Don’t totally know how to express this in a nuanced enough way, but I’ve been feeling bummed out over how games get dissected in the past three years. A lot of mainstream discussion feels less interested in the games themselves and more about what they Represent About Gaming. It wears me out a bit!
Superimposing a live-action Hanya mask over an animated character rules. Rintaro forever.
A special TV report on the late Osamu Dezaki will air this Saturday in Japan on NHK (as part of the "I Want to Meet That Person" program).
www.web.nhk/tv/an/anohit...
Kojima: I first met Matsuno at the 1998 Tokyo Fantastic International Movie Festival. I was standing in line to see the premiere of Vampires at the Shibuya Parthenon… I was waiting on that spiral staircase there for 8 almost hours. (laughs) Matsuno: That’s right. I never imagined I’d meet you at a place like that! Kojima: We talked movies on that staircase for hours. You said you didn’t mind waiting if it was a movie you really wanted to see. I guessed then, that here’s a guy with the same DNA as me. (laughs) (Translation by Shmuplations)
Hideo Kojima and Yasumi Matsuno (FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story) first met while waiting in a long line to see John Carpenter's Vampires on opening night.
He was just a baby 😭 with a gun
Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.
Reconnecting with Silent Hill has been an introspective series of events. As I've covered the original series I've reawakened a lot of memories of playing each game as they released. I grew up with SH, I watched it come and go. I feel as though culture had blinded me to how much I actually love SH 🥺
For all its horror, I still contend this is the most life-affirming work of art I’ve ever seen.
late night reminder that the rec thread for this steam sale has started and it's already almost up 50 games in here! something for everybody!
an edited version of the box for the amiga version of Megatraveller 2, which features three space travelers on an alien world, gazin at a crystal tower, and in the distance, a space ship, a saturn esque planet, and one giant red planet at the top: SPACETWINKS REC THREAD below: Quest For some Weirdass Games left sidebar: VIDEO GAMES - A strange starfaring force that fills up your backlog and possibly alters your brain chemistry with some fucky thief raccoon or I guess it's some bug lady nowadays, w/e, followed by a picture of my fursona, a kangaroo bottom sticker: AMIGA yes, the Amiga had things other than crack screens and skunk furries like there were some really terrible licensed games too keyboard AND mouse supported. holy shit. unreal she amiga on my darkmere till joke to be determined later and where PARAGON SOFTWARE would normally be, PINK KANGAROO has replaced it
you already know what's up
(steam sale rec thread is what's up)
as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help.
so, onwards!
vaporwave image of a small plant growing hopefully overlay text reads "if the situation was helpless, their propaganda would be unnecessary"
remember kids -
Hey friends! Unfortunately we are delaying our Switch release til January. Port isn't perfect yet, & given Qud's long dev timeline, what matters most to us is releasing the best possible ver of the game, even if it means a delay
We're confident on the Jan timeline, so we'll see you on Switch soon
See this is that OVA vibe that Persona forgot...
four pillars in the middle of a park, they’re surrounded my leaves of all autumnal colours. red, gold, yellows and greens.
are you for real
It's bad out there. For everyone. In ways I didn't even know it could be bad.
Everyone looking for work is vulnerable in some way, and deserves to be treated better than this automated, callous, scam-filled, AI-riddled hellscape.
2022.7.3
The Short Films of Yuri Norstein
THE 25TH, THE FIRST DAY (25-E - PERVYY DEN) - 1968, 9 min., co-dir. Arkadiy Tyurin. Norstein's first film is a visually striking tribute to the Bolshevik Revolution on October 25th, incorporating the Cubist-inspired artworks of Soviet painters Nathan Altman and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. SEASONS (VREMENA GODA) - 1969, 9 min. A man and woman ride through the forest while the seasons change around them -- leaves swirling, cranes overhead, a tattered scarecrow in a field -- in this lovely, elegiac short set to music by Tchaikovsky. Produced and written by the great animator Ivan Ivanov-Vano. CHILDREN AND MATCHES (DETI I SPICHKI) - 1969, 5 min. Norstein’s rarely-seen educational short about the dangers of matches, from ancient times up to today. The image of pipe-smoking portraits on the wall suddenly bursting into flames is particularly surreal. THE BATTLE OF KERZHENETS (SECHA PRI KERZHENTSE) - 1971, 10 min., co-dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Arguably Norstein's first great animated film, inspired by the legend of the City of Kitezh which disappeared into a lake to avoid Mongol invaders. BATTLE incorporates Russian frescoes from the 14th-16th centuries, set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov. THE FOX & THE HARE (LISA I ZAYATS) – 1973, 12 min. Norstein’s utterly charming and irresistible short about a temperamental "house-filching fox" who boots a poor rabbit out of its home. The rabbit turns to a wolf, bear, bull and rooster for help, with surprising results. Told in a gorgeous combination of cut-out and hand-drawn styles. THE HERON & THE CRANE (TSAPLYA I ZHURAVL) - 1974, 10 min. An awkward crane and a high-spirited heron go back and forth on marrying each other, in this impossibly lovely and heartbreaking short about romantic misunderstandings.
HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG (YOZHIK V TUMANE) – 1975, 11 min. "In the evenings, the little hedgehog used to go to the little bear's to count stars. They would sit on some logs, sipping tea, and gaze at the starry sky." So begins the deceptively epic journey of the tiny hedgehog, filled with impossible marvels and dangers: a shimmering white horse and a crafty owl. A fluttering bat, a falling leaf and the ever-present curtain of fog. Widely considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, HEDGEHOG fits more mystery, suspense and delight into eleven brief minutes than most features do in two hours. A DAY BEFORE OUR ERA (ZA DEN DO’ NASHEY ERY) – 1977, 6 min. Co-dir. Fyodor Khitruk. This experimental collage of images of the French Revolution was apparently abandoned before it was finished, and remains one of Norstein’s rarest films. A companion piece in some ways to his earlier THE BATTLE OF KERZHENETS. THE TALE OF TALES (SKAZKA SKAZOK) – 1979, 29 min. Norstein's longest film to date, TALE is a story about stories -- or more precisely, a dream of many dreams. A giant bull and a little girl skip rope. A frustrated poet picks up a lyre. Couples dance under a streetlight to nostalgic music until the male partners disappear, headed off to war. And through it all, the Little Grey Wolf -- Norstein's greatest creation alongside the Hedgehog -- watches silently at the rondo of human loves and losses.
Deaf Crocodile have announced that The Treasure of Soviet Animation Volume 3 will be The Short Films of Yuri Norstein. Pre-orders begin in November 2025.
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Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
An update from us here at PBS 💙
"I'M A FREAK OF THE UNIVERSE."
Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
You should listen to more Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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