex internal feelings. 9. Ember (Pathfinder) - I'm waiting for the Japanese version. 10. Octavia (Pathfinder) - She has a half orc boyfriend. 11. Jaethal (Pathfinder) - My undead elf wife. 12. Sera (Dragon Age) - Her clothes are cute. 13. Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), saying 'Hey you' - The way you call me 'you' makes me happy. 14. The very popular Astarion (Baldur's Gate) (line trace of cover art)
A chunky black and white cat sitting on top of a wooden book exchange cabinet in a back lane.
the infamous Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod comparison where Alyx Vance is made into a sex doll but with DLSS 5 Off and DLSS 5 On labels
Youtube comments screenshot. @bigblargh 7 hours ago It's during this track you realize the album is good music and not some gimmick @TectonicImprov 5 hours ago Rhymesayers sign this man yesterday @entryplugged2068 5 hours ago this is a nuclear bomb against the apathy of the post-Information Age @whirleaf 53 minutes ago I WAS HERE
Jess, a dilute calico cat, sits on a patterned duvet facing the camera. She seems content
Jess, a skinny but fluffy dilute calico cat, stands on a coffee table in a living room in the midday light.
Yoda olives meme with the text changed to "after playing two full runs of Menace early access and deciding to wait for updates to play more" and "27th Feb... going back for more Menace early access"
Jess, a dilute calico cat, sits on a patterned blue and white throw blanket on a couch, looking towards the camera
Jess, a dilute calico cat, eats dry cat food from a bowl while underneath some nesting tables, rather than eating from in front of them as normal. The image has some light glare from the windows.
80.lv: The first Pathologic was released 20 years ago, and those who are familiar know all the secrets and endings. Did it limit you when making Pathologic 3? Does it have a different ending from what we know from the first two games? How do you make sure the same game stays fresh after so many years? Overall, we didn’t really center everything around the experience of those who completed or even just played the first game. People who played the original Pathologic in the 2000s don’t actually remember their feelings anymore. What remains is an aftertaste, a memory of those feelings. Those who played the remaster couldn’t experience the game directly either – it was already framed as a cultural artifact. If you’ve watched video essays about a game on YouTube, your reaction will be completely different from someone who just played Midtown Madness 2 and then thought, “Oh, here’s another game about life in a town, I like that.”
Jess, a dilut calico cat, looks at the camera while standing on blanket-covered legs on a sofa. She looks slightly displeased.
Pathologic 3 screenshot. In the centre it says "Day One Is Now Available: Now I can tell more about the past"
Youtube thumbnail titled "This Game Feels Cursed | Psychic Mediums Play Pathologic 3 LIVE, uploaded by Those Meddling Mediums. The thumbnail has the key art for the game and its title, and a woman's face next to it. The woman looks unimpressed
Pathologic 3 screenshot of an odongh/worm - a strange lumpy man in ragged robes - wearing a train engineer's cap, in front of steppe village yurts.
Jess, a dilute calico cat, is curled up very tightly on a blanketed lap
Screenshot from Pathologic 3. A dirty-faced young girl is shown, labelled 'Murky: A small gloomy person'
I have the title for my memoir's next chapter now. "That Time I Traded Crickets for Morphine on a Crumbling Stairway".
A snow-covered view out of a window which itself has snow and water droplets on it. Several spread out buildings are along a road and in the middle distance a garden with rough drystone walls can be seen.
The Aiginis Land Raid monument - two halves of a stone cairn with protruding stones in the middle - on a small hill against a cloudy sky with approaching sunset.
