News & Gossip VII: For Blood and Headlines

I just noticed… Why does the abstract skittles-covered biomorphic blob in the background have titties?

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Because they are awesome

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I wonder how relevant that is to large number of patreon accounts

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who told you about the patreons I support

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Hey now, I watched it! Both seasons! It was bad! But I’d keep watching it if it kept going.

Why? I don’t know. It was like sub-UPN quality, but there was something endearing in how bad it was.

I also bought some episodes of X’amd on PSN, the PSN exclusive anime from Studio BONES (because the show got finished too late and missed its TV slot).

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“wow I dodged a bullet not working there” - me at every game studio I ever applied to

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they need to pay homage to their past glories with the umd format’s killer app
hitch-6639

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This isn’t news but it’s news to me.

Y’know how the company that makes Slack now originally started by making a Flash game called Glitch? And it had involvement from Keita Takahashi? And how they shut it down after like, a year or so because its microtransaction model wasn’t making any money, because it was actually nice and not horrifically predatory? And they made Slack after that?

Anyway, when they shut down Glitch they released all of the assets into the public domain and two or three competing Glitch remakes got started. And I’ve checked in on them every time I remember to, which is not frequently, but they’ve always been in various states of incomplete or unplayable.

Well, I checked yesterday, and apparently there’s a fully playable one now:

https://oddgiants.com/

Only ~2000 people have accounts, but they’re actively playing. It’s incomplete but it looks much, much, much closer than I expected it to. And it’s funded on Patreon so like, they can just keep chugging along. I’m gonna get in there soon and see if it’s as pleasant as I remember it being.

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Oh wow. I will have to check it out. I was also super into Glitch while it was running

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new patreon logo is kinda shaped like those wack ass X&Y gamecube buttons

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I don’t know how it was in the UK but in the US the UMD format was all about Jiujutsu instructional videos and skateboarding compilations

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Shenmue was too ahead of its time . . . . . .

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Predated Deus Ex, even.

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what Deus Ex really needed was an animation of JC taking his shoes off/putting them on every time he climbs through Paul’s hotel room window

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Ultima Underworld 2 was my first experience with IMSIMS, I spent hours just walking around the first castle area fucking around with people and finding secrets. I never actually got to any of the other worlds until I replayed it as an adult lol, but just messing around the castle was enough for me back then. It felt huge and dense.

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the new mdickie game, which is his take on SCHOOL and I guess Bully in the most superficial of ways, came out today.

“an unflinching exploration of how true morality can only ever grow out of the muddy waters of immorality”

im so fucking excited

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just from the sample screenshots, there’s a teacher named mr. genocide, and it seems the principal is ted dibiase renamed to “mr. benjamins”

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vince mcmahon is the math teacher and wouldn’t stop asking us how many kilograms were in a ton

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its nothing like bully but when you fast travel home you appear on the toilet taking a shit with your bed clipping through the wall next to you like haunted furniture in mario 64 so whos to say if its bad or not

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