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@meltedmasks.me
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Brain Worms (brainworms.me) | Fragments TTRPG System | #mediacrit | writer, designer | he/him | Wellington, Aotearoa currently playing: Obra Dinn || Elden Ring || Zenless Zone Zero

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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 01/09/2026
MOLDRISE (2026); you have a foot fungus, it's getting worse, you feel compelled to go up; "trapped in an apartment building" is one of my favourite subgenres, and this is an excellent example; killer sound design, animations and art direction really sell it, and i love the investigate-die-learn loop
a woman looks out from a partly-open doorway; the art is low resolution, and her face is a real face mapped onto a polygonal model; she looks suspicious

Dr Lee: Yes, name is Dr Lee. Can I help you with something? I don't mind medical questions.

Response options:
- I need something for foot fungus. Fast.
- My foot is itching like hell. Do you have some cream for it?
- This is embarrassing, but I think something is wrong with my foot.
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 14/08/2026
pleased to see the MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE believers in the quotes
stephen king pointing at the camera, jacked up on cocaine, with the glowing eyes of a giant version of the head of marvel comics' green goblin looming behind him (the head is on the front of a large evil truck)
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 13/08/2026
sure i will bake you a cake, clean your house, hunt and kill your enemies... but then i will get distracted and start writing a book that i will never finish undertale.jadenthejaded.uk
results from an undertale personality quiz; the winning stat is kindness followed closely by justice, bravery and integrity; patience, perseverence and determination are dead last
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 12/08/2026
trying to communicate to the work chat that i think our official diagrams are dogshit
a diagram with arrows in different directions leading from the words hate, hate, hating and hatred
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 10/08/2026
looking through my notes... what did i mean by this?
a keep app note that says "remember: something bad is going to happen"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 07/08/2026
obsessing over the fact that suicide booths were introduced into fiction by the first short story related to The King in Yellow, by Robert W Chambers (the story calls them "lethal chambers") finally a solid connection between horror fiction meta-concept The King in Yellow and space cartoon Futurama
a shot from the TV show Futurama, Fry and Bender wait in a queue behind a suited man for turn in what looks like a phone booth; the sign on the side of the booth says "SUICIDE BOOTH, 25 cents"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 03/08/2026
what are the last images you saved to a real folder outside of 'downloads'? for me, reference shots of the murderous police car from Robot Alchemic Drive (PS2) obviously
six screenshots from the PS2 robot game RAD; a 3D model of an anime girl stands in the middle of a city street, with a police car driving by; the text at the top says "go to the train station platform"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 03/08/2026
FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE (2026/1995); it's a cursed 90s FMV card game... but actually a very recent metafictional game about a cursed 90s FMV card game; the solitaire mechanics are great; the story can't really decide whether it wants to be spooky or silly, but that's sort of accurate to the period
screenshot from Forbidden Solitaire (2026); a playing area covered with cards, with a bloody dungeon wall in the background
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 24/07/2026
work is manager-level colleagues saying that dumb shit nonsense is good because that's Just How It Is and me as Homer's head getting bigger and bigger and bigger
caption: "oh that's just how it is" well it should not fucking be like that

picture: bart simpson cowering in bed as homer simpson looms over him in the dark; homer's head is comically large and scary
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 18/07/2026
couldn't find a nice version of this, so here's something to post specifically when something awful happens to a terrible person
animated Zelda from Wand of Gamelon looking completely chill and happy with something horrible happening to someone off-screen. the caption says "Good."
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 18/07/2026
what a strange collection of experiences... #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
screenshot of the Recent Activity section of Letterboxd; the last four films are Mickey 17 (4.5 stars), California Suite (3 stars), One Battle After Another (4.5 stars) and Return to Silent Hill (0.5 stars)
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 12/07/2026
good work everyone
screengrab of part of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary website; "Top Thesaurus Lookups (Next refresh: 21): #1 kink"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 09/07/2026
someone in chat linked one of those dumbass "get an AI to look after your sick and annoying family" schedule/alert services to let us behold the horror of it
discord screenshot of a message string from me at 4:51PM

okay this has really set off one of my many peeves
because the AI itself is obviously horrific
but also
JUST GET A CALENDAR, YOU FUCKING DIPTSHIT MORONS?
we already have tools that do these things AND FUCKING WORK?
you slime-brained shit for brains goose cloaca zombies
put me on this and i will grind both of our phones into dust and put it in your food so you shit yourself to death
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 24/06/2026
got an email about doing writing work for an "interactive audio story" system; was it an AI thing? you bet your sweet cheeks it was
Hi Tomasz,

My policy is not to work with systems or companies that use LLMs or generative AI technology. Particularly for creative projects, as the technology steals from artists while also stealing their jobs.

I genuinely hope you do not find anyone willing to agree to this sort of 'commercial collaboration'.

Best of luck with everything.

