Predator Badlands was a lot of fun. Good time at the cinema.

Anyways #TGIF

Hate to say it, but after seeing Frankenstein at a cinema of loud and annoying people a few weeks back, I’m much preferring seeing it at home on a 65 inch OLED with my cats and schnauzer lying on me. I don’t want cinema to die, and maybe I’m getting old, but the experience is losing its luster.

Some rat camping the elevator killed me in Arc Raiders and I lost a heap of good stuff and my zip line gun, but he also said ‘I’m so sorry about this, I love you’ just before he knocked me out which was weird.

We’ve got less than 20 years left of coral reefs. We’ve completely destroyed a complex ecosystem older than us in about a century and its never coming back. This should be a species wide shame that drives us to action but I doubt it.

Ermahgerd my first ever #BrokenBinding package!

Instead of trying to explain that I’m not really a cynic who hates everyone I’m just going to direct to the song People by Andrew Jackson Jihad that neatly covers my world view. open.spotify.com/track/2E4v4X...

In case you needed something uplifting today the couple in this iconic photo from the 2011 Stanley Cup riots are still together and have kids now.

After three incidents of absolute betrayal in a row I am officially off the ‘being nice to other players in solo’ attitude in Arc Raiders.

The Gates Foundation has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by climate crisis skeptic Bjørn Lomborg.

Epstein files and Open AI revenue leaks on the same days is pretty wild.

Maybe the rapture happened and no one got taken.

I got downed by a leaper in #ArcRaiders just as the elevator opened and made it in to escape and just as I activated the return someone came in and killed me which has to be just the lowest of the low kind of kill in a game. Like they weren’t even going to be able to loot me!

That feeling when you roll over in bed and accidentally close your phone and you know you’ll need to watch 3 minutes of youtube ads again just to get back to where you were and you decide you just don’t give enough of a shit.

In Arc Raiders, see a drone shooting at someone from a third story balcony. Shoot the drone and shout a greeting. They shout back a thank you. This game is a delight.

I’d actually forgotten just how good the 2021 Suicide Squad was, wildly violent, hilarious, terrific action scenes, every character gets a satisfying arc, full frontal male nudity. What more could you ask for.

Trip to the gym, made a chicken satay stir fry, watched Suicide Squad and played some Arc Raiders. Just a perfect little quiet evening. Heading to bed now to read The Devils by J Abercrombie to cap it off.

“3 fucking hours? Fuck that I’m rewatching Schitts Creek” - my wife deciding she doesn’t need to know what happens in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2.

Can confirm this shit rocks. Probably the best show of this type I’ve ever seen. Watch it with zero spoilers if you can.

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Has anyone else pointed out that Arc Raiders seems a lot like multiplayer Death Stranding?

Have to go to stupid bed because I need to get up early so I can get stupid aircon installed tomorrow when I should be playing Arc Raiders and working out where these keys go.

Me flirting

The black work of Big Oil cribb.substack.com/p/the-black-...

Hey, hey, this premiered tonight on Apple TV. My husband and a whole lotta friends of mine spent the last few years making it. It’s very good. You should check it out.

Just saw the kookaburra in front of my accommodation drop food off to a tree hollow nest where its chicks were waiting so yes my day just got a million times better thanks.

You know when they break out these glasses its going to be a good iced coffee.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Anyone else losing their minds at AI being leveraged into every part of large corporate life. Just had a safety incident report about a dropped object and one of the suggested actions was to use AI to assess the likelihood of it happening again.

Just got my first clear in Hades. Has to be one of the most rewarding games I’ve ever played. There’s real genius to the psychology of the whole risk, learn, reward cycle.

This is some straight up bullshit and I’m sure my boycott is less than a drop in the ocean but if they don’t fix this shit I won’t buy GTA6. Fuck it, plenty of other good games out there I can miss this one: thisweekinvideogames.com/news/rocksta...

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Found out today about the existence of people who ‘cheat at peloton’, and the peloton people should really release all the names of these people so we can somehow legally force them to go to therapy.

Is it paranoid to wonder if a wide spread persistent internet outage is very likely in the next decade?

“We live in one of the richest countries in the world, that can afford to drop a lazy $360 billion on a bad idea... yet, when it comes to health, education, aged care, apparently, so many of these things are unaffordable.” - @richarddenniss.bsky.social at the #RevenueSummit25 #auspol

YEEESSSSSSS

Dinner reservations: booked Frankenstein tickets: bought Halloween date night: locked in

This is absolutely goddamn terrifying.

I just need two things to make me happy. Being incredibly jacked and a hundred million dollars.

Apple putting ads on the map app is a great way to get me to continue using Waze forever and also start planning to dump my iphone and switch to a Nothing phone.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

I didn’t know Mech piloting bounty hunter but make it cozy was a genre I needed but Bounty Star has sunk its claws into me. Really enjoying it so far after a solid six hours.

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

Having one of those kinda shit weekends that just don’t land right for unclear reasons.

Really want Ghost of Yotei but can’t find it any where for less than $100 (AUD). Ozbargain has failed me.

I’ve blocked literally dozens of these YT Shorts slop channels that look like some rough variation of this but there are soooo many. The formula seems to be pop culture clip + text comment + tweet or AI video photo of someone watching it like its a livestream.

“You didn’t vote for it, you weren’t even asked, but it was decided three years ago – mostly by those the Reserve Bank – that Australia needed an extra 150,000 or so people to be unemployed.” My column on unemployment hitting 4.5% www.theguardian.com/business/gro...