It's Ryan!

I am being very normal about the Death Stranding 2 Yamato transport shirt being no longer available after I shipped it to the wrong hotel and being unable to reorder. This is not affecting me in any way whatsoever

Waiting for my flight to Japan and a kid is talking to his mom and just promised to buy her a Gundam

Good fucking god

I do not judge, I only think the name is hilarious

Thank you! Will definitely take many pictures and bring back many trinkets

To me, this is... A normal clothing store...

Bushwick girls and their boyfriends

Considering my age and the types of websites I used to hang out on, me having no knowledge about anything Homestuck feels like having dodged a bullet but in a "reached down and picked up a penny as the sniper pulled the trigger" kind of way

Don't approach the tampon isle unless you've read up on the current meta. That's a PVP zone and if you're just returning after the most recent expansion you will absolutely get your shit rocked if unprepared

"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"

Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Environmental storytelling.

an edit of the "This ugly son of a bitch" ad to feature Monokuma from Danganronpa, stating: THIS UGLY SON OF A BITCH Is all that remains Of a once powerful nation and basically, You're on the threshold of an amazing adventure. How? ...Just watch the Free Video>

using photoshop as a mental sieve again

One of my favorite things about Aftermath is the way they handle staff "disagreements". 10/10 site. subscribe now

aftermath.site

microsoft can go fuck itself

I heard Keita Takahashi on an interview once say he got the idea of Katamari from seeing a plastic bag rolling in the wind on a subway platform and as pretentious as it might sound it blew my mind because it made me realize that there's a lot of melancholy there

Yes I am a fake fan who found out about Tokimeki from Tim Rogers' review I don't care I would like every single one of these games in English yesterday please I will pay embarrassing amounts of money for this

Everyone yelling "FUCK KONAMI" since 2015 blissfully unaware that they have been denying us our medicine for years before that

Artist friends -- my studio is looking for an artist for a handful of dynamic "comic book style" images for our game's intro. Human characters in a realistic setting. This would be freelance. If this is you, please reply or DM with some representative images! I'll review w/ team and DM you if a fit

Thank you, I like to think I am for sensible things like "owning one of these obnoxious death boxes should shame you and your entire family line"

A car with one of those intricate alarms has been blaring outside my window for the past 30 minutes and has olympic shot put me over the line from "we should probably phase out private vehicle ownership" to KILL ALL CARS NOW

So please, do not move forward as normal. This isn't normal.

It's imperative to put pressure on Microsoft to end this. Whether that's by canceling Game Pass, refusing to cover their games with your normal cadence on your platforms, or to pressure them internally as employees.

Now is the time.

Thank you very much for reading!

Yooo happy birthday!

Thank you all very much for the love on this - I have been feeling very bad about the state of art and things and seeing so many people resonate with these thoughts makes things a little less lonely.

I think it may change the way we consume it long term but I hold on hope that those of us sticking it out for the human touch above all else will win out in the end

Thank you for reading, I hope that we can collectively hold on to the process and the humanity, even if we can't turn back

Thank you for reading!

Thank you so much!!

Grieving for Art At the End of the World On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and generative AI

For the first time in almost a year, I wrote a piece for my personal site (now "relaunched" on beehiv). It is about Clair Obscur and Generative AI and what we are losing. I didn't shop this one around because it is messy and a bit emotional.

www.criticalconstruct.com/p/grieving-f...