It's not that girls are weapons, actually. It's that weapons, as objects coveted by men who view the possession and conspicuous use of them as intrinsically demonstrative of their masculinity, are a type of woman.

Merry Monday! I've gone over the Second Hand Computer bug reports from the weekend and assembled my hit-list for the day. Should be able to do all these done and have an update out by end of today. Thanks to everyone who sent details & logs in for me!

If you have no plans today, you do now: watch all several hundred Strong Bad Emails.

SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT! SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games. #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev

SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT! SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games. #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev

Evening complete. Bars I drank at: 3

Help, my word guessing game is being rude to me.

I've put up a Q&A post which I will keep updated, answering questions about Second Hand Computer, over on itch. Also a reminder that you can follow the project - and Funtime Electric - at this link too. #GameDev #IndieDev #FantasyComputer

Getting all nostalgic over here in Second Hand Computer land... #IndieDev #GameDev #FantasyComputer

No less than two architect's studios have moved into my suburb in the last month. That's the final stage of gentrification. It can't get worse from here.

Love that Sad Keanu, complete with pigeon, gets a cameo if you take the metro in Cyberpunk 2077.

"I Am The Night" Yeah, okay.

BLOG POST: Continuing my Grand Theft Auto replays, here's RETURNING TO SAN ANDREAS, notes on the design of probably the most-loved GTA game, 22 years on.

No matter how bad your morning is, just know DuckDuckGo is having a worse morning than you.

Thank you to everyone who helped out on this. The video game industry is a global one.

Before you post making fun of Greg Bovino for being short, remember: he won't see it. Not unless you hold him under the arms and pick him up to see the big computer

I don't normally talk about books I've read but if you love 20th century history, cold war stuff, and space travel, definitely check out The Apollo Murders - a thriller set during the Apollo program written by Chris Hadfield, a retired astronaut who knows his goddamn shit.

PLANET1.ANS, 1996-03-11 from It's all in the GAME 3 (CD-ROM)

Blog post: How to Escape When You Can't Escape

I'm SO onboard for this.

The best way to test a tool is to use it, so here I am making a 2048 clone in FunScript using Second Hand Computer's edit program. Already found and murdered two bugs. #GameDev #IndieDev

“Hey baby what’s your blood type?”

Re-watching Hornblower has taught me many things, such as the fact that the countryside in Quiberon Bay looks a lot like Portugal.

In Blade Runner there's a big deal made of "is it a real owl?" vs "is it a genetically engineered owl?" I feel like we're there now with AI, except that the "real owl" looks gorgeous and the "engineered owl" has three eyes, five limbs, no feathers, and no wings.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

It’s very fun, yes.

tfw your two racist uncles are fighting

Evening gaming: GTA: Chinatown Wars on PSP. I never played this one, and while the PSP original's screen isn't quite as crisp as modern handhelds... this still rules.

Second Hand Computer's art is locked. A bit more tinkering and it will become available on itch.

He is VIGO! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

“Please, use our sloppy turd generation machine, I promise you’ll get used to the smell.” -- every tech bro in 2026

Re-watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) for a bit of fantasy wish fulfilment. What if the world was still awful, but there were smart competent people in high positions sometimes?

Thrift shopping win. $15 AUD for the lot. It's a 4th gen iPod Touch, screen is perfect and it seems to work fine. Even came with a 30 pin cable!

Over the last week I watched the Criterion releases of Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse trilogy and OOF I'd forgotten how intensely brutal Doom Generation is. Or, more accurately, the version I'd seen before was clearly the cut/censored version Araki dislikes so much.

“What if the nazis were really silly clown-like wastes of skin, but still naziiing” was not a question I wanted answered in my life time.

It’s really funny as a miserable lesbian to see people look at a miserable lesbian and go “seems problematic…” No bitch! Miserable lesbians are the backbone of society! Nothing works without us! Give us grenades and heroin!

This morning's video is MUSTARD'S latest - a deep dive (lol @ own joke) into the infamous Soviet Alfa-class submarine. [14m] Titanium hulled, liquid metal reactor, and massively automated. These things were insane - and more or less a dramatic failure.

Time to announce it formally - here's info about my latest project, SECOND HAND COMPUTER. Check out the attached blog post for information about this fantasy-computer for text games! #GameDev #IndieDev #FantasyComputer

Time to announce it formally - here's info about my latest project, SECOND HAND COMPUTER. Check out the attached blog post for information about this fantasy-computer for text games! #GameDev #IndieDev #FantasyComputer

Video for the morning: In Depth Cine (the best channel for clearly explaining really all aspects of cinematography) just broke down what VistaVision. [~12m]

Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY! Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day. Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Even on an overcast day in a washed out shot... my god Miami Vice is just something else.

Damn. RIP SXSW Sydney. By its most recent year it became the most fun games festival I've been to, in part because of how varied the attendees were. Even if it also meant you often had to dodge tech-bros.

Me: [as a new X-Files episode starts] "Oh I hate when scary thing happen on plane."

I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.

No notes All the power and love to @cathywilcox.bsky.social

Blade Runner has such wonderful relaxing vibes. Calms me down to watch it. Says a lot about the state of the world. Says even more that relative to even like, watching the news it seems positively upbeat.