Ex-video producer at Giant Bomb and Silent Hill doofus. She/her/they. Bi. 'Tistic. Displaced NYer. Editor/sound designer/neurotic Plasmoid on
@Skulltenders
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Every person who is a tedious disagreement guy who doesn't follow me, I mute. My life has been so much better since this rule. Boy is it a daily rule here tho. follow me on Bluesky instead please
Worst ending: They don't find the sub at all. Unsatisfying, will result in awful conspiracy theories
Best ending: They find the sub. Unbolt it from the outside. Open the door.
There's absolutely nothing in there.
Exciting, will result in the good kind of conspiracy theories.
The sumo fandom is currently obsessed with this mysterious and ghostly woman, sitting in perfect seiza posture in the exact same seat every day of the November tournament, with new gorgeous outfits each day. For hours, she hardly moves. I love her lol
Back in 1990, Japan adapted the 1988 cartoon series "Garfield and Friends", but renamed the show to "ラザニャンのパーティー" or "Lasagnyan's Party", Lasagnyan being a combination of Lasagna and Nyan, and a regional nickname for Garfield.
Silent Hill Ascension is absolutely written by A.I. and I cannot be convinced otherwise. This random NPC pops in, declares he's berry hunting, says he's seen weird shit and does not expound on it, provides no information, leaves for more berries. Goodbye forever, BerryMan
Hbomb told me some months ago that he made a discovery for this video that literally made him scream and boy did I scream too when it showed up in the vid lmao
Hot Take: Not only is not addressing the Activision stuff at The Game Awards wrong, but I also don't think games made under life-threatening crunch conditions should be allowed to win Game Awards because it will just incentivize more labor violations in the future
I have a feeling this was originally advice for food photography, where glue is often used for dairy products, but that's me giving an unrealistic amount of benefit of the doubt
Im high please dont be mean to me. I hope very much that I made sense to and it was a spooky fun time. goodnight. sorry I'm still talking about the sub
There's a reverse Chekov's Gun in Saw 6 where Jigsaw points out a tank full of piranhas in a future victim's office and then DOESN'T USE PIRANHAS IN A TRAP LATER. I propose this phenomenon be called "Jigsaw's Piranhas." I don't care if there's already a term for it. Mine's better
"Pray tell me something, Zagreus. How is she lately, hm? Eurydice, I mean. Her hair, fall colors, or full bloom? Her poise, as proud and supple as the oak?"
"The remake won't destroy your access to the original Silent Hill 2!! Just play the old one then, idiot"
Okay I'll just play the HD collection- wait that one sucks
Okay I'll just get the PC versio- oh it's abandonware and needs mods
Options left: 20yo consoles and emulation
3 theories, from most to least likely:
- gonna sell the OG costume as DLC
- some bad copyright advice (the original outfit is just Christina Aguilera's at the Teen Choice Awards)
- some misguided sexism reason (either to avoid or cause rage bait for attention)
Not a fan!
America fuckin sucks lol. Every day a new nightmare piles up on all the other existing nightmares. Tax dollars spent building increasingly larger jails for non violent offenders, in order to have technically legal slave labor. Stupid cartoon bullshit, I hate it here
Boy I got a lot of ignorant fucksticks in my mentions being like "the REAL reason ppl don't like Sonicfox is because he brought politics into a gaming ceremony" lmaooooo my dude we live in a world where Pewdiepie just endorsed a nazi YT channel, shut the absolute fuck up
Told my dad that I'm interested in the new StarWars now because of the racist backlash and he told me about when he saw Empire at the Zeigfeld in '80. When Lando showed up, the guy behind him scoffed and snarked to his friend "Even in space??? Jesus christ."
MY HUSBAND GOT A JOB AT REMEDY GAMES AND WE LIVE IN FUCKIN FINLAND NOW WHAT THE HELL (sorry the pic is basically of a Finnish Walmart instead of something more impressive lol)
It was a serious dream come true and total honor to work with all the folks at
@giantbomb
! I never srsly considered it would ever happen to me! I'm available for any other dream jobs, like Capybara Tender, editor on
@mega64
, or someone who is paid to live in Japan for some reason
Man when it comes out that some of this thing was A.I. generated y'all are gonna owe me SUCH an apology.
