Made lots of websites once - now looks after people who do. Music, Art and Indie Game appreciator. General gentleman. 'Performer' of @theblenderhq.
London / Northants
Joined December 2009
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Get on this Londonians👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Overreact, my first mobile app launched for iOS today, featuring a collection of (somewhat frustrating 😆) button-based mini games!
And a huge thank you to everyone who helped with testing and providing feedback!
(Android coming soon, I'm just waiting on the review process)
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ITS DONE!!! THE #SONICSPEEDPLAY IS COMPLETE. I'VE SUCCESSFULLY SPEEDRUN (almost) THE ENTIRE SERIES IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!
This has been such an epic two weeks. Thank you for this amazing series @sonic_hedgehog & @SEGA!
I'm SOO DANG HAPPY right now!!! 😁
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We’re not afraid to talk about suicide.
Tap repost and let’s break the silence together 💪
ALT Talking about suicide saves lives. We're ready to listen.
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Finally, we can stop sitting on one of the best mashups of our non-illustrious career - and what better to surround it with than one of the best albums of all time?
Saturday, 12pm - be there (or be elsewhere)
Get your Party Party shoes on! It's happening!
It's our 2nd annual album listen-a-thon with 2 solid hours of Black Lace(ish) including the entire Party Crazy album!
Plus...
- Agadon't
- A NEW Black Lace mashup from us, The Blender
Saturday! 12pm!
listento.theblender.online
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🚨🚨We’ve got the full single of Vanilla’s No Way No Way (1997, UK #14) onto streaming with all remixes. Thanks to @WarnerMusicUK open.spotify.com/album/3SILs…
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We will be celebrating 50 years of Teletext by playing one of our rare LIVE happenings at the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge next month. It's the medium that made us in the first place.
teletext50.com/
A visual version of the Teletext@50 #documentary is now available, just about in time for the anniversary in September!
Includes contributions from all across the #teletext community. A big thank you to everyone, and especially Carlos. 👏 #teletext50
youtube.com/watch?v=y5N_SS8G…
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#CEEFAUXviewerscompetition entry from @ScottMo68256087 - we'll count all likes/shares/comments up to 9am tomorrow. Our overall winner will be announced on Sunday 18th August. Get liking!
ALT 19.00: AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET SHOP BOYS Comedy drama about a group of British builders who work on a West German building site in order to send the money home to to a Northern synth pop duo
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Recently a video claimed that modern pixel artists are misguided - mimicking sprites as they appear on modern screens, instead of how pixel artists from the 80s and 90s “intended” them to look on hazy CRT televisions.
Not exactly. Let’s discuss.
A thread
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1/ 🧵Just did a network analysis of the "far right thugs unite" hashtag. It largely seems to be a simulated scandal/outrage to promote the Reform Party and Nigel Farage and - while also being an attack on Keir Starmer.
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This 40-year-old Llamasoft ad is really cool. Great illustration - I assume by Steinar Lund - plus an excellent lineup of classic games makes for a visually striking image that's mercifully devoid of the walls of text that often plagued game ads during this period.
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We're BACK for a cozy rumble through some sound we found around today from 12pm for 90 minutes or so.
We're gearing back up for Have You Missed The Blender? at the end of the month which will bring us bang up to date, with, er, a bang.
listento.theblender.online from 12pm UK!
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Oh no, who could have seen this coming except everyone.
forbes.com/sites/bryanrobins…
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For #ThrowbackSunday here's another of our #Festive50 number 1s, the John-Peel-and-Status-Quo-sampling The Nation Needs You performed live in Salford earlier this year.
The @johnpeelarchive might enjoy this.
And for #FlashbackSaturday a clip of the #Festive50 all-timer and @RoughTradeRecs 7" single Oh My God They Killed Kenny, from the same night.
Perhaps a @RoughTrade Record Store Day reissue is in order.