Shattered.Earth

Shattered.Earth

@shattered.earth

2D Artist & Merch Designer based in San Francisco. Additional Posts about games, food, and my ceramics :) 🛒Store: http://shattered.earth 🌱 Work: http://susanlau.myportfolio.com

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I think we were all aware of Bioware being shut down as a possibility.. but it actually happening just feels so unbelievable some how. Been a part of my life since middle school with BG then going into Mass Effect as an adult, man. End of an era.

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Even if such a reductive understanding of the situation were true, making it your go to reaction is like going to a funeral and making it about the murderer. No one cares about that right now, read the room.

OH ALSO, don't go around saying "Yea but that bioware has been gone for years now" either to people!!! Like ya'll need to be socialized! Not enough people told you to shut up as a kid, i can tell.

I think we were all aware of Bioware being shut down as a possibility.. but it actually happening just feels so unbelievable some how. Been a part of my life since middle school with BG then going into Mass Effect as an adult, man. End of an era.

Pro tip, "lmao another studio killed by EA" is not as funny and clever as you think when people are discussing this news. If anything you sound like someone with a really shallow and flippant understanding of gaming and it's impact on people.

Control resonant and silent hill townfall released on the same exact day and both include the exact same ceramic cat. EXPLAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

according to reddit it's simply a shared asset likely bought from a similar contracting source BUT i would like to headcanon it as a OoP for the remedyverse (object of power) that is appearing in many universes LOL

Sometimes i start spiralling a little because I think about how profitable unregulated gacha/gambling games are how hard it is for everyone else to deliver on a real vision with a beginning and end that isn't just there to suck money for the longest amount of time above all.

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I'm working myself up but you know a remedy fan knows their games are influenced by david lynch / twin peaks, or a silent hill fan knows they are influenced by lynch too and jacob's ladder etc., i've never met a fucking gacha game stan who knows shit. So no, remedy is not going to get the credit.

They were lucky with zelda that zelda is big enough that the average gamer recognizes when it's style is jacked but remedy isn't big enough!! Not that that's stopped them from wholesale reproducing indie games inside their games without credit either. Anyway I love games but damn it's hard LOL

Sometimes i start spiralling a little because I think about how profitable unregulated gacha/gambling games are how hard it is for everyone else to deliver on a real vision with a beginning and end that isn't just there to suck money for the longest amount of time above all.

and how demoralizing it is to be copied by those gacha companies, shamelessly, after working so hard to make a unique aesthetic or style and having it go unnoticed by the main stream. Then seeing it rehashed into a swap-slop game by m*hoyo into some unacknowledged titty-fied mockery of itself.

I want to scream and shout and share pictures and videos but I also want everyone to have the chance to experience it without any spoilers too.. but it's so hard to get people to play a lesser known non weeby game. Will just continue to pray Remedy makes enough money to keep doing their thing.

There are some studios that have just worked so hard to keep their unique points of view as clear as possible while operating in a capitalist hellscape and Remedy is one of them and I wish i could do more to guarantee they keep creating but all I can do is shout into the void of the internet 🥲

Finished control resonant i'm so sad it's over i wish it went on forever but obviously it was precisely as long as it needed to be to the experience it was. Remedy makes another banger that reminds you of what makes games it's own unique medium. Can't recommend higher if you care for gaming

i should clarify i'm playing spiderman 2 at the same time, i'm literally bouncing back and forth between like happy lively beautiful NYC and the creepiest grungiest spookiest NYC LMAO. love how they are both action games with the same setting but total opposites in a lot of design choices

Control resonant is so good i just finished the sinkhole segment fuck i am torn between wanting to go faster and see the story or going slower to make the experience last UGHHH 😭

we saw resident evil movie. it was good. i've never seen any other RE movie but i have seen barbarian and weapons. i think it's cregger's best executed movie thus far. not that my opinion means anything. but if you loved justin long measuring a creepy basement ass first you will like RE

honestly hope it reminds people that movies and games aren't one and the same and you could get a better movie if you remember what makes a good game isn't always what makes a good movie. don't ask for a movie that's always going to just be an inferior version of replaying a game.

