I’m all for swords into plowshares but I don’t think you’re supposed to be getting off on the fact it used to be a sword.
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We all lament that Palmer Luckey never playtested his VR Suicide Helmet that would blast 3 shotgun slugs into his skull if he died in a game.
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if the US enters a war involving large amounts of drone warfare between Christmas Eve and summer 2026, will the system get delayed from lack of materials
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You really weren’t joking, even a little bit.
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Oh I do not think I am prepared for roblox to become an aesthetic.
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Are these people ai generated or is the color grading just incredibly odd and I’m very tired
Actually I’ve decided its evil either way somehow
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Is this more roblox than it is N64?
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N64 style is a bunch of fucked up looking rectangles that dangle from their edges, like a wooden puppet with string joints. Roblox style is taking a cube and extruding edges until you have a weird blocky clay man and every joint is a hinge.
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got scared this was the guy who was making Greggs Simulator 2025 (Duke Smoochem 3D) but thank god it’s not
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ex employee of indie publisher CRITICAL REFLEX (Mouthwashing, Arctic Eggs, Lunacid, Buckshot Roulette, ECLIPSIUM, basically every other popular game of this style you can think of etc tec) alleges sexual harassment and exploitation
tbh been feeling recently like there was something up about Critical Reflex - they’re attached to a bunch of buzzy newer games but it’s hard to find any info at all about them. lack of any kind of general transparency of a company with this level of visibility is usually a very bad thing! in addition to the fact that game publishers are just Not Your Friends in general
here’s the video itself:
also here’s the top youtube comment on the video
in case anyone wants a visual of what this Ted Hentschke guy looks like, here you go:
also just saw from the video that the Critical Reflex CEO who also did some of the sexual harassment is apparently a woman. wonderful lol. here’s an earlier interview with her if you’re curious
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Got as far as “Cyprus-based” and knew that the company was fully fucked up. There are two kinds of companies based out of cyprus: literal war refugees (all the ukrainian game studios that had to relocate) and tax dodging sexpests (pretty much everyone else)
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it took me a minute to place it but that guy looks eerily like me crossed with my dad. in that I don’t really resemble my dad as it is but that’s a plausible version of if I did
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In early years gog would process all their payments through Cyprus for the aforementioned reasons and it made it a fucking nightmare to buy shit because banks would flip out
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mdickie is a massive kanye fan and similar to kanye i wish mdickie died in 2016
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How dare you!
…Wrestling Empire came out in 2021, let us keep that at least >_>
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he put a character in wrestling empire and his other games named “bathroom bill” who looks like this
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Oof, that sucks 
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idk how much relation it has to the specifics of this but i remember being a bit unnerved by how lowpoly horror seemed like an increasingly odd mix of hobbyist/student/gamejam types and more established commercial devs with access to real money, sort of connected thru a murky seeming layer of publishers (for a definition of “publisher” that goes all the way down to “someone with their own patreon who’ll release your game on it too”).
the dreadxp mention in particular caught my eye - owned by a movie studio and so probably one of the earlier groups around the lowpoly horror thing to have actual money behind them. started as a news outlet and podcast, expanded into a jam / compilation organizer, into running an indie horror direct, into a publisher proper who’ve worked with the likes of paramount. which is a lot of weight to the pleasures and displeasures of a few people. can’t really speak to what that means but have heard a few people allude darkly to their publishing contracts which sound notably bad even by indie game standards - upfront payment, no rev share or even rev visibility, ongoing ip rights etc etc.
as a scene now it seems like a small constellation of discord servers where everyone’s watching some games take off, other extremely similar games disappear without a trace, and with a web of quasi-formal “opportunities” offering a chance to tip the scales one way or another. kind of waiting for some of these publishers just to drop the mask and pivot into organ harvesting.
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