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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At most I can maybe appreciate the idea of a timeline where Valve isn't afraid of releasing weird niche jank.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interesting, sing gold had a first-person camera for this... thing

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

old-games dot ru, is also good for getting original disk versions

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That giant bat zeppelin is actually sick

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vpks are entirely uncompressed, their intent is to put large amounts of tiny separate files into large packages that are faster to read from disk. They mainly improve the loading times

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Raw potatoes. Paper. I think I was about 4-6 years old

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

was pleasantly surprised by a little maughanii, then saw truncata being stupid about blooming as this specimen always does #plantsky #succulents #haworthia

photo of haworthia maughanii putting out a flowerstalk

photo of haworthia truncata with a medium-length flowerstalk that's bent in the middle and drooping

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope you've read the part where False Dmitry I is shot out of a cannon in the general direction of Poland

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"nazis were efficient" *loud sounds of five different ss branches and three army branches all fighting with each other*

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I knew all that going in, and I've seen/played plenty of B-media, and I still found it uniquely off-putting.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HL2 had some 20s russian theater posters thrown into the mix, but HLA upped the amount of russian and it feels like an artistic shortcut to me, because "who cares, its all cyrillics". What I also don't like is how this text reeks of machine translation.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And you fight him in a secret evil submarine dock, and you *duel* with microwave guns

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Had the same reaction when I played Sin Gold in 2021, and all the jank made me extra-allergic to the dated writing. Maybe the new remaster will help it

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Honestly could've used these as an extra set when I was 4 years old and had barbie coloring books. Skintone markers or pencils for her face were hard to come by

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Black Mesa East specifically, HL2 has npcs follow *you* around, giving optional exposition about random props. Sometimes you also can walk past the exposition/tutorializing, and they go "oh ok, moving on". I only wish it had more examples of that.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They REALLY don't like to bring up that the uniforms were designed by a guy named "Die, bitch"

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The only thing I managed to find is promo arts here, and I'm not sure they're by Antonov web.archive.org/web/20020615...

web.archive.org

Planet Kingpin: A PQ Joint

PlanetKingpin.com -- Crime does pay. We'll show you how. Part of the GameSpy Network.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Aaron Barber also did level design on Kingpin, and later joined HL2 team

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(that was a joke about swiss policy of military neutrality)

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Missed opportunity to put Switzerland somewhere in Neutral category

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Incredible choice of facial expression to put on the cover

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's more like people walking into hl2 beta places with questions like "why does New Game button not start the game?" and "do we have any maps for the planned ending from the early 1999 era?"

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love 2026, I'm still using Photoshop CS3.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very bad fashy vibes from it all, "lone stoic combine zerg-rushed by faceless mobs of dirty hobos"

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Interesting how IFDB even has a "cover artist" field. For comparison, fantlab ru mostly centers around post-soviet-space languages and has a smaller database, but does have separate pages for translators: fantlab.ru/translators

fantlab.ru

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I usually see the sensationalizing of "secret better versions" done by youtubers seeking to make some content, and not actual preservationists

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this missing magnusson voiceline of course

"I said we should expropriate that hazard suit and give it to Doctor Mossman. Maybe now they'll listen to me"

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As a moderate fan of Prey-2006 and AvP's xenomorph campaigns, I wish there were some advanced bonus chambers with this.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know the ancient art forums were mean too, but at least they'd write you a detailed thesis with 5 overpaints about it

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's pretty cool to get to compare how correct your guesses were.

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Dana Cief @ciefstatten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Opening emergency comissions! Lost my job back in April since legal and insurance issues stemming from a family loss became a full time thing, now I'm unemployable. Donations are also welcome (links in bio). Payment through PayPal, Ko-Fi, or transfer (MX only) #illustration #art #comissions

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They're overhead the cradle where the light is coming from, and the whole construction is called "planetary scanner" if you want to look up more.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Local man spends years going from one fps community to another being an obnoxious grifter and stirring up petty drama. Do not support that Quake 4 project.

Post screenshot: "it's Spiderman-Dev from moddb whose drama began when I rated HLA NoVR mod as 4/10 based on my experience (and not having rose tinted glasses for it)
that drove him to the depths of desperation unknown to any man. The fact he was already promoting the mod as something like "9.6/10" as a banner on moddb, and that 4 dipped it slightly, may have had something to do with it.
He was generating torrential floods of whine and drama about it. Meanwhile, very obvious bot accs from him started review bombing DI and even mods I favourably reviewed, such as Disrepair. I mean accs that would rate NoVR as 10/10 with samey short texts on the same day they join, and review bomb another mod (Disrepair, DI, Swelter, some others). He even didn't bother setting their countries to be different from his (Canada). Moddb staff confirmed the suspicions and removed those reviews and blocked most of the accs.
At the same time he would go into people's DMs nagging them more and more. About the same subject. The moddb reviews that is.
Then more people also didn't give the mod totally perfect scores, all for their own different (or similar) reasons. Now the mod's not even 9/10.
Other unfavourable parts of his personality included bragging his age and familial status or always nagging people to go buy HLA just to play the mod.
He's also in other mod that has to do with DNF, but I know less about that one."

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My strangest pet peeve about the movie is the empress being nothing like Maria Feodorovna.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So I was thinking about Valve's Prospero recently #y2k #art #illustration

a landscape of flowing purple shapes dotted with shiny glassy spheres and trees with airplane-shaped leaves. On the hazy horizon there is a city destroyed by sharp angular shapes of red and black stretching into the sky. On the foreground, a giant black woman with rocket engines in her hair locks is half-lying down, her face is a shattered void, and on her chest is painted a blood-red hexagon. She is surrounded by levitating monks with red hexagon prisms instead of heads, and is approached by a small human figure

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yay, so maybe they actually launched it at least once

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"brushes must be convex shapes. No concave shapes allowed!" Fun fact, UE1 had subtractive bsp that allows them. Not sure what the downsides are, as I never worked with it.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tron 2.0, even among Monolith fans it seems to fall into the crack between NOLF and F.E.A.R series

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes, it's really funny that Doom'16 has a real plot and an antagonist I could follow and remember, meanwhile DE story feels like random secondhand junk connected by hot glue

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sounds like he's addicted to simply scrolling through pretty pictures all day, in which case he should go find himself some gimmick tumblr blogs from 2014 and stop pestering the artists.

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