Oli A. White

I have a very funny (to me) SpongeBob story.

Up until 3 days ago, I have spent my life believing I hate SpongeBob. I hate the characters, the art, the concept, the humor, everything about it.

The other day I randomly played the demo of the newest SpongeBob game and realised I LOVE Spongebob.

I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.

It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'

www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...

I'm gonna be that one person who says that Milligan, LeMire and DeMatteis' Justice League Dark run had some of the best Constantine writing outside of Hellblazer.

Bill's full appearance on Sunday/Monday elicited a cheer from me (iykyk)

@ciaran-games.bsky.social So uh, this isn't actually you, right?

I have no idea why I'm unable to add a discount for Charnel House & Richard & Alice for the Black Friday sale, maybe cos I was in the horror sale recently, but it's not even an option in the backend for me. Maybe it's American games only? Who knows.

Can I send you the money via Paypal and get it 14 hours early just in case I get hit by a hovercraft in 14 hours

This is absolutely phenomenal. As someone who's always been a fucking loudmouth about properly crediting people and making it clear what they've done, this is a step beyond even my very high expectations. I'd buy the game for this if I didn't already have it.

Yeah I adore Birdcage and have loved Lumines since day one. Sektori's a must have then.

So @dominictarason.com called it a 'Fantastic modern take on Geometry Wars' so that's me immediately on that then.

Yasssss Birdcage love. Gonna have to look into what this Sektori is.

Yeah unfortunately, for smaller creators, YouTube doesn't give a shit about the quality of the content, they just want to see volume. The only real suggestion I have is uploading VODs of the streams to pad out the upload numbers but I'm not sure whether that would help or not.

You could just upload some VODs of your Twitch streams. It's just about getting enough content released regularly for the algorithm to sorta grab you. Plus I think people would enjoy that.

You also unfortunately just need to be putting content out at a higher rate to start with for the algorithm to decide it likes you. For a channel around your size, you need to be putting out at least a video a week for the algorithm to pick you up.

You unfortunately kinda have to belittle the video subjects a bit to get the initial eyes on them, then by which point it doesn't matter. It feels icky, but it's worth it to get the eyes on great work. The algorithm sucks ass.

It feels antithetical to normal people like us, but you gotta go clickbaity as all hell. For the most recent one, something more like: The Most Terrifying Workplace Safety Horror You'll Ever Experience - Still Wakes The Deep

Hmm okay, well that makes a HUGE difference, and should be rolled out to you soon. I'm not seeing anything about your thumbnails that I think could be better honestly, they're pretty spot on. Your titles are where the improvement could lie I think.

Have you got the A/B testing Thumbnails/titles beta from YouTube yet?

Hit portrait artist and game developer Ivan Ulyanov's favorite video game is Mistmare.

If you play the hit Gamejolt adventure game Tourist 'backwards', and then do the most stupid interaction ever conceived in a point and click game, you get a pin-up polaroid of the fictional developer in her underwear, thanking Lang from Charnel House for a great night of passion.

Richard & Alice has an entire, fully written 6th ending in which [REDACTED] returns from the dead and reveals that he is in fact an alien dog who runs a utopia under the sea. It was the longest of the game's endings, and the requirements to get it were nearly impossible.

We cut it because duh.

In The Charnel House Trilogy, the green balloon item was originally intended to have a use that led to an entire optional sequence of events, but @threeohfour.bsky.social vetoed it for being too good*.

*We ran out of time.

In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead

let's include this as an anomaly in you know what

Chappell Roan in a white dress with blood-red teeth, dressed as 'a screaming banshee' for her Corona Capital 2025 performance.

Chappell Roan's look at her Corona Capital 2025 performance is a fucking MOOD. It's hard to tell in any of the still images online, but she has very bloodstained teeth. Her costume was intended to be 'a screaming banshee' and she nailed it.

I wrote a horror audio drama pretty much with the exact same concept and I am so glad that it released in three parts over the last 6 weeks so I managed to avoid the 'I see you too have watched Pluribus' comment lol

Well that's your own fault for rejecting my invite to join me at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival ONCE AGAIN.

That's three years in a row you've rejected my invite to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Goodness me I hope these people never discover; horror literature.

Also I can't speak for other outlets, but for a single-narrator story, the NSP much prefers authors to just send the prose story in and let us handle the SFX cues, because it can often vary by producer etc.