Tom Forsyth

@tomforsyth.bsky.social

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Gfx coder and chip designer. He/him/3Dlabs/Muckyfoot/RAD/Valve/Oculus/Intel/Rec Room/Riot. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@TomF

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue" line from Airplane.
Fred Astaire and Jack Lemmon having a conversation in a pub.
A picture of a lemon and a pear.
The cover of the Phoebe Bridgers album "Stranger in the Alps". It is named after a hilariously bad dubbing of a scene in The Big Lebowski.
By IGN Staff - "There's tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person" says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.
William Strickland (died 8 December 1598) was an English landowner who sailed on early voyages of exploration to America and is credited with introducing the turkey into England.
A bobcat in my back garden.
A small two-seat car with a surprisingly large cargo space behind the seats, covered with a curved humped body. Its shape is strongly reminiscent of the Citroen 2CV - it is deliberately cute. It is called the Nissan Small Cargo, or "S-Cargo" which sounds like the French "escargot" meaning "snail", which it resembles.
In May 1899, in a break with the common international practice of setting one-hour intervals between adjacent time zones, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes after lobbying by businesses who wanted to be closer to Melbourne time and cricketers and footballers who wanted more daylight to practice in the evenings. It also meant that South Australia became one of only a few places in the world which uses a time-zone meridian located outside of its geographical boundaries. Attempts to undo this change in 1986 and 1994 failed.
An evil cube from the show Terrahwaks. They are the bad guys. It has red eyes and looks grumpy.
An "Otamatone" - it's a sort of tiny electronic saxophone with a squeezable Pac-Man head instead of a bell. Sorry, I don't know how to explain this better - it's very odd.
Shot from the movie Die Another Day. A Lambo Diablo has fallen out of a plane and is embedded nose-first in a rice paddy up to its windscreen. This will not buff out.
The Prisoner. A large white sphere called "Rover" lurks above our protagonist, who is passed out on the beach, just waiting for him to twitch, so it can pounce.
Headline in "GMA Living", part of the ABC network Woman speaks out after history-making row from California to Hawaii.
Max says "that's bait"
A screenshot of the 1980 game Missile Command.
Two tiny race cars - Caterham Sevens - racing side-by-side around a tight corner. Their wheels are almost touching. They are very open cars, and you can see both drivers clearly, including their eyes through the helmet visors.
Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 looking very auntie-like.
A "sheep nudibranch". It is a sea slug, seen from head-on. It has two tiny black dots for eyes (actually not its eyes) and two long green ears (antennae) and a body covered in soft green spikes filled with algae. Despite being thoroughly alien, it is extremely cute.
A parade of Egyptian police. 20-30 men with impressive steveages are topless, standing in bodybuilder poses on top of their vehicles, flexing their muscles. They are, rightfully, full of pride.
Swamp Thing - a giant creature of green leaves and algae.
The TMNT logo generator says "Gastro Intestinal Joseph Generator"
A Motorola 68000 RC10, Pin Grid Array package. It is a small square chip with a grey surround and a central golden square showing its name and serial number. One corner has a golden marking to show which is pin 1. You can just see the array of pins sticking out underneath the chip.
Smaug the gigantic dragon guarding his hoard of gold against a small hobbit with a sword.
A graph showing road deaths per 100k population. Russia's graph has been supreme since the 1990s, but since 2020 the USA has taken the lead. Everywhere else in world have been steadily plummeting since the 90s and are now at pathetically low levels of mortality.
A fish with a human face, from the Sega game Seaman. It was pretty fucked up.
A picture of one of the "Cocks not Glocks" protests at University of Texas - several young women are marching, wearing T-shirts, holding signs and brandishing dildos. One is holding both a dog and a dildo - the dildo is quite a bit larger than the dog.
Two yellow, black and white birds in the passerine family.
A fox in the snow looks directly into a howling gale and says "it fucken wimdy"
Cover art of the OGRE board game by Steve Jackson Games showing a gigantic tank, bristling with weaponry, rolling across a cratered landscape destroying smaller vehicles in its path.
Oprah saying "BEES!!!"
Cat reading the papers meme thinks "I should control the means of production"
Mobygames credits for Thief - "Special Thanks: Warren Spector"
SONY earbuds, but the edges have worn, and upside down it says the word ANUS. Yes, I am an absolute child :-)
Drivers-eye view of racing a Caterham Seven, on the track heading into a sharp left turn. Ahead are nine other cars of various types - other Caterhams, Formula Mazda cars, and a Spec Ford Racer
"Call the ambulance" / "But not for me" meme.
Aerial photo of The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England. It is five mini roundabouts formed into one Voltron Roundabout. Actually technically two. It is full of cars. They are somehow managing not to smash into each other. British sorcery!
"Well I think it could be said about all of us. I mean Isaac, you have things in your closet that you pray never show up on CNN. There are things that you've done that you pray to God never become a New Yorker story."