On this year's SEGAbits year in review show we introduced a new award celebrating SEGA Writing and Journalism, which we awarded to Nick Thorpe of @retrogamermag.bsky.social - Thank you for everything Nick, you will never be forgotten.

It's weak cosplay, it should at least come with a mop and bucket.

My resolution for this new year is to finally walk away from social media for good and so I will not be posting at all in 2026. Oh pissflaps. Maybe next year.

After the millenium, staying up late to watch a single number at the end of the date roll over just isn't that exciting. We lived through the ultimate thrill ride of watching four figures roll over ALL AT ONCE. So you can keep your single digit bullshit.

Because Gen Z are more politically literate than their forebears and realise what’s actually at stake in a “difference of opinion”

ChatGPT represents the philosphical death of the individual, something that runs contrary to Irish culture. who would want to outsouce to a prediction agorithm when all the value is in spinning the yarn?

I'm going back to bed, if someone can give me a nudge when it gets to 2029 it would be appreciated.

This is where GTA peaked.

She says "ideology" but she means "people". Obviously the Telegraph wont point that out, because when they say "ideology" they also mean "people".

It's about time the USA was recognised as the hostile foreign power it currently is.

Pretty much the first lesson learnt from social media was that if you offer people a platform and the veil of anonymity you can't be surprised if they act like arseholes Which is why I've just never seen the point of those NGL things, it feels like actively inviting people to come shit on your rug.

Nick brought so much joy to so many people, if you can share it would be appreciated.

Stop it, you're doing it wrong.

Trying not to get too exited over the Rogue Trooper film. But it's one of those dream projects, and with the dream director for it, so it's really quite hard. It's easily my most anticipated film of the last 27 years.

⚠ I know I said I was going to have this Saturday off, but sod it.. Let's stream one more #ZXSpectrum lucky dip! Join me at the usual time, over on twitch!

It's not "alienating rural people" I grew up living in the countryside, and I didn't know a single person who didn't hate these cunts with an absolute fierry passion.

Only a few months late, Bloggo looks at Yuzo Koshiro's mega game : Earthion! But what does he think? No, not Yuzo! Bloggo. What does Bloggo think? Watch and find out! youtu.be/wPiWnLtGQwE

New legal supply of hormones just opened up.

Rereading That Yellow Bastard as it’s been years. I knew I recognised Stephen Miller from somewhere.

“Let’s open a mine in Cornwall to mine lithium for batteries” “Why now?” “Because research is well underway on exciting new tech in that area, we’re talking better, more efficient non-lithium alternatives, by jumping in now we can maintain our position of always being slightly behind the curve”

I enjoyed the Alternative Christmas Message this year. It's always been one of the better christmas traditions.

Facing the dilemma of wanting to fill up the mini PC with games, but also wanting to wait until I can afford to pop another SSD in so I can keep them all on the one drive.

Yesterday my dad bought a great big forerib of beef because it was half price at €68. It was glorious, but the thing could have easily fed 12 - 15 people. And there’s only three of us. So if anybody needs me I’ll be led on the back lawn.

Using the courts for a political agenda? In the U.K.? Wonder what gave them the idea that would work.

In academia I would treat AI like they treat any other form of plagiarism.

How the fuck is a repeat of Homes Under The Hammer part of the BBC’s Christmas Eve morning telly schedule? Was there no Porridge, no Are You Being Served, no Bernard and the Genie? Surely they could have plucked something festive from the archives.

If you told me Keir Starmer's christmas message was AI generated, I'd have no reason to question it.

Comic books should be laminated so you can read them in the shower.

It's the time of year to remind people that tins of Quality Street used to weigh 5lbs (2.27kg), now the standard tin is 550g and the "large" is 750g. So if you're sat around the table with elderly relatives on Thursday, you can get a good hour of non-confrontational conversation about that.

Why should western civilisation be saved anyway? Of all the civilisations it by far has the most fuckwits. I say we get rid of it and move on to whatever is next.

In hindsight "looks pretty weird but it tastes just fine" was not a great advertising slogan.

Looking at the state of America right now, you can kind of understand the whole pushback concerning the #MeToo movement in masculinity politics People knew what was coming down the pipeline and my word did they do their upmost to sow seeds before it arrived

What i do enjoy is adverts on YouTube with AI voiceovers, where they've put so little effort into them they pronouce the fucking product name wrong because it's not in the training and they didn't spell it phonetically. Really makes me want to buy the product.

If you're going to drop JImmy Saville into the conversation, just remember two small details Saville had his own key to the morgue of a children's hospital The suffering inflicted by well connected sex predators isn't something you should be trying to rank as if it's a fucking review of their work

"It had a name, you don't eat things with names."

I find cooking shows from the 90s onward practically unwatchable, they were less about cooking & more about selling an aspirational lifestyle, a puddle deep parody of middle class domestic bliss I will however allow a carve out for cooking travel shows, which should be even worse, but somehow work.

If aliens landed right now, I'd use the universal greeting from Transformers the movie but rather than offer them an energon goodie I'd offer them a look at some retroish Steam games youtu.be/_375Al0y_Yw

I probably don't say it enough because it's schmaltzy and I have an angry ranty personna to uphold, but I love you guys. Every day you fill my timeline with glorious little nuggets, fun, frivolity, trivia, information, news, friendship, etc. The world is an infinitely better place with you in it.

One of Nick's friends will be doing a charity stream on the 23rd (Nick's birthday). Do consider taking a look and maybe donating to a cause that meant a lot to Nick. We'll hopefully see you in the chat room. www.justgiving.com/page/trashpa...

Billionaires shouldn't just be taxed. They should be taxed out of existence.

"Or better still ask an addict" was interesting advice. And how I ended up on heroin. Bloody BBC.

The hardware may change, but kids are still dumbasses.

"I'm only in it for the flags and racism, nobody told me I'd need to actually defend anything."

68% of the U.K. today are left wondering why there has been no action in America to have Donald Trump removed from office on grounds of insanity, after court filings reveal him citing Liz Truss as an expert.

I deleted a post because some conversations are best left out of other people's unrelated threads. Sometimes I forget this isn't Twitter. Where obviously I'd have just called everyone cunts and then flounced.

I last used a fax machine in 2022 at a job where I believe they still today use a fax machine to send the overtime records down to head office.

"They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6 that I didn't say." - Donald Trump (15.12.2025) The BBC should countersue as that is a demonstrably false statement, it was an edit of two parts of the same speech, the words were all his own.

Clearly it was just banter.

If GenAI worked as advertised Elon Musk would have been capable of at least one funny joke by now. But here we are.

GenAI was invented by people who see creativity as the enemy of productivity.