Harriet Prebble
@harrietprebble.bsky.social
Horror gameslinger @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & BigMouth Voices. Freelance writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵
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Our game is nominated for Most Anticipated at the Unity Awards this year 🥰
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Our game is nominated for Most Anticipated at the Unity Awards this year 🥰
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Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
www.gematsu.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.
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“Everyone has their own method of coping, some more effective, or self-destructive, than others...” He gives you a meaningful look.
September 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“Everyone has their own method of coping, some more effective, or self-destructive, than others...” He gives you a meaningful look.
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“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile,” Weike Wang writes, in an essay on work.
Notes on Work
There’s a masochistic pride to overworking. How heavy a workload can I truly handle? How many plates can I keep in the air?
www.newyorker.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile,” Weike Wang writes, in an essay on work.
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Keynote Speakers!!
✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨
The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025!
Get your tickets now: https://www.nzgdc.com/
✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨
The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025!
Get your tickets now: https://www.nzgdc.com/
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Keynote Speakers!!
✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨
The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025!
Get your tickets now: https://www.nzgdc.com/
✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨
The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025!
Get your tickets now: https://www.nzgdc.com/
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Doctor: Great job, you've been born. You're a natural. Now, press [A] repeatedly to cry. Right, just like that. As a baby, crying is one of your most useful abilities
July 30, 2023 at 9:56 PM
Doctor: Great job, you've been born. You're a natural. Now, press [A] repeatedly to cry. Right, just like that. As a baby, crying is one of your most useful abilities
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters that Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot” in the Gaza war. Luxon is facing calls for his government to recognise the state of Palestine.
August 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters that Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot” in the Gaza war. Luxon is facing calls for his government to recognise the state of Palestine.
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another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
for my specific style of Totally Normal Brain, a person acting weirdly fawning and inexplicably congratulatory like an llm would make me immediately skeptical of anything they say, so llms emulating that behavior as an intentional design choice is like wow i fucking hate this.
August 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
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And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.
August 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.
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someone should write an essay on how we've gone backwards on a very elementary understanding of what sexism is, to the point where ppl are missing the subtle and unequal ways it is wielded & just think it's like bugs bunny heart eyes at a broad
August 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
someone should write an essay on how we've gone backwards on a very elementary understanding of what sexism is, to the point where ppl are missing the subtle and unequal ways it is wielded & just think it's like bugs bunny heart eyes at a broad
One of the biggest culture shocks for me travelling to smaller towns in rural USA was coming across places where you’d have to drive for hours to get fresh produce. Like whaddya mean there’s nowhere that sells fruit and veges?
Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
www.newyorker.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
One of the biggest culture shocks for me travelling to smaller towns in rural USA was coming across places where you’d have to drive for hours to get fresh produce. Like whaddya mean there’s nowhere that sells fruit and veges?
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Environmental storytelling.
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Environmental storytelling.
Two of the best.
✨ Speakers from: PikPok ✨
Here's a couple of talks exploring aspects of production for "Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days" from PikPok! Hear about systems that make up the NPC behaviour and the process for making the trailers!
For more info check out: https://www.nzgdc.com/programme
Here's a couple of talks exploring aspects of production for "Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days" from PikPok! Hear about systems that make up the NPC behaviour and the process for making the trailers!
For more info check out: https://www.nzgdc.com/programme
August 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Two of the best.
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A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside
In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
nbcnews.to
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.
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Stanford has not always conducted itself honorably as an institution, but I am daily awed by the levels of principle and commitment that exist among our students.
Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
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August 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Stanford has not always conducted itself honorably as an institution, but I am daily awed by the levels of principle and commitment that exist among our students.
“Remember when "selling out" meant something? Gen Xers threw that accusation around like a moral hand grenade. The whole concept rested on a clear line between authentic artistic expression and commercial compromise.”
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The Work of Plagiarism and the Work of Selling Out
When everyone's a thief and everyone's for sale, the words lose their sting
oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Remember when "selling out" meant something? Gen Xers threw that accusation around like a moral hand grenade. The whole concept rested on a clear line between authentic artistic expression and commercial compromise.”
oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
I do sometimes complain about New Zealand feeling boring but it has its upsides.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/05/p...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/05/p...
Police fired their guns just three times last year
New data shows police are drawing their weapons more frequently than in the past, even as firearm and Taser discharges remain rare
newsroom.co.nz
August 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I do sometimes complain about New Zealand feeling boring but it has its upsides.
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When even Chris Finlayson is criticising National...
The National Attorney-General when the law covering customary maritime rights for Māori was enacted by Parliament criticises planned coalition Govt restrictions as 'foolish' and 'extremely harmful'
Former Attorney-General criticises Marine and Coastal Areas Act changes
newsroom.co.nz
August 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
When even Chris Finlayson is criticising National...
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umbrella (formerly umbrella entertainment), distributor of very cool 4K blu-rays and local films, has announced a new wing dedicated to video games
Australian film distributor Umbrella expands into game publishing
Umbrella, one of ANZ's leading film distribution companies, has officially announced a new game publishing wing, Umbrella Gaming.
www.screenhub.com.au
August 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
umbrella (formerly umbrella entertainment), distributor of very cool 4K blu-rays and local films, has announced a new wing dedicated to video games
This is fucked up.
Journalist Jim Acosta faced intense backlash this week with what he called a “one of a kind interview”: A video of him talking with an AI-generated avatar modeled on Joaquin Oliver, a teenager killed in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018.
Jim Acosta sparks fury with ‘interview’ of dead Parkland teen’s AI avatar
The video adds to the growing list of AI-video resurrections that people have called “unsettling” and “grotesque.”
wapo.st
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is fucked up.
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
“Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...