I started listening to music more actively this year but it was still tremendously difficult not to just make half of this list tracks from Ninajirachi's new album.

Honestly, maybe Amazon should keep bankrolling further seasons of The Witcher because my main takeaway from the new season is mostly "Maybe I was too critical of The Rings of Power?"

Fallen down the rabbit-hole of Critical Role Abridged and, while I can't speak to how coherent it would be to someone who hasn't already gone through the source material, I'm surprised to find it really good as a way to revisit Campaign 3 at a much faster clip.

no website is more representative of how much Likes, a meaningless metric, can completely plummet its userbase's ability to approach it sincerely than Letterboxd. a true treasure trove of deeply miserable attempts to "be one of the popular reviews"

Oh no this looks extremely good store.steampowered.com/app/4176460/...

Hearing Mike Rugnetta talk about how "Spotify sucks and Wrapped is stupid" on @neverpo.st freed my mind last year, maybe it could do the same for you? www.neverpo.st/mailbag-4/

They fucking gotta give the actor who plays Mike in The Chair Company an Emmy dude

The latest issue of Multiplier is a real treat, as I chat with @hellomisspotter.com ahead of this month's @frostygamesfest.com stream www.multiplier.au/is-the-world...

🫠 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link. Successful applications will be paid an honorarium. If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there. Link: powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

I remain in denial that this is a real product news.samsung.com/us/samsung-i...

i see game of the year (or ANY ART of the year) as a deeply personal endeavor, and the more it becomes commercialized or legitimized the further it moves from being a tool for introspection

It's fucked up that someone made a mash up of Citizen Sleeper and Blades in the Dark and I cannot find a single masthead that reviewed the game.

Let's gooooooooooo

demi adejuyigbe's comedy special "demi adejuyigbe: is going to do one (1) backflip" on dropout presents

Promise Mascot Agency real

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Thrilled to report that I have *finally* managed to find the momentum to finally get through Act 1 of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines.

9 Kings is good, but The King is Watching is better.

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

Shoutout to @jeremy.minimap.com.au for taking the time to chat about the onslaught of games events that October now involves for Australia's gaming community for the latest issue of Multiplier www.multiplier.au/is-it-time-t...

Been really enjoying Ambrosia Sky this week. It's still in EA but the combo of sci-fi derelict spacecraft exploration and powerwash sim-style cleaning is really easy to like store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

At an event last night and a PR described Inception as a "classic" film 🫠

I deeply respect the commitment to the bit but also this was physically painful to read.

I generally enjoyed my time with Dispatch but I think it's interesting that it is so much more of a story about workplaces than it is superheroes but...

Both the fluency of large language models and the prominent placement of their outputs create an environment where false or misleading information can appear reliable, writes Hannah Bailey. She proposes solutions to escape the ‘trust trap.’

i think james joyce could have tanked the dark place, it would not have any idea what hit it. a page of finnegan's wake would solve all of alan wake's problems in five minutes.

I really thought Ball X Pit was going to be this year's Balatro for me but it turns out that game is actually Q-Up

I have a million things I could add to this and only so many characters. I have heard some version of this from almost everyone in games PR in Aus, but the names they use are News or Nine. They want normies, new audiences, not the core. Whatever they’re selling, they already expect you to buy it.

I think the main audience for the Steam Cube is gonna be people who have a large steam library but haven't upgraded their PC since like 2017. The actual PC market is a nightmare right now and something that is affordable and can handle upper middle tier games acceptably is an easy sell

My experience with the Steam Deck has been so overwhelmingly positive that the price would truly have to be cooked for me to not consider that revamped take on the Steam Machine.

My last word on the matter

ABC, giving up on their gaming youtube account with 416K subs (having already given up on their gaming tiktok account with 66K subs): how do we reach younger viewers?

So excited to pick this back up again youtu.be/X6xQKNM1xA8?...

Hellclock has managed to get its hooks in me this week. Wouldn't mind an alternate class or two to shake things up but what a refreshing riff on the Diablo-style hack and slash.

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything. we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.

Oh we're doing quibi again?

Oh this might be the thing that finally gets me into Shelved By Genre

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

i said what i said

Some cool news from me. Multiplier is moving over from Substack to Ghost as of this week. You can find the latest issue (feat. @lawksland.bsky.social) and the newsletter's new home over at www.multiplier.au/are-the-down...

Finally! I've been waiting for this to replay the first PoE for ages www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pi...

Very late but Mouthwashing is a very good video game

I don't care that much but the Halo remake looks garish and creatively bankrupt.