Ed Fenn
@fennit
Worked on only the coolest PC Gaming Mags, now floating around.
Chicken update: they slept on the roof of their house last night and as a result the roof fell off. They don't care because they're chickens and all of life's worries disappear when mealworm appears.
In a complex series of events I've ended up with chickens to temporarily look after till they can move on to a new home. I don't know how this has happened.
I reserved back in May; still on an estimate of 2027. Been a similar story with the Machine so I dread what'll happen with the Frame.
If you want to know how stupid RAM prices have become back in late September I ordered some. £115 for 32gb. That same set now costs £521 in July. That's a 350% increase.
Maru sadly! I feel with them it might be one of those things of, processing their grief in a public way which I can sympathise with. But it's not something that I feel comfortable in seeing or supporting. Maybe they're past doing it now but it made me nervous that it would creep in again.
At the start of the month we did a drone show as an exhibition (we normally manufacture instead of fly) and getting "only" 350 together with fireworks took hours of laying them out and double checking they'd be perfect to go at launch time. Here's that 10 minute show condensed down to 8 seconds.
Haha it would involve a lot of crew swearing I imagine! I flew a show a few weeks ago and it takes a few hours to setup. Then during the show you don't really get to watch it because you are clenching hard managing hundreds of tiny temperamental aircraft in the sky to perform safely for the public!
The US is hilarious to drive around because you'll come across things like "Big Beaver Road on Exit 69" and you can never be certain if anyone involved was filthy minded enough to make the connection.
Put small plane in water. Got big. Reproposed infront of it incase it didn't count the first time.
She loves the B29 so it only felt fitting to include as a witness to the moment. And it in turn got some pictures with a stunning backdrop!
In race to the bottom advertising news Google will now suggest generated pictures to attach to your advertising campaign. We have a sister company that does cleaning drones (basically a hovering pressure washer to get up high) and this is what they suggest we run ads with.
For the past 6 months I've been building and flying lightshow drones. If anyone's curious about it in general, want any at an event or to buy their own fleet I don't mind answering questions!
I've been a big dweeb who's read lots of manga (very legally) online before now, so it feels very special to finally own a complete physical edition to enjoy. At first I thought Delicious in Dungeon was just an excuse to draw food, but it evolved into one of my favourite stories. Give it a try too!
Tom Lehrer's passing has me thinking about his opinion on satire (and why he backed away from it as a medium). It's how I feel about a lot of news sites now. Or the floodgates of social media from Bluesky to Tiktok, Instagram to Youtube. Love comedy, but don't know where my voice belongs in it now.
I've probably forgotten several places I've visited or stayed at, but I do need to see more of Wales & Scotland.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
My grandad would've been 100 today. Here's him (far left) age 14 in 1939 rocking a rebellious look with his older brother and sister.
Having a terrible Crohn's flare these past two weeks and it's crap. Thanks to the wonders of smartwatch tech I at least have my feelings supported. On the left is my typical stress level week (blue low stress, shades of orange getting darker for more stress) compared to this week on the right.
Crush your colleague's child shoulder with your many fingered morphing hand. Watch as they grab their thumb stump in desperation whilst one eye painfully becomes a square. Question not the tiny stethoscope becoming a gas mask. Choose us because we care.
My local GP now has this poster and I just don't understand how such terrible looking generative guff got past so many pairs of eyes for approval. It cost money to print it and nobody thought "maybe hands shouldn't look like that" and "why are one of our doctors a small child".
It's genuinely surprised me to see takes like this responding to Steve's old PC Zone Sims review. It's good we've moved past the performative lad aspect of those days in mags, but I think chaotic & funny irreverence still has a place to question wide reaching corporate control of creative spaces.
In honour of the Sims 1 & 2 re-release announced for this week, here are some objective reviews from PC Zone (the very first magazine I wrote for).
I miss the "4 bolt take the engine out life" but never had the pleasure to try it out with a later VW van.
Miss both of my cheap old BMWs, but not the maintenance costs, insurance and how they would like to kill me. Very solid drives though, miss the non-race one more than the race one.
Life on Mars, the TV show where a modern day police officer travels back to 1973 and is befuddled by older technology, was filmed in 2005. Today's Life on Mars would have them travel back to the primitive year of... 1993.