Alex Roberts
@flaxless.bsky.social
(He/Him)
Fediverse: @[email protected]
I like playing games, reading, watching TV and movies, drinking beer and coffee, and living in Australia. I like making sourdough bread, kombucha and software (in that order).
Fediverse: @[email protected]
I like playing games, reading, watching TV and movies, drinking beer and coffee, and living in Australia. I like making sourdough bread, kombucha and software (in that order).
Spotify and it's CEO are pretty disgusting. You don't need it, the alternatives are pretty ok.
Spotify Unwrapped – Drop ICE Ads – Cancel Spotify!
Spotify has been running I.C.E. recruitment ads and has refused to remove them. Therefore, we are unwrapping Spotify to reveal the harm they are causing in the world.
spotifyunwrapped.net
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Spotify and it's CEO are pretty disgusting. You don't need it, the alternatives are pretty ok.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
Go to GETLAMP.COM and download the ISO files. Don't watch this bad rip.
And for the history of computer-mediated adventure games: Jason Scott has your back with “Get Lamp” m.youtube.com/watch?v=zEJX... and “Infocom: The Documentary” m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNL...
Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary
YouTube video by Hiraeth
m.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Go to GETLAMP.COM and download the ISO files. Don't watch this bad rip.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
If no one else is gonna claim this thing then we will.
It’s for Skate Story which comes out December 8 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam.
Anyone else that claims it is lying. We made it out of the bones of most of our interns and the remaining interns put it in the desert.
It’s for Skate Story which comes out December 8 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam.
Anyone else that claims it is lying. We made it out of the bones of most of our interns and the remaining interns put it in the desert.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
If no one else is gonna claim this thing then we will.
It’s for Skate Story which comes out December 8 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam.
Anyone else that claims it is lying. We made it out of the bones of most of our interns and the remaining interns put it in the desert.
It’s for Skate Story which comes out December 8 on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam.
Anyone else that claims it is lying. We made it out of the bones of most of our interns and the remaining interns put it in the desert.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
The Speculative Century (pejorative)
Wtf are we doing?
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Speculative Century (pejorative)
Reposted by Alex Roberts
Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
For what it's worth, people in Australia can get free membership of the National Library, and with that you can read the ABR free. It's how I came to enjoy this lovely little bit of savagery.
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
www.library.gov.au/research/gui...
Join the Library | National Library of Australia (NLA)
table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";} tr {mso-height-source:auto;} col {mso-width-source:auto;} td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignore:padding; color:black; font-size:11.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:"Aptos Narrow", sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;} Join the Library to request collection items to use in our reading rooms and access subscription databases through eResources.
www.library.gov.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Plugging this more widely as it's quite useful for reading expensive publications for nowt, if you are Australian (or at least Australia-based).
Reposted by Alex Roberts
The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
Presented without context
here's my first test at annotating/blurring a video. It needs some work to be less flickery but it's a start.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Presented without context
Reposted by Alex Roberts
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
It’s been over 2 years since the late Peta Murphy’s inquiry into online gambling advertising & how it affects problem gamblers. Since then, Australians have lost $60 billion to gambling.
Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.
Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It’s been over 2 years since the late Peta Murphy’s inquiry into online gambling advertising & how it affects problem gamblers. Since then, Australians have lost $60 billion to gambling.
Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.
Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
Here's an unsolicited picture of Richard "Dick" Pick, creator of the Pick OS (originally known as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, or GIRLS).
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Here's an unsolicited picture of Richard "Dick" Pick, creator of the Pick OS (originally known as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, or GIRLS).
Reposted by Alex Roberts
An independent public broadcaster is a bolster for democracy.
Sign now to defend our ABC from Murdoch's attacks! getup.to/zdWA1srCdvoTo
Sign now to defend our ABC from Murdoch's attacks! getup.to/zdWA1srCdvoTo
Defend our ABC!
Our ABC is under attack by far-right wreckers – we're fighting back.
getup.to
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
An independent public broadcaster is a bolster for democracy.
Sign now to defend our ABC from Murdoch's attacks! getup.to/zdWA1srCdvoTo
Sign now to defend our ABC from Murdoch's attacks! getup.to/zdWA1srCdvoTo
Reposted by Alex Roberts
![Extra two panels to the meme
1: Guard on the tower saying [bluesky post by Qsy
@qsy.bsky.social
"Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out."]
2: Guy in blue tunic pulling the lever and shouting "CLOSE THE GATE".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56la2acetaj5pkcx5qf6opds/bafkreif4rrdte5uq37ad6hrsa77crbvkkafdshqgcsjcecq6wtssw365ii@jpeg)
Reposted by Alex Roberts
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Reposted by Alex Roberts
Trump’s response to a medical emergency happening right next to him is perfectly him
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump’s response to a medical emergency happening right next to him is perfectly him
Reposted by Alex Roberts
A massive economic bubble is on the verge of bursting, a new Simpsons movie is on the horizon, and someone decided to start manufacturing plastic drums again. I've seen enough. 2007 Part II is finally here.
🥁 Feel the beat. Own the stage.
CRKD Drums - Coming 2026.
👉 Sign up to be notified: https://go.crkd.gg/drums
CRKD Drums - Coming 2026.
👉 Sign up to be notified: https://go.crkd.gg/drums
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A massive economic bubble is on the verge of bursting, a new Simpsons movie is on the horizon, and someone decided to start manufacturing plastic drums again. I've seen enough. 2007 Part II is finally here.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
It has always been important to me that our library is this totally open, free, democratic resource for studying video game history, and we've got a good process. We acquire material, catalog it, digitize it, upload it, promote it, repeat. Our staff size is 2, our overhead low, and our impact huge.
Presenting our newest archival collection:
The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢
Read more:
The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢
Read more:
Our first narrative collection: the Andrew Nelson papers | Video Game History Foundation
A new archival collection from the writer of the mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.
gamehistory.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It has always been important to me that our library is this totally open, free, democratic resource for studying video game history, and we've got a good process. We acquire material, catalog it, digitize it, upload it, promote it, repeat. Our staff size is 2, our overhead low, and our impact huge.
@grubb.wtf @tolkoto.com @janochoa.bsky.social @turboshawn.com Loving the Giant Bomb-A-Thon!
Even though it was around for years before that, the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City televised the stadium wave to the rest of the world, hence its know as the Mexican Wave everywhere outside North America.
Even though it was around for years before that, the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City televised the stadium wave to the rest of the world, hence its know as the Mexican Wave everywhere outside North America.
GIANT BOMB-A-THON 2025! | Part 2
YouTube video by Giant Bomb
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
@grubb.wtf @tolkoto.com @janochoa.bsky.social @turboshawn.com Loving the Giant Bomb-A-Thon!
Even though it was around for years before that, the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City televised the stadium wave to the rest of the world, hence its know as the Mexican Wave everywhere outside North America.
Even though it was around for years before that, the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City televised the stadium wave to the rest of the world, hence its know as the Mexican Wave everywhere outside North America.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
Just completed it and wept at the end. One of our pets died today & a deer visited my window during the finale. Fond places from my childhood back home came up in the credits. I'll probably never play a game that makes me as proud of my Irishness again, and that's okay. Incredible.
Video games man.
Video games man.
So...The Séance of Blake Manor is my favorite game of 2025 so far.
A first person murder mystery with detailed investigation mechanics, superb writing, and atmosphere. Also the best game about Irish History I've ever played
Bravo @spookydoorway.bsky.social 👏
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
A first person murder mystery with detailed investigation mechanics, superb writing, and atmosphere. Also the best game about Irish History I've ever played
Bravo @spookydoorway.bsky.social 👏
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
Save 10% on The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...
store.steampowered.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Just completed it and wept at the end. One of our pets died today & a deer visited my window during the finale. Fond places from my childhood back home came up in the credits. I'll probably never play a game that makes me as proud of my Irishness again, and that's okay. Incredible.
Video games man.
Video games man.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation.
Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.
Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation.
Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.
Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.
Reposted by Alex Roberts
We've recorded the Berserk finale. It will publish on Halloween.
Have a nice day.
Catch up before then
open.spotify.com/show/1mlrp7C...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Have a nice day.
Catch up before then
open.spotify.com/show/1mlrp7C...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
a picture of a partial eclipse of the sun taken on august 30th
ALT: a picture of a partial eclipse of the sun taken on august 30th
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We've recorded the Berserk finale. It will publish on Halloween.
Have a nice day.
Catch up before then
open.spotify.com/show/1mlrp7C...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Have a nice day.
Catch up before then
open.spotify.com/show/1mlrp7C...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Damn, just noticed a new Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure dropped 4 days ago and none of you posted about it! @giantbomb.bsky.social @jerf.xyz @lucyjames.games @tamoorh.com @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social
Shit's definitely getting real; can't wait for the finale.
Shit's definitely getting real; can't wait for the finale.
Triple-enforced door (Berserk 11) - JeffJeff's Bizarre Adventure
www.spreaker.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Damn, just noticed a new Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure dropped 4 days ago and none of you posted about it! @giantbomb.bsky.social @jerf.xyz @lucyjames.games @tamoorh.com @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social
Shit's definitely getting real; can't wait for the finale.
Shit's definitely getting real; can't wait for the finale.
A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/L78ejCAAVfyZ...
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
getup.to
October 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/L78ejCAAVfyZ...