Mikko Rautalahti
@mikkihel.bsky.social
I do game narrative stuff. Also some other narrative stuff! Also just stuff.
Oh, for SURE this is going to happen. One million people will definitely leave New York over this, that is absolutely a realistic thing to say and definitely reflects their true intentions, it's not at all performative bullshit.
I'm reminded of this other thing for no particular reason...
I'm reminded of this other thing for no particular reason...
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Oh, for SURE this is going to happen. One million people will definitely leave New York over this, that is absolutely a realistic thing to say and definitely reflects their true intentions, it's not at all performative bullshit.
I'm reminded of this other thing for no particular reason...
I'm reminded of this other thing for no particular reason...
There have been a lot of wonderful mobile games! Just off the top of my head, I really enjoyed Monument Valley, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Reigns: Her Majesty and Ridiculous Fishing. They all did cool, fun things in the mobile space.
Not the types of games investors care about, though.
Not the types of games investors care about, though.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There have been a lot of wonderful mobile games! Just off the top of my head, I really enjoyed Monument Valley, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Reigns: Her Majesty and Ridiculous Fishing. They all did cool, fun things in the mobile space.
Not the types of games investors care about, though.
Not the types of games investors care about, though.
Also, comparing this depiction of a US president to the guy in the White House right now is kind of painful. Whatever else you might say about Carter, he wasn't posting videos of himself dumping shit on American citizens in between ranting incoherently and ducking accusations of sexual assault.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Also, comparing this depiction of a US president to the guy in the White House right now is kind of painful. Whatever else you might say about Carter, he wasn't posting videos of himself dumping shit on American citizens in between ranting incoherently and ducking accusations of sexual assault.
Originally, these panels were spread out across a number of pages, I condensed them into a single image here. I don't think this was a real speech by Carter; if it was, I couldn't find it.
The plot involves an attempted terrorist attack on Congress during the speech, but Spider-Man foils it.
The plot involves an attempted terrorist attack on Congress during the speech, but Spider-Man foils it.
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Originally, these panels were spread out across a number of pages, I condensed them into a single image here. I don't think this was a real speech by Carter; if it was, I couldn't find it.
The plot involves an attempted terrorist attack on Congress during the speech, but Spider-Man foils it.
The plot involves an attempted terrorist attack on Congress during the speech, but Spider-Man foils it.
Yet another comic from an age before terrible woke people made them all POLITICAL, from the extremely politically neutral year of 1979, featuring famously apolitical President Jimmy Carter. (Marvel Team-Up #85, written by Chris Claremont, art by Sal Buscema and Steve Leialoha.)
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yet another comic from an age before terrible woke people made them all POLITICAL, from the extremely politically neutral year of 1979, featuring famously apolitical President Jimmy Carter. (Marvel Team-Up #85, written by Chris Claremont, art by Sal Buscema and Steve Leialoha.)
On the other hand:
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
On the other hand:
This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.
Post a comic you love - a top-5er for you.
Suicide Squad #1 (1987), cover by Howard Chaykin.
Suicide Squad #1 (1987), cover by Howard Chaykin.
August 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Post a comic you love - a top-5er for you.
Suicide Squad #1 (1987), cover by Howard Chaykin.
Suicide Squad #1 (1987), cover by Howard Chaykin.
Having said that, RT has a story mode, and it also has extremely customizable difficulty in general, as you can see in this image. (This isn't even all of it.) So you can pretty much breeze through it and just enjoy the vibes if you want to. I'm playing on Normal, and it's been fine so far.
August 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Having said that, RT has a story mode, and it also has extremely customizable difficulty in general, as you can see in this image. (This isn't even all of it.) So you can pretty much breeze through it and just enjoy the vibes if you want to. I'm playing on Normal, and it's been fine so far.
So turns out she's still in this family home, and now the demon physically manifests. Yay!
It's not awfully executed. It's just that... well. The immense creepiness of that awful smile we've seen earlier is effective. This? This is just a bunch of CGI. The monster squirms its way into Rose's mouth.
It's not awfully executed. It's just that... well. The immense creepiness of that awful smile we've seen earlier is effective. This? This is just a bunch of CGI. The monster squirms its way into Rose's mouth.
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So turns out she's still in this family home, and now the demon physically manifests. Yay!
It's not awfully executed. It's just that... well. The immense creepiness of that awful smile we've seen earlier is effective. This? This is just a bunch of CGI. The monster squirms its way into Rose's mouth.
It's not awfully executed. It's just that... well. The immense creepiness of that awful smile we've seen earlier is effective. This? This is just a bunch of CGI. The monster squirms its way into Rose's mouth.
And of course, the signature of the demon is a creepily intense, relentless smile, featured heavily in terrifying and often quite complex hallucinations that fracture your sanity, and in that moment of suicide, when the demon takes over and initiates the transfer. Hence the name of the movie.
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And of course, the signature of the demon is a creepily intense, relentless smile, featured heavily in terrifying and often quite complex hallucinations that fracture your sanity, and in that moment of suicide, when the demon takes over and initiates the transfer. Hence the name of the movie.
This will involve spoilers, obviously, so if you don't want to know how Smile ends, do not read any further. Fair warning!
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This will involve spoilers, obviously, so if you don't want to know how Smile ends, do not read any further. Fair warning!
Built a brand new base with @jannepyy.bsky.social in Dune Awakening.
We had a visitor. Kinda felt like our housewarming party got out of hand.
We had a visitor. Kinda felt like our housewarming party got out of hand.
August 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Built a brand new base with @jannepyy.bsky.social in Dune Awakening.
