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I’ve been drawing lying down with my iPad because my back has been hurting like hell for the past week, but I somehow fucked up my shoulder doing that too, so now both my back AND my shoulder hurt…

“Game director behind TLOU and Uncharted finds modern AAA games to be boring.” My brother in Christ YOU made the sandwich

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Lailah is an angel assigned to the Federal Bureau of Ritual as its liaison with the U.S. government, she handles the grim logistics of the Agency’s human-sacrifice program. Through her missions, she can expand the player’s supply of Death Row inmates, providing increasingly valuable sacrifices as her trust grows Coldly professional but strangely compassionate, Lailah treats the condemned as people rather than disposable resources. Complete her questline far enough, and Lailah leaves the desk behind to take to the field herself, becoming a playable agent

Why is Mads Mikkelsen still so handsome at 60 😭😭😭

Look man, I have plenty of bones to pick with Kojima, but the guy basically built Kojima Productions from scratch and delivered TWO high quality AAA games in 8 years for roughly $250M combined without turning them into trend chasing live service slop Meanwhile, Concord spent 8 years and $400M in development 20,000. fucking. copies. sold Kojima might genuinely be running one of the only AAA studios left that understands how to make games like it’s still the good ol’ days: make the game, ship the game on time and within budget, move on

Death Spiral Vol. 1 cassette design Graphic design is my passion (unironically)

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Slowly realizing that I’m like really bad at maintaining relationships of any kind

The common claim that Starship Troopers, 40K, and StarCraft are “satires of fascism” is mostly modern reinterpretation Starship Troopers (1959) was not intended as fascist satire. Heinlein was seriously exploring his ideas about citizenship, military service, and civic responsibility. The 1997 movie deliberately turned those ideas into an anti-fascist satire Warhammer 40K uses religious and authoritarian imagery, but its original premise was more grimdark parody and absurdist military sci-fi: everyone is horrible, everything is excessive, and the Imperium is deliberately dysfunctional StarCraft inherited that military sci-fi aesthetic. The Terran Dominion is authoritarian, but StarCraft was primarily pulp space opera, not an elaborate critique of fascism Using authoritarian military aesthetics doesn’t automatically make something a satire of fascism. To claim otherwise cheapens the work of people who are actually trying to critique and satirize fascism You’re simply reinterpreting the work through a modern political lens and attributing an intention to it that was never there

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“They killed D2 just to turn Marathon into D2 Lite” was supposed to be a meme It isn’t anymore Bungie spent years building Destiny 2 into the live-service ecosystem they wanted, gutted it, and is now desperately transplanting its organs into Marathon: permanent PvE, TDM, social spaces, firing range Let’s hope this Frankensteined goose still has some golden eggs left inside, for Bungie’s own sake

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Since I’m in the mood for hot takes here’s another one: This popular image did a better job at turning people off The Forever Winter than selling it The art is presumably intended to communicate the game’s central fantasy: you are a tiny, vulnerable scavenger living underneath enormous mechanized armies. But as marketing, it creates a pretty unfortunate psychological association: “The cool thing in this picture? Yeah, you don’t get to be that” The character in the image is the thing that immediately attracts the eye. He’s enormous, heavily armored, grotesquely detailed, covered in equipment, and looks like an absolute badass. His silhouette, weaponry, armor and industrial design communicate power, competence and military fantasy almost instantly Then the caption instantly removes that fantasy from the player This image accidentally sells the fantasy the actual game actively denies, and that imo is bad marketing The Forever Winter has an unusually strong visual identity. The grimy industrial equipment, enormous war machines, grotesque soldiers and post-human military hardware are probably among its strongest selling points Most people seeing art from this game for the first time with no context will inevitably think: “Holy shit this looks like the coolest combined-arms war setting I’ve ever seen” But immediately loose all interest when they find out that the game is an extraction shooter where you’re largely scrabbling around underneath that war rather than participating in it directly The game has a deadly inherent marketing problem: its coolest imagery depicts things the player isn’t allowed to be

Hot take, but I think The Forever Winter would be a much better game if it were an all-out combined-arms warfare game rather than a survival extraction shooter The art style and worldbuilding are practically begging for players to actively partake in massive battles and mechanized warfare, all in the middle of an apocalyptic industrial-scale hellscape

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The Druk are an ancient species of serpentine predators originating from Druk Yul, a cryogenic moon where liquid hydrocarbons dominate the surface and temperatures remain far below the freezing point of water. Their biology is unlike that of most known macroscopic life, having evolved around an environment in which liquid water cannot naturally exist At the foundation of Druk biology is an unusual nitrogen-polymer-based biochemistry. Their tissues rely upon extremely stable molecular structures capable of remaining functional at temperatures that would render most carbon-water organisms completely inert. This remarkable chemical stability is the primary reason for the Druk’s extraordinary longevity. In practical terms, a Druk can remain biologically functional for many thousands of years Death, therefore, is rarely an inevitable consequence of age for the Druk species

At the heart of the Druk Imperium sits a figure unlike any other sovereign in the known galaxy. To the Druk, the Emperor is not merely a ruler, nor even the highest authority of the state. He is the living incarnation of their god, the eternal sovereign through whom the Imperium’s legitimacy is made manifest. No Druk alive can remember a time when there was no Emperor Dynasties rise and fall beneath his shadow, borders shift, technologies become obsolete, and civilizations disappear beyond the edge of recorded history The throne remains And so does the Emperor