SpaceDrake (Andrew Dice)

I think most of all I love that flames that came before jim and merril passed through them to me and my friends and on to others who will make their own things unknowingly inspired by jim and merrils work and quiet social work keeping teens out of trouble.

shout out to jim ward whose memorial quietly passed on the IGF screen the same night we won our award, his work was a great inspiration to me, and I wish I had got to meet him while he was still around, but I hope I carry some of his falme with me through his work

shout out to the librarian merrill at west regional library who was many of our first dungeon masters as kids, running brutal oldschool 1st edition D&D games for local teens in the quiet florida evenings.

It's so fulfilling to share that legacy with the world.

I'm so glad we got to give the world a taste of what it was like playing rifts and gamma world and D&D at our mid 90s south florida tabletops. We really thought we had something special, and I guess we did.

Increasingly glad I bailed on this the second I saw them trying to do idol stuff in the intro.

Yep. Supposedly they're a years-long journalism vet, but literally no one explained embargoes to them. Truly baffling.

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

I am so, so glad and lucky that this behavior is absurdly rare in the doujin/indie space.

Anyway, I'm personally very excited for the majority of Japanese game devs to still refuse to give me playable builds of the games they want localized no matter how many NDAs I sign or security precautions I take despite being able to point to 99.99% of the leaks they fear not coming from us lol

YouTube video by Kevin Hainline Chris Houlihan Is Real

@jparish.bsky.social A number of years ago I stumbled on the story behind A Link to the Past's Chris Houlihan Room, including the letter sent to Chris from Nintendo Power. I finally decided to make a video about it all, in case you're interested.
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artwork referencing the "can u get pregante...?" song and animated music video by JavaDoodles, featuring characters from CITY. the top half of the drawing shows Nagumo (right) making a wide gesture toward Tsuchinoko (left), accompanied by a screencap of a Yahoo Answers user posing the question "I think my dog is pregernet???" the bottom half of the drawing shows Niikura (left) sliding across the ground on her knees, hands thrown up into the air as Mimineko (right) watches her with disdain. another Yahoo Answers question is displayed beside her, asking "How do I know if I'M prengan?"

been obsessed with this song/video recently and had to draw this lol

DQB2 is actually *not* an AU, it fits perfectly with the original DQB2. I'm super curious to see how well HD preserves that.

get equipped with babe metronome

Y'all don't want to know what 40 looks like. Trust.

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by age 30 you should have:

* strong opinions about birds
* 12 different "when i get time" projects on indefinite hiatus
* sandwich(es) you fruitlessly yearn to have again
* a growing list of obituaries you're looking forward to reading
* parasocial friendships with other people's pets

I need to Atra post more on this place.

a pic of Galarian meowth. If you're blind or visually impaired you might not know this, but its chin looks like a giant spiky ball sack.

Young game journos, if you think it's tough to keep embargoes nowadays, please remember that I discovered Galarian Meowth during SwSh embargo and had to bottle up my screams for *weeks.*

my thiung said this mostly unprompted

As someone who has gone through "onboarding" at a Valnet website, it is 100% believable that this person has never even been told what an "embargo" is and the difference between that and a "deadline".

This happening at a Valnet owned site is proof that games media cannot continue to exist with 0 mentorship, editorial oversight, general education for new writers.

No writer assigned a review should not understand what an "embargo" is and how to uphold it.

This is just as much on their editor.

Gee, you could try paying folks what they're worth in order to encourage them to do the work, especially as folks become more & more aware of the value of their labor.

... Nah, we need the politicians to find us more slaves.

And then they wonder why they struggle.

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Now that's an upgrade

I said this at the beginning of the year and it feels even more true now - the way the MAGA cult views racial and religious minorities mirrors this passage that Philip K. Dick wrote about how antisemites view Jews:

The Demon Slayer movies have been such a massive money-making venture internationally that I genuinely wonder if Koyoharu Gotouge ever works again.

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#Xenogears #ゼノギアス

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"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur

... is this good or bad

Miorine from Gundam Witch from Mercury is looking down at a shocked Suletta. Suletta: "WE'RE FIGHTING GODZILLA?!"