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photo of the box that the hiby500xmiku comes in

opened box

I don’t like showing off pricey gear that I get but this packaging is gorgeous, woah

learned about this article on how imposter syndrome (or the feeling you’re not important) will make you think it’s okay to harshly criticize someone’s work because you think you’re just a rando.

but the issue is you’re not and it hurts: firesidefiction.com/impostor-abu...

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope

100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

I'm pretty sure there are interviews out there where he openly talks about how badly it affected him and how guilty he felt over not hiring more people sooner so they wouldn't have to overwork themselves. It feels like he was working through his own grief in the later episodes.

white text on black: On the outside, it shone beautifully...and possessed an absolute hardness that would bend to no one's will. And on the inside, ...to symbolized never letting go of the prey it had latched onto, ...it had eight sharp thorns pointing inwards."

oh so the ThornRing from Deltarune is LITERALLY in this game hahahaha TOBY I SEE YOU

plugged in my wii u and it still lives 😌
was a bit worried when I tried booting up wind waker and it gave me the system memory error. redownloaded it and worked fine again.

Perfect Blue is one of those movies everyone says is excellent and you watch it and it’s somehow even better than you expected

is it nintendos policy to not hire a single western executive unless they have an Unfortunate Name

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Dissolving the past in the present in Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse Three years after the previous entry, Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse proves again its keen understanding of detective fiction and awareness for individuals within society.

Oh hi, I wrote about Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, its intertextual references, the blend between detective genres in Japan, and gender! 🧜‍♀️

library-past-present.neocities.org/paranormasig...

Yeah seems like they've added those now. Really makes you pay attention when you have to read to understand 🙂

I have never finished Clair Obscur cause it was bothering me but I never really understood why. I watched this video and it finally explained to me why I had red light flashing in my head. This game is, unfortunately, got fascist themes in it. Not the way you think, the very french kind of fascism

wish I knew french, this sounds really interesting

A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series is in the works with the perfect writer: Nier Automata's Yoko Taro A surprise 30th anniversary announcement

yoko taro writing a new evangelion series I did an actual double take

screenshot of my desktop

Think I'm overall pretty happy with how my desktop is looking on cachyos :)

Spring is almost here!

#moomin

YouTube video by Punk Duck Dragon's Dogma 2 Is Not What You Think It Is

I had no idea Dragon’s Dogma 2 was Frog Fractions 5.

Seriously though, I thought I’d never want to play DD2 but now I’m interested.

winduppup: "a pigeongirl detective would say something like "hmm... i've got my suspigeons""

Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like ‘Demon’s Souls’

Roughly 70 employees will be impacted by the Bluepoint closure. Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nervous looking Krauss from Umineko

Umineko in 2025

Natsuhi: Just how have you been dealing with your debt all this time???

*Beatrice painting looking mysteriously AI generated lately*

Krauss:

Erika Furudo from Umineko looking at you in digust

That's just Witchslop, you only like it cause its adorned by a Witch's magic.

Criterion Channel summary of Gunbuster: The Movie for March

EVERYONE SHUT UP, GUNBUSTER’S GONNA BE ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL LMAO

probably the funniest twitter image that has ever existed.

Beatrice: Kehehehe, what do you say about this, Battler? Ready to admit defeat, you ugly man?

-Beatrice holds up a phone showcasing an Ai generated image of a shrimp frying rice-

Battler, thinking really hard: THIS IS A DEEP SEA SHRIMP THAT EVOLVED AND CAN NOW COOK HUMAN MEALS. AD HOMINEM BTW

“Valve’s refusal to moderate any of this is making Steam reviews and forums the battleground for some kind of culture war, and is making them unsafe for marginalised people and regular gamers trying to simply enjoy the game they bought.” (quote from a dev in the article. this is well said imo.)

10 years later, Firewatch’s critique of masculinity is just a different shade of toxicity Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dresses up the same male fantasy.

2016’s celebrated narrative game simply depicts the same male fantasy from a new angle.

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