I had a variety of uncomfortable/scary experiences as a young woman working in Parramatta, travelling home on the last train of the night. But I didn't want vigilantes - from my point of view they are just as scary as the people they were supposedly protecting against

Homemade Sushius

Oh! The video games played in October all begin with 'B': The Biggleboss INCident; Blackwell Unbound; The Blackwell Convergeance; The Blackwell Deception; Backpack Battles. Yep, #pointandclick I've started the last in the Blackwell series - I'm not finished yet. I'm enjoying seeing how they develop

hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: [email protected]

I don't always agree with Aust government tech policy, but I do think the ACCC should test this in court. And another win for the day: the Aust government has ruled out changing copyright laws to allow companies to train AI for free: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Good. #auspol

I agree with what Commissioner Anna Cody says: “There is a rise in that more conservative agenda, and it has used the anti-trans ideology to drive that. I am concerned, both for all women and also for the trans community.” Anti-trans rhetoric harms ALL women. #auspol

Newbie freelancers, I have question for you! Im putting together a doc with a buncha tools, thoughts + resources in regards to being a freelancer in video games. What are your Qs? What did you wish people would talk about more? Im focusing a lot on financial realities. RTs appreciated!

Proudly make it to the 2025 walkleys Awards finalists for DIGITAL MEDIA: INNOVATION JOURNALISM Badiucao, Matthew Absalom-Wong, Patrick O'Neil, Tom McKendrick, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Watched, followed, threatened. Now an impostor is claiming to be me' www.theage.com.au/interactive/...

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter. They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

@the41stprecinct.bsky.social Sorry to bother you! Did you have an interview with The Shore of Jord developer? I can't find it any longer

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours. The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

Without downloading anything, where are you mentally right now?

yup, Steam is down for me. GoG seems fine, however...

#PointAndClick why does the character seem to shrink & grow as they move round a room? They look like shrinking or walking down stairs as they move towards the viewer (opposite of IRL!) Not just this game, lots of others. Is the character staying the same size but the room has perspective? #gamedev

But history didn’t stop in 1992 and then start again in 2016 like its fucking nuts that we don’t understand the “War on Terror” — the political event — as one that transformed American society and the presidency and how the GOP grabbed power, attacked civil liberties and … literally created the DHS

I guess one of the joys of a #PointAndClick game is making your own map? Here's mine for the 1st chapter of #3MinutesToMidnight:

#StardewValley cosy vibes

(Apropos of playing a newly released game) #gamedev, please think extra hard why your main character needs to be nasty? I know your aim is a complex, interesting character. But *at this current historical moment*, a main character who's mean/sarcastic to everyone around them just isn't feeling good

I think this is so smart. Starting with an RPG book, not a CRPG ... so fewer legal issues; creating a new world for players to dream about; and funds for the game studio to grow. Bravo @summereternal.com !

Think about it, on a platform like Bluesky where so many people have been online for 10+ years: How many of the voices you appreciated 10 years ago are still around? How many of them still post? How many are still alive? The guys who organize & fund the hate campaigns are *still* going after them.

Knitting: if I've put a project down and not worked on it for a while, I'll unknit (frog) the last few rows when I start on it again ... the tension on the stitches will have loosened during the hiatus, I don't want an obvious change in how the stitches look

51% of gamers in Australia are women, the average age is 35. The infographic is is woefully small and the research seems heavily influenced by the video-games-are-dangerous-to-kids trope, but there you have it. igea.net/2025/09/aust... How many years before we update our mental image of #gamers ?

I've always been rather sceptical of TikTok, but frankly, if there is a US version that's MAGA-ified and owned by someone who believes ordinary people should have their lives & thoughts curtailed by massive surveillance (Ellison), maybe I should join the Chinese version. If I'm even allowed to...

Thank you for the decent headline. It's something I've believed for a long time, due to talking with young people in my family. Climate change is the big one: it's hard to imagine a hopeful future if you understand science. Out-of-reach house prices & rental insecurity; job insecurity (+AI threat)

I used to mistakenly think "tankie" referred to someone employed by a think tank/public policy institute. "Thinkie" would be a weird to call someone, so I assumed everyone had decided on "tankie" instead. My mistake did make sense for some comments about "tankies"

Getting language right for diverse communities is important.

Oh! It's the day Stanislav Petrov heroically waited for confirmation and did not immediately report what the nuclear attack early warning system was telling him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl... May we all have the courage to take our time and question data that doesn't make sense.

