So, my first solo video game is done! It's an interactive fiction piece, and it's free to play now in any web browser.
"So, About Last Night..."
a queer vampire hangover story
expectproblems.itch.io/lastnight
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I live in the '90s. Retro, flight & film. Narrative designer & writer. Disaster lesbian. 
Play my interactive fiction here: expectproblems.itch.io
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Just spent a solid hour playing Bubble Bobble on the arcade machine at my local with then read this about its creation: “Mitsuji wanted the game to be exhilarating and to appeal towards a female audience.”
Oh. Well, uhm… success?
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“WARNING: magnetic compass does not work when prop de-icer is on”
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Okay so that was a bit of a disaster. Turns out the vintage Bonanza doesn’t like flying out of Milford sound and around NZ when it’s THAT cold and snowy. Oh well. Fun though.
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The problem with watching a video is you end up on ebay buying another version of Hard Drivin’.
(I wanted the Atari Lynx one, but that was expensive so I settled for the SMD/Genesis version.)
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Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Rings of Power is majestic and passionate and it’s everything I needed.
I cannot wait for more.
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Wrote something I really like for work today. Not sure if it’ll see the light of day - may not fit in anyway with the plans, but… still really enjoyed writing it.
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Statement from the Drop Kiwifarms campaign on our intent to protest at the Cloudfare Connect conference in Sydney, Australia. Please share widely.
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This video has gone viral on tiktok, man finds album that he thinks may have extremely rare and unusual photos of the Nanjing (Nanking) massacre.
But things are not like they seem, I'll explain in the following tweets. 🧵
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You know what’s fuckin’ great? Movies. Like, seriously, format be damned. On a laptop in bed, projected at home, on a dinky TV or within the hallowed walls of The Cinema. They just fucking rule.
Two hours you get to vanish into another world, a place you can always come back to.
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What I've been loving a result is not so much who likes what, but -why-. (Also, that with limited exception they're intentionally watching old VHS tapes of the movies, not high quality blurays or the like.)
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It's hosted by Gala Avary, Roger's daughter. Each ep, after they discuss a film, she comes on and gives her thoughts - and THAT'S what makes the podcast great for me.
She's a 20-something, and her thoughts on what she liked and why is fascinated juxtaposed with them.
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So, I've been listening to Tarantino & Avary's new podcast, in which they go over old films on VHS from the video store they worked at and talk about them.
I'm fucking loving it. Not just because these two are walking film encyclopaedias but... because of the announcer.
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It occurs to me that, honestly, if all tweets henceforth were just, like, one word, a lot of arguments would be avoided.
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lesbian vampires
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Shout out to the bar band last night for doing the PERFECT accordion cover of The Phantom of the Opera. 👌
And to this little cute thing for deciding my lap was the best place to be almost all night.
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I’ve read Dracula before, but Dracula Daily has basically reminded me that the book, if set and written today, would be a collection of tweets, snaps, and the odd screen cap of a Facebook comment.
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This is literally that bit in GTA3’s Chatterbox where Lazlow is interviewing a guy who’s promoting a protest in the park but cannot describe what the protest is about
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I'm cackling. This is so utterly vacuous, it has to be an Iannucci bit. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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YOU DELETED COOKIES?!
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The Secret of #MonkeyIsland demo is a trip -- its own little minigame, different from the final version. You can download the PC and Amiga demos here: scummbar.com/games/index.ph
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Shout out to Microsoft for making a surprisingly decent-looking ASCII art full height 5.25” disk drive in the Windows 1 installer.
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Sony's slimline followup to the runaway success of the 3.5" floppy disk was catastrophically incompatible with existing drives.
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My girlfriend is so cool. 🥰
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Goddamn it’s just hard not to love every character in an Elmore Leonard book. Nothing quite so alive in this world as his characters. Give me any two of his characters sitting in a room getting stoned and talking for hours over any action or thriller scene committed to paper.
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Myrna Loy in publicity shots for The Thin Man, 1934. This scene was cut from the film as the studio believed a woman dressing in male clothing was “too provocative.”
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I was chatting about remote work with a recruiter friend today. She said it is the number one requirement mentioned by applicants. She head hunts for tech & gaming, and says remote-friendly companies are bleeding talent from the giants now sending employees back to the office.
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2022 is weird
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Really miss being there.
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