Dark Room at PAX Aus was especially unhinged this year lmao

Getting to an age where I actively need to train for PAX Aus. It's like how F1 drivers work out to withstand the G Forces but it's just me wandering around saying "wow, that's so cool! Must've taken ages to make, ha ha" to 70 different indie developers

DIG through the ditches And BURN through the witches And WORK as a waitress In a COCKTAIL BAR

When I lead the job application with a professional photo that shows my best features

hard to blame first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huang, for thinking mercury was the best thing you could possibly drink. looks like a powerup. if it doesn't kill you right away i think it's fair for a guy in 221 BC to assume it will turn him into some sort of invulnerable metal man

I feel a representative need to apologise every time I see Andrew Wilson's mug. There's a type of dude this country produces that we usually successfully quarantine into Tarocash outlets or careers selling dilapidated outer-ring properties but a big one got away from us & we're sorry for that

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

Werner Herzog Unboxing Video

I'm aware that I have no sense of what is and isn't in the pop culture zeitgeist but it has absolutely scrambled my brain hearing a Peep Tempel song on a car commercial during the AFL Grand Final

"Say ohayō to your okāsan for me!"

Japanese Rove McManus would be like "Nani The!?" look I'm sorry for this one

I've been getting maybe an hour or two less sleep than I'd ideally like recently, and it's been okay, but after a week of it you do get the suspicion that you're taking poison damage

Absolutely cackling at this interaction, good work @dougexeter.bsky.social

I also had a pair of those headphones that hooked around the ear as a kid and the rigid plastic blistered the top of my earlobes. They were made by Sony, a niche little company that must not have made headphones before

Just realised that if you weren't there for it, you cannot begin to describe how much physical pain was involved in any tech-related eyewear pre-2013

I think I'd like to be one of the old guys on SBS Insight that just sit up the back and they don't get around to asking them any questions. Nodding along to the harrowing tales, zoning out when the expert brings up the statistics. Looks comfortable. Could probably slip in a nap

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

an entire generation and everyone coming up after them have essentially been making pirate tv stations for each other on repurposed video game streaming websites for like about a decade now. if we had the money that demonic old baby boomers have poured into nasty jesus creeps you would be astonished

A dystopian world finding strength in the perpetual misery of one old dude who sucks... This guy is somehow suffering from a reverse version of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Sorry I haven't been on here much, every time I think of a silly joke to post I log on to this app and see a news article about how telling the truth is illegal now

An uncharitable read of what OpenAI is up to with Critterz' budget would be to say that they're "scam artists". This is, of course, untrue: they're not artists in any capacity

*Head buried deep in the sand to drown out years of valid criticisms about generative AI in the Arts* "We can't bury our heads in the sand on AI in the Arts"

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

9am, preparing for child's birthday party: I'll make some salad sandwiches so the kids have something substantial between the snacks 4pm, dipping Tim Tams in leftover frosting: I'm thinking pizza for dinner

Is there a reason why every console now is designed to be a personality-free black rectangle beyond "stylistically, it doesn't clash with all the other black rectangles I own" or what's the go

*Absolutely no brain between my ears at all, a cavernous expanse for intellect filled only with an ankle-high sludge of sinew that lights with a sickly glow of green when I purchase plastic that reminds me of a time before I understood what adversity was* Oh cool!!

Never say never

Dipping a cake of ramen noodles in my cup of tea and nibbling at the soggy edge like a biscuit

Genuinely trying to figure out what the Letterboxd update was supposed to fix

I felt an otherworldly compulsion to make this

Hi, I'm an artisanal baker. I make a mouth-watering selection of classic pies, like lamb and pepper steak - recipes we all know and love. However, as a true craftsman, I know what people really want in their fillings - a carrot or sweet potato that takes up 45% of the pie's total mass

Hey we don't have to do this

When the librarian reads a book we have at home for Storytime and I notice she's skipping pages

We had blackout blinds at our old house and I'd often get dressed in the dark to avoid waking everyone up but I'd get to the train station and realise that I'd gone to work in a look I could only describe as "Casual Friday Saul Goodman"

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

"Can AIs suffer?" Let's find out

The Sandman looking at the sheer amount of sleep debt I owe and pulling a crowbar out of the boot of his car

Can't think of an organisation in the AU entertainment industry that's done more to exhibit new comedians than Aunty Donna has with 2 YouTube channels, but also: they actively participate in the scene. If you care about your community, make time for them, otherwise you're just a cultural gentrifier

You wouldn’t know moral complexity if it bit you in the dick but also quietly donated money to pediatric cancer research

A movie doing that trope where the protagonist remembers their deceased wife smiling under a flowing white bedsheet, but instead, it's a thermal sleeping bag and the heavy inflexible cover of a camping swag. Just this rustling nightmare sound bleeding from the speakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080° Snowboarding

Em dashes, en dashes and hyphens can all just be the one thing. Honestly. It's fine. It's all a trick by Big Line to get you making more lines

Nothing quite like your mother finding an old box of Tazos and Dragon Ball Z Dizks in her storage to force you to contend with exactly how many bags of chips you have eaten in your lifetime

I bumped into this couple in Brunswick yesterday

Here's a free idea: Pocari Sweat Sorbet

Review With Myles Barlow (2008) RIP David Stratton

David Stratton taught me that art is the conversation afterwards. You're supposed to engage in art with conviction and passion. You have to love things and hate things and, importantly, share it, because otherwise, what's it all for? Damn.

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor actually does his due diligence and says, "Could this be work-related?" Man says, "ahh,"

My plan for fixing the economy is to make everything 40 bucks. You want new shoelaces, or a banana? 40 bucks. Bummer - however, if you a want a new car? Also 40 bucks. I reckon that'll level everything out for a bit