Like Galactic Confetti.

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.

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

Holy crap this was a ride

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

Another lovely BBKaz!

drunk

As an indie game dev with a project that is taking years to finish, this part of the game gave me a panic attack.

finally i am playing disco elysium 😤👍

So sorry to hear that. I kept seeing you guys and your work and I was super excited since PW is my fav mgs game. But I think it was a good run while it lasted, and props to you guys for putting your heart and soul into it, and I say it's really appreciated. Hopefully you guys make a new game, but who knows.

Thanks.  I really appreciate it.  We’re definitely making a game.  We’ll be using the engine and most of the assets, but it’s kind of hard for me personally to move forward right this second.  We had a story to tell with Peace Day and I’m not giving up on that just yet.  I have all these animation resources...I’ll do something that’s not within the apparently volatile medium that is a fangame. 

The costumes are amazing!!!

MGSCON 2023 Cosplay Contest!

We'll have more videos of the con coming out to the public soon, so please keep an eye on this space and our YouTube! <3

how my practice has been going

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!!”

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing