Colin Ferguson

Ah, welcome, fellow traveler.

"Help? Criticality... needs help? Really? Crit? What the HELL have you gotten yourself into this time?"

Pathways into Darkness.

What if Wolfenstein 3D involved inventory management, backtracking, solving puzzles, leveling up your weapon skills, and conversing with the spirits of the dead?

Not yet at any rate. Over the Moon’s next game after The Fall: Part 2 was Last Hero of Nostalgia.

Talia Lavin had a good analysis of this phenomenon. For right wingers, buying right-wing branded merch is kind of like paying a tithe in a church service. It’s something they do to feel like part of a community and are happy that their resources go towards forwarding their cultural goals.

This whole thread, what David says. They aren’t reacting to something real, they’re just taking whatever nuts they can pick and spinning scandal out of it whole-cloth.

I tried to take a stab at figuring out why some people get so wound up about this:

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Seriously, going with fascist imagery is literally loser behavior.

It always makes me wonder what the libs ever did to them to deserve such disgustingly-realized ire.

It's so refreshing, isn't it?

You have neatly encapsulated the mood I live perpetually under.

reminder that the "credit card companies denying the sale of anything that could be considered pornographic" fact and the "platforms/government trying to define anything remotely queer as pornography" fact should get filed in the same section of your brain

The "villain monologue" is something of a cliche trope in fiction, but one thing I admire about Andor is how it gives us so many good "heroic monologue" moments. It really helps sell the "rebellions are built on hope" theme as it builds toward Rogue One. I find myself coming back and replaying them.

If it’s fucking raining and everyone says it’s fucking raining and the meteorologists say it’s fucking raining and you’re out there in the rain getting fucking wet and someone tells you it’s not raining, that doesn’t make them a “wet weather skeptic” it makes them a fucking idiot

It's a little like Frostpunk, but with less trial-and-error and less time pressure. Still an enjoyable challenge of balancing resource input with necessary consumption for critical functions without breaking your population, refactoring old designs as new options become available, etc.

YouTube video by Kasedo Games IXION | Original Soundtrack | 01 Vanir's Legacy

Did you play their game Ixion? Same studio, same composer.
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Human comfy.

Also, at least in software, you might be working at different studios now but you won't be working at those studios forever and you might even end up working at the same studio, eventually.

Building up a reputation as someone who's worth working together with is just good sense for career growth.

There are reasons. For example, if you've already played a game and are watching someone else play through it for the first time so you get to re-experience playing it the first time vicariously. Or if it's more of an "art" game it can be interesting to see someone else's perspective while playing.

I don't have a prescription here to convince them to go along with it. I don't think that they can be convinced. I think they'll simply have to be overridden. My only advice is to not give them an inch, because they'll NEVER be satisfied. Compromising on this is only going to make things worse.

This is why they seem to regard trans people in sports as such a transgression. Trans people already threaten their hierarchal views on gender by simply existing. But trans people in sports is like taking that threat and aiming it straight at the heart of what they believe.

It's why they react so.

It has to do with their hierarchal world view and what the purpose of sports is to them. For most, sports are a game, literal play. But for the hierarchal-minded, sports are serious business. They are the means by which the superior and inferior are decided. It's a pure distillation of their view.

So, trans people in sports. I'll preface by saying I'm supportive, let people play and compete with each other as they choose to.

Though I also want to unpack why conservatives seem to feel bizarrely strongly about this. It's not a big deal, and yet they treat it like it's civilization-ending.

Zuckerberg: "NO! You will not consume what you want! You will consume what we TELL you to want!"

It does make me wonder though, aside from AI (obviously) what are some good creativity "tools"? Like, I can write and sketch okay when given a prompting, but staring at a blank page without something prior in mind just makes my creativity seize up.

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

Actually that's not a bad literal idea.

John Brown gets hung by the Virginia planters and in his final moments finds his spirit awakening in another world, where he finds another empire of enslavement to topple.

🎶"But his soul goes marching on..." 🎶

We need more isekai where the protagonist sees slavery practiced and thinks, "Well this won't do," and spends the rest of the series fomenting a revolution.

I'd seen the argument made that the history of warfare is the history of higher-resourced men convincing lower-resourced men to cull their own population so those higher-resourced men can horde for themselves yet more resources still.

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