i told myself that yakuei only had one position then i proved myself (sorta) wrong

my fave face here:

With a concentration of painters, sculptors, writers, photographers, poets, performers, immigrants, beatniks, homosexuals, communists, devil worshipers, and uncategorized eccentrics, San Francisco had tolerance for everything except people from Los Angeles. -- Mark A. Vieira, Hollywood Horror: From Gothic to Cosmic, on the Bay Area in the 1950s-60s

Did nobody play Cadence of Hyrule??? I can't even find a decent walkthrough or wiki for it, and I can't remember the last time I had that problem with any game, including niche indies

This game is incredible y'all. No game I've played has felt more like the best parts of pre-3D Zelda, including games intentionally meant to and even the Link's Awakening remake. And it manages to do that while being procedurally generated, too. I've been having a gay old time with it

I get the impression that a lot of people bought Cadence of Hyrule and either didn't try it or didn't get very far, then forgot about it. I and a few of my friends did at least, I don't remember if another bigger game came out right after or what. Anyway, if that's you, give it a try, it's fun. And finish Tears of the Kingdom too, the last boss alone is worth it

Basically a continuation of my expression on my fatigue with the 'end of game/act meat level'. There's actually two. Meat level for fantasy games and 'floating rocks or weirdly behaving metal in the void' for sci-fi or steampunk. Some games somehow insist on having both, and that's usually where I throw my hands up.

I get it. They're supposed to elicit certain feelings of dread, desperation or narrowing everything to the fine point, they're supposed to be confusing with no map and uniform, often dark environment to make you disoriented and feel like you're well and truly alone in this meat/stone hell. The problem is, invariably they all look the bloody same. With 'rock hell' you get floating rocks or metal and the path just materializing in front of you. With meat hell, well, we get a lot of meat and running around in circles. And it's not just the 'ADHD and I'm old and don't have time for this' frustration, it's also the fact that they all look the same, and not in a 'nod to the classics' type of way, but in a 'they literally all look the same and they all insist on having that level, too'.

So yeah. Cue the 'ah fuck here we go again' every time I find myself in the beginning of a meat hell and stone hell, I know what to expect, what the stakes are, and I know to expect that it's all gonna look and behave the same in every game and it ends up with me just rage quitting. I'm usually ok with pulling up an online map but on the first playthrough I want to figure out things by my lonesome.

Anyway screw meat and rock hells. Either omit them entirely or at least try to put a novel spin on these omnipresent tropes.

And no, burned agonising bodies fused to the walls ain't it. It was cool for me exactly once, in Hellblade, because of the various sizes of the bodies, but that was it. A cool version of a meat hell was in Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, though. Climbing your way through a fresh battlefield of slain giants in broad, sunny daylight was a bit of a 'meat hell' but so natural and fucked up precisely because it was so natural and leaning on the realistic grotesque as opposed to fantasy grotesque.

Honorary mention for 'meat hell' goes to Pathologic 2 because it was mercifully short and after the difficult part was over, Burakh's perception of the world around him is so dry that there was implied humour in finding yourself where you did and knowing that the guy's reaction to it would amount to "oh. Hm, ew, okay." Brevity helps.

always an angel, never a god

hawkeye x boygenius “not strong enough”

why is sotc so hard..............................

If I may take some time from your day, there is a very big problem I would Like to address.

Minimalism and Modernism working in tandem.

Because oH my fucking god it's so fucking bland. It's nice every now and then, but oh my god if I see one more goddamn "home makeover" that turns a beautiful rustic building into a Black White Brushed Steel and Dark Gray hellscape I am going to commit a crime.

WHERES THE PERSONALITY!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE"S CLUTTER? THE KNICK KNACKS?

If you say you are gonna stick them anywhere than the fuckoing shelves/bedside tables or dressers or wardrobes Im kicking your ass.

What about the fucking novelty magnets you get on trips at gas stations and landmarks? Cause I know you aren't gonna ruin the "colors palette" of your kitchen - which by the way will look 1000% worse the second dust settles - by sticking them on your Fridge!

My Dad has a beautiful, powerful, large set of speakers, each one weighs about 200 pounds and are a pain in the ass to move, but they really are beautiful, Clear varnish, dark, wood grain bodies, and they sound incredible.

When (hopefully a long time from now) My dad passes, if whoever gets those speakers decides to sell them for something new I'm, kicking their ass.

My dresser is one I've had since I was literally a couple years old, and it has some stickers on it. Old coffee shop stickers, some stickers from City festivals and the like, and someone suggested I get a new one. I asked them why and they said it was old and kind of cluttered, so obviously i responded with "Well it still works, and I don't mind it" But RIGHT NOW i'm like "Actually it looks great. I like the stickers. Infdact I like the stickers so much I 'm gonna plaster Everything IN stickers! TOO MANY STICKERS IM GONNA MAKE COMBUSTIBLE STICKERS AND BURN YOUR GODDAMN HOUSE DOWN"

FUCK MINIMALISM. REJECT MODERNITY.

I STAND WITH THE GAUCHE AND THE GAUDY. I STAND WITH THE RUSTIC AND OLD FASHIONED.

GIVE LAMPS WITH ETCHING AND WEIRD RIMS ON THE GLASS.

GIVE ME YOUR BRUSHED NICKEL AND THE ANTIQUE BRASS. I'LL TAKE THAT PEPPER MILL WITHTHE BENT HANDLE, IT STILL FUCKING WORKS!

IF THERE ARE A MILLION PEOPLE AGAINST MINIMALISM i AMWITH THEM.

IF THERE ARE A HUNDRED PEOPLE AGAINST MINIMALISM I STAND WITH THEM

IF THERE IS ONE MINIMALISM HATER I AM AGAINST THE WORLD.

IF THERE ARE NO MINIMALISM HATERS LEFT IAM FUCKING DEAD.

I. CANNOT. STAND. THE DIRECTION FUCKING 'INTERIOR DESIGN' IS GOOING.

YEAH, like i'm gonna fucking kill anything that makes my house appealing to look like every other schmuck on the block. how about you find something you enjoy other than conformity or i'm gonna fill your house with salt from my little pinch bowl i got from a friend's mom that was gonna throw it away, because I plan on driving the fucking demons of blandness from your home.

If you present your house like it's a clean dish to serve food you bet your fucking ass i'm gonna salt and season it.

PLease. Just throw some color and personality in some way other than false flowers or fake fruit.

A purple blanket. Photos in a portrait you picked up at a garage sale.

please.

make your house a home by making a mess in it.

but make it your mess. make it your home.

I think the worst thing about the perception of health, both mental and physical, and being disabled in either regard, is that the need for extra support is often viewed, institutionally and therefore culturally, as a dehumanizing element rather than a simple fact of the human experience. No man is an island, and yet, when it comes to needing anything from an IEP to a caretaker, these things are used to subvert one's rights and create the expectation of failure and that's a little ableist innit.

sending love n support to teeko … !!! hope he feel better soon after the surgery

tyyy T_T its only been one day but im still a bit worried that he isnt eating yet :(( I havent given him breakfast today yet tho (has to be specific times bcs it has medication in it) so maybe he'll he more into it today

celebrating my most darling boys death day by posting some old prison/exile arc.... 2! sketches 💚

I have fought the sky and emerged victorious

still think about how my cat was diagnosed with "calico"

aka, their vet said scar acted the way she does because calicos are just weird

when will somebody make a 6-degrees-of-freedom racing game

I decided to share this around Tumblr, as well

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image id: a tweet by nick @/nickybravoart on may third. it says, "i'm so fucking mad. this is my classmate Hunter's portfolio who's a trans man. his artwork and statement on gender transition was taken down from my private schools senior showcase for "unspecified reasons". please share this, give him the attention my bigoted school denied." attached is a portfolio with four sequential images with similar lighting and background. the background is composed of two vertical stripes: the left is white and the right is sky blue. the skin tone of the person in all four images is a near-white pale. in image one, the person has long hair, red lipstick, and a sleeveless dress that is white with small red shapes that are either triangles or hearts. they are looking straight into the camera while holding scissors to a section of their hair. in image two, they are holding the cut off hair and looking at it in a way that makes their eyes hard to see. they look pensive. they are no longer wearing the dress. in image three, they are holding the back of their hair, looking out. there is bandage-like binding on their chest. in image four, they again have red lipstick, but this time it is smudged. the camera is zoomed out further so you can see that along with similar bandage binding, they are wearing black boxers. they are holding the top of their head and looking straight into the camera. end id.

note: while it is safe to assume hunter is portraying himself in this set, it is still possible it is a piece on transmasculinity as a whole, so i opted to use they/them. i searched for "hunter gender photography" but could not find this piece, so if anyone does have a link to any of his socials for credit let me know.

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Thank you so much to @eros-vigilante for this image ID :D

ABALOS HERREROS, USERA PUBLIC LIBRARY, MADRID

Two volumes, one horizontal and one vertical, combine to house the different parts of the program. At street level, an unsanded concrete plinth links the quarters of the Junta Municipal (Municipal Board), to the north, with the tower, delimiting a square oriented towards the west of Madrid. In its interior – of over 2.000 square meters – are the areas devoted to book borrowing, as well as the periodicals library and the children and teen libraries. The most active area is thereby concentrated on the half-buried platform, leaving the reading rooms and less busy areas to the upper level. Light reaches the interior of the plinth through a rear courtyard, which solves the difference in level between the two fronts of the building and cushions the noise from the nearby parking lot.

note the description of the library as an URBAN CATALYST for collective activities in Usera.

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https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/biblioteca-publica-de-usera-5

FACADE DETAIL SECTION + (aligned) ELEVATION, School in Champier/ France, by CoCo architecture

https://www.archdaily.com/957746/a-new-college-in-a-french-village-coco-architecture-plus-jean-de-giacinto-architecture-composite?ad_medium=gallery

sun screen (bris soleil) with aluminum fins

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