Tim Henderson
@pretendbeard.bsky.social
Occasional games freelance writer. Hobbyist animator. Host of the Player 2 PixelCast. Will ask you to try better beers.
Oh, thank fuck. "Rather than an expansive map with a scant handful of locations worth interacting with as in the original, SC2’s Arkham focuses on a slimmer number of bespoke areas[...]"
Player2.net.au@player2au.bsky.social · 18h agoOur Sinking City 2 review has emerged from the depths! 🐙 Find out why @gorath44000.bsky.social thinks this is @frogwares-games.bsky.social finest outing to date. #review #sinkingcity #arkham
Friends, as our big hearing draws ever closer we are in need of anything y’all are willing to help us fight this. We are a much smaller unit with limited resources in the biggest fight of our lives. Any and all donations are much appreciated 🌱✊
IWGB@iwgbunion.bsky.social · 3w agoWill + the rest of the Rockstar 31 need YOU to win justice for all the needless pain and upheaval from these dismissals. To beat Rockstar at the historic court case in September we asking supporters of the @gameworkers.co.uk to donate to our legal fundraiser. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Soaring U.S. Divorce Rate Blamed On Local 11-Year-Old https://theonion.com/soaring-u-s-divorce-rate-blamed-on-local-11-year-old-1819567109/
Deeply xenophobic, totally unacceptable anti-immigration proposal by Labor. This one is personal. This change would have effectively prevented my wife from moving here, and would block pathways for my parents to move over. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Warnings Labor's plan to delay family reunions could be 'human rights issue'
Experts are divided on the government's plan to increase its control over net migration figures, warning the devil is in the detail.
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The PixelCast is a 2 man show this week with @hewso.bsky.social and @pretendbeard.bsky.social lamenting the state of the industry while trying to find some silver linings among the storm clouds. www.player2.net.au/podcast/the-...
The Player 2 PixelCast 191 | Player2.net.au
The Player 2 PixelCast 191 One of these days, we're going to stop fretting about the future of videogames. One of these days. But probably not this day. What good we can do, perhaps, is to thumb our n...
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Cool to be reminded that my own country can be ghoulish with this stuff, too -_-
Dancesport Is Life@mattatddnet.bsky.social · 5d agoFuck you, Labor. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you, worthless pile of racist cunts. How fucking dare this white-ass pig party punish Australians that marry non-Australians.
I think my answer is pretty famously Grand Theft Auto 3 at this point. I came looking for a world to lose myself in, and this 100% wasn't it.
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 6d agoNo hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.
Gone down a rabbit-hole wherein I've realized that the theme song from Spider Man 2002 is essentially just Kiss From a Rose dipped into a vat of Creed/Nickelback juice
Lol
This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 6d agoBethesda Game Studios workers and union members planted hundreds of red flags and a giant inflatable rat outside of the developer’s Rockville, Maryland office in protest of a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma this week. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/bethesd...
Just dumpsters full of fetus' that nobody noticed back in 2020
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoWHAT -- Rep. Lisa McClain totally makes shit up, claims "82% of women who got the vaccine in their first or second trimester had a miscarriage"
The idea of Xcom meeting Star Wars seems like an obvious fit, but it has taken till now to come to fruition. @hewso.bsky.social has gone hands-on with Zero Company and is ready to get excited for 95% shots missing once again, only this time with Jedi. www.player2.net.au/2026/08/star...
Star Wars: Zero Company Hands-on Preview – I Sense The Xcom In You Young Padawan | Player2.net.au
Star Wars: Zero Company Hands-on Preview - I Sense The Xcom In You Young Padawan It is very well known among my family, friends, enemies and strangers down the Pub, that I love Xcom. I am very vocal a...
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Looking for the old days of Oddjob, Golden Guns and four-way Split Screen? @pauljamesgames.bsky.social has just the thing. www.player2.net.au/2026/08/agen...
Agent 64: Spies Never Die Review – Licensed to Thrill… Almost | Player2.net.au
Agent 64: Spies Never Die is an ode to the N64 legend, Goldeneye, but is this game a little too shaken, and not stirred enough? Paul shares his thoughts in this review
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If you tell eme that high-school Kojima saw this while on holiday one summer, it would explain so much
Headington News@headingtonnews.bsky.social · last wk.Happy birthday, Headington Shark: 40 years old today www.headington.org.uk/shark/
Evangelion walk cycle in the style of James Baxter ❤️ By Kushal Kishore (instagram.com/kushalkishore)
At some point, history took a turn which is why @serrels.bsky.social isn't in this.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last wk.Breakfast of champions: Australia’s best porridge makers cause a stir at inaugural national competition
🚨 I have just realized that Chungking Express is on Netflix 🚨
You know that bond game everybody thinks is neat and cool and rad because it is? It's secretly a sleeping dogs sequel, you should play sleepy dogs
Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · last wk.SLEEPING DOGS is on sale for like 3 bucks... i will now sing the praises of sleeping dogs. sleeping dogs is like if gta was very good instead of super insecure and littleboyish. sleeping dogs is so confident and rad and fun. play sleeping dogs imo store.steampowered.com/app/307690/S...
For YEARS, I been waiting for this to happen every time I watch the news
Never thought that I would see a grocery store and think that it looks kind of awesome
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w agoHonest to God, don't think I've been inspired by a YouTube video like this in my life. What a weird savant.
Petition to ban the word 'gutful' from Austrlian politics
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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This loop of this grift has been running for how many cycles now? How the hell do the markets keep on falling for it?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agojust in time for the markets to open! it's a Sunday miracle!
The UK gov is almost able to make protest untenable now. You can only protest if you are invisible. UK has made political prisoners of Grannies and church folk holding signs. The UK’s slide to illiberalism is better dressed than the US version, but it’s the same trajectory.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3w agoIn April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.
Just going after a whole era and vibe, really
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w agoName a videogame that deserves a comeback.
Episode 190 of the P2 Pixelcast is live now, and it is a cracker. @pretendbeard.bsky.social and @hewso.bsky.social are joined by the supremely overqualified @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social to talk all things Pirates... in games that is, not the torrenting kind. www.player2.net.au/podcast/the-...
The Player 2 PixelCast 190 | Player2.net.au
The Player 2 PixelCast 190 Avast! Grog! Other pirate-y sounding terms! While we watch July slide slowly towards August and then the eventual avalanche of new game releases, some of us have decided to ...
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