Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx

@goremachine.bsky.social

70 followers 150 following 640 posts

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · Feb 11

Minion!!

Updates Tuesdays, usually

1 5 14

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 9h

why does anime food look so good

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 14h

oh is that what brown sauce is. well i dont respect that either

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 15h

i want to support you in this but “brown sauce” come on

1 1

Reposted by xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx

台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 1d

2 110 300

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 17h

and she doesnt read usagi yojimbo

1 1

Reposted by xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx

Chase @chaseburns.art · 18h

a digital illustration of a humanoid robot with a detached faceplate. the interior of the head doesn't resemble anything human at all. there is a label pointing to the faceplate reading "this is the real one"

3 7

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 21h

imagine doing an elaborate scheme to make your child into a great artist and he ends up writing the pillowman

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 21h

[corvo voice] i have to keep killing. its done incredible things for her artistic abilities

1 2

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 21h

do npcs get judgmental towards you if you kill a lot or something? that seems fine, im only like 2 missions in and im already a world-historical-scale mass murderer

1 1

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 21h

alignment systems in games are inherently kind of silly but idk what there is to complain about. every area is a big non-linear maze of rat holes to sneak around or you can go flying across the map and do 100 flips with your trick blade to decapitate a guy so you can throw his corpse at his buddies

1 2

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 21h

overseer goon: you made someone a widow, damn you

corvo: dishonored discourse makes me so so so unbelievably anti-gamer. just stop whining and

1 1

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

cube is great. all the sequels are varying degrees of terrible. cube zero is funny because instead of the cube being an automated death maze it periodically cuts to a guy with a cybernetic eyeball going “grr! activate the laser tripwires!”

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

the funniest part of this is that while some of these narrow counters were released very early on in japan (anti-raigeki was 1999), their american releases post-date the vastly more sensible choose-your-own-targeted-hate card Prohibition, making them even more useless

1 1

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

scud is hugely inspirational from a visual perspective and i definitely recommend checking it out, but the way scud’s love interest is written is so irritatingly 90s nerd culture “feminist.” you can really feel dan harmon’s fingerprints all over the dang thing

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

granted a lot of tcg theory was just barely starting to develop in the early 2000s so you expect to see some design missteps like these, but i dont think mtg ever even attempted one-card counters like this, and it’s pretty clear why

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

they make an obvious kind of sense at first blush but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where deploying these cards feels clever/fun, and they’re so specific that even sideboarding them feels bad. it also feels obvious that any kind of balance change would immediately outmode them which feels bad too

1 1

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

the best one is of course “weather report” because he’s a little guy. i dont know why hes called that or why a weather report would counter “swords of revealing light”

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

all of these rule. i love the occult lightning rod that counters raigeki (thunderbolt). monster reborn has two separate specific counters for some reason!

1 1

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

silence, dishonored player

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

your stuff has always kinda felt reminiscent of dead leaves-era gainax/ttgl-era studio trigger to me. also rob schrab’s scud but cleaner-looking and less misogynist

1 2

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like these card-specific counters are probably poor game design for several reasons but they really amuse me. sometimes you just want to tell your opponent to fuck all the way off

Excavate Card Bot @cards.excavate.top · 1d

Gryphon Wing

2 1 2

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 2d

if they flew over the bay they’d be bagels!!

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of tcgs have cards designed for limited formats that you read and go “huh, this use case seems pretty narrow.” yugioh is the only game ive ever seen regularly print cards that expect you to engineer a highly specific, unlikely scenario for a practically negligible payoff

Excavate Card Bot @cards.excavate.top · 3d

Final Fusion

Reposted by xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx

Jenny Briar @jennybriar.bsky.social · 12d

well if it's the OFFICIAL theme I suppose I should un-private it soundcloud.com/spraxheart/h...

Here's The Hereafter! (Theme from

LYRICS No more gods, still some masters No more heroes, only bastards Stare into the setting sun The Minions' work is never done Progress choked to death on its own laughter White face, black eyes Wo

soundcloud.com

1 2 2

xX_GOREMACHINE_Xx @goremachine.bsky.social · 3d

but to answer your question i believe stanley is not flat for four of the five sequels by the original author (although he does get turned invisible in one of them) and then returns to being flat in the sixth book, at which point the bicycle pump is unable to return him to non-flatness

1 1 3