Pippa Brooks

_the_ international woman

What a ghoul this man is

We cannot contemplate milk, so it must contemplate us

It's because we're typing the review quickly so we can get back to playing the game

Ugh. The Democratic Party in the US and Labour in the UK can't even muster the most lukewarm of condemnations of this pointless, unprovoked war

Master of Magic, Capitalism, and Colonization will always suck me in for hours whenever I revisit them

But nothing makes me miss mousewheel support so much as Capitalism's UI

I regret that I have but one Nitro to cancel

It somehow gets even sadder when you read about the author of the short story on which it's based

I still get the music stuck in my head occasionally

I spent the whole game with Lune in my party simply because her "sprint" is so satisfying

The British English way of expressing time like "half two" to mean 2:30 drives me batty. American English just doesn't do that, and in Danish "halv to" means 1:30

I miss my circa-1999 portable CD player. RIP Aiwa.

Website procedural note: I now have a landing page for the Visible Zorker collection.

eblong.com/infocom/visi/

Still just has Zork 1 and Zork 2, but now there's a list to grow.

Florencia wearing a dark top, sitting behind a table with Writers' Guild QR codes, in front of a guild banner.

Getting ready to start the #GlobalGameJam at Goldsmiths - if you're participating, come say hi and learn a little more about unions. Don't let your passion for games be exploited! #GGJ26 @writersguildgb.bsky.social

It is easier for a camel to fit through the knee of an idol than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven

Here we go...

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

Ugh, TIL :(

Oh no, I still think of you as having this hair colour. Have I really not seen you in person in 10 years? 🥲

“It cuts through steel like butter, if butter were really good at cutting through steel.”

We've got like 10 minutes for the reunification of Ireland to happen

Kate McKinnon from Saturday Night Live as Cecilia Gimenez, displaying an expressionist-ish painting of Seth Meyers

Disco Elysium (2019)

Oh, wow, immediately recognised the Citizen Sleeper artist's style. I didn't realise he also did comics. Thanks for this :D

プルプル!

That is at once adorable and slightly alarming

omg olivia this looks fantastic

Defeated by someone spamming shoryuken at him

I don't understand datacentres in space. Where does the power come from? Where does the heat go? Where do the replacement parts come from? How do they get swapped out? Who wants that kind of round trip latency?

(Pretend I spelled her name correctly)

Have you seen Peking Opera Blues, by the way? I think you’d enjoy Bridgette Lin’s character for reasons.

For some reason the ALT text isn't showing up. This is Brigitte Lin's androgynous revolutionary character from Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues urgently shushing the camera.