Virgil was spittin with The Aeneid

Marathon is a very good game

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

@austinwalker.bsky.social

Molly Millions is the coolest character in anything

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Alex Garland vindicated

Did they finally fix the website

Also: Pope Leo XIV, remarks on cinema, worth a listen. Thoughtful. The value of slow cinema. Silent cinema. The wind in the trees.

youtu.be/rTUT1mJMFCU?...

One thing can unite the world: we all love Godzilla

keep going

The Hunt for Gollum isn't real and it can't hurt you

Trent Reznor, one of the coolest to ever do it

(as a donkey walks by)

ah the noble donkey!

(donkey moves out of earshot)

foolish beast

It rips so hard

He's right, Tenet is a must

Dating in Los Angeles... still awful

Cuno doesn't fucking care

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

Helen DeWitt is a genius writer whose books everyone should read. That's my only contribution to this discourse.

How to use your imagination When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat? If you ever catch yourself wondering that then you know you’ve formed an attachment to your characters. With Etrian Odyssey’s characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character it’s technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing. For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... if you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more. The essense is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those “numbers” with your own feelings, you can spice up the game little. Think about this: In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left and no TP. They’re certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends. Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who’ll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath? The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently. The game itself isn’t that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds. —Kazuya Niinou

Been thinking about the use of imagination in video games lately, or how I feel there are few and increasingly fewer games that ask the player to use their imagination to engage with them.

This post Kazuya Niinou wrote to accompany Etrian Odyssey often comes to mind so I decided to remake it.

Idk, I think if you write The Last Samurai you get to be an eccentric weirdo, and also should be given a stipend to live and write.

We don't have to live like this

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

BIg mood

Love to do my absolutely useless job that helps no one and does nothing for humanity on a day like this!

Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Y'all ever listen to the album Discovery by the French House duo Daft Punk? P good stuff that one

long way to go