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Mr Wendal

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Too stupid to make video games, I make game videos instead.

https://www.youtube.com/c/mrwendal

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Mr Wendal

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Things are just getting worse as I have built the characters wrong or something

December 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM

Mr Wendal

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Motortown is a buncha fun. Drive around a cute world doing odd-jobs, getting money to buy cars like this totally-not-an-mx5.

The best part is - don't tell anyone this it might put them off - underneath the hood is a hardcore physics driving Sim.

Its GTA online x Gran Turismo x Animal Crossing.

April 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM

Mr Wendal

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I posted this pic on r/projectzomboid. Some people wrote comments about this zombie and what led *him* here.

"It's a woman" I said.

This is all it takes to set off conservatives. What a shitshow

www.reddit.com/r/projectzom...

March 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM

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I wrote a script about but I've been busy with work so haven't found the time / kinda lost motivation to make the video.

So here it is:
Project Zomboid: The End of the World is a Strangely Comforting Fantasy

Project Zomboid is a simulation of the 90s. If my math is correct, it has 4629 items from the period. A lot of that is retextured or even simply renamed duplicates, but the game has pinball machines, tye-dye t-shirts, VHS tapes, digital watches, and CRT televisions. It has everything it needs to make it just like the 90s… died. It’s not the 90s, it’s the apocalypse that came after. It’s now.

The problems, like the power and water being shut off, make sense to us, and their solutions are intuitive. After the water supply shuts off, where would you find water in a house? You’ll find it there in the game too. You don’t have to look up a wiki to understand the game. Because everything is common, you can use your common sense. When the power cuts off, what would you do? A flashlight? A generator? In a game with this many items, there’s several different types of both. But where would you look for that generator? Right? You know this world - you live in it. Knives are in kitchens. Clothes are in bedrooms. Stuff this obvious shouldn’t be exciting, but ironically, what makes Zomboid special is how ordinary everything is. Shoes protect your feet from broken glass. You have to pick up a wrist watch to know the time.

It’s almost anti-design. They’re not designing, but simulating. Designing reality.

Although Zomboid’s insane item variety can seem pointless when many of them do pretty much the same thing. Functionally there isn’t a huge difference between beans with cabbage or rat meat and canned corn. But having so many different items and so many different ways of obtaining them lets you build a character. You can be a vegan book-collecting horticulturist or a baseball bat biker that lives off grilled rats and whiskey. The game has no goals of its own, but it has enough items to customize a unique character, and to inspire you to come up with your own goals.

And there’s nobody to stop you achieving them, no boss to tell you what to do, no government or corporations controlling your future.

You have access to everything you ever wanted. Cosy houses, fancy cars, just there for the taking. Freedom, and control of your destiny. This dead world offering you everything it never gave you in life.

Maybe that’s why this game is becoming more and more popular as things on this side of the monitor seem to get worse and worse. We feel so powerless to change or improve the world, that ending it is the one way we could gain control over our lives again. The end of the world is a strangely comforting fantasy.

This fantasy could be interpreted as conservative metaphor. Your suburbs once full of men and women just like you now overrun with the inhuman. You must hold onto the way things were before they came, secure your way of life, and rebuild. Make great again.

But this isn’t a success story. When you start the game, it tells you: this is how you died. Every game ends in failure. You play out the story of your death; and the end of humanity.

There is no future in the past. It was left behind for a reason.

February 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM

Mr Wendal

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I am clearly doing youtube wrong

Youtube thumbnail: How many times can you pee in heavy rain? (Allie Meowny, 53 minutes)

January 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM

Mr Wendal

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In old TV commercials I used to see these voiced wrestling dolls that would scream "you're breaking my leg" etc when you did stuff to them. Other kids wanted a toy you could cuddle... I wanted one that could properly express the suffering I inflicted on it.