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  My second #BandcampFriday pickup this month (good thing it runs after midnight, haha) is Bird Hide, a dose of dreamy, trancelike jazz-tronic flute ambience from Jak (aka Jem and Kent), the latter half of which is Mastodon's own @kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online This one is going straight to the "late afternoon to late evening ambience" pile. So damn fine. 😎 https://jakflute.bandcamp.com/album/bird-hide

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tonylongworth/117050334484499312 Aha! I've enjoyed streaming quite a few tracks as they were released individually but was waiting til this album was complete before the lot, so #BandcampFriday is the perfect time. Tony is a sonic wizard, scoring the soundtrack for the #HeartOfNeon documentary amongst many other musical goodies, and is well worth checking out, especially if you like darker alternative and soundtrack-vibes. 😎

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  @tallandtrue@aus.social Welcome home! (As it were.) 👋

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  #MayThe4th is here once more, so here's a little #StarWars videogame history for the few possibly interested - an interview I did with Jack Yarwood at @timeextension.com back in 2023, about developing #NES Star Wars for Lucasfilm. #MayThe4thBeWithYou https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-how-an-australian-developer-helped-lucasfilm-make-its-first-star-wars-game

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  @troberts@theblower.au Good stuff. 👍 My eldest missed the entire third term of his VCE last year, just total refusal to attend; we didn't know if he was even going to show up for the fourth, let alone complete. So anyway he did go back, with a mix of at school and online via VSV (Virtual Schools Victoria) and got through/passed somehow, and is now doing first year uni, business studies, which was a genuine shock to us as his plan all last year was no more study - either travel or labour...

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  Returned to my replay of #ProfessorLayton and the Curious Village that I started some time last year... only to discover I'd left it on the eighth (of nine) chapters and probably should have pushed through to the finish back then. Anyway, a couple of hours' puzzling this evening, and the mystery of St. Mystere is a mystery no more... 😉 #NintendoDS

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  Today I watched the highly-rated cult comedy 'Hundreds of Beavers'. Being a fan of the creative and quirky generally, I expected to like it, possibly even love it, but certainly more than a couple of friends who had seen it previously and refused to commit beyond, "It's an experience. You should at least give it a go." So I did. Oh. 😬 #films https://letterboxd.com/civilmadman/film/hundreds-of-beavers/

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  @troberts@theblower.au @brh@metalhead.club Yeah, but they also keep saying AGI is "real soon now, just give us more money", but it's not happening in any of our lifetimes, not from spicy autocomplete slop-generators. None of these slop-peddlers are going to turn a genuine profit on this tech, because it simply can't do what they claim. If it was really going to revolutionise the world, make folks rich, etc. they wouldn't be putting in ads and monetising porn-generation...

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  @flargh@mastodon.social Living in Amiga low res mode, my 2026 resolution remains 320 x 256, in 32 glorious colours. 😉

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  @flargh@mastodon.social Not "upgrading" my iPhone 13 or my MacBook Air to their respective OS26s unless absolutely forced by circumstance. I just hate the new aesthetic so much, and they have objectively made usability and accessibility worse - something that Apple used to be actually good at...

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  @troberts@theblower.au I'm another "all of the above", assuming that also includes the secret 5th option. I know it's not in the spirit of polling, but I genuinely cannot separate out or elevate one reason above the others. They are all fucking awful and disastrous in their own ways.