good article that reflects a feeling I've had, myself.

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

This was a wonderful read! It touches on the kind of historical moments that interest me the most, and it serves as a fascinating counterpoint to the other Kin-Bright-related stuff

The Mountain, After is out! Great armours battle each other at an empire's fraying edge. Read it for free here: thaliarchus.itch.io/the-mountain... Or follow the Twitch link on that page to listen to it!

Gandalf Over-Sharer

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

It's funny to think about this in the context of TTRPGs, where you can find yourself arguing with an "oldhead" who's been playing a particular game for a decade and has read, generously, 2/3rds of the books

is brandon sanderson just the trails series for white people

Does anyone else feel a little weird when you see somebody binge through something all at once when it took you multiple years in real time? obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Nintendo Switch 2 console is ~$390 + tax at Nintendo Store when buying discounted eShop Gift Cards: $200 in Nintendo eShop Gitt Card Codes (4 x $50) is $170 on Newegg DOTD (Buy 2 or 3 to cover Switch 2 cost) buff.ly/b5LMiB3 #ad Purchase console at Nintendo Store buff.ly/zpsKA5H

careful what you ask for when you request edits, @rangedtouch.bsky.social ! I present: "what if they were doing the Matrix rave inside Helm's Deep"

Pretty sure that Fei Fong Wong’s pull-tab can of Soylent System grub is in the running for funniest action figure accessory of all time

New blog: Trying to talk out loud about some things I've always felt conflicted about. Is it wrong to wish certain artists and writers would change, and it is better to just "keep scrolling"? discardpile.pika.page/posts/wishin...

give michael clayton a gundam it would make things worse but it would be so funny

Me, powerscaling collabs for some extremely stupid reason: ...Still not as wild as Super Robot Wars X-Omega.

GRIMOIRE WEISS: look around you... dessicated husks impaled on rusted polearms, the night and rain, pulled like curtains over our very eyes, sanguine death intruding on these bucolic plains... i fear we are up against our greatest foe yet—the bloody count of wallachia EMIL: (gasp) frankenstein!!!

*breathing my last* I cheated on the Demon of Hatred, was this even a life?

I accidentally bought twice as much shochu and didn't want to waste it obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

re:LRP excuse you I have FAR more than six unbuilt gunpla

lots of posting about posting on here and to everyone doing that here’s what i think: don’t you have like six unbuilt gunpla to get to? shouldn’t you clean out your shed? you oughta hit up Alan it’s been a bit since you talked to him maybe he wants to grab a beer

bluesky is full of Chirasul. retweet this if I'm Chirasul

Going to briefly break anonymity to say I've got a music blog where I post what I listen to in the morning over coffee. Been posting a little more recently since I just picked up some new CDs. morningmusic.bearblog.dev/blog/

when you write a post that seems to resonate with people but all the comments/replies/discussion are with people who quote-shared it and not actually on the post itself

gamesoftrobo.ghost.io writing for the internet isn't a job anymore and barely was when it was. anyway subscribe to my newsletter

I pulled up a song from a PSX game that I like and it had 50+ comments referencing a meme that used the song And I think there's a distinction between invalidating different experiences vs fearing that your experience is gonna be excluded once a different experience dominates the conversation

And join me on Twitch at 1800 GMT/UTC next Saturday for Deep-Step and Twice-Mortal, which is a mythological romance rather than a war story!

Really good piece. The modern culture of getting into a franchise by binging it has always felt foreign to me. Is the newly christened Gundam fan who's binged every entry in 6 months "more" of a fan of than me, someone who has an incomplete relationship with it spanning 20 lived years?

it’s time!

are yall joking about this not aware of what a "california roll" is

Great points here.

Tangential to Iro's topic, one of the frustrating things about the gatekeeping urge (to be clear: this is FRUSTRATING, gatekeeping is HARMFUL, there is a difference) is how it poisons the well around "let me speak from my experience" by association.

I miss when everything under the sun got a Kekkai Sensen / Blood Blockade Battlefront ED parody

I think besides Soma, Julius is my other favorite design of hers for the game because I mean like, look at him. Look at what he's wearing. No wonder he's the one who properly put down Dracula.

Does anyone else feel a little weird when you see somebody binge through something all at once when it took you multiple years in real time? obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

sometimes i have to proverbially look at myself in the mirror and decide if editing a post is about actually making it sharper or if it's an elaborate form of ADHD masking

There are no ethical fandoms under capitalism

honestly really funny during the opening credits of The Mandalorian and Grogu to see "STEVE BLUM" and then "MARTIN SCORSESE" immediately after lmao

McDonald's Japan started running a new ad where they recreate "I can't defeat Airman" to advertise iced coffee, but the video is region locked on twitter so fuck em here's the video with English subtitles.

I will never trust a Gundam SEED fan. They are my enemies. I am opposed to them and their works.

sort of missing the days when putting something on an SSD was a sort of "place of honor" for games where you wanted shit to load FAST

i posted this right as bluesky went down so i'll draw attention to this one more time 😚

anyway, idk what's goin on but this is what's important: you can't hate in a way that makes you into a good person. you can't attack in a way that makes you peaceful. you can't seek enemies in a way that makes you happy. you have to abandon the practice entirely. put the sword down and live

Sound and fury. Bearing an old name from the old world, Fabrique Nationale will honor its ancient promise.

i'm looking for jazz/city pop/jazz fusion-inspired indie game composers on here to follow. and possibly talk to... about something. :) who has recommendations?

when you watch memento as a kid you’re like. damn. it would be so wild to have to leave yourself notes everywhere to remember basic facts about your life. then one day you’re in your thirties and it’s like if my calendar doesn’t remind me to eat food every six hours i will simply perish.