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Saturdays are for trying to befriend the local foxes. There are a bunch living under the hedge by the flat. I saw a big fat fox sitting in the road this week, like a cross between a rising bollard and a garden gnome. I wonder if I can entice them…

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My stress level seems to be higher this year compared to last year. There are a number of ways I can tell when I need to slow down. I feel more tired, less energetic. Enthusiasm is difficult to muster. I need to break things down into smaller tasks. I make…

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Over the river and through the woods,
To Grandmother’s house we go;
At the airport on time, which is good cause the lines
Are moving super slow.

Over the river and through the screens
Then stuck at security
I’ve been patted down and thrown to the ground
Due to my…

Can a ship be a horse archer? This is one of the many maritime musings Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's devs had to grapple with when putting together the flotilla of vessels which make up its naval warfare-themed War Sails expansion.

Ahead of War Sails' release on November 26th

Seasons of Solitude is a soulful balance of survival game and turn-based strategy about an exiled prehistoric tribesman who is trying not to trash his own habitat. It's the work of Estonian developers Ninjarithm Studio, and is based on Estonian myths.

There's a demo on Steam, which I've spent barely…

I’m sure that every Irreal reader is aware of the recent Internet outages caused by problems at AWS and Cloudflare. Most of those readers also know that things happen. Servers fail, cables break, backhoes wreak havoc, software runs up against implicit boundaries, and human beings make configuration errors. When those…

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Other changes include a new function attribute, "#[\NoDiscard]" to indicate that the…