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Tom Driveimpossiblyquicklyer
Tom Walker tries desperately, with halting success, to complete some very basic missions in Grand Theft Auto 4 while all the cars on the map lose their fucking minds. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Come for the comedy car deaths, stay for the slow evolution of a "this is a horror stealth game" playstyle that makes it at all possible to make progress.
i've heard of chiptunes but
Warning: sharp, startling static sounds
Turns out if you crash a GBA game and wait a couple hours, it will start singing the entire content of its memory to you: Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it
Turns out if you crash a GBA game and wait a couple hours, it will start singing the entire content of its memory to you: Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it
the penguins are gathering in a circle
Vaporwave goodbye to the waking world in dreamcore95.exe, a chill, short idle game with impeccable vibes and, if that's not enough inducement, also a defragging widget.
i've heard of marble madness but
Ivan Miranda decides to use a lot of 3D printing and a lot of hand tooling to, both figuratively and literally, roll his own seven-segment digital clock: Building a Marble Clock - part 1 and part 2.
WAH WAH WAH! [wah wah wah wah waaaaaaah]
Bring Me To Life but it's Otamatones
finally something involving billions that isn't late capitalism
Got some legos, need to do some long-term planning? Guess you could make a billion-year clock.
i reckon it looks amazing
Pask Makes A Mid-Century Table: a chill and genial Aussie woodworker narrates his way start to finish through a very pretty one-off dining table project that I absolutely did not start watching just because of the tiling table top pattern. Includes a brief cameo by a placid, sleepy surprise python, because Australia.
the most exciting bank switching story since SVB got shut down
How did the graphics on NES' Punch Out work? It's a little complicated!
i'm in a pipe / i cannot gripe
Nirvana's Nevermind but with the Super Mario 64 soundfont
playing a 2x4 through a tacklebox head into a foamcore cabinet
About a year ago, Nashville musician Jim Lill asked: where does an electric guitar's tone come from? Lill has since asked a few more questions and done his best to document some answers in additional short entertaining videos:
- where does sustain come from?
- where does guitar string tone come from?
- does scale length affect the tone?
- where does speaker cabinet tone come from?
- where does amplifier head tone come from?
- where does sustain come from?
- where does guitar string tone come from?
- does scale length affect the tone?
- where does speaker cabinet tone come from?
- where does amplifier head tone come from?
ah yes, the deadly jumbotron
Using only a pixel baseball bat and one (or possibly more) balls, can you fend off an ever-increasing swarm of abstract dots? Find out in the delightful Vampire Survivors-alike Bases Loaded.
2008 Roofball World Championships
Throw the ball on the roof. 1. If you catch it when it comes down, that's a point. 2. If it hits the big chimney pipe, that's five points for a Ping. 3. If it goes up on one side of the ping pipe and down on the other, that's an Around for ten points. 4. If it hits the the small chimney pipe, that's a five point multiplier for the catch itself. 5. If it hits the grey Volvo on the way down, that's minus one point. 6. If it goes over the house, that's minus five points and you have to go get the ball.
Got it? Good. Let's play Roofball.
Got it? Good. Let's play Roofball.
secrets of the abyss
A short surreal animated film by Felix Colgrave: DONKS.
lost your keys in the spacetime curvature again
Woodworker Olivier Gomis builds a wormhole-themed coffee table.
So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. It's time. It's time to be green.
you're a rich_lord, but you've gone too far
Black Growth, Green Growth, and Creepy Eyes: three of a number of fascinating and unsettling procedural animations by rich_lord.
it's kind of like Suspiria but for synth nerds with perms
The year is very very definitely 1971, and these are Rare Moog Dancers.
if Tetris were Thanksgiving dinner with your shittiest uncle
Want to hate Tetris, or for Tetris to hate you? The answer may be Hatetris (which you can play here), an adversarial Tetris game (by MeFi's Own qntm) that tries to serve you the worst possible pieces you could ever not hope for. Here's a detailed writeup of understanding and breaking the high score record by David & Filipe, who just shattered their previous record with 148 whole points.
We got blood red martinis / We got Christina Ricci
Come and find me / at the Goth Beach
taking Silent Hill cosplay in a different direction
I! Love! My! Mom! [gutteral screaming]
Youtube music types Adam Neely and Rob Scallon give each other crash courses in writing and playing songs in their respective genres in: Metal Musician Sucks At Jazz and its companion piece Jazz Musician Sucks At Metal.
I think that I think therefore I am, or do I and am I? Also: a montage.
Here's an interesting 25-minute video essay from Mike Rugnetta on dirt on camera lenses, questioning the principle of suspension of disbelief, Descartes vs. Spinoza on evaluating truth, and the nature of our internal engagement with fiction.
*pulls out acoustic guitar* anyway, here's Redwall
You ever wish you were an adventurous pixel-art mouse doing inventory tetris while exploring a randomly-generated dungeon and engaging in turn-based combat with wee slimes and hostile rodentia? Great, you should play Backpack Hero. You should also play it if you haven't specifically wished for that previously, because it's delightful and charming and good.
