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my self-inflicted tedium for the first bit of this year has been making a Hollow Knight skin! dm me if you'd like a link to the pngs :]

Knight design is based on wraithcrw's sona, original design is by @moonlitvesper

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hey Motherland was good :(

it really wasn't

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idr how this came up but we were talking about how god-awful the third ED is and decided we should just replace Winry with Scar. I don't draw on model very often but it really was necessitated for The Bit. So here he is.

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getting off my ass and doing 3D again. followed a tutorial here :>

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what are people using for blacklisting now? I haven't kept up and the ancient xkit I still had kicking around on firefox finally just shit the bed on me.

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@dunglizard's wife as a Rocket shiny hunter. tyvm for the commission!!

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that issss enough pre-con work for me thank you

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The "mmmm but also From" of it all is the only thing that keeps me from committing to this (extreme, I get it) idea entirely. The wrestler intro gets the pass from me because it respects my time enough not to spend more than 15 seconds pulling me from my interfacing with the game's systems. It's rarely an exposition monologue, and I can appreciate its spectacle even if I haven't been following along with the optional lore. A little hype treat for the main event.

I recently made the arguable mistake of playing Outer Wilds and BG3 at more or less the same time, which is absolutely coloring my thoughts. One of these games is a puzzle box with none of the traditional signposts for A Story Game. The other desperately wants me to care about its characters and world events, but can offer little more than breathy, context-free exposition monologues and cutscenes that ultimately have very little to do with how I interface with the game. One moved me to tears (which is really a once-a-year-at-best thing for me and a piece of media), and the other I'm struggling to care enough to finish.

I'm cautiously excited about our blossoming understanding of what character and setting and narrative means in an interactive medium.

test-driving a new take that every cutscene represents a failure of game design.

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test-driving a new take that every cutscene represents a failure of game design.

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dunmesh button designs for an unexpected little con this weekend

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Credit to @budgebuttons for the Lust art - fulfilled a dream of 16+ years this weekend because the FMA03 server motivated me to meet Travis and Laura at my local con. Really wild to go from watching them in con videos in 2007 to letting them know I run an 03 appreciation server and have been a fan for close to 20 years!!!

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so @combustiblegarbage enters the group chat on chewsday like "guys I'm meeting Laura Bailey at a con on Saturday I need something for her to sign" and I took this as a Challenge from God. it is now Thursday.

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wisdom

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ur so funny and talented

thank you, anon!

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happy pride to whatever the fuck is going on here

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baw gawd it’s pride again

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verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.