The cover for the Nickelodeon Animation Studio 1998 Yearbook. This is hilarious in hindsight because most of the Nicktoons are center stage and SpongeBob is just standing off to the side, almost separate from everyone else.

This is Steve the vacuum. What do you think of him?

Made like a dark, fucked up version of the realplayer logo haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao

the early webcomic scene is so quaint to look back on. social media metrics have totally ruined our perception of audience scale and success. found a 20-year-old interview asking dave anez how it felt that bob and george had *over one thousand* daily readers. that was a medium-defining hit back then

The reason why this fandom has lasted so long and been consistently amazing is because kink community being deep in the fandom making "safe, sane, and consensual" a core part of furry fandom. Puritan furs will ruin this community because they don't understand that concept.

"Dusk Horizon". I remember Pedro, the level designer, telling me "the music just keeps getting better... Dusk Horizon is great!" This would've been around 1997, almost 30 years ago...

He can’t hear you now. We had to pack his ears with gauze.

one of those things i was like "this is a neat thing to exist" when i saw it but just seems so much more obviously important now to me looking back

genuinely don't think there is anything that more directly presaged a lot of the aesthetics and broader social compulsions of the past 10 years than "This House Has People In It" www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-pj...

anyway to me it represents a model of how to approach making games that try and speak to larger reality (and not just pander to specific audience expectations) in a post-AAA, post-consensus reality world. it still feels like a new idea in so many ways.

what i like about A.L.T. is how well it executes on this idea of reality breaking down, how every step gets subverted or a strange thing happens. it's not wrapped around a creepypasta or horror context like a lot of stuff now, it feels singularly devoted to an intentional subversion of expectations.

like the text of that wad (such as it exists) is about a stable reality breaking down into strange fragments. it felt more honest to what we had been experiencing then, and what we're experiencing even more now: this feeling that the machinery is still somehow operating but everything's busted.

when i was writing it around late 2017, there was a general feeling that AAA games had had a little rebirth with the Switch and a lot of other stuff around the time (Zelda, nuDoom etc). to me A.L.T. represented almost an entirely different model for thinking about games to that

the feeling of hypernormalization this describes is very apt. also going to be that annoying person, but if you wanna see a game essay that talks about hypernormalization more you can read this one i wrote on the Doom wad A.L.T. 8 years ago that i think mostly holds up. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

this guy just posted his last video in this series today, it's not all perfect but still def worth a watch if you want a deep dive into the mind palace of a manipulative/abusive famous guy from the perspective of a former fan.

optimism isn't the vulnerability, and cynicism isn't the armor that a lot of people think it is

not telling anyone to have unreasonable expectations, but having unreasonable expectations is generally what gets people to do very transformative things lol. and we could use more of those.

to me now is not a time where people should have narrowed horizons about the creative work they're making. or any time. again, even if it seems totally rational to do so. don't ever expect to be totally loved, but don't think you can know the future. also sometimes irrationality is very important!!

art can't change laws, or get people to collectively organize or whatever else just by itself. you don't become a radical immediately by consuming radical art. but also - it sure helps!!

hot take: to me the old adage of "art can't change the world" at some level just isn't true. and repeating it reflects a sense of defeat and narrowed possibilities, even if it seems totally reasonable to do so.

to me falls into the same category that "free will doesn't exist" does. valid belief to have, 0 identifiable upside to living your life that way

i'm not a power of positive thinking person - i got burned by that kind of stuff, like a lot of other people. and being grounded in reality is a very good idea for your long term survival. but trapping yourself into thinking there's no real way forward is even more of a mind prison, it turns out

TADC is very "ABC Saturday Morning" coded in general

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it's not the worst movie i've seen in a theater, but i remember as a teen watching "Austin Powers in Goldmember" and having the sudden thought "wow... this isn't funny" and having a sort of crisis about it because everyone else around me was laughing

i mostly wish less people would lie to themselves and keep pretending they don't have any power to choose what to spend their time thinking and talking about

you can just decide something's important and worth talking about even if it doesn't make much money or get that much visibility. just for fun, because it feels good to talk about. it's a power many have abused over the years, but it's a power we all nonetheless have.

hipsters have been eternally right in their primary insight that something isn't good or worth celebrating or remembering or spending that much time thinking about just because it's popular

I can't link the AlterSpring site since the site's down, but there's been a question that's been burning in my head for a while, and I finally got the chance to actually answer it! ...really deserves a fuller explanation than these three pieces, but in due time. #inflation #inflationart #AreoQnA

Ah the Japanese language learning classics

The ice cream machine is down? No problem... you can make yourself a McFlurry out of Play-Doh! (2002)

hey remember that thread i made about how there's a massive generational divide in gaming between modern teens and older generations and how i can't really see a way to fill it and how neither can gaming companies, so they still party like it's 2012

had this pulled up for my freelancing guide how topical indeed

RAMP 2021: 200 maps RAMP 2022: 117 RAMP 2023: 296 RAMP 2024: 311 RAMP 2025: 213 RAMP 2026: 226 So, the third-biggest one of these yet! And a continuing annual festival of the Doom community's amazing creativity. Like a huge box of hellish chocolates. Every one is full of surprises. Go play!

cw inflation , monobutt sketches of a beautiful transgender woman as a warm-up today

I'm almost halfway there folks, thank you so very much so far 🙇‍♀️💜💜

PopoloCrois Castle on a sunny day by Manabu Ōhashi this is from the first popolocrois PS1 intro while you wait at the main menu on it and the intro will start playing.

Do it for them.

Surprise Zniw attack, part 3!! Gosh how many yellow dinosaurs can you handle??

ALRIGHT FIRST PLACE for www.furaffinity.net/user/sethem/

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its funny how the ppl who make a big show of this tough meanie-queer "the world beat me down n now im not gonna play nice with my oppressor" attitude all seem to spend most of their time being mean to...other faggots

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“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Nothing like floating down the bayou~ 🎨: @wazplm52.bsky.social

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