"We've laid off literally thousands of people -- BUT WAIT, WE ARE GIVING YOU A HALF DOZEN GAMES SOON" I'm sorry, but fucking *what*

BINGO!

Do what you want.

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I'm not going to coddle you: get the fuck on board, they're OBVIOuSLY GOING TO HAVE NEWS AT AN HOUR LONG KH-SPECIFIC PANEL! ARE YOU KIDDING

I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL TO BELIEVE IN THE KUJI!

Unrelated to anything, I love this fucking movie.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT KH SPACES, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU! We talk about @marchcaprice.com AND @khreconnect.bsky.social! LEARN ABOUT STUFF.

We're baaaaaaack! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNtT...

"The White House [didn't say] who operates Freedom Fuel, or how it is offering gasoline at more than 30 cents a gallon below the national average. The stations are run by a private company and aren't part of a government program, nor are they receiving funding from the administration." come on.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

e v e r c r i s i s

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

ONE BILLION? WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY? WITH WHAT FUCKING RESOURCES?

Seeing Europeans absolutely lose their mind for the slop that is ranch dressing only confirms in me that a lot of the traits and tastes the world makes fun of America for were SLEEPING IN OUR COLONIZING ANCESTORS ALL ALONG, JUST WAITING TO BE ACTIVATED BY CENTRAL AIR AND ABSURDLY LARGE PORTIONS.

An important update from Compulsion Games.

My least favorite thing about mobile games that have ended service in lore-dense game series )not just KH, but if the sora shoe fits...) is that it forces newcomers to engage with recaps.

Just as a reminder, we aren't posting a new episode today! Happy 4th! We'll be back ASAP though!

are you fucking kidding me? sony's telling partners they can get new discs printed of old games after the cut-off date (a 2027 game can still be printed after the 2028 cut-off). so it's literally just about controlling the entire storefront and pricing, and not about consumer demand.

Welp. I guess everyone is evil and stupid now.

seeing peoples reactions to both the tadc finale and deltarune chapter 5 in quick succession has left me convinced more than ever that people need to kill the lore theorist part of their brain and actually engage with things for what they are and not whatever they theorized it would be

do you think they'll include the part where they had two generation of a new storyboard trainee initiative (the inaugural of which i was a part), dropped the program altogether, then got bought out twice and downsized out of existence before any of our careers were older than four years

Mark your calendars! Reconnect returns for its final event - celebrating 25 years of #KingdomHearts magic! 👑🤍🌟 🗓️ June 25 - 27, 2027 🏰 Anaheim, CA More info: khreconnect.com

Another thing that this whole AI cover fiasco has got me feeling is resolved to the fact that this entire promo cycle for 4 will be filled with people screaming AI for every weird texture, quick cut, strange illustration -- and SE and Disney only have themselves to blame, even if there's no AI.

"I know [random dumb thing] is unlikely to be in KH4, but it would be FUNNY!" So would me sneaking into your hometown and cutting all the internet wires and eating all your snacks. What the fuck do KH fans know about being funny anyway

I hate Ai being used at any point of a production but I cannot understand why people think it sounds better to say that you only used it at the early stages of pre-production. That's the fun bit!! The ideas bit!! The creative bit!! The bit that makes your story YOURS.

With the cover changing slightly, this is still being said. "See, THIS is the ORIGINAL art--" IT'S NOT EVEN THE SAME LAYOUT THAT YOU PEOPLE SAID WAS THE ORIGINAL ART. JUST BECAUSE YOU SAW ONE VERSION FIRST DOESN'T MAKE THAT SOME MAGICAL PRISTINE "ORIGINAL" NOMURA PIECE

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

NEW EPISODE www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qcz... We talk to @davidrussell323.bsky.social about music!

Toy Story can have AS MANY FUCKING MOVIES AS IT WANTS AS LONG AS THEY KEEP BEING TOP-TIER.

You know for how often I see fandoms getting up in arms about "broken promises," I'm starting to think y'all might benefit from a better understanding of what actually constitutes a narrative promise and what's just "a think you wanted more of."

some game fandoms too~

People who regularly like my posts but don't follow me... ...what is this behavior.

PEOPLE ARE TOO FUCKING HARD ON TOY STORY 4, THERE I SAID IT. IT'S GOOD. YOU'LL LOVE IT WHEN YOU'RE OLD

Companies forcing you to use AI is so desperate and embarrassing. I don't need any of these things in the first place! I'm happy to not use them at all to prove my fucking point!

SEE HOW FUCKING EASY THAT WAS

Here are some things worth thinking about and acknowledging regarding KH4, the new trailer, and what's been shown in it.

I've been watching a bunch of trailers today on YouTube and was so perplexed because their music tracks seemed to be missing and YOUTUBE DECIDED TO TURN ON A BUNCH OF VOICE-ISOLATING HORSESHIT WITHOUT MY CONSENT. So, check for that I GUESS!

A lot of people seem to think that everybody goes to Quadratum when they die...

"Game studios are expensive so we have to close them" Game developers are paid overall around half of what their tech counterparts are paid and produce an actual consumer product that people want.

"But he looks like Noctis, he looks like Noctis, he looks like N--" ARE YOU NEW? TETSUYA NOMURA DRAWS LIKE THREE FACES AND THEY'RE ALL BEAUTIFUL. In 2002 Sora was the Bouncer, in 2005 that BHK (Roxas) must be TIDUS (baffling). and OMG IS NEKU RELATED TO SORA?! WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT

Personally I think we need to bring back shame. It's shameful to be unable to write an email. It's shameful to demand others spend time on something you didn't spend time on yourself. BRING BACK SHAME.

I'm still working my way through South of Midnight but it has some of the best writing I've encountered in a contemporary game. It weaves (pun not intended) the magical, the modern, the historic, and the emotional SO well. What's happening to this studio is bullshit.

Absolutely no shade but I have seen so many people compare the particle stars of that Keyblade to the flower in Elemental with a side-by-side and it's like THEY DON'T LOOK ANYTHING ALIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN, LOOK IT'S ON SCREEN.

So, for my own record, here are worlds I wouldn't be surprised to see in KH4 Star Wars 2010 Alice Marvel Avatar Mary Poppins Moana Coco Cars

This is also why I've slowed down on making things. Most of my KH pieces are manipulations and collages using pre-existing Nomura and Disney assets, which I've always been clear about, but it'll take one person saying AI! AI! To bring everything to a halt because of piles-on like this one.

Look, I know I said I think that AI touched that Nomura art, and that was mostly because of the yellowish palette, but the discourse I've seen around this piece is out of hand.