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Meghan Ellis Brown
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Entertainment Journalist | SFF Writer | Tabletop Bookshelf, BBC Scotland, TechRadar, The Guardian, IGN, All the Anime, etc. | me@meghanon.co.uk 🥰
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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reki.gay
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
We're ready for the State of Play tonight~ 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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matthewseiji.com
The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
I cannot WAIT to play Lumines Arise. The original games were just so fundamentally part of my should-be-studying-instead-I'm-gaming university experience.
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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mattreyn.games
It’s Monday. You know what that means
October 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Here's me over at @tabletopbookshelf.com talking about cyan starlight 💙💫 - a lonely but intriguing solo TTRPG experience 🚀
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
An old work colleague of mines is releasing a board game and I'm SO thrilled for him and the rest of the team. Look at this, wow!
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 4d
The Old King’s Crown is a grab bag of concepts from all sorts of other board games, each given a loving polish and shape to fit it into a greater whole, wrapped in the most amazing eye candy, creating a unique package.
The Old King’s Crown Board Game Review
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November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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tabletopbookshelf.com
One Way Out from @tabletopbookshelf.com is is a quick-play fantasy storytelling game of escape and betrayal.

Designed for two players, each fast-paced 30 minute session pits you against the terrible dangers of the all-powerful High Mages -- and each other ⚔️
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/one...
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
working this afternoon with the verve and vigour of a necropolis resident
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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heyitsdora.com
Not now, carnivorous death ball
Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Dispatch has been on my radar and I'm so hyped that it's been getting good traction... gonna play
brunodias.bsky.social Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 9d
It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
gamedeveloper.bsky.social Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 9d
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
I got ID'd yesterday while waiting in a pub for my husband and pals and I exclaimed that I was in my mid thirties and she straight up didn't believe me 😅 the youth are so scared of ageing that they don't believe you can look kinda young beyond 28
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ka92.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
I am about to unleash glamours so accursed by answering the question - what if we gave a Summoner chainmail and bikini bottoms
novacrystallis.com Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 13d
The team is relaxing a long-held policy of certain types of gear glamour only being equip-able by certain roles. "Use any gear in your glamour, irrespective of class, job or level restriction." However, weapons/tools are exempt due to animations.
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Halloween but all the kids round my bit are insufferable, so I'm going to sit in the dark at the back of my house and play (non scary) video games
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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neilwilliamson.bsky.social
It's launch day for Blood In The Bricks, and we a super nice review by @runalongwomble.bsky.social to celebrate!
October 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Redrafting something for a submission and my god it's difficult 😨 fully sitting at my PC thinking about deleting the entire thing at the eleventh hour
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Oh I am SO deeply excited for this. I've been a fan since the beginning!
anitrendz.com Anime Trending @anitrendz.com · 14d
Mizuho Kusanagi's fantasy romance manga Yona of the Dawn (Akatsuki no Yona) will end in December 2025 after over 15 years!

The final chapter will be published in the December 19, 2025 issue of Hakusensha's Hana to Yume.

✨More: atani.me/akatsuki-no-yona-manga-end
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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andrewrweb.bsky.social
everyone seeing the animal crossing news
jack from lost saying "we have to go back"
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Had extra milk for my coffee this morning so I've made a chaser of babyccino and I think I'm onto something
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM