It's Friday, so that means we've got a new @certifiedforgot.bsky.social podcast episode up! We welcome @byodinsbeardrpg.com for a guest episode to talk about tabletop RPGs, wintery horrors, and why BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE is a The Thing copycat that rises above others.

Penguin Colony is BASED https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/

We’re missing every Melbourne screening for an out of town wedding, so please see it once for me and once for Ali ❤️

I don't hate on bad games if they clearly make an effort. I will forever love The Demon Rush for shooting for the moon and blowing its own legs off. But when I see an RPG Maker game proudly announcing that it's part-written by ChatGPT? Fuck everyone involved in that game. Absolute losers.

Quick everyone, listen to @eggplantshow.bsky.social’s “Into the Depths” series on Caves of Qud before they get any deeper!

I'm trying to determine how our view of social media went from "spaces where we interact with people of our choosing to discuss topics of our choosing" to "it's incumbent upon you to actively, regularly consume content you don't wish to/aren't interested in - or else you're an insufferable scold"

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

This is such a funny redux of the bad baby Jesuses in medieval art

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

humans are a kind of ape that loves fermenting stuff

since we're now in Garden Wall season, I am once again sending out this post into the autumnal air

Mars First Logistics, our open world physics game about building rovers and delivering stuff is coming out of Steam Early Access in 2 days with a big update! Tag your favourite influencial person who you think might enjoy it!

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

I "made" @birdmichael.bsky.social come to the Western Treatment Plant with me on a workday to look for brolgas and orange-bellied parrots so I could write this article

so these chuds are "reviewing" my game now lmao. If anyone has Coven and hasn't reviewed it yet, please do 🙏

Here's me. "Anti-Semitism envoy, condemner of watermelons, declines to comment on Nazi terror attacks on First Nations and Palestinians"

"Keep neo-nazi Thomas Sewell in Australia and deal with him like an actual fucking country with a conscience that can handle exactly one problem without shitting it out into the Pacific and leaving a trail of corpses" www.change.org/p/stop-expor...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's a rad fanmade beta tool that converts your images of battle maps for tabletop roleplaying, scales them to the proper size, then exports them to a PDF for printing and assembly on the tabletop. LITERAL game changer. www.beta.arkanatools.com/papermap/

With the world premiere of the forthcoming Shudder doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR next week at the Melbourne International Film Festival - inspired by my book of the same name - here's my just-published crash course on Australian women in horror, thanks to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Wrote an article for @theshot.net.au about ‘debate content’, how it’s terrible for society and why we need to stop indulging in it. “Ultimately, if debating dickheads worked, we wouldn’t be in a situation where dickheads are making the world a worse place.” theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

horrifying, but it does explain why I occasionally run into people who get very mad at me over things they think i said instead of things i actually said www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

Tells you everything about the ALP: "Curiously enough, the actions of Pauline Hanson and her three senators in turning their backs on a Welcome to Country ceremony on Tuesday went entirely unrebuked by the government." www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/l...

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

This is a beautiful article on Fallen London. The FL team put out some of the best writing in games *every single month*, and it’s wonderful to see that recognised. (Got quite emotional to see shroom-hopping mentioned, too: one of my first pieces of work for games.) www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe

"watermarking someone else's work and branding it as co-authored is a step too far"

"Lego Island" has a web port now! isle.pizza

Man do I have some news about traditional country music.

Behold: Both the most esoteric and verbose description of pickled vegetables that I've encountered so far in my current atomic configuration. #Qud #LiveAndDrink

Read this over the weekend, people are saying it's fun and good

oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

in the 1990s videogame magazines had ads like this but it was literally exactly like this complete with the food and jeans leaving you trying to figure out what game it was advertising, then at the bottom in fine print it'd say aero the acrobat and something jarringly sexist for absolutely no reason

That little window of time during the 6th gen of game consoles where we were getting 50s horror/sci-fi sends ups....we didn't realize how good we had it.

If this is the lesson the greens take from the election then the party is doomed

Some good analysis by @tomtanuki.bsky.social of the neo-nazis heckling Australian ANZAC parades lat week. The RNZ, Stuff, Guardian and 1News reports missed much of the context around it. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Here's me. 'Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway'

Man, the “Judgement of Solomon” really glosses over how one of those people was perfectly happy to be getting a sawn-in-half baby.

Old videogames don't need to be 'remastered'. They just need to be available on modern systems.

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

the four words every girl longs to hear

My favourite thing in this genre is the DVDs from the original Dead Rising, which until about a year ago were somehow completely undocumented online

hey if you followed me because of my css puzzle box, PLEASE take a look at this full clicker game made by rebane2001 entirely in CSS/HTML!! lyra.horse/css-clicker/

So ridiculous! Serendipity has always been the fun and magic of these city-sprawling events.

Bong Joon Ho just used his Q&A before John Carpenter’s The Thing at the @AcademyMuseum to ask him to score his next next film — a horror flick — and Carpenter said yes! Magical evening at the movies!

Here are a few of mine! I feel like a big part of recommending Australian films is recommending films that really nail “Australians” and these all do in their own silly ways whilst still being amazing fun.