Here's me just casually writing 1,700 words on why I'll never need to play a MLB The Show game ever again (because Japanese Baseball > American and also eBaseball >>>>> MLB the Show): www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/07/revi...

The simple solution here is to have one plane flight out of 100 or so designated as an adults-only flight, complete with a premium price tag if necessary for the airline to facilitate it. But the moment anyone suggests adults-only spaces, a whole bunch of parents lose their shit about that.

This is an absolutely breathtaking Dancesport Tango. This couple came sixth (the lowest result in the final) at the recent Championships in China. The quality of Dancesport is through the roof these days, as sport and performance. How is this not an Olympic sport yet.

Except that Pauline Hanson explicitly said she supports White Australia. It is a really distressing reflection on the standard of political discussion in this country that this will work and the media will not challenge One Nation over this again.

Nothing more perfectly demonstrates how intellectually degenerate these people are than the fact they went in to bat for a Uwe Bill film while in the same breath attacking a Nolan film. Art is subjective but there is a point where a lack of intelligence and critical awareness becomes obvious.

Vietnam is rapidly becoming a powerhouse nation for Dancesport. Great to see the sport's ongoing growth and broadening demographics.

I've done a similar Dancesport training exercise in the past. You only need to screw up the lead once and your partner will never let you forget what bad leading looks like again lol.

Anthropic still haven't paid me my pittance for the book that they stole, that the courts found them guilty of stealing and obliged Anthropic to pay authors like me for. Absolutely heinous company. Hope their datacentre blows up and takes out anyone that would actually work for them with it.

However difficult you might think this Dancesport Tango is... the reality is that it is so (so) much more difficult to do what these two have done (World Silver Medalists)

I am very sad about this. One of the greats of cinema. RIP Sam Neill

In contrast to Lindsay Graham dying this is actually sad. I really enjoyed her role in the Netflix Marvel universe.

I love it when good news comes in on a Sunday.

Oh FUCK OFF BlueSky. "Sexually suggestive." I am so sick of the puritanical bullshit lack of respect for my sport.

What an absolutely spectacular Dancesport rumba. While the World Cup has been going on over in America, Vietnam hosted a truly incredible dancesport competition, showing real growth for the international sport there. Great to see.

There’s Australian Ice Hockey League on Disney Plus now. That’s kinda cool. Bears vs Northstars.

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This is a good point. If any other country did even half of the crap that America has done over the past two decades (no, not just Trump. All of them), the boycotts would be total.

Nothing would make me happier than to see Facebook, which has been so incredibly toxic to society, be bankrupted. Sadly, though, Silicon Valley is a hydra and a dozen equally toxic social media companies would emerge from the ashes.

It's incredible that its taken such a short time for the response to Asha to go from "YASSSSSSSSS QWEEN GONNA SAVE XBOX" to people realising that women Silicon Valley execs are (not "can be," but are, because it's all of them) just as sociopathic. Incredible because people fell for it at all.

Oh this is very sad. One of music's all-time great voices.

This is cruelty, especially since those who are made redundant after today will be entering a jobs pool made all the shallower given that the first half will have already had a shot at the jobs. All because Microsoft grew too quickly and irresponsibly.

Belgium have done the world a favour today.

I think of all the forms of art out there, gaming is uniquely burdened with an audience and community that has an actively hostile relationship with the artists that make the things they play. In literature, live performance, and (not Marvel) cinema, audiences are advocates for artists.

It's looking real good for Belgium right now. I've never wanted a team to win a match more.

Yet again I find myself wondering just what people saw in the Terminator films? Because there is no way they got the point of those films. If they did they might not be allowing actual Skynet to happen.

I think people today forget that the N64 was a multiplayer machine and when you look at the library today it it’s often from a single player perspective. My bros and friend and I spent hundreds of hours in the four player sports games for example.

Just spitballing here but perhaps there's something fundamentally unethical about capitalism.

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Only Americans, from the wealthiest and most violently powerful nation on the planet, which throws obscene money into sport, could construct a myth that their players are “scrappy” and then buy into that delusion so completely. Americans play ugly football. They do represent their culture.

