Tom Murch

Hello, Bluesky! I'm a nerd whose main interests are a story from 2015 about a socially-awkward time-traveller and her headstrong companion who dies many times, and a story from 2015 about a socially-awkward time-traveller and his headstrong companion who dies many times. #LifeIsStrange #DoctorWho

This was true for many years before I watched THE Mass Effect 3 video, and it's been especially true ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbB...

Me, checking how many people have signed the #SaveMassEffect petition next week:

A little over a year ago Danny O'Dwyer @noclipvideo.bsky.social visited Tallinn and we spoke a little about the making of Disco Elysium. He's put together a kind of time machine (in five parts) to let you visit that time and place. youtu.be/eH6mUTHZ5C4

I normally enjoy the emails that Pinterest sends me, as I get to wonder why they recommend so many things I have no interest in whatsoever ... but alas, their algorithm has finally achieved a complete understanding of what I like.

Hell yeah Canada should absolutely take BioWare Nationalize that shit. Let’s get some Krogan babies slated for 2028

As competing movies about 19th-century stage magicians, released within months of each other, turn 20 this year, Brian Raftery considers the lasting spell of Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige and Neil Burger’s The Illusionist. Read the full Deep Impact appreciation on Journal: boxd.it/k9C

I'm watching this at the moment, and I love seeing so many people asking for the "I'm so glad you're my partner in crime" / "As long as you're my partner in time" exchange... ...but I'm gutted that so far, no-one has asked for the subsequent "Insert groan here."

I've already seen a few scary movies this month, so I guess my Halloween horror film this year will have to be ... Borderlands?!

Today I learned that HMS Dreadnought - the battleship whose name inspired an entire class of ships, and dozens of sci-fi authors too - never took part in a major naval battle, was sold for scrap 15 years after it launched, and only destroyed a single submarine (by ramming it).

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

If you see this, post a Witch. [I'm posting two, 'cos I'm nice like that.]

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.”

the people are calling for a 4K G-Police remake

How I arrived on Bluesky:

...Well, now I'm GLAD I didn't get around to watching it at the cinema.

My nephew and niece will have the opportunity to start watching Doctor Who at a far younger age than I did ... now THAT'S what I call progress. ...Wait, hang on; there's a character called Toast-IE? That robot is a talking toaster?! Did we learn NOTHING from Red Dwarf?!

Me, when my wizard has at least one spell of every element type in the game:

The email I just received advertising The Witcher 3 remaster: Meet Geralt of Rivia. The first two Witcher games:

Has there ever been a Doctor Who story about people substituting human capabilities with machine replacements that lack any genuine human feeling or emotion? If they did, remind me, was it good or bad?

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

I feel like admitting I still use Twitter might be a faux pas here ... but the remaster of The Witcher 3 is out now, and I think my thread about playing the game back in 2020-21 was mildly amusing, and I'm not going to repost it all again, so HERE IT IS. x.com/ThomasJohnMu...

I wasn't expecting a Canoness from the Adepta Sororitas to show up in an episode of As Time Goes By - but now that I think about it, I'm convinced that every sitcom should try it at least once.

I'll admit it; my happiness for the critical success of Ace Combat 8 is 10% directed to the people who actually made the game, and 90% to my eternal hope that aerial combat games will become so popular that the G-Police games get a remaster and/or sequel.

Replaying Rebirth, I noticed that Aerith doesn't have any dialogue prior to this (optional) interaction, so this was probably her first utterance in the game for a lot of players.

Ten minutes into the first Rocky movie, and he's practising his puns in front of a mirror so he can use them later to flirt with the cute lady at the pet shop.

I don't know what shape I am, but these games are definitely to blame for moulding me into it.

Badnik from the Green Hill Zone: Man, isn't working for Doctor Robotnik so much fun?! Badnik from the Scrap Brain Zone:

Weren't these things in The Lord of the Rings? Wheelbarrow-wights?

It's taken me a while to finally watch the Creed movies, but ... well, I always knew I'd like them.

Washington DC has not required defense from a ground invasion that could be rebuffed with snipers on an arch since 1864.

What happens when you lose faith in Mankind? You bring out Cactus Jack

First Star Wars: Zero Company, now Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave ... my turn-based heart hasn't been this excited since the reviews for Baldur's Gate 3 started pouring in.

When I emerge from Moebius' Chronoplast into Nosgoth's doomed future:

#SFFChat You can't go wrong with the classic stories by Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, they were geniuses. I read a lot of Indies atm. I really enjoy when my author friends add in little tidbits just for fun. A character's name, or ship, or place that I know from things. I find those amusing.

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time 'Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today!"'

Exodus releasing on April 7 next year ... Final Fantasy VII Revelation releasing on April 8. Oh no.

gotta bring up my favorite episode of the Kardashians

oh no i just realized they put the best metal gear solid game on PC finally, i may have to play it and then post non-stop about it. i am referring of course to peacewalker.

All of Metal Gear Solid rests on the premise that one woman is so fucking cool and tragic that everyone is obsessed with her legacy. And she *is*.

I forgot that Metal Gear Solid ends with Snake waxing poetically about caribou to Meryl

Me, looking at the news headlines these days:

A taste of things to come! Uncharted Worlds - Extended Version, coming soon to all music platforms.

Somebody once said... Something. I forget what. But it got me thinking about a GTA game set in the world of Sean Baker's The Florida Project and how sick that would be. All the missions would involve the tourism industry and the finale would be a raid on Disney World.