not displaying the points would mean not sinking the flesh-hooks of circular reward mechanisms into the lizard brain of the gaming consumer
letting the brain revert to lizard is super fun
of course
but there are, i think, supreme and insidious dangers in the nature of our contemporary entertainment, perhaps more than our other pleasures
which pleasures are you talkin about?
because that seems like an overestimation of contemporary entertainment
the quality of entertainment has no bearing on its potency, i think.
I just mean that the "dangers" of modern entertainment are cupcakes compared to the real vices human beings get up to.
but it is precisely that kind of thinking that makes entertainment so dangerous!
i think it's relevant because entertainment is such a widespread and powerful vice. i think i could claim that entertainment dominates our dreams and our thoughts and our fantasies more than anything else, in some form or another, except possibly sex, and it's deeply entangled even with that.
anyways i have to crash
later all
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Holy shit, these ATC security guys are fucking suicidal! They're just constantly closing on my position regardless of how exposed they are! It's nuts compared to the replicant soldiers.
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Will I understand where Frankie is coming from, though.
I have an odd attraction to the slacker generation.
This is why I watch Can't Hardly Wait often.
have you seen Slacker?
Yes.
good
there's an improv form based on that movie
interesting
is it what I'd think? characters rolling into new scenes from other ones or something like that
yes! the first person that leaves a scene starts the next one, and generally you try to have the form end in the place that it began. it's actually pretty tough to avoid it turning into a clusterfuck, and it requires a lot of awareness so that someone doesn't leave a scene and no one notices
I went out but I checked back to see this, sounds awesome. I'd love to see it
Passage was great. I first became wary while reading his interviews concerning Sleep is Death.
Inside a Star-Filled Sky sounds awesome conceptually, but my thoughts are this.
The design mechanic itself is intended to eventually draw the player to this frustrated, discontent mental state. You can enter anything as a level. On the level, enter a monster to weaken it. In that monster, enter another, etc. Eventually enter the powerups to increase their potency by beating that powerup's "level."
Eventually, in this grand perfectionist scheme you are so many levels deep you have no idea where the fuck you are and you end up wondering what the point is at all.
As a basic top-down shooter, it may work mechanically.
As a way for a game and its mechanic to affect feelings and ideas? Spectacular.
But it seems like it's almost... Forgive me. "Emo"
Like the whole game is just to get you to the place where you're asking, "What's the point?"
And from that to, "There is no point." And from there to... existential actuation? Like his idea was to create a cool game that gets really boring so you question all gaming as meaningless and... commit suicide?
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Passage was great. I first became wary while reading his interviews concerning Sleep is Death.
Inside a Star-Filled Sky sounds awesome.
You posed it as "This guy is either cool thing I respect or really cool thing I respect"
I was positing "Tarantino of game design" as an opposite to "really cool thing I respect" meant to conjure the feelings on Tarantino of those who don't like his work.
Man, watching Castle makes me feel dirty since the actress that plays his daughter is so young irl but man she is hawt and I am like, bad me and then I feel dirty.
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Passage was great. I first became wary while reading his interviews concerning Sleep is Death.
Inside a Star-Filled Sky sounds awesome.
You posed it as "This guy is either cool thing I respect or really cool thing I respect"
I was positing "Tarantino of game design" as an opposite to "really cool thing I respect" meant to conjure the feelings on Tarantino of those who don't like his work.
That he's... overblown?
People don't think Tarantino is an opposite of "really cool thing I respect" James
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
Passage was great. I first became wary while reading his interviews concerning Sleep is Death.
Inside a Star-Filled Sky sounds awesome.
You posed it as "This guy is either cool thing I respect or really cool thing I respect"
I was positing "Tarantino of game design" as an opposite to "really cool thing I respect" meant to conjure the feelings on Tarantino of those who don't like his work.
That he's... overblown?
People don't think Tarantino is an opposite of "really cool thing I respect" James
Some do. And even as much as I legitimately like him, their criticisms are not entirely without merit.
I mean, Pulp Fiction was bad ass.
That doesn't mean Tarantino isn't a fanboy with a camera and a foot fetish.
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
Janet Darcy
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I don't get them?
I want to ask for clarification, but I'm afraid to be embarassed.
People don't think Tarantino is an opposite of "really cool thing I respect" James
Some do. And even as much as I legitimately like him, their criticisms are not entirely without merit.
I mean, Pulp Fiction was bad ass.
That doesn't mean Tarantino isn't a fanboy with a camera and a foot fetish.