Andy
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 24/06/2026
"let's see Paul Allen's game boy"
patrick bateman, a normal white business guy, staring down at something with intense passion, in a scene from American Psycho
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 21/06/2026
me trying to figure out why on EARTH i would be getting emails about an "AI hackathon"... it's because i signed up to this hub ages ago to lodge feedback about the government's genAI bot being ~♡a huge pile of shit♡~
event details for an "AI hackathon q&a" happening on July 1st for the Aotearoa AI Hackathon Festival
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 17/06/2026
yes
"you ever think about how there was a [weak excuse] and [thing] got expensive, then the [excuse] ended but the [thing] stayed expensive?"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 14/06/2026
this is how i think about every moment of every day (yes i do have sleep problems)
a chess board covered in overlapping potential moves, making it incomprehensible
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 11/06/2026
finally saw the cursed pizza vending machine at Wellington Train Station; i like to imagine there's a little man inside making the pizza... a Mechanical Italian, if you will
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 28/05/2026
so just to be clear, you're not allowed to throw bees at people
a shot from TWKYK where Trevor is saying it's illegal to say you want to murder the president of the United States.
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 25/05/2026
respectfully, i think Tears of the Kingdom Purah might be the hardest any character designer has ever cooked
a picture of Purah from LoZ Tears of the Kingdom; a woman with white hair, red framed glasses and fancy white clothes; she has futuristic gold goggles perched on her hair bun and she looks aloof; on-screen text says "Purah, Head of Lookout Landing"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 20/05/2026
there's a channel on our friend discord for venting about awful things and everyone else's messages are like "this made me really upset" and "here's the details of something that is bothering me," then mine are...
me talking in discord with my homer-in-glasses avatar:

"andy 9:06am
I'm going to SHIT EVERYONE'S PANTS in anger about this week's announcements"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 20/05/2026
the nz government is about to find out exacty how much energy i can put into sending emails
a woman's hands typing on a keyboard; the caption says [computer sounds]
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 19/05/2026
left my PC on and my 14yo son edited my blog header to give me his opinion of being asked to pack his school lunchbox
big text: hi andrew

small text: i will make no SANDWICH you tyrannical goon
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 13/05/2026
see? normal; with a normal response
Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right email for this query, but hopefully you can point me in the right direction if not.

Yesterday (13/05/26), one of the Stuff quizzes contined a question related to the Fresh 'n' Fruity brand of yoghurt. Since this is relatively specific, I found it curious that this corresponded with a big marketing push by Fresh 'n' Fruity. So I had two questions:

1. Was this quiz question part of a brand/sponsorship deal?
2. Do the Stuff quiz questions ever include questions that are the result of sponsorships or other business factors?

Thanks for your time and efforts.

AndyHi, Andy,

Thanks so much for your email. We don't put any sponsored questions in our quiz. And our quizzes are written ahead of time and we often use household brand names so this was a coincidence.

Cheers, Sophie
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 11/05/2026
when you work with me you get to enjoy stuff like me saying en-dashes are "the Columbo of punctuation marks" in the teams chat
Colombo from Columbo; a disheveled man in a brown trenchcoat with a finger up; the caption says "just... one more thing."
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 09/05/2026
a screenshot from Pokemon Alpha Sapphire on the 3DS; a girl trainer stands in front of a house on a sandy area, talking to a boy in a green shirt; the boy is saying "Hmm... Great Balls, huh? What's so popular about them?"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 06/05/2026
the burger king logo above a tasty looking burger; logo text says NO CUM; tagline says "certified cumless burgers since 2018"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 06/05/2026
marvel snap! but chess also has the same juice
the "your opponent retreated" popup message from card game Marvel Snap
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 02/05/2026
"i didn't really pick up much of myself from my dad" me taping a toothbrush to a butter knife to make a DIY cleaning tool, while muttering that i should start carrying a screwdriver on me everywhere: "hm... maybe a little"
a photo of my white human hand holding a knife with a toothbrush taped to the end; the feet are censored by emoji
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 28/04/2026
feels like it's time to replay Signalis
screenshot from the game Signalis; ruined pillar-like structures sit in silhouette against a blood red background; rendered in detailed low resolution art, an armoured cyborg woman stands in a rectangular gateway; at her feet is the form of a male cyborg
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 25/04/2026
there are so many amazing games coming out in 2026, so i'm playing a 1999 PSX game about dog humans with multiple personalities choking on evil psychic Martian dust
screenshot from Planet Laika; the scenery is dirty sci-fi style; a dog faced person stands in front of a bar, the barman is also a dog faced person; another dog faced person in a sort of robot body is nearby; the caption says "Smokey: I'll shove so many drinks down your throat, you'll puke manners!"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 24/04/2026
thomas the tank engine drawn by chris (simpsons artist); the train has human arms and legs, and a human face... like more human than usual; it looks sad and has it's head/engine in its human hands; the text spoken says "why was i born a train"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 21/04/2026
they should make as many Binary Domain sequels as they did Yakuza sequels
screenshot from the video game Binary Domain; a white man in dark military armour and a beanie is yelling at another dude in similar armour; they are standing in a brightly lit futuristic hallway; the subtitle says "Female Hollow Children can be impregnated by a human male."
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 21/04/2026
BINARY DOMAIN (2012); this game is stupid as hell (complimentary); a game about shooting robots and also about upholding the geneva convention and also about giant enemy crab and also about what if you boned a robot AND ALSO robot monkeys and also one of your teammates is a French robot who can fly
screenshot from Binary Domain where a soldier, Dan America, is shooting out the back of a vehicle at a giant robot snake that is also a motorcycle
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 18/04/2026
a shot from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream; two characters stand together outside a small house, on some green grass; UI down the bottom describes them as friends; the taller person (who has no mouth or eyebrows) says "Meat and I both can't stop thinking about unexplained headaches. Naturally, this has made us friends!"; the other person, a short woman with a shocked expression, stands motionless
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 15/04/2026
finally
a book cover titled "Wii for Dummies" with a picture of a Wii on the front; the text explains you can learn to be good at using a Nintendo Wii but specifically does not say Nintendo; the author is Kyle Orland
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 13/04/2026
"describe your TTRPG in a few sentences" NO PROBLEM
It's a game about legacy, a game about the pieces making up a whole that is more than the sum of those pieces, a game about how quickly you can get to the bit where your character shoves a cursed sword through the heart of a flickering demon lord while electric guitar plays in the background, and then a little man falls out of the wound and thanks you for setting him free; but then six months later you're running a bakery in a small town and that little man comes in and says he's come to kill you for practising illegal sorcery, so you throw a vanilla custard cream cupcake in his face and he is so impressed with your baking that he agrees to forgo the bounty; but then you pin him to the floor of the bakery with that same cursed sword because you kept it all this time, and a pulsing demonic arm emerges from your eyeball as the last puff of life ebbs out of the little man.
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 07/04/2026
"well the system supports the horrors" then uhhhh hh hhh h the system should be destroyed?
bart from the simpsons is in bed looking scared as a giant version of homer's head looms over him, eyes wide and expectant; the text caption says:

'"oh that's just how it is" well it should not fucking be like that.'
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 06/04/2026
RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM (2026); a damn masterpiece, frankly; making an action protagonist do action horror and a scared baby protagonist do survival horror in the same game is genius; also the plot genuinely made me emotional at times, which is weird to say about a game with so many chainsaws
a screenshot from Resident Evil Requiem; a blonde woman in a blood-stained white shirt leans over a dead body; she has a strange device in one hand, and a flashlight in the other; the background is a hospital corridor
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 01/04/2026
a tutorial box from Resident Evil 9. white text on a grey background says "Leon is reaching his limit." the rest of the text is blacked out

the picture above shows a blue tinted scene with a man doubled over in pain, he is in a white lab of some kind
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 21/03/2026
excuse me usher, there's been some mistake, i've been placed in the generation alpha section
a side table in a cinema that has the numbers 6 and 7 on it
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 17/03/2026
shot of the wishlist button from Steam; blue background with lighter blue buttons; one says "On Wishlist" and one says "Follow"; the tooltip says "Item added to your wishlist!"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 16/03/2026
eggman from sonic floating in space and pissing on the moon with a laser coming out of his crotch
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 14/03/2026
a two panel comic; a woman is being spoken to in a work cubicle; panel 1: a handsome man with "ARTIST" across his form says "want to see my latest work?", the woman looks delighted and says "aww, you're sweet"; panel 2: a dumpy man with glasses and "WRITER" across his form says "want to see my latest work?", the woman looks horrified and is on the phone saying "hello, human resources?!"
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 14/03/2026
you may or may not have seen the "f pattern" for web before; English-speaking audiences (and most web audiences) scan pages in a deteriorating f-shape; more details go in at the top left, increasingly less as you move across and down
the f-pattern concept for web reading styles; a representation of a content page online, with a pink and purple F shape overlaid; numbers 1-3 and arrows show the reader's eye moving left to right, top to bottom
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 10/03/2026
bad: @stuff.co.nz put an LLM bot on one of their news articles worse: they have presented it as a way to research the new covid report, because journalism is hard i guess bad for stuff: i found it :)
HOOT HOOT!!!!!!! IT LED TO MORE THAN ONE MILLION DEATHS!!!!!!!! FLAP FLAP FLAP!!!!!!!!!
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 10/03/2026
i got distracted by breaking it, and also my children wanted dinner; here are some screenshots to tide you over
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 09/03/2026
when a full page ad loads up in the bus app before i'm allowed to look at my public transport so i can PAY to get to work and make the money required to pay for the phone that shows me unskippable full page ads
harry from disco elysium, grinning like a man who has come to the end of every possible rope, with the communist hammer and sickle overlaid on top of the picture
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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 07/03/2026
Skinner from The Simpsons, but he has a grinning Homer's face
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