Two things can be true: 1.) The Game Awards are meaningless and we shouldn't take them all that seriously. 2.) Award shows of its scale DO rewrite the mainstream history of the art form, whether they deserve to or not, and its okay to care that it's so thoughtless despite having that responsibility.

sudden yet powerful urge to load up the smash bros brawl story mode and zoop through the whole thing in one go

on the off chance that anyone out here has the knowledge: what's some Good German Youtube Shit that exists out there. i was only in german video's circles when i was a teen and even then i was gravitating around like. a small handful of people at best (aligator1024, phunkroyal, maybe others)

ANGELINE ERA DECEMBER 8TH I'M READY I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE READY AAAAAAA

While Keighley partied at the game awards with big names, their up and coming "future class" of game devs had to leave and have a meetup at a local starbucks instead. They were promised support & got basically nothing but disrespect & now they are getting canned www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

made my ko-fi look pretty bc I want to do a couple more 'pay what you want' commissions! the last one was real fun and doing some cheaper/quicker ones is something im interested in! ko-fi.com/vinnious

color can be added also! I tend not to do it to my personal sketches for some silly reason but I'm not against adding any haha

hi I'm taking $5-10 comms to pay for my silly meds, if you'd like something like this with a character of your choosing! OCs are very welcome :>

The thing about Clair Obscur quietly patching out AI textures that were supposed to be placeholders… it makes me immediately suspicious of if they used it for anything else.. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

gonna start calling what clair obscur and anno do as schrodingers placeholder. if nobody notices the ai asset, its just an asset, if people notice the ai asset, its a "placeholder" that "slipped through"

today im realizing if i have a game open in the background & im tabbed out, it can still clip. while im high as balls watching youtube

INCREDIBLE interview

>really wanted to play clair obscur >unfortunately, clair obscur used ai >really wanted to play fantasy life i >unfortunately, its very likely, things are exhausting. i wish they'd at least say it outright instead of hiding it so i dont have to bother hoping

legit think that 'clearing my backlog' has become something of an obsession to the detriment of creative hobbies to me tbh. its easier to get serotonin out of a potentially good game than out of a creative task that will leave me disappointed and feeling incapable. which has to stop tbh

listening to a podcast and they legitimately interpret mgs2 as 'big shell was a vr simulation but also some of it was real' and i am astounded at how there are real people out there who just like dont absorb basic unambiguous explanations

they should make a world that is fun and good to live in

angeline era release date announcement !! TODAY !!

urge to reread all of higurashi and umineko once again hitting me but i think id shrivel up like a raisin if i spent that much time doing something ive already done before. instead i will simply rotate

(<-- has yet to play sky 1-3, zero or azure) ah... trails of cold steel on sale, huh...

eugh. i want to go places, experience things, i want to be alive and not a complete shut-in... but its not looking likely thatll ever be the case. not with where and how i live, not with how my brain works, not with anything. its kind of crushing

so how much would you get out of reading the parasite eve novel before playing parasite eve. the temptation grasps me but also clearly parasite eve (game) seems perfectly standalone based on how people talk about it without ever mentioning the novel

she's truly the goat

i gotta find a way to settle on an idea because i keep swapping between "i wanna start on the next part in the rpgmaker series i started and never followed up on" and then i remember the first one sucked ass already and go "i should do the other thing i wanted to do" and then i rotate and do neither

Akihiro Yamada, cover art for The Dark Tower series, 2017

They're de-banking people for kink content online now They'll come for you and your interests next - there's already been movement against vtubers in general, and games like Corpse Party are having their western releases canned over concerns about this stuff Get loud before it's too late

GRAAAARG I HAVE TO MAKE SOMETHING i need to find the energy to make something. i keep starting and then running out of fuel. its just so hard to do anything these days except like play a video game occasionally i guess. its so hard to exist. the drive to create is in me but i can no longer act on it

An even more egregious example in the article: Ubisoft accepted 6 million euros from the German government in some sort of arts fund, only to machine translate the German language option.

A classic

once again coping with the fact that i will never experience things such as 'love' or 'close friendship' i am some kind of lump of strange meat stranded on a rock and they hooked me up to the undersea internet tubes through my nerve endings. the birds dont even want to eat me

This. Like, you have to be all-in on opposing this shit. You can't say "it's bad BUT this is an exception," because little by little that list of "exceptions" grows until you're a full-blown hypocrite.

The amount of varied, fabricated excuses I saw pardoning Clair Obscur's use of AI art was absurd "contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked

In recent memory this is the 3rd game caught using so called "placeholder" AI generated work The alters did it, this did it, & Clair Obscur did it Though one of these got away with it with almost no recognition because it was critically acclaimed

you're going to hate this game. you're going to get so fucking lost store.steampowered.com/app/3972660/...

i dont know what a pluribus is but it sounds like something youd make up for a comedy bit. hand me the pluribus. assistant the patients vitals are dropping i need the pluribus stat

Governed

mech game where the cockpit is also ur tiny mobile home and u have to run constant maintenance on it as ur traverse a desolate wasteland and scavenge for resources n goodies.. sometimes bullets penetrate ur mech and go right thru ur coffee machine or somethin so u need a new one..

ah.... now it'll have to come down to One of the two ive been avoiding (judgment because i dont wanna run out of LaD games, stray children because im terrified of how obtuse this one will be after people said it's More so than even Moon was)

ended up beating Sorry We're Closed in (nearly) one sitting. surprisingly enough i ended up really liking it after all. huh. not "replay to see what else can happen" type of liking, i was p. satisfied with my choices and where it went with them, but i did like it quite a bit actually

i know i keep harping on abt it but im amazed how many people are fully willing to go 'yes its bad but i just draw and share fanart of the marketable committee designed anime girl mascots' do you not feel icky doing free advertising for predatory gambling apps. not even a little bit

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got a pack of wasabi nuts and theyre literally not spicy. like at all. like not even food-dye-horseradish spicy like usual. just regular nuts with slight flavoring and a crunch shell. i feel that i have seen mankind's sins

got to the 2nd of 3 (?) major "dungeon sections" in Sorry We're Closed, and... idk, i guess i expected more? i'm neither scared nor particularly challenged puzzlewards, and the one Actual Threat you'd have to deal with (enemies that get back up) is easily neutralized with literally no downside

THE DARK TOWER: WALTER (2004) Oil on Panel - 12" x 9" I rarely use people I know as models, but one night my friend Jack Koffman was visiting the studio and I noticed that when the light hit Jack a certain way, he looked like a perfect model for the character Walter in THE DARK TOWER VII. 1/2

Sorry We're Closed seems real neat at first glance but it also introduces like 20 characters within the first hour or two which i was not prepared for and boy do i not have the brain to keep track of who's who

part of me wants to be like 'ah... maybe they didnt use ai for anything in fantasy life i yet... i can just ignore everything they make after that, i'm not that invested in a new layton game anyway...' but in in my heart of hearts i know they probably did. theres no way they didnt. pain and agony

Hey can you get real and hop on googoo soundy

formless star out here making me want to get into yet another game dev tool i'll never have the time or patience to learn (OHRRPGCE)