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Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)

Silksong is holding up so well on the second playthrough and with the recent announcement, I'm glad I decided to pick it up again to start working towards a Steel Soul run. Can't wait to see what nonsense (positive) Team Cherry is gonna throw at us after the challenge of the base game.

Failure is such an important part of the artistic process or really any skill, and AI's inability to "fail" at a task in a human way is one of the greatest detriments to users' ability to develop knowledge or skills.

A new Health album has dropped and it is time to yet again make it my entire personality for like a month at least

The "put it down for a couple weeks and come back later if you hit a wall" factor of game dev is so real sometimes. Finally made a breakthrough on the issue that made me pause in September and now my code is cleaner as a bonus.

My new mission in life is to live in such a way that Peter Thiel will eventually accuse me of being the Antichrist.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

JERSEY STRONG BABY LET'S GO

I'm kinda ambivalent/borderline over Universes Beyond at this point but I really dislike the art treatments on cards that are just screengrabs from the media they're from. It was bad with the FF set and some of the ones from Avatar look awful. It's jarring because so much of the sets' art is good!

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

ko-fi.com/fruitb4tzart Hey, I'm really really sorry to beg. I have approximately-100$ in my bank account because my bank and some bills screwed me over. I cannot afford to go to work. Im going to keep getting charged fees until I get paid. Im really really stuck. Im so sorry.

turning BJ Blazkowicz into an introspective woke warrior poet is one of the best video game magic tricks of the last 15 years

I bet a candidate could do well with “yeah, I said some awful things online when I was younger, but I see why it was wrong, and I’m familiar with extremist spaces online, how young men get radicalized by them, and what we can do about it.” Less good is “it’s wrong of you to care about what I said.”

The amount of bending over backwards to try and defend a dude with a Nazi chest tattoo if simultaneously baffling and unsurprising? What are we doing here? What has to happen to hold anyone accountable for the ways they're normalizing fascism in this country?

If you want some good aesthetic pieces to fight fascism with maybe don't utilize the technology pushed by people in bed with fascists and instead buy some art from the marginalized communities affected by both the fascists and the tech bros enabling them, idk, seems like a more consistent approach.

As someone who was a very edgy teenager, no, it is not and was not normal or expected to talk about how much you loved Hitler or make gas chamber/rape jokes. There's a difference between edgy teenage behavior and nazi shit.

Lies of P has some of the best Souls combat I've ever played but I am nearing the end of the base game and trying the DLC, and there is a noticeable fall-off in boss quality after Victor. Really hoping it rallies and that the DLC bosses specifically start being more fun, on the second and it sucks

I have never felt more vindicated about Game Pass than I do now.

Silent Hill f is absolutely stellar so far. Like a lot of people, the combat is not my favorite though it gets better once you start to pick up on its nuances. But the game took an absolutely WILD turn last night in terms of plot and mechanics at about the 6 hour mark that has me fiending to play.

Top 5 Survival Horror game for me, definitely worth your time and cash.

Not to be overly combative, but Silent Hill f is absolutely a Silent Hill game, as long as your understanding of the series goes deeper than “American Town“ and “rusted metal + chains”

Anders being almost completely removed from the post Dragon Age 2 games in the series and my interest in the latter games nosediving isn't a coincidence the more I think about it. Inquisition's plot just... fails to grab me in any way aside from its companions and Corypheus is a huge part of that.

You know what? There are stupid questions and some people who are "just asking questions" should be shamed for asking stupid questions. We don't have to entertain every bad idea someone entrenched in an institution has.

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.

biggest annoyance with all this social media stuff is that I don't want to be a content creator who makes art. I am an artist. I love writing essays but "content"? It's a slog. an annoying slog. you're telling me I gotta have a personality AND make art? I can barely take care of myself puhleeeeasee.

Silent Hill f looked strong from the trailers and the early buzz being largely positive has me very happy and more hopeful for this one. I think getting away from the titular town might actually be good for the series in the long run so fingers crossed that it lands for me.

So I guess I'm not getting anything productive done until Silksong is finished huh I think I'm getting close to the end of Act 2 but keep finding new stuff I missed so I have no idea.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Soooooooon

At the Gates are such an important band in the history of extreme metal and losing Tomas Lindberg is a rough one to process. Genuinely, without both his music and a whole lotta bands inspired by it, I would not be the same person in terms of musical taste today.

I get some of the complaints around Silksong's difficulty but idk, I'm loving the challenge so far. I've yet to encounter a runback that was truly egregious and most of the bosses make sense after a few tries. Only one has kept me stuck on it for more than an hour though I suspect that'll change.

Ignore the hot take machine, the conspiracy theorists, and the people who tell you to be afraid.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

I am hard judging anyone trying to white wash the legacy of a man who endorsed stoning people like me to death. If your need to be civil takes precedence over standing up for the people harmed by Christian nationalism, you're not an ally.

Finished Heartworm. Enjoyed it overall but I was left wishing there was more meat on its bones. Wasn't really any combat variety and puzzles felt very simple for the genre. The graphics and music and overall vibe of the game are great and I'd still recommend it. But it was slightly disappointing.

Now that Bluesky has bookmarks, you can now bookmark that they used to call me The Drift King back in college. Share to change a life

So it turns out this Silksong game is pretty good whodathunk it Jokes aside after the first couple hours where it's easing you back in this game gets GOOD with its boss fights. Cleared a couple that had me extremely hyped by the end of them.

it’s not a good sign when old episodes of my show have any renewed relevance but this one does provide some context for the horrifying phenomenon of the meme poisoned school shooter

I firmly believe everything being soaked in a thick layer of irony and nihilism is ruining everyone’s life and probably why everyone is so angry all the time now. You’re not allowed to enjoy anything or care about anyone cause it’s cringe, so people snap and take their anger out on whoever’s closest

Chuck Tingle being an IDLES fan and using them as set dressing in Bury Your Gays is both very on brand and a very fun intersection of my interests

Kids have too much access to high quality art tutorials and resources nowadays. They should be learning the old fashioned way: trying to color using a computer mouse after following a tutorial made by a 16 year old on DeviantArt telling them to use the dodge and burn tools for shading

it’s cool we can’t say “die” on social media but chatgpt can tell me people how to commit suicide.

I'm enjoying Rogue Trader a lot but man playing a Heretic MC is very weird because it's so obvious you're a fanatical chaos worshipper but Heinrix and Argenta spend the first parts of the game just... letting you do it? I would've thought some actions would've had more immediate fallout.

fucked that "vibe coding" now means something besides getting sorta high and blasting music and boppin' along while writin' c++ or whatever

you’re so close

Glazing Gavin Newsom for unfunny tweets that don't even replicate Trump's posting tics right when he platformed white supremacists and Christian nationalists (one of whom sieg heiled on stage, on video a few months back) seems pretty whack, not gonna lie.

Weapons might've been the shot in the arm I needed to get back to my writing project after shelving it for a couple months to take a break from it. I've been thinking about the movie a lot since seeing it and it might get me back on that grind as I've hit my recent goals with the game dev project.

Feels like a good time to remind folks to research the internment camps and Japanese American discrimination surrounding them before resources about them are expunged or defunded. It should be a source of national shame but we barely acknowledge that it happened or try to justify it far too often.