For our final translation this month, we have a vintage interview with Masanobu Endo and Shigesato Itoi from 1985, shortly after Endo departed Namco and founded Game Studio. This is a "friendly banter" style interview with lots of witty, provocative assertions from Itoi. shmuplations.com/endoitoi/
Her body is a womanβs body, and a tantalizing one β but the physical is best left to individualized examination, ideally in person. What Iβm interested in interrogating here are the social factors that result in her particular sensual appeal.
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woman-honoring fantasies of impregnation are about building something new and beautiful together. and woman-honoring fantasies of sex without pregnancy are about prioritizing pleasure in the moment and each other's bodies without caring about the future.
R-Type title screen. It says the game was reprogrammed by Sega, but it often happened that the development of games supposedly "reprogrammed by Sega" had in fact been outsourced.
Hiroshi RyΕ«Εin, mecha/character designer on Dennin Aleste, Spriggan 1 and 2, and Aleste Gaiden, worked on the Mark III version of R-Typeβhis first job in the video game industry. He also mentioned having worked briefly with Rieko Kodama shortly after joining Compile.
byrne had a weird beef with etrigan's rhyming gimmick... he tried to get rid of it during his superman run too.
Please watch this episode, @flannel.live and I got to be on the Doukyuusei portion!!
you really gotta be some kind of saint to put up with my bullshit, asa.
hb, lolo.
are you going to become a game show maven like rachel retro, july? scary...
I Will: The Story of London is amazing www.twitch.tv/retropals/cl...
ya know, I'm brazilian and grew up reading that mag completly oblivious to the tec toy connection and without finding anything wrong with the sega bias... I guess a lot u.s. kids were the same way with nintendo power.
BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.
I think that's from daimos, right? I remember the show having an agressively anti-war sentiment that was very welcome.
don't die, chyron.
"Densha de GO! 2 isnβt worried getting to drive a train is not fun, challenging, or complex enough of an activity to hang an entire game on, because of course it is."
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Here' a new article everyone can read on the Mega Drive's unique, ambitious, and endlessly inventive take on classic Castlevania:
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Besides the point that "irreversible medical intervention" is a weaselly, dogshit framing, the takeaway from these things is always going to be that the people these articles are targeted to can only see themselves in the person who turned out not to be trans, and therefore only they matter
an entire generation and everyone coming up after them have essentially been making pirate tv stations for each other on repurposed video game streaming websites for like about a decade now. if we had the money that demonic old baby boomers have poured into nasty jesus creeps you would be astonished
I can just go back to my hole, and it'd be pretentious to say anybody'd miss me, but I wish I could help them somehow.
I've always been too much of a misanthrope to really make good use of social media, but it guts me seeing friends and creative people I care about being cornered with nowhere to go as web 2.0 crashes and burns.
At the time, Mastercard was facing massive pressure from the anti-porn lobbyists. Exodus Cry, a fringe Evangelical organization, launched the viral #traffickinghub campaignβframing these efforts as anti-trafficking activism, though its actual mission is to βabolish the commercial sex industryβ altogether, as it stated on a 2020 tax return. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), formerly known as βMorality in Media,β also positions itself as a defender against sexual exploitation, but in fact lobbies against all forms of sexual expression, including same-sex marriage and decriminalization of consensual sex work. In 2021, the organization awarded Mastercard a βCorporate Leadership Awardβ for its new policies.
"But is all this pressure on adult content really coming from payment processors?"
Yup. They don't hide it. In fact, they proudly accept awards from conservative think tanks for their anti-sex policies:
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Wow, Return to Monkey Island is really cheap today! If youβve been holding out for a bargain, nowβs the time! store.steampowered.com/app/2060130/...
Square-Enix scanned the original Chrono Trigger production artworks and made a video containing very very close-up shots of them. an opportunity to see Toriyama linework/colorwork in such fine detail is a real treasure www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDI_...
Baroque's such a special game - let me tell you why:
(And then click the "Further Reading" links at the bottom for information on everything from prequels and promotional discs to shmup spinoffs!)
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Please, Sting, I am begging you to look at youtube and see the size of your english and spanish speaking fan base and Give Us That Shit ππ
this contradiction being like the cursed knowledge that people are i guess too scared to confront fully (same with the relationship between the family and disciplinary violence) is part of why people are so poorly equipped to mobilize against violence against women and trans people alike
I think it's time for a lot of us trans people to learn the difference between performative activism and true activism
Corporations are largely not your friends, but when you see a CEO or owner getting arrested/detained for activism you know that's real, their livelihood and business is on the line
Oh, this week's Arcade Archives is a good one- Taito's 1980 protect-em-up Steel Worker, when you have to construct a path for the worker to keep him safe, with more points awarded for longer pathways. A very interesting early arcade puzzle game, of sorts!
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Text from Simone reading: For the record, it's okay to be a lesbian or not a lesbian these days. You can be as gay as you want.
I don't know who needs to hear this but...here you go.
