I spent a wonderful evening with my husband and my friends, and now I'm going into 2026 with a cup of gingerbread tea and a sense of happiness 🫖💛🐴

What a list for Date Everything! to be part of ☺️ Thanks @meghan0n.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

Everything you need to know about final fantasy you can learn from the Simpsons

When I worked in Edinburgh Castle I had a lost tourist off a cruise ship. Asked her which port her ship was docked at, Rosyth or Greenock? "No idea." What's the name of your ship? "Don't know." Do you know which country you're in? "...England?" Suffice to say I left that one to the bosses.

My picks for the best of 2025 as part of Shoreline of Infinity's year in review! I've read some stellar work this year, and there's more coming that I'm dead keen to dig into 📚 www.shorelineofinfinity.com/best-of-2025/

I sense an influx of people who might be interested in TTRPGs! Check out our starter pack go.bsky.app/HGiNepJ

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Just finished the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy by Le Guin. A thought provoking look at different types of oppression, and how powerless people can use stories to escape it. An underrated work of hers I think!

This was a lot of fun to take part in - everyone go play Date Everything! and Sorry We're Closed now please 😌 💅🏻 I also picked up a few of the other very stellar recommendations on the list!

I'm obsessed with Mokeke so getting TWO (!) for Christmas is peak 🎄💖

Christmas Eve 💅🏻🎄🍸 @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social made a wonderful cocktail with mulled wine and soju 💖

Perfect 😌💖

Christmas afternoon tea today 🎄🫖🧁 love to have a little festive gathering 😘

I was trying not to have a decadent festive season but I had two mince pies for breakfast today, so that's a bust

The @newscientist.com Book Club is reading the #scifi masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author @amendlocke.bsky.social discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel 💙📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

Yesterday I had a former client make comments on an old set of copy I'd written - they're templatising it to feed to AI to generate more copy 🙃 At least have the decency to create a new document so that the original writer can't see their value being diminished in real time ☠️

Going to the shops but it's foggy outside

97% OF PEOPLE: 'No Torment Nexus please.' 3% OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE PART OF TORMENT NEXUS PLC: 'Torment Nexus is good.' POLITICIAN: 'It's so difficult to know what people really want.'

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

I'm quite diligent about maintaining my portfolio, which is great because I often forget what I've written over the last decade (!) until someone needs a really specific clip. www.meghanon.co.uk

This year, @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social and I made *two* video games as part of game jams! I'm extremely proud of how each one turned out, especially as we tried our hand at new genres, styles and ideas 🧵

For Shoreline of Infinity, I reviewed the wonderful Daughters of Nicnevin by @shonak.bsky.social 🌟 a bewitching tale of how love, magic, and community can help protect the women left behind during the Jacobite rebellion. A thoroughly good read! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/the-daughter...

Folks I emphasize as always, if you don't actually show up for the things you want, they stop getting made. Sometimes you gotta be okay with taking a chance on that 7/10 game knowing it's the only way those creators get to keep making the stuff you wanna see

"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'” This is exactly what I feared. Not that AI would replace good writing (it can't), but that good writing would cease to be valued

For Shoreline of Infinity, I reviewed the wonderful Daughters of Nicnevin by @shonak.bsky.social 🌟 a bewitching tale of how love, magic, and community can help protect the women left behind during the Jacobite rebellion. A thoroughly good read! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/the-daughter...

This year, @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social and I made *two* video games as part of game jams! I'm extremely proud of how each one turned out, especially as we tried our hand at new genres, styles and ideas 🧵

Two years ago, Tabletop Bookshelf made its first sale. Two years later, we've delivered thousands of tabletop and solo game books, zines, and more to customers across the country, investing hundreds of thousands of dollars back into the indie tabletop community.

Just finished The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Written in 1909 (!) it discusses a life eerily similar to lockdown social media instant dopamine living. Quite terrifying.

Got my new passport through and I'm pulling such a face 🤦🏻‍♀️ mogging at the border for the next decade

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

Light it up, let's go! 🔥 A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV! Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

Incredible - Tom Morello has written a song for the latest Final Fantasy 14 patch ???!!! the music for XIV always slaps so I'm *very* excited for this.

Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb). aftermath.site/horses-indie... At least read this paragraph:

Calling in to work over encumbered

I'm never sure if it's the right solution, but any time a piece of tech makes a strange noise I immediately turn it off no questions no investigation 😩 that's none of my business!

do you guys mind if i perform my 3 hit combo that deals 9998 damage on you

I miss (so fiercely!) the times I spent in university wandering around the "5 for a fiver" section in blockbuster. So many gems I'd never choose nowadays. Bring back the pleasure of searching 😔

FYI you should absolutely pick up The Librarian's Apprentice. What a joyful experience it is to play 📚📘✨

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introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to (i.e., what is my music taste 😫) Nine Inch Nails Wheatus Iron Maiden 65DaysofStatic Mogwai

Four boiled eggs: troubling Four eggs in an omelette: fluffy, nice

Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up." www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the greatest games I've played. I wanted to show my love for the game and did so in the only way I knew I could, by learning how to make baguettes! Recipe can be found here: pixelatedprovisions.com/2025/10/08/c... #Expedition33 @sandfallgames.bsky.social

💅🏻 French fry restaurant 💅🏻

It's a real pain in the arse that my local bus stop and local train station are 30 mins walk from one another, meaning that if one method of transport gets cancelled I'm just shit out of luck. Glasgow disappoints me so much with public transport.

It's impossible to come to Fife and not get a wee chippy 😋🐟