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essence-of-armbarring:

Yakuza 5 (Ryu ga gotoku 5) -  Instalation Transitions

staminanspark:

sotenbori is kinda wild huh

prokopetz:

mendelpalace:

Suzanne Treister
1991-1992
Fictional Videogame Stills

In the late 1980s I was making paintings about computer games. In January 1991 I bought an Amiga computer and made a series of fictional videogame stills using Deluxe Paint II. I photographed them straight from the screen as there was no other way to output them that I knew of apart from through a very primitive daisy wheel printer where they appeared as washed out dots.

The effect of the photographs perfectly reproduced the highly pixellated, raised needlepoint effect of the Amiga screen image. Conceptually this means of presentation was also appropriate in that it made it seem like I had gone into a videogame arcade and photographed the games there, lending authenticity to the fiction.

The first seven works on this page form a series titled, ‘Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise?’

Many of these works were shown in London at the Edward Totah Gallery in March 1992 (view installation) and later that year at the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide, Australia. In 1995 the ‘Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise?’ series was shown in London at the Royal Festival Hall in the exhibition It’s a Pleasure, curated by Leah Kharibian.

Recent venues: Somerset House, London, 2018 view installation ; Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA 2019 and tour; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019/20 view installation

The original Amiga floppy disks which stored the image files are corrupt, but the photographic art works remain.

I think what strikes me the most about this collection is that Treister perfectly anticipated not only the aesthetics of the post 2010 fourth-wall-breaking indie brainfuck genre, but also its subjects and themes, fully two decades ahead of schedule.

pancakeke:

Me:

majimemegoro:

ao3tagoftheday:

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: This post

nyanyapark:

majimemegoro:

nekillua:

I was this close to black out laughing playing Kiwami tonight, fellas:

• ran towards Majima running at ME but he kept going

• completely left Kamurocho and in-game boundary but Kiryu still turned his head to talk to him in the general direction he left in

• the fight still triggered except Majima’s model wasn’t there and I won by default

• help

majimas out of breath at the end because he ran all that way and then he had to break the sound barrier to get back in time

Actual footage of me running the fuck away from 2020.

xurkitree:

isopodde:

TOM NOOK IS HERE TO COOK YOUR BOOKS

konnestrasketch:

Breath of the Wild is a good game

warpedlamp:

Me: Hey Pokemon Green Ekans I’m going out to the store, do you want anything?

Pokemon Green Ekans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

mechanicalanakal:

all your base are belong to us :]

nintendworld:

blueskittles-art:

it occurred to me today that zelda can see every stupid thing you do in botw

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

the-little-birb-prince:

prokopetz:

Monty Python’s Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Life of Brian

I’M NOT THE HERO WILL YOU PLEASE UNDERSTAND I’M NOT THE HERO

Only the true hero would deny his heroism!

Seriously, though, a Legend of Zelda style game where you’re not the Chosen Hero, but just happen to resemble them enough that you’re constantly mistaken for them and keep getting pulled into cleaning up their messes could be a pretty fun time, Pythonesque tone or no.

(The true Hero is, of course, out there fighting the good fight, but you never quite cross paths with them – you always miss them just nearly enough to be held responsible for whatever catastrophe they’ve most recently caused without having any opportunity to set the record straight!)

soda-soda-pop-deactivated202005:

randomslasher:

airfierce-deactivated20201208:

Of course, by failing to give her Up as she requested, he has, in essence, let her down, thereby creating what scientists have dubbed the Astley Paradox

Schrodinger’s Astley  

gomigomipomi:

Final Fest aftermath.