Zero Parades is about womanhood in a way I am not sure I've seen in a big game, certainly not an RPG. I wasn't sure at first whether it was setting it up as a cornerstone theme in the same way DE did with manhood, but several hours in, I'm realizing it's harder to recognize because this medium

I don’t wanna play Forza Horizon 6 I wanna play a new Ridge Racer game with a Ridge Racer Type 4 level soundtrack. I want a Japanese musician getting a progressive house diva from New Jersey to make a soundtrack that’s still good decades later. That’s the real Japanese racing experience.

Time for a rewatch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNo...

A lot of people act like Boba Fett and Mando were catering to the old white folks in the star wars fan base but letting Robert Rodriguez recreate the Mariachi and put lowriders in Boba Fett, Cassian having an accent, and Pedro as Mando wasn't for them. It was for Latinos.

MMOs are a social game where community is a major aspect, and creators with platforms and an audience they influence do have a direct impact on the community - by extension experience - of the game ToS/GM discipline relating to videos/streams of the game are completely par for the course for MMOs

Shintaro Kago works in a genre called Ero-guro nansensu (Erotic/Grotesque Nonsense) which plays with the obscene and offensive for the pure joy of it. In an era where they are trying to police our morals, wouldn't it be great to give comics' highest award to the most offensive work nominated?

Elektra (after Gustav Klimt) — Bill Sienkiewicz

Bungie ending support for Destiny 2 marks the end of an era: aftermath.site/bungie-sony-de...

I haven't played Destiny in a long time, but this still feels sad. It's a game I had an enormous amount of fun with when it was still good.

Destiny 2 writers over the years swung for the fences and advanced the craft of game writing and narrative design. Huge love for teams past and present, and if they get to bring that to Marathon going forward then we'll all be better for it.

everyone's always like "I want a hyper-focused autistic yapper girlfriend to always be around and rizz me up and tell me her special interests and over-explain things to me" and then goes "ugh the fairy sidekick in this new game talks too much!"

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe is good, but it's radical approach to horniness is what makes it great: aftermath.site/mobile-suit-gu...

Aerith~🌺 エアリス #FF7 #FF7R

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It makes me so angry that baldur’s gate won every single game of the year award in existence, but if it had been an indie game it would not have been allowed on the any storefront or funding platforms.

the joy of simply indulging in haterism about a game that I don't like has been sapped by all you fucking fools trying to turn mixtape into a bigger problem than it is. it's not an industry plant. it's not the worst thing to ever happen to interactive storytelling. shut the fuck up at this point

I am still not over how cool it is that you can walk into a store and buy Steel Ball Run

I have reviewed Mixtape. This is the Hater Zone. Don't be surprised to find Hater Opinions here. I've warned you.

If you see this you have to post an anime opening from 2000-2005. The perfect vibes for my goth ass at 18. youtu.be/YjZwWr5pvXY?...

Ran into some people on Reddit who are angry at games for making these statements. Please repost this to make them angrier

reports are coming in that the white house correspondent's dinner was interrupted by someone attempting to shoot yoship for the 'butt slider' announced at a completely different conference dedicated to final fantasy 14 today

This picture was edited like Chopper died on the way to fight DIO

People have said this before, but it's weird that if you are in the Bluesky age demographic of 38 to 42, young people right now are talking *exactly* like the incel loser 4chan dweebs you encountered 15 years ago. They're using words you deeply associated, long ago, with incel CSAM dweebs on chans

Autism is a hell of a drug

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

I was wondering why I felt #Realis sentence mechanics seem familiar. It really reminds me of the HunterxHunter power system where specificity and restrictions increases the power of the individual. It would be cool to run shonen battle one shot using Realis.

The Yorknew City arc in Hunter x Hunter is so cool because it’s three of the main characters looking on eBay for a PlayStation 1 game off screen while the fourth develops a Martial Art centered entirely around being history’s greatest hater.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

They did not stop making TV shows like 1990s STAR TREK. Almost every ensemble TV drama show about police/firefighters/specialist-doctors/govt-agents (even f---ing COOKS!) became 90s STAR TREK, while STAR TREK (tried?) to turn into "prestige serial drama"

one of my favorite arthouse horror movies, 'the wolf house', is currently on tubi for free. which is great, because i feel like a lot of folks who would adore this have never even heard of it because it was hard to find. marvelous surreal progression, blurred lines between environment and self.

John Waters at the No Kings protest in Provincetown.

"There are really good people in both the Federation and the Dominion, and I have private conversations with Gul Dukat and Weyoun and they agree about what's wrong. But they're unwilling to say these things to the Founders. And so the occupation of Bajor continues, but they're really good people."

I’ll be playing more Numenera this weekend with @amurorx.bsky.social. Except this time, we also got our buddy @bats490.bsky.social to join us! Can’t wait to add another PC to the roster as Draj and Shane venture into the Westwood in search of the Golden Sanctum. #ttrpg #cyphersystem #gaming

Pluto - Naoki Urasawa

As much as I love watching Paul Giamatti chew scenery in Starfleet Academy, the use of 20th/21st century English idioms and slang is killing me.

Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”

I am afraid that manga as an industry is going to go through another bust. Sales have flatlined in Japan, so the only growth market they see now is in English language markets. Publishers are all desperate to push sales there, and are most likely going to flood the market beyond capacity.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

American evil knows no bounds

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

I subscribe to a lot of indie pubs, but here are five worker-owned companies I'll never abandon: - @404media.co: essential technology! - @rascal.news: essential tabletop! - @aftermath.site: essential video games! - @defector.com: essential everything! - @hellgatenyc.com: essential New York!

This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.

I almost view the boomer shooter revival (so named because it’s meant to bring the genre back to its arcadey roots) as an indirect response to how CoD effectively became the video game version of a hoo-rah jingoistic action blockbuster, complete with direct involvement with the Pentagon

In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")