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I love the set dressing in this and Realms of the Haunting. So many perfect dioramas. I wish there were more of these but sadly it was 1996 and we all died of spritephobia shortly afterward

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

agreed. feeding animations made for cartoon characters to photorealistic homunculi is just a weird concept, and the results look exactly like you'd assume they would. they're not a disaster, but the mismatch is constant. animation is not a modular mix-and-match format

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am firmly pro-spider and most of the ones in the game are big and fun. but the sneaky little ones in that one autumnal lake area scared me more than a game has in a very long time

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

same, until he shot lightning. he's a hypocrite

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

love seeing waking the witch this high. she is so good at horror

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

(The actual worst bit was the sliding block puzzle on the door to the final boss, but I have to admit I can actually imagine Team Silent doing that)

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Maybe it's like a reverse SH Homecoming. That one was pretty passable until near the end you suddenly find yourself in a "survive having your knees drilled" minigame, then a boss fight against a grinning Harvey Pekar waving a circular saw around

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I am curious about what the actual game is like; at the time I was so mad at the intro going full call of duty atrocity cam that I threw the whole thing on the I hate videogames pile like, we got a silent hill cold open about stabbing naked phillip seymour hoffman to death. a silent hill had that

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

thank you for giving her a sanguine expression

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

sometimes I think about how often "actually I'm not an asshole; you don't know me; don't judge me from an online argument; I'm nice IRL" used to get posted. feels like I haven't seen one of those in ages it wasn't an apology, but it was less unapologetic, and at least nodded toward social graces

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"I don't have sound now but I'll download and listen later" was such a powerful thing. you'd have to listen eventually because otherwise why'd you download it? a pleasant little sunk-cost trick that was good for musicians and listeners and I really wish there was a streaming-era equivalent of it

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

six inch below the underground would be a good compilation name. or radio show name. or popularity goal. just a very rich lyric

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

one trick is to sort the archive by filesize, to single out the ones with vocals. but then you miss out on stuff like "record my voice? with a microphone? as samples? in an XM? are you joking?" in the sample text of an early instrumental. genuine raincoat dot xm foreshadowing

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I recently dug through this guy's sample text and learned his real name; he's still making songs (prolifically) but sadly they're very evangelist and very culture war. and just very normal. but there's great lore in his old XMs. searching 'modland fast tracker 2 csm' will lead you to a rich harvest

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gwilym.bsky.social @gwilym.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

It's gotta be semantic drift around "dad jokes" that specifically led to this

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