It should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*

You're not supposed to hear about @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow according to some very influential forces - so how about we make sure that game happens. You can crowdfund the full development of the game here. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

frustrating window into how good ocarina could be if it actually pushed its ideas with any kind of rigor. to this day one of the rare metroidvania things where i actually find myself *thinking* about what to do

new backlog battle for all shareholders and habibis around the world

doing ocarina of time watertemple without the blue tunic just to feel something

if you like mixtape i do look down on you a little bit

if charli xcx asked me to shoot myself in the head i would ask her how many times

do any of the reviews mention microsoft’s involvement with the israeli military?

STAR FOX ZERO WAS GOOD. IT'S POTENTIAL MAN MONDAY. LINKS BELOW

if tifa truly is coming to street fighter before tekken it will in fact be a century of humiliation for the latter

okay at this point can we all just agree that remakes are little more than forced creative constraints for the sake of free marketing and R&D

“which mechanics and game design do i need to convey the world and the feeling i’m imagining” is a valid approach to game development but the ubiquity of it in the dev community (over the tried and true “what would be an interesting thing to DO”) is honestly making me so tired lol

For those of us having a pleasant Sunday, may I interrupt your pleasant Sunday with a reminder that Israel today, too, murders, maims, tortures, kidnaps, holds hostage, starves, dispossessed, and rapes Palestinians, Lebanese, and others as they please in a Western-backed genocide.

i can’t help but have some kinda reaction to the fact it’s always games LIKE mixtape that appeal to mainstream critic sensibilities so strongly and unanimously, but i should prob refrain from further claims until i actually play it

nate the hate has hell to pay

it looks bad

All these X-Box news and no mention of the Boycott bsky.app/profile/noga...

"games should allow for logical decisions based on clear rules and system interactions" mfs when asked how they can still like metroidvania level design

i gave my copy of ocarina of time 3D to my ex so now i'm stuck with this ugly ass reprint. live on twitch and youtube

The BDS boycott against Xbox is specifically targeted with material goals. It is not a personal purity test one imposes upon purchases for the sake of gauging idealistic commitment. You cannot "what about" with other purchases when they are not part of a legitimate organized movement.

IMO it’s that his general writing technique is bad & that that’s maybe not obvious if you already agree with him “long walk and talk intros suit a game like TLOU. but in an ‘RPG’ like deus ex, you expect freedom asap.” completely arbitrary and unjustified distinction he immediately moves on from

white people when you don't like hbomberguy

very lively stream, thank y'all so much. happy we can extract this level of productive discussion from a slop premise like that. i'll post the tier list in the discourse tomorrow, along with some other stuff that's piled up. discord.ziadbruh.com

talking about this on stream, then doing the game critic tier list

"game critic" tier list streaming later today... goal is to avoid people i personally talk to and punch up a bit without being mean... suggest more below 👇

Dreams on a Pillow by @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social is a game that deserves to exist for a million reasons, but it can only be funded if we all help by pledging and sharing. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

we need to talk less about enemy variety and more about enemy behavior...

i don’t really enjoy how i’ll express dissatisfaction with certain types of game design discourse, patterns or arguments in what i hope is a constructive manner, and then people take that as an invitation to hurl condescension at “the other side.” happens here and in twitch chat a bunch.

microsoft is complicit in genocide and i wish people would stop uncritically distributing all their marketing, going to their preview events, subscribing to game pass and covering their games. especially those who are independent.

Operius DX, my love letter to old-school arcade games, is once again on sale for 31% off on Steam! Why? Because I felt like it, okay? store.steampowered.com/app/3281050/...

"we'll boost your character with every failed attempt -> it's now opaque what level of avatar strength may be 'required' to succeed" should be an obvious eyebrow-raiser against the roguelite concept on a fundamental level. i don't get how you play saros or hades & not feel cheated out of your time

i know it's annoying but if you could share my latest essay on shadow of the colossus in whatever other communities you're in, it'd be a huge help! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECje...

i'm roasting your favorite games again... post them in here: discord.ziadbruh.com twitch.tv/ziadbruh

maybe the hottest woman ever put in a video game

I do feel like I’m losing my mind to see the entire gamut of games media, from IGN to small Aussie sites, running this kind of corporate fawning amid the Palestinian genocide. No pretty words on it here, I just find it contemptible.

1: i'm locking in on youtube and twitch again with scripted videos and regular streams 2: streams will be every monday + wednesday and follow a distinct format 3: i made a community discord so you can participate in streams and keep up with my stuff

i decided to be original this year and make a video essay on shadow of the colossus. the new ziad content era starts now www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECje...

join the festivities discord.ziadbruh.com

phase 1 of the ziad relaunch is in full effect... tap in www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avk4...

managed what i think might be a close-to-perfect game of type B original tetris?? total RNG slop but i'm still happy LOL, managed to narrowly clear this guy too. so mad i didn't record the run www.youtube.com/watch?v=DloJ...

to focus on using those to create interesting execution layers. Basically maximize endurance minimize strain as much as possible

I think all physical endurance is valid but injury complicates this massively. I feel like this would have a more definitive answer if there was more empirical research on diff types of intense vg execution and their tendency to cause injury cuz then you could point to specific patterns & tell devs-

where exactly is the line in games testing physical endurance? we all hate mashing fire in games like DMC1 or star fox of course, but then you have melee players who (even outside of actual hand pain) get physically exhausted from tech skill and have to manage their stamina for a whole tournament

History will note that Israel was allowed by the West to murder who they want in a genocide, illegal invasion, an apartheid ethnostate - and the only demand the West made in this context is that the victims and opposition not say anything even vaguely negative about Israel.

Waffenruhe im Krieg um den Iran, wenigstens etwas Erleichterung für die Menschen dort - aber im Libanon geht der Krieg weiter. Bereits 1500 Menschen wurden getötet, Hunderttausende sind auf der Flucht, die humanitäre Situation ist katastrophal, berichten unsere Partner.

genuinely scared of waking up tomorrow. pray for iran.

one thing i would like to investigate more in the near future is at what point exactly gradual movement acceleration and strongly emphasized pivoting goes from satisfying and intrinsically enjoyable (mario 64) to clunky and annoying (modern capcom)

So it's an illegal invasion with the goal of expanding Israeli territory by land theft. Imagine the BBC writing with this cowardice about any other invasion. It's time to admit the BBC cannot be trusted on providing objective and fair coverage on Israel, and instead operates as purely propaganda.