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
Distressing news:
Melbourne CBD + more - includes my workplace - being turned into an actual police state for the next six months.
“[police] will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds”
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Melbourne CBD + more - includes my workplace - being turned into an actual police state for the next six months.
“[police] will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds”
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Distressing news:
Melbourne CBD + more - includes my workplace - being turned into an actual police state for the next six months.
“[police] will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds”
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Melbourne CBD + more - includes my workplace - being turned into an actual police state for the next six months.
“[police] will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds”
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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Here's a long Thanksgiving listen if you wanna go ultra deep on the Caves of Qud endgame. The hosts & Brian/Caelyn are so insightful as always, but I'm also thankful they let me rattle on re: the teeming melange that went into the ending. This was the post-release exhale I needed. Hope you enjoy!
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We’re proud to present the final installment of our over-a-year-long Into the Depths series on , as well as our last episode with our recently retired Eggplant branding. Caves of Qud is a massive open...
secretlives.games
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Here's a long Thanksgiving listen if you wanna go ultra deep on the Caves of Qud endgame. The hosts & Brian/Caelyn are so insightful as always, but I'm also thankful they let me rattle on re: the teeming melange that went into the ending. This was the post-release exhale I needed. Hope you enjoy!
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
Yeah hell yeah send me to rad game events in SE Asia
bsky.app/profile/ehro...
bsky.app/profile/ehro...
i don't want to "succeed overseas" man i want everyone else to come over to malaysia in like 20 years because we have the best games events and a vibrant design scene, so that i don't have to travel and the food is better here anyways
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yeah hell yeah send me to rad game events in SE Asia
bsky.app/profile/ehro...
bsky.app/profile/ehro...
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this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands
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Check out the spoiler-laden conclusion, where we ask the devs all the deep questions about the ending of this truly epic game. A huge thank you to everyone present for this chat. <3 Join us for this (nearly) 4 hour hour long finale episode!
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
We're joined by @ectafoole.bsky.social, @unormal.bsky.social, and @jfg.land, with special guest host @thisisstar.bsky.social, to discuss the challenge of finishing a game you've been making for 18 years... and what comes next.
secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We’re proud to present the final installment of our over-a-year-long Into the Depths series on , as well as our last episode with our recently retired Eggplant branding. Caves of Qud is a massive open...
secretlives.games
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Check out the spoiler-laden conclusion, where we ask the devs all the deep questions about the ending of this truly epic game. A huge thank you to everyone present for this chat. <3 Join us for this (nearly) 4 hour hour long finale episode!
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I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
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a landscape where one platform completely dominates the market and there is no real alternative will always give Valve permission to do whatever they want with no recourse for developers to do anything about it. this same type of behavior is how Apple completely fucked mobile games on the App store.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
a landscape where one platform completely dominates the market and there is no real alternative will always give Valve permission to do whatever they want with no recourse for developers to do anything about it. this same type of behavior is how Apple completely fucked mobile games on the App store.
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you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you just can't have a meaningful conversation about the potential benefits of "AI" while this stuff is happening. it's like trying to talk about how useful an airplane might be during a hijacking
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If you weren't already convinced of what complict scum our entire political class is
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you weren't already convinced of what complict scum our entire political class is
So much videogames discourse and wisdom is inherently poisoned by the fantasy of frictionless mass distribution. I totally get why but it’s such a haunting issue.
Been revisiting Terre Thaemlitz’s writings on the distinction between online and digital cultures (comatonse.com/writings/201...)
Been revisiting Terre Thaemlitz’s writings on the distinction between online and digital cultures (comatonse.com/writings/201...)
Terre Thaemlitz - Writings - Collateral Damage (The Wire, UK)
Terre Thaemlitz writes about .
comatonse.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So much videogames discourse and wisdom is inherently poisoned by the fantasy of frictionless mass distribution. I totally get why but it’s such a haunting issue.
Been revisiting Terre Thaemlitz’s writings on the distinction between online and digital cultures (comatonse.com/writings/201...)
Been revisiting Terre Thaemlitz’s writings on the distinction between online and digital cultures (comatonse.com/writings/201...)
One of my fav podcast episodes we’ve ever done.
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
our CAVES OF QUD series finale featuring @jfg.land, @unormal.bsky.social, and @ectafoole.bsky.social is now live and free for everyone. it is four hours long. covers almost every major endgame spoiler. look, you already know if this is for you. if it is, get in here secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We’re proud to present the final installment of our over-a-year-long Into the Depths series on , as well as our last episode with our recently retired Eggplant branding. Caves of Qud is a massive open...
secretlives.games
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One of my fav podcast episodes we’ve ever done.
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
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gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
lots of michael brough games by Michael Brough
collection
smestorp.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
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Facebook is a scam factory. Meta's own internal audit reveals 10% of their revenue comes from spam advertising - $16bn annually. Between 2020-2023 scam losses in Australia increased 249%. In 76% of cases, contact occurred on Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp).
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Facebook is a scam factory. Meta's own internal audit reveals 10% of their revenue comes from spam advertising - $16bn annually. Between 2020-2023 scam losses in Australia increased 249%. In 76% of cases, contact occurred on Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp).
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It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.
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...