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Resharing this incredibly well-executed retrospective on how much more streaming services cost in Australia now versus ten years ago www.reviews.org/au/entertain...

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅 ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

Been having a blast reading this lately and…I think it might have finally been long enough for me to rewatch Lost again www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

I suspect most board game people already have some passing familiarity with Awaken Realms but the degree to which their latest game is giving "We have Elden Ring at home" is quite funny to me gamefound.com/en/projects/...

New from Multiplier: The first of several more "rapid-fire" check-in chats with folk from across Australia's game dev scene just went live! Thrilled with how this one turned out and excited for the weeks ahead.

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

Cackling at this description of the plot of The Brutalist on the ABC Oscars liveblog. Is the movie about that? How sure are you about that? "Roll back the tape!"

I wrote a feature for @eurogamer.bsky.social about my experience at the Disco Elysium LARP, 97 Poets of Revachol! www.eurogamer.net/surviving-a-...

This seems fine 🔥🙂🔥

So mad I'm going to have to find a new non-Chrome web browser to complain about

The thing I find most amusing about the very dumb “tech needs humanities because the cold logic of science types means they have no defenses against Evil” is that it would actually be nice if tech companies were run according to engineering principles instead fundraising guys chasing shiny keys

Absolutely ~shocked~ that Trump answering the question of what will you do if Russia breaks the ceasefire by essentially saying idk lmao has led to a breakdown in communications between the two parties involved here

First episode of Season 3 of Reacher is exactly what I wanted it to be. No notes.

This was really fun to contribute to! Read it for my words on why I think Max will take Binge's best content and try to sell it back to you at a higher price.

Going to be very funny if Halo coming to Netflix ends up giving that show a new lease on life.

Thinking about when I demoed To a T in December. I turned to Keita Takahashi and said that I love that he's so committed to making oddball games that go off the beaten path and asked what draws him to that philosophy. He looked at me very sadly and said "I was trying to make a normal one this time."

Your Chatbot Isn’t Reading Words—It’s Counting Tokens hackernoon.com/your-chatbot... #llms #chatbots

Y'know, whenever I see stuff like this I genuinely think we're headed for a situation sometime in the next twelve months where the stock market sours on the economics of AI right as the biggest adopters of the tech speedrun it into entirely predictable disasters www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

2025 continues to disappoint

This week's issue of Multiplier has long been in the works but I'm thrilled to reveal that it features @seamusbyrne.me and myself talking about the past, present and future of Blizzard Entertainment multiplierau.substack.com/p/why-do-bli...

I just wanted a quiet morning... www.reviews.org/au/entertain...

Hasn't this been rumored every 6-12 months for the past five years

It remains bonkers to me that, in the wake of BG3's success, Wizards did not hire a studio somewhere to make and sell premium adventure packs based on popular 5e adventures. www.thegamer.com/baldurs-gate...

Waiter: How’d you like your steak, sir? Dracula: *loudly* Not thru the heart Lol *whole vampire table erupts in laughter *

Love how this season of White Lotus has that one family that's half normie, half crazy and one phone call away from being in Uncut Gems

You have my attention 👀

Played an Innistrad Remastered draft over the weekend and the 'old style' variants of certain cards absolutely breaks my ability to make semi-good card picks. My brain just goes "ooh card looks old must be good"

Putting aside the obvious colonialism/insanity of this deal, the real kicker is that even in a world where the US might provide security guarantees it's fair to say the last month has, uh, taken a toll on the credibility of any potential promise kyivindependent.com/us-mineral-d...

I realize this month has been A Lot but this is absolutely bonkers. Like, the US can't pass a law telling other countries not to tax something?

STN MTN didn't have as much cut through as Because The Internet or Awaken, My Love but every time I end up listening to a song from it via shuffle I am genuinely thrown by how good it is and how well it has aged.

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Me and Liv have been catching up on Invincible and a character mentioned the EPA and I found myself questioning how that reference (and the many others like it in pop culture) might, uh, age in the aftermath of this current political moment.

Oh Heretic Hunt is finally out. I'll have to add it to the list youtu.be/NT5j7dpndDE?...

L ancient monuments

Yesssss. Betrayal at Club Low was so good. Can't wait for this.

Did not expect Avowed to be the game that gave me FOMO for not having a Series X but here we are.