I miss the days when Bart and Lisa would team up to solve crimes.

Mum just sent me my Great-Grandmother's recipe for 3ft spaghetti. It's been pasta long for generations.

Would Diddy and Dixie agree on which world is the best of DKC2? My head says: Diddy loves Gangplank Galleon because he helped to sink that ship and now he gets to explore what's inside. But Dixie, she has theme park energy. Krazy Kremland all the way!

Reposting for my MAGfest-attending friends!

What's your favourite video game box art? This was mine. When I got the game, which I was really anticipating, I had it on my shelf, facing my bed. I eventually had to turn it away because when my bedside lamp hit it in such a way, the eyes would GLOW...

The deeper the dirt, the richer the banana! Designed by @starlightzzone.bsky.social and available thru 1/11 as part of #AGDQ2026 with $6 from each sale donated to @preventcancer.org #dailytees theyetee.com

Recent studies have shown that dinosaurs were less Robert Scaley Jr. and more Robert Downey Jr. than previously believed.

The sooner we as humans can all apply for a Government grant to get a Penny Falls machine installed in our homes, the sooner we'll be fixed as a society.

One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @stuartgipp.bsky.social @demontomatodave.bsky.social & @shoogles.bsky.social imagine a future where Sega's fastest mascot harnesses the power of new technology in a game known as Sonic CD. Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/147425...

The capture button doesn't support this for obvious reasons so please excuse the off-TV pics but this might be important for someone you know and I had no idea it existed: the Switch 2 has, in its accessibility settings, a zoom function you can activate with a double-tap of the Home Button... (1/3)

I don't know where the ad-funded tiers of services like Netflix place their commercials, but I have to assume they don't ever bother to align with the act breaks -- they'll just cut mid-sentence to something twice as loud, but also not long enough for you to go get a drink or do anything useful.

They've been available for many years now and I still refuse to use the "Skip Intro" button on streaming services. It's going to become a lost art, factoring the pauses for commercial breaks and title sequences into the flow of a programme (or respecting that there wouldn't be one) but it WAS craft

I'm starting to think that there might be some link between major powers committing unilateral acts of aggression to serve their own interests and me suddenly wanting to listen to audiobooks while I dig deep underground tunnels in Minecraft. Nevertheless, here is an underground tunnel in Minecraft.

I've just found a Battletoads reveal trailer script dated 2018 that I have no active memory of writing and I think this means it's time to clean out my Google Drive.

Time to collect my published short stories from 2025 into a pinned thread as if I know what I'm doing. Listed from longest to shortest and overlaid on a holiday snap, with word counts and links in the replies. Hope you enjoyed one or two of these throughout the year! Or, y'know, maybe now? No? 🪐📚

After lots of cleaning, I've completely heveled the place.

What started as an intriguing mystery about somebody being murdered with sparkling wine has devolved into a by-the-numbers police proseccodural.

Dear Nintendo, In 2026, please use the Donkey Kong Bananza engine and its superb terrain deformation abilities to give us Mario Golf Maker. Thanks! Love, Chris.

Incredible piece and an amazing start to the year!

Zones!

I regret to inform the world that at 44 years old, when I'm getting off of the sofa or something, I still kick my legs about like I'm a tiny capsized turtle purely for my own brief amusement.

Tell me, Bluesky: as of today, this very day, what is your favourite ever gift you've ever received?

Cracking story brilliantly read by #clarecorbett. A great winner. Out today.

OG Search: “Computer, how many elemental compounds have the capacity to erode deuterium?” AI Search: “Write me an original Sherlock Holmes story with an opponent who has the ability to defeat Data.”

Poking at The Talos Principle remaster and because I'm the kind of player who likes to clean up as I go along, I tried deliberately to rush ahead and see how far I could get. Not far at all, it turns out! You can leave the "temple" almost immediately and poke your headoutside, but that's it.

DEMO TAPE: 01. Title Theme Weeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeellllll... Sonic is doing his thing Sticking out his head through a big-ass ring Up, Down, Left, Right just won't work Go hang off some handles, you useless berk! (For the cheats, for the cheats, it's for the...)

*Gets out 2026 planner and writes in big letters 'Do lyrics for every tune in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.'*

I've not posted much about The War Between the Land and the Sea (or "Twabbles", as I've taken to calling it) because I know there's swathes of people who've yet to see it. But having watched all of it, I'm convinced it was once intended to be Torchwood Season Five.

I'm feeling guilty about it, but I'm also aware that I'm deliberately finding excuses not to dive back into Metroid Prime 4.

For the longest time I've been meaning to buy a Captained Brigantine and now, with the 30th anniversary of DKC2 in the rear-view mirror, it's fitting that I pay homage to its breakout character design.

BBC News: Orphan Boxing Day return to workhouses lower than expected year-on-year. "I can't believe it," Osmodius Stingler bellowed to the BBC, over the sound of smoky, clanking machinery. "They're all out farming the Robux these days, the unwanted. It's a very hard time to be a Dickensian tyrant."

Welp, since this now pops up on every stage and the A button (like every other button) does nothing, I guess I'm done with Plants vs. Zombies Replanted...

If next month's Animal Crossing update could make it so that the almost-daily snowfall doesn't water all your flowers, that would be DELIGHTFUL.

However, because I can't turn Design Brain *completely* off, when presented with the rules I did immediately identify and bemoan the inherent imbalances in the meta of Richard Osman's House of Games play-at-home Christmas Cracker set.

Since returning home from Christmas Lunch I have been floating around my home like the Ghost of Food Comas Present. I think I've passed straight through several walls as I drift aimlessly between rooms. I can only interact with nibbles now, but cheesemongers can sense my presence.

Christmas present

Merry from @stuartgipp.bsky.social's Merry Hell doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, oblivious to the hustle and bustle around her.

I think nothing quite captures the insanely short timelines of 90s game development more than that one calendar month in 1999 separating "Here's how the coldswap will work" and the fax from Nintendo.

This Dale Gribble, he played six, he employed "SQUIRREL TACTICS"!

No-one: ... My brain: This Hank Hill, he played one, got annoyed by "Thatherton...!" This Hank Hill, he played three, propane and accessory, This Hank Hill, he played four, sadly doped out of his gourd, This Hank Hill, he played nine, then declared this asinine.

As it's the holidays, I've decided to pen some short reviews of popular games to help people out during this busy shopping season!

They made an early 00s flash game style arg website for the new Silent Hill movie I'm so happy that this sort of thing is making a come back yesss 😭🧡🙏

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Nintendo knew PRECISELY what they were doing here.

Pauline's outfits in Donkey Kong Bananza are fine, but what if you could dress her up as, like, Isabelle, Midna, Kirby, or an Inkling? That's the kind of cuteness that would even get me tempted by Amiibo...

OI! Oi, you lot. Yeah, I'm talking to you! Lots of Very Big Things suck, they're not getting better in the immediate future, and we're all ground down and frankly exhausted. Not a new take, I know. But even so, you're an incredible bunch of resilient, talented people and I'm so proud to know you.

Just rewatched the pilot of Sliders, because provoked. From the typeface of the credits to Dennis McCarthy's TNG-ass music, to Garwin Sanford's supporting role and night filming at That One Canadian Campus (which was also the homeworld for Garwin Sanford's character!) it was NINETIES AS ALL HELL.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

Atic Atac: officially better than Manic Miner and the one with "the 3D graphic". www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9aU...