⚙️CLOCKWORK ⚙️

not to sound like a boomer but I have been watching this image play out for 30 years when does it stop

How cool is it that Japanese fighting game fans use to distribute their combo videos on VHS?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

we've been talking about zohran mamdani for far longer than we ever talked about charlie kirk

The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.

I have made a reasonable facsimile of this sprite paper (US letter size). Please feel free to use.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Duo/Quatre plot Duo: I'm so glad we're the normal ones on this team Quatre: ثنائي، أريدك جسديًا Duo: You can't be talking like that white baby. Wufei plot Wufei: I smell a woman. Time to go tell her she's weak while I refuse to help her. Heero/Trowa plot:

anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

lrt: I was curious to put actual titles behind that statement and while there's definitely been some duds, there's been some incredible stuff in the last couple of years. Rattling off some notables in the last couple of years: The Concierge, Bravern, SHOSHIMIN, Inu-Oh, Apocalypse Hotel, ODDTAXI...

To my fellow oldtaku: It’s not that anime is worse overall now. There’s just so much being made at once that it’s harder to find the good stuff. It’s worth trying, though! Some of the best shows I’ve ever seen have been in the last five years!

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

AI PIXEL ART AND HOW TO DETECT THEM I have updated the link for the write-up and added more paragraphs with new findings. Please click the link to read it. Share it with your friends who also dislike AI! Thanks to everyone who helped. drive.google.com/file/d/1bxDm...

I keep thinking about Zohran on some podcast being like “these billionaires are spending more money to defeat me than I would tax them” lmfao

US friends, please go vote today in local elections (I voted early by mail already). Fewer people turnout in smaller elections so your engagement really matters.

This Wednesday-Friday is ThinkyCon! There are lots of talks I'm looking forward to! And I'm giving a short talk about some of Parabox's programming on Wednesday! thinkygames.com/events/think...

Shout out to all the dolls, and a thank you to @glamour.com. Support, support, support. #WomenoftheYear #Glamour #WomensRights #Transrights

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Anime fans 100% should be buying physical media for their favorite shows - or even shows that they kind of like but aren't super popular. Streaming licenses are fairly short, all considered, and there's a chance that a show you love will never come back once it gets yanked See: Anything by Aniplex

been feeling this all year except instead of “take” it’s “industry news”

My heart is heavy & I might have more to say on that later, but I've got news today that my time at Heart Machine will come to an end after POSSESSOR(S) ships. I'm honestly too busy... literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work, but I'll be looking for my next gig in December. 🥲

New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.

guys please sign up to canvass www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Thanks to the efforts of @geraldawo.bsky.social the full run of Animag magazine can now be seen on the Internet Archive. I wrote a bit about the magazine's history and the time and place it was published: bit.ly/animag2

Found my new fit #DeliciousinDungeonNY

and right on queue we move from trying to ratfuck Mamdani out of being elected to trying to sabotage his mayorship before it gets started

#KamenRiderBuild #桐生戦兎

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: This is COMPLETELY FREE. If you like it and want to tip the dev a few dollars, there's a soundtrack you can buy.

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

all of his henshin moments are really unique too...i love the suit walking up next to him and the sudden combination of both bodies. i've never stopped obsessing over this guy

GILLS IS FOREVER SUCH A GREAT DESIGN

wondering if I feel like doing the effort of another huge Next Fest demo thread again

The Bubsies! Play Bubsy 4D on Steam before it plays you #pixelart #fanart

I can get people wanting to see all available content in a game but imagine applying the same idiocy to anything else No you haven't really 'beaten' Batrider unless you've done so with every character, in every team combination, with every character variation, across all modes🤔

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

If the thrust of your streaming platform is that it's the best place for watching a subtitled medium, it's a natural business sideline to then build an industry-leading subtitling & playback engine that is so good, your competitors would want to licence it, not to replace that with something worse.

found this in my notes, good advice for aspiring devs

While RPG overworlds arose from technical limitations, they offer solutions to open world bloat that many modern games could learn from.

DISASTER ARMS IS OUT 30 BOSSES 2 ARMS 1 SOLDIER 0 TURNING BACK

Here's the full art for the front. I think I'd love to do more takes on different box art styles. Maybe I could even convince someone to make it a real model.

This should be getting as much attention as Jimmy Kimmel

if being on somethingawful has taught me anything, there is no shame in posting on a site where you hate the mods

There are a lot of ways in which Cohost was empirically the better website, but the most pertinent one today is that it had a 100%-Poster staff. And the thing people don't appreciate about being a true Poster is that a huge part of it is knowing when to Not Post