Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Is it just me or did they change the recipe for the Babybell rind? Disgusting now. So thin, barely any bite to it, just gets stuck in your teeth. 030
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am trying to write for the first time since my brain broke and I quit my professional writing job, and mostly I'm telling myself advice I gave others: get something on the page then make it good later; write like you're talking to someone; use human words; jokes are nice; video games is two words. 180
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I know I should rebuild my work site to help my jobhunt, but it's daunting to alter a perfect website. shoving.biz 130
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This past week I 'competed' in a thousand-mile self-supported bike race around Scotland (finishing 32nd of 47 starters), and the post-race photos and interview quotes sure do capture the state of me by the end. www.instagram.com/p/DZ2l4bujUoO/instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 190
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Probably my worst trait as a cyclist is that I internally refer to muscling up a hill in the big chainring as "big ring gaming." Probably my worst trait as a person is I laugh every time I muscle up a hill and tell myself, "We're big ring gaming, boys." 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026It was counterproductive for councils in the noughties to discourage loitering by stripping public spaces of benches and other sittable surfaces. Research now shows teenagers subconsciously interpreted the waist-high cover as a combat zone, instilling anxiety leading them to roadie-run to Maccies. 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Been a long time since I found a CD in the gutter so I was excited to indulge a passion for finding weird CD-Rs ( www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-kinda-miss... ). Alas, no mystery, no romance: it's a regular CD, and one which takes little imagination to guess why someone would hoy it out their window. 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I probably won't play until it leaves early access but a new Cosmo D game is buy-on-sight for me. One of my favourite developers for years now, colourful and loud and quiet and curious and delightful games which commit to their style with striking confidence. store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...store.steampowered.comSave 15% on Moves Of The Diamond Hand on SteamImmerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city. Become a Master of Disguise, a Master Sandwich Maker or ... somethin... 041
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Today at my volunteering I pulled this horrible object out the riverbed ok talk to you later bye 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026On Friday I cycled 408km/253 miles from Edinburgh to York, through the night, as part of a wee team in the Easter Arrow event. Lots went awry (up to our leader sadly needing to drop out) but going gently loopy with great folks while riding dark country roads under a big moon into dawn was perfect. 0110
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Considering becoming a dot-com millionaire by founding some sort of website named Pick 'n' Clix. 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I have been cursed of late by an earworm smooshing the Sisters of Mercy's Temple of Love into the Bonanza theme song. We chased Lady Luck till we finally struck Bonanza! With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain, we planted our family tree You run for cover in the temple of love Bonanza! Etc 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I got into cycling longer distances over the winter, with a couple 230k rides complete then a 300k last week I had to abandon after my frame almost cracked in half. So now I'm uh getting into distance on my backup singlespeed, doing a 160k day last week and half-thinking about a 400k event in April. 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I'm glad to see these nerds writing. Too good to have become management! 2130
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026You know, I sometimes fear I accomplished nothing and left no legacy in 15 years of writing about video games, and this is greater than I could have hoped. 0211
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I still think about Infra, and wish I had pushed more people to play it when I had a platform. It's nobbly and weird and surprising, a first-person explore-o-puzzler which opens with PowerPoint then tumbles into conspiracy and catastrophe. Down to £5 for a bit: store.steampowered.com/app/251110/I... 911930
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Wishing you a very merry Cyber Monday! Whatever your A/S/L, may you and your closest webring enjoy a day of mulling Jolt Cola and singing Front Line Assembly carols, free from trolls, lag, and power-tripping channel ops. 3185
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I won't reel off Edinburgh festival picks but if you're following me because of PC games, Stampin' in the Graveyard makes magical transformative use of trashed PCs. I was delighted by each turn as they were variously worn, illuminated, gazed into, held aloft, more. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Checking in on my last (final?) gameswords one year later... Epic, EA, Rockstar, and Ubisoft's clients have all forgotten my password again since I last used them. A perennial post. www.rockpapershotgun.com/if-i-never-w...rockpapershotgun.comIf I never write about video games ever again, let this be my final pleaWill every lousy unwanted PC game store launcher actually remember my password when I tick the box telling it to remember my password. 0141
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 19/04/2025It's now a year since I left Rock Paper Shotgun and I still haven't written anything longer than a Christmas card. I'm still looking for something new and don't know if I'll ever write again. But I have learned dry stone walling and volunteered lots on river cleanup and landscaping, which is nice. 1120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Full suit of plate armour fashioned from Displate metal posters. 120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I have kept updating my blog of mod readme files every now and then, by the way. Interesting ideas, funny phrases, unavoidable pornography, and such. readmedottxt.tumblr.com 073
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Hot tip for my fellow meatheads this Christmas: white Toblerone contains the most protein, with a muscle-maxing 22g grams of 'tein per full-size Tobe. I know I'll be slamming at least six on the day myself. 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Tired: the Star Trek TNG episode with the brainwashing video game is absurd because WESLEY CRUSHER rejects gaming?! Wired: it's perfect because Wes would decry this as a casual baby game. Inspired: it's absurd because Wes doesn't use this as an opportunity to once again fail to start a LAN party. 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Christmas lifehack: you can chant "Now bring us some figgy pudding!" pretty much anywhere in any circumstances, and your odds of success won't be any lower. Give it a go! 010
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I also celebrated Cyber Monday by finishing a new Hackers pager, this time in Cereal Killer yellow. Main change was redrawing the display decal. Still not sure if I think it's better. 142
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Wishing a very merry Cyber Monday to you and yr subnet! May you receive ops in your favourite IRC channel and greetz in a mod's readme. 050
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I'm as excited for Christmas as the next person who has already watched 35 Christmas movies since the start of November, but PLEASE remember the cyberpunks in your life. Their main annual festival, Cyber Monday was this year pushed into December and risks being drowned in mulled wine. 2122
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Counter-Strike 2's new Edinburgh map is cute enough, smooshing together some recognisable corners and architectural elements. But serious video game tourists must also visit Leith Waterworld via the Garry's Mod map for Trouble In Terrorist Town, which I've just noticed was remastered in 2020. 25412
Reposted by AliceHolly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 26/01/2024Spent an hour today with @v21.bsky.social's "Downpour", an app for making little games on your phone (still in beta). Made one about our cats called "Where's Madeleine?". Perhaps my greatest work? Takes 2-5 minutes depending on how good you are at finding Madeleine. downpour.games/~holly/where... 64518
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Rediscovered my 2006 pitch for a smartphone with ghost detection capabilities. Non-visible spectrum camera, EMF sensor, ultra-sensitive microphone with real-time reverse function, digital thermometer etc. Ultimately, my clients decided to instead invent the iPhone. Still, it worked out for them! 010
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Christmas romcom pitch: a Romeo & Juliet between a builder and a burner of the Gävle goat. 010
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 26/11/2023The most alien part of American Christmas movies is music. A whole party singing The 12 Days of Christmas without drawing out FIVE! GOOOLD! RIIINGS! Away in a Manger set to a whole different tune. And though it's their most sung song, I don't believe Up on the Housetop exists outside these movies. 030
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Halloween prank tip: before squirting fake blood up a nostril so it will alarmingly trickle down over the course of a Teams meeting (which you will refuse to acknowledge), do check you picked up the bottle of fake blood and not the bottle of blood-red skin-melting chemical exfoliation. Tingly! 100
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 20/08/2023Still no signups for my new film studies class: An Electro-Industrial Education, From Network To Video Nasties. The viewing list is all movies with dialogue sampled by 80s & 90s industrial bands. Final project is critiquing a fictional song from a band of your choice and its use of movie samples. 0100
