#Jonathan Blow

[zettaflake]

Listen. Focus. Remember all of what you have learnt thus far. Hear the water drops echo throughout the shipwreck.

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[Inktober: Under the Indie Radar]

Prompt | Day 7: Drip Game(s) | The Witness by Thekla Inc.

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(Y'all aren't ready for what I have in store for the next day :))) )

[hiscursedness]

After the success of Alan Wake 2 it is IMPERATIVE that nobody tells Jonathan Blow that you can put yourself in the game

[squidhominid]

Braid, Anniversary Edition review, 5/25/24

Amazing game. Amazing remaster. Switching back and forth between the old and the new graphics will blow your mind. It looks exactly how you remember it, until you switch to the old graphics and realize how much of that is nostalgia, and how age has not been kind.

Unfortunately, the developers have seen fit to use machine translation for the Japanese version of the game (and possibly others), when the original Japanese translation was very well-crafted. For the commentary, this renders it completely inscrutable as the machine translation cannot intuit the context of what is being said. This renders the game largely inaccessible for a non-negligible amount of its audience. Worse yet, the original Braid has been taken down from sale, meaning new players are stuck with this subpar translation effort.

At bare minimum, a mode should be added allowing for the original, pre-Anniversary Japanese translation (and any other affected translations) to be used. Ideally, this would entail them hiring an actual translation company like 8-4, Ltd. to also translate the commentary, but having the commentary be in English would suffice if the funds for proper localization do not exist, because at least then they would not be shipping the game with a translation that is, to be blunt, patently incomprehensible.

It is absolutely shameful for Braid, one of the most historically important indie games to release, to release in this state. Machine translation offers no value to the people who need it, at best making the game's text wooden and broken, at worst making it entirely inaccessible and incomprehensible. It saves time and money, but it robs localizers of jobs, of work, for no benefit to anyone. This is a game that helped set the early standard for what indie games were and could be. It is art. Art deserves a translation that can convey its weight and meaning, and is equally artful as the original text. And art owes localizers, artists in their own right, the dignity to not have their jobs stolen by subpar, deficient machines that can produce something that at best only sounds accurate, but misses the je ne sais quoi, the message, the heart, of the text.

When taken in Japanese, this is a Braid without its 精髄.

[rydiaroads]

I fucking love this game. I'm watching @supergreatfrien play through it from years ago and it's still so good. It doesn't seem to be on Tumblr much, most of the witness tag is destiny stuff.

I don't know why I love it so much, it's just... pretty and big and oddly enthralling and just makes me feel calm and happy. Even with all the frustrations in later puzzles.

[zentendo]

Braid: Anniversary Edition - Nintendo Switch Release in Question as New Launch Date Emerge

In a surprising turn of events, the highly anticipated Braid: Anniversary Edition, initially slated for release on the Nintendo Switch, has now excluded the portable console from its upcoming launch on April 30, 2024. The game is set to debut on PlayStation, Xbox, Windows, and even Netflix’s subscription service, leaving Switch enthusiasts questioning the change in plans. The official…

[mothmore]

something i am utterly obsessed with is the physical copy of dracula that i recently purchased that has , as part of its foreword , some of the original idea notes that bram stoker had about what dracula’s vampiric powers/traits would be.

one of these is that dracula’s likeness cannot be captured in a painting , he always looks like someone else.

which only leads me to imagine a scenario in which the count lines many of his castle hallways with paintings of himself throughout the centuries but none of them look the same and none of them look like him but jonathan can’t help but notice they all somehow look eerily similar.

he brushes it off , assuming they are simply counts of generations past.

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

jonathan sims in this shirt

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims college band" and "Jon is the secret real past of Jonny D'ville" are both great takes but I present "Jon's descend into an unwilling antichirst figure is The Mecs new album and Jonny plays him in the songs because they just have very similar voices for some reason."

[moonsun2010]

jonathan test (click for better quality)

[zettaflake]

•–< [ Retrospective #5 ] >–• The Inktober 2019 Pile!

Folks, I am pleased to introduce to y'all my proudest relic from my drawing days past... a celebration of my passions and the gateway to all my art going forward. This is my piece for Day 31 of Inktober 2019.

Before Inktober 2019, my first drawings were simply a way to express my growing love for indie games, and a means to make overly ambitious crossovers happen. OneShot, Freedom Planet, Meat Boy, and Hollow Knight, were all some of my biggest crazes at the time, and so was Super Smash Bros, the largest gaming crossover in history. Look at all of these great characters! Who's going to sing their songs overlooked and unite them for the fan service??

Then came Inktober, circling around on Instagram. Seeing the daily prompts, I suddenly thought of putting on a theme by featuring those same indie game characters, no ink required! What would happen? Sash Lilac would pose with a V-sign for her resemblance to a "Ring"-hoarding hedgehog, "Little Ghost" and its shade would "Mindless"ly toy around with a Rubik's Cube, Snatcher would "bait" Hat Kid into the classic bag tied to a tree branch, and Tim (Braid) would pull a matrix and "Freeze" bullets in place!

The doodles started small, but soon evolved to include up to eight characters at once as my creativity skyrocketed. Those doodles will be coming soon with their own Retrospectives :)

For now, I will channel my past giddy self, and test you all on your familiarity with the world of hidden gems.

How many characters from the pile can you recognize?

I still have my big sheet of data from 2019, and the highest score is 40/65! Additionally, 13/65 characters were never identified within the pile! Let me know how it goes, and I'll let you know if you've broken the longstanding records. Now... GO!

(oh, and if you look at the tags to identify the characters... I'll probably know >.>)

[count-skribula]

Love hate relationship

[sic-vita]

Jonathan Bailey - Bridgerton s3 vs Fellow Travelers

[kissingandholdinghandswithmen]

Some things are beyond belief... (info)

[see-arcane]

Immediately after this, (and once Quincey was out of earshot), there was the expected huffing and puffing and I Am the Master of This Castle and These Mountains et cetera, et cetera.

Jonathan tried to ride it out in nodding noncommittal silence.

Mina, devoid of even a fraction of a fuck to give, agreed yes, of course he was. But out of curiosity, when was the last time he attended to anything to do with his title or its duties in the last, say, twenty years? She seems to recall someone of more maturity stepping in to manage every iota of the work while the Master of the Castle was busy with the terribly trying labor of, let her check her notes, strutting around being impressed with himself. Is it not so?

Dracula, doubly pissed, ready to erupt and go full Monster Mode, slipped into a fuming villain monologue--

And his voice cracked.

Jonathan was stone-faced, but white-knuckling his armrest. Mina's psychic laughter could shake the Carpathians. Quincey popped his head in to ask what's the matter, did something happen? Notably, with a pubescent pitch not that many octaves removed from the Count's.

That night was full of thunder and the next family dinner saw the Count grousing that he had no appetite tonight. Or the next. Not until he was iron grey, for some reason.

Jonathan, meanwhile, found his shaving kit mysteriously returned. Plus enough shaving lather to last a decade.

Consider this a cap to this bit of nonsense. Scruffy Winter Mode Jonathan has to get back to his clean-shaven self somehow.

Final apologies to @ibrithir-was-here, thank you for putting up with the shenanigans

(Note: If you haven't jumped on the Blood of My Blood AU, you're missing out. One of the tastiest Dracula Bad Ending stories-in-progress I've ever come across.)

[mintyeggs]

i dont think jon has made a single good decision this entire series!!!!

stop gay boy stop!!!!

[suspendingtime]

Anthony whacking his weapon after trading blows with Benedict.

BRIDGERTON 2.02 'Off to the Races'