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Edzio K.
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Angularity and reactivity. Immersive Sim. Project Anarres developer. Anarchist. He / Him.
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Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · Mar 21
All but text is in a gradient of black to red. A woman with grafting artifact lines traversing her face, skull and neck stares toward. An expression either neutral or with an air of contempt or with a subtle note of curiosity; something of an eye caught during a violent saccade. Her right side is distorted as if through curved vertical glass panes that refract to repeating waves. Her name is white beneath a bar code — Anaïs Vos. Protagonist of Project Anarres (202X). An independent game by yours truly and @terminallyonline.dev.
demiurge.bsky.social
Fucked up anew remembering how perfectly The Brutalist (2024) was photographed.
A bearded man who has been wearied and dirtied from toil appears distraught, overcome with emotion in some modest dinner booth. His eyes red and gleaming with pain as he holds newspaper clippings and photographs. A man reaches for a glass by the windows of an apartment. Blinds segment the scene horizontally and perpendicular is the perfect vertical flare of light on the lens. It also erodes the silhouette of the man. The light of day reaches only so far in the vaulting quarry tunnel of marble. Silhouetted against the veined stone of rectilinear cut are three figures. On twilight reflecting waters, the lights and boats of Venice. Green and teal against the silhouetted forms of towers and boats. Brilliant is the gradient of the sky that hems the horizon with a deep purple.
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
Anaïs WIP featuring her jacket — a counterfeit Wall Cloud purchased in a slum on Naima.

#GameDev
A model suspended isolated in Blender — a gray tapered jacket with a collar reaching down past the collar bone. The inside features a black and white pattern recalling the stripes of a white tiger though whatever hide or fur skinned is from a creature not of this world. Coloured bars are glimpsed as the logo for the fashioner of this piece. As glimpsed on the continuing WIP model of Anaïs Vos — a tall and severe woman with raven hair whose preliminary garb is still diffuse and monocolour in black. Aside now from the jacket.
January 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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artistschiele.bsky.social
Portrait of the Painter Anton Peschka, 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24856
Egon Schiele's "Portrait of the Painter Anton Peschka" is a striking piece showcasing Peschka in profile, imbued with Schiele's distinctive use of bold outlines and expressive color palette. The work reflects Schiele’s innovative approach to composition and form, emphasizing the introspective character of his contemporary and brother-in-law, Anton Peschka.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
demiurge.bsky.social
I can't recommend Embrace the Void more highly.
etvpod.bsky.social Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d
New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @rechelon.bsky.social to discuss his excellent book Did the Science Wars Take Place? We focus in particular on his breakdown of different kinds of relativism and how they are problematic in leftist spaces. Enjoy!
Did the Science Wars Take Place? with William Gillis — Embrace The Void
My guest this week is anarchist activist William Gillis, author of the book Did the Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism. We cover the many flavors of anti-real...
www.voidpod.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
One Battle After Another (2025).

One-hundred percent kino.

