It's snowing! I was really inspired by snowy fields I saw from the train yesterday to draw these. Beautiful, magical landscapes speeding past. Who will frolick in them?

Not renting for the first time in my entire-ass life and now entering my putting stuff up era. If there's a blank surface I am gonna drill that plasterboard fucker so bad.

Going to the mind stylist to get my brain permed.

Jack Ingoff New York, Northern Arrival Manifests, 1902-1967

First post of 2026

Here are ~90 photos of weapons, armor, & costumes from the Lord of the Rings films--likely used as reference by the LotR: War in the North dev team. I found these during my data recovery efforts. Some photos have data loss, but this is still good reference for LotR fans! archive.org/details/lotr...

if avatar had no cultural impact then why did everyone wonder what the bottom of their shoe looked like

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Cast n Chill on Switch 2 is an absolutely perfect festive couch game. Serene vibes, compelling progression, and fishing mechanics that are just the right amount of challenging.

They should never have left that boy home alone.

Tiny Tim died. Scrooge threw him off the Hell in a Cell.

five gold rings? jeremy that's insane

Made it to December 24 without hearing the interminable Fairytale of New York. But the radio is on in this room and I am in danger.

Same.

I interviewed Deus Ex: Human Revolution's art director years ago and he said MGS2's stylised, minimalist environment textures were a big inspiration, which is particularly obvious in the FEMA facility level. Convinced they used the Big Shell as direct reference for this.

Having a great time revisiting Deus Ex: HR, but finding the gulf in quality between the environment art and the NPCs a lot more distracting than I did 14 years ago.

Stacking boxes so this guy can't see me hacking a terminal. Now that's what I call immersive simmin'.

AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl

i am now the owner of an intel silicon wafer watch, found it at goodwill today

Deus Ex: Human Revolution ceiling appreciation post.

Treated myself to a Korg Volca Keys analogue synth. You can squeeze some nice sounds out of this wee thing. Here's a bit of Vangelis.

Replaying Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Director's Cut on PC with piss filter modded back in) and I'm glad to report it still has the juice.

Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.

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Dare me to buy and eat the 30-year-old Taz bar?

'Step into Christmas' by Elton John but all the lyrics are 'welcome to my christmas song'

Video games can just look like this.

Realising you can easily take out those annoying cystoid nests in Prey by firing lil foam darts at them with a child's crossbow is one of the all-time great imsim moments.

Highly recommend Rob Reiner's recent book on the making of This is Spinal Tap, partly written as himself, partly in character as Marty DiBergi. As you would expect, very funny, and inspiring too. No one wanted anything to do with that film but he knew it was special and never gave up on it.

You get a document up on that baby and you are seriously looking at that document.

This is where I post from.

Great news for anyone under the age of 35.

Big fan of the key art for that new Star Wars racing game.

Staying up to watch the adverts.

I remember doing the deal for Epic Mickey, and Bob Iger shooting laser beams out his eyes at me in the Disney dining room. “Don’t let this video game fuck up Mickey.” Oh well. That’s over.

Give into this feeling the next time you have it, because it really is one of the greatest video games of all time and seems to have only gotten better with age somehow.

NEW DECONSTRUCTEAM GAME ALERT.

A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:

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Shout out to Prey's cursed ham tomato.

Game genres are seasonal, i.e. Summer - Arcade racing games Autumn - Classic CRPGs Winter - Immersive sims

YOU ARE A DEMON MADE OF GLASS AND PAIN AND YET, YOU MUST SKATE SKATE STORY OUT NOW PC, PS5, SWITCH 2

You ever just feel like playing Prey (2017).

I appreciate Skate Story upping the game on the "we did not use Generative AI to make this game" disclosure meta.

My games of the year, in no particular order: 👻 The Séance of Blake Manor 🐱 Skin Deep ⚔️ Avowed 🛹 Skate Story 📦 Easy Delivery Co. 🍌 Donkey Kong Bananza 😈 Hell is Us 🐍 Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater 👶 Baby Steps

YOU ARE A DEMON MADE OF GLASS AND PAIN AND YET, YOU MUST SKATE SKATE STORY OUT NOW PC, PS5, SWITCH 2

Digging through some old screenshots and found these photos I took of Loch Lomond in Scotland and then recreated in MS Flight Simulator.