Pretty much finished playing through story mode in the most recent Hitman trilogy. I have to admit, I enjoyed hitting mans.

if i asked a large game corp what the product they were most proud of was and they answered "why, the dream smotherer 5000!" i'd believe them pretty much every single legacy company i ever thought i'd want to work for is dead or has been consumed by a gigapublisher

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Until a few years ago, trans people were often just seen as a curiosity. After losing the battle for marriage equality, the Christian Right had to invent a new enemy to justify it's existence.

i often think about this review

we needed some lore to explain the game loop in truck-kun is supporting me from another world so uh ass shaking is canonically worth at least one galactic star, i guess store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

🧵 Today marks the birth anniversary of the greatest film music composer who never wrote a single film score: Richard Wagner, born on this day in 1813 in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1883). Let me explain ... 1/16 #filmsky #musicsky #moviesky #BOTD #classicalmusic

Happy to announce that since this article was published, Fortnite raised its rate to $5000 :)

anim wip, #indiegames #pixelart #animation #gamedev #solodev #godot #indiedev

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Born on this day in 1471, the incomparable Albrecht Durer. Just a complete dandy in his 1498 self portrait. I mean, the cap! The braided strap! And the gloves!! Not to mention the long curly locks.

The Empire Strikes Back was released 46 years ago today. Still my favorite Star Wars, still my favorite ending.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Slave One, modified Firespray-31-class ↖️Art by Nilo Rodis-Jamero ↘️Matte painting by Harrison Ellenshaw.

I was doodling an alternate universe Vader and accidentally gave him a lil' body with claws.

Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” (c. 1659), oil on canvas, 64.5 x 83 cm. Interesting that the painting of Cupid on the back wall was overpainted by an unknown hand some time after Vermeer’s death (see image 1) and later uncovered by restorers (see image 2).

Ci-gît la démocratie américaine : un régime qui exempte ad vitam aeternam un dirigeant et sa famille des règles communes n'est plus un régime démocratique puisqu'il tient que quelques-uns ne sont plus ni des semblables ni des égaux puisqu'ils n'ont plus aucun compte à rendre.

Could this be a potential buhurt girl economy?

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Live now! Come on down for some Crimson C'Tuesday! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery

It’s my birthday! Another year achieved despite some big bumps earlier this year! Spinal surgery is rough and rehab is rougher: I can walk short distances with my walker now, & I’m working hard with PT every week. I’ve been posting more updates here, so you can keep an eye on it. gofund.me/77da16f95

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Been enjoying sketching my girls

RIP. Before he was Yoda, Mr. Kane played doomed Kilrathi pilot Grilg on Wing Commander Academy’s “On Both Your Houses.”

Oh no 😞 RIP American voice actor Tom Kane (1962-2026). He lent his voice to Imperial Captain Ozzik Sturn, Lobot and Kento Marek in The Force Unleashed (2008), Yoda and Admiral Yularen in The Clone Wars (2008), Admiral Ackbar in The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Tours. He worked on many SW games too.

I had this idea about a Knight, a Squire, and their very important Banner. I'm trying to sketch the Knight character to see what kind of world their story is set in. Low fantasy, early medieval? Leotards, big shoulders high fantasy? Fun stuff to think about!

One year ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Alan Kane, co-designer, programmer, and composer of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. We discussed Lucasfilm Games, Zak McKracken, Meyer Sound, and more! Check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/3KflAjR1UhY?...

ULTIMA UNDERWORLD: THE STYGIAN ABYSS (1992), with cover art by Denis R. Loubet.

another tech priestess doodle - somehow I still can't find a fitting shape for OC tech priestess #wh40k #warhammer #admech

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): BV-38 Flying Wing, art by Ron Cobb This post is dedicated to one of the biggest aviation fans in the world, for his birthday: my father. 🥳

On the scale of potential harm, I just can't be convinced that drawing lady w/ horns and hooves eating pussy is within a lightyear of protecting Jimmy Savile or firing a cruise missile into an elementary school.

I’ve always enjoyed my realization that painting things wasn’t trivial back in ancient times so of course anyone who could afford to paint things would paint them as extreme as possible

This is a bit of a counterweight to the observation that the freedom of play problematizes narrative pacing. Sometimes you actively want your 'reader' to put the book down and take some time to muse on what they've read. Gameplay can help here.

little formulation I've been rolling over: for a class of games that want you to slowly steep in their narrative waters, gameplay functions as a kind of fidget toy. And this isn't incidental; some corners of the affect space that narrative as a whole maps out are only unlocked by fidgeting

Please say her name The final insult is how much less visibility murdered Black and Indigenous trans women in particular get Our grief will never be good enough and is so much less than the dead deserve But please see them and remember them for a moment, especially when the media cycle doesnt

"Who would want to see this" -the coolest shit-

Artists! Quote with a femme fatale art !

Artist! Quote with your dark art!

"This once small demo project made its way to LucasArts, who contacted Haab to see if he would be interested in scoring a video game. The game? Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings. And that is how his musical career in the games industry started." @gordyhaab.bsky.social

“All those moments will be lost in time, like cum in the rain…”

In the latest Retro Gamer issue, check out my article about the little known Danish studio Brain Bug. I found out that they had their hands in many games (such as the unreleased DOS port of Super Star Wars) and ports (I found out what happened to the missing level in Earthworm Jim)

I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

i am really sick of the anti-sex attitude in fandom in general. "gooner art style", "this is for gooners", "the gooners will ruin this" PLEASE get off the internet and experience life, demonizing intimacy makes you sound sheltered at best and like a demented Baptist boomer at worst

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Imagine being a computer gamer in 1994 used to hardware audio, you buy a soundcard for this new game from Origin you've been hearing about, and the sound test is one of the most iconic lines in video gaming and/or resets your sexuality.

This will be the first search for a new James Bond that won't involve the film's long-standing producers, the Broccoli family. Which is a shame, because they had an interesting way of screentesting all potential new Bonds with a really odd scene, for a really clever reason. Mini 🧵