Simon Ashtear
@simonashtear.bsky.social
3D Model and graphic designer, screenplay/novel writer, editor in chief of The Best Game Never Played.
https://thebestgameneverplayed.wordpress.com/
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https://thebestgameneverplayed.wordpress.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/simonashtear
Jim Henson's Lord of the Rings!
Discuss!
Who would you re-arrange, and why? I'm not 100% solid on even my own choices. I might swap Fozzie and Gonzo into Legolas and Gimli. But then who takes THEIR places?
Is there room for Rowlf, Sweetums, Professor Honeydew & Beaker? Frodo? Balrog?
(NOT FINAL)
Discuss!
Who would you re-arrange, and why? I'm not 100% solid on even my own choices. I might swap Fozzie and Gonzo into Legolas and Gimli. But then who takes THEIR places?
Is there room for Rowlf, Sweetums, Professor Honeydew & Beaker? Frodo? Balrog?
(NOT FINAL)
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Jim Henson's Lord of the Rings!
Discuss!
Who would you re-arrange, and why? I'm not 100% solid on even my own choices. I might swap Fozzie and Gonzo into Legolas and Gimli. But then who takes THEIR places?
Is there room for Rowlf, Sweetums, Professor Honeydew & Beaker? Frodo? Balrog?
(NOT FINAL)
Discuss!
Who would you re-arrange, and why? I'm not 100% solid on even my own choices. I might swap Fozzie and Gonzo into Legolas and Gimli. But then who takes THEIR places?
Is there room for Rowlf, Sweetums, Professor Honeydew & Beaker? Frodo? Balrog?
(NOT FINAL)
The big end-of-year annual Twitch Recaps are out. I'm somewhere in the top 10% of all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows streamers (3rd year in a row!), AND somewhere (who can say precisely where?) in the top 10% of all Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin streamers!
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The big end-of-year annual Twitch Recaps are out. I'm somewhere in the top 10% of all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows streamers (3rd year in a row!), AND somewhere (who can say precisely where?) in the top 10% of all Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin streamers!
Pharmacists have introduced their new child-proof pill bottle cap.
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Pharmacists have introduced their new child-proof pill bottle cap.
"You will be visited by 3 spirits..."
The Three Spirits:
The Three Spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"You will be visited by 3 spirits..."
The Three Spirits:
The Three Spirits:
How does sinister raspy dude, Michael Wincott, wind up as a villain in TWO Alexandre Dumas adaptations. This, and the prison torturer "we whip you on your anniversary" guy in Count of Monte Cristo.
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
How does sinister raspy dude, Michael Wincott, wind up as a villain in TWO Alexandre Dumas adaptations. This, and the prison torturer "we whip you on your anniversary" guy in Count of Monte Cristo.
That last ad for the racing chocobo should have read: "Floor it, or get out of the KWEH!"
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
That last ad for the racing chocobo should have read: "Floor it, or get out of the KWEH!"
NOBODY PANIC! I've been dreaming of and training for this my entire childhood. Were there any clues or riddles left at the crime scene which require math, history, or geographic knowledge to solve?
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
NOBODY PANIC! I've been dreaming of and training for this my entire childhood. Were there any clues or riddles left at the crime scene which require math, history, or geographic knowledge to solve?
(2/3) It just came out too soon, a year before Steam & digital distribution hit the mainstream in a big way. If it somehow could've waited, they wouldn't have needed a publisher, & I believe the game would've had the recognition it deserved.
October 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
(2/3) It just came out too soon, a year before Steam & digital distribution hit the mainstream in a big way. If it somehow could've waited, they wouldn't have needed a publisher, & I believe the game would've had the recognition it deserved.
(1/3) I followed OMF:BG's development since before Alpha. I even got to test the game & meet Diversions, in-person. The publisher, Tri-Synergy, pushed the game out before it was fully polished. But, Diversions kept updating & auto-patching it.
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
(1/3) I followed OMF:BG's development since before Alpha. I even got to test the game & meet Diversions, in-person. The publisher, Tri-Synergy, pushed the game out before it was fully polished. But, Diversions kept updating & auto-patching it.
Gundam Wing wasn't my introduction to anime, but it was what got me hooked! I loved Endless Duel! (I love giant fightin' robots, in general. I'll talk your ear off about One Must Fall: Battlegrounds) I loved & wanted a Deathscythe so much, I learned 3D modeling, just so I could build one myself!
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Gundam Wing wasn't my introduction to anime, but it was what got me hooked! I loved Endless Duel! (I love giant fightin' robots, in general. I'll talk your ear off about One Must Fall: Battlegrounds) I loved & wanted a Deathscythe so much, I learned 3D modeling, just so I could build one myself!
Hang on... This Toreador looks familiar.
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hang on... This Toreador looks familiar.
What an oddly specific thought. Okay, not that odd. Have you met my friend, Maggie Weston from the '90s cartoon, Exo-Squad?
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
What an oddly specific thought. Okay, not that odd. Have you met my friend, Maggie Weston from the '90s cartoon, Exo-Squad?
The finale of Super Metroid (my first thought). The finale of Majora's Mask. Going Super Sonic.
I'm going to go in the other direction & say the very beginning. I felt ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE the very first moment I fired up the proton pack in Ghostbusters: The Video Game from 2009.
