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Needed a good-ass midnight snack
For sure, you have to be the opposite of Walter - care for your environment, the people around you, and yourself.
My pleasure
*religious trauma lol
What I'm getting at*
And then, when he can't get that, he loves the kid he gets instead as much as he can anyway. Like, child abuse, grooming, religious trains, etc., absolutely happen, but it's not ABOUT them, it doesn't have as much to say about them. It DOES have a lot to say about what it means to be a parent.
essential objectification in the form of her being reduced to a living womb for the cult's God. Meanwhile, Harry is just someone who wants his kid to be happy, and is genuinely looking out for her best interest. He has no ulterior motives, no big plan for her, he just wants the kid to be Okay™>
What I'm being at is that all of the things you said are there, absolutely, but they're all in service of the bigger theme of what it means to Parent. Dahlia is Alessa's mother, sure, but she forces her into a role she doesn't want and abuses her to make her fit that mold better, ending with her
I'd argue that still fits in the character-limit-satisfying box I put out with "parenting" but yeah same
Yeah that's what I said
I honestly don't have the spoons to put together my thoughts about it at the moment but the core of what I'm seeing there is that after he's abandoned, Walter literally objectifies the role of Mother and uses her as an excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway There's something there, def
1 is about parenting girls, 2 is about men being married to women, 3 is about being a woman, all are about women having to deal with the influence of patriarchal society Like, there is a thematic through line and it's not subtle I could definitely scare something up about 4 if I had the juice
Was trying to get across the vibe of my two one year old daughters to someone and this is what I settled on
James gets a letter, Angela gets a knife, Eddie gets a pie, it all comes out in the wash
I really wanna try to make video essays and I might start with one about why I'm so harsh on SH2 Remake but also consider it a solid 8/10
Right, and I feel like that's an area the remake actually excels - the fog is beautiful and haunting. It hides things in a way that sets up for some incredible possibilities in framing. The problem is that they only use it to hide more mannequins.
we ALREADY HAVE an SH2. We can't NOT compare them.
They wanted to do justice to SH2, but at the same time, they wanted to put their own stamp on it, and a lot of the time that stamp makes things more blunt where the original was subtle, or padded out where the original was concise. It wants to be the new SH2, but it can't escape the fact that [.]
Agreed, which fits my two major thoughts about SH2R: 1) it tries to be faithful and new at the same time, and I feel like that makes it fail at being either. 2) if they want to make a presentation change as major as that, they needed a stronger creative vision of their own, and they didn't.
I'd honestly disagree with that in this context in particular - they erased a LOT of extremely intentional cinematography, especially in changing the camera from being at set points to a free OTS camera.
that the remake just... doesn't.
to be in a certain direction (the nurse walking towards you in the dark hallway and pyramid head behind the wire fence as you descend a ladder in the labyrinth come to mind), but overall they don't really take advantage of the new perspective. The original had a distinct cinematography to it [.]
I'm this way about Silent Hill 2's fixed camera angles - even if it was a limitation they'd have rather not dealt with, they used it well to create some iconic visuals that the remake barely gestures at. The remake DOES try to create some cool moments when they know your perspective is going [.]
I'm surprised I haven't seen more talk about Bloober Team very likely doing a Silent Hill 3 remake That's an EXTREMELY feminist story when you really dig down into it and they don't have a great track record with women in their games, even their version of SH2
without you. Considering that training a model with copyrighted materials isn't considered fair use, I wonder if being able to prove that a model was trained on material similar to an AI written (or even cowritten) work would be enough to legally prove plagiarism.
The tricky thing about plagiarism legally is that style, tone, concepts, characters, archetypes, etc. aren't considered enough to be plagiarism - in the precedent of Harlan Ellison, you need to be able to PROVE that you brought an idea or concept to someone, they saw it, and then later did something
Space Ferret: Genesis
This gets more and more intensified as the series goes on, from being barely present in MGS1 to all of that in MGS5. Like, that's not even everything to do with those bastards! So, is MGS like Death Stranding with Sci-Fi nonsense? Yes! Is Death Standing more understated? Up to taste c:
The main villain intends to use these to eliminate English.
illness and behavioral changes in the host, eventually leading to violent death. On the plus side, they can also give you extremely elongated life, allow you to breathe through your skin, heal almost any wound, and let you turn invisible.
Metal Gear Solid was EXACTLY like this, but mostly focused on espionage and political thriller stuff. As it went on, you got more and more stuff along the lines of what they're saying here. Like, in 5, you have Vocal Cord Parasites, which copulate when exposed to certain languages, triggering
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
Having a bad day and decided it could and should be worse @voidburger.com youtu.be/N2OKzK8iI1U?...
