You ever think about how Microsoft was at the forefront of an era of video games where it looked like the US was going to be the dominant cultural force of video games, and now they own a significant chunk of the US game industry, and they're just throwing it into a furnace to keep the AI lights on.

Video games are about choices

love to read this stuff how Metal Slug achieved that amazing art by using 3 pillars, shapes, coloring and shading 6th-divisions-den.co...

Abandoned pineapple #WindowsOnWednesday #UrbanGaze #WackyWednesdayArt #photography

"you just post for attention!" im sorry was there another type of posting

だって、聞き流してたもん it was in one ear and out the other (easy mode idioms)

it makes me sad that nobody else seems to be keen on the oedipal triangle reference (daddy-mommy-me) in the title of Chichi wa Eiyuu, Haha wa Seirei, Musume no Watashi wa Tenseisya

It’s almost spooky season! 🎃👻🕷️🕸️

Have any of the #modeltrains folks made it a goal of theirs to model and paint the 12+ designs of these that are out in the wild? I just need to know who's slutting it up. #trains

I was contacted by someone via my website. They played the Star Trek mainframe game on an actual computer at a university - one with no screen. He still has the printouts form one of his games, some of which can be seen here. A fascinating piece of gaming history.

After much head-scratching about the random appearance of Anne in a manga with no Annes, I have learned that アンネ is slang for having your period because the first disposable pad in Japan was made by a company called Anne. #TranslationIsLearning

this japanese blogger is so hype for the english language release of fantasy moon wars that they translated their past blog about the game for fans abroad

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

「夜明け」

The mighty Sailor Jupiter #SailorMoon

people think i'm weird for disabling embeds in discord you think i want to have my whole screen cluttered up with garbage? you think it's cool only being able to see two messages at a time? sorry, but i'm a _millennial_; suffering through shitty tech experiences is for boomers and zoomers

Well don't I feel stupid

The original "hueg liek xbox" photoshop, discovered this week on an old hdd.

this is just the background for 'too like the lightning' tho also leftists turning dune into what harry potter is for libs i'm begging you to please read another book

says a lot about the quality of drivers in the NLS series if this sim-racer wannabe can just hop into a car and win lmao

OCs, one of the good internet things. Allowing people to be creative without the need to publish a book or something more involving. Chill opportunity to practice drawing, writing and other skills. Also a good way to befriend people. Did much more to make art accessible than AI will ever do.

うさぎちゃん

managed to beat an SM map rando seed for the first time in a while, maybe since the launch of s4 part of that drought is surely that i'm out of practice, but also i haven't been very motivated and have been dnfing every one i play pretty much whenever i encounter a minor frustration

Btw, as the Itchio noise and all died down, Adult games are technically just banned now. Some adult games are still being sold, yes, but if you get caught or reported or whatever, all your payment options will be yanked and only a husk remains. Zero comments from Itchio on this, nothing, at all.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

People need the ability to express themselves. They need to know and understand things, even when the governments and religions and prudes of the world try to keep them ignorant. Passing on knowledge & art is an act of resistance, even if unintentional. It shows people cannot be controlled.

Really good article about how the mainstreaming of fan culture has lead to increasing corporate control of it.

Pikachu and Eevee in Arena Mexico

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

doodle #パチュアリ

this manga (kaere! otsurudani kitaku club) is great

I am low key obsessed with the covers of Monthly Halloween. I did a whole little article about them and Ito few years back www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/jun...

If you think I am exaggerating, Junji Ito's comics appeared in Monthly Halloween, a shojo manga magazine. See that girl on the cover there? That is who Junji Ito was making comics for.

i actually kinda like the star wars prequels

with the express caveat that i think that monza and baku were exceptional in the sense that the nature of the tracks basically cancelled out mclaren's cornering advantage: it would be so fucking funny if max just runs away with it in the back half of the season omg

i feel like there's this certain guy who really wants to declare himself "a fan" of trigger because that's what all the obnoxious fart-sniffing anime fans are doing, but is simply too much of a weeb to actually enjoy panty and stocking and it causes this person no end of cognitive dissonance

#おまえらマジで25年以上前に描いた絵を投げる勇気があるのかキャンペーン 『空想科学エジソン』 2000年8月初出。 この絵は、連載前に描いた準備稿。 …25年以上も経ったんですね。 本当にあっという間でした。

i like when people say "such-and-such isn't really cyberpunk because it's about people of slightly more privilege living in a technodystopia" and they just make it clear that the only thing they think is actually _bad_ about cyberpunk is that they might be poor

I'm going to use my secret weapon! [repeatedly baits the other team's best player into fouling you so she gets taken out of the game]

til that 'kenny omega' and 'kengan omega' are not the same thing

#Touhou #東方Project #チルノ

for some reason i have 'there was an old woman who swallowed a fly' stuck in my head clearly the best course of action at this point is to dislodge it by listening to an even catchier song, a recourse in which i see no possibility for progressively escalating problems

カイ・シデン／機動戦士ガンダム パンストなカイシデンさん。

I first went to Japan in the early 2000s and you know what _one_ anime all the people my age seemed to know for some reason? GS Mikami

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available! Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games. #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org

You know what Tumblr account I always enjoyed was Best URL on Here. What's that fellow up to I wonder