Murlin

@murlin.bsky.social

he’s strong and can go to school

microsoft funds genocide, fills their dev pipelines with ai slop and throws all the people who actually make the video games into the street. i cannot imagine, even if you are politically sheltered and just want your treats, ever buying and supporting an xbox game. theres no future here

just saw an unbelievably cool cover for a japanese game from the 90s you’ve never heard of before? don’t get too excited: it is almost certainly mahjong

got far enough into this current simpsons rewatch to see my favorite scene in the entire show. some of the funniest animation they've ever done and dan castellaneta's gutteral "ow... OWWWWWWWWWWWW" wrecks me every time

This is one of the big ones. It's impossible to understate just how influential Kamaitachi no Yoru is. This is a game that shaped Japanese games in the 90s. This group has now done the first two games in the Sound Novel series, and the next one is Machi which I have some opinions about...

1564 Studio@1564studio.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

Had to go on Twitter for a second and saw dipshits blaming Tim Shafer for the Double Fine layoffs and not Microsoft for cutting them loose. You fucking morons THIS IS EXACTLY WHY MICROSOFT CUT THEM LOOSE, so you would blame the wrong people when jobs are lost

In a world of AI slop shortcuts in gaming, I am reminded that for The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, the developer's 60 year old father learned pixelart in MSPaint to help make the game If it matters enough to you, you can always learn too, even at 60

A screenshot from The Friends of Ishikawa, showing the protagonist and his friends loitering under a bridge at sunset A screenshot from The Friends of Ishikawa, showing the protagonist walking with the caption "hold r to be in delinquent mode"A screenshot from The Friends of Ishikawa, showing the protagonist playing pingpong on a rooftopA screenshot from The Friends of Ishikawa, showing the protagonist and his friends lazing around a messy apartment

Got this book today. Flipping through it a bit it’s definitely aimed toward kids but at the same time, I wouldn’t really call it educational content either. Lots of great illustrations of Pokemon though

Pokecology: An Illustrated Guide to Pokemon Ecology