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Tamagotchis, Transformers and other silliness ze/hir • they/them (&) • 🇦🇺 • aka @carsmani.ac VR design researcher and casual academic https://emjay.fish/blog Taken by @drlockdown.bsky.social 💜

Shelves with various Tamagotchis
Syncing an iPod with a vintage iMac, updating the play count of the song ADDHERALL to over 4000
A half-transformed Transformer — a truck cab on legs
A VR recording of a wall with a door in it. When the user grabs the door handle, the wall around the door falls down.
A map of the US showing I have visited American Samoa and no other American states or territories
Boxed copies of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) Black Edition
Timelapse of sorting bread tags by colour set to ADDHERALL by FEM&M
Zooming in and out on Ultra Fantasy Ruby Red flavoured Monster set to the song Monster by Reckless Love
An iPod Classic 4th generation playing ADDHERALL by FEM&M connected to a soundbar
First person video of a view through a Quest 3 headset. I pick up a Steam Deck and then launch Mario Kart 8. I open the Quest’s menu and the game is displayed on a large virtual screen, then I start playing.
A screenshot of a message on Discord "Jeez there so many cynics!" wrote [Microsoft's head of AI] on X this week. "It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming" [...] The comment comes as the public reacts to Microsoft pushing its new "agentic" services, referring to AI agents that can perform tasks beyond chatting and generating images. Windows head Pavan Davuluri said earlier this month that Microsoft's OS is "evolving into an agentic OS," and I can't say I'm excited about the prospect
A video showing various disjointed shots of Transformer Skids, set to Dreamscape by 007 Sound System, with strong visual artifacting
Sour strap lollies being torn up and added to a bowl with Monster to make "battery acid spaghetti"
"Fetch" command output showing the Bazzite logo in the colours of the non-binary flag, as well as a list of information about my computer
Side of a gaming PC with Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto stickers
Song listing of ADDHERALL by FEM&M, with 1033 plays
Leonardo DiCaprio recognising something and excitedly pointing at it
A flyer from Stone Real Estate. Did you know? 700 — The number of serious buyers currently looking in (blank) 5 — The number of houses available for sale in (blank) in the last month
Map of Sydney with the suburb of Granville marked
Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto plushies falling onto a blåhaj shark
Screen recording of Out of Context RTGame’s Bluesky profile, showing unfollowing and refollowing
Shot from a train going across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, slowly zooming in to the Macquarie Bank building, which is reminiscent of a Minions character due to its round shape and circular logo
Transgender flag lying on a bed. The flag is covered in capital A’s, with the artist FEM&M’s logo in the top left corner, and her character in the middle. Two blåhaj plushies are visible at the top of the photo.
Car infotainment unit showing ADDHERALL by FEM&M playing on repeat
Shark plush sitting in a car seat with seat belt on
A bag of fairy floss Zooper Dooper-flavoured Twisties
Pink and green Tamagotchi showing a sad sprite of a sprout character on screen
Train ride across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
A large calendar hanging on a wall, with a bread tag in each day’s square
Video holds on the Hatsune Miku logo as "Po Pi Po" plays, as the song hits its climax the camera pans across a shelf of Miku figures, and then zooms out to reveal a Miku poster and trans flag
A DrLockdown Transformers review. The video is paused and the camera slowly zooms in on a figure’s hand, seemingly giving the “gottem” sign
Two colour screen Tamagotchis with Happy Birthday backgrounds
Colourful bouquet of flowers with pink cupcakes and an array of Optimus Prime Transformers
Stack of Tamagotchi boxes on a table
A piece of pizza held up in front of a computer with Beat Saber open
Red transformer in vehicle mode next to a Bumblebee transformer holding a pink Tamagotchi by its chain
A purple Tamagotchi held up with the Sydney Opera House blurred in the background
Wheeljack transformer in an Armada-branded zip lock bag
Five Transformers in a row
A lineup of Tamagotchi, Hot Wheels and Transformers boxes