#it was “out of respect for the devs”

[thegalleonsnest]

It still makes me happy that the Bugsnax physical game manual scans still circulates on a regular basis on here. Preservation means a lot to me, and I'm happy I could provide a piece of media that can be accessed and viewed.

Also makes me happy that it's also being added to the new wiki that's still worked on right now! The more widely accessible it is besides my Tumblr posts and Google drives, the better!

[thedreadblog]

Let’s keep this up!

So, in case you weren’t aware:

Name: Trick Weekes

Pronouns: they/them

Additions:

Jin Maley, voice actor for Taash, is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Erika Ishii, one of the four voices for Rook, is genderfluid and uses they/she/he/any pronouns. Gareth David-Lloyd, voice actor for Solas, uses he/him/they/them pronouns. Jessica Clark, voice actor for Neve Gallus, uses she/her/they pronouns. Jeff Berg, one of the four voices for Rook, uses he/him pronouns. Corinne Busche, game director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard uses she/her pronouns.

I've added the ones I could verify on IMDB or their social media profiles. If anything changes I'll do my best to add them!

[tea-n-ink]

Homesickness is where the heart is

[thunderstomm]

The writers at Nickelodeon are obsessed with a very specific brand of enemies-to-friends atm

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[angeltannis]

So apparently Microsoft laid off HALF of Overwatch’s Environmental Design team (aka the people who design maps, do lighting/shadows, environmental sfx, etc), amidst posting record profits from investing into AI. Writing’s on the fuckin wall lmao

[aru-art]

Black dahlias aren't truly black, but rather a very deep shade of crimson. Historically, they represented a warning of treachery and sadness.

Sprouting annually in late spring, these perennials are known to come back time and time again even after succumbing to the harshest winters... 🌱

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sketch absolutely always has to look better than the final thing doesn't it

[shenji-yei-v2]

lmao am I the only one who thinks that Adam Golaski from Frictional Games’ “SOMA: Transmissions” series looks like Toussaint Beaufoy from Frictional Games’ “Amnesia: The Bunker”?

[mel-addams]

Seeing Redfall get absolutely awful reviews is like watching one of your best friends get actively worse because of their possessive partner who isn’t right for them at all

Hey Anon, I'm not sure I totally get your metaphor—I think Redfall is the friend, and reviewers are the partner who "isn't right" because it's not their type of game? But yeah, it does suck to see, and I'm skeptical of a lot of them. So many having short playtimes, and/or criticisms so vague that it's unclear what their actual issue with the game is, feels a little suspicious to me.

I'm not saying the game's perfect—I've had some minor bugs myself, and sometimes when I get to a new area/run far enough it'll freeze for a second as things load—but what big game doesn't launch a bit buggy? There's too many moving parts, and too much variability in folks' computer configurations, there's always gonna be something. I do look forward to some patches to see if it fixes the freezing for me, but I find it playable enough to still enjoy until then.

I also play games for story, rather than gameplay, so that could be another differentiating factor for me. While I do generally enjoy getting story via cutscenes and don't mind loading screens, so I'd also personally have been fine if it wasn't open world, I do also like good written lore and environmental storytelling. There's been some interesting highlighted notes about what the folks in Redfall experienced, some cool in-universe fiction I know Dev's book is out there and I NEED TO FIND IT, and even some not-highlighted written stuff that adds even more to the setting. I've also seen both amusing and heartbreaking environmental storytelling.

For example, in the Shadetree Supper Club parking lot, there's a stack of boards that make a ramp up to a low barrier, with an overturned golf cart on the other side. In front of the golf cart was a bottle of vodka—so someone got drunk and tried to launch a golf cart off a ramp, which failed hilariously. But there's no blood, so they walked away from the attempt. Further on, in the building, you can find a written note (the title's something like "Don't be Afraid #1"), with two sleeping bags set up next to a large bike and a small bike. Are they okay, that adult and the kid they were trying to help not panic about the dentist? I don't know, but probably not, and it breaks my heart. Further in, at the bar, there's two dead civilians—but also a few dead cultists, which you don't see often, so those folks actually managed to hold their own for a bit when the shit hit the fan.

And that's just in that one key area. Sure, there's open space on the roads and forests, plus totally boarded up houses. Given what's been happening in the town, I find all that fitting. But if you take the time to look at the areas where there's clusters of cars, or spot something among the trees, or observe the placement of things while you're inside buildings, or read posters and notes that aren't highlighted? There was a good bit of deliberate attention put into all of that, to show what life was like over the past several weeks in Redfall. (And if you haven't yet, give a go at staring at the in-game eclipse every now and then.) Hell, even the currency is called "support," and the junk you pick up is stuff that would actually be useful for the survivors. So even some of the mechanics are arranged to underline that the point of the story is centered around trying to bolster and save Redfall's community.

