YOU'RE BIRTHDAY stream. Playing video games, unearthing a student film I was involved with, and more video games. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

While I'm trying to get through work for the stream later, I posted a video about how my Bloody Roar compositions for the @brfanzine.bsky.social came together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gc...

There will be berfday shenanigans on twitch later, but my first birthday present was a work assignment so... give me a few.

I'M OLD

♫ Tell me princess, now when did you last let your heart GameFly? ♫ www.twitch.tv/scxcr

My early birthday present from @tigeruchimaru.bsky.social arrived, shipped directly from 2005.

It's official. Defenders of the Legacy: A Bloody Roar Fanzine is live and 100% free to download! Over 150 pages of Bloody Roar art, writing, and... even a couple music tracks I put together. There might be more on that on my YouTube channel later.

To celebrate the release of Defenders of the Legacy: A Bloody Roar Fanzine, I'm doing a live look and readthrough of all of it. All 159 pages. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

It's official. Defenders of the Legacy: A Bloody Roar Fanzine is live and 100% free to download! Over 150 pages of Bloody Roar art, writing, and... even a couple music tracks I put together. There might be more on that on my YouTube channel later.

Hey guess what? I'm in the mood for oversized swords again. It's GIGASWORD o' clock. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

Well, @tigeruchimaru.bsky.social and I are back on a racing simulation game. No, not Gran Turismo. Remember when Konami made a realistic racing sim game called Enthusia? www.twitch.tv/scxcr

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Lopsy, aka @lostpsyren.bsky.social Lopsy is self-described as having a "variable" art style; we would say it is quite colorful! They enjoy eating/sleeping between arts & crafts, reading fanfic and psychological horror. Lopsy made multiple pieces of merch for the zine!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Tiger, aka @tigeruchimaru.bsky.social Glued to the Bloody Roar franchise since '99, Tiger enjoys drawing, writing, and world-building in the BR universe. Other hobbies include fanart of various obscure franchises, and parading the streets with an eyesore project car.

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Nega, aka @neganeon.bsky.social Nega is an illustrator + character designer in animation, as well as an avid gamer with a love for monsters and violence. Bloody Roar introduced him to fighting games and he provided the zine with a full page illustration!

American McGee, yes it is he, maker of Alice. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

Man with gigantic sword hits monsters, picks locks, and talsk to owls. More GIGASWORD. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

I wake up in a cold sweat, hyperventilating. "What is it?" My wife asks, barely awake. I turn to her, eyes wide and unblinking, and I say... "THE BIG CITY TOILET" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdbz...

Remember ages ago when I made a video about the Kickstarter demo of GIGASWORD? The game released today. I'm playing it. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

Alice is a regular average girl with a regular average mind in which a regular, average, very American (McGee) Wonderland exists. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

Hey you. Have a Kickstarter metroidvania cat game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0gv...

Is there some way the Mavericks can buy back picks like what the Cavs did post Stepien? I'm not a Mavs fan but Nico Harrison neutered the team to such a degree it feels like a humanitarian group needs to air drop draft picks or at least a point guard for them.

When I find and game, am interested enough to read more about it, and then find buried deep in its description that it used AI to generate some visuals and dialogue.

When Game gives you Fly, make GameFly. www.twitch.tv/scxcr

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ ThirdEye, aka Eduardo "ThirdEye" Cabello By day an IT professional, by night an indie artist who spends most of his time drawing, making music, and competing in local fighting game tournaments. He made printable stickers for the zine!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Nene, aka @nekomaxxing.bsky.social Nene is passionate about fighting games, drawing cute things, and just having fun. She's been an avid fan of Bloody Roar since she was 5 years old and drew spot art for the zine!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Shina, aka @shina1319.bsky.social "I love comics and drawing portraits, as well as OCs. My passion is sharing intriguing characters and stories." Shina1319 used that skill and passion to provide our zine with a lovely full page illustration!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Dino, aka @ibdinosaur.bsky.social IBD is an illustrator from Australia with affection for fighting games. He had the demo disc of BR2, which showed you how to do Long's big combos, and still thinks it's the coolest a game has ever been. He drew us a page illustration!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Argilla, aka @warabihime.bsky.social Describing herself as "I'm just if a pathetic fictional guy was a girl", Argilla is a lively artist with enthusiastic vision. She helped with many of the zine's pre-production art pieces, including chibis for Valentine's Day!

