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Really enjoyed this, a great read.
Especially these passages toward the end.
Light text on a black background that reads: What all of these prove is that accessibility is not an afterthought, not charity, not optional; it is the very condition by which art survives as art. If it is hoarded, it becomes a commodity. If it is shared, it becomes culture. Accessibility does not kill difficulty, or strip art of its challenge; it ensures the challenge can be met by more than the narrow band of bodies and minds that the default design imagined. Games need to learn this lesson. When players say that difficulty options or sliders would “ruin the experience,” they mistake the lack of one for sanctity. A Souls game does not lose its identity because someone plays it with assist mods, just as a mural does not stop being art because it is on a wall instead of a museum. The unassisted version still exists, still plays just as well and sharpens patience, but it no longer monopolizes the right to call itself “the real game.” To make options is to democratize culture, to treat games not as fortresses to be defended but as bridges to be crossed. Light text on a black background that reads: The future of difficulty is not purity, but continuity. Games will endure not because they guard their gates, but because they remain open, open across bodies, across ages. Plurality does not diminish art; it actually sustains it. The choice is not between hard and easy, between friction and smoothness, but between a medium that narrows itself into a belief and one that embraces the fullness of play, and I think the future worth defending is the latter.
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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A cat hiding under an open dishwasher door while the cat's legs and tail clearly stick out from under it.
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I've made a racing livery themed around the game Hades II, for a MINI Rallycross car in #Automobilista2

Congrats on the 1.0 launch @supergiantgames.bsky.social
A rallycross MINI Countryman car with a custom made livery for the video game Hades II's 1.0 release on September 25th. Predominantly using dark blue for the night sky and light blue color for mountains on the livery. Hades II, iam8bit, fangamer and Supergiant Games logos used throughout. With the game's artwork used throughout the sides, hood and roof of the car. And with a Supergiant Games' logo at the top of the windshield. This shot looks at the car from above at a slight angle to the side, so the car's roof, hood and left side are visible. The hood has artwork of a crescent moon between tall big mountains. The side of the car has artwork of the game's protagonist Melinoe wielding a staff and her mentor Schelemeus looking on wistfully in the background. A rallycross MINI Countryman car with a custom made livery for the video game Hades II's 1.0 release on September 25th. Predominantly using dark blue for the night sky and light blue color for mountains on the livery. Hades II, iam8bit, fangamer and Supergiant Games logos used throughout. With the game's artwork used throughout the sides, hood and roof of the car. And with a Supergiant Games' logo at the top of the car's boot/trunk. License plate on the back of the car spelling out Death To Chronos as DTH2CHRNS, one of the game's music tracks. Flames coming out of the car's exhaust pipes at the back. This shot is set from behind the car so the left side and back are visible. The side of the car has artwork of the game's protagonist Melinoe wielding a staff and her mentor Schelemeus looking on wistfully in the background. With iam8bit and fangamer logos above the rear wheels. A rallycross MINI Countryman car with a custom made livery for the video game Hades II's 1.0 release on September 25th. Predominantly using dark blue for the night sky and light blue color for mountains on the livery. Hades II, iam8bit, fangamer and Supergiant Games logos used throughout. With the game's artwork used throughout the sides, hood and roof of the car. And with a Supergiant Games' logo at the top of the windshield. With iam8bit and fangamer logos used above the rear wheels. This shot looks at the car from the side so that the right side of the car and slightly the front are visible. The side of the car has artwork of the game's protagonist Melinoe using the Black Coat weapon, going against one of the game's bosses, Prometheus standing opposite her with his eagle Aetos by his side. A rallycross MINI Countryman car with a custom made livery for the video game Hades II's 1.0 release on September 25th. Predominantly using dark blue for the night sky and light blue color for mountains on the livery. Hades II, iam8bit, fangamer and Supergiant Games logos used throughout. With the game's artwork used throughout the sides, hood and roof of the car. And with a Supergiant Games' logo at the top of the windshield. This shot looks at the car from very high above, overlooking the artwork of Melinoe, the protagonist of Hades II, on the roof of the car.
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The look of
a bald man in a flannel shirt and vest, with his hands on his waist, looking disappointed and annoyed
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Title Screen/Main Menu from the game Pyre by Supergiant Games. Foreground is filled to the left and right side by books burning with black smoke. Background has a big church-like glass with symbols inscribed in a circular fashion. With the Main Menu selection nestled inside the circle in the center.
August 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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As of the latest Hades II patch notes and credits, Supergiant have recast the actor for Athena. Original Athena actor is still credited for Additional Voices.
Very disappointing to see this from Supergiant.
July 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Donut County has some of the most delightfully funny descriptions
Screenshot from the game Donut County: A picture of a Safety Hat with a caption: "Wear this if your website is under construction" Screenshot from the game Donut County: A picture of a Traffic Divider with the caption: "Keeps traffic lanes separate so the cars don't kiss each other." Screenshot from the game Donut County: A picture of a snake in a cage with the caption: "This spaghetti was arrested for being mean"
July 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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You know @playrematch.com has the sauce because making goal blocking tackles feels as good as scoring
June 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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@ivyroadgames.bsky.social
Characters Alta and Boro from the videogame Wanderstop sitting on a bench. Alta is visibly annoyed, arms crossed and looking off to the side. While Boro is happy thriving with a cup of hot tea in his hand. Underneath is a text bubble showing that Alta would say what is said in the quoted post below.
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Cover for the narrative cooking game Venba Cover features a mother, father and son surrounded by different foods Cover for the turn based tactical strategy game Tactical Breach Wizards Cover features a white bearded wizard dressed in SWAT gear and holding a Light Machine Gun with a tip of a magical staff in its barrel Cover for the isometric roguelite brawler Hades II Cover features the witch Melinoe levitating a sickle and dagger weapons. With lots of magic and smoke surrounding her. Cover for the narrative adventure game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Cover features 4 women characters with their faces slightly overlapped and a magical pattern overlayed on top of their faces.
November 4, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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I'll share one from last year, 2016 and 2017
Jusant game cover A traveler with a blue blobby friend in a backpack, are in a dilapidated area going towards a mountain in the distance. ABZU game cover A diver touching his reflection in the water. Clouds of fish in the background. Pyre game cover A triumvirate of a small slinky figure in a white mask, tall skinny figure in a white mask and big muscular figure in a white mask. All dressed in blue robes with red mantles, looking towards the left.
October 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Hades II cover The Rogue Prince of Persia cover Tactical Breach Wizards cover Indika cover
October 20, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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This is more than a year old. Not definitive.
Honorable mentions: art of rally, Portal 2, American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, RiMe.
Contenders for breaking into this: Hades II, The Rogue Prince of Persia, Jusant, El Paso Elsewhere, Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition (ie Phantom Liberty Expansion)
Personal Top25 unranked games (as of August 2023): Racedriver GRID - Mass Effect 1 - Pyre - Night In The Woods - Thirty Flights of Loving FIFA Street 2 - Dead Space 2 - Psychonauts 2 - Life is Strange 2 - Colin McRae DiRT 2 The Fast & The Furious - Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005) - Bioshock - Marvel's Midnight Suns - Batman: Arkham Origins Tales from the Borderlands - Inscyption - Saint's Row IV - Cyberpunk 2077 - Burnout: Revenge Mirror's Edge - the Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - Marvel's Spider-Man - Assassin's Creed 1 - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
October 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM