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Father & son team making & playing 8-bit games. Mostly on the #ZXSpectrum.

Homepage: sloanysoft.wordpress.com

Games: sloan'>.io/'>sloanysoft.itch.io/

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Ha, was thinking something similar. He's probably had to turn off his mentions today.

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I'm so sick of these wacky fringe parties standing in elections and undermining UK politics. I mean just look at this example, poor Phin Adams having to share the stage with a ludicrous Dickensian pantomime villain.

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Interesting, we normally get an obscene amount of Lib Dem leaflets through, but this year nothing. They'll be a distant 3rd here as per usual so I guess they're focusing their efforts where they've a chance of gaining seats this time.

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Don't threaten us with a good time, Allister.

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Yeah, but the bands I'm talking about are "not Britpop" because they refer to themselves as "Indie" or whatever. They can be classified in whatever way they like, but it's just funny to me how they all seem to want to distance themselves from the term.

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None of those are UK bands!

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According to Sky, the LibDems have โ€˜one last stuntโ€™ ready for the end of the campaign.

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Seen so many documentaries/interviews with UK bands that were big in the 90s where they say something like "we weren't really part of the Britpop thing" or "we never considered ourselves Britpop" If you were in the NME, MM, Q & Select & had a few hits you were Britpop, own it & get over yourselves.

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I'll see you at the barbeque on Sunday.

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Urgh, not fun. Hopefully you can head it off at the pass mate. Look after yourself!

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Someone posting a video of Zig and Zag on Twitter has led me to the greatest 3 degrees of separation ever: Josef Stalin met Denis Healey Denis Healey met Zig and Zag Zig and Zag met the late great Olโ€™ Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan.

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Don't repost your own praise...but if Retro Gamer are going to call our game "amazing" then I'm going to shout about it. ๐Ÿ‘

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So if the US President is now immune from prosecution, can Biden not just "send the boys round" to the other fella's place.

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A few sound issues at the start sure, but this article inexplicably quotes some mean spirited guff & for some reason talks absolute bollocks about her voice, she was awesome & absolutely killed it.

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Completely normal behaviour for fans when a manager has led their team to the top of the group in a major tournament, undefeated and into the knockout stages.

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Actually that's Odd Job Eddie I was thinking of, Colin the Cleaner ripped off Ralph on Alpha 2.

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Yeah it's basically Pyramania (which was basically Jet Set Willy!) but he made it deliberately crash on 48k so he could market it as a 128k game!!

There's a good article about his "work" here:

sinclair.wiki.zxnet.co.uk/wiki/Harry_S...

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Ah good old Harry S. Price best known for taking a game, passing it off as his own, usually making it worse & adding (often game breaking) bugs into the mix. Here we have kind of the opposite of that, fixing bugs, improving a game & acknowledging the original.

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2 games into a major tournament, top of the group, two points clear & unbeaten...

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Having been on a few trains in the UK recently I'm wondering, how the hell they get a WiFi signal to do this, I had 3 1/2 hours staring at a spinning circle the other day.

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Schrรถdinger's post. Strong vibes of this...

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Are the 5 reasons "I don't mind the Government being corrupt, giving their mates backhanders, failing to fund health & education, riding roughshod over the most in need and taking the absolute piss out of me?"

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Punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow. ๐Ÿ˜ข

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Standing 73 yards away...

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Watching Nick Mason tonight. So so good. I've never seen a Floyd "in the flesh" before. Wonderful stuff.

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Nice! Yeah, there would definitely be a place for it.

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Nice! It was definitely worth making the pilgrimage, Ludlow's a beautiful place.

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Apparently they made a magazine about Crash here...

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Thought I'd crash here for a bit...

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For a very brief split second, I read "LK" as Live & Kicking and thought they'd brought it back.

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Lovely stuff! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ‘

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14JUN24 at 1930 on the Purple Platform

Lottie missed out last week so let's try again with another Spectrum Variety night.

We need a bit of a calm one as Lottie is still recovering, so any spectrum games you play to chill out that you can recommend?

#zxspectrum #retrogaming

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Alan Shearer here, really sticking his neck out...

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Today's mood.

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"I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate our country," It's not the country that they hate, it's something that sounds like the first syllable tbf.

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The phrase "love him or loathe him" tends to only ever be used about an insufferable prick.

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I see F***e is on BBC for a wee change. ๐Ÿ™„

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