You say that as if it's a bad thing
But I like Tarantino!!!
His movies are awesome. I am not complaining.
I'm just being a fence-sitter on whether the negative opinions are valid!
I think the fanboy one is a pretty off base one. Sure the man has a knowledge of film that's scary at times, but he can actually craft things with it. People may not like all of his films but it's hard to deny that the man can make films with a degree of skill well beyond what some random unemployed drunk could.
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Cedar Rapids was a fantastic movie. I thought it felt very Alexander Payne-y - it has that same sort of low-key Midwestern realism - and then it turned out to be produced by him!
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
Janet Darcy
St. Barbara
I don't get them?
I want to ask for clarification, but I'm afraid to be embarassed.
Where have I heard 'Darcy' before...
lemme de-Anglicise it
Jeanette d'Arcy
get it now?
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
Janet Darcy
St. Barbara
Boo! Hiss! Get off the stage!
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I worry people aren't getting the references I make in M&M games
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
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When did they get so highbrow?
While you were watching this, did you take time to reflect on the name of Comedy Central, the meaning those words, together, create?
but it is precisely that kind of thinking that makes entertainment so dangerous!
i think it's relevant because entertainment is such a widespread and powerful vice. i think i could claim that entertainment dominates our dreams and our thoughts and our fantasies more than anything else, in some form or another, except possibly sex, and it's deeply entangled even with that.
anyways i have to crash
later all
So, awesome?
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I went out but I checked back to see this, sounds awesome. I'd love to see it
Passage was great. I first became wary while reading his interviews concerning Sleep is Death.
Inside a Star-Filled Sky sounds awesome conceptually, but my thoughts are this.
The design mechanic itself is intended to eventually draw the player to this frustrated, discontent mental state. You can enter anything as a level. On the level, enter a monster to weaken it. In that monster, enter another, etc. Eventually enter the powerups to increase their potency by beating that powerup's "level."
Eventually, in this grand perfectionist scheme you are so many levels deep you have no idea where the fuck you are and you end up wondering what the point is at all.
As a basic top-down shooter, it may work mechanically.
As a way for a game and its mechanic to affect feelings and ideas? Spectacular.
But it seems like it's almost... Forgive me. "Emo"
Like the whole game is just to get you to the place where you're asking, "What's the point?"
And from that to, "There is no point." And from there to... existential actuation? Like his idea was to create a cool game that gets really boring so you question all gaming as meaningless and... commit suicide?
You posed it as "This guy is either cool thing I respect or really cool thing I respect"
reminds me of the excellent artist's rendering of sad keanu
I was positing "Tarantino of game design" as an opposite to "really cool thing I respect" meant to conjure the feelings on Tarantino of those who don't like his work.
That he's... overblown?
facebooked.
haha that is great
"Is it really as consequential as it is being reported as? Or is it teenage livejournal excerpts manifest as gamedesign?"
Empire Total War has its default advisors assigned by Wal-Mart Managers.
People don't think Tarantino is an opposite of "really cool thing I respect" James
I also worry that they're too obvious and people groan at them
Some do. And even as much as I legitimately like him, their criticisms are not entirely without merit.
I mean, Pulp Fiction was bad ass.
That doesn't mean Tarantino isn't a fanboy with a camera and a foot fetish.
Oh I agree
I'd been trying to find my way back out and fell into a hole above a lava lake where I'd earlier dropped some gravel to be safe
Still harrowing to land with lava on all sides even taking precautions
You say that as if it's a bad thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s_video_games
???
I get some of them. I haven't seen any in the game I'm running now but I suspect it's because I lack much reference to the genre that inspired the character.
Mutants and Masterminds
it is this board's new RPG obsession
But I like Tarantino!!!
His movies are awesome. I am not complaining.
I'm just being a fence-sitter on whether the negative opinions are valid!
The major ones in yours have been Catholic so far. It's all in names.
Janet Darcy
St. Barbara
I don't get them?
I want to ask for clarification, but I'm afraid to be embarassed.
Where have I heard 'Darcy' before...
[edit]: Oh.... duh.
I think the fanboy one is a pretty off base one. Sure the man has a knowledge of film that's scary at times, but he can actually craft things with it. People may not like all of his films but it's hard to deny that the man can make films with a degree of skill well beyond what some random unemployed drunk could.
I'm sure they're valid to the people who hold those opinions
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lemme de-Anglicise it
Jeanette d'Arcy
get it now?
Boo! Hiss! Get off the stage!