So we're looking up Steam records of people who die now?* They've got 5,000s hours in specific games? Dang, I gotta up my Steam playtime! I mainly play on GoG & I think their time recording is faulty. *yes, I understand the specific reason is a mass-shooting, but what if this trend continues? #Gamer

"Saw a poodle in a jacket fastened with a pin, Saw a door opened and a cat let in: But they weren't German Jews, my dear, but they weren't German Jews." WH Auden Right now, I think people outside the USA should work on advocating for bigger intakes of vulnerable Americans settling in their countries

Fascist don’t actually care about winning arguments on ‘immigration’ or trans people. They just want some peoples existence to be on the table and for them to be suitably terrorised by this.

A favourite sequence in #StardewValley. The year before, Linus was standing on the edge of the festival, feeling excluded, hoping to eat later. The invitation to join the mayor at his table is significant. True, parts of Linus' story/homelessness are romanticised but I like the message in this scene

So, what's the protest and/or manhunt going on near the #Sydney CBD today?

I don't enjoy anti-Internet takes from parents. The idea that kids are better off outside; engaging with community; not online. The same idea activates social media bans. I was a kid before online existed & let me tell you: the community shunned & teased me, because my interests & thoughts 1/n

Bliss (1985, Australian) ... but I've no idea when I saw it; I wasn't an adult in 1985. It was advertised on TV and I really wanted to see it; saw it with my cousin when I was only just permitted. Some sequences I still remember vividly, all these years later

I really love the way the trees are drawn in #TheBlackwellLegacy. I did have minor issues with clicking part of this #PointAndClick adventure, but got there in the end. So many point and click games are about ghosts! I wonder why ... because the player won't shoot them in this style of game, maybe?

I created a new Y**tube account. I watched: 2x videos about pixel art & dithering; 1x video about being a DM for roleplaying games; part of an anti-police protest song in French, 1x song in Indonesian about women's lives so Y**tube decided I'd like a video about which races are inferior. WTF?!?

Very, very worth reading

Tell me you auto-translated from Japanese without telling me you auto-translated: the prime ministerial candidate is referred to as 'Mr' & 'he' throughout the article, but she's a woman. (In Japanese, the writer may not need to mention gender at all, but in English you need it every sentence or so)

Far out NO! NO! NO! NO! @bsky.app This is NOT what I want. Why can't I continue to read back through my timeline? Maybe I want to check out something I read an hour ago. Or a day ago. I never EVER, EVER want to see Discover in my feed. I don't use Discover and it unfair of you to force me to use it.

I hate how hard it is to do diacritics in Windows. I end up searching for the word then cutting & pasting. Spellcheck now doesn't consider missing diacritics wrong. Today's words: café, cliché, Māori Yes, I've been using Mac shortcuts for years & most text-based apps give a menu choice now. #LangSky

Games played in August. Only further run-throughs of old favourites: Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium. Nothing new: frazzled. I've got much closer to mastery in #StardewValley than ever before but I still can't access 2 types of animals & 1 tree ... despite all my efforts in the relevant locations. 1/2

When a BSky post mentions someone I don't know, I often search (DuckDuckGo) & read the Wikipedia article. So far, so boring. It's weird to see the post I'm coming from listed no. 4 in results. Why? I'm searching a senior person who's worked at multiple companies. Is it a weird 'personalised' search?

It's rare for newspapers to name anything but social media as a cause of youth mental health issues. I agree "increasing economic insecurity for young people, intergenerational inequality, housing costs, educational fees, and climate change" make the future look bleak. www.smh.com.au/national/it-...

Nazis don't have 'legitimate concerns'. They have a bunch of claims they use to gain legitimacy, and recruit and identify members.

Thinking about #DiscoElysium succesors(?), including ones with heavy ethical concerns. A lot of them have gone for female protagonists: Good! There could have been a couple more leading women in DE. But the reveal trailers are mainly voiced by men... men berating or mocking the central character 1/n

So apparently this was the push I needed to switch to vivaldi browser. As always, there was about an hour or 2 where I couldnt get the software set up how I want (how I want is never the default) and I almost went back but ... it's comfortably set up now! Nice full transfer from my previous browser

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can we stop with using "your wife" as short had for "non-gamer" in reviews?? like "so easy even your wife can play it!"

NB: I'm not going to follow (and quite likely will block) if you don't post original stuff of your own. Reposts & website links alone don't cut it. I remember some free online 'spot the bot' training, sponsored by the EU I think ... any rate, not posting your own thoughts is a sign you're a bot 1/2

"NIMBYs threaten to sink multi billion dollar datacentre investment" vs "NIMBYs block low cost housing during 'housing crisis'" One is beneficial, one is not, but the headline writers avoid flagging which is which by using the same negative terminology for both