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I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b)
• insensitive to music (38b)
• despises death and the dead (38b)
. is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b)
• can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b)
• cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b)
• can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4)
• sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4)
• has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16)
• named "Count Wampyr" (1)
• can determine and prove if people are sane (24)
green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)

i got mugged at shotgun point. the cops arrested the wrong guy, hustled me out of court at the hearing when i said ”that’s not the guy,” told me “you didn’t see him,” made me do a lineup at the prison and when i said “that’s the guy i saw in court, still not him” told me “it’s OK, he’s a bad person”

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

The last time I watched Roadhouse it was a sunday afternoon movie edited for early 90s channel 5 so watching the full version now I have to say this shit gets raw as hell in the final act. Not to mention the bear on bear violence.

this is one of my favourite things to do with mobygames and it's why I submit credits for indie games to it fairly regularly. you can learn a lot by tracking career trajectories or comparing staff between sequels.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

What does it mean when we say a game studio is responsible for multiple games over many years? Can we really say the artist is the same each time? https://kotaku.com/when-is-retro-studios-no-longer-retro-studios-2000717235

It’s weird that every time we hear about layoffs we also hear reports of “oh, but they’re also working on x game!!” Get excited for Quake and Fallout! From development teams that have been completely destroyed!

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.