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kids dealing with shit

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As an art form, games have a huge problem with being seen as disposable content, both by executives and by players. Videogames are like the comic books of audiovisual media. Sure, maybe there's a cool moment now and then, but if you bring it up in a discussion of art, you're almost always gonna get laughed at.

Writing in games is always gonna be undervalued compared to books or tv shows cause with any game there's gonna be a percentage of the audience that just doesn't care. Unless your game is like a visual novel, people probably didn't pick a game up for the story, and even if it is, some are gonna be skipping the dialogue. Gamers are insane. And executives know this, so games are almost never developed from a standpoint of "we're gonna deliver a really gripping story." No, they just care about having the most raytracing and visible pores, because that impresses investors. A game needs to be visually impressive first, and it needs to feel good to play second, and then maybe they'll worry about the writing at step seven or eight.

As someone who really cares about the progress of games as an art form, it gets me sad.

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The trick to understanding tabletop RPGs which pride themselves on simulating reality rather than emulating genre tropes is that their designers' notion of "realism" is typically informed by popular fiction which bills itself as "realistic" – which is, itself, a genre with a discernible body of tropes.

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paracelsus is a fucking coward, mononym ass bastard

His name was Phillipus Aurelius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Honenhiem.

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im totally fine sane and normal about them

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Lost in harmony

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While I will agree with anyone that says boomer memes are mostly awful... some very notable exceptions to this rule DO exist:

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Random headcanon: the reason that Peach and Bowser don’t seem to get a lot of respect in some Super Mario games is because the Mushroom Kingdom is kind of a rural backwater and isn’t terribly important or influential politically, so people tend to regard Bowser as a C-list villain for being so hung up on such an insignificant conquest. Nobody really expects Bowser to be a serious threat – that would be like expecting a guy whose main claim to fame is repeatedly failing to conquer Wyoming to be a serious threat – so they get taken by surprise every single time.

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DNI lists on this website are fucking insane

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nothing like citing bible verses while justifying child abuse

ain't no hate like christian love

curiously the majority of states that allow for corporal punishment in school (read: literal child abuse) are run by Republicans

& this remains the most accurate meme i ever made

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WICKED (2024) + REDDIT TEXT POSTS

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reading about serial killers in the 1800s and they had female incels I guess

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The cat ears stay on during the explanation of why their statistical modeling of high throughout data was flawed