Douglas Wilson
@doougle.net
🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
Re-reading some of Terre Thaemlitz's writing (online != digital) in prep for a talk I'm giving next week.
What are good examples of pushing extreme videogame filesize for aesthetic-political reasons? Like, attempting to put a 20 TB game on a storefront, etc. I know I'm forgetting examples here.
What are good examples of pushing extreme videogame filesize for aesthetic-political reasons? Like, attempting to put a 20 TB game on a storefront, etc. I know I'm forgetting examples here.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Re-reading some of Terre Thaemlitz's writing (online != digital) in prep for a talk I'm giving next week.
What are good examples of pushing extreme videogame filesize for aesthetic-political reasons? Like, attempting to put a 20 TB game on a storefront, etc. I know I'm forgetting examples here.
What are good examples of pushing extreme videogame filesize for aesthetic-political reasons? Like, attempting to put a 20 TB game on a storefront, etc. I know I'm forgetting examples here.
I’m so into this series of deconstructed dub records, False Aralia 03 is one of my fav records of the year bsky.app/profile/boom...
Peak Oil’s eminently watchable False Aralia sub-label return with a pair of EP’s revelling in a signature spirit of hallucinatory dub chicanery, Trip Hop x fluid hydrodynamics, primed to file next to /\\Aught, Pole, Short Span, Vlad Delay
boomkat.com/labels/false...
boomkat.com/labels/false...
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m so into this series of deconstructed dub records, False Aralia 03 is one of my fav records of the year bsky.app/profile/boom...
Australian politics is so catastrophically cursed. This is your brain on colonialism I guess.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Australian politics is so catastrophically cursed. This is your brain on colonialism I guess.
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Yesterday saw a fresh escalation in Israel’s illegal assassinations with a missile attack on Beirut. It follows a drone attack on a Palestinian refugee camp and Israel’s continued illegal bombing and occupation of Southern Lebanon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Yesterday saw a fresh escalation in Israel’s illegal assassinations with a missile attack on Beirut. It follows a drone attack on a Palestinian refugee camp and Israel’s continued illegal bombing and occupation of Southern Lebanon.
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What are taxpayers getting for the quarter-billion dollars they're spending propping up dog racing? Hundreds of dead dogs and thousands of injuries.
Greyhound racing's annual bill hits a quarter-billion from taxpayers
www.crikey.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What are taxpayers getting for the quarter-billion dollars they're spending propping up dog racing? Hundreds of dead dogs and thousands of injuries.
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It’s real good. It’s real good in ways you wouldn’t even expect it to be real good.
Baby Steps is $13.99 on US PS+ buff.ly/aJGEOvR
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It’s real good. It’s real good in ways you wouldn’t even expect it to be real good.
Writing again about Videogamo's NAVE for a talk I'm giving at Playtopia.
13th annual World Championship apparently happens December 5. I wish I was in Buenos Aires for it. I happened to attend in 2019, coolest videogame event I've ever attended.
www.instagram.com/p/DP6nL7jgJTI/
13th annual World Championship apparently happens December 5. I wish I was in Buenos Aires for it. I happened to attend in 2019, coolest videogame event I've ever attended.
www.instagram.com/p/DP6nL7jgJTI/
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Writing again about Videogamo's NAVE for a talk I'm giving at Playtopia.
13th annual World Championship apparently happens December 5. I wish I was in Buenos Aires for it. I happened to attend in 2019, coolest videogame event I've ever attended.
www.instagram.com/p/DP6nL7jgJTI/
13th annual World Championship apparently happens December 5. I wish I was in Buenos Aires for it. I happened to attend in 2019, coolest videogame event I've ever attended.
www.instagram.com/p/DP6nL7jgJTI/
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Wow, Petscop is now eight years old. And still one of the best, most understated pieces of surreal 'haunted videogame' analog horror around.
Best experienced late at night with nothing else to get in the way. Try to piece it together yourself, and come to your own conclusions and interpretations.
Best experienced late at night with nothing else to get in the way. Try to piece it together yourself, and come to your own conclusions and interpretations.