I don't usually do Halloween day streams of thematically appropriate games, but how often do I come across and successfully get running a working copy of American McGee's Alice? www.twitch.tv/scxcr

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Yuki, aka @smirkingcat.bsky.social SmirkingCat is a fighting game artist and cat illustrator with a prolific portfolio, challenging themself to draw one fighting game character each day. They did so for BREX in the past and created a full page illustration for the zine!

We had a theme this year for trick-or-treaters. The theme was "cars are pain".

New They Made a Sequel video will be premiering on Youtube today at 6:00 PM EST, come by then to watch as I delve a little too deep into Tetris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFkP...

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Mawo, aka RaccoonMage RaccoonMage is an artist with a unique flair, stating: "The cosmic and the spatial, along with color in illustrations, are my passion." They provided our humble zine with a full page illustration!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ JAKMONX, aka @jakmonx.bsky.social Self-described as a "hobbyist artist who enjoys creating vivid artworks for video games and other medias," JAKMONX supplied our zine with a full page character illustration.

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Akane, aka @akanenonomura.bsky.social Akane Nonomura is a digital artist who loves drawing her OCs and the franchises she likes. Akane provided the zine with a full page illustration!

Leaving the vet with an empty pet carrier is a special brand of sorrow I don't wish upon anyone. Say hi to B and Max for me, Chuckie.

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Milky, aka @milkymosaic.bsky.social Part-time author, full-time monster appreciator. As a writer of queer fiction with a yen for romance, milky.mosaic keeps zir pen sharp through frequent experiments with style and form. Milky wrote two short stories for the zine!

15 and a half hours later, $282.40 was raised for Animal Rescue Corps. That's a new record for the [fearless] marathon, in spite of me going in a bit sick and losing my voice by the end. Thanks anyone who donated, spread the word, watched, or had a cheap laugh at my expense.

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Ellu, aka Tuherrus They are a Finnish artist and enjoyer of horror, fighting games, and fantasy. Ellu provided the zine with a full page illustration as well a collaborative piece of spot art.

It's nearly time. In less than 24 hours I'm going live for 12+ hours with bad horror games and stories to try and raise a few bucks for Animal Rescue Corps.

Recapping Denver's Amazing Art Expo, including... -Dueling butts -The success and suffering of JeriTheOG -South Park in real life -MC Shuddafukup www.twitch.tv/scxcr

Was hoping to do a recap on twitch of the event I went to recently, but it'll have to wait at least a day, or whenever my throat and head stop hurting.

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Mod Umbra, aka @3v4c.bsky.social Umbra describes themself as "a hobby artist who only learned about Bloody Roar as a franchise a few years ago - nevertheless, I've grown attached to these traumatized lil weirdos." They made a page illustration for the zine!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Mod Halie, aka @cosmicallyhalie.bsky.social Halie is an artist relatively new to the world of Bloody Roar but fell in love with the characters and storytelling. She provided us with most of our graphic design, including these spotlights, and is making a wallpaper!

New Video!!! Sega has been porting games to random obscure platforms their entire existence, but when it came to support the Nokia N-Gage, they did such a poor job that I felt the need to document the trainwreck. youtu.be/fUuQD0uRWiI?...

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Mod SC, aka @scxcr.bsky.social SC is self-described as "a longtime Bloody Roar fan with a word processor, some music instruments, and a penchant for long-windedness." He wrote an essay for the zine and produced a couple of music tracks inspired by the series!

🦁 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT ✨ Mod Snoof, aka @five5sixers.bsky.social The head moderator and organizer of this fanzine project, she is a mixed media artist from the United States who grew up with Bloody Roar and has been deeply inspired by it! She wrote a comic and drew illustrations for the zine.