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- Lessons in Japanese Game Design #3 -
Aside from what is easily one of the most stylish presentations in a videogame from the 1990s, one of Front Mission 3′s truly remarkable features consists of an in-game internet browser running within a simulated operating system. Expanding on the concept first rehearsed by Squaresoft in the second entry of the series, this massive component of the game can be accessed during breaks between missions, offering the player access to a number of pages for government entities, enterprises or other institutions. Access to additional websites is permitted as the game progresses.
This inventive solution offers unparalleled insight into the fictional universe of the game, in that it paints a very granular image of a futuristic society, its economy, geopolitical environment and zeitgeist. The information contained in these pages comes in the form of of bulletin boards, institutional updates, press releases, top secret data volumes, or the occasionally amusing curiosity. The user interface itself permits some degree of customisation, such as the option to disable the startup animation - itself a gorgeous visual relic that one hardly tires of watching - or changing the wallpaper pattern. Certain websites will also provide the option to download content, including images which can be set as said wallpaper. Other resources require secure access via the insertion of a password. Moreover, the player will have access to an email inbox to both read and send messages as may be relevant to advance onto the next stage.
Make-believe computer front-ends in video games were no novelty by the year 1999. Several sci-fi adventure, role-playing or action games allowed access to often very believable GUIs for the purpose of, for instance, retrieving precious clues or, say, disabling security locks. Aside from Front Mission 2, Final Fantasy VIII fans will likely remember the exciting Balamb Garden Network terminal. Kowloon's Gate's unforgettable Kownloonet terminals gave access to an email inbox, an all-important database and various other quotidian curiosities that helped fleshing out its mystic sci-fi narrative. The Japanese were privileged to have a complete version of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere with access to an in-game encyclopedia the player could browse, as well as additional story elements told through email exchanges between the characters.
That same year, the western Tactical RPG sensation from the West, Jagged Alliance 2, dabbled in this idea. Only three short years later, CyberConnect2′s singular .hack series was designed around the idea of a MMORPG that plays offline, allowing for countless interactions with non-playable characters which simulate messaging formats of the era. Other notable examples include the 2chan boards in Steins;Gate or, inescapably, the passionate love letter to web 1.0 that is Hypnospace Outlaw.
Generally, all of the aforementioned titles are either entirely dedicated on a similar concept, or merely resorted to it as a secondary, amusing distraction. Front Mission 3 pioneered the use of this device as a storytelling technique. No other game of the time, at least to my knowledge, had dedicated so much of its resources to producing a credible replica of design and functionality of the internet as it once existed.
#front mission 3#squaresoft#the internet#lessons in japanese game design#storytelling#operating systems within games#internet within games
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Batman: The Bisexuality Within - The Telltale Series
#batjokes#batman x joker#bruce x john doe#bruce wayne#john doe#batman#dcu#telltale games#telltale batman#batman: the enemy within#harley quinn#alfred pennyworth#bisexual bruce wayne#my gifs#two gifs here are so frcking ugly because i didn't have the scene myself so i had to scavenge to internet#anyways they're so gay in this game#this game is so underrated#this game has the best version of joker and that's just facts#and ofc the straight bros tried to defend how straight this was and it was just a bRoMaNcE#and then telltale confirmed that john doe is bisexual lol
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Something I’m so excited for with Sunrise on The Reaping is that we will finally be freed from the shackles of mainstream Hayffie domination. Probably.
(This is lighthearted please take it as such)
#like with the way people latched onto Corio and Lucy Gray…you can’t tell me the fandom hive won’t shift into Haymitch/‘his girl’#or Haymitch/Maysilee#Or the new mlm ships we will get (Im sorry I am like 98% sure that there will be a section of the fandom that latches onto Haymitch/Oddsman#silly goofy post#I don’t dislike Hayffie!! I mean…not that much#i have thoughts#and the problem is that my thoughts are in flux often#I truly think we will see a new Haymitch ship take the world by storm.#Like Hayffie might still be equally revered but I can already TELL the kinds of TikTok/Instagram posts we’re going to get#I don’t even want to textually put it into words rn but I have a sixth sense for this kinda thing trust#<- watch me be dead wrong LMFAO#the hunger games#sunrise on the reaping#I do really want to go into this from a meta speculative sense#because this is so interesting to me (social behaviors within internet niches)#anyway#posting this under the radar#hopefully
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Being someone who read a lot of myths & fairytales & also has existed on the internet from a young age, I don't think the leaked pokemon stories are that big of a deal
If anything I'm just annoyed because all I'm going to hear about for the next 3 months is typhlosion pedophile jokes
#which sucks cuz i like that pokemon#but generally i get kinda annoyed whenever i hear a lot of people yapping about pokemon outside of like talking about the games because its#just like . it always feels like a pain because of how large the fanbase is to the point there are whole other fandoms within the greater#pokemon fandom#like im still annoyed that vaporeon got turned into a sex joke & no one online seems to think abt anything else but that copypasta#but like its the internet so whatever idk what i really expected#ig im just annoyed because i dont really care about the leaked stories and i dont want to hear people be shocked that the fake monsters that#kinda resemble yokai are doing things you might expect in old yokai myths idk.#🐛: bree rants#nd also its like. not officially publizhed stories. this could be someones fanfic so who . carss#cares * i am not typing that again#okay rant over#im sorry for everyone who likes a pokemon that was featured in those leaks
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Within months of Craven’s introduction of Banks, Craven claimed Banks had been hospitalized after dropping a KitchenAid mixer on her foot, according to both an anonymous former business associate of Craven's I spoke to, and my own past conversations with Craven. Several hours later, her leg was allegedly amputated, and nearly 48 hours after the first operation, her other leg was amputated as well. The anonymous source mentioned above claims they then contacted West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois where Banks was said to be recovering according to the source who saw this information on social media. When they contacted the hospital to send flowers, the hospital said there was no patient by that name. This resulted in the source seeking a third-party opinion due to fears of Craven allegedly misrepresenting himself and taking advantage of clients through sympathy.
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN
This reminds me of “The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover,” which details a very similar fraud committed by a man on CompuServe’s CB Simulator in the early 1980s. Like, this kind of thing is pretty much as old as the social use of the Internet.
And of course the HIV+ high school AU/cannibal mermaid Hamilton fanfiction incident.
#absolutely buck wild#investigative journalism#fraud#disability#accessibility#video games#'she dropped something heavy on her foot - we'd better cut off both her legs!' said no doctors anywhere ever#this dude Coty Craven seems to have invented not one but THREE#queer disabled POC women as sockpuppets to gain accolades and sympathy#this is the thing#most people you encounter on the internet are within a broad range of normal#and not deliberately misrepresenting themselves for any nefarious purpose#but they COULD be COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIARS and it can be really hard to tell the difference!#I hope this is not the case with the people I've talked to for a long time and feel I know
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defending q!pac on the internet isn't enough i need to isekai
#qsmp#qsmp pac#homie needs like thirty interventions and a nap#i will personally hold up a bbh dni bannner every time he gets within shouting distance#call that a diy restraining order#shut up vic#block game brainrot#(if you're unfamiliar an isekai is a genre of stories wherein a character is transported between worlds often to a fantasy world)#(the definition is broader ofc but this works for the purposes of Joke Internet Post)
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This is absolutely not a callout post on the user who said this, it’s a criticism of the state of the gaming industry, full stop. But somebody reblogged one of my The Evil Within posts a little while ago where I said I didn’t fully understand what had actually happened, and they put in the tags that I should play the dlc. And I was actually in the PS app looking at the dlc, trying to decide if I really wanted to spend the money, when I realized what the fuck I was doing
I am SO SICK of publishers releasing un-fucking-finished games and then hiding critical story elements behind fucking paywalls. I should not have to buy goddamn dlc to understand a game. Paid dlc shouldn’t even be a fucking thing if I’m being completely honest, but especially not shit like that. Ugh.
