Developer, writer, musician, game designer. Terry Pratchett First Novel Award winner. My novel The Hive Construct out now. 少し日本語が話せます。
Brighton, England
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Back when I had game dev aspirations this place was the holy grail. In reality there's no magic to studios, just to the great developers they burn through like it's nothing, but when you have a streak like these guys did for a time it does make you kind of a believer.
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If they aren't coordinating under an external organisational apparatus it's not entryism, it's just left wing people participating in politics, which I know is considered improper in British public life but still
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I visited in late November, it was cold but there wasn't really much that stopped me doing. I had a great time, and I certainly wouldn't advise against going just because it's cold.
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New on Tsundokublog: between novel essays, a few notes on what's going on with the "japanese literary magazines" thing
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TV licence to be extended to the water-filled and so refractive section of any full or half full water bottles
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I read and buy a lot of contemporary poetry but don’t write any and — not to brag — but I believe this qualifies me for a form of secular sainthood
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About a century ago a British journalist wrote about a new technology that was going to change everything, and said that those against this technology were ignorant and “detest progress” because everyone would be adopting it. He was talking about the use of mustard gas in WW1.
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In hardcore it's very much the case where post-hardcore ends up being the alt rock bands that guys do post-being-in-a-hardcore-band
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It is wild how that Anpo cohort seems to just not have a place in the modern Japanese political imaginary. Compared to the French 68, the Vietnam protests and SDS in America, the Miners' Strikes in the UK...
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A properly honed historical perspective on an artwork absolutely refines your taste, and an ability to productively appreciate art from a range of different contexts is a key mark of superior taste.
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Genuinely yes, almost everybody believes that different languages are just substitution cyphers
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