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Depending on your perspective the "Birth of a Nation" of video games could be either The Last of Us or Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

it's probably true that video games haven't had their Citizen Kane yet, but unfortunately they have had their Birth of a Nation

Baroque screenshot of a floating green skirt girl in a dark dungeon telling you "You were extracted from our soul. We are insane. It's your fault we became insane."

Same girl as before but now she is saying "You want to cut me? That's fine. You probably want to kill me, right? Then kill me. If you killed me, I think I'd be glad."

This the kinda shit people say to me in the smoking zone outside the gay bar

Metroid's development was rushed and the game was severely limited on space. The things that make Metroid so unique and innovative are undoubtedly a result of these limitations, but I can't help but wonder what it could be if it was unshackled from those limitations...

the MMC3 cart enabled things like scrolling in two directions at one a la Super Mario Bros 3. Prior to MMC3, games could only scroll either vertically or horizontally, but never both. In Metroid they use door transitions to hide this and in Zelda they use a fixed camera

For those who don't know, NES games had physical components and chips inside the cartridges to upgrade the functionality of the console. That's why the difference between tech is so pronounced from the beginning to the end of the consoles lifespan. Metroid and Zelda ran on MMC1 chips (in the US)

I feel like enhancements to old games should definitely fall into this kind of category. Sort of like a PC port with all the settings cranked to ultra or a same-gen rerelease

I think what I really want is like the Pokemon Polished Crystal or Thief The Black Parade of Metroid romhacks

Imagining a version of NES Metroid that was made with the MMC3 or MMC5 mapper... Woah

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

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i think the ppl who don't get cd are ppl who try to process it as an action-platformer like Sonic 1-3. But cd is a physics-based puzzle platformer. on subsequent playthroughs it's a sandbox platformer

i sat down and played the entirety of sonic cd in a single sitting the other night. it really really clicked with me. it's easily the best sonic game and probably one of my favorite games of all time now

i have a few to add

-acid priestess
-stimulant abuse fps gamer
-tradwife religious convert
-baeddel transbian separatist
-normie (in my experience these are the scariest to meet irl)

edited screenshots from the show Game Changer. Host Sam Reich, with cow ears and cow horns, addresses the contestants saying, "Now, you all understand how the tools work?" The contestants, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Izzy Roland, and Lou Wilson look back at him expectantly from their player podiums behind a table with 4 cow tools on it.

The only way to win is by lumping and the only way to lump is by prongling.

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

*nodding* controversial neurosurgeon dr sergio canavero

"The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government." -UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

the state exists to serve the people! if people exist to serve the state, that is authoritarianism. No state has a right to exist. They are granted existence by the will of the people

no state has a right to exist. every state must perpetually justify its existence to the people it rules. this is called the "consent of the governed" and it's a founding principle of republican democracy. it's disturbing how much the rhetoric has shifted to accomodate authoritarianism

Circumstances of your birth.
Freeing this little Charma comic from my patreon

SONIC CD IS FUCKING PEAK

Trying to make a distinction from "this is art the artist makes to deal with trauma" and "this is the artist's very clear fetish" puts the privacy of real life victims at risk. I shouldn't have to give you a laundry list of all my triggers and traumas for you to decide my art has the right to exist

feliz jueves!

Fuuuuck This One's a Shine Sprite I Can't Open Shit With This

he went on to beef with super metroid in several other ways that were weird and wrong but man. the sexism was so jarring and unnecessary. the whole video had big legacy games media vibes in a bad way

there's this bit in joseph anderson's hollow knight video wear he's comparing the knight's jump to super metroid and says samus is like "a pregnant cow suddenly learned to fly" and uhh i dont think he would've said that if she wasn't a woman

not saying the alarmism isn't warranted but it's nice to talk about something else sometimes

do u guys have like... jokes? do u guys have jokes on here? This app is fucking depressing, just nothing but constant alarmism and reposting transphobia

the rosary system in silksong is an example of perfect diegesis and a really smart advancement of the soulslike formula that i can't believe wasn't present in earlier. Paying to string up rosaries to create hard/safe souls that you can't lose on death is fucking genius