GP

GP

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a thing I keep noticing: people saying that a studio is just a name, it's not the same people who made the thing they loved. but then you look it up and like, most of the people in the key creative roles had worked on their series for decades.

like I think it's true that the particular makeup of a team and the creative output that comes from that is really sensitive, but when I look up credits I haven't found an example of a studio being like, completely ship of theseus'd between sequels or something

Learning from culture war echoes that there's people just finding out about 'bisexual lighting' and that they think it was part of an earnest The Gay Agenda project is killing me- we truly live in different worlds.

OK why is this STILL the case

GP@mousefountain.bsky.social

Throwing a line into the dark here but why is Albino Frog Software, Inc. the top researched company on Mobygames? I know them for Helious, a mysterious DOS shareware game I played as a child that the readme claimed was literally left on the author's computer by an extraterrestrial doppelganger.

Living in the slop era is making it very conspicuous that art being treated as a churn of contextless, interchangeable content, not rooted in any way, with the audience themselves being made of isolated consumers, has been the problem for a while and the generative llm shit is just an accelerant.

Cosmic horror crackpot conspiracy theory that all human civilization is a parasitic vessel for yeast and we were made the first time somebody cooked bread

Confirmed that the dude just really liked putting the outline, the highlight, the drop shadow, and the little speckly lines on things, huh

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart.bsky.social

Surreal Moebius artworks

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poe and her giant troll wīf and a demon infused apple fresh from the garden

So as it turns out, the textures are all just stored as .bmp files so I can take a good look at them pretty easily! It's an interesting style. They mostly seem to be pre-rendered with the lighting baked in but the details are fairly crisp.

GP@mousefountain.bsky.social

I am loving the textures in this