MrHoatzin

Or open Photoshop, paste each in its own layer and turn the top one into difference blending mode.

Rad. I kinda wanna steal your brush settings.

PST! The French translation of Hobo Lobo is almost ready for prime time. Let's call the super double plus exclusive leak you're witnessing before your very eyes a beta release of Lobo l’Clodo. Woo! It was translated by our very own Ossk! We still need to translate the interface and link it up from the rest of the site, but it is pretty much done.

I second the MS Paint Adventures vote. MSPA = Homestuck + Problem Sleuth. Andrew Hussie's really on to something special. Homestuck is an extremely humongous thing that requires some dedication and a leap of faith and I don't feel comfortable just thrusting people into that. I would suggest starting with Problem Sleuth which defines the fake video game storytelling medium a lot more crisply—since large amount of the story was effectively community-navigated, dungeon-mastered by Hussie. Homestuck is a wonder of structure. It is kinda hard to describe off the cuff. Its weird hybrid presentation was a direct inspiration for Hobo Lobo's own experimental format, with the images above and narration below.

You should've had BBQ in Lockhart, it is the capital of TX BBQ and it is not much out of the way b/n Austin and Houston...

Such a gorgeous game! For those having a hard time figuring it out, I would suggest helping the experience along with something that would mellow you out, amplify your visual awareness, shift your lateral thinking knob to random mode, etc… I think that people's problem with Proteus and these kinds of games in general (and the reason for all this semantic bloviating re what is game) is that they know how to interact with (what they consider) games and Proteus is a kind of subtle experience that is murdered by the kind of inflexible preconceived notions gamers are awash in. It is a problem of education, but it is also a question that we reeeeaaaaallly shouldn't waste too much breath on since people with objections are so patently wrong that they don't deserve to be humoured; every one of these games (or un-games or anti-games or whatever the detractors insist on calling them) that makes it, proves them wrong and evolves the popular perception of what games can be.

Ah, thanks, there doesn't seem to be a way to get to that page from one's Humble profile section.

I'll add another vote to Sublime. It is very powerful, but horribly documented.

Seen Sal play it for, like, the entire weekend (of billowing, sailing-on-the-seas-of-cheese music). The combat fills the gaps between movies, like a wall of slot machines one has to feed before advancing. The utter absence of any kind of inventiveness on the game play end is glaring. It feels like so much money went into this thing, the suits made damn sure there wasn't anything surprising going into the product. The side quests are fun. She likes it "even though it is tedious as fuck... and boring." She says she finds it "funny even though it is boring."

There is a bunch of selection rules dude lists in the article.

Obviously everyone who disagrees with me is embarrassingly full of shit.

But Ron Gilbert didn't work on that one. Also, no, Monkey 2 is the best monkey. Then comes 1. Then Tales of Monkey Island, because I am a huge kissass and whatnot. Then 3.

At first, I was the only pointer at the party, then I clicked to open the ligh-tbox and then I was the only black cursor at the party.

Whoa, have you never played Monkey Island 1 & 2??

Well sure, but it was really just a flamboyant trick question that allowed him to talk about something else. It is not even a premise as such. He does make a solid case for why poetic technologies are no longer pursued with as much fervor as they have been for the entirety of modernity.

This is a long one but a fun one. I've been listening to podcasty stuff as I draw. David Graeber starts with a ridiculous premise of Where are all the awesome things that 1960s science fiction promised we'd have by now? …and manages to be show that it is not at all an unreasonable question for us to ask. Along the way he drive-bys some fun interpretations of pop culture he touches upon. Anyway, you should all also read Debt: The First 5000 Years. Good book.

Also, pst, you guys, are kinda still all press what with a popular podcast media empire you moonlight with...

This dude. This is your Miasmata dude at work— Fabrication d'une lampe-triode I search out this video every so often to just meditate with it. I think I may even have it saved somewhere. ¬¬

The way the dude rants on about Aztecs and sonteria and the bible is utterly baffling.

I think if a system makes it easier for white dudes to assume positions of power due to whatever fake meritocracy cascade of life choices on their part, calling it patriarchy is pretty accurate. If a father of a family owns the honor of all the children (and can murder them for perceived slights against honor with society's endorsement) also calling it patriarchy is accurate. When a bunch of white dudes who have percolated through the system built for them, take it upon themselves to make decisions about reproductive rights of women constituents, calling it patriarchy is enlightening and accurate.

It is definitely kitsch. Calling something kitsch doesn't excuse it or make it a coherent critique of art or whatever. The entirety of their point is still PRT, ART, AMIRITE?!I guess it manages to transcend itself as a perfect illustration of what is wrong with the misogynistic dudebro gamer culture, as if we're wanting for more examples of anti-intellectual, reactionary bullshit from this industry and its fans.

Patriarchy is used interchangeably as the status quo. I take it to refer to power structures rather than "men" in general.

The people who are defending this is "satire of art" get to me the most... like, what cogent and timely point about "ART" could you possibly be making by poking fun at some broken sculpture from the bronze age?

I enjoy the notion of waiting for a day that has already passed. Reminds me of that theory (heresy?) that since Jesus promised he would be back within the lifetimes of peeps alive when he psych-died, the entire 2000 years of history since must be an illusion perpetrated by the Devil to help us lose our faith.

Similarly, my birthday on these here forums is March 20, 1455.