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.

i'm currently working on the Big Ziad Content Return and wanna give some updates for those who missed it: - i passed my MA game design exam! - i'll be out of my main job starting april with nothing else lined up lmfao - i have another scripted essay in the style of my resi review in the chamber

this is just my two cents on the “new star fox needs on-foot exploration and skill trees” discourse. star fox zero and kid icarus uprising (the two most recent big budget rail shooters) obviously had a lot of abrasive elements that didn’t help their reception. so my evidence is a little flawed.

outside of those stealth levels, there’s very little to convince me that star fox zero somehow wasn’t an incredibly faithful follow-up to 64, both in mechanical identity & quality and if we accept that, we must also accept that zero’s reception proves mainstream critics don’t actually like star fox

something about learning that hind’s baby brother and i share the same name deeply stirred me. pray for palestine

renewed my slippi ranked sub cuz i can actually make time to grind guilt free for a bit but matchmaking seems close-to-dead in my region. i genuinely be waiting in the queue for like 10 minutes

diddy kong racing vs mario kart 64 may be the purest embodiment of the “am i a structurecel or a mechanicschad” question

After 4 years, I'm finally able to pinpoint my thoughts on Ninja Gaiden Black! A lot of work went into this, and after ages of fighting with myself to put something together, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Shares and comments are appreciated <3 lukegirard.neocities.org/posts/ngb-an...

We signed the pledge, will you? Come on, game devs!

@ciaridesigns.bsky.social hi, was interested in your goal widget but am a little unclear on its exact feature set: ko-fi.com/s/4acc8ec3ff is it able to aggregate twitch subs, youtube members and ko-fi members into a single progress bar? that would be the exact thing i'm looking for

I think it's weird for people who are nominally journalists to say things like "We should have waited to see what people think." The issue isn't that you lost the coin flip of public opinion; the issue was that you gave into astonishment. The problem is that the keyjingling got you at all!

imagine a game where certain milestones have to be met to eventually progress (clear all dungeons, beat all robot masters, collect five masks, etc.) when the player can choose the order to reach those milestones in, is that a point in the game’s favor? and why?

officially a master of arts in game design (1 - 6 = A - F grade in germany) incredibly rocky road there with some really tough to swallow lows. genuinely in disbelief i made it out the other end. time to chill for a bit.

the horrendous results aside, an ML algorithm intercepting game frames before they land on your screen & slapping an instagram filter on them with no rhyme or reason is something we should categorically reject. why would anyone be happy to leave all those artistic choices to a one-size-fits-all AI?

Pluto - Naoki Urasawa

the fact i never got to make memories of beirut before it all went to hell really has me feeling a type of way. the west’s undying support for israel is so goddamn farcical

requiem's leon combat leaves me in a weird spot where some of the negativity i see expressed toward it feels overly simplistic, but it's also still mid enough that wanting to defend it makes me feel like a dumbass LOL

little late on the nineball meme, think of this as my current GOATs; choosing between TGM2, BOTW and DMC4 for the final slot was unbearably difficult but i had to give it to my man mario

purely in game design terms, where do you feel the classic resident evil games (1-3, CV, REmake, 0) exceed requiem's rhodes hill section?

having just experienced requiem’s final boss, i never want anybody saying that the parry backlash we’re currently experiencing is overblown ever again. actually negative amounts of game design 6/10

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

hitting a focused rifle on a zombie has varied between knocking it down, its head exploding, it not reacting, or getting a minor flinch. All aimed at the same spot and same enemy. There is no knowledge you can really gain here to help you play better, just backpedal and dump ammo. It confounds me.

the rhodes hill stretch in requiem might honestly be the most impressed i’ve ever been with the classic RE formula. can’t wait for the game to turn into abysmal dogshit from here. 🙏

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

i have sympathy for desperate iranians clinging to the false hope that this will bring about a positive regime change, but western media using this fact to manufacture consent with the US and israel is disgusting

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

fuck the united states and fuck israel, devastating news to wake up to

i wonder if fromsoft would object to a conservative 4k60fps port, which i’m 1000% certain is all anybody wants anyway

why are they mogging

i’m sorry if i’m doing too much but the way anything modern-pokemon is gleefully reveling in endless amounts of nostalgia slop is genuinely so repulsive to me LOL. incestuous capital-maxxing at its most insane

Trans rights are human rights. Their existence causes no harm and their deserving of dignity is not a debate.

Had a great discussion about a super underrated dreamcast classic. 2026 is gonna be a big year for beach gen and im excited to participate on it more

this new nerrel video is awful

has anyone figured out how to install a dpad inside an arcade stick mounting hole? closest thing i've found is this shit but it's gigantic LOL jammastar.com/gb/screw-in-...

we’ve seen enough filmmakers at the berlinale actually show a fucking spine to confirm that no, saying “free palestine” when you’re asked about it will not get you cancelled. it is literally so fucking easy how are y’all this pathetic

time to bring this one back

what do you think makes a good game review?

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

i understand being excited but i still recommend you abstain from all the new blizzard stuff given microsoft’s continued support of the israeli military. that situation hasn’t magically changed

Reading this while watching a report on how deeply embedded Nvidia, AMD, Intel are in the Trump administration’s plans to invade and subjugate Greenland. Microsoft is expediting a genocide, video game execs are up and down the Epstein files, Rockstar is union busting. Check your exits folks.

I'm curious as to what the 2XKO's teams plans were before they were informed of yesterday's layoffs -- what tasks were the individual staff members assigned to for the foreseeable future? If you know anything, please consider hitting my DMs, will handle the info responsibly.

2XKO situation is fucked on so many levels man; even just from the selfish perspective of "i'm still waiting to play it once they fix the goddamn screen tearing because it actually seems fun." i do not understand the decision-making process here

this review is full of slam dunks but finding out that Mine's substory has him doing image rehabilitation of a guy who got imprisoned for seuxal assault made my jaw hit the floor dude.

can we talk about how fire this logo is

every falco is just a fox waiting to get on HRT

i don’t doubt that ye developed some real prejudice by misconstruing his experiences in the music industry with antisemitic stereotypes. but, and maybe i’m too biased/soft, seeing people laugh off how bipolar made him lean into those destructive tendencies ain’t sit right with me

best thing one battle after another did is have leo’s character call everybody he doesn’t like a “fucking liberal”

Kamala Harris's actual 2024 policies:

our long gestating beach gen episode on grand theft auto III is finally out! a lot of daring design mixed with a lot of mid, and @ziaddd.bsky.social, @kranku.bsky.social, and I go through all of it. I'm excited to kick beach gen off again this year! link below!