Bahahahaha!!! I Was Having The Crappiest Day Until I Saw This. Thank You So Much For This!

Few things in our game will ever be this glitchy again, so we have to savor these moments as they come.  I do think we’ll keep the banana gun, complete with non-lethal banana bullets. 

I am working on a metal gear baking project over on bluesky...I'm nowhere near finished but it is pretty fun trying to figure out what kind of cookie/dessert for each character! Examples and link to my project below⬇️

A Cookie To Surpass Metal Gear project

Trans person in the US. Bust some of the doomerism for me? Tell me it's going to be okay?

Hi Anon

Usually, I have boundaries for myself about keeping this blog focused on environment-related issues, because there are limits to what I can speak knowledgeably about. But now doesn’t feel like the time for that.

Anon, I will tell you that I live in the US, I am queer, my spouse is trans, and we have two young children. I am sitting right there with you in the fear and grief and every day when I ask myself “is there still hope” I find reasons to say “yes”.

They want us—all of us, not just queer folks—to feel overwhelmed and hopeless, because despair is a tool that keeps people from realizing their power and taking action.

They want us to feel so afraid that we lose our faith in other people and withdraw from our communities, because we are easier to conquer alone.

Do not give them what they want.

Hope is most necessary in the bad times. The ability to imagine a future that is better than things are now is exactly what gives us the power to begin making things better. Our community has been through terrible things before, and they did not lose hope or give up—otherwise we would not be where we are today.

When you start to feel like all the light is being blotted out, turn off the news, put away your phone, and go get in touch with something you love. Go outside and look at the sky, talk to a friend, listen to music, do some small thing to make something better even if it’s just cleaning your kitchen or picking up some litter around the block or returning an extra stranded cart in the grocery store parking lot. Remind your brain that you have agency to make positive change in the world through your actions.

I know it is really hard to pull out of the darkness sometimes. I know there will be days that hope seems like a foolish, naive thing, that despair and distrust seem like the only rational options. But hope is what keeps us alive. Hope is what allows us to save each other.

I wish I could give you a specific article or other source to reassure you that everything is going to be ok, but things are still too in flux day by day. I can tell you that people are already fighting back, in big and little ways, all over this country and the world. These orders and bills are being pushed by a loud but small minority—this is not how the majority of the country feels about trans rights.

Make a plan for staying safe. Reach out to your community. Find music, activities, podcasts, movies, whatever helps you feel uplifted and take mental breaks from dwelling on the news. If you can, find ways to get involved in making things better in whatever big or small way feels doable for you--it may help push back on the doomerism more than you think. And my inbox is open if you need to talk.

I wish I could invite you over for dinner. I wish I could look into your eyes and tell you that things may get hard for the next few years but that does not mean that your life can't still be full of joy and beauty and fulfillment in spite of that.

I’m right there with you. Let’s make it through this together <3

Reblogging on my MGS-themed account because I’m so proud I was able to draw hands.

This is part of a larger cutscene and will be in the trailer for our Seattle Indies Expo submission.  Lev and Tau working in the lab! 

Oh look what Eda recovered from the human world dump!

These are fantastic!

Peace Walker art dump there we go. 

This isn’t related to progress on the game, but I made this a while back because Pacifica ruins EVERYTHING! (Now I crawl back into my hole to work on gun sprites and enemy animation so I can make a proper game update)

Took a couple of evenings to get this CQC combo animation done.  I felt pretty bad for the guard the entire time I was drawing this.  Can’t say I really enjoyed making this animation, even though Snake was looking pretty fierce.  But one of the things that I liked about PW and especially TPP is that the enemy soldiers are just human beings who get scared and show concern for each other, unlike faceless enemies in other games.  It’s definitely a quality we’ll have in Peace Day as well. 

Today I made the animation for kidnapper drones that can capture Snake!  In the game you’ll have to escape before they fly too high up and cause you to get injured or even die when you finally get free.  The physics of the animation will probably be a lot smoother in-game, but I won’t know that until Glowdust programs it in.  He’s working so hard on that awesome physics engine!       (I had a bit too much fun drawing the first annoyed and then horrified expressions in this sprite)

BTW are you guys playing Merry Gear yet? Because you should be.

Outer Savin’, three years after the Secret Santa Incident… We had classified information that a new Santa had taken power.The whole thing was naughty… but our noses had been out in the cold too long.

Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghost of Christmas Past is the sequel to 2006′s Merry Gear Solid: Secret Santa. Set years after the events of the first game, Merry Gear Solid 2 sets Old Snake on an adventure to retrieve Santa’s Hat from an extremist group known as the Ghosts of Christmas Past. Using an array of new tools, and returning favorites, Solid Snake must infiltrate Outer Savin’ mall and prevent the Ghosts from taking control of the SOC (Spirit of Christmas) System.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE HERE (right menu). The first game, too - they’re both really great and in the spirit of both MGS and Christmas with some superb voice acting.