These Are Fantastic!

This is incredible!

happy mothers day i drew the mammal pod <3

Snake ledge scramble sprites for the 8-bittish fanfic game Peace Day.

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

Probably the best New Year meme ever.

(The flags in the garland make a phrase Говно с дымом, shit with smoke, which is an anagram of С новым годом, Happy New Year).

When Glowdust and I put down Peace Day we immediately began work on Unstable Scientific. You'll play as a physicist with a group of colleagues who are exploring a mysterious island while running an interdimensional portal laboratory! It's going to have the base-building mechanics of Peace Walker with a metroidvania-lite style of platforming. I'm still sorry that we had to stop work on Peace Day. But we're putting the spirit of everything we wanted to put in that game, into this one.

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

Zoozve, my beloved

You can cook rations on a rotating spit, sitting next to a sentient cat during a major boss fight.

dumb shit in Peace Walker

If you jump off a roof and into a specific bale of hay, it plays an unnecessarily dramatic slow motion animation.

There’s a gun that has a 1/3 chance to shoot an actual tornado. You can catch people in the tornado and watch them as they spin. This is never thought of as impossible or supernatural by anybody in-game.

Your R&D deam can develop doritos, mountain dew, and AXE bodyspray. You can also wear shirts with their logos on it.

“A CARDBOARD TANK? KAZ, THATS BRILLIANT!!”

“Meow? MEOW? Meow meow meow!”

Big Boss sleep talks about dinosaurs and believes wholeheartedly in santa claus. He’s 39.

Kaz has an obsession with the sound of train engines. It borders on something sexual. It’s mentioned once offhand and never brought up again in canon.

“Just out of curiosity, do ghosts have legs or what?”

“Alright! No more uniforms!! From now on, we’re all going NAKED!!”

Big Boss can lift a tank with his bare hands. You just have to mash a button hard enough. This absurd feat of strength is never brought up again in canon.

The final boss theme is a J-pop song.

You can wear nothing but swim trunks throughout the entire game if you want to.

You can wear a shirt that says BIG BOSS with an arrow pointing downward.

The CIA director’s name is Hot Coldsman.

“Cecile Cosima Caminades? You know, if you say part of that in Japanese, it sounds like “Kojima kamina desu”…I can’t believe it!! Do you know what that means?? KOJIMA IS GOD!!”

can someone please get these hoes under control i'm BUSY