Primate Typings: The Tumblr

Hidden object games are a fascinating demonstration of the arbitrariness of genre as a marketing tool because sometimes a game with "hidden object" on the cover is basically a digital version of Where's Waldo, and sometimes a game with "hidden object" on the cover is a full-featured point and click adventure game that just doesn't call itself that because its target audience is your middle-aged mom and the phrase "adventure game" doesn't sell for that demographic, and there's absolutely no way to predict from looking at the promotional material which of those it's going to be.

And then every few years the games industry goes "ADVENTURE GAMES ARE DEAD AND HAVE BEEN SINCE THE 90S AND NO ONE HAS MADE ONE IN YEARS! LOOK AT WHAT A STRANGE RETURN TO FORM OUTLIER THIS ONE THING WE'RE RELEASING IS."

Yeah, it's long been my contention that the preponderance of evidence suggests point and click adventure games never really "died" – they just became persona non grata with the gaming industry's promotional apparatus because because their player demographics started to skew strongly female for various reasons, and to this day the industry remains allergic to acknowledging that women play games.

Tomorrow... ⏳

i assume lou's horse is right outside of frame in this shot

Between this and Delenn's BE SOMEWHERE ELSE speech, I get the feeling JMS was like "dudes have been hogging the bad-ass speeches in scifi for far too long. Let's try to fix the balance a tad, give the ladies some kick-ass lines!"

No question whatsoever. 😏. …She’s an example to us all.

In this clip, her business starts around 1:10.

Now that it's getting warmer outside again, I just want something like this 🌻☀️

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I wanna talk about Venom but I can't make a coherent thought so have these I got off of Pinterest

With stroke going on and everyone catching up on shows/movies they couldn’t watch

I highly recommend watching old OLD films

Btw there’s YouTuber that posts film noirs with backgrounds on actors, sets, and directors AND there are zero ads

Ad for SSI computer games, for IBM, Apple, Atari ST, and Commodore 64, 128, and Amiga (White Dwarf 105, September 1988) -- Strategic Simulations Inc made a wide variety of games, often modeled after board wargames, many with historical themes. This year also saw the release of their first licensed AD&D games. Games Workshop stores in the UK were retailers for their physical media.

Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying.

(gifs by @bladeweave of daredevil born again / "the poetics of sex" by jeanette winterson and posted by @roadmotel / @ruhlare)

YOUR HONOR I LOVE HER, I DON'T CARE IF SHE WAS GOING TO KILL SIDNEY ME US ORIGINALLY

FREE MY COUSIN FROM WHATEVER TWISTED HOLD OUR FAMILY HAS ON HER!!! I NEED TO TAKE THIS BITCH TO THE OUTER BANKS RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY!!!!

You better start getting comfortable with the idea of an extremely broad anti-fascist coalition that includes tons of people who you strongly disagree with, because buddy, you're in one

if your main position is "i don't know how you people can support harm reduction. as for me, i'm for harm abolition. no i don't have a plan. no actually i mostly just bitch at people advocating for harm reduction as a way of making myself look pure" your opinions on political strategy are irrelevant and you yourself are beneath contempt

buff pony

Description: Illustration of a buff black unicorn, charging from right to left, on a blank white background

OH MY WORD THAT’S BRILLIANT

i consistently see people go "oh, scarlet hollow looks average. i won't play it for a while" and then when they eventually do play it they're always like HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT WAS SO GOOD!!

Lol. Mood

I think this is pretty much the main marketing challenge with Scarlet Hollow. Specifically, "choices matter" has been so done-to-death as a marketing point from devs that never execute on it that players' bullshit radars turn on as soon as we mention it. Pretty much reliant on word of mouth because "no, your choices really actually matter, to an insane degree" is only believable when it comes from anyone other than us.

your regular reminder that "we protect the data we collect about you" will literally never be as safe as "we don't collect that data about you". If that information doesn't need to exist, then it shouldn't.

Panel 5 of my Beleriand Map is done! I added my paperback of the Silmarillion for scale because this thing is getting BIG.

Now it’s on to Panel 6 and the beginnings of Doriath and the forests! I’m hoping the trees are less time consuming than the mountains were.