Lightning_Shade

Suffocate the voices of preference falsification. Strangle the internal liar. Stab the coward within into the miserable void it pretends is "your heart". Like and dislike art without shame. Know that pleasure is Good and Just. Let no rules stand in your way.

if this is true it's barbaric

@oldyzach I'm afraid the real thing will not have DOS-era VGA graphics.

I've never had the chance to visit Barcelona. Maybe it's really nice there? Gloriana (1996), MSDOS

@hirotonfa (And yes, it's not even "buckled", the wording in the original absolutely evokes the image of it rearing up like a horse.)

@hirotonfa There's a Russian fantasy novel out there, which uses this type of description in an even more evocative way. My best translation would be: "And then the pavement reared up and hit me in the face." Describes the "inside" feeling of an *extremely* proficient knockout spell.

There is an old-school playfulness in English that is under attack. Example from someone getting shot in an old pulp story: "The floor rushed up to meet his face." The sentence now gets both comments like "That's not logically correct" and "uuuh i don't get it???? whaaat??"

Normally this tends to feel like an acceptable enough break from reality, IMO, but one movie I *did* notice something similar in was Equilibrium. A world "without beauty" somehow still has very obvious makeup, meaning someone produces it. THAT bugged the hell out of me.

@CartoonsHateHer > janitor So you're Roger Wilco's new GF? (Or maybe previous GF before his adventures...)

lol I was not expecting to hear that I fuck like *checks notes* Jar Jar Binks

The "localization is difficult, chud" crowd sure is angry in the replies that a creator agreed with them but respects his creation.

@_cream_gravy @PalmyrPar YOU CAN'T KILL THE GABEN THE GABEN WILL LIVE ON

@PalmyrPar >does nothing >wins EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL

Sam Altman tried to take Half-Life 3 from you, but he failed. No one stops Gaben.

@0K_ultra This is *technically* possible to imagine in a "everyone knows it's true, but you'll get in trouble for saying so" way. Which, not coincidentally, is a rather authoritarian structure. If that's how radfems see things, it's a pretty big self-report IMO.

reminds me of that insane radical feminist research paper that said that rape myth ACCEPTANCE scale is no longer accurate because people aren't saying what they think about rape due to SOCIAL PRESSURE

What happens when you're given text strings ripped from the files with no context.

@Nuzarak @kukuruyo This is what happens when you're given text strings with no context. 9 times out of 10 Kukuruyo would've been right here, but nope...

@kukuruyo You were the localizer all along....

I was translating a game skill called "Guts" and obviously i didn't translate it as "stomach" but rather as "bravery", but then i read it and it's a skill for eating spoiled food and it indeed translates as "stomach"

@DrBMCzentovic @SusanPolgar Ah yeah, true, did not spot that. I shouldn't do these in the morning...

@LightningShade0 @SusanPolgar but nxf3 comes with a check and then qxb is also coming in the next move...

Candidates’ chess tactic. White to move. #ChessPunks #ChessTactic #FIDECandidates

@pequod286 @nonthreatining @NBinted That anxiety would, at least, be an emotion. Compared to *nothing*. Though it is true that had I found the writing more evocative, everything else would've mattered way less. Maybe someone with the raw writing skill of e.g. Emily Short could've done it.

@LightningShade0 @nonthreatining @NBinted That's a simplistic view and it would make it demonstrably worse at what it does. That implementation would instill and feed the anxiety that a failure to take those steps brings, while the way the story is written acknowledges the challenges but asks the player to keep trying

Our world is a worse place for everyone because of an ex-boyfriend's self-admitted false allegations about a Kotaku review that doesn't exist for a browser game that costs zero dollars to play.

When "horny" and "minimalism" somehow manage to combine.

@pequod286 @nonthreatining @NBinted The point the crossed-out choices present is "when you're down, the best choices are somehow unavailable". Which, in my version, would happen organically in the player's mind and influence their play *long term* -- as opposed to a "neat gimmick" that's exhausted in five seconds.

@LightningShade0 @nonthreatining @NBinted That would actually be the exact opposite of the thematic purpose of everything in DQ. It might be "better" from a purely mechanical perspective, because it would be a better balance of risk and reward, but it would effectively erase the points the story is trying to present

@_i_8200 @pequod286 @nonthreatining @NBinted As to why I said the mechanic was terrible, you'd know I meant it *in DQ's context* (since my distaste for it is due to how it largely fails at what DQ wants it to do), but that'd require being able to correctly read two tweets, while you failed at one.

@_i_8200 @pequod286 @nonthreatining @NBinted > instead of "directing to a nonexistent page", this is an *existing* page, but *without any direction* -- the EXACT OPPOSITE of my hypothetical example To answer your question: clearly, I am someone with better reading comprehension than you.

@bzogrammer This is really bad for regular text and potentially *really* good for artsy typographical VFX. Just wait, it's only been a few days since this tech appeared in such an easily usable fashion. People will discover good uses.

I don't want to be too harsh on this, it's a cute demo, but this strikes a chord. I can't read text when it's jumping around all over the place. This is a fundamentally shallow way of communicating because of that. We have enough of those. If we're going to spend so much time interacting with computers, let's make interactive and digital media deeper. So much of modern media is focused on shallow, surface -level experiences. Something that's pretty but says little. This is a serious problem, we need more people thinking deeply about things, and there are plenty of rising crises in the world that imply we urgently need genuinely new ways of thinking. We're not going to get there without depth, and we're not going to get depth if people spend so much of their day scrambling their brains with tweets and tiktoks and other short form feeds. A friend was telling me the other day that her sister is being admitted to a mental institution because of some form of schizo internet psychosis. This shallow media genuinely harms people. Art is a powerful thing, let's not pretend it isn't. I like Kat's posts, she's great at exploring fun ideas about what computer interfaces could look like. I'm saying this because I want to see artists try harder to shape the world in better ways that aren't just the ten quintillionth "save the trees" thing. Shallow political propaganda, no matter how good the cause, is a profoundly cynical vision of what art can be. If anything, we'll have an infinitely better shot of "saving the trees" if we first fix the shallow ideas problem. Art is a means of communication for ideas which often are beyond what ordinary words can convey. Mapping unmapped territory. It's other things too, such as pushing the boundaries of artistic mediums themselves (I think Kat does this well), or spells we cast on ourselves to access a certain state of mind (much of modern music is this). But it's an incredibly important thing, with genuine utility even if it's of a form that transcends our current overly materialist conceptions of utility. Let's not hide behind "I'm just making pretty things, it doesn't mean anything."

@AntifaCostanza I'm the guiltiest of fucks here because Civvie just did *not* get Hexen's appeal, at all, but he's hilarious so when I'm down, I occasionally rewatch his Hexen rant... "Run DOWN the hall and STAB the cook!"

*bunch of people start repeating stupid take as fact* *Look inside* *YouTuber*