the right way is the wrong way twice

personal blog of synthaphone

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Deadly Premonition - Life is Beautiful

[foepaw]

give it up for day 3 of Having a Headache!!!

[foepaw]

remembering the rich person consciousness eternal torture cube from don hertzfeldt’s world of tomorrow

[laserwalnut]

My samely shaped character duo number quadrillion

[foepaw]

one minute left of TMBG tuesday

[foepaw]

got a migraine earlier today with the extremely trippy side effect of making me struggle to process text- not because of migraine aura blocking my vision (although that DID happen and end like 5 minutes before this started), but because i just couldn't comprehend words or even individual letters correctly.

it went away after i took a nap, thankfully, but i waited longer to start napping then i probably should have just because it was so fascinating. i had to read over the same sentences multiple times, and was trying to like, sound words out loud phonetically to see if that would make them easier to comprehend- i was struggling to remember what sounds the letters were supposed to make and getting b and d and p mixed up. i remember struggling to read the words 'around' and 'though', and when i go back now to look at the conversation i'd been trying to process then, i can't even find the word 'though' anywhere. so now i'm like. am i misremembering, or did i fail so hard at reading that i saw the word 'though' where it wasn't? what the hell

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[foepaw]

if i get up early i unlock access to the real mimo cuddly hours

[monkeywiki]

28 year old tumblr users will look at you and say do you remember thwomp day of 2013 when everyone was posting thwomp from mario 64 in different audio

[foepaw]

ooooops- guess who wasn't thinking and forgot that discord compresses images, so now that they imported their photos properly they have to re-edit some marker drawings they'd already cleaned up so that they're actually high quality

[foepaw]

my neck is fuuuuucked again and i can't figure out a position i can fall asleep in that doesn't make it worse. this shit is so annoying

on the flipside, this morning i heard a tears for fears song i'd never heard before, and now i'm grooving. internally. because if i turn my neck it hurts like fucking hell

[foepaw]

that post about being at your lowest while listening to unfitting pop music is always so relevant

[hsuhaohsuhaohsuhao]

Hsu Hao, on a scale of one to ten how would you rate your pain?

Now dont you go on worrying about me i dont want anyone to worry about me or what im going through but it is a 10

[zoctopode]

can you imagine being a parent in the pokemon world and your kid comes home with one of those straight up basically human pokemon. i know those motherfuckers can talk.

its morning. i see my childs Throh getting some oj from the fridge. 'morning', i say. he doesnt catch himself in time and says 'morning' back. he freezes and we both stare at each other knowingly. 'throh,' he says, but its too fucking late

[foepaw]

there should be more songs like devos “S.I.B.”, about the absolutely fucked up headache youre having and how it feels described in graphic detail

[foepaw]

trying to find a specific version of a peter gabriel song is never straightforward for me. i just want the one i have already but at a higher bitrate, not a crazy reimagining that reharmonizes the entire song and adds a ton of new instruments

[256gb]

controversial opinion about the xbox restructuring but as someone who has worked on some xbox games in the past i am very happy to hear they’re cutting out a lot of the fuckin useless layers of middle management:

however it still fucking sucks to see hardworking talented devs getting fucking spat on. like, xbox put themselves in this position in the first place. buying up the whole industry, being too bloated and slow to make a single good game, burning everyone out, and then firing everyone who got swept up in the commotion. did you know that most of microsoft’s gaming division had been completely funded by minecraft’s profits? like what the FUCK are they doing over there?

what pisses me off is when they say this shit and try to get in everyone’s good graces but then go and do something like lay off all the devs at id who make the idtech engine and have very valuable institutional knowledge that now is just…. lost. not to overshadow all the other layoffs/studio closures, but the id one just hurts a bit extra.

good products come from teams that go out of their way to retain their talent and keep them happy as long as they can. nintendo is a great example, a massive chunk of the zelda botw/totk team have been at nintendo for 20+ years, a game like that can really only happen when everyone has been on the same page working together for a long time. it’s the most obvious thing in the world and yet these massive megacorporations just do not understand it.

halo infinite sucked ass because the entire dev cycle was a constant revolving door of endless 6 month temp contractors who would join the team, spend a few months learning the tools, do a bit of good work, only to get thrown out on the street and replaced with the next batch of contractors, all because microsoft doesn’t wanna pay for fucking health benefits. oh, you wanted to know how this bit of the engine worked? too bad, we laid off the person responsible 4 years ago. such a waste of money and talent all in the name of making number go up rather than making art for art’s sake.

i really feel for everyone working at xbox or any of the studios they own. legitimately cannot imagine how bad the morale is over there