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Samantha Fry

@benolot.com

Lead platform engineer @ UK Game Studio working on a classic MMO. Personal account. Prev: BBC, Frontier Dev and others. Posts / TL is about everything, not just tech. She/her, Bi, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Thoughts and opinions are mine not employers.

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I absolutely loved that in FE:TH it would tell you what happened to everyone for the rest of their lives based on the choices you made along the way, 100% yes, more games do this please

22.02.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In HMV and someone held up a vinyl and asked "What does it do? Is it a poster?" And I think I aged 30 years when the staff member explained "It plays music" 😭😭😭😭

21.02.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As you can tell, this post was written by someone who was not in fact well rested. 😴 Friday afternoon is gonna be tough

30.01.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I place my duvet down in the defensive position. This gives me the cosy buff which lets me use the honk and shoo combo to give me the well rested buff.
It's over for you now. With that I...

30.01.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have a survey or discussion with your players ahead of time about what they want from the campaign.
Do they want more combat or more exploring/RP? Do they want you to describe their failed/successful actions or do they want to do it themselves? Etc!

26.01.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s called β€˜vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

15.01.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 758 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4
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04.01.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 7

Just played the first 15-20 mins of E33 and I gotta take it back.

I don't think we gave that game enough awards actually. We should invent more, and give them to E33. Like right now.

Holy crap. I think that's the second or third time a game has ever made me just... stop and sit there for a minute

31.12.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image

31.12.2025 07:48 πŸ‘ 25328 πŸ” 14902 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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What in the AI Generated hell is this?

31.12.2025 00:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

HAS to be Little rocket lab from @kyleschmitz.bsky.social! It was defo GOTY for me at least 😊

30.12.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this time of year.

Do I know what day of the week it is? No!
Do I get up at 1am because I fancied a bit of cheese? Absolutely!

30.12.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Possibly the ability for shaping charges so they only explode in a certain direction?

28.12.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me logging into this website so that I can β€œget a sense of what’s going on in the world”

27.12.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 1311 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
Picture of three penguins with the wooden fence of the enclosure barrier visible.

Picture of three penguins with the wooden fence of the enclosure barrier visible.

I guess the view of the penguins from here is... Fine?

IYKYK.

24.12.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did not expect Silksong to be an answer on University Challenge. That was absolutely not on my bingo card for the next 10 years at least

22.12.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Er du snakker Dansk?

21.12.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Union busting has consequences! UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the government will look into @rockstargames.com's dismissal of 31 union members.

10.12.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 7

Ahh, ty

02.12.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't Hitman an 18+ game? It's on the front page of Epic right now

02.12.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a very north western UK thing right? Probably not many people saying it down sooth

02.12.2025 12:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

30.11.2025 05:01 πŸ‘ 1020 πŸ” 235 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 12

My Behringer UM2 works perfect on Linux, at least as far as I can tell but I only use it for simple stuff (talking on discord)

22.11.2025 09:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CEO Georg is an outlier and should not be counted

14.11.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge πŸ§ͺ

18.07.2025 04:12 πŸ‘ 22636 πŸ” 6723 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 123
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

29.10.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 18160 πŸ” 5285 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 68

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

31.10.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 1443 πŸ” 750 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 34

Remember to buy a bunch of Apple stock!

13.10.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So so wrong 😭

11.10.2025 08:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes.

11.10.2025 07:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0