#Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

[paokai]

[ellevandersneed]

TODAY AT 4:30PM BST

Gonna be streaming... <<<DARK MESSIAH: OF MIGHT AND MAGIC>>>

come hang out at: twitch.tv/elle_kiwami

[krjpalmer]

Computer Gaming World April 2006

Although the cover of this issue is a bit cut off on one side, it still manages to mention the recent "machinima" phenomenon.

[xanadarkmessiahfan]

[vabgames]

В Сети появились скриншоты «ремастера» Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

wiltOS Technologies поделились изображениями Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, в котором применены передовые технологии от NVIDIA – RTX Remix. Этот ин��трумент не только значительно улучшает визуальное восприятие классических игр, но и дополняет их трассировкой лучей и DLSS.

[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: Cheat! - Touch Blackjack, Get Lucky | 12/15/06

Bursting with know-how and can-do.

(4GTV - STREAM WHAT YOU PLAY! WATCH NOW!)

[alwaysdevilday]

KICKAPALOOZA 2023 resumes tonight with more Dark Messiah of Might & Magic!

Hope you stop by~ 👈👈

[battlespirebitch]

i know nothing about heroes, but has anyone else played dark messiah? the combat in that game is fun as fuck, just like kicking boxes at shit all the time.

Still eepy from yesterday, so here's a low effort meme

[sonpat-rides-again]

Game: *has dedicated kick button*

Me:

[energyprison]

you guys have no idea the sort of finger i have on the pulse of indie games. like two-three years ago i was sittin around thinkin "were gonna see a big resurgence in games with big strong kicks" based purely on the sorta vibes i was gettin from the ether

[paokai]

[ellevandersneed]

i think source might be the best video game engine

[devileaterjaek]

[xanadarkmessiahfan]

[dingodad]

Can you talk about what you think of gamzee for a bit? I think out of all the characters, he's the only one I've never understood.

to a certain degree this goes without saying for Homestuck villains but Gamzee is a perpetuator of cycles. he takes out the frustrations instilled in him by his upbringing - which is tragic to a comical extent even on a planet where all children are raised by wild animals - by exerting the same sort of patriarchal abuse upon those around him that initially led to his neglect, and he takes this so far as to literally become the guy responsible for Alternia's patriarchal hegemony in the first place: firstly and figuratively by perpetuating the cycle of neglect upon his son Caliborn, and then by bodily becoming one with Lord English. such is Gamzee's relationship with Lil Cal; a ventriloquist's dummy is merely a puppet you project your own thoughts into. even when it might superficially appear as if Gamzee is being 'controlled' by his god, just as with Dirk, his interactions with Cal are only conversations with a version of himself. that Gamzee is able to identify the Mirthful Messiahs as being "both me. :o) [and] MOTHERFUCKING ME. Do:" is pretty near-explicit acknowledgement of this, and more subtly an acknowledgement of Homestuck's broader themes of projection and manifestation.

perhaps a bow can be drawn between this and his role as the Bard - classically, a poet charged with keeping tradition and the historical narrative alive by remembering and reciting the epics. such "ROWDY AND CAPRICIOUS MINSTRELS" are key to Gamzee's religion, and it's when his understanding of these religious prophecies are challenged that Gamzee seems to become the most disturbed. upholding these core spiritual precepts / alpha time loops is even the purpose of his magical abilities: a "chucklevoodoo" should be thought of as essentially another name for a "juju", an enchantment so powerful, an idea so crucial, that it is believed to have no beginning or end, thus having simply existed forever. Lil Cal, a juju by name, is born from Gamzee's chucklevoodoos in this manner, but the same process is enacted in the abstract upon John: Egbert's fear of clowns is what leads to Jack Noir infecting the trolls' session, so Gamzee punishes him by inflicting him with that fear of clowns to begin with. he simply manifests those things that have always been there, hiding in the dark, all along.

largely separate to this, a newer line of thinking I've not really discussed before: it seems to me that being a "faker" is also key to Gamzee's character. in Homestuck's eyes, the comedy inherent in the concept of the Insane Clown Posse is exactly the same reason that "a white guy who is a rapper with a ventriloquist doll is not cool by any stretch of the imagination" - it's lame when white guys pose as 'hood', and with this in mind it seems especially charged that Gamzee's facepaint-wearing cult all venerate a group of figures referred to as "minstrels". per malo, Karkat's assessment of Gamzee as "AN IDIOT IN MAKEUP" can be parsed as transmisogynist slur, and the neverending attention drawn to his codpiece obviously serves to throw Gamzee's figurative manhood under scrutiny: drag and minstrelsy both are indispensable chapters in the history of modern clowning, and as the "wildcard role" the Bard is suited to pretending in any of these roles. but there is also the sense that, in his role as voodoo-storyteller, Gamzee has the ability to make the fake real - or at least, to obfuscate or outright ignore the difference between the two - through psychic manipulations or otherwise. whether Gamzee is 'really god tier' or not, for instance, becomes essentially a moot point when the author asserts that clowns have their own version of immortality "for reasons that basically don't make any sense." the Bard is able to embody the role of a god simply by putting on the costume.

[g4zdtechtv]

Unskippable #39 - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (10/5/09)

That evil lair clearly ain't up to code.

(SUB TO LRRVG)