Before releasing Judero, I had the vague-ish plan of our company releasing 5 games by the end of 2026. There were many naysayers, cynics. But look at you now! You were right. We'll still sit at 2 games at the end of 2026. But who likes a naysayer? You shouldn't have said that to me. It was rude.

Do not let the government persuade you otherwise. These people are empty ghouls. They offer nothing. They only feed.

Do not allow them to continue on this path, please.

I put it to you that the answer is: nothing.

Savings or no, there is nothing worthwhile to be gained by such cruelty. No saving, no efficiency, no future. Nothing.

There’s a lot of talk about how much financial sense it makes to support disabled people (lots, if you haven’t heard).

But, think for a second.

Could any saving be worth turning your back on 160,000 suffering people? What would make that decision worth it?

That’s 160,000 people who almost certainly have a harder life than me. And, I’ve lived nearly four decades without sleep in a perpetual allergic attack.

They want to stop supporting 160,000 people like that to save money.

Do you think it’s worth it?

Consider: How much harder do you think someone’s life would have to be before they could get on the NDIS?

This week, the government proposed cutting 160,000 people from the NDIS to save money.

We haven’t even touched things like being transgender, suicidal, or serially abused. Or, any unique health factors like perpetual muscle pain.

This is a fraction of what I live with daily. And, I am not on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). I’ve never been on the NDIS.

Scientists have found losing just 16 minutes of sleep in one night can severely impact performance.

Think what happens if you lost sleep every night for thirty years.

Then, consider that applied to someone who is severely allergic to dust; something that is basically everywhere at all times.

Last night, I spent an entire night in bed for the first time since before I went to primary school.

To put it in the words of a nurse-practitioner who diagnosed my allergy, I’ve probably never had a good night’s sleep in my entire life.

On Disability

Earlier today, I was in tears on the floor of my workplace.

I was in tears because of two things.

Firstly, because every muscle in my body was full of pain.

Secondly, because I was once again facing down the impulse to end my own life.

I want to be very clear about something: for OpenAI to be able to pay the deals it has signed it will have to be ten to fifteen times its current revenue and have raised at least another $150 billion. If it fails, Oracle will run out of money, and not pay its debts.

I sometimes just say certain lines from the Discworld animation in Christopher Lee's Death voice, because it's so amazing. I especially think his read on "oh bugger" when his motorcycle disintegrates is one of the best sounds ever.

“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government

I think exciting pop music comes from innovation/culture from the margins that is accessible to the mainstream. As the margins get pushed further and further down/away, there's nothing for US/UK pop to draw upon. And, so, it grows hollow. All the polish, none of the spark.

I think this is true. But, I think a lot of the time the compromises are illusory to begin with. A bit like 'the tolerant left' thing that got thrown around to manufacture consent for fascism; it's not a compromise to say 'no fascists ever', but we get bullied into thinking it is, y'know?

And I think there's really no better example of this than the current US administration. It's undeniable they have unleashed nearly every form of bastardry in their arsenal. Is that helping them win a war against Iran? I'd argue it's leading to widespread dysfunction and inevitable defeat.

I don't think I'd contend that there *was* a winning side in a war who acted that way. But, I don't think any war was won predominantly because they unleashed bastards and fought dirty and I think there's a lot of evidence that doing so is what actually leads to a side's losses.

I really wish, when journos reported on Anthropic stuff, they'd have the basic awareness to say 'Anthropic, WHO MADE AND IS SELLING THE TECHNOLOGY, says it's the most powerful thing ever seen'. Like, no company should be afforded such good faith, but especially not THESE guys.

I'd disagree that this delivers victory tbh. In war or anything else. And, I feel the belief that it does isn't premised on history but a heck of a lot of propaganda work over the last century.

I think US/EU pop is really starting to feel the effects of the wealth inequity stuff around the arts - increasingly only made/promoted by rich white people. Kpop + Jpop do a lot of weirder stuff, musically speaking, even if it's not necessarily my speed (and probably heading same way as US).

AI bros weaponise rhetoric of tolerance and inclusion and open-mindedness in pretty much the *exact* way fascists do. "Well, you can't exclude someone for their views [even if those views are about killing lots of people]." vs "Well, we can't just exclude technologies [that do not work]". Telling.

“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about who we pretend to be” - Kurt Vonnegut

How we treat those things around us doesn’t just impact those things - it impacts and changes us. Regard the world with kindness or live in an unkind world.

Reminder if you are not gendervague do not say femboy hooters

One of my many hobbies: Talking about ‘the part where the dog dies’ in the comments of any sponsored FB post about a tv show or movie. Advertisements can be fun 🙂

This might seem too radical for some, but it's what we need. People who qualify for the DSP have health conditions that cost money. People who can't afford to stay healthy on unemployment payments can be exploited by employers.

A lot of this stuff is about breaking free of a bunch of illusory commercial values (eg art has to be ‘good’ to be worthwhile; to be ‘good’ art has to meet certain requirements) that just stop you from enjoying making. A work doesn’t have to be ANYTHING. So, don’t force it to be. Honour it, move on.

People keep responding to this with the idea of ‘yeah, work hard to finish stuff’ and I don’t actually agree with either of those. You don’t need to do *more* work to finish something - just declare it finished, put it somewhere, move on. There’s no real rules about how ‘complete’ a work has to be.

You don’t actually have to do anything to finish something. You can just say ‘this is what it is’ and declare it finished :)

Interestingly, I first learnt this through working as a music journalist to weekly deadlines for six years :)

You can also just decide that where they are at *is* finished and draw a line under them, as an option. The finishing is a semantic distinction, as opposed to a specific objective state :)