› ›
Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!

[chat] daniels

12357…62

Posts

  • PasserbyePasserbye Registered User
    edited September 2010
    Oh, that's why I've never heard of him. Oz is associated with that Winfrey character.

    D&D Cooking PAX'12 Books D'art LJ Face YT Chainmail G+ Twit CuteOP
    · Agree Awesome
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    I feel like I'm too genre-savvy. Whenever I read a story or watch a show, I just observe all the necessary pieces that make it what it is. Every kind of conflict, every seemingly-arbitrary aesthetic principle, every established relationship between any two or more characters. It's all so... fiction.

    Well that's all fiction is, after all. You should read some interstitial fiction, because it's all about strategically and fulfilling and denying genre tropes.

    Can you recommend some examples?

    What I read was two anthologies of interstitial writing called Interfictions and well, Interfictions 2.

    Trying to see if I can't find a good example online though.

    AoTsig_zps8cfd65c2.png
    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah I used to have the real grimms fairy tales as a child. Cinderella ended with the step sisters being blinded too by birds that were the spirit of her dead mother who her step family had killed.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Arivia wrote: »
    like when Todd McFarlane got together with American McGee and they did bondage Oz dolls

    Dorothy hooded and pierced and gagged and corsetted mmm

    this stuff just strikes me as misanthropic

    i mean i guess i know that some people are kind of mentally broken in terms of being able to separate abuse from arousal

    but it doesn't seem like something to celebrate

    Knowing a lot of people who are into that sort of stuff, it's more that they identify as being vaguely alternative/gothy/kinky/nerdy whatever rather than actually being into real S&M

    The amount of products consumed by that particular culture is pretty staggering. But i guess that's the case for most strong identity groups. *edit* at least ones based on pop culture

    it seems like there's something about being a member of a transgressive subculture that really just revs up the human brain to the point where it can just take over so much of one's identity.

    i just don't like the imagery of bound, gagged, blindfolded, domineered, degraded, subservient humans. enjoyment derived from being on either side of that kind of relationship strikes me as unhealthy and dysfunctional. i don't really understand the draw of fairy tale characters being depicted bound and gagged and such.

    i mean, people do it and i guess i support their right to do it voluntarily. but i don't like it.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    I feel like I'm too genre-savvy. Whenever I read a story or watch a show, I just observe all the necessary pieces that make it what it is. Every kind of conflict, every seemingly-arbitrary aesthetic principle, every established relationship between any two or more characters. It's all so... fiction.

    Well that's all fiction is, after all. You should read some interstitial fiction, because it's all about strategically and fulfilling and denying genre tropes.

    Can you recommend some examples?

    What I read was two anthologies of interstitial writing called Interfictions and well, Interfictions 2.

    Trying to see if I can't find a good example online though.

    I'll hunt down a copy of Interfictions and see if it's my thing. Thanks!

    CmgpQ.jpg
    · Agree Awesome
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    As opposed to part of being mainstream culture which doesn't take over any of one's identity at all, will? :P

    AoTsig_zps8cfd65c2.png
    · Agree Awesome
  • ResRes __BANNED USERS
    edited September 2010
    Will broke the forums.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    · Agree Awesome
  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    I'm sort of sick of the "fairy tales gone dark" thing. It was sort of alright when American McGee did it but by now it's pretty trite.

    It would probably help if the people who did those sorts of things got more creative than trying to ape Tim Burton's style and/or slapping on random fetish and steampunk stuff.

    I can't even really give AMG Alice a pass, it was the millionth "Dark" take on Alice when it was released.

    The long story short is people should give up on edgy fairytales. It can be interesting in theory, but in practice it's always the same. Even a series like Fables has a lot of moments which read as horribly clunky to me.

    there was a cute little Mac indie game called "The Path" that frankie liked a whole lot

    i'm not really even sure if it qualified as a game. it was a lot more experiential than achievement-based.

    it was based aroung little red riding hood, which frankie is a fan of.

    actually frankie likes all those stupid fairy-tale reimaginings, like the ones they do on sci-fi.

    i guess it doesn't speak well of her character, really.