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Restocked on donut holes stickers!

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Last year i was like man such a shame the official shirt for donut holes isn't based on the dunkin donuts logo... well i became the change i wanted to see so now it's an unofficial sticker by ME, so i can get all the illicit butthole money!!! shattered.earth/products/don...

Made a Jamal / JAWS poster because I thought it would be funny. It was fun to drawn and I love Jamal so just happy to give him some love~ (If you just started dungeon crawler carl look forward to this guy around book 6? or 7?) You can get a poster yourself at shattered.earth

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hi all! this is really difficult for me to talk about, but the store is in danger of closing before the end of the year. you can read more about what happened here: www.mayakern.com/blog i'm at a point where i need to ask for help. 👇

I've unfortunately fallen into a fields of mistria shaped hole. I usually have a no farming sims game allowed rule (TOO ADDICTIVE) but my husband bought it for me once i told him it was made by the pusheen people and now we're all reminded of why NO FARMING SIMS ARE ALLOWED!! AHH!!

The 75 mission requirement for the helldivers teddy bear and the level 100 requirement for the medal to even buy the helldivers merch is SO FUNNY. Get fucked , scalpers.

A scalper tried to defend scalping by saying its company’s fault for limiting releases when this is open preorder till march 🤣 saying everything should be produced on demand anyway is a very tell me you’ve never worked in production before without telling me and I am happy to insta block these days

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They are selling the video game Control for 4 American dollars right now.

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When a great game is cheap and you gift it to a friend on Steam that’s what I call “Good Rats”

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It's almost September which means it's past time I announce I will be speaking at PAX West! "Lessons From Your Digital Boyfriend: What we can learn from Love and Deepspace (17+)". Come see us on Saturday, September 5th at the Frog Theatre (LVL 3, Rm 323) from 6-7 PM. 💕 Tagging panelists below!

Apropos of nothing our book club finished the Buffalo Hunter Hunter last week and it’s such a fresh take on vampires definitely recommend if native american twist on vampire mythos sounds appealing. Still thinking about it before i peel off my flags and return it to the library 😭

Restocked on donut holes stickers!

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Last year i was like man such a shame the official shirt for donut holes isn't based on the dunkin donuts logo... well i became the change i wanted to see so now it's an unofficial sticker by ME, so i can get all the illicit butthole money!!! shattered.earth/products/don...

am i turning into a boomer like 75% of the time i try to pinch zoom an image on my phone all it does is wiggle around a little on my screen why can't i do this right is this just a part of getting old

it's wild watching people scream at paper games for "ignoring" global or "not listening to global". what a privilege it is to have never lived under a government that has no problem censoring and shutting down businesses on a political whim.

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Why are you guys sharing an article that admits “China, the country where Infold and developer Papergames are based, has very different beliefs and laws–ones I am entirely unfamiliar with and, perhaps more importantly, am not subjugated to.” And continues to not do any research & keeps talking lmao

it's wild watching people scream at paper games for "ignoring" global or "not listening to global". what a privilege it is to have never lived under a government that has no problem censoring and shutting down businesses on a political whim.

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Of course in the end, CCP was called in by said miserable no life bullies, but that's the risk of doing business in china that I hope more companies pay attention. You can be the top earning mobile game on earth and be crushed like a bug in 24 hours and western gamers will blame you for it.

maybe instead of reporting on "women having meltdowns" over losing valko, try reporting on weaponized government censorship in the most populous country on earth? what it means when developers from other countries try to court that money?? idk do some critical thinking for once, everyone?

it's wild watching people scream at paper games for "ignoring" global or "not listening to global". what a privilege it is to have never lived under a government that has no problem censoring and shutting down businesses on a political whim.

paper games / infold didn't "fold" to bullies, it had to comply with a government knocking on their door threatening to shutter the entire company They aren't "ignoring" global, they can't speak because CCP isn't going to take kindly to being blamed. This is censorship, not a cheeky little slap.