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Cam-Al
@camal.bsky.social
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I write or draw or make video games or somethin, not sure

Here's some writing: https://verticalslice5.wordpress.com/
and make videos game: https://cam-al.itch.io/
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camal.bsky.social
if it helps, this writing about an over decade old game series does contain the line 'but Marx and Engels were cookin'. that do it for anyone?

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The Liminal Monetisation of Arkham Knight
Like every heterosexual twenty-five year old, I really loved that new Superman film. Unfortunately, there seem to be precisely zero good Superman video games, and I didn’t exactly fancy tryin…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
camal.bsky.social
I genuinely think the greens or lib dems of whoever should run on the slogan 'bring back the porn'
September 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
camal.bsky.social
I just realised bill and ted are spongebob and patrick and that explains all of my taste in art
July 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
camal.bsky.social
Can't stop writin about Fromsoftware

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Dark Souls 3’s Magic Sucks, and it Matters
Okay, Imma skip the fuckin about at the start because that comes later. Dark Souls 3’s magic sucks, here’s why: first, just doesn’t do much damage. Pump as many points into INT/FTH/both as you like…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
camal.bsky.social
Normally it's much easier for me to write about things I hate so I tried to write about something I really liked

spodeymun

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The Boundless Empathy of Spiderman 2 (the video game, not the film, though that probably also applies there)
Spoilers for the whole game So I played through Spiderman 2 last month or so—really bashed through it on some of the hottest days of the year, almost melted my GPU—and it slaps. It has major techni…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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sephiramy.bsky.social
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.
May 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
camal.bsky.social
Had enough
Texts Ive sent saying: Hi (name scrubbed out) Thank you but that doesn't sound like the kind of position I'm interested in Thanks for wasting my time with this fake job posting, you're really living up to your 'lean' efficient values
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
camal.bsky.social
I support dissolving the monarchy just so we can change our dreary ass national anthem
May 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
camal.bsky.social
Post a sequel that really hits

The darksiders games are for dorks like me, and 2 prefects the balance of all the elements it brazenly stole and adds a whole bunch of seamless rpg stuff. Plus, bangin soundtrack by Jesper Kyd and an overcool art style
Darksiders 2 on the xbox 360
May 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
camal.bsky.social
This is kind of the inevitable end of paid higher ed, it stops being education and becomes transactional, massive debt for life in exchange for the job-get paper
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · May 7
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
camal.bsky.social
Kiss boys, end the monarchy
gaudipern.bsky.social Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · Mar 23
ALT VERSION:
Black text on white background: Pitch me your indie game in 5 words or less Original poster: @clemmygames.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
camal.bsky.social
Just thought 'it does feel like reading a video essay' im done man, brain is gone
April 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
camal.bsky.social
today i put in the game the ability to read a book about botflies and throw up.

good use of time
View of a tower and a little squat pub by the marble archways of the city. The text says 'You start reading a passage. '...the botfly, to reproduce, forces its larvae inside human skin, where the grubs slowly mature, before bursting forth as fully grown flies...''
April 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
camal.bsky.social
I don't think I've talked about it properly so here's the game I'm making! The Heir of Thorlath, a sort of text based RPG type deal about power and how it doesn't want to be shared.

(Ignore the couple bits of placeholder art)
A far away view of a tired city of white marble. It has a great bridge reaching out to the nearby cliff, and is circled by many birds. The text says 'A long road has brought you here, and a long road, only, would take you back.' An old, bald priest, Yezekael, speaking: 'This saint of their was the first to transform. To ascend. And this is the hope of every religious soul in this city, apparently.' He is stood in a black church, lit by stained glass windows. A view of the main square. A pub to the left, an obsidian church to the right, an old statue in the middle. The statue reads 'Until at last, desert desists/ Our Son, our Sire, perceives his prize-/ An obsidian vale, caressed by cloud/ 'There will my kingdom rise.'' A short woman stood in front of a scattering of half carved stone. Her name is Yavannah. Wait, shit, I haven't changed the name there, ah well. She says 'She had to present him with a wedding gift, and so she picked up tools for the first time and made him the statue. It's a statue of love. Or of dedication, maybe.'
April 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
Game key giveawayyyyy ✨

Repost + follow for a chance to win 1 of 2 copies of Mouthwashing - a critically-acclaimed narrative horror aboard a space freighter.

Winners chosen March 31 - either way, wishlist/buy the game to support indies. ❤️

(Steam page)

store.steampowered.com/app/2475490/...
March 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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camal.bsky.social
You ever write something and you can feel you just kill it, just fuckin nail it?

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Honest Hearts: New Vegas’ one bad DLC
I was about 11 when New Vegas and its DLC’s were coming out, and I wasn’t too deep into game criticism at that time—more Indianna Jones and Doctor Who—so I’m not 100% sure what the general opinions…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
camal.bsky.social
You ever write something and you can feel you just kill it, just fuckin nail it?

verticalslice5.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/h...
Honest Hearts: New Vegas’ one bad DLC
I was about 11 when New Vegas and its DLC’s were coming out, and I wasn’t too deep into game criticism at that time—more Indianna Jones and Doctor Who—so I’m not 100% sure what the general opinions…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
camal.bsky.social
Okay, so, Mall Sim, one of those management games about running a retail space but then over time it becomes a dead mall and then it gets haunted and it's about managing ghosts
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
camal.bsky.social
The continuing saga of things I didn't get in New Vegas when I was 12: Patriot's Cookbook, the explosives increasing magazine, obviously a play on Anarchist's Cookbook.
March 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
camal.bsky.social
Wrote a stupid thing. I promise it's not a good reason, but I reckon it's a unique reason.

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My Stupid Problem With Nightreign Reusing Bosses
Back when it came out, there were a bunch of nerds—probably not many, but as always the stupid few were very loud—who seemed very upset that FromSoftware had dared to reuse some animations from the…
verticalslice5.wordpress.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
camal.bsky.social
Accidentally drew some proper cunty lips on one of the characters from the game I'm making. He might get to keep them
In progress drawing of my main man Greg, one of the characters from a game I'm making, who's a big chubby faced fountain of positivity. I've drawn some proper cunty lips on him.
March 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
camal.bsky.social
Freud just got high, spouted a load of nonsense, and people decided to believe him for no good reason. Truly the Joe Rogan of his time
February 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
camal.bsky.social
Yes, that's right, the child's coffin size multipack of quavers, please
A multipack of quavers that is child coffin sized. My hand's on it for scale.
January 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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lily-is.online
DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo

youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc
YouTube thumbnail featuring a syringe propped up between two vials of medication. Text reading "THIS VIDEO IS LEGAL (for now)". The backdrop is a trans flag.
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
camal.bsky.social
Silent Hill 2 Remake is basically a combat focused game and that's FINE

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I think Silent Hill 2 Remake Might be Combat Focused, Actually
So back in the distant past of sometime earlier this year, Konami put out a trailer for the then upcoming Silent Hill 2 Remake that seemed to focus entirely on the game’s combat and action. The com…
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December 3, 2024 at 4:08 PM