And if it turns out this is 100% human, I am STILL owed an apology because what the fuck is this lmao
i want to eventually do an autopsy of silent hill ascension because it's fascinating how badly it fucks up nearly every aspect of audiovisual storytelling
Rewatching Deep Space Nine and this bad bitch just showed up!! Not just the best antagonist in Star Trek but perhaps my favorite antagonist of all time. And her first appearance is trying to get religion into schools and censoring factual material, god this bullshit is timeless
Hey, like... I just wanna say that as the newest member on Giant Bomb: I know this is a scary change, but this is still my dream job! I'm not here because of a solitary person, GB is much more than that! I'm still so proud to work here and have faith in my coworkers' talents
Pyramidhead's designer losing his shit at Silent Hill misinformation (the devs had no knowledge of Centralia PA, it's snow and not ash falling) with increasing gusto and frequency as his English has improved over the years has been such a wonderful metamorphosis to behold
tbh I'm more mad at this than my own laying-off. Almost made TEN YEARS. A guy that relies on employment-based health insurance. Didn't even get a 2 week notice. How do these corpos sleep at night? Everybody better support Jason like crazy
I've been Let's Playing the series for over a decade
I have interviewed the developers, localizers, and actors of the series
I'm on the wikipedia page for P.T. and in the credits of Book of Memories
I'm not the New Generation, friend. 💀
Literally only 3 things ever happened. OJ Simpson, Columbine, and 9/11. My heart is with modern kids and teens for having to live through so many constant traumas
Remember when JK Rowling revealed the names of magic schools in other countries and the one for Japan was literally just called “Magic Place” in Japanese. Very cool
Star Trek has a history of having a character on the crew who symbolically represents one major aspect of autism:
Spock = focus on logic
Data = "robotic" behaviors
Odo = strong sense of justice
7 of 9 = being extremely fucking hot
Some Millennials: Kids these days have the shittiest sense of humor. It doesn't make any sense, it's random bullshit.
Those same people in the early 2000s:
"Ever wonder what "the rest" of the background is in the Mona Lisa/Nighthawks/Starry Night?" Not really, dude.
Kind of a big thing with art is that it's a curated presentation. The artist made a decision that the background ends there in the work, because more doesn't matter.
A well-received horror game has been pulled from Steam, its reviews bombed, and its trailers deleted from Youtube due to mocking a politician
Can't wait to see the "DON'T CENSOR MY VIDEOGAMES" crowd mobilize over this one! Go get em! Pretend it's a boob that got covered up! Go!
Heard a lil guy outside and found a little guy outside???? He's way too friendly, very much bracing for him to be chipped cuz you are KIDDING me with this affection lol
Gee whiz, I have a video essay about the very topic of how it has gotten more difficult to guide players with visual cues as graphical fidelity has increased! The more realistic-looking the game, the more cartoony and contrasty guideposts seem!
Just to nip it in the bud, no need to try to figure out who this woman is! Doxxing is always a shitty thing to do!!
I miss when the internet was more about admiring/gawking from afar rather than an unending quest for more info that nobody actually needs to know lol
Anyway, it'd be cool if Chris Pratt wasn't cast as Mario not only for "lol wtf this is BATSHIT casting" reasons, but also because he's a member of a seemingly anti-LGBTQIA+ evangelical megachurch that courts famous ppl in a way that reminds me of scientology a tad! Mama mia!
step 1: put this in your twitter search: "from:YOUR_HANDLE min_faves:1000"
step 2: POST YOUR BANGERS
wow i forgot about Garfield's Japanese name being amazing
"Ah, so you're saying all the effort/pain of those poor devs shouldn't be rewarded" They already aren't rewarded. The artists and programmers and riggers don't get tiny little award for themselves. The company that forced that on them is rewarded
The Super Mario Bros. movie should be considered canon.
All these spicy meatballs and some maybe strange gaming opinions and analysis arrives fresh out of the oven in our new series,
@VoidBurger
's Hot Takeouts
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The deluge of love and supportive comments has been genuinely staggering, folks <3
And ANGER!!! I didn't know y'all liked me enough to be mad as hell for me :') As a NewYorker, that's a real deep level of love that I value more than most sorts lol.
