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I don’t consider myself even Gundam-adjacent but in light of recent developments, this Austin Walker clip from Giant Bomb’s PAX East 2019 panel has been bouncing around in my head, so

everything I remember about Grease in a weird american accent

i literally never use this anymore but man, on a whim, did anyone ever save this video. at least five times a year i get desperate to watch this and it’s just fully, totally gone.

Whenever Yoshi is left alone in Super Mario Galaxy 2, he will vibrate slightly. Since he oscillates about 30 times per second and the movement is minuscule, this is hard to see when playing the game on a console. Here it is zoomed in and slowed down.

what could be sweeter than this slow motion vision of an oscillating yoshi vibrating slightly

Is the anime they speak of?

i finally became anime

Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Instagram:@markusprimelives “spike” bebop

Gaming for Millennials

The average Millennial gets up the crack of noon in their parents’ house and spends an hour looking through thousands of shoddy t-shirts printed with The Smiths and Joy Division to attempt to look good for selfie number one. Fumbling through thousands of cat memes they contemplate: which video game shall I play until 3am whilst giving a minimal fuck about getting a job in an abattoir on a zero hour contract?

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cara ellison fuck with your soul like ether

willful ignorance masquerading as victory

This phenomenon is nothing new, but this is such such a perfect and widespread example of it that I feel compelled to comment on it. 

Over the past few days, this image…

…has been tweeted thousands of times by people claiming that it represents a contradiction. It with tremendous glee by people acting as if they have incontrovertible proof of hypocrisy. 

But it doesn’t remotely represent a contradiction. Let’s quickly break down what these two tweets are.

The first tweet is a link to this video from June of 2014…

…which uses the fact that many people, including me, thought, upon our first glimpse of Link in the next Zelda game (a Link who looks like this, by the way)…

…that this Link just might be female, to launch into an argument for how a female Link would both be cool and would totally work within the series lore.

The second tweet was a link, following the announcement of Linkle (who looks like this, by the way)…

…to a great article by Jess Joho for Kill Screen.

I’m fairly certain that most people who hopped on the bandwagon of tweeting that image around didn’t even take the most cursory glance at the article, since doing so would have made it clear that it is hardly hypocritical to both want a female Link and to agree with that article, since the article itself also argues in favor of a female Link, while very strongly arguing that Linkle (ugh) is not the female Link the author (and I, and others) wanted. In fact, the headline of that article is:

This is part of what the article says:

So look, you can take issue with the substance of Joho’s arguments if you want, though I agree with them 100%. But to say that it’s hypocritical to want a female Link and then to tweet an article arguing in favor of a female Link is to demonstrate that you don’t care about engaging with the discussion in any real way, and perhaps that you think women arguing for better representation in video games should just shut the fuck up and be happy with whatever meager, pandering scraps they get. In any case, you just want to tear down people on the other side of the ideological fence, and you don’t care if the tools you use to do that are complete bullshit.

BADMAN: A Dragon Ball Zine

BADMAN is a Dragon Ball Fan Zine.

Inspired by conversations with Austin Walker, BADMAN seeks to explore the world of Dragon Ball and our personal relationships to it.

What are we looking for? Fic, poetry, sketches, collages, paintings, RP logs, descriptions of your OCs, personal essays, academic treatises, and anything else that will work in a PDF. 

We want work that plays with Dragon Ball, that admires it, that tears it apart, that fantasizes about it. 

We want your Vegito/Chi-Chi/Bulma nontraditional family arrangement fiction, we want your deconstructions of Frieza as feminized colonial power, we want to know your old MUD character’s hair color and heartbreaking struggles.

Okay but what specifically? Check out Austin Walker’s essay Afterimage Technique, merritt’s GIF poems, and basically anything by Eighteen for some ideas.

Any other requirements or limits? Anything related to Dragon Ball (including Z, GT, Super, etc.) is fine to submit. Erotic and violent content is great, but we reserve the right to not include any material that’s racist, sexist, transphobic, or otherwise gross. And you have to be 18 years or older to submit.

When should I send it by? January 1, 2016

Send questions and submissions to merrittkopas@gmail.com

at approximately 40% to 60% completion, this is what my images look like.

I... I like these all a whole bunch? maybe more than the completed works?

by sparth [Nicolas Bouvier]

Ville 5 personal work. 2015

Most of the promotional art for Deus Ex used the low-poly Unreal 1-engine in-game models. As it turns out, there’s probably a pretty good reason for that.

Apparently salvaged from a press asset disc circa E3 1999.