its just a context i think is unhealthy for artistic development. it is important and good to hand the work over to the audience and walk away. but technology has made that unnecessary and if you try to enforce that boundary yourself you get thousands of people screaming at you

you tell someone that you feel like something you like is losing its identity to appeal to a broader audience and they start talking to you like a shareholder

Had a dream where a work training video slowly devolved into an AVGN compilation

we have to do something about people thinking the only valid animation is the one that is "made for kids" but doing that would require a whole overhaul of the animation and to a lesser extent comic industry in the western world

Is Meowscarada paying me rent or am I paying it rent...

thinking about how insanely different economies have gotten over my lifetime as i remember the era of 'making an entire cartoon to sell toys' and knowing how expensive animation is, even 'cheap' animation

It's not just a race — it's a special race, to see who's the fastest.

Is winning Jirai Gumo's coinflip anti-art

I think an appeal to the Gamecube that's not understood now because, well, it's outdated, is that as someone who grew up with Wii-DS-Wii U-3DS era Nintendo, it was very easy to idolize the Gamecube era as "oh yeah the last time Nintendo made normal fucking games you play on a normal controller"

VIOLENT BLOOD DEATH @ corpsefucker69: dude I just came second in my local beyblade tournament ~♡Pretty Pink Princess NO BAD VIBES @ pinkpuppyuwu: just spent the last six hours building a ghetto in Pokopia because Sylveon hasn't shown up and if I see Gurdur one more time I'm not feeding my grandma

Good reminder that remakes often dilute or smoosh the qualities that made the originals sing, even if the broad picture seems intact or even prettier

this might be the greatest show ever made

Gay pirates be like "all cocks on dicks!"

YES! Fucking PREACH

You know how we seem to have reached a point where even consumer spending doesn't matter to companies? Now their own business partners don't even matter

I ❤️fucked up mugen donkey kong

In pig furry world is "pulled pork" a sex thing or a murder thing

Rick Astley if he was NOT (!!) a macro fetishist: "Never gonna big you up"

what if game grumps were inflation fetishists and they were the Game Pumps

happy birthday to dr ivo robotnik, huge respect for dealing with a rodent even worse than mine. if i was called bald mc nosehair i would've killed myself by now

the audience doesn't think of the video game as a fixed work anymore. no one expects "dlc" for a novel or painting. every play ends. the game, as a service, must happen in perpetuity, because that is what they've been trained to expect now. this changes the relationship to the medium.

I'm already struggling to agree that any game is worth $60. There's no world in which a game is worth $80

If you didn't spend so much time being bricked up, maybe we could keep THE BRICKSTER behind bars!!

In the middle of watching Utena, I swapped to the dub out of curiosity and lost my shit. There's 4kids voice actors in here, seemingly pretty early in their careers?! I would never recommend this over the sub but its a really funny thing to gawk at on the side

i feel like we gotta kill "quality of life." i see people play remakes that drastically change things all the time, knowing nothing about the original games but being absolutely sure that they're getting the superior QOL experience. based on nothing but youtube scuttlebutt

crazy-making to me that being remake-skeptical is seen as a chud "gatekeeper" stance. how did we get to the point where so many people are comfortable assuming you're a reactionary because you respect old games and aren't sympathetic to companies trying to sell you new shovelware "improvements"

started Jak 2. GTA3 really hit the western industry like crack huh

I'm sorry I don't find "You shouldn't do subtext anymore because people are stupid" to be a particularly compelling argument

"AI is taking this from me, now, because of LLMs, i must resign myself to hating robots in fiction" u literally are actively choosing to do that yourself ppl love making conscious decisions and then going "sucks that AI made me do this, by being bad" u are literally choosing this

Kane Parsons, Director of The Backrooms (2026) has de-aged another year. He is 19 years old

The birth rate would increase if every child came prepackaged with a factory-sealed copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee

Having the oshi no ko star eyes would save me I think

Im in favor of a World War Crow movie

Great Start To A New Life

Chaos (whore) is one of my favorite new bits from this account

new verbal stim unlocked: "<name>, fetch me my killmongers"

what if shrek 5 references "shrek is love, shrek is life"

If you have a cartoon profile picture, you might want to consider what that says to people about your lack of credentials as a serious political commentator, and change it to something more respectable like a picture of you cranking your hog to the latest issue of the Financial Times.

The recent xbox news reminds me of pre-actiblizz buyout when people would treat Microsoft as this benevolent giant that would rescue Crash and take developers out of the COD mines and let them make whatever they want and hand out free candy and give free blowjobs

Little sad that the PSP exclusive tracks and the English version of Flyin' To Your Heart is missing but this is still nice

This, so much. People already lost their ability to say anything particularly genuine or worthwhile when they willfully adopted self censorship and the attention seeking tactics all of these platforms incentivize. And you're not supposed to criticize it because Them's The Rules

Echoing what I've said in the past, my scalding take is that it was inevitable that localization discourse would be dominated by grifters because the voices that could have made a difference never tried to cultivate a healthy environment of localization discourse. The land was ceded without a fight

Homer falls out of the plane D'oh!

Saw a tweet by a Japanese fan wondering if the remake will finally give us the fight shown in the spaceworld tech demo and man, fans really are the same everywhere aren't they. The specter of this tech demo has been hanging over us for almost 30 years. People just couldn't let it go.