hard drive has simultaneously never been so well maintained or so full, because i keep having to remove bloat to fit more dragon's dogma 2 footage. if i ever have a video go wide i am immediately purchasing a storage bay lmao this sucks

a nice thing about doing a walking tour style video is that most of the like...outlining/structure is determined by the route you take through the game. what part of the video comes next? the next place you went in the game, dumbass.

dragon's dogma 2

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video 1 is a walking tour of the version of Dragon's Dogma 2 available in the week before the release of Dark Arisen. it is effectively a Goodbye to the flawed but fascinating original dragon's dogma 2. video 2 is about BOTH dark arisens and is more about why i personally love the series so much.

Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat@rawrmom.bsky.social · 2d ago

Asking because I'm out of the loop, is this second one including Dark Arisen?

so glad i'm immediately following up the video on dragon's dogma 2 with another video about dragon's dogma 2 (on hard mode), a completely different video game

too much dragon's dogma 2 in my computer can't fit any more dragon's dogma 2

that's a wrap on the main story. did a loony-tunes bit and it made raghnall so mad that he just gave up on fighting me

kinda like a thesis driven walking tour.

the gyrados of hot women@renorraven.bsky.social · 5d ago

going well.

going well.

the gyrados of hot women@renorraven.bsky.social · 6d ago

working on a video

working on a video

currently in the middle of being told that the entire service request page on an appliance company's website is an AI hallucination after we purchase a fridge from them that broke in two weeks. i love the future

wow the FF Resonance UI looks bad. we should've never taught gamers about partial transparency.

reject modernity and embrace tradition meme but its subtitled voice acted cutscenes and textboxes

to briefly clarify what i mean here: take a look at this cutscene from FFVII Revelation: youtu.be/iC5rCUg1av4?... every one working here is talented. the voice actors, the animators, the writers. but the moment-to-moment pacing and composition of the scene is uh. its bad.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation NEW Gameplay Demo PS5 (PlayStation State of Play)

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the gyrados of hot women@renorraven.bsky.social · last mo.

full v.o. also currently implies some level of performance capture OR hand-animated faces; which, despite the many many many advances in graphics tech, just are not at the level of quality required to elevate dialogue without killing pacing---even with strong vocal performances.

i actually think the problem is full V.O., for many many different reasons. it not only balloons production scope, but it also frequently grinds narrative pacing to a halt. especially for dialogue heavy games! if they're this skippable; many of these cutscenes could have and should have been emails.

eric van allen@seamoosi.bsky.social · last mo.

okay i'm sorry but the 1.5x speed watching brainrot has gone too far if we're now doing playback speed for video game dialogue

i fucking hate UE5 lmao. i do not need to know what an overworked 35 year old thinks the skin and clothing texture of a 23 year old looks like. i just don't.

launching a new website where i tell you which video game reviewers are Fake and which are Gay

it is a real tragedy that we are not all constantly talking about Prominence, a modder for the solo-dev tactics RPG Horizon's Gate, who has almost singlehandedly produced an entire second video game's worth of content; seemingly unprompted. a just industry would never shut up about people like this.

i fear that if i publicly state the way i feel about video game reviews; that they will put me in a facility. i will be placed inside of a Sphere

ty to suriel for reminding me to also plug my consultancy services. i *also* provided feedback on MS2 among other things recently. i really, really love providing feedback on in-development projects and do so at competitive rates! (particularly flexible for indie devs)

Suriel Vazquez@suriel.bsky.social · last mo.

You don't get public credits often in consulting, so it's nice to get one every once in a while. Thanks to the team at @playstack.com for letting me consult on Mortal Shell 2, along with some other cool folks!

[workshopping a joke for the worst video essay you've ever seen]: do we think that microsoft sam contributed materially to the iraq war

AHEM. i had what i would describe as "a housing emergency" which delayed the difficulty series A Lot. thankfully, i am submitting three shorter video scripts to my editor later today. i will not give firm dates yet but expect those sooner than you may think!!! i will reveal 2 of the 3 draft titles.

also if you ARE submitting, new for this year: I wrote up a detailed guide for the actual submissions process! (and am now reposting this post bc I fucked up the link the first time) auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

microsoft (evil) will keep doing this for as long as they have dozens to hundreds of consultants constantly telling them that their only path to profitability is through downsizing internal teams and outsourcing development to large 3rd party studios like Keywords.

what if one of them was rendered into tallow

the gyrados of hot women@renorraven.bsky.social · 4mo ago

i think that, to maintain the spirit of the Wacky world cup we're having, one of the england players should explode on the pitch like a baseball struck bird

let me just say: i would Personally be cautious about reporting about situations for which there are likely ongoing negotiations. especially when those negotiations will be heavily influenced by the public perception of the parties in question.

i think that "we need consoles because they are plug and play" is part of how we got here in the first place. consoles have never been frictionless game machines. they have mechanical parts. they break! sometimes you need to blow on a cartridge or clean a disk or even replace a disk drive.

really appreciate the sympathy and listings people have sent so far! and if you need writing, research, interviews, or editing in the near future I will have a lot more time starting in August to take on more one off projects.

autumn wright 🍂@autumn-wright.com · 3mo ago

just sent the email ending the lease at my apartment of 4 years to move next month AND got word I'm losing my part-time editing job that's covered my cost of living for 3 years so uh hey who needs a copy editor?