There's plenty of story to absorb, and emotions that it can evoke, if you approach it the way they've presented it.

[acgames]

I see not enough people angry that Ubisoft shat one cinematic trailer for AC:Shadows and is asking like 90$ for preorder already...

No wonder AAA game dev companies' greed knows no bounds: their fanbases' stupidity doesn't either...

[spacedlexi]

tlou CRIT/NEG this is abt the new ep and how theyve been treating ellie since pt2 and i cant take it anymore. ellie get behind me

"you have a violent heart" "the only person who can save ellie is ellie. how? Violence." BARF BARF BARF BLEGH AUGH UGH SHUT UP SHUT UP DIES i hate what theyve done to my girl 😭😭

i dont like that they took joel out of That scene.....joel pulling her out of that moment and holding her...them Finally connecting completely...that silence as everything fades away...compared to her having to get up and walk out on her own and basically bump into him... thats so mean to ellie honestly for what 😭 to double down on her "violence" apparently im eating glass (guys is it "violent" to kill someone in self defense?)

plus idk joel being the one to physically pull her away from over-killing david and bringing her back to the moment and reassuring her shes ok...like idk maybe that couldve been Something when in pt2 she goes on a rampage without him. but idk i guess that would go against the whole thing theyve been doing since pt2 where they try to make joel out like a complete corrupting force on ellie (i learned it from YOU, DAD) 🙄 but now in the show theyre doubling down and making ellie more "violent" than she was in the game I HATE IT I HATE IT STOP IT STOP IT SHES ALREADY DEAD

i hate saying anything negative about this franchise at this point because people do not take it well but im just so sad about how theyve decided to treat her. like SORRRYY but ellie was SO important to teenage me..she deserves better. and if i have to hear them say "violence" one more time 😐........

[t1erradelfuego]

web weaving or whatever

[mighty-meerkat]

haven't seen 1899 yet, partly because i'm too busy and still have to catch up on andor, but also because i once had a dream that the bbc tried to recreate comedy central roasts but for like, non-threatening middle-class british actors, and Dev Patel's bit started with him loudly (and affectionately) exclaiming 'ANEURIN BARNARD! What is UP, you PASTY WHITE BITCH?!'

and now that's just in my head.

and it's in your head too.

[ozlices]

what makes wxs the best group actually is that they are clearly diseased bc they are incapable of having a song, even if it’s a cover, where they don’t mention “wonderhoy”, “showtime” or “wonderlands showtime” & u know what? i adore them for that. i love them with my whole heart for that. they’re my wittle diseased scrunkly scrimbly wonderhoys

[vermillioncrown]

im so predictable it's tragic...put a funny little robot in a game and that's my guy. my dude

CNMN is the most character ever, i'd die for him

[melchinafan]

On the one hand, I would like to refute all the supernatural stuff Susan has written here.

[Image text: Susan Burnette's Field Study #1

Susan Burnette Field Study - New Light Ruins

The tragedy of what happened at New Light Village haunts me. Every single child in the village perished. Mother Nature decided it was their time to go, but we don't have to live that way anymore. The wild sokqueatl spirits are here with us. Those kind and gentle souls will use their extraordinary time tunnel power to prevent the storm that wiped out New Light's children.

But every time I try to access the area, there are groups of people trying to intimidate me. They've done strange things to the ruins, like the keys in the trees, cloth draped like cultist activity, odd new structures, and what looks like paint on the angel. They've shouted at me, threatened to shoot me where I stand, tries to scare me off by saying they'll use me for "the blood trance." But I don't scare easy.

End ID]

On the other hand, as a Secret Worlder who has been to Solomon Island, Maine? Well...

[Image ID: the first image focuses on a Sasquatch in a forested area, glancing over its shoulder toward a hollowed-out tree with pale blue glowing magic inside of it. Beyond the forest a strange, dark fog swirls up into the sky.

The second image is inside a rocky tunnel, tree roots breaking through from above and curling along the walls. Further into the tunnel is a glowing, honey-yellow portal to Agartha, with a view that shows it leads to a strange realm with structures organically formed from wood.

The third image is from within Agartha, showcasing some of its many branches that support countless portals. The portal in the foreground shows a view of a building in the real world, indicating the area that it will allow a person to travel to.

End ID]

I'm afraid the only thing I can really refute is the idea that she can make that landslide not happen and the implication that only Sasquatches can go into Agartha to use its "time (and space) tunnels". That's too big of a change and it wouldn't work, even if she could safely navigate far down enough in Agartha to go back to 1904.

(Also a quick note for folks unfamiliar: Secret World Legends includes a staggering amount of creatures and myths, in several locations across the world. Sasquatches only show up a relatively brief amount of time...but you do totally get to mess with vampires later on. And for the Secret Worlders, I absoLUTELY side-eyed the shit out of that village's name for sounding like some Morninglight-type shenanigans.)