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Tom Eastman

@tom.eastman.nz
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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it. What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/10/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 05/10/2026
I was absolutely traumatised as a tiny child by watching a huge man eat so much at a restaurant that he simply exploded on screen with blood and guts everywhere. Twenty years later, I had recently become a Monty Python fan and was watching their lower-quality backlog when...
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 24/09/2026
I wish I had Gabbro's chill.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/09/2026
Thanks for the promo deal, PBTech!
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/09/2026
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/09/2026
Based on NZ's track record I can only assume that this means there are 21 more candidates for commissioner?
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 08/09/2026
Um, that's how that always works.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 05/09/2026
The first game I ever played with a story better than any movie.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 05/09/2026
I won two SMB3 championships in New Zealand as a child. A GameBoy as the prize for each :-)
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/08/2026
Although there's an option for "no", as you can see there's no option for "and stop asking me every 3 days for the rest of my natural life"
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/08/2026
Google refuses to take no for an answer. They ask me this every three days. They will continue asking until I absent mindedly click through. I despise my own industry so, so much.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/08/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/08/2026
As a heuristic this never misses.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 25/07/2026
Nice to see that this remains true ten years later, except the nerds have been replaced by bots.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 17/07/2026
This became a conversation of favourite LOTR edition cover and its gotta be the john howe art.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 10/07/2026
DragonStrike remake! Imagine a full combat flight-sim with dogfights and ground attack missions but on dragon-back! Set in the Dragonlance D&D setting.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 30/06/2026
Is it a cigarette break? Gotta be a cigarette break.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 22/06/2026
That clown seems to have modeled his ENTIRE cadence and speech pattern off of the Sea Lion and thinks he's an original thinker.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 20/06/2026
On a whim I decided to try to play Diablo. 20 minutes later of nintendo bullshit, blizzard bullshit, battle dot net bullshit, jumping through five different hoops on my switch, then phone, then laptop, and a weird-ass captcha, I finally make it to this page. Christ I hate the game industry
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 17/06/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 14/06/2026
Did we fucking need that? We had an alert last week just for jerks with beachfront property
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/06/2026
DragonStrike! Imagine a full combat flight-sim with dogfights and ground attack missions but on dragon-back! Set in the Dragonlance D&D setting. A modern version of this would FUCK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr...
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/05/2026
I made this prediction almost ten years ago and nailed it. To their credit TOP *is* still going, but they still don't seem to know how to make friends.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/05/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/05/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/05/2026
I've been meaning to make the cocaine/AI hands-gripping meme for a while.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/05/2026
Jesus christ three hours later and we're back to "it's over".
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 01/05/2026
Guys just stop. These stories are 12 hours apart. This is goldfish reporting. Either you are the goldfish or you think your readers are, and both are an indictment of your integrity.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 27/04/2026
So this is a historical primary source now?
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 27/04/2026
OMG that makes this Penny Arcade comic a literal historical document primary source. @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com @cwgabriel.bsky.social
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 25/04/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 17/04/2026
I wanna tell this fucker I'm up to 11 and he needs new signs.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 14/04/2026
A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 09/04/2026
Yeah man, because nobody ceased firing. Fucking goldfish reporting.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 08/04/2026
Oh come onnnnn
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 05/04/2026
Bite my shiny middle finger
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 03/04/2026
The new headline is not better.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/04/2026
Turns out the word "beer" does show up on the can. Barely. If they care about people they really need to do a little better than this. It's delicious! I like it. But now my partner is gonna be sick all Easter
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/04/2026
Which one is the lemonade? Is it a beer or a cider. Because it doesn't have EITHER word on the can and this fucking sucks.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 25/03/2026
It's not a "cryptic claim" you assholes, it is word salad from a sunsetting alzheimic narcissist.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 23/03/2026
Oh hey, my grandfather was gunnery officer on the HMS Achilles during that battle. We have a piece of the Graf Spee in our front hallway at home.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 20/03/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 19/03/2026
DLSS5 OFF // DLSS5 ON
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/03/2026
Oh shit even more important: The Adventures Of The galaxy Rangers!! So space westerns in general hit a nerve cluster in my brain.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 14/03/2026
Decided I needed a close up of the beach*
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/03/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/03/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 13/03/2026
I love being on the tiny flights
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 18/02/2026
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/02/2026
soggy
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