Na na na na na na na na Katamari Damacy

Gestalt

Freudian slip?

It’s end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine.

Ok fuck it I’m sold.

I feel like FromSoft’s games have a nice solution to this in that generally speaking, the world has basically already ended and you’re fighting through the wreckage to try to pick it up again. Not a viable option for every story, though, of course

Nier Automata also nailed this specific theme.

Why on Hoxxes would a Dwarf need to crouch?

It’s one of the great things about Deep Rock Galactic, in so many ways there’s very little story other than deep lore, and the Dwarves aren’t saving the world, they’re getting drunk and doing their dayjobs.

Hoxxes IV doesn’t need saving, it needs mining.

It’s not an RPG, but I think Owlboy handled it expertly.

Each level, Owlboy is out to handle some dangerous issue that is happening. By the end of the level, he succeeds.

The thing is, in the background, other things are happening. Almost every time you “succeed” the story moves forward to tell you, “oh, while you were doing that, THIS was happening that made all you just did basically pointless and we’re all even more screwed than before you started this level.”

So, it keenly points out the enemies aren’t waiting around, in fact, they’re doing dastardly things while you’re busy trying to save the day, so much so that your character continues to feel like a failure despite many successes. I think it’s a great way to present and write a story, to show that your character isn’t the only one in the wider world that things are happening to and can’t handle all problems at once. Things happen outside of their control and outside of their vision, just like in our real lives.

Witcher 3 did it really well by having the “end of the world” stuff being centered around Ciri, and Geralt is just kind of along for the ride and isn’t really entirely sure what is happening, and his impact on whether she succeeds is rooted in whether he supports her as a father figure. Most of the game is Geralt not really having any idea that this end of the world stuff is happening to Ciri at all, until near the end.

On the other hand, it would be nice to have an RPG with lower stakes. Like I’ve always imagined a modern-day RPG where you have to do things like scrounge through your couch for change to buy a soda. The mundane RPG.

Honestly, toughest part of Baldur’s Gate 3 is recognizing how much there is to do despite the fact that you literally have specific characters haranguing you to move the story forward (I’m looking at you Frog Wife, we’ll get to your fucking Creche when I’m ready!), which makes you feel like maybe there’s a time limit. First playthrough I missed massive amounts of the game because I felt rushed by the characters in my party.

On the other hand, maybe there does need to be a time limit so the urgency is real? In the original Fallout, on release, you had something like 100 in-game days before The Master found Vault 13 and it was game-over. They later removed this because it was seen as too difficult… but I actually dislike that it got removed. Maybe change how long the player is given, but still, give them something to press that urgency as an actual, real, urgent thing.

They aren’t going to stop and self-reflect on this behavior.

Well thanks for proving my point.

I’m wondering when the bot armies of sign-ups will come out in force to a point where blocklists can’t keep up…

He may very well go after Blue Sky in a the ways he promised, under the premise of 1A.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

― Jean-Paul Sartre

They know they’re abusing the idea of free speech to control others’ speech and they don’t really care how we feel about it.

It just reminds me of this… One of Killer Mike’s best, imho. Frisky Dingo died too soon.

…but for real that’s a weird thing to call it.

If they didn’t well, let’s look at where the majority of them actually fall on the societal ladder. The bottom.

…but that’s not true. The evidence bore out that Trump voters were largely white middle class. The kind of people who would have a big stupid truck, a boat, a generator, and any other number of things that take fuel, which is why they care so stupid fuck much about the price of gas. (Not enough to do anything like use less gas of course, because that’s not FREEDOM)

They were white uneducated middle class, but middle class nonetheless. Middle managers and “small business” owners.

They already do have power over other people, and they like it that way. What they’re fighting against is anyone who wants to take away from their fake meritocracy where they can continue to control and abuse the lives of the people who are under their thumbs in the workplace. It’s why they hate the poor. It’s why they hate academia and intellectuals. It’s why they hate democracy, because they’re allowed to be a petty dictator in the feifdom of whatever shithole business they work at/own.

The biggest reason Office Space is a fantasy is because the Bobs do their job and remove the actual waste in the company. That almost never happens in real life. In real life Lumberg and all the other bosses would be safe and every low level employee would get the shaft. Trump voters are Lumberg and the other middle managers who take great joy in micromanaging. It’s half the reason they want people back in the office, too (the other half the reason being a stealth layoff). They don’t actually care about efficiency, it’s about control.

Let’s stop pretending that all Trump voters are uneducated yokels. They’re uneducated and they’re yokels, but they’re more than that. They’re every shitty fucking boss you’ve ever had, which is why Elon Musk walks amongst them. We don’t need to make excuses for these people who are sorry excuses anyway.

The right has an abuse problem. They don’t want to understand consent.

They see power as a means to an end. Is it a surprise they support rape when rape is about power?

Abusers never see themselves at fault and some will follow their abused victims to the ends of the earth to be able to pile on more abuse that they see as deserved. They aren’t going to stop and self-reflect on this behavior. They will either become bored or they will double down and do whatever they can to continue harassing and abusing those who are different than themselves.

They will DARVO us until the very end. This is how it has always been with those who dole out abuse.

Jokes at Windows expense bad, jokes at Linux expense gud.

I get it, but please find something new to complain about, it’s getting old.

Lovingly crafted, artisanal coding.

Microsoft produces malware, that’s nothing new.

It’s capitalism coupled with access to education.

You get more anxious when you’re super educated about how badly you’re getting fucked by capitalism and have zero power to change it!