#E3 2019

[the-iron-fjord]

RIP E3, I'll never forget the times I would post about you on this stinky website.

[l-1-z-a]

Will Wright on the Future of Games | E3 Coliseum 2019 Panel

Geoff Keighley hosts a conversation with legendary game designer Will Wright (Sims, Sim City and Spore) about where games are headed. Wright will also introduce us to his new project, "Proxi," a unique Al simulation where players uncover their subconscious to build their character and game world.

[for-thee]

i will never not think about the fact that hornet's cloak has pockets

like look at this. THE DRESS HAS POCKETS PEOPLE

[ghettogotth]

the second coming of Jesus

Keanu Reeves, 2019

[weyounthevorta]

For a smash marry kill Jeffrey Combs theme how about like corporate/ceo/businessmen think Roger Shector or Thadeus Rosemont?

Marry, Smash, Kill

[arlathen]

you guys will tell me if anything cool happens at the game awards right. I don't care about Witcher or elden ring tell me when todd makes another masturbation joke.

[thekobaltpossum]

I am mentally unwell at the announcement of Echoes of wisdom (positive)

[mari3with3]

HAPPY late ANNIVERSARY TO THE GAME THAT CHANGED MY LIFE 💛💛💛

I remember perfectly the day that "the BotW sequel" was announced in the E3 from 2019, and the fact that it's been a whole year since the game was released 🥹

Throughout this year I've met many people and I went through very memorable experiences. My life also went through many changes, but it was easier to overcome them thanks to this game. Thank you nintendo and zelda's fandom 💛

[weirdmageddon]

the new zeltik video finally pushed me over the edge and made the connections between the bunch of details i noticed throughout totk seem more significant than i already thought they were. by myself i was hovering around these connections i came upon like “is this anything?” for a while, but after the video i was like “ok this is something”

alongside the theme of hands, i also noticed a secondary and more minor theme of blood and siphoning/circulation

most importantly

rauru rips into ganon’s chest with his bare hand like a badass to bind ganondorf’s heart, suck away and purify his dark magic. (btw and Not importantly ganondorf still has rauru’s finger holes in him and it’s pretty funny)

gloom seeps out from organically branching root-like structurs in the depths. if you watch closely you can see gloom slowly move inside them. they all seem to lead back to gloom’s lair where ganondorf is absorbing them. this is very evident in the cutscene where you finally make it to ganondorf himself and they show a close-up of this through thicker branches of these “gloom vessels”

gloom sucks away vitality from a person. fittingly, whenever a heart container is damaged due to gloom, you hear a heartbeat. gloom hands visibly siphon this vitality in more of a physical way. if you watch them they will sort of grotesquely pulsate when sucking the Juices out of link

is gloom ganondorf’s dark-magic infused blood? when the edge of the master sword cut mummydorf’s face, instead of blood it oozed gloom which boiled after making contact with a chip of the sword. rather than being magenta gelatin like malice, gloom is red and flat, staining surfaces like a liquid

phantom ganon is made entirely out of gloom. the compendium says it’s made from “the demon king’s own flesh and blood”. the dark clumps left behind from the gloom spawn/phantom ganon (with the depths talisman on them i guess to turn it into gloom antibodies lol??) also pulsate like monster guts

my idea is that this all goes back to those roots that pump this back to ganondorf to revitalize him. he was siphoned by rauru, now he siphons others to revitalize himself. there’s a lot of details put into this no way it isn’t connected

btw i didnt notice it at first but the landing pad for gloom’s lair is shaped like a heart like actually. it shouldve been stupid obvious

the gloom system is like a reverse circulatory system. instead of nurturing the periphery from a central location, it drains the periphery and delivers the nutrients to a central location. so like, oops! all veins. apparently after writing this i found an identical point from a forum post made ONLY YESTERDAY

“real world cardiovascular systems deliver vitality to the rest of the body from a centric location, while Gloom drains vitality from its surroundings and delivers it to a centric location”

and this “nurturance” line of thought made me remember how I thought at one point that the lightroots look a bit like hearts and the big roots are like the vessels. it wasn’t really a significant thought at the time until I made these newer connections. if we put them into my analogy, they would be the opposite to the gloom vessel system since they deliver light from the surface and emit it to the periphery (the surrounding area). i associate light with rauru, and he healed/nurtured link, so there’s just parallels and another reason that made me think of the lightroots. also the lightroots heal gloom-damaged heart containers

there are more minor but supplementary details such as

the sound of a heartbeat is featured very prominently in the E3 2019 teaser, and is literally the first noise in the game itself as the opening screens play. so it’s literally the first experiences we have with the game, both the game itself and in the meta about the game.

gaining an essence from a goddess statue, the heartbeat was not in botw (and of course neither was the miasma emitting from link’s entire body every time)

the gloom in link’s body reacts to every shrine of light blessing he absorbs into his arm and the joycons themselves pulse using the haptics

probably more shit i missed lol

the whole thing doesn’t really mean anything significant to the lore at all but neither does the hands theme. but it’s just definitely a pattern, potentially a minor theme, and deliberate choice in setting tone. i think it’s Something. im not a heavy zelda theorist tuber or anything but i’m very observant of patterns and i like to share them for deeper appreciation and contemplation/discussion

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Chernobyl (TV Mini Series) S1/E3 'Open Wide, O Earth' (2019) - Alex Ferns

I can't believe when I first saw this, I completely ignored him. Now I want Alex to fuck me all day.

On A Side Note: Stellan Skarsgård can get whatever he wanted from me. Surprisingly, Jared Harris can get the same offer.

