Age of Empires: How Ensemble Studios Made History The creation & legacy of the 1997 real-time strategy game, based on interviews w/ 29 former Ensemble & Microsoft staff.

Eight days left to fund @mossrc.bsky.social's book on the making of AGE OF EMPIRES.

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#gamehistory #ageofempires #aoe #wololo #realtimestragegy #rts

SLIME CAT & FRIENDS – LINE stickers | LINE STORE A cute slime cat and her cute slime friends.

note: my SLIME CAT & FRIENDS line stickers will no longer be purchaseable after 4/30!

a selection of them will be included in a new sticker set i'm releasing, so wait for the new one 👀

下記のLINEスタンプを4/30で販売中止にする予定！

スタンプの一部は今後新しいスタンプと合わせてリリースする予定なのでそれまで待っててください…👀

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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess | PC Steam Game | Fanatical Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is a unique...

There's some talk about how Capcom are keeping the spirit of late PS2/Early PS3 game design alive with their recent releases.

If that's the vibe you're after, I HUGELY recommend Kunitsu-Gami, which sold very (comparatively) little and feels like a gorgeous modern remake of some obscure PS2 game.

panels from chapter 39 of Chainsaw Man with the below dialogue between Denji and Makima as they’re doing a movie marathon Makima: “The next one is the last one. People say they don’t understand this movie…Do you want to catch it, Denji?” Denji: “Homestly…none of the movies so far really did it for me…Maybe I just don’t understand movies.” Makima: “I only find about one out of every ten movies interesting, myself. But I’ve had that one movie change my life.”

the most right Makima Chainsawman was about anything ever:

Audrey you did such a great job with them!! 🙇

A collection of traditional Japanese wooden kokeshi dolls arranged in rows on a light surface against a plain background. The dolls vary in size, shape, and design, with rounded heads and cylindrical bodies. They are decorated with hand-painted faces, floral patterns, and colorful garments, ranging from simple minimalist styles to more detailed and ornate designs.

Two Miis standing side by side on a plain background. On the left is a male-presenting character with short brown hair, thick eyebrows, and a neutral expression, wearing a red long-sleeve shirt and dark pants. On the right is a female-presenting character with shoulder-length brown hair, large eyes, and a slight smile, also wearing a red long-sleeve shirt and dark pants.

Considering that a new Tomodachi Life game just released, I'd like to point out that Miis were inspired by Kokeshi - traditional Japanese wooden dolls with a simple cylindrical body and round head that come from Japan's Tōhoku region, and that came about during the Edo period.

this was a very fun collection to coordinate, with a lot of new original artwork from our designers overseen by the Okami team in Japan—it all turned out so good!

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

jeeeez directly targeted attack lol

what things worked well for you? I’m always concerned about the condition of our compost

not yet, but I will!

a Japanese vending machine stocked with piping hot baked sweet potatoes

not to “weird Japanese vending machine” post but: baked sweet potato vending machine!!

square enix the time is now for a standalone blitzball game

google maps let me respond to reviews from people who clearly aren’t strong enough to appreciate a good izakaya run by a chef who smokes and is kind of rude
—open the comments I’m ready to fight for their honor

sad kermit looking out the rainy window meme

me looking at all the beautiful kei trucks for sale

I think often of how Darius Rucker doesn’t like being called “Hootie” even though he named the band he led Hootie & The Blowfish!

making sure @coffeetan.bsky.social has seen this Slayers art

a ceramic by Picasso that looks like a wobbly plus sign with a striped border & a little face painted onto it

it’s me

Frame #8700 from S04 -E12 - Battle of Sea Urchin-628206

icebreaker isn’t as good as it used to be so good call I think!

sending power at you 👐💨✨✨✨

small pieces of painted glass in varying sizes and colors arranged to circle a dark blue owl with yellow and aquamarine eyes

small pieces of painted glass in varying sizes and colors arranged to frame a scene of two green figures holding hands—one appears to be comforting the other as a sun and moon look on from the side

small pieces of painted glass in varying sizes and colors arranged in a grid, each square of which is full of geometric patterns of lines and rings and blocks and curves around the center is a simplified human bust facing toward the camera and wearing a small pointy hat that shades its eyes

another grid, this time mostly in greys, browns, and yellows with a central figure that spears to be an armored knight standing atop a rearing horse and brandishing a spiked weapon there is a bird on a branch nearby that appears startled by this posturing

mosaic glass inside the tower:

brownish red tiles laid around a light cement foundation, dirtied and weathered by time outdoors there’s an octagonal depression cut from a section of the tiled floor, ostensibly where a basin pedestal or plinth would be placed

a closeup shot of the tiles, each weathered with a unique pattern of dark swirls and smudges

a shot of two tile sections meeting at their corners—to their outside edges is a patch of short cropped grass, while to their inside is a bordering row of smaller, darker tiles separating them from the yellowed cement

textures and details of the chapel:

a stone altar raised on a tiled dais as if in a church with no walls or ceiling, stripped to the foundation and open to the trees around the work is called “The Chapel of Saint Vigor de Mieux, Hakone Version” by Kyoji Takubo and is a ghostly mirror of an existing building in rural France he renovated

a big white statue of a head lying on its side with a serene expression and plants growing all over top of it in a botanical embrace—the head lies in a shallow, tiled pool into which water flows from its eyes as tears there are blooming pink and white cherry blossom trees behind it the work is called “The Weeper” by François Xavier and Claude Lalanne

a close up macro shot of some yellowish green leaves in the sunlight, behind lies a bronze humanoid figure face down ass up on a grassy lawn, slightly out of focus the figure is nude, with visibly plump buttocks and balls too if you look closely the work is “Close III” by Antony Gormley

a photo of an outdoor landscape mostly encompassed by a manicured lawn dotted with abstract bronze sculptures in various organic shapes there are a few trees, including some pink cherry blossoms, and a cylindrical tower with thin vertical beams running up its length, decorated with a golden sun set in it like a clockface the sculptures are “Family Group”, “Two Piece Reclining Figure”, and “Mother And Child” all by Henry Moore the tower is “Symphonic Sculpture” by Gabriel Loire

saw some open-air art

Pon from upcoming mega hit game Tanuki Pons Summer but he has angry eyebrows and mouth still cute though

back to work, you!

i was a teenage exocolonist is a game i love soooo much. this bundle is the "Stories You'll Want to Try Again and Again" bundle, but really it's the "timeloops make you gay" bundle

⏪ store.steampowered.com/bundle/71253...

Still frame from "Segata Sanshiro: A Final Greeting," featuring Hiroshi Fujioka's reflections on his role as Segata Sanshiro and a handful of personal comments afterwards. This is a segment from the latter. Fujioka turns to the camera, pointing at the viewer. "The twenty-first century is yours," he says.

The camera zooms in a bit, displaying a distinct smile on his face. He continues. "I want you to cross borders, oceans, and whatever other barriers you encounter.

"And seize a magnificent future," he says as he puts his hands up in a grabbing motion.

Pointing once again at the viewer, he smiles, determined: "I believe in you."

👀👀👀

separate the wheat from the chaff straight away 🙂‍↕️