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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looked at the hearse with its long base on a gravel road and thought "it'd be so funny if it took off and did a doughie, but I can't share this with anyone." Immediately heard my cousin whispering "I was just imagining the hearse taking off and doing some sick skids before leaving."

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I will never top how unfortunate it was to be halfway through Season 5 of Buffy when my Grandfather died, however in the ~week since my Grandmother's death I have picked up two pieces of media featuring a (seemingly) dementia-ridden grandparent dying. Happenstance can be cruel.

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I made the small mistake of starting the first episode of Slow Horses at 10:45PM last night, which led to the larger mistake of starting the second episode at 11:55PM, and then much worse the third at 12:50AM. It's good, just finished the first season, loved how farcical it was at times.

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kylie b @roguesquirrel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

paying homage to a legend in marketing

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dang, credits on Big Walk. That's a corker of a game, absolutely brilliant final section.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

steamhype.com

Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hahahaha, fuck. I just trapped myself in my father's study after taking off the door handles (because I'm going to paint the door). This is some top tier stupidity from my end.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm late to the party but I've started playing Big Walk with some friends. It's very charming. Very bad case of the blind leading the blind when two of my friends followed me up a mountain because I was chasing BIG ORB and we ended up lost in the next area.

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Kaizen Game Works @kaizengameworks.com · 04/09/2026

It's Paradise Killer's 6th birthday! 🎉 Happy Birthday to Lady Love Dies, Shinji, the PK soundtrack, and all of Island 24 (not you Yuri). Paradise Killer is 75% off on Steam right NOW. May the Silent Goat walk with you! 💗💜💙 store.steampowered.com/app/1160220/…

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just managed to snap myself out from the allure of short content video because a pianist was playing a variety of songs, and played a six second segment of Claire de lune wrong. It's Claire de lune, don't play it too forte while also fucking up the timing. It's Claire de lune!

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I really appreciate that Nintendo have locked into one character trait for Samus: She has that dog in her. What a legend. I look forward to getting destroyed by the next Metroid game.

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Kyle Banks @kylewbanks.com · 08/09/2026

The Donut Panic demo is out now on Steam!🔥 - Master your pâtissier skills and keep customers happy - Run for your panic room when the hallucinations start - Survive each night or remain stuck in the loop forever - Uncover the secrets behind your hauntings to influence how your story ends

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Right. If only there was some other way to know.

A screenshot from Steam showing a retail purchase of The Orange Box from May 2008.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm quite curious if this banding on the landscape in Dawnwalker is a result of my (quite low) graphics settings, or if it's the same sort of issue I've spent an age fighting in Unreal with little success (there's a way to avoid my problem, but I'd have to re-do so much).

A screenshot from The Blood of Dawnwalker, Coen stands in the middle of the screen, the screenshot shows Coen standing in a snowy area, when blending between the ground and the snow there are large "bands" of transitory colours.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chose a dialogue option in Dawnwalker "Look what the cat dragged in" expecting a teasing tone. Got to watch Coen deliver it flat, with an undercurrent of spite. Oops, I'm a dickhead!

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My most recent save in Dawnwalker is deep underground directly before a boss fight, and I'm currently poisoned, so my health drains until I have very little left, and this is entirely a problem of my own creation, and that's what makes games cool.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a fascinating game, a real "Game Designer's Game." The time management stuff is pretty manageable, except for LEVELING SKILLS, which is diabolical. Tts structure reminds me of Crackdown of all things. And jank is its middle name. Strong Recommend.

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Zach Northrop | Wishlist Worming from Home🪱 @zachnorthrop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I made a remote job simulator where you’re secretly a worm :) Mash the keyboard, brew coffee, message your coworkers, and wriggle your way to the big promotion. Worming from Home is OUT NOW!

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wasn't quite sure what to expect doing this as an Australian, but I guess this makes sense.

A screenshot of my "Dialect Map" it reads: "You talk most like someone from Rhode Island - about 51% of your answers match a typical resident."

