Shadow of the Colossus (2005). It's my first time playing and it feels as awe-inspiring as it must have two decades ago.

Despite the bloodshed of the world, it's inspirational to see people mobilize against oppression and it's something to hold like a talisman. You see it in the ingenuity of Minnesotans who have overwhelmed ICE, exposing and impeding their predation with every confrontation.

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973)

Pathologic 3 (2026). No thirst, immunity or hunger management? Well this is will be a fuckin' stroll in the park... Ah.

Charles Laughton in the unfinished I, Claudius (1937).

Can't wait to see all the dizzyingly incredible permutations Lage will pull this song through on the road.

Quake Brutalist Jam III (2026).

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Ettare related collage. I was reading about coral rag, where dehydrated coral in limestone is used as a building material. Imagining bas reliefs mingled with coral and ammonites, empires rising and falling in geologic time

In mission 03 you will enter the Frog Inc. Textile Factory and discover the lengths the enigmatic designer and CEO of the fashion brand has gone to in order to stay relevant in the changing times of Sydney3.

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Gloomwood (2026). Distraught with the realisation it will be another six-to-eight months for another crumb of peak. One of my absolute favourite games despite its iterative early access construction.

My favourite games of 2025 — Fortune's Run Hollow Knight: Silksong Butcher's Creek The Séance of Blake Manor PIGFACE The Last of Us Part II: Remastered The Children of Clay System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster Europa Universalis V Skin Deep

I wish all of my darling followers a year of happiness and accomplishment. May you pursue your dreams and find yourself entangled with a shipping magnate's daughter, having come into his employ as a bodyguard. A silver medal in biathlon. The letter arrived three weeks later. Now upon the Adriatic...

Etched in the scheme of nature's own hand

Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003). Resolving my ambivalence this playthrough — there are so many compelling notions and a rich ambiance also present in say DeLillo's Cosmopolis (2003) with their mutual anxieties of globalization, terrorism and ideology... but it's so self-sabotaged. In myriad ways.

PIGFACE (2025). One of the beautifully decrepit and abject games I've played.

There's an incremental threshold of new followers to whom I must evangelize one of the most wholly realised interactive worlds ever made.

Another action romp with a timely excuse to revisit.

WIP. #GameDev

Tokyo Godfathers (2003). First viewing at the behest of my partner and it instantly became one of my favourite films — how could I doubt such an outcome from Satoshi Kon? 📽️

Might do something regrettable and reinstall Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003).

the staircase in my mind leads to an empty room

Can this be called #pixelart?

Oscillating between Majuular retrospective videos and Sarah Paine lectures to develop a syncretic Theory.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

It's impossible for me to overstate my loathing for this administration, its functionaries, defenders — even distal cretins who through misapprehension or malice celebrated the demise of USAID.

Some of the most influential works on Project Anarres.

Christmas Card (South Truro Church) - after 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105484

The Fossilised Automobile of Cape Creus https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20706

I don't have words adequate to the duty of consoling those hurt or those adjacent to the events in Bondi. It's an atrocity against the Jewish people and community who deserve to feel as welcome and safe in this country as any other people. My heart is with those grieving.

WIP. #GameDev

The Chair Company (2025). A chair breaks during a corporate presentation. The embarrassed party tries to pursue a complaint. Uncovered are contours of a vast conspiracy, layers of fraying reality and epistemology adrift. I loved it all so much. 📽️

little more progress on that CS 1.6 FAMAS retexture, almost done now - just needs a few more details and a bit of final polish here and there. really happy with how well it's turned out considering i'm using the default UVs which aren't amazing

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

From the demo of Sword Hero (2025). An incredible morsel that gestures towards a masterpiece somehow solo developed. The systemic riches of a Gothic (2001) or Arx Fatalis (2002) enjoined to a fighting system whose weight, consequence and sophistication leaves so much else revealed as milquetoast.

Truly, I wish Vermis was real.

Edge (Marks on Maps)' Bitumen Private Collection An exhibition of print .. congleton.nub.news/whats-on/art...

Getting the compulsion to watch this for the third time through this year — I can't overstate my recommendation to any who've not seen it.

Fake mountains & trees

Had such a lovely and lucky day — perfect beach weather followed by the most pleasant cool change for the walk home.

It makes no difference what men think of slop, said the judge. Slop endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. Slop was always here. Before man was, slop waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Fucked up anew remembering how perfectly The Brutalist (2024) was photographed.

Anaïs WIP featuring her jacket — a counterfeit Wall Cloud purchased in a slum on Naima. #GameDev

Portrait of the Painter Anton Peschka, 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24856

I can't recommend Embrace the Void more highly.

One Battle After Another (2025). One-hundred percent kino. 📽️

WIP.