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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4h

Finished playing Anthology of the Killer last night. It's a collection of short adventure games about death and murder. In fact it might be the most about death and murder than anything else about death and murder. It goes hard and goofy and incredibly heavy when it wants to and I kind of love it.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things I did in a game this year was to open up tc_hydro and run around listening to the developer commentary. It has so many unusual spaces you don’t really see on any other map.

It’s funny how some of early TF2’s prettiest and most artistically coherent maps kinda suck to play.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming I ever manage to make a game, it will naturally have to be about ridiculously violent catgirls…

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 2d

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that’s one of ‘em!!!

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been however many years of video games having been invented and I still can only think of like 2 where you can do a piledriver in first-person.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another awfully slow day at the Squidward crushing factory.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4d

Art is something I wish I gave more serious consideration to while I was still developing skills. Instead of learning fundamentals or any important principles I mostly learned how to copy or approximate where the lines should go to look like the other thing. Do people ever overcome this?

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4d

Had a dream that Seth McFarlane produced and directed a legally distinct Helluva Boss spoof that was somehow better in every way. It appeared next to the original show when you searched it and had 58% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes a joke is worth examining just to see what it can tell you about jokes.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a shelf of AD&D adventure modules on the shelf at my parents’ house, and at some point I’d like to go through them and evaluate them as a resource for general level design. I think if you can make dungeons drawn on graph paper engaging to walk players through you are already ready for a lot.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like Aperture being a competitor to Black Mesa makes more sense in the context of this first game. Maybe it's just because it's more clearly a modded HL2, but Aperture behind the scenes feel more industrial and less techno-magical like 2. Or maybe it's just the giant pistons that do nothing.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 5d

Very fun game. It's a much drier and more compact experience than the sequel but in a lot of ways this is a good thing. Being able to blow through it in half an afternoon helps the pacing a lot and the puzzle complexity ramps up at about the right rate for that.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 5d

Playing Portal for the first time and I have a headache so I feel like I'm taking in less than I should, but at least one thing I noticed is the mood of the soundtrack. Around the chamber you get the dual portal gun it gets very distinct from what the 2nd game's would be and I kinda dig it more.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 6d

Zeno Clash fascinates me for a number of reasons. One is just how someone mangled the Source engine into a first-person beat-'em-up, another because of the weird moment in time and place that it occupies, and lastly because it's just so... weird and cool absorbing whatever the hell this world is.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t worry, folks. He’ll get the help he needs.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 7d

I am at the point where I feel like I got to go to the library and check out a book teaching you how to draw cars or dragons if I ever want to learn a dam thing in my life.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 7d

Doodles of war and violence (funny) at work

(Tagged for some blood and guts)

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 8d

Scribbles at work of hundreds of moles maybe #antonblast

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains…

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 8d

In my mind the ideal player character for any Dark Souls game should look like they walked off the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 9d

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 9d

The AVGN Castlevania Halloween episodes are probably still my favorite ones. It’s a good mix of the Nerd being cranky and honestly having fun, and even if he still “prefers the classics” he does a good job articulating why, making good observations on the series identity and what appeals to him.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 9d

Anton Blart: Mad Mall Cop

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes.

Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants.

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Shutdown Day Guide For LGBTQ+ People: "Continuing Resolutions" And New Anti-Trans Posts From The White House

Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.

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