Found my old point'n'shoot camera and was only getting an orange-flash on it. A light whack and reseating of cables and it is all working and charging again. Full of pictures of me pointing to things or wearing goggles. And many pictures of Chuck the Dog I did not have elsewhere. Now archived.

Well, crap. I got two cheeseless pizza bases while shopping and must have left them at the checkout because Woolworths' self serv system is FUCKING SHITE and kept failing to recognise what I had in the bagging area. Kept having to set stuff aside. Enjoy that $6 Woolworths.

Fark me, it's hot. So, of course I'm getting a chicken schnitzel hotpack while out at the shops.

I love technology. I hate technology.

Terra Invicta is now available in its full 1.0 glory! 👉 gog.com/game/terra_invicta Grab it now and keep it yours forever 💿

Not that Microsoft Office was exactly a venerated brand, but it was certainly something with name recognition and was a general standard in workplace software. Tossing that brand aside to steal whatever marginal goodwill that software can loan your failed AI stuff is just sad, man.

I use LibreOffice at home. At work staff are provided with a choice by the department of Office/365 or Google's equivalent suite. If you hide office behind this obsession, they'll just migrate further into Google's sphere. Also, what the hell are they doing?!?

it is 2:15am and I cannot sleep

My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great." I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.

X3:FL: Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace. I now have factories pumping out enough goods to have them sitting at 100,000 credits minimum and sustaining themselves. Decided to do the hyperspace access mission and begin the path to Terran space. Nearly up to where I was in the first run years ago.

sums up the internet quite well neal.fun/stimulation-...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

A youtuber just reminded me of the weirdness of community television, and how that Youtube itself has replaced it. I... Have to disagree. It's not quite the same in having multiple people with a camera to some of the odd studio stuff created. C44 Adelaide here had some odd stuff in the C31 days.

Article 5 against themselves?

damn who could have imagined that a commander-in-chief unilaterally using military force against another sovereign state with no consequences could have gone this way

Youtube really is pushing videos about the UK's 'TV license' and peoples response to it to me lately. Here in Australia my tax dollars go straight to Murdoch's pocket, and maybe some scrap to the ABC. That this is manual over there and enforced with 'scare' letters feels weird.

And there's more... ___ Palpus X Annihilation 🔥 coming Q1 2026 --- Steampage: t.co/kxp2vwvUys #indiedev #indiegame

fuck, that intended double negative ended up being typo'd as a double positive... TLDR version: What the hell are you doing?!?

"But what about..." Piss off. I'm capable of having multiple concerns at and don't need to list everything every time some thing happens.

I agree. At the same time >50% of the pollies here are having a huge orgasm at the thought of sucking up to USA by throwing troops into the grinder. Despite everything pointing to the Aussie public not wanting to be involved, the 'strong man' leader thought persists in the political class.

Twitter. Shut that site down now. And xAI/Grok is not 'apologising', that's either scripted or prompted to the LLM. Fucking hell.

Just Finished Watching: The Babadook That was exhausting more than anything else. www.imdb.com/title/tt2321...

Watching "The Babadook" on iVIew. I didn't know it was an Aussie movie... I'm put off by the many different 'accents' of Adelaide... Yeah... I know you can put in actors from anywhere, but as a South Aussie it really shows that this lot is not from SA and it is distracting me from the film.

Good morning, kids. Be safe out there. 🥰

If you are going to hover over my phone while I'm waiting for lunch to cook, I'll show you 'things' from the internet.

These DOS games turn 30 in 2026: Quake Duke Nukem 3D Red Alert Tomb Raider Chex Quest Broken Sword Daggerfall Death Rally HOMM 2 Phantasmagoria 2 Settlers 2 Harvester Leisure Suit Larry 7 Big Red Racing Lighthouse Normality Powerslave Strife Pandora Directive Time Commando Zork Nemesis Toonstruck Z

Just Finished Watching: Stranger Things - Season 5 Some utterly baffling decisions starting off with that negates the end of S4. Overall enjoyable. Epic boss battle. Some obligatory predictable bits. And then... Yeah, it has a 30 minute ending. www.imdb.com/title/tt4574...

holy fuck what an intro

Gave Cindy her two wheet-bix biscuits for breakfast. She only took 1, so I left the other in her food bucket. A minute later she has joined me on the couch and we hear the distinct sound of rocking metal. We both look at each other in acknowledgement, before rushing far too late to catch 'it'.

Ahhh, 2026 is starting off with yelling and sky explosions. Cindy the Greyhound just sighed, but is otherwise unbothered.

A few take-away places were meant to be open, but were all closed. I got KFC for a quick meal, but am still hungry. Contemplating cooking and eating that entire pudding...

Rewatching: Rumble in the Bronx He gave that kid a Sega Game Gear to take on the bus, but it had no game in it! Could have at least slotted in Columns :D

This creature keeps knocking down the couch pillows on her side so she can steal the pillow on my side.

Just Finished Watching: Happy Gilmore 2 Sandler playing a tired and worn out version of his 90s character fits how he's been coming off the last decade IRL. Man's been looking like he needs to sleep for a decade. It's an ok film that exists and I will forget about. www.imdb.com/title/tt3186...

My Winter Car is Out Today & I'm Not Playing It and Neither Should You

Fine. I've started watching The Witcher season 4 via the household bypass trick (fuck you Netflix, it is ~10 metres away) And with the first words of the narrator/storyteller and the way lighting works everything immediately feels off. This is before you even see Hemsworth's face/voice.

I am begging games writers in 2026 to stop talking about point and click like it's a dead/dormant genre currently being resurrected by whatever thing you've just noticed

Less than 24 hours left for this shitty year.

We are overhauling Grim Dawn's UI in v1.3.0. Learn about all the changes in our latest dev update! forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misad...

I have no chocolate, not do I have some hot chips and a chicken burger. How dare you.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Mamdani is kicking the ninja turtles out of their home for this celebration smh

The engine we use & the games we made/currently working on! #indiegame #indiedev

I know effectively nothing about the people involved but "‘It’s going into very good hands’" is code for "download and back up everything now".

Sauropods xkcd.com/3185/

Just woke up from a dream where I was at work, not my actual workplace but something like it, and they were throwing out old books and equipment again. Including a bunch of specialised Epson rebranded IBM model M keyboards that hooked into medical equipment, and were worth about $3500 each.

I hope I've calculated the energy bill right. With the solar battery gateway now replaced monthly cost has gone from $60-$120 down to... $8 AUD. For other reasons previous months would have been higher anyway than average, so one big cost then the rest of summer should be lower... hopefully.

Forgive my interruption, my vision is augmented.

A new 3h32m12s youtube vid on Deus Ex is out, and by a youtuber I follow. So of course I watched it. The recommended vids when it finished were also multi-hour Deus Ex vids. I may have already seen those, but the algorithm knew what to do this time.