thesummerofmark type video 🦝

New video is on Clive Barker’s Undying, the shockingly modern-feeling first person shooter about a wealthy family that fucked around with the occult and found out youtu.be/ga2brw_K_sI?...

For the last time: all our videos are 100% human made. That voice is MY VOICE. I'm a trained audio engineer with nearly 2 decades experience. GenAI is a curse that rips off artists and both of us think it's derivative, predatory slop. Feel free to clown on anyone that says otherwise. -Bawss

Been thinking about and getting (ir)rationally angry at AI again until it dawned on me that these AI ghouls will never feel the satisfaction of writing a very good sentence. “Uuuh but look at this big titty Garfield I just prompt—“ Silence, dipshit, I just wrote a very good sentence with my brain

“Unique hybrid of city builders and colony management games with underrepresented, hyper localized historical setting, deep simulated systems and beautiful art direction” Looks inside Early access since 2021

this is how catching up on fantasy book series in my 30s feels like. the series debuted in the mid aughts, 20 mainline novels and 5 short story collections deep, and I'm like "haha, that Bayaz guy is kind of a jerk, am I right guys???"

New video is on The Necromancer's Tale, an isometric narrative RPG that chronicles your descent from twink nobleman to lich. youtu.be/X-iLOlCoxKE

Boards of Canada dropping hauntingly beautiful music after a 13 year break feels like the end times are approaching

New video is on Archolos, a full conversion mod for Gothic 2 featuring a new map, story, and improved gameplay mechanics. This video was a lot of work so any RT, share etc would be greatly appreciated See you in the next one youtu.be/nop0IdrZA4w?...

Archolos script is finished. By my rough estimations, it should have a runtime of about an hour(ish). Expect the video to drop sometime in April. Now if you'll excuse me, I have three more books from The First Law series to read

is this a Sopranos reference I noticed in Esoteric Ebb or am I actually losing my mind

I’m on book 6 out 9 (nice) of the First Law series. I’ve been reading nothing else but the First Law for the past 6 months. Say one thing for thesummerofmark, say that once he really gets into a new IP, he can’t stop until every piece of content from that universe has been thoroughly devoured

Esoteric Ebb is something else man

25 hrs into Pathologic 3 and I still feel like I'm BARELY scratching the surface. Probably didn't help that I played 5 of those hours under the influence (hah) of the nastiest flu I had in my 33 years of existence on this earth anyways, here's me debating the dialectics of scarecrows with a child

The biggest improvement Pathologic 3 brought is that The Bachelor is such a pretentious, catty doofus. 8 out of 10 dialogue lines are literally him being like 💅💅💅 Almost makes you forget that it's a game about saving a backwater steppe town from a (somewhat) sentient plague

New video is on Thief 2's excellent second mission, Shipping... and Receiving. See you next year with (hopefully) more videos youtu.be/8rWWEb6UD6U

News Tower might be one of the best tycoon/management games I’ve ever played. Tight, well-paced progression, great setting, and the headline combo system where you combine news stories with the same theme on the page to boost sales is so, so satisfying

Happy Doomsday y’all

None of my videos show with restricted mode on. None. Zero. It's like I never existed on this damn platform. It's not like I make any significant money from YT, but it's pretty depressing seeing 5 years of work thrown in the shitter by an AI that nobody asked for. Very cool, YouTube!

New video is on Thief 2: The Metal Age, the excellent sequel to Thief: The Dark Project. Took longer than I anticipated. Super excited to delve into Thief: The Black Parade and Thief: Deadly Shadows youtu.be/aQpgn-qk8KA?...

I think it's funny how Thief doesn't register as an old game to me - more like a game with retro graphics that just so happens to be 1000 years old

the no1 thing stopping me from writing scripts at full speeed (besides writing in a language I'm not native in) is that Google Docs still doesn't support dark mode natively in the year of our fucking lord 2025

Here's me going through all stages of fear in this clip. Confusion. Morbid curiosity, as I backtrack to search for loot and check the source of the creepy laughter. And finally, "FUCK NOPE NOPE NOPE FUCK THIS" when I realize that the statue is moving. Thief: The Black parade is something else man

after all the mediocre games I've played in the last couple of months only to abruptly abandon, who would've thunk that the one game that will 100% absorb me would be an indie with 90s CRPG aesthetics. skald: against the black priory is a fucking gem

🏆NEW VIDEO!🏆 Eyebrow Cinema's Top 100 Movies The only way to celebrate 100k subscribers. youtu.be/Kvfrp2Xbi6E?...

time to finally give this bad boy a spin

Bro there's no way Drakan: Order of the Flame (1999) came out in 1999

Morning Bluesky. Due to a scheduling fuck up this went live about a week early so enjoy. #retrogames #gaming youtu.be/jh5ypNHoFYM

Thief Gold first draft = done. 6800 words. We are so back

Thief (1998)

I fucking love Thief 2

This is my resume. All of it. Everything. Check it out and then plz, I need a job. nickraven.substack.com/p/this-is-my...

Thief: Gold is such a gorgeous game

👍NEW VIDEO👍 I Didn't Always Love David Lynch My belated tribute to one of cinema's great masters and the long road I took to love his work. youtu.be/tat46lkTTCc?...

waddup Mutt

Man FUCK this and FUCK these greedy, parasitic multinational corporations. You can’t just up and close the makers of NOLF and FEAR. This is not right

Got a new video on FTL, a roguelike game where everything in space is trying to kill you but it's fun, I promise. #gaming youtu.be/bYcEyiOXPi4

When Raekwon said “Sip beers — the German ones, hand my guns to sons” on Mobb Deep’s “Eye for a Eye (Your Beef is Mine)” (1995), RCA Records, I felt that