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"Fix your hearts or die." is a great line, btw.

Oh right, that makes more sense, since Audrey had basically no Dale connection by the end of Season 2.

Also, Albert and Cole talking to Doppelgänger Dale was super intense and I could just.. feel.. they're intense dread throughout. Having Cole turn up his hearing apparatus and then react violently to the noise of Albert's shoes was a magnificent and scary moment. Like a mundane jump scare or something. The woman they talk about at the end, is it Audrey?

I am in love with blank Cooper. The way he is like a baby is hilarious and terrifying at the same time. I laughed way too much every time he yelled "Helloooo!" with that weird intonation. It was such an excellent drawn-out buildup to that final, terrifying/hilarious spit take with the coffee. I burned through all four episodes last night and I absolutely *love* this already. What a crazy tonal shift from Part 1&2 to Part 3&4 after Cooper gets out. I can't help but think Jacoby's shovels are going to be one massive red-herring and he's just building some weird modern art installation that has nothing to do with the rest of the plot.

I probably have heard some other version of this story, but my brain reacted pretty strongly to the ziploc bag detail which isn't present on that site's story. Considering Jake's retold his brain autopsy story three different times, it's *possible* that Nick's already told this story and everybody just forgot.

I swear to god I've heard that poop story before. When Chris was telling it, and the ziplock bag detail came up I thought "I've definitely heard this specific mutation of this story. Is it just an urban tale?" And then Nick revealed the origins of the story and my brain made the connection that Nick must've told this story in a previous Thumbs cast some time. Has to be. This was the strangest deja vu..

Thanks! At this rate I might keep making these forever, it's too much fun! Here's a quick dynamics simulation on the Star Destroyer, just for fun. It's glitchy with a bunch of bricks bouncing around erratically trying to escape the blocks whose simulation didn't trigger, but it looks rad!

I recently fell down the rabbit hole of the Lego CAD world! So after some tries, I finally got an optimized way of importing .ldr files into Cinema4D for rendering in Octane Render. So, these models aren't mine, they're all downloaded from ldraw.org, but I've done materials/lighting and rendering of them which is a *bunch* of fun! And a Lego particle test!

I bought Prey after listening to this cast and the game did not disappoint. It feels exactly like playing System Shock 2, with the art deco design from Bioshock. It's majestic and scary and fun. I hope you guys will talk more about it on later casts. OH! And also, are you going to put the latest ruination cast on the podcast feed? I found out I can listen to audio-only versions of the twitch streams, but for some reason it wouldn't load the last Ruination in the twitch iOS app..

Yeah, I had watched the movie before even knowing of the show, because a friend was watching it, her being a big Twin Peaks fan. I didn't watch all of it, but caught Laura's murder and was forever spoiled on the show's mystery. When I finally did watch the Twin Peaks series it didn't matter much, I felt. It's still mysterious and the way they introduce the image of Bob made me question if I'd remembered the film correctly.

That is Chris' happy face when he discovers the dance button in Headlander.

I'm just gonna create a thread here in Game Dev, because this isn't just a jam game anymore. I'm still figuring out how large to scope the game and such, but I definitely want to try and make something out of this Mr. Puffin. I'll update this first post later, but just wanted to get this started. Here's some Explosions!

I've been doing some work over the last couple of weeks on this. I've started refactoring the levels to use an awesome plugin called Realtime CSG. It basically makes level-editing in Unity function a bit like the old Unreal level editor, with brush subtractions, making adding more rooms and archways a breeze! Also, I've started doing hand-painted normal maps, which is a lot of fun. And some more environment props.

A couple of solid photos of Jeff Goldblum selling hot dogs. Chef Goldblum's Jazzy Snags is probably the best name for a food car ever.

Oh man, these postcards sound so exciting, so I just upgraded my pledge! Hope I won't be hopelessly lost.

Yeah, the remastered audio/music is really good. And listening to the commentary is so much fun.

Just played it for a bit yesterday. I find it mixed in quality, but mostly they did a great job. The cutscenes and closeups look great! That intro was almost perfect, felt like what the original game looked like in my head. There's the odd character drawings that just look a bit rubbish, with weird hands and faces. Widescreen-ing the backgrounds creates a slightly more empty composition in some of the scenes, like outside Marley's shack. The biggest bummer is that they went through the trouble of re-rendering all the 3d models but lit them so flatly with almost no black shadows. It's super pronounced when the security drone chopper flies in. The render looks like a daytime render, the underside of the drone chopper is brightly lit when in the original it was all in harsh black shadows like the rest of the world. For all the flak the 3d models caught in the original for looking very CGI compared to the rest, the lighting they did on them back then was much better than in the remaster.

Oh Mington

Here's some shit I'm working on! It's a personal project. A little animation of four memorable computers from my childhood. BBC Micro, IBM XT, Mac Plus and Macintosh Performa 5200. I've finished the rig for the screens and am now gonna work on animating between the different keyboards. Wish me luck!

The Flash keeps doing this again and again as an attempt at drama and it drags the show down..

I watched the shows out of order, as in I watched a lot of Flash and Legends of Tomorrow before watching Arrow. So I spent a lot of time watching Arrow waiting for the other shoe to drop with regards to certain characters. But it was kind of fun, in a way, having gotten to know some of these characters without any backstory and then later watching their origin story. And yes, those flashbacks are the worst and somehow they are still doing it five seasons in..

Good thread! I randomly started watching DC's Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash and fell into the Arrowverse hole eventually and now I can't stop. It's cheesy and fun in a way I wish the Netflix Marvel shows were sometimes. ABC's Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter were the Marvel shows I liked the most because they were fun like the CW shows are. So yeah, I've grown to like Arrow and am slowly starting up on Supergirl now. The Flash has lost some of its fun lately, I feel. Whenever that show gets *really* hung up on mistrust between the main characters it gets really dour.. I do really wish the seasons were shorter, because with 24 episodes the shows meander a lot. Shorter seasons without some of the clunkier episodes would make me recommend these shows more often. Last note: If Arrow doesn't stop doing the flashbacks after this latest season I am done with it. I can't stand those flashbacks..

Holy shit, this was great.

I wish they would stop letting Zack Snyder direct all of this and admit they made a mistake ever hiring him!

Oh wow. Guardian meets Stone Talus! https://twitter.com/TristanACooper/status/844217178719174661