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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 05/10/2026

Got to go to a really cool gamedev event hosted by Apple tonight, and I even got a pin!

Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 28/09/2026

My partners and I went out of town for the long weekend just-past, we stayed in a cabin about two hours outside of Melbourne. It was very pretty, here is photographic evidence that I do, occasionally, touch grass.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 14/09/2026

Hey this story is absolutely crazy? And if it involved an Islamic sect trailing and harassing government officials instead of a Christian cult the right-wing media of this country would be absolutely apoplectic about it and demanding answers. archive.li/c9ZU2

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 10/09/2026

Valve seem to have clicked on age verification requirements in Australia but because I do not have a credit card — specifically (debit doesn’t count) — I’m unable to do so. My account is nearly drinking age in the US. And I’m also a dev selling on Steam, so they already have my legal info anyway.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 30/07/2026

Somehow at nearly 42 years old, this is the first time I've made penne alla vodka (technically "rigatoni alla vodka alla salsiccia" I suppose) and mah god was it lovely — albeit one of the most expensive pasta dishes I've ever made given the alcohol excise tax in Australia. 😑

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 19/07/2026

Hey Geelong one quick question what the fuck

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 05/07/2026

On the Mardi Gras EGM this weekend.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 04/06/2026

Chinese beef and asparagus with onion and capsicum.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 17/05/2026

Google’s AI summary about my game is sometimes quite bizarre. At no point have I, as the author outside of the work nor via the narrative within it, ever referred to the Nihility as the "Ni." Zero idea where it could have possibly gotten that from.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 28/04/2026

Beef, onion, and asparagus stir fry (with a kewpie sesame-dressed side salad).

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 14/04/2026

I'm really fucking tired, folks. I don't know what to do anymore besides just be fucking angry about this industry and the people in it and the people HELD UP in it. I'm so tired and exhausted feeling hurt when shitty people get rewarded. I just want to make things and give people chances. #gamedev

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 05/04/2026

After nearly twenty years in Australia, I have finally hung at The Hanging Rock. We did not picnic tho. (Ironically enough, I watched the famous movie set here as a ~fourteen year old at the arts conservatory I attended as a teenager in Louisiana, but this is my first time actually visiting.)

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 04/04/2026

We went out of town for a couple of days over the long weekend. Vlas is enjoying the in-room jacuzzi.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 28/03/2026

Ketamine and the impulse control of a spoiled infant. You’re welcome, Wall Street Journal.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 27/01/2026

It's hard to make gravy photographic but I had a craving for a southern US delicacy (despite it being over a billion degrees today) — hot beef sandwiches: roast beef with homemade gravy, cheese, and pickle relish on Turkish bread with a side of mash and peas.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 12/01/2026

More amazing bumper stickers spotted aboot Melbourne.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 09/01/2026

My order from my incredibly talented friend Avril of Beautiful Freak Cosmetics arrived — folks, this is HANDMADE SOAP, the burger smells like maple bacon and the pickles smell like dill. Go buy things from her because she's amazing and deserves lots of money. beautiful-freak-cosmetics.myshopify.com

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 08/01/2026

It's Vlas' birthday but he hates them and didn't want to do anything even though I thought he should, so as a compromise he allowed me to make borscht. I slow-cooked osso buco (the cut of meat, not the dish) for four hours to make the beef stock, then made the rest of the recipe.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 30/12/2025

Best bumper sticker I've ever seen.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 21/12/2025

We took a spontaneous day trip to Mount Dandenong today and apparently got sidetracked into Silent Hill by mistake.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 16/12/2025

White wine poached chicken breast with "salsa verde" (parsley, mint, dill, coriander, and Thai basil); slaw of red cabbage, green apple, fennel, red onion, lime, ginger, sesame oil, caraway seeds, and fried shallots; then finally garlic and ginger steamed broccoli.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 15/12/2025

And happy two years to the other light of my life, the pelmeni to my poboy, the wonderful Vlas. So grateful for your kindness, intelligence, gentle patience, and generosity. Thank you for embracing and supporting all of me, as well as making sure Ryan is an equal part of our lives, too. Love you. ❤️

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 07/12/2025

Honey garlic chicken (this one came from aaronandclaire.com and it's really, really good; took no time at all to cook, too.)

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 28/11/2025

I had to wait for them to cool before I could put the cream cheese icing on. 🤤

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 28/11/2025

You: oh wow Joshua you cooked so much for Thanksgiving yesterday, I bet today you just flomped at home — Me: Cinnamon scrolls. You: What? Me: Cinnamon scrolls.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 27/11/2025

1 AM, and finished. 🫠 It's a wrap on Thanksgiving 2025, I made seventeen different dishes (not plates, there were maaanyy more than that) themed around Louisiana and New Orleans specifically including gumbo, sweet potato pie, and cornbread. So tired. So sore. So stuffed, but glad to have done it.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 27/11/2025

Valiant effort by the piece of shit garlic press to survive until the very last clove for the very last dish before cracking and sending metal pieces all over the kitchen. 🫡

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 23/11/2025

Beef gyudon with pickled ginger, fried egg, togarashi, and spring onion over sushi rice.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 21/11/2025

Authentiqué carbonara (just with fresh linguine instead of spaghetti as I don't like the latter), I managed to grab the last of the guanciale from the grocery store. 🥳

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 16/11/2025

Is birthday. I don't usually do much, but I had a smol party last night because this has been a frustrating year & I wanted a day for myself. Today my partners gave me this, because months ago I was saying I wanted to figure out how to make & program tiny robots. I am loved, and I am happy for it.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 07/11/2025

Also because it was there and I had a craving a while back.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 07/11/2025

It's that time of year where I make a nearly two-hour round trip out to the US food importer to be price-gouged for things that cost a few dollars back where I grew up. But! But!

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 04/11/2025

Happy three years to this lovely man. I've been continually impressed at your heart, inquisitiveness, patience, and intelligence. You have been a rock that's made me feel supported and loved, and you've done that while still making space for my other partner in our shared lives as well. Love you. ❤️

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 02/11/2025

I dreamed last night that I baked a sour cream and strawberry cake — something I certainly have no waking recollection of knowing about, but lo and behold I searched and it is indeed a thing. I don't bake much and get nervous when I do, but this was absolutely delicious. Thanks dream Joshua!

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 15/10/2025

Oh wild I can’t believe Joe Biden is still forcing websites to take down things the government has an issue with like during a pandemic when they asked platforms to take some responsibility about misinformation — oh, he’s not president anymore and conservatives are just hypocrites? Nah, couldn’t be.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 25/09/2025

Scotch fillet steak with the best mushroom peppercorn sauce I have ever made, legitimately, it's better than anything I have had in a restaurant. Sides are roasted chilli carrots, mash with butter peas, and garlic sautéed spinach.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 19/09/2025

Wow Second Life's graphics are really getting good lately

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 18/09/2025

Anyway I'm going to quit writing and game development and go back to my first joy, making tiny robots.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 15/09/2025

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been invited to speak at this year’s High Score event at Melbourne International Games Week; I’ll be on the panel "How To Speak Dev and Influence Designers" about music and game development. Tickets and info are here: www.vmdo.com.au/high-score-2025 #HighScore2025

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 08/09/2025

I have done a slep. Here is my moon.

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 07/09/2025

We got up (some of us more begrudgingly than others) to go watch the lunar eclipse at 3:30 am from a nature reserve. Surprisingly absolutely no one else around, who would have thought!

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Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com · 07/09/2025

Vlas' ambivalence about the 3D printer changed as soon as I used it to print a squeeze-thingy for the toothpaste tube.

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