I was on a walk. A car pulled up next to me and yelled something at me. Taking my earphones out, he yelled again, "You shoelace is untied." I looked down, my shoelaces were still tied. I looked back up and he was driving off, cackling. I almost admire the quaintness of the bit?

After all the doom and gloom of the new car regulations going into today's Grand Prix, we ended up getting laps of thrilling battles and overtakes. We probably would've gotten even more if Ferrari didn't blunder its strategy. It almost lifted my mood after the Piastri DNS. Almost.

Finished Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but it’s a pretty good game.

The Olympics figure skating gala briefly turned into Fortnite.

We’re all keen to play Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen on a 2010s handheld device, right?

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t compete in Olympic cross-country skiing

Cooper Woods has won Australia’s first gold medal at this Winter Olympics! Time to blare this on loop youtube.com/watch?v=M5jw...

The ski jumper that gets fourth place:

For the last summer Olympics, every event was streamed for free on 9Now. For the upcoming winter Olympics, almost everything is locked behind the Stan paywall. This stinks.

This article from The Guardian has me really pissed off. It’s basically ‘What, you haven’t been paying extra on your mortgage? What are you — some sort of Poor?!’

It’s curious listening to my podcast feed discussing Highguard. It’s as if they’re trying to counter the outrage YouTubers by trying (very hard, mind you) to find the qualities of that game. The ragebaiters are bad, and Highguard is a messy experience that I didn’t find fun. It can be two things.

Say what you will about Highguard, but people dogpiling on it because it isn't Half-Life 3 is incredibly dumb.

Triple J will try to champion the fact that 54 tracks from this year’s Hottest 100 come from Australian artists, but will ignore the fact that 47 of those came from Spacey Lame and Ocean Agony.

Boy howdy, this really is just a shameless ripoff of LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends, isn’t it? Just without any soul, substance, payoff or talent.

Ah the Hottest 100, that time of year where I yell at the radio about the yoof music in order to distract myself from my own irrelevance and mortality. Having said that, <insert band with whiny vocals here> sucks.

The greatest lines in cinema: - “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” - “Here’s looking at you, kid.” - “We need to build the car for combat.”

Spotify continues to go downhill. Anytime I get a new release notification, 90% of the time it’s AI spam riding the coattails of actual musicians.

It took a while, but I've finally beaten Metaphor Refantazio. Glad I picked it back up to see it to the end.

Uh, Google, Stadium Australia is about 700km away from where the Australian Open is being held.

Hooray, my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics arrived in the ma—

I think this might be the first year where all my Hottest 100 votes have been write-ins. Despite this, I will still yell at my radio when none of these songs end up in the final list.

We launched a whole new season of NGP On Tour, as @crinjworthy.bsky.social takes @emshiel.bsky.social and Irina to The Game Expo, and @beabravo.bsky.social heads to Japan for Bitsummit! Airs on C31 Melbourne Wednesdays at 8:30pm AEDT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6gl... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgv...

What happens when you give in to the intrusive thoughts youtube.com/shorts/QE_YX...

Nine hundred (and ninety-nine) dollaridoos??

So close to getting a shiny hundo

If you want to see my top 10 games of 2025 in a single image, here you go. If you want words to go with them, check a look at the thread.

No hate. <Kyle Sandilands appears Stand Up to Hate ad> Okay, one hate.

It's a little late, but here are my games of 2025, in thread form. But before that... - Honourable mentions: Rogue Prince of Persia, Mario Kart World. - Games I feel bad for missing: The Drifter, Bits & Bops. - Games I feel bad for not fully playing: Citizen Sleeper 2, Baby Steps.

$300, no lowballs, I know what I have

Old mate is tripling down on this approach for the second part of this outlet’s GOTY consideration, tearing down every other game he considers too dumb for his big engorged brain. His presence is the one thing that has stopped me from supporting the outlet’s Patreon.

What do you consider the golden age of The Simpsons? Does it start at season three or season four? Would you include season 10 or even 12?

I’m listening to a GOTY podcast, and I am growing to *despise* one of the hosts. Not for his choice of games, but the fact that he thinks he’s too good, too smart, for other titles. I risk getting RSI from making dismissive wanking motions whenever he opens his mouth.

Now that Bart’s opened his copy of Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge, Christmas can officially begin

Between How the Grinch Stole Christmas and My Secret Santa, I’ve inadvertently created a double-feature of ‘Christmas movies where the main character puts on too many prosthetics’. It ain’t a good one!

Internet Be Normal About Someone’s Passing Challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

That's Rhythm Doctor beaten. For a game so ostensibly simple (press one button to the beat), it does so much with music theory and even the Windows OS.

It’s funny seeing the puritans coming out of the woodwork after that Divinity trailer. Showing a man being burned alive is perfectly fine, but the glimpse of ritualistic sex has them clutching their pearls. How dare they show off mature content in <checks notes> a Mature-rated stream.

On one hand, I sorta feel bad for Highguard; it’s getting all sorts of blowback because it’s not Half-Life 3. But on the other, releasing a hero shooter in 2026 is uhhhhh a choice.

Keighley: ‘I thought it was important to spotlight indie games’ Also Keighley: <hides the Best Independent Game award in the preshow>

Sobbing at my local Grill’d, tears soaking my Piastri Burger.

How do you do, fellow kids

Tired: Lumines Arise is best experienced on <insert recreational substance here>. Wired: Lumines Arise is best experienced on the delusion that VR gaming will strike it big...one day...

39 runs later, and I’ve rolled credits on Hades 2. Ending was a little rushed, though it was apparently much worse before the latest update. Either way, game’s real good. Time to grind to the epilogue.

The ideal Discord experience

In hindsight, I probably should have gotten the PlayStation version of Once Upon a Katamari.

I’m about to throw the best tea parties.

<runs to Bluesky, out of breath> Has…has anyone called it the GabeCube yet?!

Some more Nintendo pickups from the trip. The Wii Remote cushion didn’t fit in the picture.

The Pokémon plush I acquired in the recent trip. I swear I don’t have a problem.

Imagine a world without Pop Vinyls