Tito J Davis

Garbage Plate - Rochester, NY
there has never been a better hangover killer

Vanilla is way more popular among kids than chocolate. Without fail the vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting are gone first, then vanilla cupcake chocolate frosting, then chocolate cupcake vanilla frosting, then chocolate chocolate. Every time, no matter the class. Vanilla is the superior flavor

As a Jew I've been known to warn light skinned jews that despite their light skin, "white" could be revoked from them at any time. it happened in the past couple years, but for some reason I didn't really consider it happening to others who conditionally got "white" in the past. italians next?

I know so many Nigerian Manchester united fans. imagine supporting both united and the Nigerian national team, dear lord

jokes on you, chanukah always catches me by surprise

I'll link you the essay when I eventually get it written

After reading Children of Time I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social has ever read Martin Buber because it seems so

gonna start writing connection as "connexion"

It's almost peaceful when you realize that most of the opinions about books are from people who don't read or don't read much, most opinions about games are from people who only play like 3 games, most opinions about footy are from people who watch only one team etc etc

to be able to implement that sort of "I've spent 120 hours being a hero and with all you guys, maybe I do care a little" kind of arc without barring it behind the exact dialogue options you rail about in your article. there has to be ways to use dialogue to poke at that in better ways

(should be mentioned she did hint at a deeper sense of moral conflict so having an arc made sense) then late game (baffling barred behind romance) she could turn around and says ahh to hell with it, there are people I care about more than myself or groveling to power.

it doesn't seem like a stretch

game time and taking someone with me affect them and our relationship (and I dont know the behind the scenes work so maybe this just happened to puzzle piece its way into making sense narratively) but in Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous Wenduag is evil, but I took her with me and acted as the hero

NWN2 has companions reacting to both the situations and each other and each others reactions to the situations, sometimes you're left to mediate. this hinted at a deeper possibility but later crpgs tended to only take the lesson "people love when the party members banter". then, the only time I saw

because i was too nice to an NPC and you're kinda rude as one of your character traits? time spent doesn't matter? How i treat with other companions doesn't matter to your opinion of me?

crpgs have hinted at interesting systems for better relational gameplay but never really explored it fully.

behind "how much does the character like you" gates, that are also just checkbox-ey. Need a crpg to better explore how the relational aspects of doing an adventure with people works. I've brought you with me for 80 hours of playthrough but you're not going to give me the last bit of backstory

Something in this realm I've noticed playing through Dragon Age Origins for the first time has been companion interactions. I have to constantly be checking in with them, make sure I've checked all their dialogue options each time I check in with them, and they're really just exposition locked

I actually do believe that humans have an inherent sense of morality within them. The problem is that culture determines who it's applied to. Some tribes see other tribes as so other they don't apply the sense of morality to them, some people see even animals as worthy of being included

gotta make sure we keep teaching xylophone in schools because I'm pretty sure there will always be cartoons with dancing skeletons

deprioritization is a word, word processors can fuck off

reminding myself and talking myself into the mindset to approach my children's book (marketing term: mid grade) with whimsy exactly how Wot from A Knight's Tale talks himself into "Nice" when approaching Chaucer about not betraying them who's sitting naked on the side of the road

finally realizing the connection between my love of writing and the fact that I'm not really a lyrics listener in music. while in writing obviously the words themselves matter enormously, I care about style so much because its the rhythm i love to hear.

the better you get at writing the more you realize you have to put in, and yet the fewer words you should be using to pack it all in.

why do i see people i follow respond to things like "women dont watch star trek" do people not have a radar for what actually deserves their energy & attention? how do you not see takes like this and just think "oh this is not a serious person" and move on? my timeline is full of responses to rubes

there aren't many *eastern european* protagonists in games either, so it actually is great when artists from a rarely represented culture do a piece of art that stirs their culture in. Harry Dubois and the world he exists in is completely different to, say, Nathan Drake but sure they're both "white"

not to mention that its a story very much steeped in the creators own culture, post soviet eastern europe. harry should be a white man because the game is made by white people commenting on a white countrys political situation. so often feels like people throw "white" into a criticism to win points

Wedge Antilles is a real James Milner. never going to be spectacular, never going to carry, but god damn it he will do the damn job and help the boys get over the line

Was thinking about how my family, upon seeing the same signs we're seeing now, uprooted the whole fam and came to america about a century ago. then thought of how it may be wise to do the same. then realized, what a unique time we live in where theres just about nowhere you can just move to

had a first grade that was too wild, two soft teachers in the same room. Moved one up to fifth with a coach type, will be good for her. New first grade teacher... well, she's got no neck. That's the type of physiognomy these kids need. Playtime is over, time to learn.

christian afterlife, though implausible, would be a funny fate. jews staunchly loyal for 3000years and only to be 2nd class citizens in heaven too. i would accept that fate, but only for the irony

there can't have been this many people 200 years ago who absolutely huffed and puffed when coming up a single flight of stairs as we do now