Right exactly that's how you're supposed to hey hold on
I mean, between what other people are saying about this being a gag fight that shouldn't overstay its welcome, and the fact that Deltarune still has really tough optional fights, I don't think removing challenge is actually part of it. It's Toby saying "okay people are getting stuck here too much"
Moon's haunted (by mouse) @tietuesday.bsky.social
@tietuesday.bsky.social drew mouse, came out sad, felt bad for giving a drawing depression, drew him again but zoomin
I can FEEL the texture on that box, goddamn
I had someone spoil FF14 Stormblood's final boss for me ...in global chat in FF14, in the first few days of release. I wasn't that bad but like, goddamn dude really??
As far as I know, GameMaker is still the gold standard for that kinda thing. Not quite the same as Scratch but it's a similar kind of visual coding interface. 2D only tho. Unreal also has Blueprints but I'm not 100% sure how easy that would be for a kid, might be worth looking into
Friends of Da Vinci
No They designed it wrong
Happy to see you guys back on stream!!
I was JUST thinking the same thing replying to something else lmao
Ever since learning more about Tokimeki Memorial and how it's 100% absolutely a game where the core mechanics are centered around dating, yes, absolutely. Two completely different genres, calling a VN a dating sim is such a dead giveaway that they just... don't know a dating sim is
Same is true for things like that Kentucky Fried Chicken parody sim, that doesn't make it sting any less that they're making fun of a massively underserved genre, especially in the West
Lmao for real Tokimeki Memorial, game famously about interacting and progressing with one and only one person
When it's not hard, it's not fun But when it's too frustrating, it's ALSO not fun
I'm suddenly thinking about Final Fantasy 13, I'm sure that's unrelated to drip feeding mechanics But yeah that makes sense lol, reminds me of games like Overcooked where the entire fun of the game is struggling against the inherent friction of playing with other people while trying to do hard shit
Between this and other things I've seen around it seems like the game is encouraging you to look at an unfun task, go "okay this sucks I'm missing something", and then go find that thing It turns a rote "Use the leeches to protect yourself from radiation!" tooltip into a player discovery
It makes sense in a way - is something is done and shipped and settled, and you're years out from the first whispers of the concept of a remaster, why waste valuable drive space (or hell, physical space) preserving something you're 100% done with?
Because it wasn't common practice in Japan to save the resources of finished projects in the 90s and early 2000s Like yeah I agree it sucks and they should've done ANYTHING for preservation but it's a question with an answer
There are ways around this uncanny valley shit but they gotta value game design over The Pipeline™
For real, especially because there are ways around it, like... fuckin game design What if he was just crazy huge so he stands out in a crowd but he also crouches like a freak (affectionate) so he's WAY better at general stealth and keeping a low profile
He'll take you to the Candy Shop. There was no promise he'd let you leave.
See the funny thing is, Yeah basically
Silent Hill would be a killer Secret Lair I think, with its own visual style. Fun to theorize about anyway That or a Masahiro Ito set, thinking about the Yoshitaka Amano Leliana and the Junji Ito set and getting excited about the idea lol
www.bbc.com/news/world-u... "My story about my daughter and the can of beans was poorly told, [...] I didn't share how much laughing we were doing, how we had a bowl of pistachios between us all day as we worked on the problem, or that we'd both had a full breakfast together a few hours before."
Also commiserating on lack. Of Social Strategy Networking is a blight, why can't we just have friends and get jobs
Oh hell yeah
Would love to if I could get someone to watch my kids and I was in the area
Exactly, they're snake oil salesmen They got their money out of snake oil, and now they've moved on to serpent grease. It's totally different, we swear!
Autism cheat code: always misbehave in clear, direct ways so you know what the fuck people are mad at you for
I feel like 5 tried to hit a weird middle ground with more fleshed out story, but it still didn't do enough to appeal to people who prefer that to 3's even more minimal approach 3 feels like you're lost and alone in a doomed world, 5 feels like they just kinda forget to keep the plot going
I swear there's a subset of people who go "well the things I like don't have X, and I like this, so this must not have X/does X right" and do precisely no more thinking
If I was to make a guess, they probably just cited their own outrage Anything can be divisive if you fabricate it yourself
Like, there were two writers, Abrams one of them, on the final script and other script drafts to work from, and THAT made the cut? I agree that it reeks of rush job but it feels more like an outline than a finished product most of the time, not saying you're wrong but it's wild this is what made it
That's fair, I just have a lot of trouble imagining the exact circumstances that led to establishing your major villain with the line "somehow, Palpatine has returned" while writing a script you give any amount of shits about
That makes a LOT of sense, and also goes a long way to explaining the TFA/ROS tone mismatch. I could absolutely see Abrams phoning it in after being micromanaged like that
Ooo, haven't heard that take, how so?
Makes a lot of sense and fits into the Current Events of the time even better, yeah, good idea
It'll be REALLY interesting to see how that works with Rise of Skywalker. It just feels like such a left turn from even Force Awakens, nevermind Last Jedi
Can't agree with you more I'm honestly wondering how much of the more Saturday Morning Cartoon elements and dialogue were because he was basically crushing two movies together, and how much would've been there anyway - really weird how much of that there was after TFA was relatively grounded
Oh yeah more than fair, First Order's lack of real backstory is 100% the weakest part of the first two Literally just having some mild Show Don't Tell exposition of some corrupt planet doing Villain Shit and making it clear they're financing it would've instantly solved it
Absolutely, the entire b problem is Abrams refusing to "yes, and" Johnson, and just pretending TLJ was the episode 8 he would've made Palpatine coming back might not have been horrible if it was built up to, but instead it was first revealed in Fortnite lmao
My father in law thought Rise of Skywalker was the best movie he'd ever seen lol The exact kind of narcissistic "everything should serve me and my interests only" ass that's the only audience that kind of aggressive fan service can appeal to.
Then Rise of Skywalker happened, and it was all thrown away.
I feel like it works better with the further context of Last Jedi, going further into that pattern of repetition and worship of the past and coming out the other side saying "we only get something different by doing something different", and setting up for that beautifully with the broom boy.
He kept being condescending and telling me my narrow point of view shows how unenlightened I am, outright calling me stupid, very hostile Then after I completely disengaged he tried to start psychoanalyzing me "to see where my perception that he's angry is coming from" He caught a block for that
There's a mix of that and a wild urge to look like the smartest person in the room I was arguing with someone who was telling me chatGPT was better than meditation because meditation is a biased mirror, and the bot isn't
Work positive. Be loud and make it happen.
Alright, then have a good one.
I feel like you're misunderstanding what I'm saying, dude. Chat GPT and Midjourney aren't important. The things you're talking about are. But the things that aren't important are stealing the oxygen from the things that are.
Again, if that bothers you, blame the people pushing useless tech and making it necessary to push everything under the same umbrella to get funding.
Machine Learning, or other technologies that efficiently adapt to and automate rote tasks. The things that MOST PEOPLE are excited about are things that draw a pretty picture you can claim is yours, or a "chat" algorithm you can point to the output of and go, "Look! It can think!". >
No. See, I'm not excited about "AI", period, because the technologies line Midjourney and ChatGPT are the b things actually being touted as advances in AI, as being steps towards Machines That Really Think. That's garbage, that's not happening. The actual interesting things are usually "just" >
Those also aren't the advances that MOST people are excited about, or what they mean when they say AI. Those actually useful and interesting applications are overshadowed by text prediction algorithms you can "talk" to instead of people and Image Averagers. If that annoys you, blame AI Evangelists.
Definitely - it's wild that most of that video is recounting the plot but it's both entertaining and feels justified. The man is a wizard.
Did this but they put a couple kids in it, all all stage-makeupped to be injured, had real paramedics take them to the "hospital" which was the auditorium and then did a play about them dying in the hospital while their parents cried except their parents were also just students, and ended w/ lecture
The Internet of that era and the one we have now are ridiculously different in a way that's difficult to explain The best I've been able to do is sit someone down in front of Hypnospace Outlaw and tell them "yeah it was this"
Was this said during a gun fight, if it wasn't, I can't believe it
So are you DIRECTLY talking about Persona 4 or is it just catching a stray
Are You DarKidding Me, Tuesdays at 10
Definitely - they're just going to call them "redundant jobs" or "DEI hires" You're right that they're going to lie, but not about whether they happened, just why
Hope you can find some relief for this - invisible stuff like that is tough. I've got a chronic pain condition and the only way I could get someone to actually take it seriously and get a diagnosis besides "exercise more idk" was to demand tests until they found something. Wishing you well
Like imagine just being Robespierre there, you're trying to do the Reign of Terror and then the most beautiful man you've ever seen just bowls on in and goes "VAMPIRES ARE REAL AND THEY'RE GOING TO KILL YOU" Imagine if you're watching a documentary and that just happens
Finished Castlevania Nocturne tonight Richter had no real character arc but Alucard got to burst in on Robespierre doing the French Revolution and go "ROBESPIERRE THERE'S FUCKING VAMPIRES" so I feel like that's a net gain
@voidburger.bsky.social Hey happy birthday and stuff!
