Brilliant. These are so close to the real-life books I've got on my shelves I'm starting to doubt my own memory.

I was prepared to argue until I realised he didn't mean A.I. the film.

Someone on FB posted this old, 1970s hand drawn D&D map they found, and, damn. It's like looking at a time-portal to my childhood.

Apologies if you've already seen this @craigpearson.bsky.social , @pentadact.com .

Any Dan Simmons fans in my tiny Bluesky circle? Hyperion never added up to more than the sum of its parts for me, but the current accolades make me want to give him another go (despite his politics). Any suggestions where to start?

"I'm not supposed to be here."

“And I would say based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away.” Scott Adams, 2023 Dude finally took his own advice.

Damn. If you thought Neil Dudgeon was just the harmless old duffer who played DCI Barnaby in Midsomer Murders, listen to him reading Philip Larkin's Aubade. Dude absolutely nails it. thepoetryhour.com/poems/aubade/

Change/continuity.

Still waspish, witty and suffering absolutely no fools whatsoever at 86. What a goddess. I wish she could live forever.

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This reminds me wonderfully of the reviews in the spoof site ObjectiveGameReviews.com, now sadly long gone.

Well, now I feel old. RIP

Just finished Snake Eater and wow... 15 minutes of finger-gnawingly tedious overwritten monologue at the end to explain what was going on and how I should feel about it. How can anyone possibly imagine that's good storytelling, let alone someone who claims to love movies?

If you ever want to torture information out of me, forget waterboarding. Just play Kojima's expository dialogue at me, where every single tedious point has to be made three times. Three times is how often every point has to be made, Snake. Snake, the point making multiplier is three, got that?

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

How do I stop watching this?

More random than interesting. Which is pretty much what I want written on my gravestone.

Fight videogame censorship and support a worthy charity into the bargain.

Death Stranding 3: On The Salt Path

Guess I'll go with this one.

Little guy is about 50 percent limbs.

So, totally got a kitten now.

"In a world of disenchantment, where no one believed that politicians could be good, being bad meant you must be authentic." Incredible stuff from Adam Curtis, as always. I still can't decide if he's a high-functioning conspiracy theorist or the only man on the planet who knows what's going on.

It's funny. Younger Tony was so sniffy about NVN2, and yet today I'm probably more excited about this than anything announced at the Summer Game Fest. Time makes fools of us all.

Will no one think of the chitlins?

Determined to get #PiggybackWriter into the lexicon now. Feel free to share

Loved this one. It's so grounded in the real world - Hull, for heaven's sake! - but that just makes the violence and hint of the supernatural dig in deeper.

Excellent second-hand bookshop score.

Ah, crap. :(

Same question to the Better Twitter: I love to curl up with an atmospheric\spooky game at Xmas, eg, Hob's Barrow, Mundaun, Draugen, If On A Winter's Night. Foolishly played Fear of the Spotlight too soon, any recent-ish suggestions? Don't let me down like the Other Place did.

Nice! I do love a Spooky Little Game, and I've been treating myself to late night lights-out plays of this one for a while now.