Disco Stu
@epiphanyengine.bsky.social
Formerly @epiphanyengine at Twitter, disco_stu on Discord. Mostly lurking, occasionally talking about analogue games. Melbourne, he/him. No dickheads no fascists no terfs.
Been a bit more quiet here, but weirdly been on Instagram more. The algorithm there doesn’t yet know me so I’m being given all sorts of random things. The novelty will wear off soon, I’m sure.
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Been a bit more quiet here, but weirdly been on Instagram more. The algorithm there doesn’t yet know me so I’m being given all sorts of random things. The novelty will wear off soon, I’m sure.
It was my birthday the other week and got a stack of novels, subsequently finished two books in as many days. Wolfe’s ’Fifth Head of Cerberus’ took me longer than anticipated - I loved the first two stories but the third didn’t grab me and I felt like I needed to drag myself across the finish line.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was my birthday the other week and got a stack of novels, subsequently finished two books in as many days. Wolfe’s ’Fifth Head of Cerberus’ took me longer than anticipated - I loved the first two stories but the third didn’t grab me and I felt like I needed to drag myself across the finish line.
Hello Canberra, we really do need to talk about your lack of skyline.
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hello Canberra, we really do need to talk about your lack of skyline.
Another day, another solo game of John Company. The Sykes Family had an impressive run of military victories only to be undone by rebellions. Walsh dominated the Board of Directors and kept the company out of debt, but it was Larkins - who married well, and retired better - who got the victory.
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Another day, another solo game of John Company. The Sykes Family had an impressive run of military victories only to be undone by rebellions. Walsh dominated the Board of Directors and kept the company out of debt, but it was Larkins - who married well, and retired better - who got the victory.
Reading update! Finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion the other day. It’s a slow start but built tempo as it went on. As I reread the series I do wonder how the pitch to the publisher went. Have started The System of the World (final volume in the series) which I remember quite enjoying.
October 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reading update! Finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion the other day. It’s a slow start but built tempo as it went on. As I reread the series I do wonder how the pitch to the publisher went. Have started The System of the World (final volume in the series) which I remember quite enjoying.
Been in bed with the ‘flu for the last couple of days. Good news is that I smashed through Spook Country and my twentieth book of the year, Zero History. I think my issue with SC is that it feels a little unmoored, the overarching story only coming into focus fairly late in the piece.
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Been in bed with the ‘flu for the last couple of days. Good news is that I smashed through Spook Country and my twentieth book of the year, Zero History. I think my issue with SC is that it feels a little unmoored, the overarching story only coming into focus fairly late in the piece.
So I’m on book 19(?) for the year. Output slowed a bit for a while there, but work trips and shorter books for those numbers up. After reading Virtual Light I couldn’t help but plough through the rest of Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, along with both volumes of Le Morte D’Arthur and Pattern Recognition.
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So I’m on book 19(?) for the year. Output slowed a bit for a while there, but work trips and shorter books for those numbers up. After reading Virtual Light I couldn’t help but plough through the rest of Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, along with both volumes of Le Morte D’Arthur and Pattern Recognition.
Sydney is a coffee and nominal burger from a Japanese restaurant that was, presumably, once a house. Comfort food, like rereading Pattern Recognition and realising, suddenly, how alien the futuristic present of 2003 has become.
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Sydney is a coffee and nominal burger from a Japanese restaurant that was, presumably, once a house. Comfort food, like rereading Pattern Recognition and realising, suddenly, how alien the futuristic present of 2003 has become.
Maria! Played this one last night, recreating the Wars of Austrian Succession between 1740-1748. You can’t tell from the pictures but gorgeous art, clever mechanisms and tense all the way through.
August 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Maria! Played this one last night, recreating the Wars of Austrian Succession between 1740-1748. You can’t tell from the pictures but gorgeous art, clever mechanisms and tense all the way through.
Instagram seems to think I’m a bear. Flattered I suppose?
July 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Instagram seems to think I’m a bear. Flattered I suppose?
