to make a video game is to constantly be thinking about what elements you need to put into place to trick people into thinking this emotionally troubled computer program you built is a real video game

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.

using or2 and not orz so you know that I got a fat ass

Been struggling with drawing despite my anatomy studies and I decided to give digital painting a try Instant 1000% improvement, absolutely lines up with how I visualize forms, I'm sticking with this from now on. Night and day difference from before

somehow didnt take me as long on those hands than I thought it would #PowerofNature

Waiting for Godot postcredit sequence where you see the outline of Godot.

I really do unironically feel like this all the time

Jucika

"can we please make the game on the assumption that whoever is playing has decided to so" has always got me blank stares at work unforch

Note for the posters today:

The Americas need a Comiket

You could pour rusty nails onto a pizza and gamers will call it the "definitive pizza" because it has "extra content"

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Doing some dedicated game dev studies for physics stuff because I'm sick of collision kicking my ass Turne out vector math is hard At least I got a bouncy ball working though so there's that. I'll try learning more about sloped vectors and dot product stuff this week

at this point, treating valve as a game studio is like treating amazon as a book store

Made this in a fit of rage

The most basic argument I can give you for ditching Spotify for *anything* is Spotify, uniquely, pays *nothing* for much of the music on the platform. Is there *any* improvement in paying for Spotify over pirating? You're a paper-thin moral slice away from buying music from a bootlegger. Why do it?

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Remembering that my introduction to Sailor Moon was through a batshit self-insert fanfic Now my impression of Sailor Moon is permanently colored by the mental image of a fat guy from Texas in Tabasco brand pajamas shooting Kunzite with a shotgun while Taste the Blood plays in the background

love when you get to the part of a Sailor Moon episode where it slow pans an establishing shot with a bass riff. yep, Jadeite is up to some bullshit again. roll that sick ass reused animation

theme of guys whose plans will fall apart in 15 minutes or less

this is only an "incorrect" bevel if you're a coward 😎😎

𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵! 🔴⚫️🔴⚫️

you've heard of himself/herself now get ready for

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

Dick Cheney, Lowtax, and Kanzi the bonobo hugging it out in Heaven 🙏👼🐵

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

The Democratic Party losing to itself is the most Democratic Party thing to possibly happen.

Skinballs always makes me chuckle.

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

M. BISON: I want to be reborn as a petite British woman. Oooh, ooooh, or maybe I could be more of an Italian MILF type. Someday… SETH: lol Im already Girl Pepsiman you fuckin geek

I think the reason why Battle Network “predicted” so much is that the writers and the tech industry both sought to create what a 12 year old thinks is cool

Remember, folks.

#Combotober Day 28: Didn't do any previous prompts, but I had already knew a combo for today's prompt from messing around with Aoko before. Might do the other prompts late before the end of the year Day 28: Highest Vertical Distance Traveled (Melty Blood: Type Lumina)

The more expensive games discourse again? Don’t make me tap the sign.

if I ever hold a panel on audio editing you know this image is gonna be part of the slideshow

Sakurai writing any story mode: Imagine a fairytale that sucks

I think it's extremely important to reinforce that "intelligence" is not some quantifiable dbz power level but rather just the sum of various niche specializations and skills you acquire over time, nobody exemplifies this more than Ben Carson's existence

apologies to every bit of video game world-building I dismissed as "too weird"

@mattleone.bsky.social's Oral History of FF7 is a wonderful piece that provides tons of insight into not just FF7 but Square as a whole all the way into the early 2000s. I've continued to cite it even now as I write my FFX retrospective. Please subscribe to Design Room.

-one of which was a rather scathing takedown on 3D fighters compared to 2D ones. I dont know if it was that much of a determining factor but it did mark a significant vibe shift against 3D fighters, leading to them falling out of favor outside legacy franchises like Tekken and VF

as far as I can tell the idea of 3D fighters as the Ideal Form completely nosedived after Seth Killian's influential Domination 101 articles, basically the bible for the FGC at the time, famous for its brutal unsugarcoated advice and commentary on various subjects-