Brad (Strideh)

@strideh.bsky.social

Brad • hobbyist level designer • amateur texture guy • artstation.com/strideh • https://strideh.itch.io/

Since the internet seems to be awash with Puppet Character Design talk, I'm revisiting a game that always struck me as kinda puppet-y as a kid: Sin. These character renders, with their smooth-shaded, doll-like proportions and "realistic" textures layered on top were always really fun to me.

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Think I'm discovering a big part of what makes certain media special to me is the finality of it, even if it ends in mishap. The spirit they capture of their particular moment and the influences that made it. Franchises now have been going on so long they're eating and recycling themselves.

Feels like the last decade of my life with media has been me cutting myself off from endlessly regurgitated franchises and trying to turn to weird and forgotten stuff. I didn't watch the latest Futurama revival. I don't buy remasters. I stopped playing the new REs or Dooms or whatever. I just can't.

I've been studying Kingpin: Life of Crime (1998) , which I always found to be a remarkably beautiful game its immediately apparent that someone on the design team has a cinematographer or fine arts background, the lightmaps are too designed I then remembered that VIKTOR ANTONOV worked on the game

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abiding consentless data theft and the collective lowering of education and consumer standards, higher prices and utility expenses, promises of mass job displacement and unregulated environmental impact in exchange for "being more productive" doesn't make you savvy, it just means you're a mark.

I mean I continue to point out that the people who run this website being utterly in the tank for ~*~Agentic Coding~*~ has not in fact led to vast improvements in the overall quality of the service but it *has* led to them becoming 900% more annoying, so idk why I'm supposed to not hate this shit

dame@dame.is · last wk.

a bluesky user replied to @bsky38.com and said "I don't really want to log into anything powered by Claude AI" dear reader, the Bluesky app is also "powered by Claude AI" 😭