There are so many theories about Columbo’s wife not being real (she’s a complete fabrication, she’s secretly his boyfriend, he’s actually talking about a very opinionated cat, etc) and I love all of them but tbh he really gives off major “out of touch but super supportive straight man with a trans wife” vibes.

2014 average url: tumblring-in-the-tardis

anyway i still really like this face i drew that one time when i was really scared of a bad thunderstorm bc i'd had a terrible week and my anxiety levels were thru the roof. but then i drew this gentleman and things felt a little better for a brief moment.

nasa to the artemis crew: right no pit stops at jupiter alright? moon and back

Calling Ultima the single most consistently groundbreaking, pioneering, influential series of videogames in the history of the medium would be kind of an understatement (Akalabeth and Ultima I pioneering the idea of adapting tabletop RPGs to the medium of videogames in a way that established so many elements that would become intrinsic to the identity of the genre for decades, like the concept of grid-based first person dungeon crawling and tile-based overworld travel, later games establishing the mold for isometric top-down RPGs, Ultima Online being a critical tipping point in cementing the popularity of the MMORPG), but even among a series that consistently pumped groundbreaking videogame after groundbreaking videogame it's just completely impossible to overstate how massive Ultima Underworld's legacy stands over a huge chunk of the gaming medium, even if its effects manifest in subtle ways nowadays like I legitimately believe no individual videogame in the history of the medium has been as influential as it.

Also it's legitimately unbelievable how technically advanced it was for its time. Watching a stone thrown at you by a goblin sail through the air in a realistic arc and bounce off the walls and floor is nothing short of surreal to see in a game that looks like this and came out a couple months before Wolfesntein 3D

Apparently a unity engine port of Ultima Underworld 1 came out earlier this year, and was recently updated to add mouse + keyboard controls (it originally only supported gamepad controls). So it completely solves one of the biggest obstacles to experiencing Ultima Underworld from a modern audience perspective, which is the archaic controls (there's a mouselook patch for the original game that makes it slightly better but even with it the controls are kind of awkward).

Also apparently the old japanese-exclusive PS1 port got an english fan translation a couple years ago! I still think the 3D models on that version look ugly but at least they look ugly in a charmingly old-school way, and the UI looks kind of cramped, but I'm considering putting it on a PS1 emulator in my 3DS

Oh toby what the fuck are you cooking up