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Max Mantic

@maxmantic.bsky.social

Artist, video-gobbler, Y2K apologist. He/Him. Websurfing the Forkspace at http://twitch.tv/max_mantic Also running @lowpolyhighres.bsky.social

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Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · last mo.

Adding DLSS5 to videos clearly shows what this slop filter does, as it eliminates the argument of "improving on imperfections in games" some people have. Film is "ground truth", a finished product with an intended look. DLSS5 imagines detail that makes our brain think it's somehow "more real". 1/6

Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why did nobody tell me the new Masters of the Universe actually rocks? It has so many things that on a surface level I would've thought would be awful and yet it manages to be a genuine 80s movie in all the parts that count. By the end I felt like watching The Last Starfighter for the first time. 💖

Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Continuing my hyper-fixation on things almost nobody cares about but also thanks to @badhumans.bsky.social for initiating this further search for anything related to Konami's 1992 X-Men arcade game, I've managed to find most, but not all, of the original artwork used for the cabinets. A thread 1/13

Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've been going through old X-Men comics and I bumped into a couple of familiar panels that appear in Konami's X-Men arcade game end credits. There was no info online on which issues these panels are from so I jumped into the rabbit hole of identifying them all myself:🧵

The unique looking 6-player Konami X-Men arcade cabinet on display, front and center
Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy Birthday @bouphe.bsky.social ! Sending hugs to the little Bouphe back in time to let her know she's always been awesome and cool and special and a lot of people are gonna love her and what she does and she'll have a ton of cats and now brrrwooo back to today hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Bouphe sleeping with a little drool from her mouth while being covered in cats, with Brenda on the left squishing her bum on Bouphe's cheek, Keith sitting on top and resting his human thumb paws on her head and Candice playfully bopping Bouphe's legs .
Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Doing a special birthday stream on Monday, March 2nd at 8 PM CET / 7 PM GMT / 2 PM EST It's gonna be wacky and fun and gonna play a lot of games with a twist so hop on by and say hi and don't forget to bring a fork!

Blue skies with puffy white clouds and floating words saying: Monday March 2nd BIRTHDAY STREAM 8 pm CET / 7 pm GMT / 2 pm EST twitch.tv/max_mantic
Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rummaging through some X-Men comics and found this page where Angel falls from the sky into an old lady's backyard and wakes up, revealing his young Conan O'Brien face.

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Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There is something really fitting in watching the new mess of a Return to Silent Hill movie and realizing that a lot of it was filmed in Serbia and seeing the Military Medical Academy building in Belgrade as a stand in for Brookhaven Hospital, reaffirming that I've lived in Silent Hill my whole life

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Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Seeing (and hearing) Simon Templeman, the voice of Kain from Soul Reaver, in Wonder Man was a particularly nice treat. It's a minor role but always a pleasure to hear him do that crispy thespian delivery.

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Max Mantic@maxmantic.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Love seeing people still having this deep appreciation for the cinematic platformer genre. I wrote a comprehensive (and now very outdated) article on the genre a decade ago and I can see they've touched on some of the same early games (like Dark Castle), good research! Link: maxmantic.wordpress.com

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@patriceb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Une analyse intéressante de Karateka et Prince of Persia de @jmechner.bsky.social par @patrickhellio.bsky.social, @raphaellucas.bsky.social et @hoopyjv.bsky.social. youtu.be/WKXHWu7pJsE?...