Jonathan Lloyd
@mxjlloyd.bsky.social
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Jonathan Lloyd
@mxjlloyd.bsky.social
· Nov 18
By day I'm a producer in the games industry, happily making little spreadsheets and Gantt charts, and by night I improvise nonsense or wander around stage with a microphone.
The new Jasper Fforde book is coming out the same day as the new Control game and this is cruel.
October 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
The new Jasper Fforde book is coming out the same day as the new Control game and this is cruel.
Rolling around on the floor whining because my current phone is dying and that means I have to actually buy a new one.
October 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Rolling around on the floor whining because my current phone is dying and that means I have to actually buy a new one.
Me: Oh, The Blame Game is being cancelled.
My wife, distraught: How am I meant to know if AI is protestant or catholic without Tim McGarry telling me?
My wife, distraught: How am I meant to know if AI is protestant or catholic without Tim McGarry telling me?
October 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Me: Oh, The Blame Game is being cancelled.
My wife, distraught: How am I meant to know if AI is protestant or catholic without Tim McGarry telling me?
My wife, distraught: How am I meant to know if AI is protestant or catholic without Tim McGarry telling me?
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GW’s success is also fascinating because it’s both a high street business and a multinational one, though not in the way you’d expect, because it’s vertically integrated with local manufacturing. The lead belt around Nottingham is arguably the only modern British manufacturing success story.
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
October 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
GW’s success is also fascinating because it’s both a high street business and a multinational one, though not in the way you’d expect, because it’s vertically integrated with local manufacturing. The lead belt around Nottingham is arguably the only modern British manufacturing success story.
At a craft fair where someone is selling pillows that read "Autism Powered Fucking Machine" which I didn't realise was an option. I've just been using my autism to power more autism. I could've been doing so much power fucking.
October 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
At a craft fair where someone is selling pillows that read "Autism Powered Fucking Machine" which I didn't realise was an option. I've just been using my autism to power more autism. I could've been doing so much power fucking.
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Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
October 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
I don't want to suggest anything about Nish Kumar's audience but I am not the only one here with rainbow hair.
October 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I don't want to suggest anything about Nish Kumar's audience but I am not the only one here with rainbow hair.
Sat in a theatre café next to two older queer men who are currently discussing Oscar Wilde like god got lazy with the environmental storytelling.
October 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Sat in a theatre café next to two older queer men who are currently discussing Oscar Wilde like god got lazy with the environmental storytelling.
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JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum?
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
October 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum?
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked.
JRRT: What.
I had this with one of my favourite artists, Christian Schloe, whose work is weird and surreal and when I googled him last year all the results were for AI generators in his style. Actually googled him again yesterday wanting to buy a print and he seems to completely have taken down his web presence
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
October 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I had this with one of my favourite artists, Christian Schloe, whose work is weird and surreal and when I googled him last year all the results were for AI generators in his style. Actually googled him again yesterday wanting to buy a print and he seems to completely have taken down his web presence
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Love comparing the difference in comedy stand up show titles. New acts at the Fringe called their shows 'Mr Butterscotch Erupted In My Mouth & Other Toffee Incidents' meanwhile legacy guys going on UK tours call theirs stuff like 'It's Me Again' and 'More Stand Up From Me'
October 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Love comparing the difference in comedy stand up show titles. New acts at the Fringe called their shows 'Mr Butterscotch Erupted In My Mouth & Other Toffee Incidents' meanwhile legacy guys going on UK tours call theirs stuff like 'It's Me Again' and 'More Stand Up From Me'
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Are you a cis man feeling disgusted at the news?
Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
September 30, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Are you a cis man feeling disgusted at the news?
Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
I exist in the circles of games and comedy, people you admire turning out to be awful is not new to me. Mourn what they meant to you, don't blame yourself for not knowing, but honour their victims and move forward making things safer where you can.
October 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I exist in the circles of games and comedy, people you admire turning out to be awful is not new to me. Mourn what they meant to you, don't blame yourself for not knowing, but honour their victims and move forward making things safer where you can.
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social has just posted a clip of his latest special with a piano on stage.
That was my piano and it's the closest I'm probably likely to come to performing at the City Varieties so I'll take it.
That was my piano and it's the closest I'm probably likely to come to performing at the City Varieties so I'll take it.
October 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social has just posted a clip of his latest special with a piano on stage.
That was my piano and it's the closest I'm probably likely to come to performing at the City Varieties so I'll take it.
That was my piano and it's the closest I'm probably likely to come to performing at the City Varieties so I'll take it.
I watched It's A Wonderful Life for the first time last year and I don't think I'll watch it again any time soon because I will start throwing knives every time Mr Potter is on screen, but I think a lot about the "Is he sick?" "No, worse. He's discouraged." exchange.
October 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I watched It's A Wonderful Life for the first time last year and I don't think I'll watch it again any time soon because I will start throwing knives every time Mr Potter is on screen, but I think a lot about the "Is he sick?" "No, worse. He's discouraged." exchange.
Good morning BlueSky what's going on in games today
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October 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Good morning BlueSky what's going on in games today
ah shit
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We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
September 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
September 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
XS Malarkey is lovely. Amy Gledhill is lovely. My friends are lovely. Sometimes comedy is Good.
September 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
XS Malarkey is lovely. Amy Gledhill is lovely. My friends are lovely. Sometimes comedy is Good.
Do you think the acts who put "Not for the easily offended!" on their posters realise they're providing a trigger warning.
September 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Do you think the acts who put "Not for the easily offended!" on their posters realise they're providing a trigger warning.
Sometimes it is good to see a sold out show at your favourite venue by someone doing material that wouldn't be out of place at an edgy boi open mic night to make you feel better about your own stuff.
September 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Sometimes it is good to see a sold out show at your favourite venue by someone doing material that wouldn't be out of place at an edgy boi open mic night to make you feel better about your own stuff.
Really happy to see this, as someone who cannot do shooty games and would not have been able to get through the original without the lock on button.
CONTROL Resonant has no traditional difficulty levels.
Instead, there's the Assist Mode. Use it to make the game easier (or harder) and only adjust certain mechanics, or take advantage some of the presets provided.
You can turn the Assist Mode on/off whenever you like!
#CONTROLResonant
Instead, there's the Assist Mode. Use it to make the game easier (or harder) and only adjust certain mechanics, or take advantage some of the presets provided.
You can turn the Assist Mode on/off whenever you like!
#CONTROLResonant
September 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Really happy to see this, as someone who cannot do shooty games and would not have been able to get through the original without the lock on button.