Tim Henderson
@pretendbeard.bsky.social
Occasional games freelance writer. Hobbyist animator. Host of the Player 2 PixelCast. Will ask you to try better beers.
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 · 3d 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 · 6d 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 · 5d 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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One of my fav games of 2025 is also on sale, Promise Mascot Agency! Drive around in a cure little kei truck and manage a mascot agency in a world where mascots aren't people in costumes, but weird living creatures! And yes, that's Kiryu's voice actor as the protagonist! It's an absolute gem.
Save 37% on Promise Mascot Agency on Steam
Explore a cursed Japanese town! Recruit mascot friends and come to the rescue when disaster strikes! Solve the mystery of your exile! Help a living finger work through her many anger issues! Turn Prom...
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You will entertain the crocodile river for my pleasure and entertainment is some cartoon villain-arse shit
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last wk.Gina Rinehart lobbied for controversial plan to move 2032 Olympic rowing to crocodile-inhabited river
this is genuinely my greatest fear about writing historical fiction. I'll spend a bunch of time researching, do my best, and some fucking chicken expert will be like "chickens are wrong"
Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is the best film complaint I’ve ever seen
265 in (at least) a year and a half? I'm sure the investment was worthwhile...
The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · last wk.A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an AI-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo government in 2024 to lift Japan's low birth rate, according to official data. 👉 ebx.sh/gdphnD
I have been hair-trigger from desubbung from @nodunks.com because of its partnership with Fanduel for a while now. The main thing staying my hand is that this shit is so pervasive that I don't know what realistic alternatives sporting shows have at this point
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last mo.NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
One thing I've learned from operating an independent reader-funded games publication is that I'm absolute dogshit at self-promotion and I need to get better at that. Anyway, just letting you know This Week in Videogames had its first anniversary like two weeks ago lol pls subscribe to keep us alive
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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w agoThis Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:
In-depth feature article gets posted on r/Games: Wow, amazing! So many new people are going to discover our work! Article gets pulled for being partially paywalled halfway in: 😞 Anyway please support your favourite independent games media outlets as we push these boulders up a goddamn mountain
Edmond Tran@edmondtran.bsky.social · 4w agoSomething that often goes unsaid: We're against using genAI in our work, and we've also blocked AI crawlers from finding and stealing our work. Even Google. We're not traffic-driven, but in 2026 this has a big impact on how people find us. So, simply following us and sharing our work means a lot 🙏
Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.
IGN@ign.com · last wk.Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company. https://bit.ly/4pIIUau
I made a bee game in 36 hours for DTJ36! 🐝 It's called... Bees Wax! (lol) 🧱 Place pieces of honeycomb 🐝 Get bees! 🌷 Place exits for the bees to get pollen 🍯 Honey!! Check it out here: lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158322 Or find it directly in Pico-8 by running "load #beeswax"!
My timeliness right now: fuck that was loud fuck that was loud fuck that was loud lol Trump's jowls look like vagina
HEARING AID USERS The national alert that is going off today at 2pm will affect hearing aids if they’re connected via Bluetooth to your phone. It is advisable to disconnect your hearing aids from Bluetooth temporarily because the alarm is very loud. #NationalAlert /nicked from FB
There were bigger games than the Space Quest series, but it still mattered and I played a lot as a kid. What really makes it stand out, though, was the spiritual successor birthed by the creators getting together that came out about 5 years ago and is the worst thing I've played so far this decade.
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · last wk.what's everyone else's fab examples of once massively popular and influential landmark titles in especially western games from back in the day that have just been forgotten and abandoned completely now. mine is black and white
I was never a Sim City guy, but I feel like I experienced the self-destruction of this franchise pretty close to first-hand just by regularly listening to a couple of gaming podcasts in the early 2010s. It was a *ride*.
woke stifler@yelix.bsky.social · last wk.i fear that history has been rewritten so that the death of SimCity was as simple as “Cities: Skylines came out and was better and that was that.” let me tell you it was a lot more stupid than that
Apart from DOOM, any computer game before 1995 is basically long-forgotten arcane knowledge. I remember when they made a book with 1001 games you must play and it didn't have a single King's Quest but listed all the GTAs & Mario Karts.
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · last wk.i think one of the biggest underlinings in just how bad the western industry has been about its own legacy is like. myst isnt just an old game. it was final fantasy vii before final fantasy vii. it was that fucking huge.
Someone took this footage from our digital archive earlier this week and reuploaded it YouTube without attribution. Wow where did that cool video come from!!! So we uploaded it ourselves at higher quality. C'mon, people
Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w agoBy popular demand: we clipped the public reveal of Banjo-Kazooie from Anthony Parisi's E3 1997 video! This footage (narrated by NOA's Ken Lobb) predates the release of the game by a whole year.
Increasingly convinced that Nintendo has (quite smartly, tbh) got a screen upgrade in store for when the Western Switch 2 price hikes in a cpl of months as a means of getting some silver-lining reporting
Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles Drop to Just $399 in a Surprise Flash Sale Before Price Hikes Officially Hit in September — But Stock is Extremely Limited
Woot is offering a deal on a new Nintendo Switch 2 console for just $399 if you’re a new customer to the online retailer and use a special code at checkout.
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You're just about to murder a dude when that lettuce finally catches up with you...
Joaby@joabyjojo.com · 2mo agoIs wolverine ok
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