David Peach

  • In the fire and the flames

    Aloy from the game Horizon Forbidden West. A close-up of her face, surrounded by flames. She is beyond the fire and the camera was positioned so the flames frame her face.

    I’m super proud of this one.

    Taken at the village in the north of the map – I’ll update the post when I find out the name again.

    The fire used to save progress was used to almost show her walking through the flames.

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  • I got sucked into using Gemini ai to help restructure my website and I’m ashamed of myself.

    I have not generated any writing or images for it – just advice on the structure of categories and noindexing certain things.

    For a brief moment of time I thought I could make parts of my website really popular (The Junji Ito manga reviews specifically).

    But why.

    I’m asking myself that right now.

    I wanted to be open and honest as I am outspoken about AI and how much I detest generative ai.

    How I got sucked in to asking it for advice I just don’t know.

    I am not using it now or going forwards.

    And everything on my site is, was, and will continue to be, human made.

    Fuck gen ai.

    Fuck it to hell.

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  • I’ve been making some alterations to my website today.

    Not the design or anything like that — things like adding a footer and “noindexing” short text pages.

    Gonna be redoing my virtual photography pages too. I will still post single shots now and again, but I’m also starting to create some curated galleries too.

    Here’s to progress.

  • This is my monthly lamenting about how bloody annoying tailwind is and how it’s squeezed it’s way into every project I see.

    Failwind, more like.

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  • I recently ran a script on all of my Virtual Photography posts.

    It may have spammed the fediverse with the changed posts.

    I’m sorry if I just spammed your feed :S

  • The new No Man’s Sky update — swarm — looks so much fun.

    I keep getting obsessed with NMS for a couple weeks then I stop for months. 🙁

    I need to start committing, I think.

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  • Gliding down to the Tallneck

    A wide shot from above in the game "Horizon Forbidden West". Aloy glides down from an unseen high point, down to the top of the head of a tallneck machine. The dusty desert sprawls beneath.

    Aloy glides down from the Cinnabar Sands satellite dish, towards the head of the Tallneck.

    I died far too many times from the two Scrappers and Skydrifter on site — with no metal shards left at the start of the encounter no less.

    I should add that I’m playing on ultra hard mode (not new game plus). So I’m essentially naked at this point in the game. :S

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  • Sorry to all the people who follow me. I’ve been indecisive about which fedi instance I want to keep as my home.

    I have now settled on my WordPress website with the ActivityPub and Friends plugins.

    I did switch to YunoHost with a mastodon instance, but that server is already costing me too much money and I need a new boiler.

    So everything I post online will be on this website from this moment going forward.

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  • Climbing Post

    Top of a climbable post with the strong orange sun about the set in the background. The silhouette of a long-haired woman in make-shift armour, Aloy, hangs off the top.

    I’ve been trying to get some PlayStation time in again.

    It’s been a while with two small children about.

    I took this shot of Aloy just after the battle at the Forbidden West gates near the start of Horizon: Forbidden West.

  • im not sure whether to make my website just a long-form content site, then set up a self-hosted mastodon for notes/fediverse connections. 🤔

  • So let me get this right.

    I installed browser to get away from . Then I go to install the bitwarden extension, and I have to agree to google toc’s in order to use the chrome web store?

    Screenshot of "Agree to google cookies".

  • I think I’m fully onboard the bandwagon now.