Conundrum. What to call it, Applebops or Joyless Garbage Food?

They did use to wear salmon as a hat. Orcas are built different.

This is the DC equivalent of saying “…in Minecraft”

If their takeaway from this decade’s comedy of errors is to make more Metroid, I’d say let them cook. Dread was a little too easy (a scrub like me could beat it) but they could do worse than keep fine tuning that recipe.

They do!

In… Other countries?

“Solidarity forever” applies across gender lines as well as race and other sources of disparity. I wish this could have been made more apparent to our young men, social media has them in its clutches unfortunately. Billionaires did that.

I think your parents are trying to teach you

If this man can survive and move on, we’re all gonna make it. What a rush

We must be the good kind of awkward. My kid got an unreasonable amount of candy knocking on doors.

I honestly don’t think so, bestie. Monkey’s not gonna press the keys randomly at all. Somewhere in the recesses of his monkey neurons he’ll have made implicit connections between letters and letter combinations. This is the infinite typewriter monkey, not some two-bit organ grinder’s bitch. This monkey has been places, probably been through hell getting to this position in life. Seen wars, been across the globe, and now he’s the star of a famous thought experiment. He loves lowercase t because he’s a devout Christian after having been rescued by that missionary, and being a monkey he doesn’t quite grasp the distinction. Wanna see what he wrote? tttt hhdfyb my ik t tkkoptt aa aaaa Bernardo : Who’s there? tt ttt eeertyuhjk t

You call that random?

I don’t think it works honestly. You’d need a monkey with a lasting and dutiful commitment to true randomness to ever get anything but a finite number of button mashing variations. Monkeys like that don’t come cheaply.

I don’t play fortnite and I tend to like experimental media. The article has once reviewer calling the map “more thoughtful than expected”, and I’m also getting the sense that no-gun maps aren’t anything new.

I still think it’s not as weird and terrible as the click-hungry legacy media has been inviting us to find it. It’s a genuine seeming effort to reach younger people less likely to vote or read about policy ideas. It’s just a shame it didn’t catch on much.

It is however a natural consequence of the fact that cars are fucked

I am certain it does not. Bad judgement is more universal to humans than the age recommendation on a LEGO box.

If they’re not too busy being an upstart deity, they have my vote

Oo, topical and feisty. No I remember being a twentysomething, say it louder for the cheap seats etc

Every carefully crafted game has a deliberately narrowed scope in service of a vision. The saving grace of such deliberate textual framing is that when it’s done well you might notice it, but it gives you a shared point of reference with others in conversation. Instead of e.g. discussing racism in abstract, we can talk about how Measurehead, despite being everything his worldview espouses, is still ultimately a tiresome pawn.

I totally cede the point about framing, but not the one about DE being effective propaganda. To me it reads more like the author had a lot of complex feelings about communism’s promise and its shortcomings.

There it is, the mildest tech take on the fediverse

It’s certainly novel, but there aren’t many voters who will object to being reached out to on their own terms. The election will be the one to decide whether it’s stupid or not. It’d be far from the weirdest aspect of American culture, at any rate.

Games do feel like an oddity as political outreach, but the more I think about the idea the more I think it has capabilities (as Lancelot Brown might have put it). With legacy media like papers, books, art, film, recorded music and all, you are a passive consumer of the media. With video games as art, you are an active participant and your choices define your experience with the work. Games like Planescape: Torment, Tyranny, and Disco Elysium are great examples where you’re expected to engage with political or moral ideas as a participant. You aren’t being treated as a receiver of propaganda per se, but as someone who can develop understanding and agency in the context of certain ideas, which seems like an improvement over propaganda in legacy media, don’t you think?