glorp slorpin it #zennilust

imagine how it must have felt to be some british kid in the 80's getting a hold of one of those video nasties tapes only to find out the hard way that a solid 80% of the video nasties are the some of the most boring films you could ever watch

screaming like one of those women standing on a chair after they see a rat in an old cartoon because people i don't recognize are starting to reply to my post with The Office gifs

its still wild how if you have even a completely benign and regular post escape your target audience on here people start reacting to it like space aliens

horror movie scores on imdb and such are pretty unreliable but historically speaking going into 3/10 or 4/10 movies is still like walking into a coal mine thinking 'surely i will find gems here' like eight times out of ten. idc though beccause its still fun

bluesky has really reignited my perverse desire for making posts that are insanely hyperspecific to my interests and that 98% of my following will neither understand nor give a shit about

how i be moving every time i'm headed back into the art mines

I watched Rituals (1977) today. genuinely awesome movie and its great that all of the main cast are old men, but its also really really funny how much they all hate eachother right off the bat even before the horror starts

i rewatched Shock Waves (1977) again lastnight and i still really like that movie a lot - i think its a slightly acquired taste because it's more reserved than you'd expect from a movie about nazi zombies but it's also drenched in its own dreary atmosphere and has a great sense for dread

watching some early 90's horror schlock and i'd be enjoying it a lot more if it didn't have pointless random narration through the entire movie

one of my least favorite framing devices in a horror movie is when the movie starts 'from the end' with the last survivor of the movie recounting what happened. it's not a dealbreaker but it really does make you go 'oh ok, no point rooting for any of these other fuckers they're all dead lmao'

One of the reasons i usually prefer to play my old ass games on a real old computer or on dosbox is just because i hate seeing like 10 shiny modern logos and EULA agreements in front of a remaster of a fucking 34 year old game

i will say one more thing on Current Game Discourse which is that i do think bullshit astroturfing on indie games with shitloads and shitloads of investor money put into them is a problem, but it also feels like a weird catch 22 where talking about it too much directly feeds into the astroturf

been binging old anime OVA OPs like crazy the last few days www.youtube.com/watch?v=w952...

i think that mixtape game looks like it'd make my eyes roll out of my skull but the situation around it also just sounds like its the latest in a long line of games everyone bluecheck-rage-grifts over

i don't actually mind over-the-shoulder games to an extent but honestly i'm so tired of all games having the exact same look and visual language and listening to people sputter and whine about other cameras that i find it really cathartic to say 'we should put all shoulderslop games in a landfill'

i'm watching a streamer's fast food tier list and it's crazy how Steak & Shake's logo just looks like a nazi emblem

i watched an 80s slasher lastnight that turned out to be a christian slasher movie. like not 'haha old slasher movie running on uptight 80s morals' i mean they all go to church at the end and it scrolls the 10 commandments on the screen lmao, it was kinda surreal

its funny how there was a time when i was curious about remakes because remakes used to be more interesting (not always good, but interesting) but the formula for remakes now is just the exact same type of style, with the same Modernized UI Design and Integrated Tutorials etc. etc. etc.

i'm not late... am i...? 💛here's golden week rurika!

if you're making a horror game and you think repeating the same dark and brooding line over and over again on the screen/on a sheet of paper is depressing and scary you are wrong and you should hold the backspace button right now

indie itch horror games that try so hard to be depressing always come full circle to being funny to me. like its so insanely obvious when a game is something real and personal to the dev and when a game is just taking a "i am 13 and this is so sad" shotgun approach

Golden Week 🌞

those with full balls, be warned: the drainiac is out there.

there's a weird thing going on with buying vhs tapes where it feels like a lot of prices for lesser known movies on vhs are about the same as they always are, but movies with like 10-20 different rereleases are 5-10$ more expensive now and its really annoying

oh sick its the part where my mood plummets at like 11pm for no reason because my sleep cycle is shifting around and i saw or heard something that put me in a crummy state of mind

i'm celebrating Monday the 4th of May by watching Cheerleader Camp (1987). thought it'd be a pretty run of the mill late 80s slasher but every single character in this movie acts like they were dunked in a vat of cocaine to various effect.

whenever I see discussion on how some modern Star Wars allegorizes real life politics I can never take it seriously, not because 'politics bad!!!' but because Star Wars is so intertwined with Cartoon Pop Culture Toys Product that it reminds me of the Muppets telling me not to smoke crack.

i am so glad Moon Child is actually a fucking sicko game for masochistic platformer perverts

honestly i feel like from what very little i can see from that new RE trailer, it looks like it might really understand the substance of what RE is moreso than any other movie/series attempt at it

i'm in the first section of the game and i'm already having that 'alright lets just get through this annoying section as fast as possible' response in my brain that is usually reserved for a mid-late game section so i just know this is going to be amazing

i'm on my third attempt starting Silent Hill 4 (i keep getting too sleepy before a save point) and the first sound of the game being a commonly used n64 era stock scream is so funny every time

i know people are clowning on ZSNES right now because of the revival and it IS funny but i'm not gonna bullshit you, if it weren't for me mostly playing snes on handheld or real hardware + everdrive these days i would 100% be back to using ZSNES or another emulator using its UI

a streamer i'm watching mentioned me and someone in chat chat was like 'oh i remember hdoom, ew, gooners are so gross' and i @'ed him in the chat like 'yeah what kind of freak would make something like that'

glorp slorpin it #zennilust

even though this site is run by chucklefucks i really like that sometimes there'll be an actual meme circa 2018 or something where it will just be some dice-roll random shit like an Amiga game with a funny song and character design capturing everyone's attention for a couple weeks

i'll have the new art up on here soon too i just need to upscale it by like 1000x so that bsky doesn't douse it in jpeg lube

oh sick i can post from my laptop again, thank god

bsky just gives me a big '403 forbidden' screen on my old laptop now for some reason lol

sometimes an indie horror itch io game is such a fucking nothingburger it comes back around to being funny. i just saw a game where all you do is walk around with a bag of trash and talk to a cop and then you go to a backyard and the bag was actually a body ooooooo and thats it.

i think the other frustrating thing is that i posted that nino art like a week or so ago and it looked good when it was posted but has the same vasoline as everything else now. is it just compressing gradually from the moment it was posted or did i just post it while this change is rolling out??

i have a new imageset coming out soon so i'll have a chance to test this. if it works and stays stable maybe i'll repost affected art at a later time. ugh....

i'm fortunate enough to crosspost all my art stuff so you can at least find the unfucked versions of this art on the other site but this still presents a huge nuisance. there's a alleged workaround where i can upscale shit to be close to 4000x4000 but there's no guarantee they won't fuck it again

like look at this shit - this image did not have all these blur artifacts 2 months ago

uhhh is it me or is bsky's image compression getting way way worse. i'm looking at pixel art i've posted and its insanely smudgier and shittier than it was when i first posted it

its crazy you have to have a fucking imdb account to read the user reviews now. i know almost nobody uses imdb anymore because it's enshittified to hell and back but it still has a lot of funny and historically interesting user reviews from being such an old site

i still really like the referential nature of Silent Hill 1 while still being a dead serious horror game that you can take seriously. it's awesome that one of the characters is just the name of Troma's Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman mashed together

sometimes i have a really specific memory of something for no real reason, especially when it comes to watching a movie. I explicitly remember watching Bruno Matei's 'The Other Hell' (1981) in the living room while eating freezer pizza like 15 years ago

i have an inexplicable nostalgia for n64/ps1 era dogshit pro wrestling games even though i never watched wrestling. its partly because i played one or two when i was young but mostly because they exude such an immutable essence of 90's trashfire