wrote a blogge post haraiva.bearblog.dev/ten-signific...

i think to have a somewhat healthy relationship to posting and being online you have to build an old timey computer in your brain that intercepts posts before you actually comprehend them. the computer has two lights: green and red. green means it's okay, red means it's fucking dog water.

ANALOG MONO a lo-fi, monospace pixel font inspired by On-Screen Displays of CRT televisions and camcorders from the 90's and early 00's. ► gleeson.itch.io/analog-mono

okay here's my mixtape hot take: aussie band guys who grew up in the 90s/00s are still deeply embarrassed by the popularity of eurodance here and as a result are perpetually retreating to an imaginary world where it didn't exist (suburban america)

extended latin and cyrillic? box drawing characters? now THAT is a font.

new font (soon). fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.

okay picture this... vhs filter. emergency broadcast presentation. 1922 recording of amazing grace. american protestant eschatology. cute cartoon animal characters in fucked up situations. then we hit em with the king in yellow reference 😱🤯

say what you will about it, but i think the australian games scene being exhaustively positive and desperately avoiding all forms of conflict and criticism really paid off in the end.

🫵😐 HEY YOU‼️🚨 i am feeling a bit tired so i'm going to lie down for a few minutes.

i call it "the constellation model"

fuckin beautiful game of footy. storm are being absolutely clobbered 😊

i understand where the yank media that deals with themes of god, angels, heaven etc. as horrifying things comes from, but man... there really is a lot of it.

hey it's the mid 2000s and we're in the velfarre elevator in roppongi on our way to a hardstyle show youtu.be/ZBahZFB4u4M

we hate the phone and it weighs about 200g. we love the desktop computer and it weighs like 10kg. ENIAC was 27 tonnes so i bet that shit fuckin kicked ass.

DAWN CHORUS -- demo out now! an interactive fiction story about two losers trying to make music and stay friends as the world is ending around them. after years of secrecy/procrastination i am proud to reveal the demo for my esoteric pre-apocalypse story :) PLAY → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

some really earthy skate vids on this channel. no music, almost entirely static shots. lots of prep and attempts. youtu.be/wN1aKfAY1ZQ

@arivelazquez.com thought i saw you at the gig tonight! you fuckin vanished as soon as you walked through the door.

at the mountain goats gig. textiles report: lots of corduroy.

somehow tonight is the night that every single apartment adjacent to me is loudly fucking banging on the walls and using fucking power tools? at 10:30pm?

you always hear about lindt but never about sprüngli 😔

you can actually play dawn chorus rn if you go to localhost:8080 😊

dropping a subtle hint that i'll be showing a demo of DAWN CHORUS interstate for the first time at ALT:GAMES in parramatta this weekend! made a sick looking start screen just for this. come look at it.

some great tom7 character design going on in the new vid. he's really cooking over there.

A single precise karate chop to the solar plexus of good taste. (My own solar plexus.) youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk

melbourne? that's melbun. craigieburn? that's craigieburn. auburn? that's aubun. cranbourne? that's cranburn.

when you reply to my posts, it's exactly like walking into my home and speaking to me while i'm busy doing something. my posts are just me saying things out loud to myself while i go about my day.

proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery managore.itch.io/print-galler... (web)

oh i'm inventing a guy? yeah, so what? it's called having an imagination.

my understanding of how the economy works: there is a guy who doesn't listen to music. he doesn't have any hobbies outside of sports betting. he goes to the city and sends emails for 8 hours a day. if he feels uncomfortable in any way? recession. too comfortable? also recession.

computer gaming

Uhhh, he was in a coma on Cyprus for the entire run of The Muppet Show? Does accuracy mean anything anymore?

started death stranding 2 last night. it good. norman good.

picture this: you're on guard at mother base. big boss comes back from a mission. you salute, he cqcs your face into the deck, then fultons you.

working my way through the nosleep podcast backlog and holy moly there are a lot of wives in these stories. reddit guys sure do love to write first person horror stories with wives in them!

australasian darter otherwise known as me havin a fuckin ciggie

Not that you give a fuck but here He Is

it's currawong season also known as the time of year i start seeing more currawongs

cover art from my dad's record collection that gave me nightmares as a kid

imagine how embarrassing it must have been to invite friends over in mesopotamia and you only have the game of ur. not the royal game of ur just the game of ur. like sorry bro i couldn't shell out for the royal edition

the worst part about having a kitten in the apartment is that everything turns into a parkour course built for running, scratching and chewing. the best part is sometimes he sleeps.

guy who is kind of annoying about the fungoid wastes: oh wow, you've never been? you gotta check it out! me: yeah i know, i've just been busy man.

whenever an indie studio gets into games publishing i'm always suspicious. i think we've convinced ourselves it's a natural progression, but to me it's like going from being a band member to being a record executive. they have a completely different and arguably incompatible set of values.

The confusion began when we began letting them call this stuff "content" rather than, say, "expression." Content is a consumable substance which may as well be synthesized if you can. Expression is an attempt to communicate some aspect of the experience of being alive.

pancake lizard kind of morning. girl/boy song kind of afternoon. funny little man kind of night.

man, rom hacking is fuckin hard. i've been poking around for fun and it's already terrifying.

i am escorted into a room. the last room i will ever enter. unseen hands strap me into a chair. the room goes dark and an eternity of short form videos by yank gamedev influencers begins to play.

sickening to see that seppo studio anywhere near aus/nz games. no fuckin idea why anyone with any mates in the scene and sense in their head would associate with them.

The packaging for this makes it look like a Koji Shiraishi Halloween costume

i take: more bird pics you receive: more bird pics