RagnarRox

RagnarRox

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Video essays on old games, horror games & indie games, or combinations thereof. he/they https://patreon.com/RagnarRoxShow https://tumblr.com/ragnarrox

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Downside of firing my accountant: I am spending a shit-ton of time doing accounting and bookkeeping. Upside of firing my accountant: My accountant can't fuck up by overstating my yearly profit by over 130% to the tax office anymore. 😑

Unbelievable levels of fuck-uppery. Me: "Why am I so broke?" My accountant: "Friendly reminder that you still have to pay as much taxes as your income, gg! 🤙🏻"

I was really on such a good roll with the current video, dead certain that I would have it out long before the end of August, but then a few weeks ago I uncovered that my accountant had been messing my books up so massively that I had to spend the past weeks nonstop untangling this clusterfuck.

This has been real accounting forensics. I found that they had overstated my profit of 2025 by almost 150% (number still climbing as I uncover more and more corpses), meaning I've been paying WAY too much tax. I haven't even started with 2024. It's absolutely insane. 😣

I'm almost through everything time sensitive, so I'm hoping to get back to the upcoming video on Yume Nikki (the script of which I'm super happy with) tomorrow. Thanks for bearing with me 🙏

Just finished the first complete test-watch build that's currently exporting. If nothing unforeseen comes in between, I'll be releasing this video tomorrow!

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It's taken me a *long time* but I'm very very close to finishing my video on Sanitarium. If nothing goes wrong, I'll have it out by the end of the month.

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Just finished the first complete test-watch build that's currently exporting. If nothing unforeseen comes in between, I'll be releasing this video tomorrow!

RagnarRox@ragnarrox.bsky.social

It's taken me a *long time* but I'm very very close to finishing my video on Sanitarium. If nothing goes wrong, I'll have it out by the end of the month.

Well, the test-watch revealed that there was more to fix with the video than I had expected. Made me realize that it still needs a couple more days of polish before I'm happy releasing it. Sorry for the delay 🙏

It's taken me a *long time* but I'm very very close to finishing my video on Sanitarium. If nothing goes wrong, I'll have it out by the end of the month.

So, I'm working on a video on Sanitarium, and like, I've finally finished the script after a good 2 months of continuous work on it. I was hoping to have it finished within May, but given that it's gonna be close to two hours in length... let's see what I can do ^^ Very excited to release this one!

The last video on I Have No Mouth was actually the first "remake" of a very old mini video I made on the game 10y ago. Thanks for the wonderful reception 🙏🧡 For the next one I'm revisiting another old fossile: Sanitarium. And thematically, it's going to be IHNM's sister-essay. I'm cooking here!👨‍🍳

Finally arrived at the finish line of my video on I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Netting 80 minutes in total. And we're going places in this one. Was quite the marathon, but I'm really excited to release it very very soon!

Hoping every day that someone runs a GenAI colorizing algorithm over Andrei Rublev (1966) so I can finally watch it the way Tarkovsky meant it to be watched.

This video on 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' is taking longer than expected because I keep wanting to illustrate things that require me to do tons of menial hand-isolating on crusty pixel graphics and hand-craft some graphics here and there, so... I'm getting there....

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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Currently working on a video on I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (short story and game), and I'm really cooking with this one. It's gonna be a big one, and I genuinely can't wait to finish it!

Excited for the Fatal Frame 2 remake. Always so glad to see Fatal Frame get some love. Hopefully the remake is so good and sells so well that TECMO decides to make Fatal Frame f, a Fatal Frame spinoff set in a New England town.

I'm currently replaying Disco Elysium again. This is my 4th playthrough, and here's 2 little suggestions/observations I want to share: 1. I enjoy the "Classic" voice acting setting over the Final Cut's "Full Voice Over" a lot more. So much of the dialogue is written to be 'read', formatted and...

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2. If you've done multiple runs, try a "cheat run". Save the moment Harry wakes up, then edit the save file to boost all your skills up to 20, so you'll pass every check (save for rolling a double-1). This is super interesting because you get to hear Harry's *full* internal monologue...

Many of the skills have pretty intricate conversations, and many of them you will only see if you have all skills high enough to pass the passive checks. A cheat-run almost feels like its very own way of experiencing the story. Enjoyng it a lot! Just don't do it for your first or even second run.

I'm currently replaying Disco Elysium again. This is my 4th playthrough, and here's 2 little suggestions/observations I want to share: 1. I enjoy the "Classic" voice acting setting over the Final Cut's "Full Voice Over" a lot more. So much of the dialogue is written to be 'read', formatted and...

...segmented specifically for creating an unparalleled reading-flow. The (excellent) voice over for virtually every line in the game slows the game's pace down to a crawl, which—at least for me—completely breaks the game's incredible flow where I can just read, read, read, read. Classic > Full VO ..

According to my estimation it will more likely sell 7 trillion dollars in the first two minutes after launch. Aut no worries: if this goal won't be met, Rockstar can just layoff 25.000 peoplpe and the shareholders will be happy after all.

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