Game dev secret, please don’t tell anyone. 🤫

This is what detaching an angry QRP feels like

Aya Nishitani has posted his English translations for the 1st 3 chapters of Megami Tensei!

the generosity and friendliness of strangers for most of the past 2000 years, long journeys were slow and roads were bad, and you often stayed the night at a strangers house/on their property. anyone who lived near the main byways expected and anticipated visitors! they fed you in exchange for news

mecha fans sound like widowers when they speak about their beautiful dead wife named RightStuf

for sale girl friend never rented

Sony buying the anime industry and then immediately trying to kill physical media is insane to me. Anime only exists because of DVD and blu-ray sales. They are throwing a horse in the ocean and telling it to evolve into a whale

I finally played Dark Souls 2 after avoiding it for years. Institutional knowledge from playing later Souls games was the key to allowing me to enjoy it. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Never forget friends

Checking to see what happened in my friend’s Marathon discord after I went to bed.

Maybe those Ace Combat games are on to something. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

An excellent write up on 3 of my favorite games. I know there are reasons why not but bamco really should do what they need to to get a more permanent multiplatform rerelease of 4-5-0-6 out.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

dorian dawes lays it all out here in this brutal but correct essay. the problem is that AI can produce competent writing rather than good writing, but the bigger problem is that no one in charge seems to be able to tell the difference. or, worse, no one cares that there's a difference

A lot of my work the past couple years has been about "play-as-self-harm": what we're willing to engage with simply because it's fun, and to what extent "fun" can be a dark pattern. Unfair Flips was gonna be the culmination of that theme, but it was too pleasant, so now you get hand stabbing

almost every single fantasy setting, going by the other available technology, should have guns it is legit irresponsible that they don't, and it creates a false impression of how early guns became widespread

New column! I tried my best to unpack the (somewhat still evolving but definitely wolfman-less) situation around Love & Deepspace's Valko-gate (i.e. related to my crack earlier about being strangled in the womb), plus a couple of other untimely mobile game shutdowns.

When porn is talked about, I think that a lot of people confuse the symptoms for the illness so to say, when it feels weird and degrading it's because it's the product of an unequal society, not because eroticism by itself is something inherently degrading

anybody who thinks steel ball run stage 2 is going to finally bring back jojo fridays clearly did not read my let's play that finished earlier this year obsidianmoonshine.com/public/3-pro...

I'm gonna go to bed now but first I have to show y'all how wild this shit is

This is maybe one of my favorite reviews @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com has written. A lovely tribute to the strange yet real of Ace Combat and what makes the franchise so timelessly compelling.

woah that’s me

I reviewed Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, going over the history of gamebooks in Japan and the affordances of the genre for an independent developer: ogrerun.com/2026/07/11/v...

Oh no

the fact that it's destined to be your downfall is like 95% of why you cultivate a preening arrogance to begin with???????

Jaadugar boldly asks the question: is the Internet ready to meet Genghis Khan's historic failsons if they're drawn like the Osomatsu boys?

i wrote this in a fugue a couple of months ago and have not returned to it because it is excruciatingly scary and also cringe to relay factual things that have happened to me, and also to remember being 21 years old. but i have seen and appreciate people being nice about it, and, crucially, normal

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Important 500 FINGER FILLET update: you can now pet the eldritch horror flesh tube girl who wants to watch you cut your fingers off for fun

oops, wrote an even longer essay on how TO get lost in the weeds writing high-concept science fiction!! www.tumblr.com/hms-no-fun/8...

Genuinely I think I link this post every 3 months at this point but I've been seeing random people talking about how with AAA in a bad state it's time for "the year of the indie" or whatever and: it's time for those people to read A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

Maybe those Ace Combat games are on to something. obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

the virtue of fallout has never been the actual fiction of fallout; it's the narrative design around it. that's why the best classic style fallout game is actually arcanum: of steamworks and magic obscura. the same is true of the modern fallouts, which are just elder scrolls.

I think the funniest part of the broadly misinformed GitS discourse going on at the moment is the erasure of any entry between specifically the first Oshii film and this new TV show. Some people didn't grow up with Laughing Man as the avatar of 30% of guys online and it shows

And what is this catnip? Was it the prose, the characters, the worldbuilding? Well, no. Upon examination, all of those were weak. No, the thing Bona mentions that made this story irresistible is...the premise. That's it. Just the premise. No wonder you all got rolled by a bot.

Editors want an oh-so-fun premise paired with an execution that does absolutely nothing challenging. Smooth, featureless, conventional, and expected. Something that feels like the average of every other story in every other promag. You know, precisely what an LLM does.

OK, I don't often do this but I am going to break from my standard practice. Did you enjoy Avatar: the Last Airbender as a kid or teen, but now it's 20 years later? Instead of retelling the story of the same 5 episodes yet again with another live action movie, watch THUNDERBOLT FANTASY.

"Fiat Justitia" Working on something I probably won't be able to share for a bit so here's a teaser. I promise I still do art sometimes, in spite of everything.

btw if you celebrate this because you want a new vegas 2 and feel what has happened to Obsidian is a reasonable price to pay to get it, I hope you eat shit

Someone told me I haven't drawn enough fanart lately so here's fanart of the protagonist from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

Blue Mondays is Complete! "I think my eyes never shone so bright as they did when I was young"

What idiot decided to call them Witches and not Broad Casters ?

NOOOOO! The Polyhedron! That's where I work!

Contradiction: Spot the Liar! ($9.74) - Tim Follin - yes, THAT Tim Follin! - delivers... an FMV point and click murder mystery! as the charmingly eclectic Detective Jenks, keep track of where information just doesn't add up to crack this case. store.steampowered.com/app/373390/C...

practically any question about fandom backlash or racist outcry about art has this same answer. because bigots shriek for attention and to reaffirm what they see as the proper order, and outlets rush to cover it with breathless urgency.

Soojin is a brilliant and adaptable artist. Did you love the look of Pentiment? They were responsible for a ton of it. Out of the many, many ways they left their mark on that game, though, my favorites have to be the Landsknecht playing cards and story-time with Brother Sebhat.

on one hand i'm a little annoyed i happened to watch the older, lower-res version of this movie mere weeks before the remaster came out on the other hand, the old subtitles translated "jianghu" as "Demi Monde" and that will live with me until the day i die

The Blade (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD + Blu-ray] is $24.98 on Amazon amzn.to/4eX2aMj B&N buff.ly/ItaVkTb #ad

"We need to make personal control over your media cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have a Plex server, don't fuck them" —John Waters, probably