A pan of "rostit" - a Catalan dish literally meaning roasted. Quorn fillets are mixed in a pan with carrot, onion, garlic, various herbs and a tomato-y, herby sauce. It looks delicious
Several users flagged this issue and after investigating further, we found that gen-AI art did slip into the latest patch. I can't tell you how angry we are to discover this. When we began work on replacing certain art, we were explicit with everyone involved that AI was not to be used at all, not even as a reference. This was the most critical element of the art refresh. Despite clearly outlining these requirements, and writing them into the contract, an artist at the third-party company that we partnered with used gen-AI. We were racing to get the patch out, and unfortunately their work slipped past our scrutiny in the process. We can't express how frustrated we are about this. Our goal was to eliminate gen-AI art in any form, as we think gen-AI art has no place in gaming. We didn't meet our own standards in this case, and we're sorry that this slipped through. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible and push out an updated patch. After looking through all the new art, we can confirm that only a limited number of pieces have this issue, and the rest were made entirely by human artists. The community has noted that some other pieces look "incomplete", but we've verified that they were not created using gen-AI. With these pieces, the art was rendered fully within a circular crop to match the game's UI, with the cropped portions left partially incomplete because they never show in-game. We'll be completing these in full as well for the sake of due diligence. But for the time being, our priority is to remove and replace the art that used AI in the production process. We completely understand that when AI art shows up in one place, suddenly everything looks suspect. We feel the same way, so we're going to be watching this like hawks to ensure it doesn't happen again. Please know that we consider the use of real human artists to be of the utmost importance, and are strongly opposed to the inclusion of generative AI art assets in any game.
A larger cagatió stands next to a small cagatió on the floor of a living room. A yellow plate with orange peel is in front of them.
Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands face-on to the camera on top of a blanketed human (me) on a couch.
Jess, a dilute calico cat, perches expectantly near the edge of a sofa in a brightly lit living room and looks wide-eyed at a point just above the camera.
Youtube video screenshot. The video is titled Rockstar Games' MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers and is a joint upload from Novara Media and People Make Games. Aaron Bastani is speaking in the video preview.
April 21st. Went this morning to the local police court, the people's court they call it here. Anything more casual and informal you could not imagine. We at last found a judge with a crowd of people round him in his room. He was a young man of about thirty, small with bright quick eyes. He asked if we wanted to see a criminal case or the ordinary minor ones. As I had seen a criminal case during my previous visit I chose the people's court. The room, not very big, was fairly crowded and we waited for the judge to come. One old peasant woman got impatient and said "Why don't they hurry instead of keeping me waiting?" The others laughed and chatted away. When the judge, the same little man we had found, came in he was followed by two workers, a bald-headed man of about fifty-five and a neat woman of forty. We all rose and then sat again as did the judge, with his two helpers, at their table with a red cloth. These two workers are elected by the factories to help to judge the cases. They are changed each Soviet week and get paid their pay by the factory while doing the job. Lenin said, "Every cook must learn to govern the State," and this is one of their methods. The judge conducts the case and the three decide on guilt and punishment. The judge is elected by the workers, and can be recalled, if not satisfactory, at any time.
No, if Germany must expand, it will be against France and Great Britain. Hitler's Mein Kampf explains this clearly as regards France and he expects his friends inside France to help him. The same applies to us. It will need more than Chamberlain's Mein Gamp to stop it. But if we join with Soviet Russia, we would have the support of France and America. This combination of peace-loving nations could save us and the world from war. WIll we do it? That is for the reader to answer. Bernard Shaw said: "You do not need to be a Communist to see we must join with Soviet Russia." As the Dean of Canterbury says in his kind foreword: "Her friendship and aid is of the utmost importance for the democratic nations." There lies our road to Peace. December 1938 Since writing the above a change has come over public thought, and the revulsion of feeling at the reluctance of the Government to join with Soviet Russia has grown enormously. What I foresaw last December has come true. The Anti-Comintern pact is now a definite military alliance and has invaded