Hannah Dawson
@fairlysadpanda
Senior Backend Engineer at a company formerly called CCP Games London. Games developer and artist. Liberal Democrat, former agent of said party. I use she/her pronouns, and I hope you have a lovely day.
A £2 bus fare is a good idea, but good busses people want to use (and think are a good deal) is only one part of the problem to solve in UK transport. Things like this are the other part:
Nvidia: DLSS 5 is the future and doesn't cause distortion or swimming Their keynote footage:
Source - Stack Overflow developer survey 2025, @edzitron.com reporting ad infinitium
The Deck is now an incredibly, incredibly stupid buy whilst the Legion Go S can still be found in the UK for less than £500 (Costco has it for £400). Valve is also paying for the Claw A8 to get good Linux support and you can find that for £850 (Currys), and it has 2x the performance.
I'm not gonna finish this but I was testing out using some HMD glasses to put reference on when drawing. So I drew the Endmin from Endfield. Really rusty digitally but it was good to bust out the tablet and stuff
I want this framed. This should be the cover of the novel adaption of the movie about when this bubble explodes
Sidenote, disagree with @stephenkb.bsky.social view that it is unclear if anyone else could win Makersfield. I doubt "generic local Labour politician OK being placed in the Wicker Man" would have clangers like this come up when campaigning in a Leave constituency
I spent way too long on this joke so I am promoting it to my main feed
Nah - we do not expect/require maturity from teens so that is consistent, plus we know most smokers start early so delaying access is effective. This is a rolling perma-ban policy, a different kettle of fish. A lot of things have driven smoking rates down outside bans - warnings, culture changes
I am in the slop mines, there's so much goddamn slop, I am the slop queen These are supposed to be the same woman in the same game
I had to make a short video on the DLSSlop stuff. I'm sorry. It's not only fatiguing and sloppy lighting, it's just weirdly creepy. Watch to the end for the punchline.
In fact, every prior year had the same text about it being the sub renewal window. The last similarly-titled email, in October 2021, was this - you may note it is nothing to do with price changes.
Oh and the prior year's email? Note the different renewal date and the different, more informational title.
This was the price I paid to cancel out of said plan in February.
Here is the email they sent in November - titled "Updates To Your Creative Cloud Photography Plan".
Starfield too. 100% sure - it's a filter running after the video is composited. DF are fucking clowns.
I'm 90% sure that DLSSlop is just a damn filter. The DF video shows it clearly here: the filter is applied on top of the in-game UI compass. Hence why the direct-to-screen capture all has the UI off. You can see it happen most clearly during the Oblivion Remastered segment.
Another, from the so-called "better" Starfield demo. Again, note that the gen AI model has no idea about lighting or materials - it's just slapping a Nintendo Hire This Man filter on. It looks over-sharp, fatiguing, and unnatural.
A recommended trick when dealing with AI slop images - flip them upside down. You can see the absolute carnage the DLSSlop model has wrought on Chloe's face, and the weird lighting alterations made in the background (bluish hue)
Highguard EOS announced, it is dead on the 12th. The F2P shooter launched the same week as Arknights: Endfield, a F2P game that did not get an extremely cheap marketing push from Geoff Keighley, is essentially Genshin Impact meets Factorio, and has already made several hundred million dollars.
In a note about how stupid FPTP is - compare the amount of seats the Greens win with a UNS swings of 0->10% and then the amount they win just from 16-17% Basically on a large enough UNS things get extremely silly extremely quickly.
It's helpful to be a dog lover when on the oppo benches near the LDs: our spokesdog is fearsome
Another note on the proposed RPA 2026: lol we are so cooked as a country