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You know what to do. We'll see what happens but I'm considering moving to bsky so follow me there

@gunvalkyrie Pretty much. Ludologists hallucinated the conflict all on their own, cornering themselves into a narrow-minded framework for no good reason

In a Spanish 1987 game called "The Abbey of Crime" there are some sections where you need to attend a chant, it will play Schubert's "Ave Maria", but if the game is a pirated version, instead of Ave Maria playing it will play an on-loop audio of someone saying "pirata".

It's easy to call AAA soulless, but are you brave enough to call most indies soulless as well?

They are calling it the most on the nose imperial boomerang in the history of imperial boomerangs ever

“Ideas come to us as the substitutes for griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure our heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy.” — Proust, Time Regained

really tired of hearing all of this 'dying empire' stuff, pure wishful thinking that ultimately really just seems to mean that no one has to do anything to stop these crimes bc it's just symptomatic of some hidden crisis of hegemony. meanwhile the reich gets everything it wants

new years thinking about rothko - no.4, no.6, no.8 , 1964

What all of these arguments share in common is the defense of bad videogame writing as the only possible state of affairs. It's genuinely alienating

c) "Videogames are uniquely disqualified from having good writing forever." An incomprehensible position strictly driven by resentment—mind you, not of the aesthetic kind, as many gamers would love to believe, but of the "we lost the war on people's attention" kind.

The whole discussion around good videogame writing: a) "We actually have it in spades, as demonstrated by mass appeal at worst and vulgar narratology at best." If you genuinely believe this, there is no hope for you.

this conversation has been driving me crazy because “porn addiction” isn’t recognized by psychology as a real condition, while porn CAN be addictive as a manifestation of other compulsions. what everyone is talking about is chauvenism and objectification, not porn addiction

@Tomgradep chat is this true

Personally, I think the site needs to be more funny and have more Japanese artists.

Leftist accounts: Bluesky has too much centrism. Irony-pilled accounts: Bluesky has a loser mindset. Rightwing accounts: Bluesky is the new Tumblr. Now you know why they named it 2017 Twitter.

@Tomgradep I mean, I'm far from a Kodaka/Uchikoshi fan, but it'd be hard to defend it even from that standpoint because before release they themselves were like "Oh, yes, we have like, a hundred different endings! No, I haven't really read them, no"

@Tomgradep If The Hundred Line is anything to go by, this is a marketing gimmick at best and a serious red flag at worst. But Gamer Numbers must go up, I guess!

The Visual Novel Ending Cold War has begun

Either way, I just hate it. The kind of title that would have me elongating the last syllable of my previous sentence so as to delay the embarrassment of having to say it out loud

@Tomgradep My thoughts exactly! In my experience, a lot of this content is extremely sex negative in its own right. Fanservice, far from confronting this ideology, is one of its clearest manifestations. Besides, sexual or not, I just think fanservice is terrible lol (the name says it all)

@UnderRealLife I see what you mean. I guess I'm used to the idea of accepting fanservice as the catch-all term through which anime tackles sexual content, which in and on itself carries serious connotations of how sexual content is handled in the first place.

Ultimately, the only answer you can give to the "there's too much fanservice in anime" debate should be "make better fanservice" and not "remove fanservice altogether". So the question that should be asked is why are industries and audiences settling for so little.