Thrilled about this! The team has been working hard on getting our demo ready for our first playtests. Crazy that this project has only been live since November!
Big shout out as always to @nz-code.nz . Yes, they provide the funding, but it's the mentorship that gets us through the tricky bits.
I snapped something in my leg playing indoor netball, luckily I'm told these things grow back. Honestly, I'm kind of shocked i don't get injured more often running my 44yo butt off against the 20yos. Too dumb to quit, clever enough that I'll do the physio and rehab 😆
Wuthering Heights: one of the most fascinating, visually rich cinematic masterpieces I've seen, with an amazing score, set, costume design, top quality acting.
It made me so deeply uncomfortable. The characters are utterly repulsive, and it felt like torture. 10/10 film, will never watch again.
And here is the first ever "snow bunguin", miss 9yo decided one needed to exist. Her first plushie sewing project ❤️
They join this Modest Pile of Bunguin that lives at my house (including the OG first one i made for my wife)
The two newest bunguins are finished!
They're all hand made, and have name beads under the wing for their owner. I can't wait to add the newest name on the little one, due in a few weeks ❤️
#plushie #sewing
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#boop
The buck teeth on the adult bunguin is vital for their diet of fish and carrots
It's totally normal to have a favourite submersible right? Not weird. For me it's HOV (formerly DSV) Alvin. It's a literal ship of theseus, because the whole thing has been rebuilt many times since the 60's
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Tonight's bunguin update: the two little ones have ears, and the big one is next. Beaks, feet, and name beads next. My little protogé is very good at threading the needles, which is handy since I have middle-aged eyes
#plushie #sewing
Number 39 is quite special. I make these and give them to new parents, friends of my kids, all of us in this house have one and so on. But #39 there, the white one - that's one my daughter has made herself, the very first snow bunguin. We watch movies and sew, I'm loving it so much
#qualitytime
Random shout out to one of my favourite podcasts: The Skeptic Zone: skepticzone.libsyn.com
Every week without fail Richard Saunders and his team of contributors put out a podcast about science, skepticism, and reason, with a lovely aussie lens.
(Also give
@australianskeptics.bsky.social a follow!)
One of my friends called these shiny number rocks, and I've decided that's the best possible description for them and I will henceforth call them that. While it's true i only really need one set to play, what if I need to colour match? A DM needs options
#shinynumberrocks #dnd
One of the reasons I love Annihilation (2018) is despite everyone's best efforts, there was no thinking their way out of the incomprehensible nature of the conflict
I just picked up Adaptory by NZ studio Stormcloak Games (it released in early access today). It's not my usual genre, but I'm utterly charmed. No astroturfing, it's just a really satisfying early access title with lovely music and game loops. Indie dev is hard, and it's nice to see this title out
I re-watched Black Mirror's "Eulogy" again. Paul Giamatti delivers an absolutely gut-punching, beautiful, sad, bittersweet performance as a man who is given a chance to peek back in to what was, or might have been. Peak sci fi makes you feel things, and haunts you after.
#blackmirror
It's really amazing what the three-person team has managed to do in what equates to just 6 weeks of work. I'm massively grateful to Theo and Kazuo (our amazing MDS graduates), and of course to @nz-code.nz for the programme that funds us.
Thanks to Morgan Freeman's gravelly voiceover, I found out that grasses only evolved after the dinosaurs were already extinct. The past really is a different world, I really don't know why this sort of stuff fascinates me. Evolution and nature nerds, #LifeOnOurPlanet is worth your time on #netflix
How-to guides and manuals have always been content, click driven. But the AI enshittification of the internet maybe should have a carve out for manuals? It's not great to have an AI generalize or hallucinate a fix for my fridge, i need the actual manufacturers service codes 😬😬😬
I am currently working with the theory that the input scheme in Blender is an elaborate prank and no one wants to admit it. For me, it goes byunintuitive, past counterintuitive in to "actively hostile" territory. If you use this software, I have a level of respect for you that cannot be expressed.
As a man of a more compact stature, I love exit row seating on airplanes. Everone wants to be tall until you can't stretch your legs for three hours 😆
It's impossible to explain to my kid's friends that watching brainrot on these platforms is just diluting the real content and rewarding and retraining slop factories. I can't even blame them; AI content is weapons-grade dopamine. We just don't have natural defenses against this crap
New filter idea: "LLM Epoch". Only shows content published before 1 December 2022: ChatGPT's launch. Why do we need this? Check YouTube on any topic - the first several pages are AI slop.
I'm not one for self promotion, but I'm very excited to be a speaker at the upcoming SXSW Sydney. I'll be presenting a talk called "The Parasite and the Half-Baked Cake" - about how creative constraints helped to guide and shape our quirky game about a giant headlouse. October 13-19 in Sydney 🇦🇺
Samsung, I don't know how to say this delicately. You make great phones. But... I don't want your bloat apps. I don't want Bixby in my life, and I'm deeply suspicious of anyone who does. I'm never going to use Samsung Health.
I love the hardware. But for me it's only physical. I'm sorry.
Your storm supplies are spot on 😄
Ah yes, the nightly mating call of the critically endangered 𝐵𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠. The male of the species uses roaring V8s and squealing tyres in urban areas to attract a mate. Unfortunately, the sound only attracts other 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑖. Auckland used to be home to thousands; now a solitary few remain.
Hot pink is so in. Let's write a petition
I know I am very late to the party here, but as a lifelong trekkie, Strange New Worlds is so seriously good.
It's such a perfectly measured take on serious themes and genuinely interesting sci-fi while also embracing the inherent goofiness of the franchise. Season 2, Episode 9 🤣🎶
Seeking feedback on art can be a pretty rough experience. And if you're going to multiple sources, that can feel like you're eating a steady diet of criticism. Lucky for me, I have experience. I'm not just a game dev - I'm an amateur novelist too! I'm not even sure I know what praise tastes like 🤣🤣🤣