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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 2h

Pleasantly surprised by Silver Pines. Despite combat I found shaky, it manages to create a Lynchian, Kurosawa-esque horror that’s clear in its inspirations without ever feeling like a pastiche.

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Silver Pines Review - The Wand Report

Unsettling, uncanny, and only occasionally uneven, Silver Pines evokes horror classics without retreading them.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 9h

He died *between* writing sessions, you say?

Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86: Publisher says author died peacefully at home 'between writing sessions'

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 5h

Curiously, significantly easier to get stories about 40 years ago commissioned than stories about what’s happening now.

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He died *between* writing sessions, you say?

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Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game @uprooted.hauntedbees.com · 01/10/2026

Have you ever played a farming game and wished that instead of giving your crops to romanceable townsfolk, you could throw them at people's heads? Then Uprooted is the game for you! Check out the gameplay trailer now! #indieGame #godot #farmingGame #farmingRPG #retroGame #garlic youtu.be/QfeDYJrCzJI

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Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game - Announcement Trailer

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I swore up and down for about a week that this was a great episode of Deep Space Nine, only to realise I was thinking of another episode in which Kai Winn negotiates a treaty and this is, in fact, the episode in which Jake and Nog go on a date and Vedek Bareil just really loves his job.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank goodness for @swmgames.bsky.social's Toem 2. After a raft of uninspiring games to review (and another on the way) it's a standout, not only as an improvement on its predecessor, but also as a gently affecting hike through something more soulful than whatever all this is right now. Bliss.

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Toem 2 Review - The Wand Report

Wistful, breezy, and gently engaging, Toem 2 is a worthy sequel and careful diversion.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Toem 2 Review - The Wand Report

Wistful, breezy, and gently engaging, Toem 2 is a worthy sequel and careful diversion.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If in future we see a ship-based Star Trek extraction game or a Fortnite Voyager crossover, just know that Laura and I were talking about that before it was cool. We’re originators. Also chiptune aliens.

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

without downloading any new pics throw your phone into the river

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sam raimi's DRAG ME TOO KELL @kellygoround.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i don't remember how it happened but (this is a risk of knowing me) i got a friend watching the fast and furious movies and they just made it thru the most recent one, slept on it, then sent me this

white actor john cena smiles holding a tactical rifle or grenade launcher or whatever on the set of the 2023 film Fast X (the tenth one, depending on how you count them)

screnshot from top down RPG that might be pokemon of a character examining a white rock saying, "it's a white rock."

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pleased to announce that, despite acquiring a crummier name as it moves into early access, The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 continues to grow with impressive verve and confidence. It also scratches about 100 itches for menu sickos like me.

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The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 Early Access Impressions - The Wand Report

Ashborne Games’ resurrection of The Guild continues to grow with impressive verve and swagger.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but, like, can wasps stop stinging me, please?

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you remember pugil sticks from ITV's Gladiators? Laura and I remember pugil sticks from ITV's Gladiators. More importantly, Star Trek The Next Generation remembers pugil sticks from ITV's Gladiators – nevermind that Gladiators started in 1992 and this episode is from 1989.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s over for you losers. I bought a diary. I’m going to write the nicest shit about each and every one of you, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Granted, hits are a little easier to come by in this version. But, hey, first 2000+ Star Fox score.

Star Fox final score screen showing 2036 total hits.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What are the small, seemingly insignificant, things that bring you a shred of joy in these troubling times? I really like when I wash a pepper and it looks a little more colourful and the vwoom in disco music.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not to foreshadow, but this episode does set up important podcast lore of Laura not being able to tell white Bajoran dudes apart that will become more relevant in a future episode. If you want another reason to tune in.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

2026, man.

Meme: “I bring a sort of disabled vibe to journalism that editors don’t really like.”

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ukiyo-e woodblock, by the late Edo artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), illustrating the legend of the "Sea Monk" or Umibōzu, a spirit in Japanese folklore. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If summer has you down and you find yourself thinking, “Where are all the great, hot boys?” I know where they are.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In which The Next Generation somehow manages to squeeze three episodes of Star Trek into 45 minutes, one of which is one of the many ways Star Trek is weird about Irish people but then also clones, baybee.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’ve been watching a lot of films from the 1980s this week and, honestly, there really was plenty of reason to believe that everyone was, in fact, kung fu fighting.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

NEW: For @indiewire.com, I spoke to Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Jamie Selkirk and *many* more for an oral history of The Frighteners as it turns 30. Specifically, how the commercial flop drove innovation at Wētā, paved the way for The Lord of the Rings, and was just a whole lot of fun to make.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In which I like putting little blocks on top of each other and continue to dislike Peterborough. @happyvolcano.com’s Midnight Moments was just the right level of chill I needed after the past two weeks of burning myself out on Zoom.

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Midnight Moments Review - The Wand Report

Like the rain that dominates seemingly every Cyberpunk world, Midnight Moments clings to you.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This week, Laura and I explore an episode that wouldn't exist if two people who are allegedly in a loving, committed relationship just sat down and a had a human (/half-Klingon) conversation. Which is, apparently, how you get Fast and Furious in space. Also Harry Kim is here.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I hope all my friends are ready to get this game for their birthdays. (This is a joke because I have one friend and I already gave her this game for her birthday).

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 15/07/2026

Gonna be keeping track of some of the nicer things reviews have been saying about the vocal performances in Mermaid Mask - 'specially meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NEW: It finally happened, a 10/10 from Geoffrey. The Mermaid Mask is a deft and delightful murder mystery that sets a marker for how a game should be voice acted (with special mention for @amberleeconnors.bsky.social and @edwyntiong.com) and how good point-and-click games can, and should, be.

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The Mermaid Mask Review - The Wand Report

The Mermaid Mask slots itself into the pantheon of detective fiction with a deft, compelling, and delightful murder mystery.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is one portion of cookies, BTW.

An entire 200g pack of Maryland chocolate chip cookies.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not sure if getting older just means a lot of people who impacted me through the screen are just doing the same or my own increasing awareness of time passing means they hit harder. But it's been a tough few years of losing people who had a formative impact on me and this one hits especially hard.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It is time for some hot Data sex action as Laura and I relive Season One of The Next Generation (not yet knowing that Season Two is just as weird — that's foreshadowing). Come for the rehash of TOS and stay for the wide variety of pleasuring.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Decided to randomly rewatch Fleetwood Mac perform "Silver Springs" live from 1997 and am tickled by Stevie Nicks murdering Lindsey Buckingham on stage in front of thousands of people, and Mick Fleetwood is just sitting in the back all, "I fucking love the drums."

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Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (Live) (Official Video) [HD]

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Heaving a very weary sigh— NEW: I spoke to those impacted by layoffs within XBOX's accessibility teams to try and understand the scale of those cuts and what they mean for accessibility going forward. It's all pretty bleak, but there *are* tiny shreds of hope.

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Accessibility teams hit hard in XBOX’s “reset”

Among 1600 jobs cut by Microsoft this week, the axe has fallen heavily on XBOX's accessibility teams.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If anyone impacted by layoffs from Microsoft/Xbox's accessibility teams is willing to answer a few questions about this, I'm writing up a quickfire news piece for today or tomorrow. Email in bio. Anonymity guaranteed.

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