I'm going to go in the other direction & say the very beginning. I felt ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE the very first moment I fired up the proton pack in Ghostbusters: The Video Game from 2009.
October 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The finale of Super Metroid (my first thought). The finale of Majora's Mask. Going Super Sonic.
I'm going to go in the other direction & say the very beginning. I felt ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE the very first moment I fired up the proton pack in Ghostbusters: The Video Game from 2009.
I'm going to go in the other direction & say the very beginning. I felt ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE the very first moment I fired up the proton pack in Ghostbusters: The Video Game from 2009.
I love that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 was able to recreate this exchange in Robert Carlyle's spectacular delivery.
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I love that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 was able to recreate this exchange in Robert Carlyle's spectacular delivery.
I wonder if anyone knows Savage, the '90s lion simulator. Start as a cub, grow to adulthood, find a pride, hunt for food and water, avoid poachers. I never made it very far. Of all things, I saw it advertised on an TV home shopping network, not in any gaming mags.
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I wonder if anyone knows Savage, the '90s lion simulator. Start as a cub, grow to adulthood, find a pride, hunt for food and water, avoid poachers. I never made it very far. Of all things, I saw it advertised on an TV home shopping network, not in any gaming mags.
It SO WAS TOTALLY on MINE! :D
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It SO WAS TOTALLY on MINE! :D
@pixelmusement.com
"The moment you find the game interesting, stop watching and grab a copy yourself."
YO! Now I can finish watching your ADG Filler #101 video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVi...
"The moment you find the game interesting, stop watching and grab a copy yourself."
YO! Now I can finish watching your ADG Filler #101 video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVi...
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@pixelmusement.com
"The moment you find the game interesting, stop watching and grab a copy yourself."
YO! Now I can finish watching your ADG Filler #101 video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVi...
"The moment you find the game interesting, stop watching and grab a copy yourself."
YO! Now I can finish watching your ADG Filler #101 video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVi...
And if we're lucky...
(He's smiling, so I think he's into it)
(He's smiling, so I think he's into it)
September 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And if we're lucky...
(He's smiling, so I think he's into it)
(He's smiling, so I think he's into it)
Done-in-1!
Kidding aside, The Secret World's first act takes place in Maine. The Walking Dead loves to use Georgia as a setting. Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in Georgia and Louisiana. Location is very important to all of those.
Kidding aside, The Secret World's first act takes place in Maine. The Walking Dead loves to use Georgia as a setting. Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in Georgia and Louisiana. Location is very important to all of those.
September 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Done-in-1!
Kidding aside, The Secret World's first act takes place in Maine. The Walking Dead loves to use Georgia as a setting. Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in Georgia and Louisiana. Location is very important to all of those.
Kidding aside, The Secret World's first act takes place in Maine. The Walking Dead loves to use Georgia as a setting. Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in Georgia and Louisiana. Location is very important to all of those.
I thought I recognized that red car. The car also appears in the opening to Double Dragon IV.
August 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I thought I recognized that red car. The car also appears in the opening to Double Dragon IV.
Little Caesar's Pizza has a promotional Fantastic Four pizza. Each 4th represents a different person. I think the jalapeno one is obviously Human Torch. The crumbly sausage is The Thing. But the last 2, a pepperoni & plain cheese, which one is which? Which one is Reed, which one is Sue, & why?
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Little Caesar's Pizza has a promotional Fantastic Four pizza. Each 4th represents a different person. I think the jalapeno one is obviously Human Torch. The crumbly sausage is The Thing. But the last 2, a pepperoni & plain cheese, which one is which? Which one is Reed, which one is Sue, & why?
GOG is a pretty cool place to buy your games.
freedomtobuy.games
GOG is offering a sale on a bunch of "controversial" games. It's not just spicy adult games, but they're offering discounts on the Postal series, another notorious game that was nearly banned for violence.
freedomtobuy.games
GOG is offering a sale on a bunch of "controversial" games. It's not just spicy adult games, but they're offering discounts on the Postal series, another notorious game that was nearly banned for violence.
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
GOG is a pretty cool place to buy your games.
freedomtobuy.games
GOG is offering a sale on a bunch of "controversial" games. It's not just spicy adult games, but they're offering discounts on the Postal series, another notorious game that was nearly banned for violence.
freedomtobuy.games
GOG is offering a sale on a bunch of "controversial" games. It's not just spicy adult games, but they're offering discounts on the Postal series, another notorious game that was nearly banned for violence.
"Got yer nose!"
If you're enjoying Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen this much, I think you're going to enjoy Dragon's Dogma 2, too.
If you're enjoying Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen this much, I think you're going to enjoy Dragon's Dogma 2, too.
July 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Got yer nose!"
If you're enjoying Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen this much, I think you're going to enjoy Dragon's Dogma 2, too.
If you're enjoying Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen this much, I think you're going to enjoy Dragon's Dogma 2, too.
Going to enjoy tonight's podcast, heating up a frozen pizza with additional custom toppings. Then, wash it all down with a great big mug o'briney goodness!
July 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Going to enjoy tonight's podcast, heating up a frozen pizza with additional custom toppings. Then, wash it all down with a great big mug o'briney goodness!