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An illustration. Two young women are standing next to each other, facing away from the camera. The woman on the left is looking at a Polaroid she’s holding. The second woman is next to her with her hand on her shoulder. She’s saying or whispering something in the first girl’s ear. She might be malicious. There are black insects crawling all over the walls, and the girls. They both have a large black centipede crawling up their backs, following their spines. The first girl’s centipede is crawling up, reaching her neck. The second girl’s centipede is lining her entire body, up to the top of her head. All of its legs have bored through her hair and clothes, and are deep in her skin. The whole scene is in shades of blue, except for the girls’ skin and the bugs’ legs, which are pink. The bugs’ bodies are stark black.

whisper.

I’m always thinking about nostalgia.
Always avoiding real problems by pining for times that were probably misremembered.

#illust #horrorart #traditionalart #originalart #creepyart #copicmarker #illustration #イラスト #entomophobia #nostalgia

Here's THE best moments from MinnMax in 2025, join the live chat in the premiere happening right now! youtu.be/e6mHbc1b3GQ

We cannot thank you all enough for a great year!

The new episode of The MinnMax Show kicks off The Two Tens: Our gigantic debate about the best games of 2025.

I'll be damned if there's a bigger, more varied GOTY 2025 discussion on the internet. If you like it, help share it! youtu.be/5LSlLzgQGFs

Our eyes are now set on $2500. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe

I guess you’d be the Postmaster

Free idea for Square - Ff9 side sequel where you play as moogles from Mognet Central delivering mail and you get many Moogles and get to use a classic job system for them. Maybe xcom esque where you are the Moogle Commander and play with many Moogles.

Earthbound screenshot where an NPC is telling Ness "Ok, but your teen years will be ruined just because you didn't buy an Egg."

Pokemon trainer: Hi! I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!

the beloved Gatekeeper from FE3H: As for me, my job is to stand here at this glorious entrance and leisurely watch over the comings and goings of everyone. Make folks smile, you know? (i couldn't find a good example of Gatekeeper's best dialogue because it's all long convos but people love this guy)

it's just the merchant from RE4. no dialogue needed because we all know it by heart and we all love him

"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby

My logic is, if you can't be bothered to make an asset yourself why should I be bothered to care about it/collect it 🤷

Same actually! I put Hollow Knight on a brief pause for silent hill F but diving back in. I’ll probably hit another game in this list before diving into silk song.

Quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮 (games installed and ready to go!)

In Stars and Time
Keylocker
Silksong
Keep Driving
Sekiro

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Been waiting for this since I heard about it last year - instant purchase! I had to put the demo down because I liked it so much I didn’t want to spoil the release!

I’ve never heard of that, thank you!

In your expertise- Is it possible that this is just Nintendo overreacting to patent trolls in the past, so now they are patenting everything possible to see what sticks? I know they had a few for the Wiimote back in the day. It feels like the problem is a broken system that needs a major refresh

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Sporeling named Mot hanging out with a snow person decorated like him

Sporeling Mot in a warm scarf half body

Sporeling Mot joining some rock monsters in song, except he can only say Mot

A hand made push of Sporeling Mot

My long running 5e campaign has had Mot from @hellomcdm.bsky.social in it since like session 10, this little guy is great and the party loves him. He’s got a flame tongue great sword now after training with a party member to use a sword. Activation word is Mot of course, with the correct tone.

It’s the Twoson theme for me! Something about it just calms me down whenever I hear it.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:

Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

I think the worst experiences in all of gaming are the first two hours of most AAA games. That's what the money people obsess over, making things worse and worse.

They can't code, so they don't touch the codebase, but they speak English, so they fuck with the writing.

CNN headline: Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’

it’s fun that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” people make every single decision entirely based on how they feel

The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced

Ninja Turtles and Splinter around the television which is displaying a transgender flag. The caption reads “Opinions are for pizza toppings, not someone’s right to exist!”

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Happy Anniversary!ずっと大好きです🎉
#FF9 #FFIX25th

I don't think I'll get a chance to watch the Superman movie for a while but I'm happy it's making all the worst people mad

he's an immigrant superhero created by two Jewish kids whose parents fled persecution, and his overriding concern is helping people

he absolutely should make them feel shitty

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Here's the iconic elementalist I did for Draw Steel.

#mcdm #drawsteel

the first tech reporter to learn how to ask "and have you built any of that yet?" will change journalism forever

I’ve tried to add premortems to the studio strategy process at three different companies. At first they love the idea, and then when they’re in the middle of the first session the guy in charge gets weirdly mad?? Anyway two of those studios are shut now. If only there was some way to have prevented…

Well this is awkward