    Ahahahahaha oh man The Path. It's one of those games that tries way to hard to be "art" by having extremely overwrought "adult" themes, like abuse/sexuality/rape.

    basically you can either stay on the titular path to Grandma's house, in which case nothing happens, or you can wander off, which inevitably results in something terrible happening to your character.

    There are so many versions of Red Riding Hood no one can be sure what the original was any more. I'm known for exaggerating, but a least a zillion people have done a darker version of Red Riding Hood. Usually the wolf = a guy and Red = a teenage girl and its all about the sex. Bonus points if they can make grandma sinister too!

    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Will, are you up for some multiplayer matchmaking in Halo tonight? I'm falling behind on the weekly challenge.

    i am!

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Res wrote: »
    Will broke the forums.

    That was me actually I forgot to feed the hamster that runs the boards server.

    · Agree Awesome
  • amateurhouramateurhour Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Niceguy Myeye wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    I'm sort of sick of the "fairy tales gone dark" thing. It was sort of alright when American McGee did it but by now it's pretty trite.

    It would probably help if the people who did those sorts of things got more creative than trying to ape Tim Burton's style and/or slapping on random fetish and steampunk stuff.

    I can't even really give AMG Alice a pass, it was the millionth "Dark" take on Alice when it was released.

    The long story short is people should give up on edgy fairytales. It can be interesting in theory, but in practice it's always the same. Even a series like Fables has a lot of moments which read as horribly clunky to me.

    also, some of the older fairy tales were pretty edgy in their own way.

    In Cinderella, the step sisters cut off their toes and heels to fit into the glass slipper. I think the prince would notice the blood in the shoe (since it's glass) and see that it didn't actually fit.

    See I'm all for hearing the non disney versions of stories because they were a lot more interesting. That's not the same thing though as just putting cinderella and her sisters in really tight slutty apparel and letting Tim Burton poop out the color patterns of the landscape.

    Here's what I do...
    The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
    Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Organichu wrote: »
    i really don't think that being into fairy tale re-imaginings speaks to your character in any way

    i don't see the logical step that's being taken, there

    poor taste, maybe, but character?

    definitely poor taste

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Endless_Serpents wrote: »
    There are so many versions of Red Riding Hood no one can be sure what the original was any more. I'm known for exaggerating, but a least a zillion people have done a darker version of Red Riding Hood. Usually the wolf = a guy and Red = a teenage girl and its all about the sex. Bonus points if they can make grandma sinister too!

    Reminds me of the red riding hood joke that got cut from From Dusk Till Dawn.

    · Agree Awesome
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Niceguy Myeye wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    I'm sort of sick of the "fairy tales gone dark" thing. It was sort of alright when American McGee did it but by now it's pretty trite.

    It would probably help if the people who did those sorts of things got more creative than trying to ape Tim Burton's style and/or slapping on random fetish and steampunk stuff.

    I can't even really give AMG Alice a pass, it was the millionth "Dark" take on Alice when it was released.

    The long story short is people should give up on edgy fairytales. It can be interesting in theory, but in practice it's always the same. Even a series like Fables has a lot of moments which read as horribly clunky to me.

    also, some of the older fairy tales were pretty edgy in their own way.

    In Cinderella, the step sisters cut off their toes and heels to fit into the glass slipper. I think the prince would notice the blood in the shoe (since it's glass) and see that it didn't actually fit.

    Upon reading your sig I have now realized where the genesis of the rave movement came from.

    sigtk.jpg
    · Agree Awesome
  • BobCescaBobCesca Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    "The dog that saved our marriage"

    This is a real program, on Sky 3, tonight.

    Dear lord.

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    amateurhour wrote: »

    See I'm all for hearing the non disney versions of stories because they were a lot more interesting. That's not the same thing though as just putting cinderella and her sisters in really tight slutty apparel and letting Tim Burton poop out the color patterns of the landscape.

    Yeah I grow tired of this bullshit. Throw everyone in corsettes bring in Burton and his wife, have johnny depp play a wacky character and "woo reimagined" prepackaged at your local hot topic and good to go.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    fuck.

