"a year's supply of Lost Mary if you come see the robot film with me"
I've always felt that the immense levels of creative energy expended to create two perfect songs in Modern Love and Let's Dance was why Bowie turned shit for decades immediately afterwards
Glad to hear you and your nine school-age friends enjoyed it
At the risk of sounding dippy, I think the onus has to be on self-care. People at large can't realistically be expected to resist screaming into the void and/or whatever prompts the most response. We are what we are.
I left The Other place a few years ago, before Emperor Hairplugs took over. My mind was broken by constant doom-scrolling, culture war and minute-to-minute politics - it had made me ill and strange. I am much better now. It's good so many of you are out. But please, be careful here too.
Wrote, narrative-designed and/or consulted on a whole mess of games big and small prior to that - and still do, on the side. And, many epochs ago, I was a games journo, mostly notable co-founding RockPaperShotgun. All that feels like the most of distant of dreams now.
When not posting about cats, weird thumbs or toy robots, I'm the writer on the next game from Returnal folks Housemarque. Can't say owt about that yet, but I've had a whale of a time dreaming up its world, characters and stories.
That were @griddleoctopus.bsky.social. Current thing for me is the next game for the Returnal folks. Top mutant thumb btw.