meltran

[meltran]

deltarune has two very distinct Ruby Quest references in it so far and i dont think anyone has ever noticed either of them on the public internet. not sure what this means for the world

[meltran]

its been years since i was actively involved with suda stuff, but im finding myself wishing once again that anyone had tried to pick up some of the formal elements of his work, especially tsc. there's a good handful of indie games now that directly signal themselves as suda-inspired, but i think i'd prefer to see some outright stealing of the formal elements. VNs without restriction on where text and images can appear on screen, with each chapter being its own story with its own side cast and art style variations. things like this. it's really surprising nobody else tried doing that kind of thing

[meltran]

the silver case

[meltran]

[meltran]

i wish peoples serious viewpoints were not framed in terms of disgust

[meltran]

[meltran]

[meltran]

everything ever written is canon

[meltran]

neighborhood story (ai yazawa, 1995)

[meltran]

[meltran]

visual novel fans banded together to make sure nobody can ever play the real version of never7 the end of infinity

[meltran]

153

[meltran]

pretty guardian sailor moon (naoko takeuchi, 1991)

[meltran]

[meltran]

how come nobody ever made a game as good as harvester again

[meltran]

social media has been a real boon for masking because it gives you access to an unrelenting 24/7 drip of millions of people's inside thoughts and worst snap judgements. from the moment social media became available i was suddenly armed with vast amounts of knowledge about how people perceive oddness and awkward moments with people like me, enabling me to calibrate (and mostly, restrict) my presentation more than ever before. what in the early 2000's used to be a vague sense of social misstep with no ability to contextualize it became an obsession with understanding, mapping out, and avoiding clashes with the contours of every other person's psyche. it has been hell, i think, for many of us. some things really are better off not known.

[meltran]

Kasumi scanned from Alien 9 character designer/director Irie Yasuhiro’s “20 Seiki Zankyou Roku” doujinshi art book.