[arwendeluhtiene]

Golgotha Crowley (Autumn 2019) graphite drawing and coloured version 🐍🍎

🎨Media: Graphite (HB, 4B, 6B pencils) and Caran d'Ache water soluble pastels/crayons on a scanner copy.

🍎References: Screenshot from Good Omens S1 E3

Also on:

🍎ArtStation

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🍎DeviantArt

🍎Cara

🚨Disclaimer on Ga iman: I adore Good Omens and for the moment being I will continue to post quite a lot of Crowley especially, but I want to make clear that I do not support his behaviour, already deeply problematic in the best possible scenario, and I believe and support survivors first and foremost as the first option, always.

[wilimia]

Do you guys remember the feeling of watching E3 2019 and seeing that first trailer? That was 4 years ago

[demilypyro]

At what point in time did you see a giant hammer and go “yeah, that’s my main.”

Monster Hunter: World is a 2018 action role-playing game developed and published by Capcom. The fifth mainline installment in the Monster Hunter series, it was released worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2018, with a Windows version following in August 2018. In the game, the player takes the role of a Hunter, tasked to hunt down and either kill or trap monsters that roam in one of several environmental spaces. If successful, the player is rewarded through loot consisting of parts from the monster and other elements that are used to craft weapons and armor, amongst other equipment. The game's core loop has the player crafting appropriate gear to be able to hunt down more difficult monsters, which in turn provide parts that lead to more powerful gear. Players may hunt alone or in a group of up to four players via the game's online multiplayer.

Announced at E3 2017, Monster Hunter: World adopts the series' standard formulas from its older home console roots and recent handheld games to take advantage of the higher processing power provided by modern consoles and computers. Changes made in Monster Hunter: World include creating environmental spaces that are fully connected and removing the "zones" that were necessary for the PlayStation 2 and handheld games, more advanced monster artificial intelligence and physics, a more persistent cooperative multiplayer experience, and a refinement of the game's tutorials and user interface to help with bringing new players into the series. These changes led Capcom to plan for the game's simultaneous release worldwide, since Monster Hunter as a series has generally languished outside of Japan partially due to disparate release schedules. Capcom also opted to support online play between these different geographic regions for similar reasons. The delay for the Windows release was attributed to Capcom seeking to make sure its first foray into the Windows market was optimized for players on computers. By April 2020, updates to the game were synchronized among all platforms.

Monster Hunter: World received critical acclaim upon release, with critics praising how Capcom was able to make the game more accessible to new players and to Western markets, without detracting from the series' core gameplay elements and enjoyable difficulty, and fully taking advantage of the computational capacity of modern consoles to create living ecosystems, with some even calling it the best in the franchise. Monster Hunter: World is the single highest-selling game in Capcom's history, with over 21 million copies shipped by July 2022. A DLC expansion pack, subtitled Iceborne, was released for home consoles in September 2019 and for Windows in January 2020, and reached 10 million sales by December 2022. The next mainline installment, Monster Hunter Rise, was co-developed alongside World and announced for a worldwide release on Nintendo Switch in March 2021, with a Windows version released the following year.

[suppermariobroth]

Wall of signatures from Nintendo’s booth at E3 2019, featuring a variety of Mario-related sketches (please zoom in to view details).

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[the-star-rigel]

the sea & the stars

as both an escape from and a return to oneself (home lies infinity infinities away from here)

vocabulary.com, definition of astronaut / ? / Altered Carbon, S1 E3: In a Lonely Place / Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole, EHT Collaboration + Scylla & Charybdis, ? / Rocket Man, Elton John + Ad Astra (2019) / Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me), Train + Life of Pi (2012) / How Far I’ll Go, Auli’i Cravalho/ The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin + Odyssey over Martian Sunrise, 3-D (Artist Concept), NASA + The Odyssey, Homer / Pluto, Sleeping at Last / @theedorksinlove + Artist’s Rendition of NASA’s Cassini before it entered Saturn’s atmosphere / Cosmos, Carl Sagan / Olympics.com + Solar Sail, Bert Willemsen / The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin / Star Trek (original series) narrative introduction / Where no man has gone before, Wikipedia / Space Oddity, David Bowie + Interstellar (2014) + Seascape Great Ofean Waves Rock Before Storm, ? / The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Story People, Brian Andreas + One Piece (anime) / ? / @ghostwriterofthemachine / Chinese Satellite, Phoebe Bridgers / We’re Finally Landing, Home / Ad Astra (2019) / John F. Kennedy / @heypvrker / Astronomical Tidbits: A Layperson’s Guide to Astronomy, Gerald D. Waxman + Made of Star Stuff, Samrae Duke

[ihavedonenothingright]

Keep thinking back to the first TOTK trailer (the E3 2019 one) and just...

Do you guys remember when the Zonai were presented as menacing?

I think there's a lot more of it in BOTW, but in that trailer specifically, the arm holding Ganondorf in place is far more creepy than it ever ends up being in game? Even before we find out it belongs to All-Powerful-Good-Boy-King Rauru, it just doesn't provoke the same feeling of dread as it did in that first trailer. In addition to that, we hear Zonai chanting in that trailer, but where in the game it ends up sounding peaceful, in that first trailer it reminds me more of the "dueling spirits" in the Shadow Temple's theme. There's so much in that trailer alone that points to the Zonai being foreboding, if not terrifying figures, and then in the actual game we get... what we got.

Obviously we'll never be able to prove it, but looking back, I really doubt the teaser from 2019 was made for a game about the benevolent founders of this new Hyrule, even if I think the Zonai and Hyrule's founding were always meant to play a role. There's such a stark shift in tone between that first teaser and every trailer that came after it. I wonder what sparked that pivot.