Matt Smith
@smithmatt
Comics enthusiast, policy wonk. Cat/dog person, PC Gamer, avid devourer of politics and legal ephemera. Opinions my own, not my employer. Pōneke. He/him. PFP @exocomics
9 games that made me. I was always a PC gamer and went down a mainly real time and turn based strategy route Made with my9games.com
When I installed mine, after lining it up it wouldn’t go all the way in. It needed a fairly hard whack to get it in, which did work. But uh… YMMV on that. 😬
Reading ‘A City on Mars’ and came to this excellent heading on space as a commons. Made me chuckle. Nice work @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social!
Australia are doing limited edition Bluey notes, adding yet another data point in support of @davekellett.bsky.social’s classic comic
Mine was Zeliard, an old Sierra platform et/adventure game. I played it to death when my Dad brought our family’s first computer home in the late 80s/early 90s.
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid For years I thought of Dave Dobbyn’s Slice of Heaven as ‘The Footrot Flats Song’ but had no idea why. One day I asked my Dad and he laughed. It was played over the closing credits and the whole family had been to see it when I was very small
Go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud
In Aotearoa New Zealand we have a similar phenomenon but rather less poetically described.
I was alerted to a good thread on the bad place by Adam Johnson about this. Basically that this time before an election is the only opportunity the left has to pressure Biden to do anything on anything - can't ask people to give that up without a fight
Pretty sure Arbee here is a crossbreed. Part Cozy Plumpus. Part Famished Everstarve.
Cats and dogs! How could I forget my fur children! I’ll combine 6. and 7 to have one extra. Work shouldn’t take over one’s life after all. Here’s the full snuggle of pets.