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it is all such a lack of respect for the art and technology these games were made on and what we could possibly take from them today and I just can't stand for that being so dismissed

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 1h

like sure, me being a ps1 kid has had a FORMATIVE effect on me and my tastes, but that isn't the same as nostalgia. getting into other old consoles and games I only just discovered... I can't be "nostalgic" for those things

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 1h

this post articulates everything I've felt about this better than I can. as someone very obsessed with older retro games, I feel like my appreciation can be likened to say, liking baroque era paintings. its an appreciation for an art style and medium

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 4h

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 3h

see that's what I thought. actual pit likers with some taste wouldn't settle for this kind of treatment

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 3h

ukusik is a little kid so I'd hope they'd be a bit better towards her lol but yeah. at least with mantra the rest of her outfit and design is incredible and much more with that core techy aesthetic ak was built off of. but with most characters lately there's too many shoulder holes everywhere

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 4h

as fair as that is I just wish she would also appreciate the beauty of hiding her skin just in the normal every day too. such things are becoming rarer and rarer by the day in the playable ak character world

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 4h

thaaaaats right! accept nothing less!!!

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 4h

kinkshaming pits likers until I can have my covered shoulders back AT LEAST PUT HAIR ON THOSE PITS YOU ASSHOLES!!!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 5h

HALF LIGHT - That is what you came for, isn't it? A climactic bloodletting, where men are reduced to muscle and fury?

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 5h

JUST SO GOOD. INCREDIBLE SHAPE

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 5h

clementia still had her wetsuit on when she was with horatia why did they change it 💔 what does arknights have against covered shoulders these days

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 5h

oh good we posted the same one for the same reason at the same time hellll yeah you KNOW its good

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 5h

sorry to gush over an inquisition design for a bit but I need my mask appreciation moment

an arknights design of an inquisition member, sporting a plague doctor-like mask with a hooked beak. the character is wearing a huge hat with a giant plume from it

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 7h

Turn up the sound to hear a chorus of howls from our critically endangered Red Wolf pack! 🐺 Born in April, these pups are growing up fast, and they’re enjoying some nighttime howling with their parents, Violet and Fiddle. 🌙

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Tom Hentoff @tomhentoff.bsky.social · 7h

Washington DC wildlife: Tan jumping spider this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️

Spider on glass wall, eyes and pedipalps prominent.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 8h

"I can see the horrors too," I say as a quiet daily reassurance before trying to talk about anything else at all.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 8h

The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶

A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 11h

oh yeah she is very much one of those operators you m9 for SURE

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 12h

yes!! its been so long but we finally got her! hoping you get swire alter too also because she really is VERY fun and I don't use her enough

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 16h

Mr. Northern Flicker shows off his black cravat and moustache. Always in style #birds

Woodpecker perched on the edge of a birdbath in front of a single, golden elm leaf floating on the water. Bird has black polkadots on its front, topped by a black chest patch that looks like a cravat. He also has a black moustache. This bird exudes confidence.

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 12h

THEY'RE SO GOOD just the absolute most adorable little lyudmilas I can be given and the hyenashape is so perfect and amazing. thank you about the rooster too!

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 14h

OH RIGHT I completely forgot about that happening lol. thats right that's the suspiciously rat shaped horse

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 14h

procrastinated on this too long what is up girllll

screenshot of lin being acquired in arknights. her dialogue says "you and I have probably crossed paths before, doctor, but we finally found time for a formal introduction. there'll be much more done on the problems the infected face in the lungmen slums, now that we're working in direct communication"

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 14h

oh this is the first time they've advertised one of the ak manhuas in-game huh. well, kal'tsit is just that important I understand

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 15h

well thank fucking god I barely worked on this drawing today before the random outage out of nowhere

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corvexxia.bsky.social @corvexxia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Arktober 2026 Day 6 - Ring Lessing attending the wedding he was invited to in his op rec, with his zweihander of course #arktober #arknights

Arktober 2026 Day 6 - Ring drawing, featuring the character Lessing from Arknights sitting in a red wedding hall. The attendants applaud as the ring is placed on the bride’s finger, while the ones sitting next to Lessing eye his giant zweihander.

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corvexxia.bsky.social @corvexxia.bsky.social · 21h

#arktober2026 Day 7 - Hat A lone caprinae amongst liches (don’t worry Lessing, old man Fremont doesn’t have a hat either) #arktober #arknights

Arktober 2026 Day 7 - Hat drawing, featuring the character Lessing from Arknights. To his left is Ermengarde, while other liches surround them. All liches are wearing hats except for Lessing.

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 16h

I remember like two years ago or so I was doing an exercise where I'd doodle things in an impulsive, "stream of consciousness" way as someone that just can't actually visualize in the way a lot of other artists can beyond just really vague notions of things. I should do it again sometime

a doodle of something vaguely lizardlike. there is no head and instead a floating eye where the head would be

a doodle of some kind of humanoid bird creature with its hands up to its chest. the text says "well? is this doing anything for you? are you getting anything out of this? see, I can't tell from all the way over here"

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 17h

sometimes I think I am just incapable of quick gestural drawings, and then I draw anything that isn't a human being and I remember that oh I can do that and I have a whole style for it too. really wish I could wrap my head around doing that for humanoid characters

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 17h

said friend doesn't play ak but has given me the most precious little lyuds in return LOOK HOW CUTE

a doodle of crownslayer's face with cute dot eyes

a doodle of crownslayer flustered and blushing

a doodle of crownslayer tilting her head to the side and her ears tilting too

a doodle of crownslayer as a hyena with her mane sticking up and smoke breath

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 17h

quick rooster doodles as gifts for my friend

another doodle of a rooster from the side in mid-stride, showing of it's big tail feathers

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 17h

Augur of Emptiness, From the Book of Augurs. Soft cover edition available at the shop(s)

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 17h

yeah I think that's very understandable, bc it IS a really complicated sort of position to be in that you didn't really sign up for and I can't say I have good advice for that either. I really do emphasize with him, but also if he's not listening to ways to make things easier for you both, well...

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 18h

oh jesus yeah that is really not good. its definitely becoming caretaker territory like from everything I keep hearing he's definitely struggling hard and is some level of disabled and clearly can't take care of himself. and does not seem to realize that either or can't accept that which is uh bad

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 18h

can he not like. put the bread in the fridge or something because I am also bad at eating bread in two weeks, but just putting it in the fridge makes that so much more of a non-issue

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Crownslayer @crownslayerbot.bsky.social · 18h

Are you ready for it?

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 06/10/2026

We asked the artist what the image means and they idk

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evgay @glitchplight.bsky.social · 19h

yyyep boy its like that! I ended up getting some doctor putting autism in my medical records even though I never went for the professional diagnosis (or even a causal one) like damn alright then LOL

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 08/10/2026

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

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