Mike Gorrie

Guy who understands modern politics but not consequences: Finally, a solution to global warming! This “nuclear winter” sounds fire

D-dun d-dun
D-dun d-dun
D-dun. D-dun d-dun
[The rest of the 20th Century Fox theme plays]

Hyrule Warriors has got me back in my “sad fight music” era.

My therapist: Can Opener Beer isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.
Can Opener Beer:

Some things are manipulative in the same way that deodorant is manipulative. Some things are performative in the same way that dressing for a party is performative. The mechanical definition of the word might be accurate, but that doesn’t make it appropriate to apply the moral connotations.

Thursday has become Coverage Day in the routine. I don’t hate this.

Sesame Street if it were slightly more English:

Muppet: Where’s my tea? Where did I put my tea?
Passerby: Probably right between S and U.
Muppet, seeing where there’s a letter S, and then looking slightly closer: oh, there it is

"... and [expand] what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference." Incredible

Good news: Skylight Social now works on my phone. I’m not sure what changed!

It’s been a big week! Lots of reading, writing, talking about reading and writing, and learning music for a choir I’ve just joined which has turned out to be a lot more intense than I expected (a good thing, but tiring). Happy Friday; now what?

Gamedev dressed normally: Whoo, first day of sales! 🎉
Creepy guy with knife: We’re gonna make a fuckin' killing!
Gamedev: Man I’m gonna need you to — I need you to dial it back.

Xerneas is ✨️real✨️

Dinocop promotional banner, featuring a 3D cartoon raptor in classic detective attire (a brown jacket and hat, and holding a magnifying glass).

Dinocop (2025): https://mikegorrie.micro.blog/2026/01/24/dinocop.html

A brief review of Dinocop (2025, Pieces Games), a genuine banger with some minor technical flaws. Originally posted on Steam.

🎮 I was not expecting Bastila Shan to show up.

Context: Early in the Jedi Consular story (Star Wars: The Old Republic), you collect a series of Jedi devices that apparently store the wisdom of past masters, each based on a theme (Science, then Wisdom, then Secrets). #SWTOR

Low-key, this would go hard though!

Life can come at you fast, and often right when you’re trying to settle into a sustainable rhythm. I’m re-learning how to be okay with that. Part of performing is how you get the show back on the rails after you mess up. Sustainability is about what you can protect, maintain, and repeatedly rebuild.

Found embedded in a tree stump.

It would be easy to reposition this headline as 'Billionaire author vows to keep interfering with Scottish democracy', which doesn't look too pretty.

you should go look up everyone who reviewed hogwarts legacy and said that it was okay to buy it

and you should absolutely block the fuck out of them

no, I don't care that some of them are well liked people who were nice to you once. fuck anyone who supports hogwarts legacy

That’s the best shot of the Aurora Australis that I’m likely to get from here.

Ok, internet’s fixed. Now to catch up on everything I missed.

Found a bull ant in my room, then another, right before bed. Got out the surface bugspray ‘just to cut off their path’. Entire flat now smells like bugspray. Opened doors and windows to get airflow, not sure how long I’ll have to wait it out. It’s now 4.20am. You win, ants. You owned me.

No internet connection at home for a few days, and while I get phone signal here it’s pretty weak and unreliable in the wake of the fires. It’s turned even uploading screenshots (let alone clips) into a whole process. Hoping the NBN guys will be able to fix it right away when they come tomorrow.

That’s Episode 1 done, and that’ll do it for tonight. The storytelling’s tight so far, there’s just enough interactivity to put the player ‘in’ the scene, and the shift gameplay intrigues me. I can already see how this is “Twilight for dudes”, but as a dude I fuck with that! #DispatchGame

A screenshot of Dispatch's mid-shift gameplay, showing a call failed (hostages killed).

Oh man, even in the tutorial you have to be conservative with who you send out and for what. I assumed it’d be a cakewalk, tried sending a bunch of heroes out together, and took a cascade of losses when they weren’t back in time for a wave of calls.

#DispatchGame

A screenshot of Dispatch's mid-shift gameplay, showing a call completed at 80% efficacy.

A screenshot of Dispatch's mid-shift gameplay, showing a call completed at 100% efficacy.

This is a cool system. Strategic, chaotic, and story-driven all at once. I’ve never seen any game integrate all that — they usually pick two. #DispatchGame

An overlay of a downtown city area. A textbox with a portrait of Phenomaman reads: It appears we've got our first call from a subscriber.

On at least two levels, I was not ready for Phenomaman to call them “subscribers”.

#DispatchGame

A mechasuit flies (left to right) into the night sky. Subtitle: WHOOOOO FUCK YEAH!

A female superhero, hovering in the air under a streetlight, viewed from below.

A superhero at the podium during a press conference, being viewed through the inside of a camera lens. Subtitle: There's been a lot of speculation about my health and the state of the Mecha Man suit,

Two men in a standoff under a streetlight. Subtitle: Look, you're hurt, you're not thinkin' straight.

The animation in #DispatchGame slaps harder than it has any right to.

Opening scenes go hard and fast. Feels similar to the opening of the Telltale Batman series. I’m okay with going back to the same well if the well still kicks ass.

#DispatchGame

And so it begins.

#DispatchGame