michael

@modality.bsky.social

confidently strutting across various landscapes https://modality.itch.io/

Person who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage

the thing about a book is that it is a powered machine. if you want to stop and think about it, you just do that. you stop putting in the effort to read. with a podcast or video or whatever, this process is inverted. you have to actively choose to stop the playback so you can think

A red flame in Barad-dûr, based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. I wanted the city to look both industrial and unsettling, so I tried to use a real mix of building styles, and avoid too many curves/natural shapes.

A scan of a pen and ink drawing of Barad-dûr, inspired by the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. It shows the moment when Frodo, on Mount Doom, looks towards Barad-dûr and as the clouds part sees a red flame in the highest tower, the only image of Sauron the books give us. The drawing depicts barad-dûr in dense, hatched pen, full of narrow, crowded streets and industrial buildings, shrouded in darkness and cloud. A red pen has been used to mark the flame, the only colour in the drawing.

If you want to hear Smashbash Matt and I talk about Gamma World for two hours (and hearing the fastest, sketchiest version of me recounting Dave Wesley's Braunstein) then you can do that FOR FREE over on the Smashbash patreon www.patreon.com/SMASHBASH/po...

Dissecting White Dwarf - Interlude One | SMASHBASH

The Famine in Far-Go Matt is joined by Ranged Touch co-host & founder Cameron Kunzleman to experience GAMMA WORLD, first edition. We walk ta

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