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Have You Ever Wanted to be a Goat? Neither, But Let’s Find Out
Cover image created in Midjourney using prompt: goat simulator in space If you’ve ever played Goat Simulator, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say it’s a bad game, but is it so bad… that it’s good? Okay let’s get into the basics, Goat Simulator is quite literally a game of what the name describes, you…
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“Oh I Loved Skate 3!”, No, I’m Talking About the DS Version, ‘Skate It’
Cover image made using Midjourney. Prompt: a skater doing a kickflip over marios head, all set in a new york city street, 2023. Whenever someone mentions skating games, most people will either gravitate towards Skate 3 or any of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, but my mind (and heart) will always be reminded of…
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Hardcore Sound For a Hardcore World, But Not Everyone is on Board
Cover image: @dougalgorman via Instagram Rolling around to my fourth session at UOW, time comes to think of a topic for another DA. Anyone who knows me will know that I’m all about music, I play drums, dabble in guitar and bass, I never don’t have an upcoming gig in my calendar, and my walls…
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Welcome Back to our KB Crib
Another couple weeks have gone by and we’re back here, what’s been happening with the DA, and what have we got in store? Since my last blog post, we’ve posted another 2 videos with another one awaiting to go live, and getting our data back from the third video in the series. After our first…
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KB Cribs: An Update
This DA I’m having so much fun with. KB Cribs was birthed with housemate/fellow BCM student Kate Roberts, and we have already seen awesome amounts of progress and feedback, not just from the BCM cohort! Since the beginning we’ve managed to maintain most of our original design and process for the project because from what…
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I <3 Instagram
My online persona I like to keep similar across all the social media platforms I use. Considering I am the same person, I wouldn’t want to come across as any different from my real-life persona. One platform I particularly use to enhance that is through Instagram. This year I’ve started making regular monthly posts on…
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Citizen Journalism, a Crucial Tool
As my Mum would always used to say “don’t trust everything you see on the internet”, well that’s a bit vague Mum, how do I know what I can and can’t trust? It’s not like every article comes with a plethora of Harvard referencing. With news outlets increasingly using publicly recorded and shared footage and…
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Algorithmic Control – No Free Time for Non-Fungible Tokens
Hearing the term NFT for the first time, I honestly thought it was another internet acronym meaning ‘no free time’. But to my surprise, it was on a completely different side of the web spectrum. BCM112 had us looking at Web 3.0 and within this entails the magic (or confusion) of non-fungible tokens. An NFT…
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Internet Paradigm – Share Some of That Intelligence
Exploration of the internet paradigm module in BCM112, essentially has been the analysis of interaction between users and content alike via online platforms. What stood out from this module is how so many theories are simply applied to our everyday routines, from viewing things in our own frames and extending to others, index card thinking,…