full disclosure: i purchased an analogue pocket and i hate 90% of all youtube content
Itās okay, the video is 25 seconds long and is a joke
Youtube creators first study the art of acting and master the sort of facial expressions used by a thespian who needs their face to be readable by someone way out in the last row of the gallery. Then they go ahead and take a closeup of that in 4K for their thumbnail
AVGN did those when the thumbnail was the literal size of a thumbnail. My favorite youtuber Phil McKnight says thereās a lot of bad ideas that people havenāt tried because they are just not very good, but once someone DOES try them they become novel and soon become widely imitated.
this is literally just poinieās poin
iāve played a little Omori on my laptop for a few hours, and my primary impression is āwow i didnāt realize 2d rpgmaker games taxed old macbooks soā
so far itās cute and the psychological horror aspect interests me, but i havenāt seen much of substance yet. it is heavily Earthbound-influenced
This may mean less than it seems, because this is a small studio on their first game and not really a business yet in the sense of a sustaining concern, and really far from large corporations with the resources that entails, but ā
ā itās still a pretty big deal.
Theyāre part of the Communications Workers of America union, which has made significant progress recently in the past few years in newsrooms. They started making tech progress in the last year which seems to coincide with the progress theyāve made in games ā the Alphabet Workers Union formed earlier this year, and the CWA has been able to get statements ready and re-broadcasted when a lot of game-specific news hit. The new, ongoing Activision Workers Alliance is organizing with help from the CWA.
Really, really positive stuff.
iām so glad someone else can see what iāve had to deal with for the last like⦠decade plus
good song:
Feels like both Undertale and Omori were unsubconsciously born out of Nintenās and Nessā disconcerting silent changes of expression when moving around
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Also I just realized Ninten and Ness are only happy when theyāre not looking at the player. Oh no
holy shit he really cleans up for his videos hey
thatās a shame. heād be great as a combative game show contestant
moon and black bird are both now available on ps4
iāve never played earthbound so i have no context but iāve played a bit of OMORI and like eska says, itās pretty cute. i kind of d/l the demo from reddit back when people were still waiting for it so iām at a point where iām treading old ground, but so far i like the atmosphere and have a feeling that things will probably not end as well as the cuteness would have one believe.
it might go on sale on steam soon since the holiday sale is coming out so you could always bite the bullet then if youāre still curious. from what iāve heard about the game so far, it was worth the wait and i kind of feel like thatās an honest assessment
I think China got to them
is this supposed to be ę„? i just see amogus
edit: the official tag uses ę so the title is probably a pun using the radicals as ānineā and āsunā
Donāt know if this was already posted but:

