SwEeT KAZIK bLoG-chan :*** xD

Art. Violence. Fandom Stuff. Enjoy...

[zarthzh]

They are all so cute. I wanna keep living🥹😭

[girldraki]

[leavethepuddle]

@sarumans

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Share beautiful and practical stitching techniques.(cr 随心意针线)

[heyhoneyfox]

I need that man in TERROR i need him to PANIC i need him to be having the absolute WORST DAY OF HIS LIFE because he might LOSE SOMEONE that he WASN'T SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT

[animentality]

[noirlac]

[dynamotoon]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ERRYBODY!!!

[safewordle]

I finished The Incident at Galley House last week (fantastic game) and needed to play more detective games.

So I went and played The Red Pearls of Borneo (or on Steam) and What Happened to the Crew? and really enjoyed them, only to realise after the fact that they were made by the same people. They're both free, no less!

What Happened to the Crew? is straight up "Type Help in Space", with the familiar command line interface and following 12 dead people around rooms by looking at transcripts etc. And there's nothing wrong with that because a lot of fun! (plus it's free) Don't want to spoil anything, but some shit really goes down on that space station.

The Red Pearls of Borneo has kind of a similar method of gameplay (place people in locations at specific times) but actually has a protagonist, a UI, and art. It's extremely well researched and well written, although it gets a bit linear towards the end (but it's free!). I played the demo for the sequel and they're including documents and ciphers and stuff and upping the complexity, which is promising. I'll planning on getting it once it's out.

I also really enjoyed The Archives of Trevosa, which is a The Roottrees Are Dead-like where you're going through a document archive to fill out a family tree, but there's a twist - many of the relevant words are in an untranslated conlang that you have to work out as you're playing. Again, this is free!

Also shoutout to Kinophobia, which I haven't played recently and I mostly just mention because it's my favourite of the database detective (y'know, where you search for stuff in an interface and piece things together) genre and it's so underrated. Also free!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful!

[87sukiyaki]

[enba-and-luka]

[wormsermonizer]

🐷

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[oddarette]

“Do Dead Malls Go To Heaven?”

Experimented a bit with a new way of detailing the tiles. Kinda like it? This particular piece took a hell of a lot of work. I’d love if you shared the vibes it’s giving off, for research purposes 💖

[spindlewit]

quick wave studies.

[gingik]

[animescreencolle]

Kore Kaite Shine E01