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Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://tomgaar.carrd.co/
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i do think if people actually want to talk about discoverability for especially small and unique games being a big problem we have to put a concerted effort to combat the outrage merchants as much as possible instead of continually throwing our hands and saying "whaddaya gonna do? fucked industry"

The '87 Directory of Amusement Machines & Amusement Park Equipment [遊戯機械総合年鑑] has been scanned and archived, please enjoy this rare tome of arcade and theme park equipment 💛 archive.org/details/87-d...

Hackman siempre representó para mi el porte y la figura clásicas de cierto tipo de Actor Masculino Hollywoodiense de los 60 y 70. Veo a alguien como Donald Sutherland y mi primera reacción suele ser "¿Cuánto se parece este tío a Gene Hackman?"

"Mushishi Art Book" by Yuki Urushibara is finally being reprinted. Originally published 10 years ago, it was long out of print, and resold at indecent prices. Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

every now and then I still think about the greatest Quake 1 mod review of all time www.quaddicted.com/db/v1/maps/c...

Al escribir Warpdoor en el buscador me equivoqué y puse warproom por error, lo que ha hecho que me salga un foro de fans de Crash que, aunque parece sacado de 2005, diría que es de 2017 o así thewarproom.com

Las firmas digitales de los escaneadores...eso si que es arte

Indies will not save us until y'all start demanding Valve take a smaller cut of revenue from them. Because that 30% cut is responsible for more indie studios folding after their 1st game than anything else in this industry

Monolith era uno de los mejores estudios de videojuegos que quedaban. No creo que esté exagerando ni un poquito. Que su última década la hayan pasado haciendo mediocridades basadas en IPs famosas es una desgracia y testimonio de lo mal planteada.que está esta industria.

it's cool that we reached the peak of most computer programs in like 2012 and they've all gotten worse since then. i use a pirated copy of photoshop cs6 and office 2010 at home

Welcome to the public domain, BLACKMAIL (1929)! 🎞️ While not the first British sound feature, it’s the first to masterfully weave sound into its storytelling. Pure #Hitchcock brilliance! ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

jeijei.itch.io/liminal-void The Liminal Void demo is available on Itch...sorta

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 3: The Concordance of Slop.

No me gusta la manera en que se comparten noticias sobre videojuegos sin reflexionar sobre el tipo de gente, y carreras, que se están promocionando. La mala praxis de Anastasio a la hora de cubrir los abusos sufridos por personas como Lawhead deberían granjearle el ostracismo total.

don’t put Cecilia D’Anastasio on my timeline www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu... she is an abusive journalist that lies to her sources to get what she wants and endangers them. she published the details of my rape, which she lied where off the record. she’s done this to me and others.

danboland.net/2025/02/25/i... i got it out of my system

It's so awesome that every 4chan guy now derisively calls it 'tranime' and every american media corp is kneeling to Trump but we still get people so mad at being called gay by a k-on icon 12 years ago they write shit like this bsky.app/profile/aure...

A este paso, tiendo a tildar de racista a cualquiera que rechace el anime como un espacio estético reservado exclusivamente para la derecha. Puedo entender que malas experiencias enturbien tu relación hacia un medio o escena, pero las generalizaciones nunca están justificadas.

Why the hell does shit like this keep happening? So much of the anime fanbase these days is queer, and it's been that way for like a decade at this point. Is this the sort of shit that's getting folks to attack me when I point out some of my best friends use vtubing for gender expression?

I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote

Llevo casi dos semanas añadiendo tags a mis cómics (debo llevar 5000) y me entero ahora que la información no se guarda si su formato es cbr 😪

At some point you gotta forget what a YouTuber from the early 2010s said about a video game and just try the game out for yourself and see what you think.

Domingo de tokusatsu estadounidense

En un mundo más justo, Todd McFarlane se habría convertido en el Shotaro Ishimori de Estados Unidos.

This is a really fun site if you are interested in the production design of Star Trek. It's a catalog of identifiable commercial products used to make things look "futuristic". star-trek.design

He encontrado una misteriosa joya del pasado

I gathered data about 2,449 video game review publications to find out more about how they score games, what country they tend to be from, what platforms or genres they focus on, and how long they were active. spritecell.com/bp13-reviewe...

the cast of "House" (ハウス) [1977]

ShaderGlass 1.0 has been released! Big update! 🚨 Apply shaders to any app on your desktop: gaming, pixel art and video. 📺 Free and open source! Links in reply.

La de pocas veces que voy a una librería local para lo bien que me lo paso en ellas.

"You won’t be battling any goons to 'get the girl' — just your own inhibitions!" You'll be right here! With Girlfriend™. Source: Computer Gaming World, September 1994.

AI will not destroy jobs, it will actually create jobs. For every AI you have to assign 2 guys to monitor it because it's stupid and sucks ass

Los comics de Image son una jungla. Tienes Shadowhawk I, luego II y luego III, pero luego sigue el número 12 de Shadowhawk (sin palos), que sigue donde lo dejó Shadowhawk III. Luego le sigue The Return of Shadowhawk, que vuelve al número 1, y luego le sigue Shadowhawk (a secas), número 1 otra vez.

i dont think any of us can like, stop it, but i do think more should be made of just how dark combining roblox and gta online is obviously going to get

this person said it so good so here it is

The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

Tras una semana he encontrado un programa estupendo, aunque para comics. ComicRack ordena las series en base a tres criterios que puedes seleccionar arriba, y hay un plugin (ComicVineScraper) que te permite extraer los metadatos de Comic Vine.

"Your outie writes excellent Letterboxd reviews."

"...its first chapter alone makes the case that it will be one of the most exciting games of the year." Inverse previewed Moves of the Diamond Hand - and you know, I just think they might be onto something... www.inverse.com/gaming/new-r...

Hay una calle junto a mi casa que huele a pollo con arroz, de la manera que solía oler el pollo con arroz que me preparaban de chico, y cuando paso siempre quiero llorar y comerme algo.

Deep, o un chiste del Correcaminos.

what if you fed old games to the ai machine to keep them modern is just the natural endpoint of games culture’s total lack of respect for old games as intentional works