Every day I eat a poind of wax.

i made a new album! marigocchi.itch.io/orcinus-orca... ty holly for organizing this

I repost a lot of old work these days. Sometimes it makes me a little verklempt about my current levels of productivity, but also - I still like a lot of it - In the course of looking through the archives, I'm able to see that I am still learning new things - Gotta post huge tits to keep rent down

From the skyscrapers, down to the submarines (2023)

Holy SHIT

I remember thinking this was the coolest shit I'd ever seen back in 2004. Here's the thing: I was completely right

Back in 2019 I convinced a non-zero number of people that this image was real

CGkaiju #08 MAN-MOTH

Bruh im doing Linux in the woods

KONG RONG: You gotta get the wise Mi Heng. His every word is poetry CAO CAO: Very well MI HENG: Cao Cao You're Idiot Bitch CAO CAO: Grah! Fuck you! MI HENG, STRIPPING NUDE: Whole Team Shit CAO CAO: Go convince Liu Bao to surrender or I'll kill you! MI HENG, AT LIU BAO'S ESTATE: Greetings Idiot Bitch

BUT BATMAN'S IN FOR A NASTY TRICK THIS TIME ! LITTLE DOES HE KNOW THAT I HAVE THE SAME KIND OF COLORBLINDNESS THAT A DOG HAS

DAD: And don't get me no sativa I know what I like ME: More of an indica guy? DAD: I have only ever smoked indica. You should know this ME: You know. That makes sense DAD: It has always made sense to me

The "pokemon" IP is responsible for the posts that have earned me the most followers (Jeans Absol, inexplicably) and the most blocks (posts where I imply that modern Pokemon games are "a form of colorful quasi-edible styrofoam that somehow got FDA approval," and similar sentiments)

Put on too many "what is the worst ___ type pokemon" videos as background noise and now my recommendations all have thumbnails of pokemon crying. What the hell man. I don't need this right now

2024

Few things hit like Katsuhiko Maeda's signature move, "huge emotional crescendo with blown-out postrock guitars that sound like a jet engine." Gets me every time. Great example at 3:30 in this track

Many games with "player character strength progression" reward you for clearing their engaging, challenging midgame by trivializing or even playing themselves through their endgame. What kind of reward is that? It often feels like a punishment in disguise

LRT: I spend a lot of time wondering about that kind of thing. Does killing beautiful megafauna in Monster Hunter generate karma? Does making Monster Hunter, a game about killing beautiful megafauna, generate karma? Maybe these worries are just guilt trying to sneak back in, wearing karma's mask

Good to know

Sin And Punishment (N64, 2000)

My "SMG Was Right" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

I think if you start at "what if we did a dungeon crawler with real-time combat and no levels/stats," you will arrive at something that is *technically* a Soulslike or a Metroidvania, by first principles, but way cooler than the ossified popular imaginary of either of those genres

Dungeon crawlers on the docket: -Finishing ELMINAGE ORIGINAL -7TH DRAGON, by the EO team -Another go at ELMINAGE GOTHIC, since ORIGINAL is a bit too easy and I got the devil in me -STRANGER OF SWORD CITY: $4 on steam rn -LABYRINTH OF REFRAIN: $10 on steam rn; plot has been described as "distressing"

Legend of Dinosaurs and the Monster Birds

Japan's answer to The Venture Bros. is the 1992-1998 OVA Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still

23 years ago I came up with the OC "Jeans Absol": an Absol wearing JNCO jeans. This is my first time drawing them since

May-may-mia!! Happy M4rio day, gamers. When I was a kid I was dropped off at a daycare that had Super Mario World on the SNES. Not understanding how "playing a game" worked, I pointed at one of the koopas onscreen and said "Okay I'll be that one." A few years later I threw up for a different reason

Don't fuck with us Millenials. We: -Had or were friends with someone who had PS2 -Learned BBCode tag for Forum Sig -Watched dozens of episodes of Catdog despite not really liking it -Saw none of the problems get solved and hoped someone would -Thought God of War trilogy was good -Quoted Anchorman

When I was a little kid, my grandma bought this flat of Star Wars Episode 1 tie-in Mountain Dew. Wasn't allowed to have caffeine yet but really wanted to drink the Jar Jar can (favorite character, didn't understand stuff yet). Drank it in secret and got a headache so bad I threw up

i think there is a growing perspective that has been growing for a long long time that basically goes "the game should never make me feel rejected" and what that means is basically that if something happens and you can imagine someone mean makes fun of you for it then it's a bad game

Playing Elminage Original got me thinking about one of the unspoken advantages of RPGs that only use 2D assets instead of 3D: Load times and animations are fast as fuck, so gameplay is fast as fuck. Random encounters are only interminable if you gotta watch everybody hop around & swing their swords

See the problem is I could populate one of those lists with just Springsteen songs. Atlantic City. Night. State Trooper. Brilliant Disguise. Lift Me Up. There might even be shit from the 00s albums that could get in there

Ground Zero - Die Pappel Vom Karlsplatz Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road King Crimson - Starless Thundercat - Them Changes Deafheaven - Honeycomb The Paper Chase - The Flood D'Angelo - Another Life Warren Zevon - Don't Let Us Get Sick Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo The Mountain Goats - Jaipur

The great thing about looking through my old discord posts is that I'm generally right about stuff

Oscillating between asleep & awake, delirious with sickness & muscle pain, I dreamt that I urgently needed to balance a game with "randomized symptoms." I think my brain has an illness older and deeper than this upper respiratory infection

ELMINAGE ORIGINAL (2011) rules and it's like 5 bucks on steam right now. Wizardry-style dungeon crawler with a lot of flair & personality in its dungeon layouts, NPC interactions... and a way smoother on-ramp for new players than its demonic sister ELMINAGE GOTHIC. Play it play it play it

Rehabilitating a shitty old HP laptop by replacing its battery and swapping out its dying HDD for a used SSD and a CachyOS installation... very satisfying. To quote a wise man: "Help computa"

Wish I had the neuron that lets others see a character that participates in "dialogue cutscenes" as their OC.. I can imagine the little portraits/statsheets in a blobber as My Guys all day. but whenever the camera pointed at my player character in XIV it felt like I was presenting a costco ID card

ANNO: This is all my influences as one cartoon. I watched them wrong as a kid and spent my 20s sexually doomed. That pain reverberates through my work, unresolved, muffled & inchoate "Hell yeah man" TARO: This is all my influences as a game. I'm a little rascal! A real imp! I'll-- "Shut the fuck Up"

WAke up bro. Ya they're doing a 24 man raid series that's a crossover with the roblox game from that one video, ya the one where the kid gets crying mad while the game jumpscares him with pictures of fruit

Eva? The cartoon from AMV Hell 3?

When I was a kid my grandma got this flat of Star Wars Episode 1 tie-in Mountain Dew. Wasn't allowed to drink caffeinated drinks, but I really wanted to drink the Jar Jar can (he was my favorite character, didn't know what good things were yet). Chugged it in secret and got a migraine so bad I puked

[DIgimon saying attack voice] Penus Blasser

Why does the ogre smile?

10 eps into watching Turn A Gundam with my housemate. She turns to me and asks "how long is this show again?" and when I answer "50 episodes" her face lights up in a big grin. Same, sister

Watched film ROADHOUSE (1989) in dream last night. It was about a teen named "Roadhouse" who sold drugs that made people turn into dinosaurs and immediately die. When he took them it gave him berserker strength. He did a move that was (in the dream) the inspiration for Geese Howard's Raging Storm