Stu Barrow

Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax

Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."

A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."

Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

The Scholar
The Priest
The King
The Drummer

16 years ago I did a single-page story called "The Process," and only much later that I realized I was just describing the ADHD thought process... 😅
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Keming jokes are the best jokes.

Is Picard even canon?

I've heard some real horror stories. And I'm still at the stage of being shocked at the lack of basic functionality.

Wait, that's not true. I can't count a job I applied for yesterday, however.

...and I know all of this is "white collar middle class professional discovers how bad we all get treated", but this is so very, very bad. So unprofessional. So embarrassingly incompetent.

It looks like I can only use Workforce Australia job applications towards my mutual obligations, not actual job applications.

"Your estimated wait time is more than... 3 hours."

The digital assistant can't parse sentences.

I'm sorry anyone has to put up with this bullshit.

What a bloody nightmare. No stars. This system barely has minimum functionality, let alone the functionality to meet its promise.

The "industry" field doesn't seem to include government.

The date boxes don't let you enter a date. You have to click through the years and months manually to select one.

I'm only getting errors from this site. Any time I try to enter content - update any part of my account.

Wow. Workforce Australia is Not Good. Broken links, timeouts, misleading instructions, and an overall air of bland compulsion.

"Mutual obligation" only goes one way, it seems.

"...but I get the feeling we don't care!"

These folk did Antigone last year and it was amazing.

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Harvest by gamesfromthewildwood A bloody folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice

hi can I interest you in a blessed paradise whose hunger only sacrifice can appease? a desperate community insisting on ancient tradition & terrible necessity? a game played without dice or a GM, driven by a bloody oracle deck & a biting token economy?

anyway if you like the wicker man play HARVEST

It's also the only information we have available.

And look, there was enough thematic damage in that episode that they need to do quite a bit of fixing. Maybe they've planned it that way. I'm not super confident.

Harvest (Softcover) The people of a remote British island have carved out a good life, far from the churning of industry and the march of imperialism. Yet their paradise comes at a price. Life must be paid for in death. ...

Steve Jackson Games:
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Two tabletop roleplaying games by Luke Jordan: Grand Guignol and Harvest. Grand Guignol shows a woman cradling a man's body before a fountain in a city square. Harvest shows a girl in a bonnet, looking back towards the viewer before a yellow field.

New games from @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social . Luke's games are among my favourites, with lush, deeply evocative writing and resonant themes.

I have been enjoying Starfleet Academy, but "these people are cruel and immoral and bloodthirsty because they are in constant pain!" is not a thing that has been Thought Through.

I have a weakness for weird fun short films, and you don't see enough of them these days.

Milky Subway - The Galactic Limited Express is a weird fun short film in twelve three minute episodes. Recommended.

I'm game.

I was wholly sceptical of Star-Trek-does-magic-university but I have been won over. It's fantastic.

This looks like a game with incredible thematics and style and impact, and gameplay I'm going to hate. (It's a fiddly platformer.)

...

...will still buy it, I think.

Hadn't seen Grosse Pointe Blank before. It was fun.

There's much more nuance in the characterisation than I remember.