Ian Badcoe

@ianbadcoe

(they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...

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Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Jun 25

Finally! I'm qualified to open these emails now... #OverlySpecificMuch #IAmTheOnlyIanBadcoeYouKnow ?

This email was intended for "lan Badcoe (Retired, Game-
Dev, Poet, Software Engineer)"

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Jun 13

*This* crack in the fabric of reality, dammit!

A crack in a tarmac footpath with yellow arrows on either side, pointing inwards at it...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· May 30

#Convergent #evolution ?

A pot of house leaks with a flower spike curving gently to one side...

A pile of plant pots curving gently to one side...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· May 20

This might be useful, although it is only sporadically active these days: https://groups.google.com/g/proceduralcontent My picture, attached, shows a few more grid based transforms I have thought about over the years... [1/5]

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· May 4

I totally agree that people should not be fishing for ducks but they could have proofread the sign a bit before putting it up... #sign #ducks #dusk #DadJoke #WellIAmADad

A sign reading: fishing is not shower after dusk

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Apr 9

I joined your Patreon, but this feels more hivemindy than I was expecting, unless it means I am now your left arm?

Email subject clipped from my inbox, reading "Congrats Ian Badcoe, you're now a member of Fay Roberts"

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Mar 31

A #horror goes, #interacting with #users is a bit too close to the knuckle...

Snip from a game store page showing "horror" and "users interact"...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Mar 31

Cultivate #Synthetic #Tranquility , foster a sense of #Artificial #Detachment as you dust your #Plastic #Bonsai using authentic ancient techniques...

A "Zen Garden Set" featuring "artificial bonsai", "artificial moss balls" and (presumably real) stones...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Mar 30

Disregarded on principle. May be sarcastic.

Screenshot of text saying "Generated from sources. May be inaccurate."

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Feb 18

IDK what it is, but it's evil and made from spilled beer...

A puddle on a dark wood surface that's a bit like a leafy seahorse, if it was evil. A light reflection gives it a glaring eye...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Jan 12

Our space probe approaches the planetesimal "Sm-0 Kedet Ector" ...

A light fitting which, suitably rotated and cropped, somewhat resembles a deep space probe...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Dec 27

#Joy #Complexity #Richness #Rust #Paint #Corrosion #Decay #Beauty #Moss #Nature #Weathering As we countdown the last few days of the year, please take a moment to consider how beautiful, rich and detailed the world is. [1/5]

Close up of a length of iron fence, angle so it recedes into the distance. The paint us peeling and the exposed metal rusty, and patches of bright green moss have colinised the exposed, horizontal surfaces.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Dec 15

#Google #Maps has become slightly more awkward to route plan with in the last couple of weeks...

A map of the UK absolutely swamped in location markers...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Dec 14

@hallamlondon.bsky.social FYI - might be a place we could get more traction with h our work...

A post from Mastodon asking artists to send their music videos to Indie Beat TV" or "Fedi MTV"

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Dec 11

My #map from yesterday's #Masks #TTRPG session...

Five map sheets laid together at odd angles and showing a world where strands of water thread throuth the sky linking mountains, islands and chunks of huge broken machinery...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Dec 3

Google maps has a really good grasp of how to get from my drive to my house... Apart from it doesn't know the car *is* on the drive, so there's no need to actually walk to the road before spending 1min driving 6' to get "home"

Google maps route showing hobi could walk to the road, dive 6', get out, then walk back down the drive when I want to go in the house....

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 24

#Sarcasm #blackfriday #PersonallyIDontBuyAnything #LilacWednesday #RedOctober #InstitutionalMagnoliaThursdayAfternoons I see, nearly a decade ago, I was already quite sarcastic...

On this day

9 years ago
lan Badcoe
24 Nov 2016

I've just decided:

Next Wednesday is Lilac Wednesday.

Please message everybody you know about it,

every two minutes, until 2am Thursday morning.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 20

I see the show asking cells whether joining together into a multicellular organism is working out for them is back...

Thumbnail for a TV show, cut off by the edge of the screen so it reads:
"I'm a cel-
Get me out-"

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 18

Or a deciduous forest, on the shore if a lake...

The bottom of a coffee cup, tilted, with a little coffee on the lower side and the grounds making a spreading tree pattern above.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 13

"When the corn crake creaks, with the last light if Boron's day, the shadow of the book pile shall fall upon the keyhole." #LoTR #Tolkein #Door #SecretDoor #DoorWhatDoor #WhatPartOfSecretDidYouNotUnderstand #Photo

A large, precarious pile of books, on a side table with various ornaments, casting a shadow on a nearby wall.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 10

A false colour image of the surface of the Sun...

A coffee cup with blotchy curved liny patterns a bit like convection cells...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 10

A painting by Munch

A Cappuccino with froth somewhat in the shape of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 10

Which shouldn't be surprising because I previously found: A section of the Jovian atmosphere...

A near-empty coffee cup containing swirly brown patterns

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 10

Hi all! I wrote another book... "All the tales a spy might tell." This time it's a hybrid poetry pamphlet and 1950s SciFi Spy story with cosmic horror overtones... [1/3]

A bark blue book entitled "All the tales a spy might tell" with faux battered cover...

One page from a poem spread across two pages. The poem is called "Roland's Gambit" and consists of an introductory quatrain:

He stalls upon the stairs, these rear and damp
and peeling paint, the seldom travelled access
Stairs, he's had such thoughts as lead him here,
but much now fails to fall out clear, because

An arrow points to a large opening brace, inside which are more quatrains. Giving the impression of the start of process to be concluded on the next page (not shown...)

Part of a two page poem entitled "Side effects". The poem is presented as a 5x5 table with white, grey and black cells, text can be read from cell to cell in any direction, giving the impression of confused and disjointed thought processes.

It is not possible to describe the intricate 2D arrangement that makes connections between text in adjoining cells here, but a couple of illustrative cells are:

"pretend nothing
to say pretend
you know nothing
pretend you do
not understand
pretend you are
pretend there are"

and to the right of that:

"you read reports
a doctor's reports
who doctors the
doctor's reports
doctors' studies
(a skeleton)
birds singing"

Such that the last two lines can optionally be read across from cell to cell, and other lines do not grammatically read across, but hold related meanings so they comment on each other...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 10

Planet Plum's orbit (not to scale) is surprisingly circular...

A large plum, dark maroon with greyish surface bloom, sitting on a dark glass hob exactly on the circular line which marks the position of the heating element.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 8

Not any major thing to report, but I tried changed pain pills and blew my sleep cycle up meaning this the first development I've done for a month... [1/3]

Simple computer game graphic showing a basic train, some trucks have 2x4 arrays of little circular holes on top, and some holes have white barrels slotted into them.

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 3

Finally, now where did we leave the portal?

A large but simple key, lying on the floor, with a tag tied to it that says "GATE..."

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Nov 1

Seem to have grown a pine forest in my coffee cup...

A view into an empty, dirty coffee cup. The wet grounds, in running down to one edge, have produced a series of overlapping, thin, serrated shapes, similar to a side view of close-growing pines...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Oct 14

How many of these should I expect to see before they stops being "unexpected" errors? #error #unexpected #ExpectTheUnexpected

A Mastodon screenshot with 5 unexpected errors listed at the bottom left...

Ian Badcoe@ianbadcoe· Oct 13

It might be a G #rune . It might mean #Gandalf was here... "What would it mean, if it were made by Gandalf?" I should say, answered #Strider it is a G and an arrow, and it's a sign that Gandalf is here, right now, and sneaking up behind us... [1/2]