@prettygood jfc does the guy spend the entire gambling site budget on a team of the most brilliant people on earth dedicated to adding bad shit to mastodon
gen X had plenty of the social problems when they were young (arguably even worse in some respects) but there was still some inner life connected to an objective reality
the old "depressed old slob mindlessly clicking the remote in front of the idiot box" stereotype is now *the norm* for the younger generations *without any obvious reference point to something better*
me: ๐ง = me jeering and pelting you from the peanut gallery with this huge bucket of those tiny little wrenches that come with some-consumer-assembly-required furniture and appliances that you never throw away but never remember to get them when you actually need a wrench
@clarity > (or at least your half your blade is in the way of "your" half of theirs once leverage is accounted for)
come to think of it, i don't think i've ever seen a game that did a "mostly successfuly parry" where you still take damage from the blade but it's barely a scratch because most of the power/cutting motion was mitigated by an imperfect deflection
@clarity@notplants this might, without exaggeration, be the single best use of that quote i've seen
like just the way it lines up with what miyazaki was responding to, but from another end of that great misshapen beast that shits out stories that drag us back *into* the iron prison of violence and forgetfulness of good instead of opening avenues of escape...
@clarity@notplants that said, i can totally see "wizard tech debt" as a premise for all sorts of monstrous messed-up adventure settings... like just an enormous dungeon/tower complex filled with indecipherable crap that barely works and every working has a dozen odd plot points pointing to some mistake someone made countless years ago tantalizingly hinting at some greater terrible whole...
@clarity if i didn't already follow you and already have a sense of where you're coming from i might not have realized this was sarcasm until the very last sentence ๐
they/them, PNW, not whiteassume my reply is a yes-and unless it's obviously notformerly apophis at mycrowd dot ca but not really planning to be as loud here as i was on that account