Austin Gallagher

As a coeliac can you please drop the title I'm fascinated by this it sounds hilarious

100%. There would be way more work involved in this but if this was a 6v6 game I think you'd absolutely be adding some much needed juice.

After a tumultuous lead-up to launch, Highguard shows promise The Game Awards much memed "one last thing" Highguard isn’t an immediate slam dunk, but it isn’t a total misfire either.

Seems like I'm more positive on Highguard than many others. There's stuff here I would love to see how it takes shape in 6+ months.

Should this be a 1.0 release after a TGA reveal? Probably not. Is it worth checking out and seeing if you vibe it, yeah. My impressions;

Unrelated to the critique thing - it's funny how I think I know exactly what game you're talking about.

Sometimes unfortunately you gotta lay it out plain on this side of the coin. It sucks, I take no joy in it, but if you don't you're not doing your job as a critic.

There's a kernal of something here, and I've broadly enjoyed what I've played so far — but that gear up phase feels so extremely 'first draft'. When it's actually firing on all cylinders w/ a good raid it's actually pretty good. Good enough to survive? An entirely different question.

My armchair dev suggestion is that I think you could reduce map size by about 20% and add an additional player to both teams and it would help that downtime problem. I don't dislike the 'soft' rounds, but I think you're not forced to compete for loot w/ enemies before the Shieldbreaker spawns.

Many eyes are rightfully on the US at the moment, but today in Australia we're marching as well. While it is for different causes, we stand together against the rise of fascism, racism, and right wing hate.

January 26 is not a day to celebrate. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.

I regret to inform you that you can now find me in even more places than before.

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

As far as I'm aware there's also the whole Don't Nod vs. Deck 9 drama, which adds to the almost parasocial aspect of people's perspective but towards devs

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish community

Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001.

Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt.

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Lots of words to admit you don't get why people are rejecting AI followed by a mealy mouthed appeal to 'get over it' when it comes to people's very real ethical and environmental concerns regarding AI use.

Wow that Stefani stuff is way more of a bummer than I expected without context

A list of 21 debut authors who almost appeared at a writers’ festival.

Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart.

I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.

For real that's the Australian Game Awards 2025 GOTY for a reason

Giving Oxenfree and The Drifter? 👀

tim sweeney wearing a dull-as-mud hoodie while speaking on stage at unreal fest 2024

Now more than ever, it is imperative that Tim Sweeney log off

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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

actually I changed my mind, I love celebrity boxing matches now. I think everyone I hate should do them, because I'm really enjoying watching the worst people on earth get their shit rocked

Looking at this, thinking "ludonarrative dissonance", opening to respond, and immediately finding out it's already been added. Incredible tier list.

As if on cue...

current news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you

Many such cases where 'the boss' just doesn't get that unfortunately my 15 minute break to read about Rhode Island's historic gang crime is part of the process

I have a lot of respect and love for Larian, and I'm devastated to hear AI use in their production pipeline. But more than that I'm just disappointed in Swen. He should know better. He has shown in the past he *does* know better.

Here's someone he should listen to. Himself, two years ago.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-o...

I am not immune to propaganda
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Stealworkers

So wild the under-16s social media ban is actually happening. What an embarrassment for our government. Best of luck to all the kids figuring out ways to circumvent it.