Put on The Princess Bride for the kids tonight and they loved it. Both of them had seen it before - my daughter watched it maybe four times in two days, at one point - but it’s been a few years and it’s such a damn joy. Perfect dialogue, perfect casting, perfect everything.
July 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Put on The Princess Bride for the kids tonight and they loved it. Both of them had seen it before - my daughter watched it maybe four times in two days, at one point - but it’s been a few years and it’s such a damn joy. Perfect dialogue, perfect casting, perfect everything.
Caxton published Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur in the last week of 1485, and 540 years later, in the last days of July, I finished it! A tremendous tome, genuinely epic in scope, and I feel better for having read it and for having finished it.
July 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Caxton published Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur in the last week of 1485, and 540 years later, in the last days of July, I finished it! A tremendous tome, genuinely epic in scope, and I feel better for having read it and for having finished it.
No exciting photos on this trip, best I can give you of Sydney is a poorly cropped G&T in the business lounge.
July 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
No exciting photos on this trip, best I can give you of Sydney is a poorly cropped G&T in the business lounge.
Updated my profile pic on another social media platform; reader, I aged seven years in a day.
July 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Updated my profile pic on another social media platform; reader, I aged seven years in a day.
At the Atheneum in Melbourne tonight, and the light fittings made me think of a neoclassical Minion.
July 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
At the Atheneum in Melbourne tonight, and the light fittings made me think of a neoclassical Minion.
In Canberra today. Okay, so my hotel isn’t really giving me the impressive skylines like some of the places I’ve visited recently, but it does have those bright cold mornings that I love.
June 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
In Canberra today. Okay, so my hotel isn’t really giving me the impressive skylines like some of the places I’ve visited recently, but it does have those bright cold mornings that I love.
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Nov 30th 1969: Princess Margaret is speaking to David Bowie after the Save-Rave charity concert at London’s Palladium. To Bowie’s right are Dave Cash & Ed Stewart, both Radio One DJs, and singer Clodagh Rodgers.
June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Nov 30th 1969: Princess Margaret is speaking to David Bowie after the Save-Rave charity concert at London’s Palladium. To Bowie’s right are Dave Cash & Ed Stewart, both Radio One DJs, and singer Clodagh Rodgers.
@mattthr.bsky.social I have followed you for a bajillion years on various platforms, but somehow only just found the Cult of the Old podcast? I have catching up to do…
June 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
@mattthr.bsky.social I have followed you for a bajillion years on various platforms, but somehow only just found the Cult of the Old podcast? I have catching up to do…
After starting it many, many years ago, I finally played through the end of Pandemic Legacy S1! No pictures here for spoiler purposes, but a satisfying finish. (Sorry, London. They know what I did.)
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
After starting it many, many years ago, I finally played through the end of Pandemic Legacy S1! No pictures here for spoiler purposes, but a satisfying finish. (Sorry, London. They know what I did.)
@bwholland.bsky.social congrats on the new role! Fantastic news. 🤘🤘
June 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@bwholland.bsky.social congrats on the new role! Fantastic news. 🤘🤘
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Tolkien used hobbits to represent traditional English values. This is why Bilbo leaves his home, lies to a foreigner, steals his treasure, and causes a war which kills and displaces millions of people.
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tolkien used hobbits to represent traditional English values. This is why Bilbo leaves his home, lies to a foreigner, steals his treasure, and causes a war which kills and displaces millions of people.
And good morning Gold Coast. On of these visits I’ll actually go to the beach rather than seeing it at a distance through a window.
May 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
And good morning Gold Coast. On of these visits I’ll actually go to the beach rather than seeing it at a distance through a window.
Good morning Brisbane.
May 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Good morning Brisbane.
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*I wonder how many times I have read learned laments like this. Centuries of them. Gentlemen should be trained to carefully read Latin, for instance
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Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
*I wonder how many times I have read learned laments like this. Centuries of them. Gentlemen should be trained to carefully read Latin, for instance
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...