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phlegmatic tightwad blog - https://withentrails.com/ games - https://howling-stars.itch.io/ wife - @gmad.bsky.social

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FRAGMENTS ON – Resident Evil Requiem Excerpts on Resident Evil Requiem.

finished that new resident evil recently and wrote up a quick thing about what did (and didn't) work for me

withentrails.com/2026/03/04/f...

05.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my self-esteem still hasn't recovered

04.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i was writing a few hours ago when firefox deployed a never-before-seen bug and briefly played a half-second of audio from a youtube tab i wasn't using anymore. several hours of concentrated silence suddenly punctured by Fwiffo from Star Control II yelling "EMBARRASSING!" in his stupid voice

04.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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did a blog post about some electronic old men i have met

www.joewintergreen.com/electronic-o...

03.03.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I have had basically no time for personal art; but after watching the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy series with Alec Guinness, I was inspired to make some posters as a gift for a family member who is a big fan

03.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

and then the one thing she has is a gun, the description of which explicitly clarifies that it wasn't issued and she bought it with her own money. the fbi has fallen on hard times

28.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's so fucking funny that i almost can't believe it isn't part of some intentional joke. sending a data analyst to a crime scene with: no uniform, no partner, no obvious way to keep in touch with anybody, no equipment to like... collect data? to analyze??

28.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the whole setup reminds me of Crow Country, where you're one of those really fake-seeming videogame police characters that seems more like a child doing their best impression of a cop. but then it turns out you literally are. it's so common that you don't even parse it as intentional. case in point!

28.02.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i love the bit where a cop is like "hey you can't be here" in response to her approaching a crime scene, to which she replies "i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i'm with the f-f-f-f-f-f-fbi" and shows him something that kinda looks like a badge for a second. i wonder if it's that easy in real life

28.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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you can now experience the joys of doing this with grace ashcroft in resident evil 9

28.02.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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some environments

27.02.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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some models from a dormant project called feed the astronaut (2023)

27.02.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

the wife: just tell me who you’ve been fucking

the resident evil character she married: I’ll explain later.

27.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

not that one! but adjacent

26.02.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

belatedly adding that this is an excerpt from the brilliant Resident Evil book by Philip J Reed (RIP)

26.02.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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block on sight

25.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 658 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 34

most of my investment in this stuff is predicated on the image of Resident Evil X coming out in 2030, followed by capcom calling up ward like "okay can you do 11 through 20"

25.02.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

most folks are under the impression that capcom stopped using these after 6, which is *mostly* true, except for the fact that the "resident evil seven" audio was actually present in certain versions of that game. village was the first time they straight-up didn't touch it. title growl scholar

25.02.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a fucked up fact about resident evil: every single "title growl" was recorded during one session in 1995. they have a thirty year old recording of Ward E. Sexton yelling "RESIDENT EVIL... NINE!" that will almost certainly not be used in the actual resident evil nine. we persist in a doomed world

25.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 1094 πŸ” 383 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 14

it was critical to make sure that "THE BRADLEY GANG'S LOCOMOTIVE ROBBERY" be clearly and obviously the title of the movie with the disembodied mouth telling the guy to keep walking through the woods. in my old notes i was worried people would think the reels just got swapped which is way less funny

24.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

an old idea from feed the astronaut: gradually appearing posters with cowboy shenanigans for a fake movie called THE BRADLEY GANG'S LOCOMOTIVE ROBBERY. you would eventually get to watch a snippet only to discover that it’s just a really upsetting story about a man trapped in an ever-expanding forest

24.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

cool shit goin' on

24.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the pale gets all the credit for being the biggest "where the fuck am i" moment in the game, but there are tons of random incidental details about the setting that can really catch you off balance. finding out that radio transmissions are their equivalent to the internet is a great one

23.02.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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fun disco elysium things: this casual encyclopedia comment revealing the existence of a summit twice the height of mount everest

23.02.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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haven't launched this in a few years and fuck off lol

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AntiMatcher on Steam Merge, pop, burst and... annihilate?! Play with bubbles and antibubbles to discover their strange properties in this abstract puzzle game.

The demo for our puzzle game AntiMatcher is out!! You can get it on Steam, or play it in your browser on itch! Yes, even on your phone/tablet!

Steam version: store.steampowered.com/app/4336520/...
Browser version: legigo.itch.io/antimatcher

#wishlistwednesday #indiegame #gamedev

18.02.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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thinkin' about Shroomie, the hidden sea monster in Uru you can rarely see swimming out in the mushroom age... we love Shroomie

18.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

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