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James O’Connor

@jickle.net
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Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 11/09/2026
I know we have litigated this once every three weeks for the last 30 years but it’s a *little* concerning that this critical reception is being widely read and understood as disastrous
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/09/2026
Free joke concept for whatever satire website wants it: GOG introduces age verification system
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 13/08/2026
Also here is my name
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/08/2026
Movies are good and I like them
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 22/07/2026
Working in game dev has given me a much keener sense of how games are made, the processes people undertake, how a design comes together, and so on. But I am playing Denshattack and I truly have no fucking idea how you make a game like this. It rules.
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 12/07/2026
It is important to maintain a balanced media diet
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 05/07/2026
Here is my cool physical game - a copy of Wind Waker HD with a smudged signature from Miyamoto on it (the smudge does not matter because obviously I am never selling it)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 04/07/2026
It’s cool how you can just watch Broadcast News any time you want
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 28/06/2026
Hello party people. @lisavertudaches.bsky.social has released an art print of a nice crab and I think people will like it so I am sharing it here: www.hobbie.ink/store/p/riga...
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 27/06/2026
Somehow watched two movies with hoofed protagonists in a row
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 14/06/2026
I am still playing Marvel Snap. It’s still good.
A screenshot of Marvel Snap. I have won, and have 7491 points in the center
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 07/06/2026
You’re allowed to post these on a Sunday if the most recent film you watched was an Evangelion
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 30/05/2026
I love the movies!!
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 19/05/2026
(JB Hi-Fi has a great sale on at the moment)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 02/05/2026
I was recovering from a bad cold over the last few days so I watched a lot of movies (just outside this last four is Kevin Smith’s The 4:30 Movie, a slightly generous three stars)
Heat (4 stars), Sissy (two and a half stars), The First Slam Dunk (4 stars), City on Fire (4 stars)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 19/04/2026
Homer buying the Itchy money. "Eleven-hundred" is the funniest number possible.
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/04/2026
Trying to organise my viewing so that I have a good top 4 on Saturday morning (I am Jickle87 on there if you would like to be LB pals)
Letterboxd four: Pillion, 4 stars; Sorry Baby, 3.5 stars; A Bittersweet Life, four stars; Undertone, 2 stars
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 09/04/2026
This interview I'm currently transcribing ended very politely
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 03/04/2026
Made a pilgrimage to the great Murray Bridge bunyip, always a true delight
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 06/03/2026
They're saying he has great taste. They're saying that it was easy to just pick 9 games, actually. They're saying he looks like a genius right now for his choices. (my9games.com)
Pictures of the covers of nine games: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Burnout 3, Deus Ex, GTA IV, Immortality, Broken Sword 1, Smash Bros. Melee, Knights of the Old Republic and Ghost Trick.
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 28/02/2026
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 27/02/2026
Happy Free Pulp Concert in Adelaide Night to all
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 14/02/2026
Chappell Roan sang a blinding cover of Barracuda and then a few songs later came out carrying this thing. 10/10.
Chappell Roan holding a puppet of some kind of withered beast
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 14/02/2026
Someone is recording this set on a what I think is a 3DS
A crowded concert, someone in the crowd is holding up a 3DS
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 08/02/2026
I took exactly one photo the entire time, and it’s of my own whiteboard scribblings from a panel I was on about paper prototyping
Honestly it’s an image of a whiteboard this is largely indecipherable, although it says “SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEM” at the top and has a picture of Mario in a kart firing a green shell at the bottom
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 01/02/2026
I am playing this game very slowly but it is wonderful. The character art is unreal. Look at these guys!!
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 31/01/2026
Truly great to see Letterboxd highlighting the fantastic Lesbian Space Princess - the first ever full-length animated film made in South Australia - here (also I am on a heater of a film run right now)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/01/2026
Sounds like he's living a very normal and stable life to me
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 22/01/2026
The Films Critic Circle of Australia nominations list (if.com.au/fcca-announc...) contains a true jump scare
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 17/01/2026
Had to watch another movie this morning to get a more interesting four (I had not watched R+J since high school, what a picture)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 31/12/2025
I saw 41 new release films in 2025, which is a lower number than I would like. Here is my top 16. Thank you.
No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Sinners, It Was Just An Accident, Superman, Friendship, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Weapons, Wake Up Dead Man, Sirat, Avatar 3, The Naked Gun, Black Bag, Frankenstein, Final Destination 6, K-Pop Demon Hunters
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 26/12/2025
Back to the Future is a holiday movie series, in that they are all about trying to get back home (3.5 is maybe a bit generous for Olive the Other Reindeer but I was blinded by the Michael Stipe cameo and song)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 10/12/2025
Did the absolutely vile McDonald's AI ad steal this shot from a proper masterpiece? Who can say.
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 03/12/2025
This is the one day of the year that you can legally wish me a happy birthday
A LEGO Game Boy box sitting on a couch
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/11/2025
Good morning (I feel like my interest in this Pokemon app has finally been waning but maybe it just pulled me back in)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 14/11/2025
Had to reset the board last night with a guaranteed masterpiece
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 31/10/2025
If you log into Power Rangers Mighty Force this weekend, my pride and joy - the Pumpkin Rapper event I wrote over *two years ago*, the first one I wrote for the game - is finally running.
The title screen for the Power Rangers Mighty Force event The Not-So-Great Pumpkin
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 29/10/2025
On an all-time run here
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 24/10/2025
I have three of these Darkrai EX cards now (also come at me for mystery picks)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 15/10/2025
I opened two TCG Pocket packs today and they *both* contained this guy. Pretty good!
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 30/09/2025
I continue to open the Pokemon card app every day, and today it has rewarded me (kind of, I opened 21 packs)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 25/09/2025
I had to write in my top vote for ABC National's best books of the 21st century so far, which feels like an oversight
Untitled Goose Game, James O'Connor
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferreante
Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel
The Song of Achilles, Madeline MIller
Heaven, Mieko Kawakami
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18/09/2025
Quietly sneaked over to Melbourne and went to @acmimuseum.bsky.social last night to check out Game Worlds, which is really wonderful
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 10/09/2025
My pack in Pokemon TCG had six cards in it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happen before??
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 03/09/2025
Today people are sharing an out-of-context paragraph from a review of the new Frankenstein movie to lambast the reviewer for apparently not understanding the source material. This is the *very next* paragraph.
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 01/09/2025
According to Goodreads, readers of my book also enjoy the incredible Friday Black by the phenomenal Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (whose novel Chain-Gang All-Stars is probably my favourite book I've read in the last two years), so that's cool
A screenshot from Goodreads showing that readers of my book Untitled Goose Game (Boss Fight Books #35) also enjoy Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, apparently
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 26/08/2025
The good folks at Umbrella have sent me something beautiful
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 26/08/2025
Truly there is no one doing it quite like @forgottenworlds.bsky.social, this thing is gorgeous (and deeply nostalgic)
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 17/08/2025
Strong line-up this week, although I know I am in a minority giving No Country a lowly 4/5
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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 15/08/2025
There is some truth to this but have you considered this sticker of my cat Cherry
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