We had a visitor. Kinda felt like our housewarming party got out of hand.
We had a visitor. Kinda felt like our housewarming party got out of hand.
This is definitely how coding errors work. It is in no way a situation where somebody just ordered them to delete an inconvenient chunk of the Constitution from the website out of some weird childish burst of stupidity. Just a coding error that weirdly only affected this one piece of content! Haha!
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is definitely how coding errors work. It is in no way a situation where somebody just ordered them to delete an inconvenient chunk of the Constitution from the website out of some weird childish burst of stupidity. Just a coding error that weirdly only affected this one piece of content! Haha!
More Word weirdness. I typed "turn into," and as I watched, Word automatically turned it into "tunotinto." Then it underlined it in red to indicate a misspelling, which seems like some real insult to injury type bullshit.
Can I just, y'know, write?
Can I just, y'know, write?
July 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
More Word weirdness. I typed "turn into," and as I watched, Word automatically turned it into "tunotinto." Then it underlined it in red to indicate a misspelling, which seems like some real insult to injury type bullshit.
Can I just, y'know, write?
Can I just, y'know, write?
Thanks, Word, that would definitely be an improvement here.
July 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thanks, Word, that would definitely be an improvement here.
Just saying that in case somebody searches for it by name and finds it on Netflix and thinks they lucked out. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there ain't no gold in them thar hills.
July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just saying that in case somebody searches for it by name and finds it on Netflix and thinks they lucked out. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there ain't no gold in them thar hills.
Sorcerer kinda suffers from the fact that its cast includes Roy Scheider. Not because he's bad in the movie -- he's great in the movie! -- but because it's Roy Scheider, and right away the question of "I wonder which truck's gonna explode" is answered. It's not gonna be the one with the star.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sorcerer kinda suffers from the fact that its cast includes Roy Scheider. Not because he's bad in the movie -- he's great in the movie! -- but because it's Roy Scheider, and right away the question of "I wonder which truck's gonna explode" is answered. It's not gonna be the one with the star.
In Friedkin's movie, the characters are also pieces of shit. There's an American survivor of a heist gone wrong, a Mexican hit man, a French businessman fleeing accusations of fraud, and a Palestinian terrorist who bombed Israel. (Yeah, five decades later, that sure hits different.)
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In Friedkin's movie, the characters are also pieces of shit. There's an American survivor of a heist gone wrong, a Mexican hit man, a French businessman fleeing accusations of fraud, and a Palestinian terrorist who bombed Israel. (Yeah, five decades later, that sure hits different.)
It's beautifully shot, in ways that still images don't quite convey -- in the town of Las Piedras, there's constant life and movement. Clouzot loves his backgrounds, I think -- a drunken argument, a man struggling with a stubborn donkey, whatever.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's beautifully shot, in ways that still images don't quite convey -- in the town of Las Piedras, there's constant life and movement. Clouzot loves his backgrounds, I think -- a drunken argument, a man struggling with a stubborn donkey, whatever.
Just about everybody's a giant piece of shit. These are incredibly unheroic characters, violent and arrogant and steeped in misogyny. They hate each other and their lives and themselves. They live a hard life in harsh, hopeless conditions. Most of them are genuinely unlikeable.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just about everybody's a giant piece of shit. These are incredibly unheroic characters, violent and arrogant and steeped in misogyny. They hate each other and their lives and themselves. They live a hard life in harsh, hopeless conditions. Most of them are genuinely unlikeable.
I recently watched The Wages of Fear (1953) and Sorcerer (1977). Both are adaptations of 1950 the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud, about desperate men transporting nitroglycerin in trucks over treacherous terrain. To a great extent, they are the same movie... except they really aren't.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I recently watched The Wages of Fear (1953) and Sorcerer (1977). Both are adaptations of 1950 the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud, about desperate men transporting nitroglycerin in trucks over treacherous terrain. To a great extent, they are the same movie... except they really aren't.
Honestly, I don’t know how you can possibly fix this level of paranoia and delusion. It’s fine when it’s just individuals (I mean, not really, but at least it’s manageable), but this kind of thing is now utterly mainstream. No society can function when it constantly self-sabotages itself like this.
![A tweet from some delusional fool: ”I smell a rat. There needs to be a full out investigation. Perhaps a Biden holdover NOAA insider could have sabotaged weather forecasts to not give adequate warning, in order for media and Democrats, including propaganda shells on X to blame budget cuts and the Trump [post ends in ”show more”]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:khztaf6u3qt7mjdsbe2chi3y/bafkreifml2gqw6tisfjxxgaufwnho7s5bfkh2uhhoqvygosheo4u4mikju@jpeg)
July 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Honestly, I don’t know how you can possibly fix this level of paranoia and delusion. It’s fine when it’s just individuals (I mean, not really, but at least it’s manageable), but this kind of thing is now utterly mainstream. No society can function when it constantly self-sabotages itself like this.
I can only assume there's some weird technical reason for it; I can't imagine this was how they wanted it. It's not something that ruins the game. Like I said, we've been having a great time with it. But man, what a weird thing.
Anyway. Here's us observing an approaching sandstorm on our balcony.
Anyway. Here's us observing an approaching sandstorm on our balcony.
July 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I can only assume there's some weird technical reason for it; I can't imagine this was how they wanted it. It's not something that ruins the game. Like I said, we've been having a great time with it. But man, what a weird thing.
Anyway. Here's us observing an approaching sandstorm on our balcony.
Anyway. Here's us observing an approaching sandstorm on our balcony.