Sometimes it really hits me (especially as a game dev) that video games are miracles. You're telling me some humans made little digital worlds that I can run around in, sometimes on portable devices that I can hold entirely in my hands? How? Aren't we just hairless apes?? How did we do this???

Gangle lookin a lil different

The Amаzing Digitаl Circus

metal gear multiverse

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

People often scoff at "don't believe in yourself, believe in the me who believes in you" but it's superb advice; when in a depressive state, you can't believe in yourself, but a strategy to get around that is to trust that the people who love you are not lying and they truly see value in you

Gurren Lagann is correct about its central conceit that the entirety of the power of the human spirit is ignited at the intersection of hope, belief, faith & trust. And that despair not only limits imagination but is also a spiritual death that leaves us helpless when facing humanity’s adversaries.

I think I've settled on why I've been on such a long Death Stranding 2 hiatus and why it's been hard to finish it: I think it's ultimately just too similar to DS1 Kojima's previous games, each sequel was trying something that actually felt _new_, even if it was the same genre. DS2 feels like DS1+

The Illusionist is good. Sylvain Chomet is good. Watch Triplets of Belleville while you're at it, everyone

For a university writing course, I wrote a fantasy setting where an aspect of it was that there was complete gender equality in that world (the setting wasn't about that specifically, it was just part of the world) My prof (male) said that the equality was bad because it removed conflict and drama

Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great Titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The Titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last, only their lifeless corpses remained

Finally got all caught up on The Amazing Digital Circus and it is truly, to pardon the pun, amazing. Absolutely unique and clever and wonderful and emotional. It's sad to hear about the toxic elements of the fandom bringing the vibe down; TADC is a work that very much deserves to be celebrated

#animation #art #mecha

Hot take: I think it would benefit a lot of games to commit to the idea that if things are "urgent" in the narrative, they should also be "urgent" in gameplay terms. If you don't want the player to feel urgency, don't make the narrative urgent

"Who let you in even"

One option isn’t better than the other, it’s all just preference! If you like collecting physical media that’s great. But going back to that won’t solve the bigger problem of corporations having too much power now. We desperately need laws and regulations to catch up to the digital age.

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

julie andrews treating bee-sting anaphylaxis: think about schnitzel real hard bitch

*a dog bites me, causing profuse bleeding and tissue trauma* julie andrews, stoned off her gourd: have u tried,, thinking about mittens. or kettles. that helps me in these situations me: im bleeding julie: think about wet flowers

This stupid idea immediately entered my head

Forgot why I had this image.

ryu and ken trained together in the ancient forest wilderness of japan and then ryu went on to aura farm alone standing on mountains while ken got a job and became normal

So, I've always kind of thought of myself as a mix of Shinji and Rei, so, uh, this result is definitely not what I anticipated www.idrlabs.com/neon-genesis...

This Ocarina of Time remake is wild

The new Zelda movie's definitely making some bold choices

Kiki's Delivery Service

Bra strap is showing

the wise man: before you begin your quest of revenge, you must first dig two graves me: already did it. wise man: what me: yeah. dug two graves this morning. wise man: *sweating* me: i know about you and your twin brother. what you two did. and i'm here to have my revenge

Don't mind me, I just found a good excuse to repost my Majora's Mask saga with the new 10 photos feature.

Monolith Soft is so funny, “Yeah sure we can get Jenna Coleman back for a $10 DLC” Nintendo really just gives them an open check to do whatever shit they want bc they’re such a good support studio and I love it

Oh thank god the Xenoblade Chronicles news wasn't remakes or remasters. I _just_ finished my time with 2 and started my playthrough of 1, I did not want to have to redo it all again lol

Finally I've finished my New Game Plus playthroughs of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and its story DLC Torna: The Golden Country to my level of semi-completionist satisfaction. A long, 535+ hour road. NG+ _may_ have been ill advised, but the game is still extremely special to me. A beautiful & flawed gem

To go along with the sequel announcement, for a limited time, the first game is free to grab on Steam! 🎮 ✨That's FREE as in F-R-E-E, no strings attached!✨ Claim the game while the offer is available, and keep it forever! Find the Steam page here: store.steampowered.com/app/858710/G...

I like to think that James named the team after his son and not the other way around. #art #StarFox

For the longest time this page sat in my files like this since I’d only lettered the top three panels to make sure the art fit around the dialog Unfortunately, the disconnected absurdity of “MY FATHER” “ ✌️😏 ” Reigns true in my heart still.

Experimental post: The Time 5-Year-Old Supper Mario Broth Thought Luigi Was a Cryptid I share a story from my personal life about the first time I encountered Luigi at the age of 5. Due to a combination of factors, I was unprepared for him and ended up believing he was a cryptid.

A comic about 😺

Social Media in 2035

Hot(?) take: Translators and localization specialists should be given prominent credits alongside writers when it comes to translated/localized works. Translation/localization, no matter how "seamless", is still an adaptation of sorts that often affects meaning and tone (for good or ill)

Daily energy drink consumption Fox: 2 to 4 Falco: whatever Fox drinks +1 Peppy: small black coffee at 5:45am Slippy: a flat half-full can from the back of the fridge Pigma: (opens his spaceship, dozens of crinkly white Monsters fall out)

I know nothing about these characters but this is wonderful

This is one of the main reasons I think wafrn is pretty neat

Society began to fall apart when they replaced finite length progress bars with infinite spinners.

Today marks 20 years of people complaining about Mother 3 not getting localized, and I celebrated the occasion by writing about how the complainers have a very real point: