The Emotion Engine

Carbuncle… thank you.

(Barely audible over the crackling sound of my tendons frying) baby I’m true to this not new to this.

This is being sent off to the printers today and I'll start shipping them later this week/early next. I have 250 card-backed envelopes primed and ready. To everyone who bought one, whether digital or physical, THANKS.

I have been thinking long and hard about this and I can only settle on the reason they went with this was that it probably made Ultimates collections an easier sale to libraries et. al right at the start of including graphic novels in the YA section.

Summerslam? Sorry, I don't like companies that prop up weird racists and rapists.

I like Wolf Hawkfield enjoying nature.

The Melkor We Have At Home saying "Way to go, kid. The villagers are happy now."

A horrifying treant, with massive human-like eyes on stalks like a slug

Toan Darkcloud standing in front of a bisected snake monster, looking as confused as ever.

Goro floating in a void asking his father (a mustached man in a white tiger pelt) "Dad, where the heck have you been?"

Dark Cloud (2001 | Level-5 | PS2): Just a thought here, but maybe Sony wouldn't have to lay off a thousand people and nuke all extant goodwill if they still leaned into paying people to make mid-budget games that are extremely memorable and aggressively weird like Dark Cloud

Past meets present: Time Gal Taito finally re-released a LaserDisc arcade title for the first time in over three decades, and on a platform people actually have.

Good morning, let's Time Gal. Taito finally re-released this LaserDisc arcade game again in 2025, after decades of Japan-only releases and a Sega CD port. A game made in partnership between Taito and Toei, it's ridiculously charming even when you die. Which will happen a lot: it's all quick-time.

Poser Only Able to Name 22 Guided by Voices Albums

33 Guided By Voices albums in crude block lettering

I’ve been trying to learn how to write in block lettering since not everyone can read cursive and tonight’s exercise was recreating a classic Hard Times headline, which I am pleased to say I beat by 11.

I hope you make it back or otherwise have a way of staying in touch, but as much as you are one of this site’s greatest selling points I respect the need to step away.

“Is your fave problematic???” Yeah dude, I’ve spent the vast majority of my life as a fan of The Fall, what do you expect me to do about it?

2025 me: nobody cares about DGAF now
2015 me: stop. please
2025 me: no one says FML
2015 me: why are you telling me this. is there nothing more important you could share
2025 me: everything you believe to be epic is in fact fail
2015 me: technically I think I can kill you without causing a paradox

A bloody cap pointing at the A on his head and saying “Do you think the letter on my head stands for FRANCE?”

Weighing all my options for my midlife crisis and settling on practicing until my handwriting is a dead ringer for the stupid font Marvel used for books on their Ultimate imprint

LOST AREAS Spring Store

Something I forgot about:
I set up an apparel shirt with a bunch of original designs a while back, if that's something anyone's interested in I guess?

These designs are pretty old, but I could theoretically do new ones if there was any interest.

I also got in trouble several times because I would erase 3.25” discs that were “important” to bring old DOS games and roms from the computer with internet access to the Pentium 133 I had in my room.

The first TV I had my PS1 hooked up to only had RF and for some reason made the image bounce up and down a few inches vertically on every game I played except Tekken 3.

Aesthetic update

Normally I’d let this sort of thing just die out but an alarming amount of you have asked where you can buy this and my wife had to have an emergency surgery the day before I made this, so here is my chance to live the American Dream (selling print-on-demand shirts to pay down medical debt)

thanks again to @emotion-engine.bsky.social for the threads

Lmao, if you count the post game (which feels like the third act of the game rather than post-game content) you are barely halfway through

A beautiful painting of the masked wrestler's dads watching him from heaven right before he gets hit by a jump kick botched so bad that he will never walk again

I’m just glad it worked as a print!

rate my fit for the ferry today

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

Wavebeam is the perfect soundtrack to an unrealized PSP puzzle game, I can’t wait to hear what else is possible in that space.

🚨🚨 N E W M U S I C ! ! 🚨🚨

I took the projects that weren't coming together in time for Wavebeam last year, and fleshed them out into something that I think you might actually enjoy listening to!

Happy #BandcampFriday!

We’re here at EVO 2025 at Artist Alley corner table A81, across from the BYOC area! We’ve got Scottish Fighter, Hundred Line, Hololive, every SMT, a Cleopatra Fortune setup, and mooooore

Come over and hang out 🎶

i haven't focused on it much as have been busy elsewhere but my 11x14" Pswaps are always available here! artofrustyshackles.blogspot.com/p/pswaps.html

Keio Flying Squadron 2’s NTSC Version Now in English KoolFiller released an English text/dub hack for the NTSC version of Keio Flying Squadron 2 last month over on SEGAXTREME. This translation patch takes almost all the PAL-exclusive English text and…

Keio Flying Squadron 2 is one of those Saturn games that Europe got while North America didn't. That meant no English 60hz version existed — until KoolFiller's new patch! Get the details in our story:

www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/07/31/k...

#sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #videogames

Ryan Bell (Government Name) I love hosting trivia. It's honestly a passion of me and I want to do it more. My brother is in a really hot area for it and he's killing it elsewhere. I'm not jealous I just want to make it work in Philly and I'm trying to figure that out. But It's a horrible way to get pussy. I didn't start it for that. But like, I though being the center of attention and the smartest guy in the room would be worth something. It fucking isn't. Still love it though.

Truly sorry to screencap from the old site but I have been thinking about the nuclear-grade self-tattle of “help! hosting bar trivia is landing me the pussy I thought it would! Mods??”