beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

yasunori mitsuda is a legend dude, some of the best music to ever grace my ears. i can't hear it without smiling. there's something so special about his compositions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyrQa1_P-oY

okay just to balance out the video game industry doomspeak, here's some devs that are actually doing absolutely insane shit.

dusk's new hd/modding update will automatically detect any goldsrc game on your computer and let you mount it INSIDE DUSK. nobody asked for this feature but that's fucking cool.

Playing Half-Life WITHIN DUSK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyvOHC_2cjI

What's up with so many major game designers/directors ending up being more or less hacks? Lots of them seem gimmicky, pretentious, or that they otherwise don't really understand what it was that made their past work so great in the first place. Kojima, Miyamoto, Aonuma, Todd Howard, David Jaffe, Neil Druckmann, just to name a few. Even Sakurai, as much as I like him and regardless of how much he works, has been guilty of this in the past. This extends to other media as well and it's why I no longer feel any hype towards advertisement campaigns that use "we brought back the original creator!" as a selling point. It seems like often it is the fans that understand the game more than the creator did when he made it. I heavily subscribe to the "death of the author" mentality because the author will usually screw things up if you put all your stock in them.

i don't know the artist but i love this picture. very wholesome. santa will definitely be bringing her good presents this year :)