in retrospect the single thing that ties together my favorite valve games is being insanely good at communicating to a player through visual design alone, whether that's character or level design.

i made my D&D character in Tomodachi Life and she walked out of her house and *immediately* fell in love with Robert Robertson

i think ditto is gonna call in timburr to build my roads

i think every new first person shooter should have the translocator from Unreal Tournament 99

what if i became even more powerful? would the world be ready for that? what if i was a character in a goofy fighting anime who just revealed she's been fighting with training weights on the whole time and now she's gonna take them off and kick everyone's ass? what then huh?

what if i became even more powerful? would the world be ready for that? what if i was a character in a goofy fighting anime who just revealed she's been fighting with training weights on the whole time and now she's gonna take them off and kick everyone's ass? what then huh?

“the northernlion supercruise” is the most obvious setup for a danganronpa style killing game i’ve ever seen

jokes aside today is homestuck day and i do think fondly of homestuck. it had a big influence on me in a bunch of ways, it just has a certain reputation that makes it vaguely embarrassing to talk about in public lmao.

today's date definitely has no significance to me idk what you're talking about and if i did you couldn't make me admit to it.

still thinking about my friend saying the furries are really into trains "because of zootopia"

several things can be true at once here: - it's really cool for indie animation like this to be in theaters - it's a real negative consequence that people have to deal with spoilers for two weeks. that sucks. - glitch actively chose the path that led to that - it's almost certainly still worth it

i tend to have pretty anti-carceral beliefs as a rule but i also think if you drive a car you've made louder than it needs to be on purpose you should get thrown in prison for life with no trial

really excited for rhythm heaven, although the like 30 seconds of a minigame song we hear in the new trailer reminds me of some of the worse tracks from megamix, which makes me a touch nervous.

i generally like the analysis/categorization linked here but "kei games" is just a truly terribad name for them whoof. we *gotta* come up with something better than that.

i think Kiera should be allowed to eat as much pizza as she wants that's just my opinion

The Game Industry is not prepared for the EARTH SHATTERING opinion:

That not what they're called... Never mind...Happy National Twinkie Day!

quantification offers an extremely limited perspective on what makes something successful and so many are doubling down on it and eating shit rather than dare consider a humanities-driven market analysis

using the Switch 2 and the Ayn Thor has made me desperately wish that the Steam Deck had a 1080p screen. regretfully it really does make a difference.

my first impressions of the ayn thor are quite good. the build quality and buttons feel nice and i think i kind of forgot what it's like to have a portable system this lightweight haha. out of the 10 or so steam games i've tried only one is giving me trouble, and GC/DS emulation feel great.

damn, women's beauty standards got hands 😔

AAAAAAAAH

retroachievements is such a wild case of taking something cool (retro games) and asking "what if we could add some shit that sucks (achievements) to it?"

what if we kissed on the pokemon pokopia IKEA island 😳

bill watterson was so real for that tbh

the father the son and the holy spirit

keep your lore, I want to know your THEMES

every time you see me repost this it's because it happened again

sometimes hot girl shit is dropping your phone on your face while lying on your back 😎

i should wear more cute dresses i think

Types of Pokemon in Pokopia: 1. I am Big and from the South 2. Yo yo Mr. White what's good yo 3. Oh dear, sweetie? Honey? Precious? 4. haha heeeyyyyy what's up maaan 5. I d o n o t u n d e r s t a n d y e t s t i l l I p e r s i s t

i think in the nearly two decades since its release we still haven't had a multiplayer shooter match TF2 in terms of feeling like a totally different game depending on what class you play i miss its heydey dearly (and also still play it sometimes)

as someone who's bought 90% of her games on steam since she was a teenager, i don't really get people who are annoyed about switch 2 game key cards. i guess if your download speed is bad i get it. otherwise just... idk man i cannot bring myself to care.

>kernel level anticheat >launch game >cheaters

Castle Crashers, Diablo 2, and now Defense Grid 2 all getting DLC in the last year gives me recession indicator vibes somehow

Isn't DLSS 5 what killed Edgeworth's dad?

every time i go to the fangamer website i end up buying too much shit

the secret here is that A: this is not unique to players of games and B: this is not a new phenomenon a lot of people simply will not read text shown to them most of the time. it has been this way for a very long time - i suspect about as long as "conveying information with text" has been a thing

peakychu my beloved 🥺

i like that with how leitmotif-heavy the undertale/deltarune games are, sometimes fan music can verge into being essentially fanfiction, where the music itself implies a situation not present in canon. are there any other series where the same thing happens? i think it's a really neat phenomenon.

i like that with how leitmotif-heavy the undertale/deltarune games are, sometimes fan music can verge into being essentially fanfiction, where the music itself implies a situation not present in canon. are there any other series where the same thing happens? i think it's a really neat phenomenon.

rolled credits on pokopia. cried again. what a game. strong GOTY 2026 contender 3 months into the year. looking forward to put a bunch more time into building these towns :)

was playing Poker Night at the Inventory and Tycho mentioned TF2 being on Steam for "like 3 years now" and i instantly crumbled into dust

Everything I do reminds me of you. ✦ #pokopia ✦

okay not only is Pokopia incredibly cozy and great at pulling me in with little tasks, it also got me to cry at its story. what a fuckin game.

very possible i'm missing one but i think Pokopia is the first time the series has really gamified "who's that pokemon?" silhouette guessing from the tv show?

okay i woke up and immediately played like 8 hours of pokopia i need to slow down and take more breaks with this game or i am going to burn the fuck out on it

girls literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

it's crazy how often youtube just does not function correctly on a technical level these days. i get so many little technical issues that make the experience a minor pain in the ass a lot of the time. your website used to work! why did you make your website not work anymore?!

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life