www.twitch.tv/gideonzhi Now live! Tonight we're hacking away at Splatterworld, the recently-discovered Splatterhouse Famicom RPG prototype! Goals are: * Integrate replaced title screen * Replace font * Showcase Python build code

that does it. i’m rendering your ass in 16 colors or fewer and simulating intermediate shades via complex dithering patterns

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

🌟☄️The Stars have Aligned☄️🌟 Play Russian Subway Dogs *today* to unlock the black cat Hex! Once midnight strikes you'll have to wait for the stars to align again.

Glacier Bay Books will appear at Short Run Comix Festival in Seattle this forthcoming Saturday Nov 1st. It’s a new location this year, the Seattle Design Center. We will be table E54, with a lot of books! ALSO! We are running the table E55 for Star Fruit Books @starfruitbooks.bsky.social ~

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playing xenogears for the first time; people complain about the 2nd disc being a big cutscene but i dont understand how they made it that far because the first disc is basically a big cutscene too? (im at the part where fei gets sent to prison and meets rico)

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

hewwo i am getting married this month (yippee) and the legals are hundreds of dollars and my tablet i draw on is dying (not yippee) so now would be a great time to meet and pet bell and my other little weirdos for fifteen usd burgeroise.itch.io/coquette-dra...

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Seattle friends, if you cancelled your Disney+ subscriptions, use this as a great opportunity to support @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social - they are awesome!

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

I caught Covid19 for the first time over 4 weeks ago and still recovering. While recovering i've been playing the DS version of FF4 recently which might be the hardest final fantasy game i've ever played.

Dragon Quest VII is my favorite of those games. So much so that I will defend it's excessively long playtime and the original version's intro dungeon which got cut in the 3Ds remake.

I dunno how i feel about the look of that DQVII remake...

i've been in pretty desperate financial straits this year so i'm here to post that if you want to support my work and my buying/eating groceries, patreon is a huge help and will get you downloads to every vn i make at any tier: patreon.com/sofyrose and i have a ko-fi too: ko-fi.com/sophyrose

If you’re committed to buying stuff from Japan, you may want to use Amazon Japan for a while—most of their international shipments are sent via a freight forwarder rather than directly through a shipping service, which gets around the suspensions

as people move to setting up their own sites, it bears mentioning (if not quite to severity of warning) that a big advantage of using someone else's service is that you can't be the one specifically slapped with Hosting obscene content, which is one among many reasons the tightening net is miserable

ANNOUNCEMENT –– NEW TITLE TRUE BLUE NEVER FADES by Tada Yumi @tadayumi.bsky.social Previously releasing their doujinshi THE MERMAID & THE PRINCE, I'm thrilled to announce we are returning to Tada Yumi's early masterpieces to publish their classic adult drama (originally in FEEL YOUNG, 1995).

...And along with it comes Spare Parts: Episode 2 V2.0! With the same improved sprites and some edits to fix continuity errors and weaker writing. In this one, the girls fight, cry, and get disassembled. on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1620390/... and Itch: sopy.itch.io/spare-parts-...

Spare Parts: Episode 1 V2.0 is available NOW!!! Entirely new script, improved art, same old stupid gay robots!! The beginning of my yuri melodrama VN series about pain and identity. $3 on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1479310/... or FREE on Itch: sopy.itch.io/spare-parts-...

i remember theres a bug mostly documented in jpn fandom where you can trigger a missingno demon (a hobgoblin with a weird pallette) through fusion, and then fuse it into other missingno demons with weird stats and garbled sprites, i wonder if this is similar?

Doesn't seem like there's enough chatter how the de minimis shipment exemption was repealed effective the end of August and will 100% fuck over anyone in the USA who imports anything from anywhere

Started playing Princess Crown for the Saturn, and i think this is the Vanillaware game that is sticking for me

everything sucks about whats happening to the internet but there being a concentrated effort to scan all the notable ancient doujinshi in the past five years is pretty cool

Since I am back home, I did want to announce that, after some grueling negotiation with the original owner, me and my collaborator Kamoogy were able to secure vol. 1 of Lovely, the very journal in which "yaoi" was coined by Mikiko Maru. Really elated to share this one soon!

There has been a concerted, ongoing effort to launder regressive sexual concepts as being part of "social justice" by radfem and anti-porn groups, and it continues to sadden me how many young (and especially queer) folks just eat it up without question

𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘰’𝘴 𝘗𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 (𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘥) Digital Painting 2022

The fact that itchio is looking into alternate payment options and talking about all this like an ongoing situation instead of being like "these are the new rules and always will be, fuck off" says a lot about how much they care about this. I know you want to yell at them but they're working hard

Some updates on this situation here:

OK THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT when i said it didn't matter much unless it escaped gaming media containment which it's now doing so let's keep the pressure up

i've written an article on how the group that went after itchio/steam's payment processors used the most morally objectionable content they could find to target queer and adult media and how they are definitely part of the religious right: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

jast usa confirmed that it’s open to any visual novel (sfw and nsfw) that is affected by censorship: x.com/jastusa/stat...

jast blue is offering to sell bl and otomege titles on the jast usa storefront. see this tweet for more details: x.com/JASTBLUE/sta...

Seen other people suggest this but want to also chime in to agree: i think it is a mistake to label every possibly objectionable thing in your work, especially rn,

In other news i started rewatching sayonara zetsubou sensei, a show no one talks about anymore and have always wondered why, but now that im watching it i understand why, i feel like 40% of the jokes go over my head.

I dont think think this will affect labyrinth.os in the future, i think its about as tame as an early smt game (which means its a little spicier then what we get now from those games). But who knows anymore

All art is erotic art. you cannot decouple the two. Trying to censor expression is antithesis to all art. It's an anti-culture stance.

MOAR COLLAGE!! MOAR I will bring everything you need to make the collage of your dreams. I'll also be bringing masks, since this indoor event can get crowded. Who am I gonna see?? #CollageAThon

The push to censor what kind of art can be purchased online and the supposed promise of Generative AI to revolutionize our relationship to art, to turn art into a funko-pop assembly line that is controlled by corporations and not artists: I think both of these are connected imo.

I guess if you were gonna make up an urban legend, basing it on something obscure in-game that's real would be the way to do it?

Started a playthrough of the first SMT earlier this week, first time i've played the game in almost 20 years I think? I played the aeon genesis translation way back when it first came out. I think the later games are certainly more polished but the vibe in this one is as cursed as I remember it.

I see that Canada is setting up a US toll free number for LGBTQ youth at risk. What a wonderful act of compassion for our kids but, while gvt severed the menu link to connect THE FOLKS AT THE TREVOR PROJECT STILL ANSWER! 1.866.488.7386 Text "START" to 678-678 Please donate www.thetrevorproject.com

"a normal catboy story, or the cat and superstition" is up on itch! this is a new zine collecting seven stories and digital collages. twenty-eight pages of so-called "transformative work" newtype.itch.io/a-normal-cat...

a sacrifice

About an Elf, an endearingly bizarre visual novel that plays by its own rules and worth experiencing for lovers of the strange www.hardcoregaming101.net/about-an-elf/

Formless Star is out now! Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there. There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions! Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here! splendidland.itch.io/formless-star

Hey babes! There’s been some drug recalls I think y’all should know about! www.chpw.org/provider-cen... t gel & ibuprofen as well as some thyroid and psych meds have recent recall alerts ‼️ list on link above 👆