I’m puzzled what’s surprising about this.

I’m not LGBT, or American, but seeing people online suddenly talk openly with a great deal more vitriol and hatred about my friends, and even my child, caused me a fair bit of stress.

I prefer to think of it as very thorough recycling.

I far prefer the unnatural sciences, myself.

Huh. What an odd direction to go. I like retro gaming but I can’t imagine having an entire console taking up space just for the occasional curiosity of a new Atari 2600 level game coming out. I can’t imagine they have a huge market

Godot is so enticing to me. I was heavily into RPG maker in the early oughts, not so much out of any love of the jrpg genre but just because it was mind blowing to be able to generate any kind of game so easily. Of course, now I have a “job” and “kids” and I probably won’t be able to play seriously with godot until the latter grows up and possible until I retire from the former, but it’s always there… beckoning…

I’m not too worried about the lack of innovation from the AAA games, as an indie game enthusiast. For the moment, there doesn’t seem to be any threat of corporatocracy wiping out the indie scene. When you look back at the innovation in the 90s, while it wasn’t indie by our current standards, the “wild west” nature of it all meant that the work the innovators were doing at the time was quite analogous to the typical small scale passion projects done by modern indie. The craze hasn’t died off, it’s just mingled with big studio stuff now.

And while those big studio things are less inherently innovative, we do still see things like Half Life Alyx now and then. I don’t think it’s a bad time to be into gaming.

What’s bonkers to me is realizing that this is only two years after quake 1, which in turn was only three years after doom, which was less than a year after wolfenstein 3d. We went from Wolfenstein 3d to Unreal in 6 years.

I remember that, too. It feels to me like some time around 2010, game graphics finally reached a stride where they all looked quite good, and any further development since then has been incremental… but for that first decade, it was unbelievable how rapidly it was progressing.

There are still a lot more people on twitter.