@allison agree. i just love weird esoteric shit in video games, when you see something that isn't part of the canned game experience and wonder why it's there and your immersion kinda halfway breaks. it's so cool
Embed this noticeerin (erin@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 03:29:32 JST
erinI disagree with the normie take that most of the content in games should be the stuff everyone will see. I think there should be vast libraries in optional or even secret areas. I think there should be fucked up minigames, in-universe casinos, etc that get expanded upon somehow. I think there should be huge dialogue trees or banks like DDLC's Act 3.
Is this how you make a "good" game? No. Any dev will tell you that to receive critical acclaim you gotta focus on your core gameplay loop. This stuff isn't how you draw people in, but it's what makes them pause for a second months later and be like "damn, that game was so fucking cool". That's how you get your long term fans. That's how you change people's lives. That's my theory, anyway.
@0utside0utsider oh yeah i didn't intend this as a specific subpost (especially cause i know you get up to a whole bunch of stuff) but i have just seen this sentiment repeated several times while i've been here and have always meant to say something like that
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Embed this noticeerin (erin@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 12:57:48 JST
erinThere's no way out for me. The only thing left for me to do is get on the SNL board of writers and write a skit about some guy whose balls really itch and drag it out like six or seven minutes where there's like this implicit layer of misogyny in a female character saying something obviously unhelpful and the guy responding like "sharon, my BALLS FUCKING ITCH" to a laugh track replicated in the homes of millions of viewers. It needs to follow the classic beginning - conflict - resolution arc that serves to make it predictable for We$$tern audiences. There needs to be some apparent message about supporting male vulnerability or whatever even as the skit itself does the exact opposite. You see now? This is a dance of death more high-level than anything I have ever done.
Anarchists on the internet: This is so transgressive and deranged lmao. I love this. I'm framing it on my wall.
Conservative commentator watching me satirize anarchists: The online Left is, eating itself. (Realizing he finds this kinda hot) Uh, excuse me. TruthCast will be back shortly after these messages from our sponsors