NEW: During an interview at the Xbox booth on the Gamescom show floor, I attempted to ask a veteran Obsidian developer for their thoughts on making video games at Microsoft amid layoffs and widespread criticism over the company's links to Israel. I was immediately shut down.

It is an ongoing travesty that Angie Tribeca is not available to purchase or stream in Australia

Going to be going to PAX AUS again to represent for the mighty @vooks.net maybe this year I won’t be all awkward and too shy to interact with people!

hi guys! we're trying to raise funds to help my husband @dorumon.bsky.social stay in australia and safe from the states. we would appreciate your help in sharing this around! gofund.me/1821836e

Thank you to everyone who came to the very offical Nintendo Switch 2 Launch last night!! It was a lot of silly fun and we appreciate you and your support for our studio! 🍄⭐️🪠

Nintendo is in a Sticky Situation with Switch 2 – How Do They Get Out? www.vooks.net/ninten...

The worst thing Hungry Jacks did was to stop the peri peri grilled chicken baguettes. It was a pain having to bake the baguettes, but was worth it. Second thing is making Yumbos a sometimes limited thing

Once again recreating the Indie 2000 Vol 5 playlist on another streaming service

Hopefully if the Switch 2 Joy Con works as a mouse it means more Picross 3D!

Back in Melbourne now, the few Moes Hotdogs over here don’t seem to have any hot dogs. So no one in Adelaide wants me to buy them and no one in Melbourne has them to buy

Been back in Adelaide where I’ve been under the belief that you should ‘go a moes’, but every time I’ve gone to order a hot dog the person there looks at me with an angry look that says I should not go a moes

I know people get worked up about hot cross buns being out soon as Xmas is done. I’m just annoyed they aren’t just available all year round, and with more novelty flavours

People gotta stop crashing into my car every December, it’s a bad xmas tradition, it’s up there with elf on a shelf

I missed the Game Awards and from what little I’ve read today it doesn’t seem like I missed much. Wouldn’t mind more Dave the Diver though

What does Batman do during daylight savings? Does crime get an extra few hours before he’s on the job?

Just ate too spicy a noodles, an undignified way to go

Apparently my new end of year tradition is someone crashing into my car. At least this time it was a work vehicle! Third year in a row

Every time I get KFC near home there is a surprisingly high chance I might not have chicken in my burger. Time to roll the dice again!

There’s a bit of bass in The Decemberists Hazards of Love that reminds me of the Ecco the Dolphin OSTand while I didn’t enjoy playing it the music has always stuck with me

I know the reason is money, but for years it’s really sucked that Lego cranks out so many (or any) Harry Potter sets annually and as a result always makes any inclusive messaging from the company ring false

If it wasn’t for people getting upset about nominations I would likely forget the game awards are a thing

If you haven't had the opportunity to play a game from the Mario & Luigi series, this is as good a jumping-in point as any, and this is a must-own for long-term fans of any of the Mario RPG entries. www.vooks.net/mario-...

While I do game reviews in my increasingly limited off work hours, this week has been rough. Between the many ways the Aus government leaves behind the most vulnerable and continues to actively make it worse, then everything going on with America

It’s unclear if I’ll ever work out how to manage a social media profile, I’m going to continue to give it a go until my posts eventually become more than me just talking about trying to be better at social media

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

The next evolution of the Fortune Twisties

Once again I am going to try and use this!

It’s that magical time of year, the time where people get outraged about succulent hot cross buns being on sale

What the fuck happened in this show?!

Binge has Two and a Half Men on two seperate live channels at the same time and Chris Lilley plastered all over the front page. Feeling less bad about HBO taking their shit back

I should really start posting more on here, it’s still working out if I have something interesting to say or work out how to communicate with people better!

What the hell?!

I am all up for Melby, especially in phrases such as “having a menty B in the Melby CBD”

One day they’re going to scrape the bottom of the barrel so deep they make a Daryl Somers Telemovie and it will herald the end of aussie free to air

This will likely grab the interest of 1-2 people, but I know they’ll appreciate seeing this. Not to watch it, just to know it’s there.

The Donut King Cinnamon Donut flavoured Twisties have finally shown up. The Twisties have a buttery taste to them with a light dusting of Donut King’s cinnamon. They taste ok, the flavour isn’t strong. It’s more palatable than the raspberry flavour recently. They’re worth getting at least one bag

https://www.vooks.net/pikmin-4-review/ Pikmin 4 is great and you should give it a go

Lego make it hard to keep getting sets, between the ridiculous price hikes putting the most interesting sets out of reach and continuing to churn out HP sets feel at odds with their work at inclusion

How long until that Las Vegas Sphere winds up displaying a goatse that is just the hands stretching an ever widening, all encompassing hole bigger and bigger until the sphere is consumed, it’s not just me wondered about this is it?

Hell is having to wait for Apple to process a purchase of Reckless Kelly because it mucked up and made it a rental instead of a purchase. Is it too much to want to own an Australian classic?

It’s weird scrolling on here and every third post not being a video of some squirrels being flung off a bird feeder

I wanted to do some wordplay with Blue Sky Mine but BlueSky Mine is hardly trying and Blue Skeet Mine isn’t it either