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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 25, 2026

#oneaday Day 778: That feeling you should be doing something

I'm having one of those days where my brain feels restless, where it feels like I "should" be doing something, but as far as I am aware, I have no commitments this weekend whatsoever, so I should just be taking the time to relax, enjoy myself and mentally prepare for the week ahead. (There's nothing...

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 23, 2026

#oneaday Day 776: Splatting Salmonids

Splatoon Raiders arrived yesterday, a day earlier than I was expecting it, and I've been playing it. It's a good time! It's the latest in an increasingly long line of titles from Nintendo that feel like video games used to feel like. It's not trying to be a movie, it's not trying to be an...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 21, 2026

#oneaday Day 774: Archiving past nonsense

Well, I went and did it. I set up a Bandcamp specifically for my old electronic music nonsense under the name "sonicfunkstars". When I feel like actually sitting down and using all those samples I spent several days copying over, I will be resurrecting the sonicfunkstars name for some new stuff -- but in the...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 19, 2026

#oneaday Day 772: The Lovely(-Sounding) Bones

I dread to think how much money I have spent on headphones over the years. I never buy particularly pricy ones -- I think the most expensive ones I've bought were some nice noise-cancelling Sony ones a while back, which I use when recording videos -- but I do get through 'em. I'm annoyed that...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 17, 2026

#oneaday Day 770: Motivation: the Sergeant-Major vs the kind voice

At therapy today, we were talking a bit about motivation, and how I feel like I've been struggling with it a bit of late -- particularly when it comes to things like diet and exercise. One conclusion that I think we came to was that I am much more likely to be motivated to do...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 16, 2026

#oneaday Day 769: Sample CDs and sonicfunkstars

I finally got around to doing something I've been meaning to do for ages today: (re)install my myriad CDs of music samples so I can have a play around with something like ACID Music again. (I don't even know if the copy of ACID Music I own still works, but it's worth a go, surely.)...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 15, 2026

#oneaday Day 768: Sketchin'

I've been meaning to get back to doing stupid little doodles on posts for ages, but have just never... well, to be honest, I just haven't really been bothered to. Best to be honest about these things, and it's been nice seeing the stock images that kind and talented people from around the world have...

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 14, 2026

#oneaday Day 767: Why I continue to write in an age of AI

I read a good piece earlier that got me thinking: why do I continue to tap out words here, day after day, in an age where those odious "Generate with AI" buttons are ubiquitous, whether you want them or not? (Even here in my own self-hosted version of WordPress, I cannot escape the "Improve with...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 13, 2026

#oneaday Day 766: Verify your age

There's a meme going around on Bluesky today where you write "verify your age" and then post something in text or image form that you remember from Times Past™. In the absence of anything particularly interesting happening today, I thought I would do a bumper crop of these in one post. So prepare to verify...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 11, 2026

#oneaday Day 764: Just games

There was yet another round of Tedious Discourse™ today over what the word "retro" really means, if anything, when it comes to video games. As always, there were lots of varying definitions, no agreement, and a bunch of people getting in a bit of a flap about it when their definitions of "retro" didn't line...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 10, 2026

#oneaday Day 763: My brain has melted

It's been unbearably hot again today. The thing I hate the most about unbearably hot weather is how lethargic it makes you in both body and mind. It has cooled off a fair bit now the sun has gone down, but my brain is still in a semi-liquid state, meaning it is proving enormously difficult...

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 9, 2026

#oneaday Day 762: Some nice things

I started typing out a post about how shit everything was. I got to about 600 words, and I even found a really good stock image of some horseshit. Then I looked at what I had written and thought, "no, I should not give in to despair, even if it does seem like it has...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 8, 2026

#oneaday Day 761: The depths of the id

I think one of the hardest things to watch during the latest of myriad sessions of layoffs over at XBOX, The Everything Console has been seeing id Software be gutted. Everyone has That One Company who always made stuff that they liked, which has been there since their childhood, and for me I think that...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 7, 2026

#oneaday Day 760: My own feelings on old games

First up, here's a good piece that I read earlier today, and which my resharing a clip of on Bluesky did Numbers to such a degree that I had to mute the thread. I stand by my comment of "fucking preach" about it, however, particularly the paragraph about today's games having their roots in older...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 4, 2026

#oneaday Day 757: Nothing works any more

One of the most common refrains of people who discuss the topic of enshittification is that so much stuff related to tech just flat-out doesn't work any more, and no-one seems in any great hurry to fix it -- particularly when all the actually knowledgeable engineers have been replaced with "vibe-coding" cunts. Photo by Beyzanur...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 4, 2026

#oneaday Day 756: Video games like they used to be

Around the same time Sony is doing its best to completely murder the traditions and culture surrounding video games, and Xbox continues to implode, Nintendo has gone and put out multiple games that feel... almost out of their own time. And I mean that in a very complimentary way; both Star Fox (released on the...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 1, 2026

#oneaday Day 754: Late '90s promise

As I absorb the news that Sony is giving up on physical releases of games -- something I have had a good rant about at much more length over on MoeGamer, so please go read that -- I can't help but think back to the time PlayStation hit the scene, and the incredible amount of...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 30, 2026

#oneaday Day 753: Finding the Fun Factor

As I often do on my regular trips in to the office (when I'm driving, anyway), I listened to a bunch of the Fun Factor podcast over the last couple of days. If you're unfamiliar, this is an excellent show hosted by sports writer Ty Schalter and video game critic Aidan Moher where the pair...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 29, 2026

#oneaday Day 752: What do the police even do any more?

I am someone who grew up with what I would describe as a healthy sense of respect for the police. I have never run afoul of them -- the most "negative" encounter I have had with them was when I was about 18, driving my Mum's car around at about midnight, having been to visit...

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 27, 2026

#oneaday Day 749: The lost decade

At therapy today, we got talking about how I think back extremely fondly on my time at sixth form -- to such a degree that I would brand that period of time as probably the happiest of my life -- and how I feel a curious... "closeness" to that time period, despite it being, at...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 25, 2026

#oneaday Day 748: It's really fuckin' hot

Not to state the obvious (twice), but it's really fuckin' hot. Today it hasn't been quite as fuckin' hot as it was yesterday -- it was literally difficult to breathe in the outside air (or lack thereof) in the middle of the day yesterday -- but it's still not at all nice. Photo by Fabio...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 24, 2026

#oneaday Day 747: Grand Theft Auto VI can eat my ass

To no-one's surprise, it has been revealed that Rockstar's upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will be $80 on release for its regular version, and $100 for the "Ultimate" version, because of course there's an Ultimate version. Hilariously and/or tragically, the "Ultimate" version even goes so far as to lock you out of specific shops in...

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I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 23, 2026

#oneaday Day 746: Decompression

I know I said I'd write about something else on here, but after the late-night update on the situation, I feel inclined to bring this little saga to something of a "close" in a more conclusive manner. We are exhausted and emotional, but delighted beyond belief to have our precious Oliver back at home with...

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 23, 2026

#oneaday Day 745b: Oliver's return, the kindness of strangers, and the unkindness of the people you might need in a crisis

Hello. Second entry for today (although technically it's tomorrow now, as it's 1:21am as I type this) but this is big, important news: OLIVER HAS RETURNED! Oh my God. I am an emotional wreck, and so is Andie, but our brave little boy managed to survive for three weeks out in the wilds of Lordswood,...

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