Arlecchino train, Gio Ponti, 1950s

Drum and Bass (Kesteren), Mathieu Mercier, 2002-19

its going to get so crazy when ballistic armor tech improves and develops materials lightweight enough to construct entire suits from. probably some kind of carbon bullshit. head to toe plate body armor, with little slits for visors and shit. stops practically all small arms fire. guns wouldnt even be shit anymore but it wouldnt be like dune where everybody has to go and stab each other and shit. overpressure would probably be the easiest way to kill each other at that point. like the gm94, that thermobaric pump action cqb grenade launcher. everybody gets some shit like that, or a bazooka of some kind. of course heavy weapons would still be useful, like anti-materiel rifles and HMGs and cannon and mortars and shit. but then the sheer destructive force would probably make fighting from structures an outright liability. you could just get crushed under the rubble. the increase in ordnance would render most cover into concealment. urban fighting would fucking suck. at that point itd probably just be like WWII style remote bulldozing via howitzer. just picture it. great big formations of guys in medieval lookin armor, probably puffier-lookin, weird semi-matte sheen to it. runnin at each other across a bunch of smoldering craters, fuckin blowin each other up with bazookas and grenade launchers. people honest to god getting turned into soup. everybody worth blowing up already has been so theyre all like dumb conscripts and try rocket jumping and dont know about backblast and shit so theyre all killing each other their bazookas. all their bosses are sitting in trucks with absurdly massive machine guns on em, just indiscriminately firing into the crowds, through both sides, trying to hit the trucks on the other side. their brains are all microtears from being around explosions all day so they see like ghosts and dragons and shit. they work for some obscure government offices run by guys who invented child gambling. theyre fighting over some three thousand acre splinter-nation that just came up with a new semiconductor production method. nobody even knows what the actual fighting looks like cuz everyone everyone who goes out just gets evaporated immediately so its just like a giant constantly exploding crater in europe we keep shoveling human soup into. birds love it. ghey get huge from all the anabolics and testosterone and shit in the tissue of the souped bazooka knights. so theres just like giant dickhead birds going around fucking everything up all over the world. that would be crazy huh

Bro last night was an egglike

ULTRAKILL INDULGENCE Development Log (31/01/25)

Hello again! It's been a bit, I had intended to do an update every couple of days but you can probably tell how well that went for me, a lot of things happened like the storm across my country and a lot of work on this, I almost lost the project file too funilly enough.

Over the last week I've went back to working on the main city portion of the level, mostly optimisations and bringing some old geometry up to par with the new stuff. I had to port a ton of prefabs such as streetlamps and benches from probuilder meshes into regular meshes which was absolutely not fun, probuilder prefabs cause lag and extend export times but luckily with this change I've shaved down export times from about 15 minutes to 6. There was a very weird issue with the transition process that caused every instance of the prefab in the level to generate its own probuilder mesh, and I still haven't fixed all of them yet, I actually did it to every single window on every single building so that'll be fun to replace, that's a problem for future me though.

Now that we finally got the heads up from Dave that the ultrakill update is releasing next month (probably) that means I-2 development will probably slow down before then and pick up once it's out, I've been holding off until then to start on the super cool technical shit. I've been concepting a rework to the Blood Siphon mechanic I teased a few months ago too (https://youtu.be/SUBHZg4Tqpo warning, its bad) due to the scope of the level, mainly the use of infighting, changing a lot and not really requiring these to be used as much as I had intended. If I end up doing it, it'll reinvent a super cool enemy concept I had for Indulgence at one point, It was initially going to be in I-2, got scrapped for the Neutralizers and I had briefly intended to introduce it in I-3 before realising that's a nightmare for pacing with all the other shit I have planned. It's a bit of a shame because the design was super cool, but I'll probably have the reworked blood siphon retain some of its elements.

Hopefully this is a sufficent way to work it into the campaign without having to write a bunch of lore and introduce it well (although it probably will have some still, just not an entry) So no new enemy in I-3 probably, which is good or bad depending on how you look at things, but I think it's better this way. I'll hopefully power through the remaining main city geometry before the rewrite update releases, then I can move onto the fun stuff I have planned (or maybe just keep working on I-S until then), but that's a topic for another devlog. See you next time!

Okay, now that the hype has died down I just want to say that the general vibe of abject horror that Mr Foxington Tobias expressed about the simple fact that he had to make a song to act as a replacement for pepper steak is the realest thing I've ever seen. because like HOLY SHIT. how do you even BEGIN to approach that? i would have crashed out ngl. you want me to try to match up to pepper steak? pepper steak. pepper steak from OFF? you're insane. you might as well ask me to turn water into gold because you are asking me to do the impossible here. to capture pepper steak. pepper steak from off. the song pepper steak from OFF. what the fuck dude what the hell

i mean like, he fucking cooked regardless but you get what i mean

EP4::"A memory stream reaches its conclusion. An uncertain path lies ahead."

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My conduct this year landed me on Santa Claus's fabled and controversial "Kill-at-all-Costs" List. Turns out the reason the big man and his people don't exercise that option more often is that they really aren't good at following through on it. Well outside their core competency. He's delegated to the elves, and they've got this ingrained assembly-line mindset that doesn't translate at all to the adaptable and fluid mindset needed for siege breaking. They just haven't adjusted their playbook at all from when they're doing rote deliveries. Armed Elves have been rappelling down my chimney one at a time into the roaring fire I've kept going nonstop for the last week. They haven't even thought to try my front door yet. Whole house smells like peppermint, which it turns out is what burnt elf meat smells like. Thought I was being super clever putting cyanide-laced almond milk out with the cookies as a last line of defense, but none of them have made it even the scant few feet to the side table where that's sitting. At the rate things are going the real danger is that I'm gonna forget what I did with that and accidentally drink it myself while I'm watching the show

Part of what I think is going on is that the fire and elf-infused smoke is fucking with the pheromone trails they lay down to tell other elves where it is and isn't safe to walk, hence why they're all just lemming it up like this. My buddy at fish and wildlife told me that it's sad but I'm legally in the clear as long as I don't cause undue injury to a fertile queen, and obviously they couldn't fit one of those in a sleigh. So ecologically my hands are clean