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Against the tufts of brush on the desert silhouette the gleaming fence, rim-lit, this phalanx of razors dissect the world. Almost occluding in this frame the soft gradient of indigo of twilight. A storefront of adumbrated lights and forms, barred with steel. A call is made from a payphone by a woman with a look pregnant with the notion that all could change by such a thing. The many hues of a vibrant street. Men dressed for war. Redundantly stitched plate carriers and camouflage patterns. In white majuscule, "POLICE" is branded on them. One has his rifle raised as if its use was imminent. By the red light of a device, a young woman's anguish is all that can be seen in the darkness of her lot. The vastness of her face is creased into sadness.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
WIP.
An atrium in what appears to be a contemporary museum or art gallery — walls of annihilating white and arches that lead to hallways of vast canvases. A statue is foregrounded whose red marble suggests a flayed or skinless figure. Their posture is neutral but their head is angled downward, the one note of recognition to an arriving viewer. A destroyed statue bust — rendered faceless in unrest with a piece of supportive rebar exposed. It is mounted on a white display in a museum with a plaque whose specifics are almost illegible but for a perfunctory title, "Destroyed Statue of Laurent Aeche" and a date indicating a completely otherworldly provenance, "397".
December 29, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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fredaugis.bsky.social
An illustration made the last year on ram inspiration.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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alexbpart.bsky.social
I've been saying for a a lot longer than the current Problem, but: if there's one thing working artists and the people who employ them - especially in games- could do to keep art... art, it's to dispel standardisation. We come back from this by embracing idiosyncracy, wrongness, and inefficiency
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
Viktor Antonov was a lineal inheritor of the speculative architect Lebbeus Woods. His work and insight are so tangibly and beautifully realised in the shifting, additive, subtractive, angular forms in which a final stasis is denied. Consuming. Overtaking. Combining.
The wall swallowing the city square cannot be resolved as such. Wrought of an uncertain alloy, these metallic forms recall more dark spines or the thin baleen plates that strain oceans into whales. Some angle more inward and produce a curve only to angle back out. Actuating slowly until violently clawing into the earth. Some are thinner. Others have different angles along their height. Near the base of a megastructure too vast to take even in partial measure. Angled protrusions and alien affordances are general. All disappears into clouds choked of all life and hue. Yet the perimeter of this monolith is not hermetically sealed, as though by some final gate or portcullis. It's redundant for an entire city of surveillance and control surrounds its foundation.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
demiurge.bsky.social
Half-Life 2 (2004).

Owed a debt to replay this after last year's anniversary. It still feels unlike other games — a masterpiece of visual design and composition, its full achievements are too numerous to summarize.

I recall before release it looked like something impossible.
Grayscale contours of a grim visaged man; gaunt with the recession of skin to the bone of his skull. This veneer of a person is thin yet has never been otherwise. Superimposed is the functioning of an industrial oppression, human-sized containers sorted and moved by a schema unknown. A shambling mass of what was once a shuffles in silhouette against the inferno engulfing a square. Above on a metal railing affixed to a brick building an armed figure is starkly drawn by some interior radiance. From an abject interior, the supporting arches of a bridge are seen through a window. In coastal fog, the sky is little more than a bleached gradient towards water long receded. All this glimpsed down the sights of a .357 revolver. A train station interior rising to tall height on wrought-iron windows angled towards a gable roof. A diffuse morning light passes through one to an amber glow opposite on teller windows long closed. One has between retrofitted with an angular machine at which people queue, same in their clothing. Elevated in this light a figure, fatherly in his bearing and white hair, addresses all through a towering projection screen. Its angle downward.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
demiurge.bsky.social
One Battle After Another (2025).

One-hundred percent kino.

📽️
Against the tufts of brush on the desert silhouette the gleaming fence, rim-lit, this phalanx of razors dissect the world. Almost occluding in this frame the soft gradient of indigo of twilight. A storefront of adumbrated lights and forms, barred with steel. A call is made from a payphone by a woman with a look pregnant with the notion that all could change by such a thing. The many hues of a vibrant street. Men dressed for war. Redundantly stitched plate carriers and camouflage patterns. In white majuscule, "POLICE" is branded on them. One has his rifle raised as if its use was imminent. By the red light of a device, a young woman's anguish is all that can be seen in the darkness of her lot. The vastness of her face is creased into sadness.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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kitworldz.bsky.social
CHECK OUT OUR NEW NPC

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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rainwolf-plushie.bsky.social
my sister is needing help affording physical therapy and an injections to avoid permanent spine damage so any donations would be very helpful
gofund.me/e46c0c9f1
#mutualaid #helpsky #FundSky
Donate to Help Gaby afford Spinal injections, PT and possible surgery., organized by Gaby Mitchell
Hiya, I am Gaby mitchell, also known as EBroxas72 online. I a… Gaby Mitchell needs your support for Help Gaby afford Spinal injections, PT and possible surgery.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
The texture is all done in PS. I generally avoid Substance Painter unless the model is exceptionally complex.
A gray ammo crate for 7.2mm x 6.5mm ammunition. Information stenciled in a green course around the enclosure bearing the marks of being moved and removed. More permanent are the laser cut alphanumerics. High velocity lead-antimony rounds with precise cavities for maximal frangible effect against soft tissues. ST. On a procurement sheet, in polite discussion, across conflict epidemiology papers, "soft tip" is used. Mass stamped in-house at the Villa.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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lioneltrolling.bsky.social
damn these epstein emails are crazy
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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arvy.bsky.social
Made a lowpoly Rocinante from The Expanse a couple of years ago
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
demiurge.bsky.social
Tearfully admitting to my followers that I've fallen into addiction. Europa Universalis V.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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demiurge.bsky.social
Over the Garden Wall (2014).

