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I run DigitallyDownloaded.net. Published author, soon to be a game developer too: Check out The Last Waltz when it releases in October (I hope)!
Oh my God oh my God oh my God I am SO LOOKING forward to this (new trailer!)

10 Dance is about same sex Dancesport - it’s an excellent manga and this is one of Japan’s finest directors (he did the Rurouni Kenshin films before). This is gonna be amazing.

youtu.be/4iZZGBMlFbc
10DANCE | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix Philippines
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Watched The Long Walk film.

It was so close.

So close.

But it fails in a big way. We don’t really see any physical impact from the walk. The book is brutal in what that walk does to participants. The film shows people dying but everyone looks as fresh at the as the start.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Finished Long Walk. Keeping the Stephen King kick going by finally reading this book (the film is one of my favourite King adaptations)
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a spectacular Paso Doble.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
These were the winners of the Latin competition tonight. No surprises really. They deserved it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is my favourite Australian Latin Dancesport woman at the moment. She’s a bombshell and such a warm, charming, joyful dancer to watch.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
IMO this is the finest professional ballroom couple currently competing in Australia. The precision of their movements and character are superb.
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Okay. Now we have mostly just the major finals and professionals. Now’s the time to load up the stream if you want to see good dancing.
If anyone wants to watch some Dancesport the competition is now being streamed here: dancesport.org.au/dsl/results/...

We’re moving into the evening sessions now (the higher quality events)
Video Stream
dancesport.org.au
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If anyone wants to watch some Dancesport the competition is now being streamed here: dancesport.org.au/dsl/results/...

We’re moving into the evening sessions now (the higher quality events)
Video Stream
dancesport.org.au
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Goddamn I hate dancing with an injury. This sport is hard enough when you’re fully fit. Today my body is going to be screaming at me with every damn step.
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Sydney Town Hall is a lovely building for Dancesport competitions.
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Guillermo Del Toro’s new Frankenstein film on Netflix is excellent. A pity it’s locked to Netflix so people who don’t have that service miss out on this great piece of art.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If I were an enterprising indie developer I would be taking the opportunity to make “Sims but without Saudi Arabia’s censorship board watching us” because we all know what’s inevitable here.
A designer for The Sims says that the series' diversity is "critical, especially at times like now", in the face of ongoing reactionary cycles.

EA has recently been acquired by Saudi Arabia, a country in which same-sex relationships are illegal.

(Read more: FRVR)
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. Coca-Cola should have realised that the first last year was a pile of trash. Instead, no doubt, their marketing people saw big *engagement* numbers (and didn’t notice that most of it was mockery) and so went back for more.
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial is AI-generated again

The company used even fewer people to make it this year

“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"

(via THR)
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tonight’s retro game of the week is a classic that I don’t think anyone remembers lol. I bet I am the only person on this planet that has played this this week.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Felt like a meat free day so went to local vegan restaurant for curry bun and sweet & sour “pork” and mapo tofu. This is good stuff. Very moresome.
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Picked up a new board game. Looks like a spin on Defender of the Crown, one of my favourite retro games ever.
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So @digitaleclipse.bsky.social has knocked it out the park with the Mortal Kombat collection. This GBA gem got me through a difficult period where I had a 2 hour commute for a job I hated. Replaying this has been the definition of nostalgia.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hey @lawksland.bsky.social played Tormented Souls 2 yet?
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My retro arcade challenge this week is this classic masterpiece. I am terrible at platformers and yet I love this game so much lol.
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Dancesport Is Life
I've added more Evercade games to my rankings! All Patreon members, free or paid, can read this one. The burning topics addressed today include:

- Boulder Dash or Sword of Fargoal?
- What is a Chack'n and why does it Pop?
- Break Dance: Threat or Menace?

and more!

www.patreon.com/posts/142077...
Let's Rank Every Game for Evercade: Part Eleven of Two Hundred or So | Shaun Musgrave
Get more from Shaun Musgrave on Patreon
www.patreon.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Yukes, the incredibly talented studio that used to make the Westling games and Earth Defence Force, has a new game out and it’s a combination of anime short skirt fanservice and savage satire of capitalism. It’s also a really fun roguelike action game. God bless Japan.
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Authenticity matters. So I got one of the major Dancesport Championships in Australia to use music from The Last Waltz for the competition finals. The result is pretty awesome, IMO: store.steampowered.com/news/app/369...
The Last Waltz - Authenticity Matters! - Steam News
Music from The Last Waltz used in a Dancesport Championship
store.steampowered.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There are times I wish I had have stuck with my goal of becoming a sports photographer. I think I could have done a decent job of it.

World Triathlon Championships photos (taken with iPhone).
October 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A game publisher is demanding I remove an article due to some kind of legal action in Italy, lol.

This is a genuine email from the publisher.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the Italian courts cannot, in fact, compel me to remove this article.
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM