I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.

huge progress made today

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

A 1986 Japanese guide on how to program using the Family BASIC software for the Famicom features many cute illustrations of Mario and Pauline (known as "Lady" in Japan at the time).

Hey, we played DEATHMATCH ISLAND and then wrote about it! You can and should read our fine, fair words. #ttrpg

If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol

Being a leftie elder millennial is being proven (often tragically) correct on almost every single point over a 25 yr period and STILL having to enter any political conversation like you’re the one bringing the radical, fanatical ideas.

My new 'studio' is called Emanation Games. Why? An emanation, in esoteric theology, is an overflowing of pure divine power; an outpouring of creation. But also, because it also sounds like it could be about cum. That's the duality I want to represent. Intellectual and puerile. Temporary logo:

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Sharp-eyed readers may note the overlaps between “gender ideology is a leftist plot to deprave the youth and molest our womenfolk”; “human rights are a Soviet/Islamist plot to sap our martial will to dominate and destroy our enemies”, and “the volk are threatened by the taint of the lesser races”.

Went straight from Seance of Blake Manor to Donkey Kong Bananza. I contain multitudes.

Really loved The Seance of Blake Manor from Scary Door. Somehow manages to hold itself together despite multiple big, interlocking mechanical swings. Published by @rawfury.bsky.social who seem to have had an incredible year with the mystery/puzzle genre.

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Me at the start of 2025 vs me at the end of 2025

🌲 Merry Xmas, Bluesky 🌲 Enjoy this round friend who sat very still in Greenwich park for the shot.

🎄 Merry Christmas!! 🎄 Hope Santa visits and you get to spend the day with your loved ones! #zelda #art

Best strat is to beat the 3 Ghost bosses first and Tiny Tim doesn’t even spawn (you can still get the Crutch from beside his grave in the Forsaken Cemetry)

you think you've defeated tiny tim and another health bar appears

Even if you put aside the exploitation of AI - I would still dislike it. The joy of art is in trying to imagine the intent of the creator; why this? Why this particular way? What did they expect me to feel? How DO I feel? It’s a conversation that spans language, distance, time. It’s fucking magic.

I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear

exit stage left

Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

The Videogames that I have made are in the Steam Winter Sale! They're well cheap m8 store.steampowered.com/developer/BT... #Steam #Sale

“National service but for Retail Work” isn’t a new concept, but the ideait would materially make the world a better place is my most radically unhinged belief.

Lost count of the times I had to explain to customers at HMV that artists were ordered by their surname - and had to bite my tongue at every inevitable variant reply of “when is it ever done that way??”

Occult Clean-Up is our Golden-idol mystery x cleaning-sim! Investigate sites of recent paranormal encounters, photograph evidence, build a case board, clear all traces so the public never find out. First ever mention so if this is your sort of thing let us know! #teaseyagame

Having binged Traitors, Devils Plan and Oz Survivor this year this is a truly fantastic breakdown of how cultural expectations inform competitive reality shows.

the push towards AI in creative industries will briefly disrupt creative jobs, until people quickly realise how much human creative labour is necessary to make an “ideas guy”’s idea remotely interesting to human audiences. between “ideas guys” and creatives only one is actually replaceable by LLM

If my organization had no space for the fundamental decency of Robin Ince then I would probably start asking deeply searching questions about the goals of that organization.

Heavy Rain (2010)

This show left indelible, often traumatic marks on my 5 yr old brain. The best to ever do it (a French-Anime Homeric Space Opera)

Dreamcast Virtual Memory compatibility confirmed for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Spent large portion of my life at small gigs and never miss the opportunity to tell good support bands how fucking great they were. You can just say it and move on, everyone’s happy.

About to finally jump the Spotify ship. Anyone on Deezer (or other platform) who can share pros/cons?

Single-handedly ending the Pluribus by kicking off a UX meeting.

I’ve been mainlining The Devils Plan for the past two weeks. Generally amazing and essential viewing if into game design but my GOODNESS season 2 fumbles the dismount hard.

(A portal opens up beside a handsome stallion in a Victorian paddock) “Beauty… I’m putting a team together.”

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.

Blades '68! It's all go! Here are some chapter openers I've been working on.