vfig

this is all just stock thief 2 textures, by the way. i am not at all good at curating new texture palettes—but when some decent palettes are available to me, i really enjoy the process of discovering different ways to use them to decorate a level.

A long hallway of stone bricks, with a blue marble floor. Gaslamps sit in small alcoves along the hallway, illuminating it. Down the middle of the hall run four mahogany pillars in a line, with long planters between them. A shallow arch runs along the middle of the ceiling, with a skylight above each planter, although dim because it is not daylight. Two small L-shaped rugs line the corners at this end of the hall. A guard, armed with a sword, passes by on patrol.

turned this hallway from a bare box into something nicer this morning.

#thief #leveldesign #setdressing

sometimes i remember "calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque and i fall in love with the amazing weirdness of language yet again

sometimes i remember "calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque and i get so pissed off

also shows up in “phrenology”.

mistress of the still house wearing "Blanot Treasure" late iron age jewelry

#pathologic #морутопия

not my home, but i know my way around

(i made this a few years ago, but only posted it on tumblr and twitter—dont think i ever posted it here)

A captcha: "Select all squares with a Polyhedron. If there are none, click skip". The nine square images are: a tornado; a hornet's abdomen; the painting 'White Figure' by Wassily Kandinsky; a bellows; a conch shell; a retort (glass vessel for distilling in chemistry); a chrysalis; a butt plug; and a paper lantern.

Vlad the Younger: "You were found in the earth. Pulled out of a grave. So you're saying you've made your way out of the Steppe and can't remember anything now? Then I have no doubt that you're the shabnak-adyr. I've studied the legends thoroughly."

Changeling: "How can I prove that I'm human?"

YouTube video by the forest jar man made

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzgf...

you laugh at me and my pumpkins today, but one day...!

yeah, that makes sense! but it sure makes that node graph look really funny :D

well, if no-one knows how big they can get, why not big enough to enclose a solar system?

...that is one hell of a node there!

nobody liked my suggestion of a pumpkin dyson sphere

dammit dan, where were you last thursday when our trivia team *lost* because of that very question?!

Here's an update from Ryah: youtu.be/qhySFMDQZEE

Let's help get her to 100% funded so she has time to finish getting diagnosed and treated, as well as job hunt!

P.S. if you know of any IT / technical support jobs in BC, Canada or Remote-friendly, let me know and I'll send them Ryah's way!

Emulate a C64 (or use a real one) and play as an amnesiac, puzzle-solving cat walking through the city streets 🐈‍⬛ polytricity.itch.io/citycat-prowl

thanks!

also apparently eurogamer is now doing theguardian thing of saying you must accept all tracking cookies or gtfo, and like, isnt that a blatant gdpr violation?

made the mistake of attempting to read an article on rockpapershotgun and had to fight off two popup videos and approximately 17 tall ads interspersed between paragraphs.

some things _were_ better in the past.

just make the platonic ideal brutalist form: a solitary concrete cube

its your lucky day!

YouTube video by Double Fine Grim Fandango Live · 25th Anniversary Jazz Concert

finally got around to listening to this lovely thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrT...

i think i would probably figure it out after that. at least i hope so.

do you mean before or after my head grows legs?

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

i really enjoyed the physical aspect of ringing though: handling this big mass by just gentle working of the rope; feeling what the bell was doing through the rope; and learning the knack of getting your bell to ring at just the right time, since you have to put power into the rope well in advance.

like, the idea is youre supposed to listen out for where the treble (highest pitched) bell is and use that as a guide. and ideally you have an idea what bells are ringing just before you throughout the pattern. but i never got that to click.