David Peach

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  • Remember the websites?

    Remember when websites used to be just websites?

    Just a little site for someone to call their own.

    It didn’t matter if people visited or not — it was there because the person creating it had a desire to build and maintain it.

    And yes, I said “Person”. NOT “user”.

    Websites didn’t have to be “socially connected” and posting back and forth with APIs and messages. Don’t get me wrong – I think the indieweb and activitypub are nice things. But I can’t help but yern for a simpler time.

    (Yes my website posts are discoverable via activitypub) But I’m now only interested in sending out one way (as opposed to following loads of people and scrolling just as I would on twitter et al.

    I will still welcome friendly comments and will also reply where possible.

    I’m sick of scrolling. And I’m sick of “consuming”, as the marketing/bullshit “influencers” would have you call it.

    I just want a little website where I post my thoughts; my ideas; my observations; my peeves.

    Whoever comes around, I welcome you with open arms. Unless you are either an LLM training scraper or a fascist, in which case you can FUCK THE HELL OFF. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

    love to the humans out there.

  • Dollman: the golden boy

    Fediverse reactions

  • Desert Postcard

    Delivering some lost cargo to the Mechanic.

    Sand storm hit.

    Fediverse reactions

  • Lord of the Tar Lake

    Lord of the Tar Lake defeated… after having died on the first attempt.

    Fediverse reactions
  • The Factory

    The Factory

    Knackered.

    Back to the factory to capture the B.T. needed to summon the Lord of the Tar Lake.

    Fediverse reactions
  • Back to the Plate Gate

    Back to the Plate Gate

    Moving quickly towards the game’s conclusion. Familiar views are in site.

  • Monorail at night

    Monorail at night

    Taking in the night ride around the Tar Lake.

  • Sam traverses the snowy peaks

    The whole section of mountain traversal, to connect the various remote people posted up there, has been incredible, stressful and rewarding.

    The sense of scale in this game really hits you when you start to lose consciousness at the highest altitudes in the game.

  • The moon is out

    The moon is out

    Coming over a mountainside, approaching my destination finally, to be greeted by this spectacular view of the moon in the night sky.

    Easily one of my favourite shots so far in the game.

  • The Walking Dead : The Ones who live

    The Walking Dead : The Ones who live

    The Ones who live has immediately gone up as one of my favourite series in The Walking Dead universe.

    Top spot of course is Negan’s introduction. Holy Christ that was intense.

    But I gotta say that after finishing the six-episode series of this Rick and Michone spin-off, it has catapulted up to near the top.

    And it was a single moment that solidified it for me.

    Now I always enjoyed watching Rick grow increasingly capable and deadly as the series moved forward.

    I was lucky to start watching The Walking Dead when series three was just coming out, so I didn’t have too much catching up to do.

    And it also meant that I’ve been able to see the characters grow steadily over the years, including Rick’s son, Carl.

    So when the scene in episode four “What We” came on, where Rick opens up about Carl and the effect that his few years imprisonment has done to his memory of Carl, it destroyed me.

    I’ve always been easily triggered by these sorts of emotional scenes. However, since having children of my own recently, it’s basically changed how I see pretty much every thing.

    Everything has an additional dimension to it now, it seems.

    And the fact that in that scene’s flashback, Carl is shown as being of toddler age — the same as my son — honestly it couldn’t have cut any deeper for me in the world of The Walking Dead.

    Fediverse reactions
  • Distant monorail post

    Distant monorail post

    Trekking back across the mountains to re-build the monorail lines.

    This is truly one of my favourite aspects of this game. Just wandering with a self-appointed mission to rebuild things.

  • Flock of Chiral birds

    Flock of Chiral birds

    Walking at night. Delivering.