The map is very heavily weighted towards the north-eastern side of the US, with a smattering of California, and a hint more than of Florida, somehow.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watching a video and the voice-over pronounced Edinburgh (quite reasonably if you've never heard it spoken) as Eden-berg, and I now have to live with that pronunciation overwriting the correct one in my head for the rest of my life.

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Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's round of games grants close in 3 days! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000 📆 Applications close Thu 27 Aug, 5pm (AEST) 👉 screenaustralia.gov.au/fund/?catego...

An image featuring tiles of released games funded by Screen Australia.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Upside: I worked out what I think is a good solution to a pacing issue in this little incremental. Downside: It is a motherfucker to implement without breaking my existing systems. Oh well, time to break shit.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I spent an hour and a half getting a plugin for box3d to work in Unreal this evening. It's sure as hell faster than Chaos, but I don't have time to crack into the code to work out if it can do what I want, so I'll wait and see if blueprint support improves.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've been playing Project Zomboid with some friends after the most recent update, and it's becoming increasingly clear that everyone else has goals and intentions and plans, while I am simply driven by a desire to destroy zombies.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I got the save system working on my little incremental, and it only took ~3 hours. It's amazing how much easier it is if you do it early, and at least put a tiny smidge of effort towards designing your data to be saved (I will not learn this lesson).

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've started reading Steel Ball Run recently, and it's sick as hell, the Jobros were right. I'm also now up to the part where Araki is putting little drawings in his text boxes, which is a delight.

Part of a panel from Steel Ball Run, Gyro is talking about Stephen Steel, and there's a little drawing of Stephen Steel's head taking up 1/3rd of the box.

Another panel, Sandman mentions Dio, with another little Dio head. He also mentions his horse's tracks, and hoofprints appear in the box.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And that's credits on FF13-2. I'd largely describe it as nonsense (derogatory) compared to the first game's nonsense (complimentary). It's often over-designed, painfully of its era, and its soundtrack was rubbish. But I had a lot of fun, and its ending is bold, and there wasn't much Snow, so...

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I understand the, uh, logic of a pure logic puzzle as a minigame, but this one in FF13-2 has to take top place for greatest logical leap between the main game, and a mini-game. I am not sitting down to work this out. I will press buttons randomly, or use a solver.

A screenshot of Final Fantasy 13-2, Serah stands in the centre of a clock with 10 digits. Each digit is a number between 1 and 4. The way to solve this puzzle it to use a solver online.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

While playtesting I've been catching up on Taskmaster, and the "Taskmaster International" playlist on youtube for NZ Season 1 is diabolical.

A screenshot of a youtube playlist of taskmaster episodes, showing the last 5 episodes in order: 6, 7, 8, 10, 9.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have reached what I believe to be the final area in Final Fantasy XIII-2. It is a fine addition to my theory that every JRPG has a bad final dungeon. (It's not too long, which is rare, but *some* of the enemies are a huge difficulty spike, they spawn too frequently, and its layout is tedious)

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Croydon is geologically part of South China, and now occupies its own tectonic plate.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is completely unrelated, but my attempt to see Saddam Hussein under that line has resolved into a woman with a very large head and excessively long neck lying on her back with her toes pointed down.

A graph of the SpaceX stock over time, with a ludicrously crude drawing of a woman with a very large head and excessively long neck lying on her back with her toes pointed down drawn over the top. I must re-emphasise how bad the drawing is.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

FF13-2 just had me joyous to recognise Vanille's voice. I don't know how to feel about this.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The UI in FF13-2 is largely uglier than FF13 (they tried to make it a look a little more "classic Final Fantasy" but hit a middle ground that just looks cheap), but I will always go to bat for a level title placed in the world (even if it's a magical projection).

A screenshot from Final Fantasy 13-2, the sun is blocked by a large Fal'Cie, the lands of Pulse shrouded in darkness. Floating glowing letters with a slight curve to them sit in front of a nearby cliff:
"Episode 3
Part 1
Prophecy of Hope
Taschas Massif 010 AF"

(The subtitles additionally read "The path you have walked to reach there here and now will give you the courage you need to hope.")

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

After finishing 13 I told myself that I probably shouldn't attempt basically the same thing with 13-2, because if I finish it I might have to play 13-3 (which I've never played). Anyway, here we are.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

After starting it a little over 15 years ago, and dropping it about 15 years ago (at the final boss, I learned later), I've now finished Final Fantasy 13. I've long liked it more than most, so I'm glad to have seen it to its end properly.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I added a quick little particle effect to help with feedback (I am at war with the brain goblin that wants to increase the curl noise). An aside: It pulls from the G-Buffer to colour the particles, and I have to delay hiding the underlying mesh for two frames, or else it colours it from the dirt.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I often reach the end of an episode of Game Changer and think "this is the best Game Changer of all time," but I really might be correct when saying that about this week's episode.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Might want to take another pass at that one, Google AI bullshit.

A screenshot of the Google "AI Overview" it reads: "Scarletite is a rare Rank 8 transformational catalyst in Final Fantasy XIII used to upgrade weapons and basic stat accessories. It is primarily farmed by defeating Sacrifice enemies in Eden Hall (Chapter 12) or Orphan's Cradle, or purchased from the Final Fantasy Wiki for 100,000 gil after Chapter 11."

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Rather stark contrast between Romero and Carmack.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Science Saru, I never doubted you for a second.

The Major in Science Saru's "The Ghost in the Shell" adaptation, standing in front of a temple hands on her hips, shadowed by a cherry blossom tree, as said blossoms drift down through the frame. The subtitles read "I guess that means he wasn't lying about that, anyway." The backdrop is bright, nearly tropical in colouring, while The Major is drawn in rich colours.

Batou, staring straight up at the camera, with an effect like a fish-eye lens. Images of other characters circle his head, and the whole image is washed in blue-purple lighting as he's in the middle of a brain-dive.

Rain patters as a man resembling robo-cop in a large armoured suit kneels, examining a child over his leg. Another armoured character with a large nose and red glasses over his eyes stands behind him. Flecks of rain fill the scene, with the sky in the background a mix of overcast with blue poking few small gaps in the clouds. It brings to mind for me Kurosawa's Ran, and its love for clouds.

The armoured character with the large nose perches on a tree, a streak of lightning in the background turns the flecks of rain into beams of bright yellow, and his eyes glow red.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The rewrite to make it noticeably less dumb is complete. While hardly *blisteringly* fast it now runs about six times faster (with a new, "worst case" designed around it), and supports divvying it up between frames (because I'm too lazy to make it truly async), where it takes about 1ms per frame.

A very cropped screenshot from Unreal Engine, it reads:
57110.187879
Complete
57110.157349

A close cropped screenshot of text inside unreal engine, showing groups of six times ascending the screen, the first 5 followed by the word Start, the last followed by End. Each group of times has approximately 1 millisecond between the first and last entry.

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Under nearly any other circumstance hearing "New Obsidian Fallout Directed by Josh Sawyer" would fill me with such joy. Such a shame that this is the by-product of Microsoft's insatiable greed, that some of the people who could have helped make this were crushed on the way here.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 07/07/2026

thought we were past this surf dracula nonsense but I just had to watch *ten episodes* of societal collapse to “earn” the post-credits scene of an anonymous character stumbling on a dark, miserable hole and muttering “barely big enough for a child…” don’t make my mistake: skip OMELAS ORIGINS

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Blaghs @blaghs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I set up a *very* crude solver to check "paths" through the grid (to access a tile there must be a free "path" to the entrance on the middle right) which was fine for a 9x9 grid, but to make routes more interesting I just upped it to 16x12, and performance is... not good. Worst case nearly at 200ms.

Layered screenshots of an Unreal Engine game, the main part of the image is an 18x12 grid of brown squares, which have trees and rocks and wheat in columns down them. The top left corner shows times.

The times as mentioned in the previous image, they are in pairs as follows:
51930.55183 & 51930.418055
52540.068861 & 52530.992878
53980.423381 & 53980.239904

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