James Arthur
@teamonkey.bsky.social
Not that one, I was here first.
Exhausted game designer, occasional astronomer, boring nerd.
DeathSprint 66 & Critter Cafe out now
Previously: CoD, Hood O&L, The Division, multiple Assassin’s Creeds, GTA IV
@[email protected]
jarthur.net
Exhausted game designer, occasional astronomer, boring nerd.
DeathSprint 66 & Critter Cafe out now
Previously: CoD, Hood O&L, The Division, multiple Assassin’s Creeds, GTA IV
@[email protected]
jarthur.net
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James Arthur
@teamonkey.bsky.social
· Jan 4
I got a Steam Deck at the end of 2023 and it‘s one of the best things I‘ve bought. I’ve played more games in 2024 than the previous few years combined.
So rather than list my top games of 2024 here’s a list of ALL the games I’ve played last year, almost all on the SD… 🧵
So rather than list my top games of 2024 here’s a list of ALL the games I’ve played last year, almost all on the SD… 🧵
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️
Not now, Something
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe.
www.independent.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Not now, Something
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oh u like warhammer? name all 40k of them
February 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
oh u like warhammer? name all 40k of them
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Stand by for a DATABLAST!
Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine!
Or read very, very fast! 😅
#VideoBytes
Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine!
Or read very, very fast! 😅
#VideoBytes
December 4, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Stand by for a DATABLAST!
Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine!
Or read very, very fast! 😅
#VideoBytes
Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine!
Or read very, very fast! 😅
#VideoBytes
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🧪 Check out this very interesting thread of @altmetric.com mentions of papers on twitter vs bluesky.
Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter.
#פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן
Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter.
#פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן
February 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🧪 Check out this very interesting thread of @altmetric.com mentions of papers on twitter vs bluesky.
Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter.
#פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן
Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter.
#פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן
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Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
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Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
February 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
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The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
Scary Beast Security
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...
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Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
February 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
Late to the party but finally reading Matthew Ball’s state of the industry and man alive, there are some eye-opening slides in there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...
PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co
A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.
www.matthewball.co
February 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Late to the party but finally reading Matthew Ball’s state of the industry and man alive, there are some eye-opening slides in there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...
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Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪
February 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪
Just another day.
BREAKING | The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows
Universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything
The universe could undergo a catastrophe that would change absolutely everything, scientists have shown using a quantum machine.
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Just another day.
I used to think this episode was a bit too weird but here we are in 2025
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I used to think this episode was a bit too weird but here we are in 2025
Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Original video by Tricker: www.youtube.com/shorts/3FWuG...
Mi-24 HIND Startup in 60 Seconds!
YouTube video by Tricker
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop?
This is a great read
I'm going to get a jump on this by sharing this gift link to my bit about what I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show, what I learned from the Tesla Hyperloop, and the dumb, dull, demeaning future big tech types want the rest of us to settle for: defector.com/the-future-i...
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is a great read
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🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)
January 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)
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FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌
Glad to see this step toward more good news!
Glad to see this step toward more good news!
AI prompt results aren’t protected by copyright, says US Copyright Office
AI prompt results aren’t protected by copyright, says US Copyright Office
AI prompts are different from Jackson Pollock’s paintings, apparently.
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌
Glad to see this step toward more good news!
Glad to see this step toward more good news!
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We are only days away from a Temu Grok
Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3 reut.rs/3Q1hawt
Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3
The Chinese tech company released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.
reut.rs
January 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We are only days away from a Temu Grok
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Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative"
After playtesting:
After playtesting:
January 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative"
After playtesting:
After playtesting:
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Horrendous day.
I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections
#ubisoft
I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections
#ubisoft
Breaking: Ubisoft announces studio closure as it axes 185 staff
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-anno...
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-anno...
January 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Horrendous day.
I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections
#ubisoft
I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections
#ubisoft
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Here’s the researcher who studied rats driving cars. Long after they were very familiar with the cars and how they worked, the rats would use the cars even when they’re weren’t necessary to get to a treat.
theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...
theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...
I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life
Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones
theconversation.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Here’s the researcher who studied rats driving cars. Long after they were very familiar with the cars and how they worked, the rats would use the cars even when they’re weren’t necessary to get to a treat.
theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...
theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
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'Critter Café X Lofi Girl - 'Chill Beats for Serving Treats' 🍰
Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership.
Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW...
#crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames
Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership.
Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW...
#crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames
January 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'Critter Café X Lofi Girl - 'Chill Beats for Serving Treats' 🍰
Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership.
Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW...
#crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames
Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership.
Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW...
#crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames