I'm not sure where the corruption came from

https://www.etymonline.com/word/nigger

Is this URL racist. 🤔

!help

I like the dungeon backdrop to all of these

Very appropriate

IS this... MonHan?

Did you win the pedobear award?

_Definitely_ won the pedobear award

Ah, Korean

I'm more worried about the collection of posed pictures

Characters in games are w/e

But y'know

Someday that swat team will break in

And they'll find that folder

And well

It'll be...difficult to defend

I remember Critical Miss before they went overtly political

...that was probably just before GG and people with "voices" had to pick sides.

It read like every PASS DIS ON OR U DIE email from my grandpa

You're still not gonna get to stay alone with my children 😃

I'm flattered at being ro's fap material

;^;

Only one of us went on for about 20 minutes to justify their choices

> Bought $5k of outfits for loli
> not a pedobear

Dark Souls and DOOM

And then you're set for life

REVII is good I've heard

I'm not big into RPGs

Maybe _too_ good

I think it's only PSVR, too

I have Ys on my wishlists for some reason

PC is not a console

I pretty much got a Switch for MArio and Zelda

Worth every penny

Probably will never play anything else on it

I used to keep all my old games

Then I realized I actually held no feelings whatsoever about like 90% of them

We both know you'd never actually sell it

Every Discord needs at least one troll who's high as a kite

It's just not Discord otherwise

Especially with all that rampant masturbation

Makes it harder to break the ice

VR Chat is a terrifying place

❤

I'm always a little dubious of people justifying their claims based on fictional material

IT's still someone's guess or extrapolation

It may be useful, but it's not _evidence_

I don't really think so; it all hinges on what you think reality is like

If e.g. 1984 seems to reflect reality well, you heed it as a warning

If it seems off the mark, it's not credible

So it's ultimately begging the question

Like, every cyberpunk dystopia is based off of reality

Interpreting history is tricky, though

A lot depends on what theory you use to filter it

Two people subscribing to different theories can both claim that the same historical event vindicates their theory

@tritrium I get what you're saying, but I'd caution you about trying to use fiction to bolster. For rhetorical purposes, sure, but I saw a lot of people on the far left bolstering their points with stuff like "REMEMBER THAT MARVEL MOVIE!?" as if that was an argument

IIRC, those are explicitly Frankfurt School tactics

I dunno; I remember a lot of pro-left means on the internet for a long time

Not sure where they went, TBH

They were always mean and partisan, though

So maybe you can exclude that as "can't meme"

All my life the leftists around me have always openly denounced anyone who disagrees as secretly or overtly wishing for death/racism/whatever

So when they got control and just kinda...kept that up I was never surprised

Yeah, I am the most surprised about the shift in puritanicalism

For the old neo-con right, it was due to sexual propriety

For the new far-left, it's because we've figured out how to frame it as sexism

Overall I still have less respect for the left because all the pro-sexuality arguments were suddenly not just worng, but definitely evil

I also think unity is the way forward

Purity test are why we are where we are today

I think the right has some built-in slowdown mechanisms, though

The whole limited vs. unlimited vision thing, for one

Well, yes and no--talk to anyone committed to Russel Kirk's ideas about modern conservatism and you'll see plenty of critique

Well, until it ultimately doesn't

I think that's broad-strokes true, but then I alwasy wonder what's up with the exceptions or people who don't land on either side very well

Peter Thiel is an example

...Metokur?

Assuming you've found them all and won't breed new ones

So, you don't think people become more conservative, but instead the world becomes more progressive?

I can agree to that

O'Reilly was the counterpart on the right of the mean-spiritedness I despised the most out of my leftist friends

That's a little surprising

I think that's just due to the history of the word in the US

I remember a distinct period of liberal = left

I think NPC is best because of just how innocuous it actually is yet generated such a response

!rank

No, he's done a slew of general design and investigation stuff

It's more about design as art than the mechinery of building a game

I always take Mark with a grain of salt because, as far as I can tell, he doesn't actually make games

It's mostly reflective opinion, so it;s best to make use of it with that in mind

@Grenade123 True, but if you're interested in how stuff actually works, people in the industry are the best source

Ultimately I've never seen a team that really made the high-level stuff that players ultimately comment on _intentionally_

It's almost always a happy accident of focusing on keeping a few key details very polished

And often details nobody even really notices in the end--they only crop up during development and are polished away into imperceptibility

Sure, though I'm not sure that's a common enough experience to be a meaningful touchstone

I think he does a good job overall, but often misses things relevant to the practitioner

I'm also wary of the high-level approach because I've seen my share of disasters wrought by designers trying to build the vision without the building blocks, or not connectign them well

I think it best to take stuff like his as you would philosophies about art generally

Good to read wide, but never good to take as gospel

Yes, I think so