Real ones, all of you
People-watching is another fun aspect of watching sumo wrestling! There's a lot of regular characters in the crowd that are always a joy to see. RIP to Olympics Ojisan, who was often spotted in front-and-center A Box seats </3
@PrismaticOwl
Rumors are flying about who she could be based on how good she is at maintaining that seiza! Ex-geisha? Tea ceremony lady? Royalty? Celebrity? Those front-row-ish seats are usually reserved for celebs and patrons of the sumo heyas....
"Whoa aren't you scared/dumb to move internationally for a job in the increasingly tumultuous games industry?" you may ask. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU that Remedy isn't majority owned by an evil corporation AND there's labor laws in Finland effectively preventing mass layoffs 🇫🇮🤯
Don't read the bluechecks or the QRTs
I, for one, appreciated the project, despite not agreeing with everything that went on with it (anyone who thinks this is a "gotcha" is stupid). It was important that it happened. The backlash alone proved gaming had (& still has) a problem
I'll never emotionally understand how Americans are so individualistic, so "fuck you got mine", so uncaring to their fellow citizens, to the point that they don't see how they're ruining society. A society that doesn't support any betterment of itself is fuckin pointless
That scene in Spider-Man where the NYers are carrying Peter Parker in tragic solidarity but it's NYers carrying this thing to chuck it in the East River
I got written up for crying in a meeting once, because I was desperately trying to keep "we're like a family🙂" out of a shitty video I was producing. Nobody believed me that it's a red flag phrase
Happy to report even Final Fantasy Rebirth knows this, makes fun of it. Fuck you!
Something that makes the submarine stuff better is that there's no internet in that thing, so if they're alive they got no idea how much people are making fun of them. If alive, they're totally like "they're gonna make an Apollo 13 style movie about us when they rescue us, guys"
lol hi i'm on IGN for pointing out this game's writing is inhumanly bad, an observation biting enough to get the CEO man to go "Nuh-uh!!! :( It's HUMANLY bad, we swear"
THANK YOU everyone for the extremely warm welcome to the Giant Bomb main cast!!! I'm light-headed!!! And I have another onboarding Zoom meeting to go to lol aaaaaaa
I visited Finland and saw a small group of like 70-90 year olds at a cafe just... *hanging out*??? Playing some sort of checkers-like game?? and thought "in America they would all be practically forced to be WalMart greeters until too feeble to drive to work"
The culture of seniors congregating in public spaces is non existent here due to their reliance on cars for social mobility. Most seniors are isolated because the built environment we created made it that way. It didn’t have to be like this.
The butt on the protagonist of Justice is incredibly fucked up. It's not just wedgie-like, it looks like his asshole has a strong gravitational field that's sucking his jeans up into itself.
Ah, if only the phrase "ethics in games journalism" wasn't completely poisoned and useless, now that we've got a really fraught actual ethical issue ongoing in regards to why/how to/should we cover a game whose creator is reprehensible towards a certain minority 🙃
NEW: White supremacist Richard Spencer says his life is in shambles. His wife left him, he’s a social outcast, he goes on trial next month for his role in Charlottesville and cannot afford a lawyer.
I was saving this image to QRT for when this All Hands Meeting finally happened but hey! I've been laid off!!! So I'm free to edit videos, host things, play games, and be a little (tall) weirdo on your content lol
I don't know which fake trivia about Silent Hill is more annoying:
- That the games are based on Centralia, PA
- That SH2's stiltedness and bizarre acting was 100% intentional, and not mostly the result of it being hard to find English-speaking actors in Japan in the year 2000
Really weird to see people saying "A SILENT HILL SLOT MACHINE?? KONAMI, THIS ISN'T WHAT THE FANS WANT!!" as if Konami is, in any way, making something that is for Silent Hill fans. It's for gamblers with a vague, surface-level recognition of the brand.
When I don't renew my
@artinstitutechi
membership for the first time, it's because AIC desecrated "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The erasure of Ross's memory and Gonzalez-Torres's intent in the new description is an unconsciable and banal evil.