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Smash Time Stories follows Pierre & Kayla in an action-packed adventure about finding your place in the world and the legacy you leave behind!
Check it out!
smashtimestories.com
You can also read the comic on here! This thread will link to chapters as they release!
#webcomic
Ugh, it's the middle of the night but I just had an idea of how to expand the Smash Time Stories site and I wish I could just do that right now.
Guess I'll toy with it this week.
I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!!
Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Okay, I really like skateboarding in Switch Sports Resort. Gotta play it more, but it's nice to be able to explore the island from the ground level. It looked like it'd be awkward to control, but it was pretty easy.
Prop Plane is as fun as it was on the Wii.
I think it's beautiful when art effects people so deeply they'll go to these lengths to try to save a particular project, I just wish we had any kind of organized body for creative workers across industries that could funnel this energy into actually supporting the people who created the art
Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece
Didn't realize DC X Sonic: Metal Legion had wrapped up. Just read issue #5.
Yeah man this crossover was peak. The first one was alright, but Metal Legion is soooo good dude.
During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it:
IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!
you don't know how much I've listened to this in just the last few days
Like... it's just the original trailer music but w/ the singer from the final version of the theme. Sure. But why does it *exist* is the bigger question. Was it scrapped? Was it thrown together just for the Nintendo Music drop?
Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day.
Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.
We've cooked up some special items to celebrate Gameoverse's greenlight! Such as this large Kit & Kaboodle statue on a special translucent console + a full body kit pin!
A bit late, but finally watched DBS Beerus ep 2.
God, they really nailed the Goku VS Beerus fight. I feel like this episode alone justified the remaster. They took what was once a mess and made it into a damn good episode.
GOOD life lessons learned from gamedev:
- Savagely hacking down scope is the fastest and most effective way to make an awesome product
- Limitations make you do your job better
- A button or seam in the right place is all you need to turn a character from garbage to fuckable
Life lessons from gamedev:
- Your opinion doesn't matter
- Nobody cares if you want to make a good product
- Defining a process/workflow makes you an enemy
- Job descriptions are for team players
- Fidelity trumps quality
- Well-designed clothing on characters is superfluous
Gonna be very curious how it does. I've liked what I've played so far, and it absolutely feels like a course correction after Switch Sports.
And like, Switch Sports was already a secret hit on the Switch. People dismiss it, but like... it outsold Splatoon 3 by a fair bit, iirc.
I doubt it'll do *as* well out the gate, given it's on a more expensive system.
But having it on the Switch 2 barely a year in? Dude, it's gonna have some legs.
Okay so like, I played DK64 for the first time this year. Played it vanilla, 101%'d it because I genuinely really enjoyed it. It gets too much hate.
64 is shorter so I'm more likely to replay it. BUT, revisiting Bananza for the DK Challenge made me realize how much I love it. It rules.
THAT SAID
I really do feel more people need to re-evaluate DK64. I avoided it for years because of the reputation it built up. Oh no it's the game that's so packed with collectibles that it "killed" a whole genre, it needs a mod to be good
no
No it's just a good game.
Yeah, so stream didn't end up happening. Started working on a 2nd, cleaned-up pass of boards for The Witch's Trial and lost track of time. Oh well.
Definitely gonna do an art stream in the next few days. Either to get these renders done, or for Witch's Trial animation, or just more comic work.
Want to get this 2nd pass done in the next week or so. Once it's ready, this pre-production phase can finally end.
Hardest parts, the stuff that I got stuck on, are all done at this point. Just want to get things refined a bit, with the finalized designs worked in.
using out-of-context freeze frames, animation smears or blurry, zoomed-in screenshots as examples of "bad animation" is a good way to ensure I never take any of your art or animation opinions seriously again
Welp, my biggest anxiety happened. Someone posted a fairly popular TikTok about the same topic as my next video that I’m literally posting to Patreon and Nebula later today 🫠