    Mental midgets kill my inner child.
    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Ahahahahaha oh man The Path. It's one of those games that tries way to hard to be "art" by having extremely overwrought "adult" themes, like abuse/sexuality/rape.

    basically you can either stay on the titular path to Grandma's house, in which case nothing happens, or you can wander off, which inevitably results in something terrible happening to your character.

    that seemed to be what it was about

    frankie is for some reason really into LRRH as an allegory for the dangers the world poses to little girls or young women (she even has a tattoo of a poem relating to this!), so i guess that game tapped into something for her.

    i didn't play it but saw her messing with it quite a bit.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Niceguy MyeyeNiceguy Myeye Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Preacher wrote: »
    Yeah I used to have the real grimms fairy tales as a child. Cinderella ended with the step sisters being blinded too by birds that were the spirit of her dead mother who her step family had killed.

    Yeah, those things are really fucked up if you use the old non Disneyfied versions of them. I guess that's true with a lot of older books, though.

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    BobCesca wrote: »
    "The dog that saved our marriage"

    This is a real program, on Sky 3, tonight.

    Dear lord.

    Maybe it means really ugly lady that the husband fucked?

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Ahahahahaha oh man The Path. It's one of those games that tries way to hard to be "art" by having extremely overwrought "adult" themes, like abuse/sexuality/rape.

    basically you can either stay on the titular path to Grandma's house, in which case nothing happens, or you can wander off, which inevitably results in something terrible happening to your character.

    that seemed to be what it was about

    frankie is for some reason really into LRRH as an allegory for the dangers the world poses to little girls or young women (she even has a tattoo of a poem relating to this!), so i guess that game tapped into something for her.

    i didn't play it but saw her messing with it quite a bit.

    You know Will I don't want to go all armchair psychology or anything but most stories you tell of Frankie are negative...

    · Agree Awesome
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Silas Brown wrote: »
    Will, are you up for some multiplayer matchmaking in Halo tonight? I'm falling behind on the weekly challenge.

    i am!

    Awesome. I'll want to grab dinner and hang with Arivia a little first, but I should be available around 10 PM Eastern or so.

    CmgpQ.jpg
    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Passerbye wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Will pretty much always talks about how awful everything is. Except for suits. :P

    And Martinis.

    i don't really like martinis

    i like a lot of things. just not the tittering transgressive subcultures that you guys are into.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Res wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Arivia wrote: »
    like when Todd McFarlane got together with American McGee and they did bondage Oz dolls

    Dorothy hooded and pierced and gagged and corsetted mmm

    this stuff just strikes me as misanthropic

    i mean i guess i know that some people are kind of mentally broken in terms of being able to separate abuse from arousal

    but it doesn't seem like something to celebrate

    I don't think you know what misanthropic means.

    aving an anipathy towards humans

    · Agree Awesome
  • ResRes __BANNED USERS
    edited September 2010
    I think History Channel just told me that if I don't buy their DVD's I'm a Nazi

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    · Agree Awesome
  • ResRes __BANNED USERS
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Res wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Arivia wrote: »
    like when Todd McFarlane got together with American McGee and they did bondage Oz dolls

    Dorothy hooded and pierced and gagged and corsetted mmm

    this stuff just strikes me as misanthropic

    i mean i guess i know that some people are kind of mentally broken in terms of being able to separate abuse from arousal

    but it doesn't seem like something to celebrate

    I don't think you know what misanthropic means.

    aving an anipathy towards humans

    ...Then you might be high. Are you high?

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    · Agree Awesome
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Preacher wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Ahahahahaha oh man The Path. It's one of those games that tries way to hard to be "art" by having extremely overwrought "adult" themes, like abuse/sexuality/rape.

    basically you can either stay on the titular path to Grandma's house, in which case nothing happens, or you can wander off, which inevitably results in something terrible happening to your character.

    that seemed to be what it was about

    frankie is for some reason really into LRRH as an allegory for the dangers the world poses to little girls or young women (she even has a tattoo of a poem relating to this!), so i guess that game tapped into something for her.

    i didn't play it but saw her messing with it quite a bit.

    You know Will I don't want to go all armchair psychology or anything but most stories you tell of Frankie are negative...

    it's almost like he doesn't like her- next thing you know he'll have her gagged and hooded and...

    · Agree Awesome
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fDEA0BFSM

    AoTsig_zps8cfd65c2.png
    · Agree Awesome
  • BobCescaBobCesca Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Psycho Internet Hawk wrote: »
    Ahahahahaha oh man The Path. It's one of those games that tries way to hard to be "art" by having extremely overwrought "adult" themes, like abuse/sexuality/rape.

    basically you can either stay on the titular path to Grandma's house, in which case nothing happens, or you can wander off, which inevitably results in something terrible happening to your character.

    that seemed to be what it was about

    frankie is for some reason really into LRRH as an allegory for the dangers the world poses to little girls or young women (she even has a tattoo of a poem relating to this!), so i guess that game tapped into something for her.

    i didn't play it but saw her messing with it quite a bit.

    Angela Carter did some interesting stuff with fairy tales.

    I mean, they were all about girls becoming women, loss of innocence, etc., but I've always found them interesting to read.

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Res wrote: »
    I think History Channel just told me that if I don't buy their DVD's I'm a Nazi

    Well you have advocated the murder of jews, gypsies, and people who wear the color yellow.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Psycho Internet HawkPsycho Internet Hawk Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Endless_Serpents wrote: »
    There are so many versions of Red Riding Hood no one can be sure what the original was any more. I'm known for exaggerating, but a least a zillion people have done a darker version of Red Riding Hood. Usually the wolf = a guy and Red = a teenage girl and its all about the sex. Bonus points if they can make grandma sinister too!

    Sort of tangential. but in some of my art classes in college there was a small asian girl who would always draw/paint images of small naked asian girls that looked conspicuously like her, being molested and attacked by men with the heads of black wolves and red eyes.

    But whenever anyone ever asked her about the imagery, she'd just say "OH I DON'T KNOW WHERE I GET THESE IDEAS FROM, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY MEAN." I have no idea if it was a cry for help or if she just liked being really pretentious.

    ezek1t.jpg
    · Agree Awesome
  • amateurhouramateurhour Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Best thing ever...

    My mom was one of those moms that would buy the cheap k-mart version of whatever toy I wanted for Christmas because "it's all the same"

    So she gets me "the little mermaid" only to discover it's like some japanime version where Ariel doesn't have shells covering her little breasteses.

    Heh

    Here's what I do...
    The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
    Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
    · Agree Awesome
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    As opposed to part of being mainstream culture which doesn't take over any of one's identity at all, will? :P

    well yeah that does happen sometimes i guess - you find the businessman obsessed with golf or baseball box scores or something.

    it seems to be more prevalent in subcultures though.

    · Agree Awesome
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I have done some tittering transgressiveness here in [chat], but I like to think I've really tuned it down and started approaching my personal interests more realistically and respectfully.

    CmgpQ.jpg
    · Agree Awesome
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    yeah will doesn't hate everything

    only everything that you all love

    · Agree Awesome
  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2010
    Why are you watching the History Channel?

    @nealcm @faynor
    nerdgasmic.gif1420 6068 6113 - XBL Atomoclassic
    · Agree Awesome
  • Niceguy MyeyeNiceguy Myeye Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    HappylilElf wrote: »
    Upon reading your sig I have now realized where the genesis of the rave movement came from.

    Exactly. I don't know if the guy said anything else that hilarious, but I've always loved that quote (and listen to mostly techno and house :P )

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Sarks linked that yesterday Inq. It looks very bioshocky, but I dunno I guess I'm kind of at a loss as to what they are changing to make me want to play this one. Other then setting of course.

    · Agree Awesome
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Best thing ever...

    My mom was one of those moms that would buy the cheap k-mart version of whatever toy I wanted for Christmas because "it's all the same"

    So she gets me "the little mermaid" only to discover it's like some japanime version where Ariel doesn't have shells covering her little breasteses.

    Heh

    Your mother bought you the little mermaid? And you wanted it?

    · Agree Awesome
  • Raiden333Raiden333 Doesn't Sit Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So a shit-ton of National Geographic programs have just gone up on Netflix Instant.

    Awesome.

    camo_sig2.png
    · Agree Awesome
This discussion has been closed.
› ›