Jacob Colliver

@jacobcolliver.bsky.social

Writer. Buck Bumble is an action video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by British company Argonaut Software and released by UbiSoft in 1998

Every girl's toy at Kmart is called Goop Kitten Craft Set With 2x Fluro Sparkle Canisters and every boy's toy from Kmart is called GigaRex CyberFart Creatures Series X With Fully Operational MAZ-7917 Missile Launcher

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

The perfect solution to looking like you're fixing a gambling problem without upsetting any of the lobbyists. I mean, Rockstar doesn't give a cut to Pokies Australia so it can be a sacrificial example. SportsBet and LadBrokes ads? Nah nah they're fine.

the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social · last wk.

This feels like an over correction in some regard, but I'm curious to see how it evolves. Australia has a gambling problem, and this *feels* like a way of addressing that problem, but really the biggest issue is ads in sports. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator

Every time I log into Discord it shouts alien concepts at me like "Nitro now has Winget support! Upgrade now to receive 500 WingGems to Scraggle at the Dashboard!!!" and it makes me wonder if anyone would have ever paid for MSN Messenger

I love those bits on Alone where the subtitles get a bit catty. Just someone worn to the bone, exerting a tremendous amount of effort to perform a task in the wilderness and then there's a dialogue box like "this won't work, by the way"