and captured Spain, Czechoslovakia and Albania. Yet Soviet Russia is as immune from attack as ever. It is the Western Democracies that are in danger. Soviet Russia has no intention of pulling our chestnuts out of the fire, but has offered a full defensive military alliance. They can give more than they receive. Yet we have haggled with them for 2 months, and at the time of writing are still haggling. To accept her help is our only hope to ease continual tension. It is our only road to Peace and salvation. May 18 1939 LAST POSTSCRIPT Great Britain and the Soviet Union are now Allies. Where diplomacy failed Hitler succeeded when he attacked and invaded Soviet Russia on June 22nd. In the face of the common danger the peoples of the two countries are being drawn together, and will learn to understand each other. This understanding should form a firm foundation on which to build the future Peace of Europe, and of the world. July 16 1941
Mr. W. J. Brown asked the Secretary of State for War if he can make any statement as to the circumstances in which Major A. S. Hooper has been banned from lecturing to the British Army. Sir J. Grigg Lecturers to the Forces are required to hold a certificate of employment issued by one of the Regional Committees of the Central Advisory Council for Adult Education in H.M. Forces and countersigned by the appropriate military authorities. The latter are invariably the military Command in which the particular Regional Committee is situated. All certificates are reviewed each year, and in a certain number of cases the military authorities give notice to the Regional Committees that they do not propose to renew the certificates. If the Regional Committee thinks this decision unjustified Toggle showing location ofColumn 1144in any particular case it may submit to the Army Commander evidence of the lecturer's suitability, and ask that the case may be reconsidered. The decision of the Army Commander on this request is final. In accordance with this practice all certificates of employment automatically expired on 31st August, 1943. As a result of the subsequent review, the London Regional Committee were informed on 10th September, 1943, that Major Hooper's certificate would not be renewed. I understand that the Committee informed Major Hooper of this decision on 2nd December. Presumably in the interval they were considering whether they would ask for reconsideration. No such request was in fact received. Perhaps, in view of the allegations which have been publicly made, I may add that no search of Major Hooper's rooms and belongings was made by any military authority.
Front cover of the book/pamphlet Through Soviet Russia by Major A. S. Hooper, 6th edition. The price is listed as sixpence.
Jess, a dilute calico cat, is curler and sleepy but looks a bit suspicious on blanketed legs on a couch. The living room in the background is slightly cluttered.
Studying Once you decide to join an Civil Service Examinations, it helps if you are well prepared. You can prepare for Examinations by studying the Confucian Classics. To continue: Open the 'Decisions & Great Projects' Panel
Screenshot of Pathologic 2 showing the setting sun casting rays above an autumnal town. A pile of coffins is in the foreground and there is a Thirst meter at the bottom of the screen.
Screenshot of Pathologic 3 showing a tragedian - a thin black-suited figure with a white mask - highlighted in green with text floating around him. The text reads: I was lured into a student art performance once No script and no characters, because "the dictatorship of the author and traditional narrative structures" is "reactionary" We spoke in random combinations of syllables Never again
Dr Eleanor Janega ‪@goingmedieval.bsky.social‬ Seriously you can't just say "anyone who can read can do pastoral care" with a ancient document. Look what happens!!!
Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands on a couch next to a cushion and looks at the camera.
Four sambusa - pastry parcels filled with lentils - and a pot of sauce on a plate in a basket.
Demi Lardner in a bow tie twisting her mouth like a pliable plasticine model. She is mid-word in this image.
GeraldKean @GeraldKean Peel potatoe ... Bite a large whole thro it ... Bacon on plate with anchovies or cheese on it black pepper herbs .. Push into potatoe .. 29/12/2014, 00:36 from Wicklow, Ireland
Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social kind of feel like taking cocaine and driving through a red light
yoda from the meme
Jess, a dilute calico cat, lies loafed on a folded and crumpled duvet in the sun. She looks a bit sleepy but suspicious
A group of people making a castell, a human tower, indoors. This is a four storey tower. A small child is in the process of climbing up to be the fifth storey.
image of placeholder art for Total War Warhammer 3 showing crude MS Paint unit cards
Jess, a dilute calico cat, stands side-on to the camera on a blanket on a couch. She looks a bit suspicious and is swishing her tail around.
Screenshot from Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest. Subtitles are in Gaelic and have the protagonist's name as Màiri not Mhairi, thankfully