#she speaks#like fucking yakuza putting ng+ behind a goddamn paywall#and nobody fucking talking about it???#what the fuck?#also the evil within came out ten fucking years ago#that’s how pervasive this shit is#connecting video games to the internet was a mistake
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Not the antiblack, transphobic troll blog doing a classic dirty delete... Can't delete dumbassery love, that stays on the internet forever 😂
Dumbass already forgot the teen life stage exists, misgendered me in a random post showing both they ass cheeks, doubled down about it with a classic "he/she/it whatever they are", made fun of a black person's black sim's lips being "too big" while randomly hyping up a black sim made by a white simmer, posted 90% black sims making fun of their features while reblogging posts w/black celebrities like ice cube and Rihanna (probably the only black ppl they know) to add to their lil act, said "i don't only make fun of blacks" and blocked when confronted about it (soooo obvious), which was all pretty boring and expected and not worth acknowledging... but then they deleted all of that cos the big bad honest troll blog got no spine! which has me fucking rolling HELP 🤣
How ya gonna act like the voice of the ppl and delete all your bad takes? Didja get too many mean asks about them, baby boy? 🥺 can't stand by all ur meaningless dick swinging? feeling insecure about having no comeback skills on top of that? 🥺 every time someone bucks up at you you do a delete and stop acknowledging them and its so damn funny for someone pretending to be so hard and real. I mean I knew you were gonna mention me once you saw I said you have no skills, I was waiting to see what you'd come up with, but I didn't expect it to be this weak... imagine being a troll and taking obvious bait 🤭 just to confirm u got no talent. soooo sorry 😂
So much for "honesty" 😢
#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#delete later#not some of yall rallying around an obvious bigot pretending to be black#just say u want an excuse to talk about ppl sims instead of making it a civil rights issue#id respect u more if u did#but got theres nothing worse than a weak troll that got no skills#still aint gonna mention ur name bc i know its driving u wild not to get the free advertisement#you might as well stop deleting cos screenshots are forever sweetheart#sorry to address a troll yall but all this deleting is tickling me so bad#'it feels so good to be honest!!! im having a blast!!! really!! im so cool someone believe me!!!'#*deletes everything they say the minute they get backlash*#😂😂😂#these 20 year old minors aint never gonna learn the game#if ya get mentioned dw that lil bitch babie will delete it within 24 hrs#before mommy checks they internet history#🤣🤣🤣#i know i preach about not feeding trolls but yall got NOTHING to worry about with this one#im sorry love but some ppl got it and some dont... and u dont
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The recent popularity of the Alan Wake series is great, but it's SUCH a wierd feeling to hear its music on social media.
Like, genuinely wierd watching people casually listen to Old Gods of Asgard on TikTok, when you've liked Poets of The Fall since high school.
#poets of the fall#alan wake 2#video games#music#my high school internet bf introduced me to potf around the same time I found within temptation#I cannot remove them from the time in my life
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Every other post I see is either
“Stop thirsting over snow”
Or
“I should be allowed to thirst over snow”
#lol#i literally don’t care I’m aware internet is gonna internet#it’s just funny how there’s two groups and they’re both flipping out#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#coriolanus snow#btw my post about Coriolanus was a shit post bc he’s a little bitchy within his head lol
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I would absolutely love it if I could look up one of the only things making life bearable rn without seeing either a constant stream of content about a show that makes me deeply uncomfortable or “actually your favorite character is boring as hell and does not work at all in anything and has no effect on the story at large and also doesn’t matter and sucks and he doesn’t do anything remarkable or have enough abilities to warrant any attention and literally you can skip those games tbh they don’t have a story anyway play this fan game that changes all of the dialogue instead because he is so lame and has no personality or plot significance whatsoever he could spontaneously not exist and nothing would really change even that show you don’t like that doesn’t really adapt anything from the games and changes everything about every character they decide to write about couldn’t make him interesting he is that much of a nothing nobody character because he has no modern triple A game level cutscenes he is basically whip man Mario he go kill Dracula so boring that’s it”
#castlevania#castlevania games#text post#simon belmont#vent post#I don’t even know if I should use the main tags but eh#anti netflixvania#cw netflixvania#just an implied mention of it but yeah#I’m genuinely depressed over this and it’s so stupid like it’s just a fucking game get over it stop being such a fucking child#I should delete Reddit cause it’s all just this all the time#I’ve seen this from both Netflix and game fans too#and yeah everything in that text wall are things I’ve seen people actually say#I hate being online rn#the only reason why I have been at all is because I go to this series for comfort#yay having a niche special interest within a niche special interest oh boy#I’ve been trying to come back to regular internet stuff on multiple platforms#but I just can’t do it#every time something happens and hits me back into artblock and low energy burnout hell again ugh#I haven’t been able to get myself to talk to people very much lately#partially from already not having much energy because of this#and partially cause I don’t know how to manage having like more than maybe two or three friends at a time#and I guess also cause I don’t really have anything good to say#it’s all just been bad news stress I can’t deal with and mild annoyances lately#which is pretty fucking insufferable of me isn’t it#not an excuse to just fucking abandon people god I’m such a bitch#the digestive issues aren’t helping either#and my fucking Xbox broke so I can’t even play curse of darkness about it#so I go online to calm down and immediately get blasted with everything I like being insulted all the time#I’m just so tired
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Day 19 (Puppets/Dolls/Ect)
#mannequin#original character#cringetober 2023#shit poopoo palette gauntlet#digital art#oc shit#daria#prime#realitypro#btw for fun context this is taking place in the post metaverse™ future where vr has taken off and became the 'new internet'#so these two guys are hosts of a liveshow/stream where they do essentially react content play viddy games act out skits and#do talk shows/''just chatting''(in front of a live audience within cyberspace ofc but its not like they can really interact with#them outside the hosts responding to the audience.)#both will drink your pepsi and call you a little bitch btw (daria being more blunt of the two where prime is more 'polite' and 'formal')
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me trying to explain to cishet men that playing video games is a boring baseline interest for them because all men play video games and they need to develop a personality beyond being a gamer if they ever want to be taken seriously or considered their own unique person and not just another part of the male hivemind that is gaming
#i have this theory that young men in the modern age cannot think of their own masculinity apart from video games#it dominates cishet male ‘culture’#it’s their one unified hobby. ‘gamer guys’ do not exist as a label bc in the modern age you’re lucky to find a man that doesn’t play games#it's how they bond it's how they spend time together it's how they come together to spew bigotry and indoctrinate one another with white—#supremacist ideals. i mean it’s a social hub for them. it’s so deeply ingrained in their lifestyle.#not to mention how it's the only medium aside from the internet through which they express their emotions (i.e. anger rage and hatred)#the concept of what it means to both perform masculinity and be accepted within male circles now intrinsically involves video games#white supremacy and patriarchy feed on gamer culture because gamer culture is the direct descendant of toxic white men#so now in the 2020s cishet men define themselves via video games. it’s tied to their own gender identity and how they connect to other men a#i was going somewhere with this i have more intersections to talk abt but. anyways. i hate men i hope they all die and i mean that lmao#anyways.txt
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From the ask thing you reblogged: what made you start your blog?
Genuinely the silliest reason possible which is that I heard about the April Fools crabs two years ago and wanted to participate lol
#im a tumblr infant sorry!! ive known about it and observed from afar for many years#also in like 2015 i think i had a blog for a single day that i made to look at the lead singer of halestorm’s blog#but then i got overwhelmed and scared of the internet and panic deleted it within hours lol#i never used any socials at all as a teen. which is probably why im like this now#💌🪦#ask games
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for the askbox meme,,, first it was oh cool bloodborne art and asthetic then i understood the down to earth stoner within. i like your opinions on media and i dig ur blog
(thank you, im glad you enjoy my blog :^)
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top ten dumbest things I've done.
number 4: try to play killer with bad wifi AND while mmr cap is altered so good killer players (me) are primarily playing against good survivors (usually swfs)
#thoughts about media#man I want to play dbd SO BAD.#I've not been able to play since reset because my PC had issues and now the internet is struggling.#I don't care about hitting iri 1. I just want to progress the rift!!!!#and boy does it grate on my nerves to go against players I KNOW I could beat. but lose bc lag.#it keeps stopping me for periods of several seconds.#if you play dbd you know that losing even 3 seconds of time is a fucking disaster.#because that's all it takes. one mistake. and the whole game will go in the other side's turn.#especially if you're the killer. and especially if you're playing against swfs with even mediocre skill level.#like am I glad to have learned that. yes. I am high mmr and therefore good at both hux & ghostface? eeeyes.#I have self confidence issues. Of course the affirmation is nice.#but does learning this in the most blood boiling. skin tearing. teeth gnashing way possible piss me off a bit? also yes.#am I ultimately angry about losing though? no.#my priority is the rift and completing it so I get the exclusives & earn back the currency I used to pay for it.#I'm going to have to grind the bloody rift when this internet issue resolves itself.#it is doable within like. a week. i'd wager. but ugh that is a lot of gameplay nonetheless. to go from tier 35 to tier 83.#ah. the joys of living in the middle of fucking nowhere.
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