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Chained Echoes
The best of 90s Squaresoft RPGs reimagined with modern quality of life improvements and nigh-perfect pacing. I had been hankering for a good RPG in the vein of JRPGs of yesteryear. Chained Echoes was getting good reviews shortly after its release in December, but I hesitated due to it’s impossibly low price of $25. JRPGs…
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Mural Imperative Launches
I’m hoping to start something new with this channel. While I’ve been doing pour painting for a few years, I find the process to be mesmerizing and fulfilling, so I want to highlight and share that as much as possible.
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A Friday of contrasts
“Nostalgia is a yearning that can never be fulfilled” Unknown, but paraphrased by Brad Shoemaker of Giant Bomb Two things happened this week that I’m finding both joy and sadness in. Firstly, the MST3K Kickstarter campaign for season 13 is ending today, and while earlier this week it looked like they weren’t going to hit…
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Spiritfarer
Spiritfarer is a game about becoming a boat-woman for the dead and ferrying them to their final destination. The dead have assumed animal form. You play as Stella, an impossibly bright human who seems more than happy to help these spirits on their journey. She doesn’t deliver dialog, but her face usually expresses how she…
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Google Stadia
Today’s complexities Ecosystem Multiplayer Cost Patching Future planning and cycles How Stadia can change this Cost Streamlined store transactions Subscription model? Problems that go away Multiplayer latency Fluid hardware and Google’s cloud Mitigating input lag and controller pairing New problems Ownership Google Another multinational controlling yet another mass market
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Mountain fox
This started as just a detailed mountain doodle, but I changed my mind and wanted to try and conquer scope. Looking back at the first mountain landscape, it’s way too dark and the lack of definition really hurts in trying to discern the scope. For the background mountains on this one, I had to tell…
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Mountains at sunrise
I bought an iPad Pro solely for Procreate, supposedly THE painting program. It’s pretty good. According to the program, this took 9 hours, and that feels about right. Most of that time was learning the program and trying the different blend modes and brushes. as you can see in the time lapse below (awesome feature).…
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An attempted break to draw
For the last month or so, I’ve found myself easily swayed (mostly by the Giant Bombcast) into buying new, full-price games. Some quick thoughts on those: Stellaris: It started so promising, then the mid-game hit and progress slowed to a crawl for me. It also seem to have performance issues when in combat, which seems bizarrely unoptimized…
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This year’s list of video games I enjoyed in reverse numerical order
I played a few games this year, here’s a list of the best. 6. Batman: Arkham Knight Despite its reported woeful performance, I played this on PC and did not run into issues. It is a gorgeous finale to Rocksteady’s once-innovative series, marred by over-repetitive sections to take down bosses and complete side missions. This…
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“I thought I was Dale” – MST3K is Coming Back!
Joel Hodgson has been teasing a return to MST3K for a couple years now, and last month it appears he finally got the rights to the franchise back. He launched a brilliantly thought out Kickstarter (I write this as it crosses the 12-episode goal of $5.5 million) and got the superfans to come out of…