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I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 23, 2026
#oneaday Day 868: The desire for hope
Interesting discussion in therapy today. I happened to share that I had been experiencing some unusually intense emotional reactions to various pieces of music, including the Ace Combat 8 finale and the Little Tall Prince song I shared the other day. And I guess I hadn't completely considered why. As is so often the case,...
emotional response
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hope
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 22, 2026
#oneaday Day 867: A bit of tech that actually still works
The most interesting thing that happened to me today is that I lost my phone... for about twenty minutes, then I found it again. There is a little more to it than that. Andie and I went out to Ikea earlier, because she had a £20 voucher that is expiring on Saturday, and we're away...
cellphones
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find my phone
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 21, 2026
#oneaday Day 866: In the palm of your hand
I've had my Analogue Pocket a couple of days now, and I really like it. So what is the game I have played the most on it so far? It is, and this is genuinely not a joke, Solitaire FunPak by Beam Software for original black-and-white Game Boy. (Apparently a Game Gear version also exists,...
analogue pocket
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beam software
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 19, 2026
#oneaday Day 864: Grab bag
It has been a fairly boring day, so I will attempt to make it more interesting by talking about several things. Look at me go! First up, my Analogue Pocket arrived today. Did I need another retro gaming handheld, particularly one that is quite pricy (and extremely pricy when you add the extortionate shipping and...
analogue pocket
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buldak noodles
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 18, 2026
#oneaday Day 863: Where to even begin
One of the things that I've wanted to do for many years is get to grips with really being able to program the Atari 8-bit. This will be a completely useless and unmarketable skill for me to learn, but with the Atari 8-bit in particular having always been so important to me, it feels like...
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Atari 8-bit
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atari basic
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 10, 2026
#oneaday Day 855: On my own
I'm alone in the house right now (apart from the cats), as Andie is away looking after her mother, who has just been in hospital. Nothing to worry about or anything, but she needs looking after for a few days, so I am holding the fort back home while she does that. I tend to...
alone
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friendship
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 8, 2026
#oneaday Day 853: Hey I'm grump
I have been grumpy for the past couple of days, as you have probably noticed. In my defence, 1) I think I am perfectly justified in the things I have been grumpy about, and 2) I have not been feeling well. I have had just that general feeling of "the ick" since I woke up...
general ramblings
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i have the poos
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 6, 2026
#oneaday Day 851: Abandon ship?
Earlier today, the thoroughly lovely Quest 64 Official account on Bluesky (actually, in their own words, an account that has "spent nearly a decade attempting to rehab the way people view Quest 64/games in general", which is a sentiment I am 100% on board with) expressed frustration over a YouTube video they had seen cross...
clickbait
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evolution of the internet
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 4, 2026
#oneaday Day 849: Do people really not finish games?
I've seen it often suggested that "no-one finishes games" these days. Is that really true? I don't know. I am certainly not a representative example here, because I tend to only start games that I know I am going to finish for the most part. It might take quite a while to finish some of...
achievements
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beating games
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 3, 2026
#oneaday Day 848: Initial impressions from St. Amelia
I've been playing Silent Hill Townfall! It is good. I think I am enjoying it more than Silent Hill f, but I do intend to go back and give that another go (and a shot at one or more of the other endings) for the sake of fairness, comparison and suchlike. Silent Hill Townfall is...
horror games
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konami
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Oct 1, 2026
#oneaday Day 846: Eye for an eye
We are brought up with, it's fair to say, somewhat conflicting messages on the subject of revenge. On the whole, we are mostly discouraged from it on the grounds that it doesn't necessarily solve anything, and any momentary high you might feel from delivering it will likely be short-lived. But we're also bombarded with popular...
bitterness
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grudges
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 29, 2026
#oneaday Day 844: Mechannative
These days, I feel like a lot of people determine that they're either into narrative-centric games or mechanics-centric games, and don't do much in the way of cross-pollination, even when the games themselves do so. I'm sure we all know at least one person who takes inexplicable pride in the fact that they skip all...
game design
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Game focus
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 28, 2026
#oneaday Day 843: Exploring the mundane
One of my favourite things in video games is when a game takes a very small, pretty mundane environment and renders it in a ridiculous level of detail. I'm not generally a "graphics person", but if you give me a game in which I can poke around a tiny, convincingly rendered house in extreme levels...
