Brutal, beautiful, unforgiving. Kristala features 8 challenging and fun boss battles already, and tons more are coming to 1.0! 👀 Which face-off has been your favorite so far? #kristala #bossfight #soulslike #arpg #indiedev #indiegames

This is directly imperils universal franchise and puts a thumb on the scales of election results. It will also have the very bad side effect of making people uncertain about the voting process and suspicious of the systems in place. #nzpol

The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

One of our favorite parkour sequences in game so far...for obvious reasons. 🔥 #kristala #parkour #traversal #arpg #darkfantasy #indiedev

a lot of people think maria from the sound of music is antifa, but she isn't, she just thinks its a long long way to run

The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins. Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

Paying superannuation only to people who survive until they're 72yo sounds like Systemic #racism. Who live longer? People who are rich + white! People who need a social safety net the most are poor and marginalized, many of them brown. It's not as if there is much work for people 60+ anyway. #Nzpol

Oh no... Andrew Dice wasn't just a cool, friendly pillar of the community, he was one of the people most influential in bringing down the boundaries between the Japanese indie games scene and the rest of the world. He opened doors and brought so many great stories to us. Farewell to a real one.

NZGDC time!!

When centrism itself is your platform, and not specific policies and ideals, if your main opposition shifts strongly right, then you get tugged along rightwards, too.

Breaking News: RNZ has discovered that cycle lanes and bicycle usage is good for people #nzpol

Today’s cat is a big gray and a little gray #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatGuy

Imagine having so little faith in your policies that you have to resort to voter suppression tactics in order to have a whiff of victory? #nzpol

Allegedly they wouldn’t “have to vacuum so much” if I stopped “being so dramatic” when they are “just trying to brush me” which all sounds fake. I choose neither

Hear me out - Give Ngutu pare/wrybill your vote for #BOTY. The ONLY birds worldwide with a laterally curved bill! That's a serious kink. Also when they murmurate the whole flock flashes from silver to white, it's spectacular. They are also Bi-landers dividing their time between North and South.

NZ Green Party isn't "looney left". Their fiscal policy is pragmatic. Their alternative budget is well-researched. Their income tax policy is a match for Australia's. Their proposed wealth tax is close to Norway's successful implementation. This is a principled stand unconcerned about labels. #nzpol

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

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So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

TAKAHĒ-MENTUM IS GROWING You’re gonna be sad if you don’t get on the Takahē Train and vote for the largest living rail

Billion dollars in profit but can’t lower domestic prices. Get fucked Fonterra. Farmers better not ask for a fucking cent next bit of rough weather. #nzpol

I WANT prisoners to vote, too. They're people, in this country.

my fav fanarts of the year so far ✨

trying to figure out a good way to get 100k people to unwishlist and then wishlist again so i can make this announcement twice

We housed them all during lockdown but now the government doesn’t give a crap. Sad to see. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Today I had to ask my Kiwi partner to tell me what a "rark up" is, despite living here for over 5 years.

Ray Chung talking about a time when council officers escorted someone out of a public meeting after only three questions: "that was my most embarrassing moment on council". Alex Baker: "THAT was your most embarrassing moment in council?"

there’s a pop culture idea that women have higher pain tolerance than men maybe you’ve seen those videos of men trying period simulators, or tattoo artists & massage therapists talking about how men can’t handle pain yeah, that’s not higher pain tolerance that’s evidence of structural brutality

anyway you should watch the trailer if you haven't already. dunno what else to say. it's in 4:3 because of the reason

Love to live in a country where we're doing climate denial, vote suppression, visas for rich folk, science destruction, wrecking healthcare... But because we're special little New Zealand and not America we'll just keep pretending it's mostly normal aye

There has been enough trials of four day working weeks to show that it increases productivity and happiness for everyone involved. That most businesses in the world won’t do it tells you more about how they feel about their employees than anything else.

I had the honour of joining my close friend Golriz Ghahraman to discuss how we navigated public shaming, how we supported each other and the way it has built resilience in both of us and a passion for online safety.

Oil & gas is not the solution to our energy crisis. It takes on average 16 years to go from exploration to production of fossil fuels. What does this mean for Aotearoa? It means higher emissions and no real end in sight to high power bills for our households and industry.

Nothing says climate leadership like opening new oil and gas fields in the middle of a climate crisis 🙄 The Govt announcing the re-opening of permits for oil & gas exploration says one thing: short-term profits for the wealthy few takes priority over a liveable future for all of us.

Really fun, very silly game that feels like Jazzpunk got in a teleporter accident with Ratchet & Clank. Half silly laser battles with a whole library of comedy guns, half screwball comedy skits.

Wow. How is this not the number one news story on every outlet? Amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The starry night of the spheal family” It will be available this Friday in my Ko🐟fi🦭🦭 shop alongside other paintings

I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one

Makes sense. It's essentially "be gay, do crime, and dance". One of the trailers show the PC punching a cop. Instant wishlist material.

it makes sense she would be Zeus's firstborn, Athena really does have oldest daughter energy

Oh shit, i think i fell for this one. Guess i should change my passwords or something

NZ Minister of Health announces escalation of throwing public money to private healthcare in effort to destroy public healthcare. Not even hiding it now. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

They are saying 32% GST and 72 for retirement age so we will happily accept 20% GST and 68 for retirement age. Why don’t they say 5% wealth tax and 40% corporate tax on big conglomerates? No of course they won’t say that no siree.

Incredible, important work from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies: thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-09-...

Another ra-ra genAI event invite, another day to hate myself for working at the college of "creative" "arts".

Yes, the takedowns *are* that cool. Drain an enemy's balance to perform one of these satisfying, punishing finishers. Wanna try it yourself? Kristala is 40% off on Steam for a limited time! @entropyproto.bsky.social #kristala #livestream #soulslike #sekirolike #arpg