Negative Velocity

He/Him PanPoly Antifa Supersoldier Forklift Certified

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[negative-velocity]

It's so insidious how deeply ingrained into our culture it is. I still have to actively stop myself from doing it sometimes because hearing it is so common that it becomes an unconscious reflex.

[depsidase]

[houndmother]

in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[nen4sad-deactivated20260118]

[thispolo]

Text omnomnom

There's a lot of text in this game. I forget how many words, but too many. You can find text through items, dreams, events, interactions, and email. You can even find text... in YOU.

Most of it was written over the course of ten years. As such, some parts of it are better written than others. You can actually right-click to get some flavour text on every item.

Mmm, flavour. For example, you get text for your priceless antique grandfather clock (don't sell it, ok). You can even right-click again and get even MORE flavour text.

Fuck yes, flavour text is at the lifeblood of all point-and-click adventure games. Without it, there would be no "Ask me about Loom".

But wait, there's more! There's a rage mechanic in the game, which you get when you sell things. Sell enough, your Rage hits a point where the text *changes*.

Oh *boy*, I love it when the text changes. This is my favourite part. The character stops being enthusiastic, and starts being a bit more curt. Less put-together. More splayed out like an angry rug.

If you keep pushing your character to the brink (you do this by selling stuff (seriously, don't sell the fucking clock, ok)) then the text changes even further.

Oh my yes. Here, we've hit the pinnacle of writing in the game. I am also 5 years old. At this point, the character has disregarded all the fakery of appearing like a sound member of society. The gears of abject misery have ground him down and now, after being forced to sell everything he loves, he finally has to confront the reality of the situation. He is a sellout, both in body and in soul. He probably doesn't even care about flavour text either.

Also, it's some of the funniest dialogue in the game.

And yes, I wrote a lot of it. And no, I don't know what that means for me when I'm writing stuff like "LET ME INSIDE YOU" about bedside cabinets. It's best you don't try to work it out, either.

AND DON'T SELL THE GOD DAMN GRANDFATHER COCK AAAA

[pocketss]

laurie 😔

[redstonedust]

its crazy that a lot of what we call 'video essays' these days are basically low budget documentaries on increasingly weird and niche topics. no network approval no tv budget just one guy with maybe a hired editor/writer and a couple of friends willing to read voice lines. and then they put it on youtube like its no big deal. insane.

[cadaverkeys]

fabulous creature?

[marithlizard]

I know people aren't here for the news, but trans folks, I'm thinking of you tonight and how you deserve better.

[aurora--who-deactivated20250925]

yeah i think im done with this one for now, even tho i want to add animations for it

[bedupolker]

house mice & deer mice

[bisquick-thyne-noble-toad]

There needs to be more Pokémon series that are just mundane slice of life. No battles, no contests, just Dave and his partner Psyduck, who keeps eating all the pies that Dave tries to make to sell and no matter what Dave tries Psyduck always manages to eat them all. Idk something like that.

[negative-velocity]

This is actually peak pokemon material and Nintendo is sleeping on it.

[lemmydex]

#194 (paldea) - #980. Unlike their johtonian cousin, the Clodsire line prefers wet mud and bogs to bathe on. They love getting mud on their trainers as a sign of love, and will get sad if you wash it off. Unfortunately, that mud is also very poisonous.

[lemmydex]

#543 - #544 - #545. As Venipede evolves, its carapace becomes a dull cocoon as its insides liquify, and if anything tries to break it, it'll stab them aggressively until dead. It regains its lustrous carapace after evolving and becomes docile, giving rides to smaller pokémon and humans it meets.

Sponsored by @madsk3tch. Design process under read more.

I had a pretty solid idea for scolipede itself: Make it more buggy, reference centipede anatomy, but keep its horse whimsy. I did many study of centipede faces and anatomy to figure out how to place their antennae and ultimate legs (thats what the final pair of legs that look like antennae on the end of centipedes is named!). I wanted to keep some of the horn shapes, and also have the tail look like a false head like it does in many centipedes.

The weird eye shape of these guys is referencing the ocelli of centipedes: forming compound eyes. The spikes are actually referencing a milipede instead of a centipede, Desmoxytes purpurosea, who have big pink spikes. The empty spot is meant to look like a little saddle :) and the difference in color is because i think bright green feels more toxic paired with red than the greyish purple the canon one has.

venipede was easy, adapting the canon simplicity and then just adding some centipede anatomy like the antennae below the carapace.

whirlipede however, was pretty annoying. I didnt know what to do with it! i didnt want to just make a wheel but didnt want for it to just look like a venipede curled up. i decided to go the cocoon route: the carapace is protecting the goo inside. centipede dont go through cocoon phases but shhh. made it dull to keep its unique color from the rest of the line that the canon one has.

[pokegifz]

[negative-velocity]

I love my stupid headache boy

[annieyuki-arts]

" Lake friends "