Probably "not famous enough!11" for that guy, but Grigoriy Zhuravlev, a 19th century icon painter who was born with atrophied limbs and could only use his teeth.

Such a fun expression

Oh yeah, HL2 does the same thing with Kleiner's teleport rings and some other stuff

Adore that tree design

Yeah, that was pretty good

A total mystery, but some people pointed out he looks a bit like this dead fella from the concept art

I don't know what compelled me

That lighting is delicious

Omg Roger Dean game

And then you can use the suit charger without Kleiner telling you to. Love this sort of thing.

This is my favorite so far, so funny but with such sharp observations on game art

Happy to own this one, though can't help but feel a little jealous of the original ME1 artbook that included more of early exploration sketches

1. Slavic paleography
2. History of Asia and Africa
3. Classical latin
4. Historical geography
5. Mathematical methods in history studies.

Coincidentally I also saw a bunch of thrown-out plushies, including a pikachu, in the snow recently (they were picked up by someone by the end of the day)

Do people know they are allowed to skip/quickly scan paragraphs of text if they feel like it?

Huh, reminded me of Geliy Korzhev's "In the Days of War" (1954) in an uncanny way

Took me way too long to recognize the original is a trainride bit

This actually reminds me of a distorted/remixed version of my city, that I visit in dreams.

Love the lambda pin

When was the last time you played Portal 1 and actually looked at the player model?

They really look their best when light hits them at a grazing angle, but in other conditions the difference is quite small.
I also remember reading they're even cheaper on perf than regular normalmaps, but don't know details.

A photo of a short-haired kurilian bobtail, of red and white color, sitting on a desk with half his butt hanging in the air, lit by sun, eyes half-closed

07.04.2007-21.01.2026
He got so frail, thin and sad, but I'd rather post a photo from the happy years. He died peacefully and painlessly in my arms, and that's all it needed to be.

digital portrait of a woman with messy black hair in a ponytail. She is rolling her eyes at something to the side

Portal 1 Chell is an underappreciated vibe. Quick 30-minute thing.

Lem has short story about corporations competing "who can put more useless ai features into a washing machine", truly one of my favorite futurists.

Pipe.

Also has very cool and varied environments, I think I like the look of the levels more than DMC4 or 5.

I don't get to texture HL1-styled things often, so this was a blast
#halflife

Poster for a movie titled "Invasion from Dimension X" in bright yellow letters. There is a brown alien with four purple eyes in the top left corner, looking over figures of an angry bearded man in a yellow suit, awkwardly shooting a revolver at nothing in particular, and a busty brunette wooman peeking from behind his shoulder. There is a row of mysterious glass tubes seen behind them.

A poster for a movie "Abbott & Costello meet NIHILANTH" in yellow, cyan and blue tones. Elderly cartoony versions of Abbott and Costello are in the bottom left corner, running away from a shadowy evil shape shooting energy balls at them.

Movie poster in dark blue and purple hues, depicting an alien grunt from Half-Life with a toothy maw instead of his left arm. He is wearing a bandana and a leather coat with fur collar. Tagline states "He is a nasty piece of grunt work." Below him is a title "Here comes trouble!" in bold red and white letters.

And more. The latter two were made for an older verion of TLG that was still set in HL universe and had aliens living in Prava, so they don't appear in the game.

I contributed multiple in-universe movie posters for this, and I recommend playing.

Explains why fandoms grew so obsessed with the idea of canon, which is originally religious, and then treat it like some objective universal truth, briefly glimpsed through pieces of media.