my favorite thing about Onimusha Way of the Sword was how Capcom embodied Toshiro Mifune's physicality & attitude through Musashi's animation, and how you can deliberately slow down the cadence of combat to see the characterization informed from just mechanics
not even rockstar is immune to the dog petting pandering
getting really into VHOLUME thanks to 1000 Eyes' atmospheric score
fucking gutted for japan. heartbreaking. deserved to go far far deeper this world cup
wait guys how does this effect Fitzgerald's dedication to Zelda #noticing
Jake Steinberg@jakesteinberg.substack.com · 2mo agoman, they changed the Star Fox story a LOT in this one
new video essay is live, an attempt at reclaiming the critical dystopia through video game "photojournalism" pick up a camera. find hope in the apocalypse -- LINK BELOW --
"Arc Raiders is a game about hope because I choose to believe it's about hope" "It's about hope because I utilize the full extent of my interactive agency to deny any sense of sociological despair." youtu.be/xGiqZqp5HmU
hope in the apocalypse of ARC Raiders
YouTube video by Cristian Macias
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content ID finally cleared (sorry france and portugal) deny apocalypse. tomorrow. youtube.com/@isoCristian
idk maybe video games need to take a year long hiatus. we gotta rethink some of this
the state of sony first party... idk man felt like a state play made for people that need to have "video games are art" validated by posting 30 second clips of motion capture cinematics
serendipitous required reading for my next video "What makes the madness increasingly incurable is that I want parts of the past that are increasingly incompatible with this iteration of our world. . . eager for the beauty and discomfort of spontaneous human interaction." see you very soon
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 5mo agoPeople are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
feels very cool to be on KOTAKU dot com Lego Batman disarmed my proclivity for cynicism almost immediately the arkham-adjacent combat is good, but it being in service of classic, mission-focused linearity is even better kotaku.com/hands-on-wit...
Hands-On With Lego Batman: The Arkham Sandbox Is Back
Batman: Arkham combat and world-building elevate the classic Lego game formula
kotaku.com
sorry but pragmata is too mechanics-dependent, too level-based, and too tech-anxious for the xbox 360 era claims to take root. that‘s a ps2 game!!!
it’s been an inconsolable day online as a liverpool fan. forever the egyptian king - and the premier league goat - MOHAMED SALAH
3 years ago I started work on a SIGNALIS video essay. It ended up feature length, and subsequently sat on my hard drive as a rough cut. Until today. After numerous passes, I've finally hit publish on The Emotional Horror of SIGNALIS. Hell can be a place of healing.
What lies beyond the threshold? WAKE UP. TOMORROW.
Cristian⚡️@isocristian.bsky.social · last yr.PERHAPS, THIS IS HELL .-. . -- . -- -... . .-. / --- ..- .-. / .--. .-. --- -- .. ... .
we need to have a serious conversation about music streaming platforms giving you a yearly wrapped at the beginning of december. unserious listening going on.
everyone in my postgrad classes keeps referring to these ai chatbots with fucking pronouns and it’s driving me insane. it is not a real person on the other end!!! quit personifying it! stop!!
Clocking in for another day at the take factory. Hope my take is widely accepted yet uniquely agreeable. It must be perceived by my peers, for only then do I hold any value. I will work again tomorrow.
Housemarque boldly asking, “what if The King in Yellow had guns?”
GESTALTZERFALL - ゲシュタルト崩壊 (n): a psychological phenomenon of the parieto-occipital sulcus where complex shapes seem to decompose into their constituting parts when observed for prolonged periods of time, causing delays in recognition and subject disintegration. See also: Agnosia; Ressentiment
i’d rather be europemaxxing* right now *(day drinking and chain smoking through copenhagen)