Beastly AIs known to let the piece, mmm...drop
In his blog post "Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris?", theoretical computer science researcher Antoine Amarilli asks: can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris? Specifically, even if the computer hates you and doesn't want to let you? [more inside]
Gonna go down to Black Mesa and get myself a BajaaAAaaAa Blast
The opening tram ride of classic 1998 first person shooter Half-Life except the tram guide uses the TikTok text-to-speech voice.
Try pinky, but hole
Tiny Elden Ring: Elden Ring, but zoomed out and tilt-shifted and everything moving in a low-framerate Harryhausen stutter.
I bless the rains down in Kokiri
Africa, by Toto, played entirely on in-game instruments in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Into the thick of it, into the thick of it
Long-time very-online creative inter alia video type person Hank Green discusses how fucked TikTok's revenue-sharing is and why that's fine for TikTok-the-cash-cow but a bad long-term investment in TikTok-the-creative-hub.
street fighter, more like, uh, sheet...highlighter
Fabien Sanglard looks into when Capcom stopped laying out CPS-1 arcade sprite sheets by hand with scissors.
Frasier looking at videogames
I hope you like Frasier looking at video games, because all you'll find at this link is Frasier looking at video games.
you take your car to work, i'll elaborately detail a longboard
Can I interest you in a wordless 14-minute timelapse video of making a fancy surfboard?
Niftski and 420 blazeit, when the frame rule fell
Everybody knows that improving the 2016 Super Mario Bros. non-tool-assisted speedrun record was physically impossible. What this documentary breakdown of SMB speedrun progress since then presupposes is: maybe it wasn't? [more inside]
don't say it yet
Musical force of nature Tom Cardy has a helpful suggestion for finding that thing you can't find. [Note: a bit sweary.]
really tied the level geometry together
RugsInGames is a twitter account that documents the appearance of at least one rug in a given video game.
quadtree quarterpounders
Low Poly Videogame Foods is a twitter account that aggregates images of low polygon-count food objects in videogames.
technically this is the opposite of a walkthrough
How to beat The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, a game in which you walk all over a sprawling world and through the dungeons and houses therein, but without ever actually walking anywhere. A whirlwind (see what I did there) 50 minute annotated tour through alternate forms of locomotion in the classic RPG adventure.
But, wait, are these toys circular? Neigh.
you mean to tell me a stick did this walking
Mike Stinnett carves a walking stick with a lizard and rattlesnake elements. Including some absolutely St. Francis-ass shit with a western fence lizard at one point.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a violin.
Nicolas Bras builds a sympathetic nail violin.
Whosever pulleth this splinter from this pebble
Into The Wood
Chill out to some stunning Japenese wood joinery videos from Dylan Iwakuni:
- Shihou Kama Tsugi (four-way goose neck joint)
- Kane Tsugi
- Ari Shiguchi
- Sumidome Hozo Sashi
- Kanawa Tsugi
- Shihou Kama Tsugi (four-way goose neck joint)
- Kane Tsugi
- Ari Shiguchi
- Sumidome Hozo Sashi
- Kanawa Tsugi
Respawn of the Dead (or: Cookie Crypter)
Incremancer: it's like an ant farm except the ants all get out and also the ants are zombies and also this is a good thing. Idly grow yourself an army of adorable tiny undead brain-hungry zombos and consume increasingly large and dangerous groups of humans, one overflowing graveyard at a time.
Cookie Flipper
Pincremental is a free online idle game that starts as a janky pinball sim and turns into a janky pinball automation sim.
the red drapes honestly feel a little more Lynch tho
A shot-for-shot remake of the final sequence of Kubrick's opus magnum, within the confines of a Brooklyn apartment, starring and directed and etc by artist Lydia Cambron: 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
come for the SNES sprite art, stay for The Baby Agitator
An engineer, in fine engineer fashion, decides to save time making perler bead sprite art by hand by spending nine months iterating on a modified perler bead 3D printer.
"so, i just want to emphasize that what i'm doing here is BAD"
Spend a pleasant ninety minutes watching beardy, distractible Irish sword-maker Michael Cthulhu build a massive slab of sword called The Wrektangle.
Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gor--
Half-Life 1, in VR, except it's absurdist improv comedy. Act I, part 1 in a continuing series.
Take a break and watch some chill linocut TV
Maarit Hänninen is a Finnish artist who makes linocut work, and sometimes creates short montage videos documenting the process:
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- Nymph
- Eden
intersection of cyriak and that Going To The Store guy
This music video for Very Noise by Igorrr is a hell of a thing.
never bet on the bard
Try and figure out what the hell is happening in FFT Battleground, a twitch stream that's a cross between the classic generative beat-em-up sports betting hijinks of Salty Bet and the turn-based chocobo-adjacent combat of PS1 classic Final Fantasy Tactics.
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