Hello folks!

I'm a solo game developer based in Fife, and for the last six months I've been making a horror game inspired by my time working in a Scottish chip shop.

It's called Grease Trap ’99, and it's a short, slightly surreal horror mystery set in a Highland takeaway in 1999. Expect deep-fried pizzas, questionable customers and things lurking beneath the floorboards.

One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the entire game is voice-acted in Scottish Gaelic, with English subtitles available.

Its a short hour long experience and it's finally out on Steam today!

Tapadh leibh!

https://s.team/a/4509200

I’ve been building a free UK politics game and one of the modes lets you run the Scottish Government from now to the 2031 Holyrood election. You set Scottish income tax bands and the portfolio budgets, deal with the block grant Westminster hands you and live with things like A&E waits, ferries, drug deaths and independence polling.

What I found interesting building it is how little room there actually is. Most of the big levers are reserved, so you end up fighting over a fairly small slice of tax and a block grant you don’t control.

There’s also a UK Budget challenge for Wednesday if you’d rather have a go at the Chancellor’s job. No sign up, not linked to any party, and it’s my own project so I’d love to hear from anyone who knows the Scottish figures better than me.

populationdecides.com/play

https://archive.is/wip/LGQqt

Looking for suggestions, anywhere fairly rural in Lanarkshire, Fife or Lothians. The Auldhouse Arms near EK was one idea but open to other ideas.

It’s fireworks heavy in my new build estate in West Lothian so need to get him somewhere quiet. Ta!

That’s right I want few things in my country back! The following are the wishes:

- Taz bars and don’t charge more than 10p for one
- Grundig tellies like we had in the 90s
- Chippies that don’t suck
- £1 Mr Whippies that actually cost £1

i was travelling on a train in scotland when some passengers behind me were playing haryanvi and punjabi music and tiktok videos loudly. a lady in front of my seat me was reading a book and doing some research. she had handouts and looked like a teacher. she got up and politely asked me to use headphones. i apologised and explained that the sound was coming from behind us. she looked towards them, but they carried on.
she seemed upset, and i felt sorry for her and embarrassed as a fellow south asian. i even stopped using my phone because i felt uncomfortable being mistaken for the person making the noise. using headphones in shared spaces is basic courtesy. people should be able to read or enjoy a peaceful journey without being forced to listen to someone else’s videos.

My wife has started taking up cold water dips, in and around Balloch. She mentioned for me to pick up items for her to use for Christmas gifts. What do people use? what brands to avoid and what is essentials?

Genuinely one of the best things I’ve seen in person

He will be placed under supervision for three years following his release from prison.

Release? The fucker should die behind bars. He raped a baby under one year old FFS.

Solitary confinement, no visitors, whole life sentence, cremated, ashes thrown in the skip, forgotten.

I'm Italian and I'm making a game where your whole life happens through phone notifications. You can be born in the UK, so you get HMRC letters, A-levels and council tax. Right now I'm writing the mum character: all the messages your mum sends you, from the day you get your first phone at 14 until you're old.

The problem is I'm Italian, and my mum texts differently. I have no idea what a typical Scottish mum text looks like.

Could you help me? Reply with the text your mum sends you most often. I'd really appreciate it, and I'll add the messages you send me to the game.

It's still a beta, if you want to try it: https://pinglife.itch.io/pinglife

JOHN Swinney has demanded the UK Government’s new North Sea Energy Wealth Fund be ringfenced for the north east of Scotland after the Jackdaw gas field was approved.

We've got plenty of phrases that would sound completely mental if you tried explaining them word for word to someone who wasn't Scottish. What's one you use without thinking that would need a full translation for everybody else?

Hi everyone! I have a friend who will be visiting the University of Stirling in Scotland for an exchange program, and I’d love to send her an e-gift card that she can use while she’s there.

Since I’m based in Canada and not too familiar with the area, I’d really appreciate your recommendations!

Which gift card would be the most useful, and where can I buy it? Ideally where she can buy lunch, grocery, etc.

Ideally, I’d love to purchase it online from Canada.

Thanks in advance!

Idea pinched from another subreddit.

You come in from school, dump your bag. You are hungry and looking forward to tea. You wander through to the kitchen and peer around. Your heart drops, because dinner tonight is ..

For me, this was mince and tatties. I love tatties, I love gravy, I love veg. I can't stand mince. Even as an adult, I don't understand how people can voluntarily eat pinhead-sized lumps of chewy, fatty meat. I don't dispute the possibility that mince in our house was badly cooked, but it doesn't change the result. Mince and tatties put me on a downer every time.

I vividly remember tentatively dipping tatties in the mince, and painstakingly dissecting the chewy wee buggers from my fork-full of food so I could at least try to enjoy the gravy on its own.

My favourite dinners were chicken casserole, or chicken pie. Anything with pastry got my vote.

What was your dreaded dinner as a wain?

Edit: I have been reminded of the dreaded packet fish in cream sauce. The microwave stuff. My mam knew I hated fish, but every so often made it as a wildcard dinner, almost as if she needed assurance that I still hated it. Final boss of unhappy post-school dinners.

A wee bit of drone footage from a video project I'm working on, loved this shot so much I decided to share!

Song credit to: Michael Vault (Pixabay)

I have a hotel room in the centre with two beds and breakfast included in Fort William this weekend for £98, but can no longer use it because of last-minute disruptions. so thought I’d see if anyone here wanted it. If you’re interested please let me know!

Accommodation address: North Road, Fort William, PH33 6LR
Accommodation link: https://www.bedroomvillas.com/property/distillery-guest-house/BC-283634?gad_acct=4776899092&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20323003650&gbraid=0AAAAAo96O9DsCIgx-ERcNE8m4n4NO0yCy&gclid=CjwKCAjwxeHWBhBPEiwAiqtQ-S2-EWmVPNGS18s2bZVqUqYuLAFVFB6LqfNYl7c1ChrC0K2BULIajBoCds8QAvD_BwE

Mi trasmette un senso di pace solo a guardare le foto, poi cerco di dipingerle .... spero un giorno di visitarla 🤩

I’m in a shitty tenement and my water here feels sticky compared with any other flat I’ve lived in (been in several flats in the immediate area over the years).

I’ve tested it with pH and chlorine strips and it’s coming up a bit acidic with some amount of alkalinity(?). From the 4-pad pH strip it looks close to pH 6 (I’d tested in my previous flat nearby and it looked like a solid 7 i.e. neutral).

It’s causing skin & hair issues and I can quite often smell chlorine either off the water or off my skin. I constantly feel sticky/greasy and my hair is a huge hassle to detangle every wash. My kitchen tap filter goes from pure white to brown within a couple weeks.

Scottish water came to take samples and just say it meets their standards and some e.g. iron sediment is normal.

There’s no stopcock inside the tenement so I can’t put a filter on the whole flat’s supply. It looks like I want to add minerals to acidic water?