A hand holding four red envelopes, each decorated with a gold enamel pin of a different NZ native bird.

A sixteen slot grid of stamp shapes, four of which are filled with Pepper Raccoon's Series I Par Avian enamel pins of NZ Native birds.

These are my special little guys <3

Introducing Series 1 of my new Par Avian series of enamel pins, featuring NZ birds on real-life stamp size pins! Collect the Ruru, Hihi, Tauhou, and Tūī with a special set discount, or snag just your favourites <3

pepperraccoon.com

(more pics below in thread)

hello bsky I'm Max, a game dev based in Aotearoa NZ.

I'm making a photographic paranormal-mystery game called CORPOREAL.
#gamedev

👁️More info/wishlist here: s.team/a/3255140 👁️

I would fall for this too haha 🇳🇿

I'm not sure that this 'NZ' fits in Civ, especially not Civ 7's base roster. 6 did alright with Kupe rather than the Crown, I think. Auckland got to be a city-state and I reckon that's apt

If I go and start modding Civ 7 then my silly fake worldbuilding projects will come first over any real places

Lengthy description of the slew of bonuses given by a custom "Rugby Club" improvement: "+2 Amenities and +1 Production. +1 Culture if 3 Rugby Clubs are present in your empire. +1 Culture from each adjacent City Centre, Neighbourhood, Pasture, and every two Farms. Additional bonus yields as you advance through the Civic tree. +10% combat experience to land units trained in this city. Must be built on flat Grassland or Plains; may be built on Floodplains. Limit of one per city. Tiles with Rugby Clubs cannot be swapped." The description fails to clarify extra effects like Gold adjacency bonuses; that the improvement adds Tourism equal to the gold yield on the tile; or that it also provides +0.5 Housing.

Civilopedia entry for the Digger, described as an "Australian and New Zealand unique Modern era unit that replaces Infantry." Two entries sit under a section labelled 'Unique To': Australia is represented by a kangaroo, and New Zealand is represented by a silver fern.

My mod was WAY overengineered in its mechanics but I liked the premise. Sharing Australia's unique unit said ANZAC without saying ANZAC.

The problem was the essay you had to read to fathom the horrific terrain-and-adjacency-dependent Rugby Club. I've learnt my lesson, none of THAT ever again

Of the concepts I've seen for colonial NZ in the 'Civilization' games, it's funny that a lot of them keep coming back to Rugby somehow.

I did a Rugby Club improvement; someone else a Rugby Field; a third person said extra bonuses on Stadiums...apparently it's The One Idea we agree to entertain 😅

"We're all adults, here" isn't an excuse to ignore people's boundaries. If anything, it should be a reminder to respect them. If we're all adults, here, then we should all be mature enough to understand that boundaries exist for a reason. <3

Oh snap, what’s this? 📸

We’re thrilled to reveal our #PS5 & #NintendoSwitch physical edition of Umurangi Generation! Each copy of this first-person photography sim comes bundled with a camera strap, displayable character standee, and more ✨

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This internet vibe never fails

NZers: massively bloodthirsty about our introduced predators

Subset of uwu northern hemisphere people: how could you

silver lining: just a few hours before i'm on time for lunch again

yay im done hyperfocusing i can go get lunch now. haha that's the sun rising over there, isn't it.

It has taken two days and several breaks (loud heartbeat begets shaky hands), but I finished a drawing! Sweet as!