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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Back to work. Thank you, me, for logging the experience to the annals of history.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Man, this just makes me want to play New Vegas again…

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“We gotta sell this rock” - too true, random Miner.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Bethesda games are buggy, I know. But I am just not buying into this world…

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Supervisor Lin is impervious. Not just to damage from a laser which splits ancient mineral from primordial stone; but to the physical plane. Lasers? Nuh. Hands? Cannot catch. A set piece where they’re supposed to die? Nope. T-pose.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I killed (sorry, ‘knocked out’) a character with the mining laser mid conversation with Supervisor Lin. Lin didn’t miss a line in their scripted dialogue with a prone body.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Omg - PC walks faster than the NPC’s I’m supposed to be following? And I can’t run ahead without them waiting for me?!

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trying Starfield again since it came out, its opening gives Doom 3 with-the-gamma-turned-up-way-too-high vibes.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

007 Last Light seems to have suffered studio interference with the writing. It started strong, then… let’s just say there was a poetic, satisfying reason they could have used for Bond’s digit’s, instead it was ‘he arrived late’.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Geez, save some bandwidth for the rest of us

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If I was in pricing, I’d want a $110 price tag for the game - OR it can be all yours for $9.99 a month, forever!

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Kids these days don’t know the joys of candy cigarettes

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Rubber ducks are great listeners.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Got a new story up - with hand drawn artwork by me! Rubber Duck Coding: It's Dea's first day at a new coding gig and he screws up. Badly. Armed only with a rubber duck, he needs to work out how to stop billions of people from being affected by a global bug he created.

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Rubber Duck Coding

‘I think I accidentally deployed code to production.’ Dea said to the rubber duck. ‘This could be bad.’ The rubber duck sat inanimate. ‘I should tell someone.’ The rubber duck agreed.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The more I learn about the Howard government, the more I understand how powerful fear was as a suppressor of information during the early years of The War on Terror.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

After watching the Secret Level episode about Concord, I can see why the game was axed.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Christmas pud tastes better when both you and it have been sweating since 8am.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

TIL Australia has an internationally known clown school and it just missed out on hosting its brightest pupil.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A great incentive for people to leave reviews is to read one or two five star reviews at the end of an episode. The Weekly Planet does it, so does Thumb Cramps. It’s gotten me, a long time listener of both, to actually rate and review the shows.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

When you value capital, the value of a person is measured in capital. If you own a lot of assets, you have a lot more importance relative to someone with few. It’s just the system working as designed.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Dr Doom says the quiet part out loud. What good are rights if people can just take them away?

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I bet one of them was a Digdug reboot. It’s about time imo.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Before long it will be bots buying crap from other bots, who sell their crap to yet more bots. Soon they’ll be managing the inventory and finances and making deals with one another. Modern AI is going to phase out C-Suite executives.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Handmaid’s Tale is composed so well, written so powerfully, that I need frequent breaks to process the scene I’ve just read.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

LD was so good at capturing the spirit of Star Trek that it got me into Star Trek. A series I once thought impenetrable was made accessible to me.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I counted the different strips of tape on the Christmas tree box; we’ve had the same tree for eleven years.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Brexit was insufficient to handle the girth of these foreign objects resulting in a new Tory initiative focused on the rectum called Wrecks-it.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Before long there will be a push to outlaw foreign objects in favour of locally-made, domestic objects.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

There’s a reason the tortoise wins the race with the hare: consistency is king.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

He did that pace for ten years. Every day, non stop, and only then was he making enough from his books to become a full time writer and leave his PR/newsdesk job.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I really, really hope your parents haven’t taped over any of these.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It’s all fun and games until someone says ‘Onkel’.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In America, they simply shot the virus with assault rifles. Thats why they had so few cases.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You know who you never see sick? Xenomorphs. Their blood is literally acid.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Given these tech businesses can’t meaningfully grow their user bases anymore (saturation), and the ad revenues just aren’t there like they used to be (market wisdom), it’s got me wondering: are AI products just well-marketed vapour-ware to get investor money?

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I’m on a see food diet; when I see a berry, I cram it.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 26/11/2024

#Exclusive: Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from Trump and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting

Exclusive: president-elect’s team planning for background checks to occur only after administration takes over bureau

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What’s the logic here? Generate 8,000 e-books to sell on Amazon for like a dollar each? Put them all on Kindle Unlimited to clog up a server somewhere? Seems like a scam to burn investor money imo

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Anyone else still have a Wii U?

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m definitely watching more then.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I can’t wait to watch more! The scene where we see Dax be transposed from the old man to the 28 year old is a WILD inclusion for prime time TV.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Spent a good chunk of my down time this week on TotK- finding shrines and lamp-plants in a post-Ganon world.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Star Fleet have to tie it all together to make DS9 work: Commander Sisko is a broken man 3 years after the death of his wife, Odo (aka New Vegas own Mr House) Alex Macks their way onto a ship to mess up their systems, Quark wants to bail but can’t because of ransom, and the CMO is a xenomorph

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That two-part first episode goes so incredibly hard. Character introduction through believable conflict; a station no one wants to be on, everyone hates everyone else because of race or politics, and there’s a space anomaly which could be a guy.

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Re-watching Lower Decks got me inspired to try DS9 - never seen it, and I know nothing about it -

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Nick Benecke @nickbenecke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

FEAR was the first game I cracked the CD key for. After hours of installing and re-installing the game I played for 20 minutes before I realised it was WORTH buying.

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