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and they absolutely nailed it with here, there, be monsters!

#mintrecommends: Grunge Games!

I got this request back May/June of 2024. I tried to focus on game and game-like things with elements of DIY, minimal budgets, messy styles, and a dissonant, "ugly" aesthetic. Here's what I found:

awesome!!!

meu apt antigo era cheio de mofo. não sei se você já tentou, mas botar água sanitária diluída num borrifador e borrifar em todas as paredes, deixar um tempo agindo e depois limpar resolveu!

wasn't me but now i just did it too

People don't realize how much you help indie creators when you mention an indie game you like to someone else!

and more meme-worthy creepy dolls

also now some fucking creepy dolls

a donald duck figure and two toy soldiers. behind them, the plaque reads "the soldiers and the Donald Duck toy have the same movement mechanism inside"

the best unintentional poetry
"the soldiers and the Donald Duck toy have the same movement mechanism inside"
sure they do buddy

"Even today, it's hard to resist the exotic charm of some Lehmann toys. They are timeless and distinctive and belong to the best that the tin toy industry in Germany has ever produced. Whether "Africa Ostrich Post," "Masuyama Rickshaw," or "Mikado Family": The cultures of Africa, Japan, or China exerted a mysterious fascination on Europeans. And presumably, many a child back then dreamed of traveling around the world in a pedal-powered carriage, like "Uncle the Car," "greeting with his hat" under an umbrella"

a "magic lantern" made to look like a stereotypical "fu manchu" racist image of a chinese man

wendi giving some harry potter dolls the finger

a toy of a black man (from "Africa", according to the title) riding an ostrich-pulled cart. two toys of white colonists riding on cars while black people hold parasols for them. on the lower right, a fragment of another toy of chinese people pulling a stereotypical rickshaw.

meanwhile some racist as fuck toys called "timeless" and "distinctive" with a "exotic charm", even if they have a disclaimer about realizing IN 2019 that some toys are racist :clown:
also they say the terf billionaire was cancelled but everyfuckinwhere i go i can't escape the little shit wizards

a white wall with "in the beginning was play", in english and german, written on it. in front of it, a table with assorted wooden toys.

a dark brown wooden table with words written on it. "TOYS ARE POLITICAL Toys are made by people. They implicitly embody ideals, attitudes and educational functions. Toys are not always innocent." in light brown letters, and the same in german in white letters.

a dark brown wooden table with words written on it. "TOYS ARE IMAGINATION A toy doesn't have to be bought in a store — not at all! No matter where you are in the world : a thing + imagination = a toy. Anything can be a toy." in light brown letters, and the same in german in white letters.

some thoughts from the Nuremberg Toy Museum

"will be?" already are. always have been. there are many worlds in this planet. western modernity/coloniality is only one, and thinks itself the only one, while killing everything else. queremos un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos, as the zapatistas say

Trump has just announced he is going to RUN another country (with or without boots on the ground) to ensure oil flows for US companies.

Yes, there’s still people - including in Latin America - pretending this is about Maduro winning elections or not.
How is a Trump occupation any more legitimate?

A scene from Twin Peaks: The Return Agent Cooper, disoriented: "What year is this?" Carrie Page, indescribably disturbed screaming. Happy New Year

had my own wholesome version of the "noooo little german boy" meme the other day where a little german boy turned a corner at the supermarket, looked with wide eyes at my pink hair and yelled excitedly "pinken haaren!!!"

eraserheadadult on tumblr: "tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005 " eraserheadadult: "not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong"

Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍

I've said it in another post when i still didn't know about the case, it is weird to not cite your influences/references. but that does not necessarily equal plagiarism, and does not need to lead to such reaction

granted, i don't know how it is in other countries, but this kind of public exposure feels weird to me, especially with lack of a good amount of substantial proof. seems like something that could be discussed in private

yes, I've seen more than a few cases (in academia) of blatant copy+pasting of whole paragraphs, and in all of them the authors preferred to talk in private to the people in question and it was resolved quietly because of the seriousness of it. an (ex) colleague lost his titles for example

MB always seemed nice to me, but if there was already a beef before that i can see how that can easily lead to distorted interpretations, sadly. the evidence in the post does not look like enough, especially to "cancel" someone :/

i saw people talking about plagiarism but was out of the loop, had no idea any of this had happened, thanks for the explanation!

coming from an academic background, not citing feels so weird to me. i really don't get it. nothing is created in a vacuum and this is great!

a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of a castle and a crowd of people . Alt: Aragorn saying "for Frodo"

The Return of the King hell yeah let's gooo

aaaa thank uuu so much! 🥰

wendi is brilliant
Buy her stuff!

ohhh looks so good! I've been meaning to try this for a while now. do you recommend any intro tutorials for the css + turning into pdf part? 🤔

so I'm in Germany and my finances are dire because my money is worth almost 7 times less than Europeans'. because imperialism etc.

so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!!

(if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)

+ cuba e coreia do norte (ter que fazer serviço público obrigatório após se formar, recebendo salário, ainda conta como gratuita)

a pixelated image of a girl with the words parabains written on the bottom ALT: a pixelated image of a girl with the words parabains written on the bottom

MDEUSSSS QUE TUDOOO PARABAINSSSS