Monkey

the simple and correct answer would be to stop with 12 and just truck as a nostalgia thing, since two-thirds of the series' creative trifecta have passed and Horii's also pretty up there, but square's not gonna do that.

1) lol no shit, 11 was ten fucking years ago and most of what's been made are remakes
2) interesting to wonder with DQ /specifically/ what the knock on effects will be, given how had that series kind of coasts on its momentum and prestige as THE title of its genre that you probably grew up with

Semi-related, a funny true fact is how Victor Ireland was a devout Jehovah’s Witness and, besides adding 8th grader sex jokes and jacking up difficulty, made absolutely sure not to ever say “demon” in any Working Designs game

There’s an old Usenet post of his calling SMT “evil”

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Peter Lorre

People trying to get immortality through money and fame where the real way to gain immortality is to have a funny voice that's easy to do impressions of.

the idea that you could radicalize the wine moms into workers rights being, like, genuinely vaguely plausible is maybe the funniest part of the current political landscape.

'CoD has microtransactions because of jeffrey epstein' alright imma head out

how to make the resources at hand most impactful. Like, its fun to joke about how old outsourced shows would randomly get a couple animators flexing out of nowhere and then go back to looking stiff as hell, but there *is* skill there that shows off a great understanding of the medium itself.

I think a lot about Genndy and Craig McCracken both preferring the term "*chosen* animation" as a better way to think of it, and it really is. Animating at full 24fps can be gorgeous, and often is, but most animation (esp in anime) is done at 12fps already- and with that, you're forced to focus on

I miss when it was like "isn't it cool that [x] found a way to make this shot look incredible while only using so many frames?" and then detailing the 'trick' itself, either from experience or from interviews. Depressing what it's become.

Hello! Would you like a long, distracting read about chasing a dream, perfecting analog video, battling AI-driven manufacturing shortages, and sticking to the principle of doing right by the open source MiSTer community? Here's that

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

legendary kusoge rpg on the saturn? with mamoru nagano designs? In english??? shit man...

Some doodles of Teto cause y'all like her
#Kasaneteto #Art

"Check out my new controller, Fred!"

"Aw Barn, don't tell me you got suckered into one of those cheap little Sabertooth Tigerz controllers, those thing barely even work! You gotta get a REAL Claystation controller!"

"ah yeah, its got this Hi-Speed Jecy sorta thing going on- wait fuck, you're my 60 year old mother, you don't know what that even is. shit"

trying to sum up the vibe of 99% of what i make as "the sorta thing that'd gotten a Digital Trip or ROMAN TRIP remix album in 80s Japan" before realizing not everyone's as deep into otaku shit as me, and then having to explain what those are to people who go outside.

masked selfie in the dealer hall as four murasame

one two three FOUR

P. Craig Russell, from Elric: The Dreaming City, 1982

P. Craig Russell, from Elric: The Dreaming City, 1982

Some excellent advice from Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles cookbook, which is equally applicable to any creative pursuit. You have to create space for inspiration to dawn and unexpected connections to reveal themselves. The foundation is always hard, frequently rote, work.

this is what happens when I find out you've been mean to any of the Quintet or Haruna #watanare #わたなれ

im not even joking when i say its near-entirely from good netflix ratings during the pandemic and, like, the kiyoshi novels actually being pretty fun romps.