S. Darkwell

got a very sweet email from a fan yesterday talking about what my videos meant to them

looked at their user name and

Whenever anyone asks me "How's the games industry?"

The first person to say okie doke must've felt like a god.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Donate to Support Howie’s Heart Failure Recovery, organized by Howard Dybe Help Howie Cover Medical Expenses After Heart Failure. We are raising funds to hel… Howard Dybe needs your support for Support Howie’s Heart Failure Recovery

Our friend Howie D Rivet suffered heart failure in December. Thankfully, he survived, but now he's struggling with the costs. I've always known him as a genuine and positive force in the world. If you're inclined and able, here is his GoFundMe to help his recovery—
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I want to say it one more time before it happens and so you hear me clearly.

To those who are good souls. Whether they see it in themselves or not. To those who try. Who put in effort. Who love. Who are gentle. Who stand their ground. Who protect. Who fight, resist, push through. To those who love.

@wilwheaton.net: Thank you so much for the heart and the original inspiration. The tradition has brought us untold joy through the years.

Hope you, Annie, and everyone have a lovely holiday season. :)

2025 Darkwell Christmas Journey YouTube video by Shadow Darkwell

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂𝓼, 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓸𝓵𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮, & 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻’𝓼 𝓔𝓷𝓭, 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼!

Here is @starrlove.bsky.social and my 2025 near 15-hour long curated and arranged Christmas music playlist:
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@wilwheaton.net's post inspired me to create it in 2021, and I've iterated on it ever since!

Enjoy!

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

@hankgreen.bsky.social nooo, Hank don’t do it!!!

The background on this waterfall, from the game's director Takatsuna Senba

(the whole interview is pretty great stuff:
web.archive.org/web/20191230...)

Similar idea that I've been thinking about for months.

This is incredible

This video shows the process behind one continuous shot showing a condensed period of time in a woman's life and the changes to her apartment in the show Kidding. AI could make something that looks kind of like this but it could never make you wonder about it. You'd never discuss it with friends.

In Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of "addiction mechanic" that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised by not only the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. Anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and the was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

Disco Elysium could not work as well as it does in any other medium tbh

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

LEATHER TERROR, by Carpenter Brut 12 track album

Long time no chat! Hope life is treating you well. :)

For three very different styles, I'm a big fan of:

Carpenter Brut's "Leather Terror":
carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/leathe...

.diedlonely's singles:
diedlonelyy.bandcamp.com

Mesh's "Looking Skyward":
mesh-uk.bandcamp.com/album/lookin...

Tweet: "We went to the planetarium today and when the voicover said 'This is the Earth', one of the kids booed."

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

Oh my god

Big reveal time:

For the past two weeks I've been working nonstop on making my own Polly Pocket style Alan Wake mini dioramas. There was a bunch of modeling, prototyping, and hand painting on these. Originally I was just going to do Alan in the writers room but couldn't help myself.

It's absurd and dystopian that payment processors get to decide what we can and can't see on the internet.

That companies like Visa and Mastercard can use their enormous size to bully companies into taking stuff offline - based on the reactionary politics of a small group.

👀

My 6-year-old starts every other sentence with 'well, actually' before pointing out something that is both incredibly obvious and painfully irrelevant, and let me tell you, it's given me real insight into a certain kind of internet reply guy.

The prettiest cat ive ever seen!

"Hi, Mel Brooks? Never mind how I got this number, I just want to say that I'm sorry I ever doubted you. Yeah, they did the Spaceballs thing in real life. Yes, the password thing."

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora.

These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

O meme é real

Phasmophobia Film Adaptation Being Developed by Blumhouse — Kinetic Games

The Phasmophobia film won't be authentic unless it starts with one character spawning inside of another and being able to see the backs of their eyeballs.

www.kineticgames.co.uk/blog/phasmop...