I wonder what the Gaza equivalent to the Auschwitz train tracks will be? The place where influencers will take selfies while visiting the Gaza “Humanitarian Shelter” memorials in 50 years or so to show that they cared oh-so-much about remembering the victims of the genocide.

It is truly incredible that Sony would announce these things back-to-back. The brazen arrogance to tell the market what amounts to “we’re making things worse but what are you going to do? Stop playing games? We think not!” Is the perfect example of American capitalism in action.

Jesus fucking Christ the partner visa is now $11,000. If you marry a non-Australian you need to pay a $11,000 tax for the privilege of begging the government to let you live with them.

This fucking government. Wife just got an email that the return visa for permanent residents has gone up from $500 to $1500 every five years. SHE'S A FUCKING PERMANENT RESIDENT WHY ARE YOU FUCKING CHARGING HER ANYTHING. Fucking xenophobic shithole country.

This is a random bother, but I have some clients that insist on addressing me as "Matthew" in emails etc. "Hi Matthew," I always sign my emails as "Matt". My email address is "Matt". I introduce myself as "Matt" on calls. What's with this full-naming me? Genuinely makes me uncomfortable lol.

Something else that needs to be said about One Nation. Now that it is a mainstream party, there are people who are now planning to vote for it out of the same vague indifference that causes many to vote for Labor or the L/NP. Some aren't actually aware that ON, for example, supports remigration.

This is incredible. Starbucks in Korea is having a near business-ending PR nightmare after its marketing team used AI suggestions to tie a promotion into a notorious massacre and an infamous example of police torture/brutality... and no one thought to check: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"Putting academic and technical courses on equal footing." I know this is the kind of political rhetoric that looks bad to push back on, but that is where the right and their "education is only worthwhile if it makes you a good worker" tend to play as part of their anti-intellectualism pitch.

One of the nice things about BlueSky is that I've been able to essentially miss a massive social media blow-up on other sites because Uwe Boll released something vile and feral, and then because it was effectively "banned" in Germany, the right wing decided to go in to bat for a Uwe Boll film.

I hope they don't think that the AI will write the articles for them because AI can't write news articles.

The number of Otome “dating sims” I have played since Destiny 2 released: 57 The number of times I have played Destiny 2: 0 And I’m a hetero white dude. I’m not even the target for dating sims. I have been to TGS where western games have 0 lineup but otome games have a 3 hour wait, though.

Dead or Alive is back! 7 years after the last release, we finally have a "new" DoA game (it's actually just an enhanced port of the previous one to new consoles, but I'll take it!). So glad to see Koei back with my fav fighter: www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/06/revi...

This is great to see. Spain isn't really much of a Dancesport nation (though, ironically, one of the world's finest dressmakers works in Barcelona). It's great to see the sport growing, bit by bit, into new nations.

AI bros don't care about "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts anyway, since they have no respect for the art or artists they are parasitically capitalising on. It's just that they know that if there is any pushback against that argument, the person pushing back looks elitist.

Of course Albanese would throw every artist under the bus to appease the Silicon Valley libertarian overlords. Of course he would. Yet more proof that Australia has no respsect for the arts.

There are so many war crimes and crimes against humanity in that photo and yet it will never occur to the American liberal that this photo is every bit as offensive as most* photos featuring Trump. * Perhaps not including the Epstein ones though one of those four was a great pal to E-guy too.

Sadly liberals aren’t actually anywhere near this much fun.

To be fair Sony has been making nothing but the same generic blockbuster game for like a decade now, so it’s been like they’ve been using AI anyway.

I have a fan. (This is old as I only just noticed the DM but it’s because I criticised that Wolverine game for being generic nonsense). Mainstream gaming doesn’t have a problem for the way it panders to these kinds of people. Oh no. Nothing wrong with this picture.

Of all the million things that you can criticise the Trump family for, the SWERF here reaches for the regressive bullshit that proves once again that Liberals are no better than the fascists they oppose.

Wow the thing we said would happen because capitalism is happening because capitalism. Every time Microsoft announced a studio purchase I said that the people running the studio should have respected their company and people more than that. This is why.