what stopped me from buying comics after 30 years was spending money on the single issues and then being expected to spend more to get fresh content added to the trades
it's wild watching comic films make all the same fucked up decisions that publishing did
Posts by alex䷰trismegistus
i call this the gyre
We invented hooning. The Fast and the Furious franchise is Australian cultural appropriation.
"beware, devs have abandoned, dead game" <3,498 hrs played>
maybe the bsky wunderkinder could vibe up a search box that works
like, search inputs are one of the most common fucking patterns on the web and you're telling me the slop makers can't churn out ones that consistently work? quelle shock
i've seen a few people recommend it this week, never heard of it before now
the aussie look
this tracks because we already treat the whole country as an eldritch horror
jfc some dipshits forked Godot because it was too woke?
The splash page for THis Fan...This Monster, the penultimate Eltingville Club story. It shows Bill Dickey standing in the rain. The title lettering and image is an homage to the opening splash of The Fantastic Four number fifty-one.
NERD INFERNO is out on April 28th from @darkhorse.com.
Every day until then I'm posting something from the 648-pg brute. Today: I almost forgot to post something. Here's the splash page for This Fan...THis Monster, the penultimate Eltingville story. Homage to Kirby/Sinnott/Simek's FF #51 splash.
At @io9.com, I spoke with Rick Veitch, Tom Mandrake, Vince Locke, and more for an oral history of the most heretical DC comic of all time, now rising from its tomb after 40 years.
i don't think it's a coincidence that the model best suited for dissecting the viral nature of info was repurposed very early on the internet to mean "shitty visual gag"
love this country where you have to work but every single fucking service acts like you don't
been waiting an hour for an ultrasound appt that I would've been fined if I was late to but when it's the clinic that's delayed well then I guess I can just go get fucked
Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown.
I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up
did Epps run out of slop company press releases to crib from?
i think the audience for a visual medium like movies should be called the "vidience"
“In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment “-Christopher Lasch (“SELFIE”, 46”x51.5”, charcoal and graphite on paper, ©Laurie Lipton)
yes clearly that's the context i was responding to and not the immediately preceding post which was entirely about china being "threatening" because of investing in businesses like every other fucking country does
Isometric rendering optimisations, what an exciting topic! Read more at bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...
#melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
oh no the chinese are doing business won't someone stop the chinese from doing the business help mods the chinese are doing business
this is just pure racism, my guy
you'll be unsurprised that the solution is, as always, more of the same crap
the entire medical profession here thinks the only reason you'd ever want pills is for an addiction
australian cops - every single fucking one of them - are all cowards and thugs who will always target children when they're acting alone
think you know a good cop? nope, they're a cunt who'd do this in a heartbeat and you're white #auspol
came to post just this, it has very early vertigo vibes
it did happen to the executive class
the medium of games is really special because unlike books, songs, or films, they can't be about anything
got to the chapter where i'm suddenly a chick and am calling the police in outrage
getting increasingly outraged at how much If On A Winter's Night A Traveller's second-person narrative deviates from my reality
>Inspection of a craft knife and glass breaking were flagged as too violent for the show
genuinely does a single person believe this? there’s action games with full on chopped limbs and blood flying everywhere, but once it’s a game about an SA survivior we suddenly wanna get puritanical about-