Brian Swetland

i promise to stop posting the minute i have 1 billion dollars

On one hand, Alan Wake 2 is on sale for $15 and I love Remedy's stuff, but on the other hand it's exclusive to the Epic store and Tim Sweeney is working overtime this week to remind everyone what a miserable, hateful little shit of a man he is, which is making me think I may have to give it a pass.

Le Carre at the Stadium

It amazes me that the developers of Slack and Discord both have no clue what the point of "ignore" is. Dropping a big "somebody you're ignoring posted a message" in chat every time they post (and notifying you of it): obnoxious and not helpful.

The only thing funnier than Maomao messing with Jinshi is it backfiring on her... #Anime #TheApothecaryDiaries

unbelievable how many developer-hours have been wasted over the years because json doesn't allow trailing commas

We really need to reorient the flows of capital in the gaming industry so we feed some central mass that isn't an all-devouring black hole like EA or Microsoft; and instead is a kind of thing that wants to make games, so we get a sun of our own to light the solar system of games.

Bioware games are great because of story. That's it. They made it their mission early on to be the best storytelling games in the industry, with a single-minded mission to truly advance the state of the art of branching dialogue and the sense that player's actions have consequences.

Check out my friend and coworker Frank’s new epic space rock animatic!! youtu.be/LrIuGnG52ok?...

Announcing Caves of Qud: Diaspora. 🌱 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5249200/...

You'd think that upon learning that writing an app store / launcher / installer that works well is hard, one might decide to actually staff such a project with excellent engineers (possibly even with direct domain experience)... but super genius here goes with "let's let the slop machine do it!"

The wizard checks the runes on the little cat's collar to make sure they haven't faded or worn out.

Anybody know if there are settings for screenshots on the Steam Machine somewhere? Recently all my screen shots are 1280x720 even while the display resolution is 1920x1080, even on games that would screencap at 1080p previously. #Gaming #SteamMachine #GabeCube #Help

This is a very funny image to include in a peer-reviewed article, I'm glad the authors got it through.

I'm really enjoying Echo Weaver, a metroidvania that's based on time-loops and knowledge based unlocks of access to new map areas. 2-3 hours in and having a blast. store.steampowered.com/app/2184080/... #Gaming #EchoWeaver #Metroidvania

saw someone post this on J-Twitter and I need it on a shirt so desperately x.com/b809/status/...

our biggest failure as a species is that we didn't put any videogames on the voyager golden record

#Anime #YumeMita #YunoSengoku

Sometimes the cheerful, bubbly ones just hit their limit. #Anime #YumeMita

The HTML draft standard and Mosaic arrived during my junior/senior year of high school and I didn't actually get exposed to the WWW until I was a college freshman... I did write HTML by hand for a personal website in 1995 (hosted on my workstation at NSCA SDG, not Geocities though).

If Alan was poor little meow meow in AW2 then Dylan is a sad puppy. A sad, 34yo killer puppy who's probably the most powerful being on earth. #ControlResonant #ControlResonantFanart #annikART #DontEatTheMold

Quick reminder. Do not eat the Mold. #ControlResonant #Gaming

Finding dog toys and fighting vending machines. #ControlResonant #Gaming

Not quite the money shot, but I’m never here anymore so I’ll post it anyway.

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

The Board approves of Fast Travel. #ControlResonant #Gaming

1992 POV-Ray can still render pretty well. Here's default-settings 1280x960, on DOS.

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

sayonara lara episode 11

It's not fair that we didn't get a Mari & Gon-chan slice-of-life side series or even a few webisodes or something! #Anime #SayonaraLara

AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩

I used to think Call of Cthulhu was a little optimistic about the number of death cultists that exist in the general population. I also thought the MCU was a little over the top with its Nazis in congress thing. My life has become the single ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough.

Happy Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Remake Day to all those who celebrate. Also Happy Cirno Day! store.steampowered.com/app/4659620/... #Gaming #EmbodimentOfScarletDevil #TouHou

recoiling in horror every time this oily haunted porcelain doll turns to face the screen. dropping the controller and voicing an involuntary bark of alarm

I'm not really sold on the "realistic-ish" visual style in the OOT remake (even though I don't have terribly strong nostalgia for the very rough early 3D graphics of the N64), but it isn't quite as jarring in motion than in the stills I've seen posted, I guess... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFf...