I took the opportunity presented by not having an embargo to worry about to write something a little bit more than just a normal review. It is the sort of thing I hope to do more of as the landscape changes so please check it out.

Got a little personal with this one! Burnout is a horrible beast, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It sucks to feel like you're letting people down. Perhaps this will resonate with some of you, and honestly, I'm sorry if it does, and I see you!

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Our #IndieWatch is back, this time with @jesszam.bsky.social at the helm highlighting the upcoming action-adventure Fading Echo and the already released (and made in Australia!) co-op puzzler Schrodinger's Cat Burglar www.player2.net.au/2026/06/indi...

Huge news for our apartment, cannot wait for the cat to choose a favourite and create an irreparable rift in our friendship

Sometimes you've just gotta mess around with digital toy cars, y'know?

I've chosen to forgive them

Well. Here we are. It's finally happening.

Keep the good vibes going and make sure you check out the Frosty Celebration on Steam! 🧡🍦 Add some games to your wishlist and snag some fresh demos: store.steampowered.com/curator/4542...

ALL THESE GAMES ARE GREAT FROSTY WAS GREAT ANZ GAMES ARE GREAT GO PLAY GAMES NOW

In bad news I have now learned just enough about football to sort of know when my team is maybe doing bad at the football and I do not care for this feeling, I am truly not built for watching sports. I want to return to blissful ignorance and believing in them always

This is real btw

Definitely one to watch!

I have so far spent all of Pride month sick with a flu, in what is absolutely an unjust and homophobic attack on me specifically. I should never have posted about building those bookcases and being ready to achieve again, they knew I'd be too powerful if I could also breathe through my nose

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Hello friends I have been pretty offline most of this year because I have been dealing with hardcore burnout, but just checking in to let you all know that this weekend I have built three bookcases so far and organised so much shit and we are so back 💪

I cannot wait to play the full version of Legally Distinct Zelda (I mean this fully affectionately)

Rainbow stars are good, okay, and I will not hear otherwise

Personally, I feel like this is one of the series' stronger entries. But maybe it's because I simultaneously love and am terrified by space? Cool setting, some cool themes, great performances. Also, characters can text their in-game friends, and I think that's neat.

What's better than one opinion on a game? Why, four of course. Jump in to read about @pauljamesgames.bsky.social, @jesszam.bsky.social, @gorath44000.bsky.social and @hewso.bsky.social's time with Double Fine's Kiln. www.player2.net.au/2026/05/kiln...

I regret to inform you all that somehow I care about sports now? I have made the Matildas my whole personality? I have a favourite player. I have never had a favourite player on any team in my life. This is who I am now. I don't know how to feel.

I'm so deep in Wikigacha help me (this is my favourite card so far)

I hadn't thought about South of Nowhere in years, so this was WILD to go back to. But a fun discussion!

The spiders were such a non-issue I didn't even include them in my review. Wild. This game is beautiful enough that they didn't even matter.

I was really, really brave. Except for the one bit that was so scary for me personally I couldn't even watch it with both eyes. But otherwise I was super super brave.

We're podcastin' about sapphic media! I'm already having a lot of fun with this, come listen to us chat about the gays

Today, PlayStation hosted a HUGE State Of Play, and we got @jesszam.bsky.social and @pauljamesgames.bsky.social in to dissect all the reveals in this new Versus feature www.player2.net.au/2026/02/play...

The world is on fire and everything is bad, so here is a disconnected series of screenshots from my time spent delving into the Nintendo Entertainment System classics over the break, which I enjoy entirely out of context. NES games are great, thoroughly recommend the deep dive!

Disclaimer: I wrote this before we did, in fact, get more info about Fable.

HAPPY PITT DAY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE

Got one last bit of free time this afternoon before going back to work tomorrow, so another dive into the Nintendo Switch Online NES catalogue meant that Nightshade (1992) became my first finished game of 2026! Another new (to me) game to learn about - but this time Australian, even more exciting!

Trying again with the old Letterboxd account that I apparently made at the beginning of last year and then didn't touch again. Let's see if this is the year I actually watch more films (I am jesszam on there, join me if you are so inclined!) boxd.it/cvgZF

Seeing my name in some TV credits for the first time is another pretty cool way to start the new year! (and on the ABC, which feels special) Super proud of this weird lil deeply Australian show we've made

Starting the new year with Stranger Things and building this extremely exciting LEGO set, feels right

2025 was a weird year. Lots of big forced changes, self reflection, and attempts to establish a new normal. Huge steps forward and a whole bunch of little stumbles back. I learned a lot about myself. I felt some things I hadn't felt in years, and decided that in itself is progress. I'm opening up.

Also while we're at it in other life updates I finished Pluribus and am now going to be thinking about it constantly for the foreseeable future (at least until the return of 2025's other perfect TV show, The Pitt)

Spent time over the last couple of days idly messing around with the NES games in the Nintendo Switch Online games catalogue. This afternoon I started and finished StarTropics, a game I will admit to previously being entirely unfamiliar with, in about 4 and half hours. Fun times!

Happiest Season is a movie that means a lot to me. Give our second episode a listen if you want to hear me reveal perhaps too much about why!

Okay I know we all know this and I am late to the party but WOW PLURIBUS SURE IS GOOD (I am one episode in)

lorelei and the laser eyes (2024)

Every year. I do this to myself Every. Year.

We have been threatening to start a podcast for such a long time, and it's finally happening. Come and listen to us chat about The Christmas Writer, which managed to very quickly show that we all apparently want very different things from Christmas movies - so it got us off to a great start!

Horrific day. Terrifying, abhorrent shit to happen anywhere, but especially way too close to home. I hope you're all safe, fellow Sydney friends. Here if anyone needs to chat or spend some time staring into the middle distance together to process.

There are few things I take as seriously as Christmas tree illumination

I've made a terrible mistake. I fear I'm going to have to become a Magic person, now.

Maybe I'm gonna become a JRPG person for this game?

Went to visit my parents yesterday and located this prized possession, I am curious (yet afraid of) whether or not it still works (I'm sure the Neopets will still be alive but in what state, at what cost)

Confirmed, it does in fact rule when David makes food for his friends! (thank you David)

Today I learned that the key to bypassing the anxiety that usually stops me from reaching out to new people at work is them joining a meeting I'm in with a cat on their lap, at which point I will apparently reflexively message "that is an extremely good cat" with no context and feel fine about it

live feed of me every time i eat ice cream