Impossibly thankful to my partner for introducing me to such an indescribably lovely and charming animated miniseries. Each facet wonderful; from the immersive landscapes to the adorable musical numbers to the superlative casting and performances.

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Surrounded by darkness in the marshaled gray of a hollow-way through a forest, all is veiled with fog in which two diminutive figures walk. Children both. A child wearing an upturned tea kettle upon his head holds forth with a class of animals outside their schoolhouse. All sit upon a fallen tree which juts into a pond. The light is golden through the trees behind them. A red-hulled steamer passes down a river whose foregrounded bank is dark and in perfect contrast to the amber trees of the landscape distant — even the pastel blue of the sky is inflected by the warmth. Banners decorate the vessel. Eyes of white adorn a negative space that is a figure in a snowy expanse. It has branches for horns.
October 31, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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strophariad.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Building the highwayman shot from Over the Garden Wall (2014), created by Patrick McHale, Cartoon Network Studios

Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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it's not quite a @bretdevereaux.bsky.social five-part teaching paradox series, but i did my best to explain the underlying concept of politics hearts of iron embodies... and why "meme politics" is a good way to understand how Trump II operates

www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #51: The Meme Politics of "Hearts of Iron"
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li as she explores the concept of "meme politics," which pervades the current Trump II administration, through the historical grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. In realit...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
demiurge.bsky.social
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (2022).

One of the best adventure games I've had the pleasure of discovering; a horror triumph commendably deliberate with its gradual escalation. Recalling The Wicker Man (1973) and Wake in Fright (1971), it arrestingly sustains mystery and suspense to the very end.
The beautiful austerity of the moors stretch flat to a planewise union with a gray sky robbed of all distinction and feature. On the grasses are archipelagoes of indigo heather. All in view to a still woman seated in respite on a blue bench; erected for the few in audience of this teeming earth. Scarcely visible in the fog of the night, a woman in work clothes of the previous century's turn stands spectral in the night. Blazing light pierces through the dark from a building of stone and brick. A clergyman in his clerical collar. An abject dilation of surprise plain on his aged countenance; as though a great horror had befallen him. In a garden finely manicured, a paradise displaced, a young girl stands with her father looking at him with adoration. A small circle of mushrooms rings a segment of otherwise level grounds.
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
demiurge.bsky.social
Too few speak of how hard the FACEMINER soundtrack fucks; an indictment of the "public sphere."
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
demiurge.bsky.social
A video about this game was shoved before my innocent gaze so I must attempt another playthrough. Fuck.
demiurge.bsky.social Edzio K. @demiurge.bsky.social · Jul 17
Fear & Hunger (2018).

For a game that's an exercise in masochism — mechanical and thematic — there's a compulsion to gamble on the flip of a coin that curses a run or prolongs it to depths unthinkable. I can't recommend this easily, not at all to some, and yet my admiration grows steadily.
Pallid statuesque figures adorn a menu screen; an eyeless countenance, a faceless knight, a haunted girl, a beautiful swordsman cutting off his gesturing hand and a skeletal embrace. A phantasm of ancient brilliance with the gold of the sun and columns that reach for the heavens in a city of the Gods. Lifeless forms hang in nooses from posts with the regularity of streetlamps in a castle courtyard. Mist does not veil the horror of the moment as a small party stands amid this scene. An irregular party to face the greatest darkness in depths unfathomable. A mercenary, a small child, a ravenous four-eyed wolf and a knight. Bound to a path unthinkable with almost no probability of salvation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM