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

Alert Roos (because some lumbering oaf walked near them)!

A photo of a side yard, five kangaroos stand in a loose group, looking around.

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

There has been a repeat of my error.

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

Thankfully I am now a smarter man than I was yesterday, because I started the first episode of the second season at 10:10PM, so there will not be a repeat of my error last night.

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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

A really cathartic credit sequence, as the group sits down and chats about everything we went through. I will be thinking about this for a long, long time.

A screenshot from Big Walk, three characters sit on couches / chairs as the sun sets, the credits on screen (credit to my friend for this screenshot).

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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

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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

Fuck you, door. Get painted!

A photo of an open door, handles removed, with a corridor behind it.

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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 should practice with my piano more.

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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

lmao, I loaded my save, had to mash space-bar through the dialogue again, then died to the first attack from the boss like a moron. I'm having flashbacks to my torturous time trying to beat Benezia in Mass Effect 1, and I shall persevere.

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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

I fought a small group of enemies, and went to destroy what they were guarding, and some civilians walked up to be like "hey, don't do that." But I'd lost health in the fight, so out of my control Coen just ate the first guy to heal. Hell yeah, that'll drive some players *insane.*

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

I gave up my sword to go into an enemy encampment, decided I didn't like the attitude of the leader there, so beat him to death with my hands. Then foraged a random sword and spent two hours loading saves to fight my way past the ~30 enemies in 5 encounters between me and the exit. Good times.

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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

I wonder if the international audience has the same response that I do to Kiwi accents, where everything is ~10% funnier purely because of how it's said? In line with that, do they also find the Australian version 10% more aggravating?

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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

Oh, and I beat three stages of the final boss, then got absolutely obliterated by its fourth stage, had an arguably worse second attempt, and have now retreated back to the main game to grind resources, which is just shameful.

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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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