Jonathan Zungre

Finally! I've been designing this game for almost three years! #SuperMash is a video game that makes video games! Out on Nintendo Switch May 2020, out the Epic Store RIGHT NOW. epicgames.com/store/en-US/pr… so proud of everyone who worked on it, this team is the best. @digitalcontinue

@PostDisclosure Yeah hell’s hard to believe in. I think there does have to be some final judgement though, some kind of final justice. There are people who have done horrible things, and a god of complete mercy, without any type of final righting of wrongs would also be evil.

When I think of a perfect deity, I contemplate what the most kind, compassionate, and intelligent human attributes would encompass, expecting the deity to surpass them. This is one reason I'm skeptical of the Abrahamic idea of God. The harsh judgment of this God, sometimes constituting eternal suffering, doesn't compute. Ultimately, a perfect deity wouldn't need to judge so harshly in the same way that the more righteous a person is, the more reasonable, slow to anger, and merciful they are. The idea that perfection means holding someone "perfectly" accountable for their sins, to the extent that the person suffers more than the suffering they caused, is a perversion of what perfection truly entails.

@jaytholen Sunk cost fallacy, as well maybe?

i wonder how much of "this game gets good after 20 hours" is mere exposure effect and not that the game actually unfolds into anything more inherently compelling after 20 hours? i've learned to appreciate some of my favorite things (mostly music) this way so it's not BAD but yeah

@jaytholen So are you thinking like 10 years of part time / off hours development?

i understand "i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less & i'm not kidding!" but i'm never gonna be into making short games myself. i want to make a long game and i want to spend 10 years on it. 15 even.

@gabecuzzillo Looks neat gabe!

So excited to finally show what we’ve been working on for the last three years!

@clarafv Looks neat! Congrats!!

@jaytholen Imagine being a guy who writes for a blog called Giant Freakin’ Robot and saying Tolkien was a bad writer.

links I should not click right before bed (or ever)

@Synodai Horse master

@wasifmrahman Love abandoned stuff videos

Gmgm got home late last night from SF. Nothing hits quite like coming home to some good ol NYC Pizza. Found a dope video on vice of people exploring abandoned malls in Ohio. Abandoned is one of my favorite verticals on YouTube.

@snakesandrews I thought of Lie to the Devil as “non-commercial games” or “Games for No One”

the term "indie games" doesn't make sense anymore. I propose several new terms that may better describe the types of indie games people make now: "entrepreneur-core", "start-up-like", "hussletroidvania", "communism simulator", "something someone made while taking a smoke of weed"

@bysameng This looks really good. Really smart

a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy:

@PostDisclosure @LoseTheAnger It also occurs to me that a lower intelligence being might just have limitations in understanding most expressions of intelligence from a much higher intelligence being / species / alien civ, like a dog watching a debate on tv. So what seems like obfuscation is us hitting limits.

@LoseTheAnger But it's intentional, and not happenstance. So it would have to be intentionally concealing. Is there no deception in that? Seems to me there is. But if you want to make an argument there isn't, I'm all ears.

If there's a God, then God by nature is deceptive. He allows well meaning people, who strive for objectivity, to still conclude He doesn't exist based on Him concealing himself so well. Many don't want to accept this. But I'm convinced this is the objective truth. This is 1/2

@PostDisclosure @luckywilson “Secret”? “Mysterious”? Arcane”? Enigmatic? How to describe the answer to a riddle or a buried treasure? When Jesus intentionally obfuscates, it seems to me the intent was world-correcting, to give the most important secrets to the poor,disenfranchised and uneducated.

@luckywilson I think you put this better than I did. Thank you.

@BSquidding @PostDisclosure If it doesn’t have an obvious, functional effect on your life, I think open-mindedness and openness is probably a better default position, ie one can believe uap represent non-human intelligence without it having a negative effect on your life.

@PostDisclosure Why such gate keeping? There’s nothing special about skeptics or skepticism. IMO skepticism should be most peoples default position, least they be easily taken advantage of.

Should anyone be able to call themselves a UFO skeptic just because they make doubting proclamations? Does skepticism have any principles that should be adhered to or is it a free-for-all? If someone thinks UFOs represent a scientific enigma, are they now no longer a skeptic?

@leslanphere This seems like an eisegesis of the Chosen. The creators obviously have a deep respect for the Bible and Jesus. How does this guy feel about Aslan? Is cs Lewis making a mockery of scripture by turning Jesus into a lion? Is this dude going after veggie tales with a pitchfork?

@lrphilipson Whose painting is this?

people who hate skinamarink see this and are like. yeah but it would be way better if there was a demon or a ghost looking at the dog through the door. how am I supposed to be scared if the artist didn’t paint anything

@lrphilipson You got them.

@tanyaxshort In addition to being familiar systemically, combat is also familiar narratively. Combat’s a super easy way to introduce conflict to a story, and we’re kind of handcuffed to conflict as far as what humans usually like about stories, for better or worse (probably worse)

@ShawnDoubleA that beatdown city remix trailer is one of the coolest I’ve ever seen. Congrats man!

@MiddleOfMayhem Well, I mean, those dogs had a mystery to solve. Makes sense.

George Knapp, in his 2005 book "Hunt for the Skinwalker", wrote about a security officer near Skinwalker Ranch who witnessed 2 dogs, standing upright, wearing trench coats, and smoking cigarettes. 🐺🚬🐺🚬