3d worlds
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photorealism
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 28, 2026
#oneaday Day 842: Quick catch-up
I forgot to write something on here yesterday! In my defence, I wrote nearly 4,000 words on Ys VIII over on MoeGamer so I think you can probably cut me a bit of slack. I'm still going to take this post to "catch up" though. I really enjoyed Ys VIII overall. It still feels a...
ace combat 8
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nighthawks
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 26, 2026
#oneaday Day 841: The politics of farting
One of the most complex parts of human interactions that we all have to independently learn to navigate is the politics and etiquette of farting. We all do it -- yes, even you -- but everyone, eventually, comes to their own conclusions as to how, when and why they let the bum gas fly. I...
Family
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farting
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 25, 2026
#oneaday Day 840: The deluge has started
The deluge of amazing games coming out in the latter half of this year has started. I've already noted that I've been playing the excellent Nighthawks from Wadjet Eye Games, and that is very much occupying my immediate attention, but also on my radar for the immediate-ish future are Silent Hill Townfall and Ace Combat...
ace combat 8
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late 2026 releases
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 24, 2026
#oneaday Day 839: Bad people get away with it
I think one of the most sobering parts of Becoming An Adult is coming to the unfortunate realisation that some people are just Bad People -- and that, more often than not, they will get away with being Bad People, through some combination of money, power, influence and/or privilege. I'm not speaking about anyone specific...
bad people
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bigotry
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 20, 2026
#oneaday Day 835: All night long
Remember how yesterday I said a group of friends and I were going to play Big Walk "this afternoon"? Yeah, well, we started in the afternoon, my time... and concluded twelve fucking hours later. I have never, ever had a multiplayer session so long that the batteries in my headset went flat. Until now! (It's...
all-nighter
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big walk
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 18, 2026
#oneaday Day 833: Things I miss
It is, I suspect, a natural part of growing older that you start to miss things that are no longer a regular part of your life. So I thought I might reflect on that a bit today. In what turned out to be rough chronological order: I miss my school days. While there are aspects...
loneliness
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memories
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 17, 2026
#oneaday Day 832: Brain empty
I'm having one of those evenings where I don't really know what to write. So I tend to find in these situations the best thing to do is just open up an empty page and let the stream-of-consciousness flow. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. As a reminder that I am not getting...
empty brain
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freewriting
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 15, 2026
#oneaday Day 830: Home at last
Well, as predicted that was a massive waste of time. Six hour round trip for a one-hour meeting that was of very little value whatsoever. Never mind, it's done with now, and I can start getting back to normality. After my mini PC unceremoniously died on me on the first day of our holiday, I...
computers
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reinstalling
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 12, 2026
#oneaday Day 827: Today is pancakes
Forgive the interruption in posting pattern yesterday, but I just had to have a little rant about the number of people using their phones in the pool. Stop it! Also, I will now stop talking about it, and talk about today, whose main attraction was our traditional visit to The Pancake House. The Pancake House...
center parcs
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Dessert for lunch
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 7, 2026
#oneaday Day 822: Today is holiday
We're here! Or there, depending on how you look at it. An uneventful drive down, aside from some traffic around Salisbury, and my mini PC refusing to boot up for some reason (that's going to be fun to diagnose, since it's also my work computer), and we're safely ensconced in our pleasant little forest lodge,...
computers
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holiday
I'm Not Doctor Who
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Sep 6, 2026
#oneaday Day 821: Tomorrow is holiday
We're off on holiday tomorrow! It may seem extravagant to have two going-away holidays in the same year (to the exact same place, no less), but as I've mentioned previously, our prior attempt earlier in the year was spoiled somewhat by worrying over a certain idiotic orange cat who had decided to explore the Great...
holiday
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looking forward to something for once
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