Forget combat-focused metroidvanias with unique glory kill animations for every monster type – what we need is a stealth-focused metroidvania with a unique backstab animation for every monster type. I want to know where a giant flying baby head that shoots exploding eyeballs keeps its vital organs.

Saw one (1) post suggesting there's a trend going round of people sharing recs for non-english-language bands, so here's one of my favourite videos of inner-mongolian/chinese Hanggai: youtu.be/WRFbkDfjctY?... Not only is this performance cool as shit, the judges' reactions are incredible

age verification? I ruined my first PC by pretending that 1. the 5.25" floppy disk drive was a CD drive and 2. one of those spinning hologram disks was a CD I may not ever have been in the same room as an actual CD at that point

Played mothership for the first time. Became Plant Kerrigan. Game rules.

Getting Simba with the wide angle lense 📸

good morning nerds it's time for me to ramble about a horror-ish LN I read (and will read the next volume of when it comes out ?on valentine's day?)

Loot that drops from defeating me: 1) pack of pocket tissues 2) a battered, half-empty box of random off-the-shelf medication 3) a cheap pen 4) dr pepper 5) a lengthy death monologue with a bunch of inscrutable references to quantum physics

"Brat Summer"? No, this is Brat Sumer. You're in Mesugakipotamia.

Help me (please don't help me with my overly elaborate shitpost) (This is a Draft In Progress, you can watch my stupid ideas as i write them!)

gonna shout out some old buddies of mine who did a great line in long titles (the longest are sadly missing from their bandcamp these days), but particularly 'We Have Not Yet Agreed Thatcher State Funeral' atlasfactory.bandcamp.com/album/escape...

Do it scared. Do it poorly. Do it uncertainly. Do it awkwardly. Do it even though you don't know how it works. Do it in spite of the voice in your head telling you you can't. Do it even though you are positive you aren't good enough. It's worth trying. And if it doesn't work? Do it again.

I think I just dreamt I got caught up in a war against an ontology. Like, on one side, a shifting, unsteady alliance of humans, and on the other, inscrutable swirling orbs that were like the meanings in an encyclopedia detached from the words we'd use to express them. SCP-ass bullshit, it ruled.

hey we got a new ep out! enjoy!

with Super Bowl LX on the horizon, don't forget that its official pronunciation is Super Bowl Lex

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

me when im a homing missile

y'all know what to do

resting is a skill and you need to train it just like any other skill

simple solution: more people should read Quiescence brain-implant.tech/epub/

The 2025 Vextro anthology is out, and it's more lo-fi than ever! Check out "Vextro Unplugged" on an itch page near you, including entries by me, nilson, sunday, and wasnotwhynot! itch.io/c/6893661/ve...

Good morning, afternoon, evening! Apologies for the delay; So We're Watching That, Right? has a new episode on YouTube and Libsyn!

Kamen Rider franchise:

cries, kainé trying to perish in peace ( @lilalienz4ever.bsky.social redraws )

...has anyone ever made a tabletop ruleset specifically for operating model train sets? Like, part of what the rules tell you to do is move train x to point y, or cargo x to point y or whatever? I'd say 'I know it would have a tiny market' but, like, Hornby's still going out there

Wait, is this what the last bit of Mulholland Drive was about??

wait, I feel like this is an obvious one but also I can't -not- say it Oppenheimer with big naturals

bus saga

and for a significant number of my friends on here: Day of the jackal with big naturals

I used to wear a gents 10 (9 if I could get it in wide fit), and now I have to wear an extra pair of socks in my size 7 doc martens or they're loose enough to chew my feet to bits

also there are a bunch of other good scenes in this, one of my favourite of Otter's works, a viciously delicate prose sculpture of stained glass and cheese-wire with some truly glorious catharsis in the moment you finally get to smash it

Twelve angry men with big naturals

“I'm glad you have enough love in your life that that response comes naturally. If anything, you should be proud of that :)”

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

hi I'm looking for mutuals and friends. I'm a trans woman, 33, autistic, living in the south east of England. I love trains, birds, history, music (Hyperpop+adjacent especially), reading, etc. I like going to museums and shows. just kind of lonely so would like onlines and irls to chat n stuff

can confirm that she gets some sort of 90s classic invulnerability powerup when this happens, the music even changes and everything

hiiii remember how we're back? anime is so much.

I want to see your typos The way your thoughts form And twist And stumble And dance Stories are more than plots Language is more than words I do not want to see a summary of the content of your message I want to see you

hey look we're finally back!

Good afternoon, evening, whatever! We've got a new Slimebrarian's Choice post for you, discussing a really solid light novel series with a trans heroine! The Mimosa Confessions is messy and dramatic, but I loved it, so here's me rambling about it for a bit.

they will note that, as are all humans, the author and their interlocutor were leaky bags of soup with the bones left in and frankly getting as far as making a machine that can beam text from one side of the Atlantic to the other is already nothing short of miraculous

Read the damn article, people. They're making AI scrapers pay them to use the material.

With apologies, kicking this round again. We’re moving into a temp home today but everything is on the meter and with having to extend my stay at the hotel five days whilst waiting for the council, I lost a huge chunk of cash to that. Soz, I know this is piss taking by now.

Body language that shows that the narrator or viewpoint character is incorrect in how they understand themself and/or their environment also awkwardness (if that's not the same thing)

"Transgender Ideology" doesn't turn kids transgender. Learning basic hair and skincare turns kids transgender. Know the difference.

you are a menace to society (affectionate)