Petscop - The Complete Series - YouTube
More will be added as they come out...............Stay Tuned
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wow, Petscop is now eight years old. And still one of the best, most understated pieces of surreal 'haunted videogame' analog horror around.
Best experienced late at night with nothing else to get in the way. Try to piece it together yourself, and come to your own conclusions and interpretations.
Best experienced late at night with nothing else to get in the way. Try to piece it together yourself, and come to your own conclusions and interpretations.
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Everyone reading that new Lizza post like Herzog listening to the bear attack recording
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Everyone reading that new Lizza post like Herzog listening to the bear attack recording
Long live TSLOG!!
Intro episode already got contentious, we immediately stepped on the age-old philosophical rake of "can we treat visuals and mechanics as separate layers, or are they inextricable"
(obv I personally think they're inextricable, esp in Michael's work)
bsky.app/profile/secr...
Intro episode already got contentious, we immediately stepped on the age-old philosophical rake of "can we treat visuals and mechanics as separate layers, or are they inextricable"
(obv I personally think they're inextricable, esp in Michael's work)
bsky.app/profile/secr...
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Long live TSLOG!!
Intro episode already got contentious, we immediately stepped on the age-old philosophical rake of "can we treat visuals and mechanics as separate layers, or are they inextricable"
(obv I personally think they're inextricable, esp in Michael's work)
bsky.app/profile/secr...
Intro episode already got contentious, we immediately stepped on the age-old philosophical rake of "can we treat visuals and mechanics as separate layers, or are they inextricable"
(obv I personally think they're inextricable, esp in Michael's work)
bsky.app/profile/secr...
Folks do I talk differently these days?? Today the bank teller thought I had a German accent (???)
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Folks do I talk differently these days?? Today the bank teller thought I had a German accent (???)
It cannot be said enough:
Fuck Google
Fuck Google
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It cannot be said enough:
Fuck Google
Fuck Google
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I think we need to talk about the difference between Commerce (trading goods and services, as old as human culture. 1000s of years. people love it! get things!) and Capitalism (goods and services not important, numbers are important. few hundred years old. a lot of people think it can be a bit shit)
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think we need to talk about the difference between Commerce (trading goods and services, as old as human culture. 1000s of years. people love it! get things!) and Capitalism (goods and services not important, numbers are important. few hundred years old. a lot of people think it can be a bit shit)
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
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MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza.
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza.
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...
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People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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The undercurrent that long precedes and will long outlive “everything is gambling” is “everything is defense contracting”, and surely the two are linked.
Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
link.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The undercurrent that long precedes and will long outlive “everything is gambling” is “everything is defense contracting”, and surely the two are linked.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
Also: are people really still on Twitter? Are any of your communities still active on Twitter? I stopped following reality tv Twitter long ago. I guess I’m feeling curious, like sociologically, about what actually ultimately drives groups to move between / abandon platforms and tools.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Also: are people really still on Twitter? Are any of your communities still active on Twitter? I stopped following reality tv Twitter long ago. I guess I’m feeling curious, like sociologically, about what actually ultimately drives groups to move between / abandon platforms and tools.
I still really miss sharing photos to old friends on IG - I never ended up finding any substitute - but I do not regret trying to minimize how much I use Meta platforms.
I get not everyone has the luxury of leaving IG but man do I long for the day that healthier alternatives are more widespread.
I get not everyone has the luxury of leaving IG but man do I long for the day that healthier alternatives are more widespread.
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I still really miss sharing photos to old friends on IG - I never ended up finding any substitute - but I do not regret trying to minimize how much I use Meta platforms.
I get not everyone has the luxury of leaving IG but man do I long for the day that healthier alternatives are more widespread.
I get not everyone has the luxury of leaving IG but man do I long for the day that healthier alternatives are more widespread.
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The whole thread is worth it, but this kicker is absolutely the real real
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The whole thread is worth it, but this kicker is absolutely the real real
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Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
Survey finds 60 per cent of Ningaloo coral has turned to stone
Scientists say they are "speechless" after witnessing significant coral death at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.