It always surprises me a little that none of the Dead Fantasy videos cracked a million views. The Girls Gen dance video sailed past three mil though lol

Ingrid's front throw where she just gently takes Ryu's hand then just hammers him in the face is maybe the funniest animation to ever appear in Streetfighter

A common SF motif is the deathworld, starting with Harrison's Pyrrus and really popularised by Arrakis, a place so dangerous that living there will turn you into a superhuman, and it's great because the conceit requires breathable air, so any deathworld is more liveable than 99% of all planets lol

The necromancer lady on the front of the Guild Wars simply devastating at 14 years old, but roughly ten years later a guy I knew was trying to get me into GW2 and when I mentioned this he said 'big Fifth Element fan then'

The degree to which people are susceptible to confirmation bias is fascinating

- Phantasm Arm - The Yukikaze Couple Series - Vivid Fragment Online ohohohoho

I categorially refuse to 'ship' anything

Doing a little fist pump when I open an award winning novel and see that it's written in present tense

They're bringing Buck Bumble back

thrust vectoring is so cool

It's been a while since I've seen this circulate but I was thinking about the 'you should write what interests you rather than following trends' and while I do think that's abstractly true the thing about trends is they're often interesting to people lol

Something else about Beginning of a New Era that I really liked: how much you could tell they had to sort of quietly navigate the lingering questions of 'how much time is passing' and 'do the characters actually graduate from Tracen' lol

I get it

Keeping all my brilliant posts in reserve until the crisis is over

Housemate fatefully asked me 'what even is a Soulslike' and I explained by going 'in other action games you move like this *walks around in a circle* in dark souls you move like this *steps backwards and forwards, then side to side*'

calling my shot right now: down the track this will be revealed as an elaborate trojan horse strategy to try and get sony to put bloodborne on other platforms

Every so often there will be some video game or other media discourse and almost every time it makes me think that people should have to do a refresher course on the frequency illusion every year

It's a touch gauche to laugh at your own jokes but I'll admit that I laugh every time I think of the 'Ah, very good my little brother. A visual aid will be useful.' line in VSINT

kamiina bergman

Imagine being able to say 'I'm back from the moon'

I'm watching Umamusume Road to the Top and I understand that this is due to the real horse getting the seikimatsu hasha nickname, but T.M. Opera O being this flamboyant theatre kid who also does a Raoh bit is a wild piece of characterisation lol

People were really talking up that Nuremberg film and while I don't have any reason to doubt the hype I will say that I was thrown when I finally saw a trailer and Goring was being played by Russell Crowe

They don't tell you how hard it will be to decide on haircuts for your characters

The way things are I don't take it as a given that anything will happen until after it has verifiably happened, but if Tehran gets their ten point plan then the Iranians are going to be moving like ARMA 3 is real lmao

One of my strongest beliefs is that Bungie should not have put an instrumental version of Blow Me Away in Halo 2. Because it should have been the vocal version

Rewatched Thief last night for the first time in a long time. They always remind you of how incredibly cool the opening scene is but they don't tell you that the sexual tension between James Caan and Willie Nelson is positively electric

The thing is, the dog is very good at chess

translating 大正 as 'great justice'

Crowdsourcing some human memory from my mutuals: what do you remember about video game discourse in 2018?

This is a fun story to work on because I have an excuse to indulgently pretend that people would really love my ideas about game design

Thinking about prologues, while I ended up not liking it much, I remember starting Game of Thrones and thinking how effective the prologue was in terms of establishing a real and immediate threat that enhanced the stakes. Anyway,

Jotting down some notes for a potential story about an esports league for a made up cult class FPS and writing 'YOU DO NOT NEED TO THINK THAT MUCH ABOUT THE STORY WITH THE STORY' multiple times knowing that I am going to do that exact thing anyway

If you told thirteen year old me that he'd see the launch of a new mission to the moon in his lifetime he'd think that you were having it on a little

Chuken Otako call me

I don't normally do a seasonal wrap up thread but I thought I'd give a go for once. Overall this was a standout season with a few real surprises for me. As far as anime goes, 2026 started strong and I'm curious to see how the rest of the year goes. Thoughts on individual shows to follow.

Fucked up that I changed nothing else about my life but now my hands are completely fine. It didn't even take that long for them to go back to normal

Had cause to think about Warhammer 40,000 yesterday and I have to say I'm surprised that it's gone unremarked upon that the Imperium and orks have the same basic culture of total war without reason or end and the same organising principle of the biggest guy being the most important

Fun detail in Sentenced to be a Hero that my housemate pointed out to me: Tatsuya, the borderline zombified isekai character in Xylo's squad, can be seen doing hand gestures that look like him manipulating an invisible game menu in the fortress defence arc lol

When Charlotte Ballad was young she wanted to be a magical girl. Life, and family history, saw her grow up to be a mercenary. Read the prologue of my in-development novel Phantasm Arm here: www.thegreatsurf.com/fiction/2025...

Pirotess 🤍 #ロードス島戦記

video game produced entirely inside a juice factory

once again the time has come for me to assume my true form (sad wet man with an AK)

The Weekly Arima Kana will return in Oshi no Ko season 4

One to one recreation of F91

As I continue to chip away at the twin challenges of writing and getting readers, I am driven on by a single overriding principle: that anyone can come to enjoy fit girls smashing into each other

An annoying stock archetype is the irrational anti, a minor antagonist who exists to make the protagonist look good by being relentlessly but unjustifiably critical, leading to an eventual humiliation. But this can be a strong character when they're a key ally who plays important roles in the story.

One of the rare perfect videos

Horsegirl watching friends local cinemas are inexplicably showing the Beginning of a New Era film next month, how standalone is this one?