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Tuxedo Catfish

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evaluated? buddy they keep me in a temperature-controlled vault so they can measure all autism accurately against mine

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · Jan 1

this was my old pinned post on Twitter, Fran Lebowitz is one of the best to ever do it, just the clearest and most powerful articulation of my beliefs about the arts and their relationship with criticism i've ever seen from another person

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XV...

On Ballet: Fran Lebowitz and Nick Mauss | Live from the Whitney

YouTube video by Whitney Museum of American Art

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 15m

small brain: pussy galore
big brain: alotta fagina
kojima brain: WHITE BEAVER

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 28m

law has the highest concentration of people who think they know everything, all other disciplines are child's play, and no other form of expertise is necessary outside of computer science

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 38m

last common ancestor i guess lol

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 42m

is it a good sign when you sue someone for defamation over a song and the judge is like "damn this is a banger"

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 59m

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1h

When you think of it, artificial intelligence is corporatist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Shaqist movement should seek to abolish it.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

i take no pleasure in saying so but you could probably save the united states as a liberal institution, even now. you'd just have to do shit that would make these fuckers whine and shit their pants (as they continue to live comfortable lives) and nobody in power is willing to even try.

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

like our entire society is being managed by people who hate every tactical decision the state has ever made to preserve itself or expand its long-term power is a personal assault on their ego. it's incredible how fucking stupid and short-sighted they are.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

i wouldn't completely rule out a slow decline but there's definitely an arc of like

- new deal
- unprecedented middle class prosperity
- social progress
- elites hate this
- elites capture government
- dismantle regulations
- everything sucks
- no new new deal b/c that's the whole point
- cool zone

Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 1h

In all seriousness, what's coming is... Possibly going to be Regime Change levels bad. Great Depression levels "miles of soup lines" bad. A kind of bad that likely very few people born in this country have experienced. Hold on to your butts while they still have meat on them.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

but the pressure to do that has more to do with the pendulum swings between "the market favors niche games for extremely reliable, enthusiastic audiences for X who will buy anything with X" and "the market favors four-quadrant slop that never commits to anything" than with the actual game mechanic

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

i don't like metaprog at all, i think it's basically a way for cowards to design a game of skill and a game of persistence at the same time, do a bad job of both, and sell it to more people than the audience that only likes one of those things.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

metaprogression isn't a new concept either, it's just a popular combination of two very old concepts: the heritage of run-based games goes RIGHT back to arcades, where games couldn't last longer than one sitting, plus the usual RPG mechanic of virtual skill / stats as a substitute for PLAYER skill

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

the entire history of videogames is the history of the struggle between addictive loops and communicating meaning, but is a HISTORY, the details change

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

i think people are maybe talking past each other a little bit. it's both true that marketing psychology and "engagement"-based design has gotten a LOT more sophisticated while also being true that the entire medium started with the question of "how do we separate people from their quarters"

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

especially compared to bruce fucking springsteen lol

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 1h

i don't even LIKE country music and even i know that Johnny Cash is basically the coolest human being who's ever lived, come on

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2h

wtaf are you talking about

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta meet a client but I'll pick this up again shortly.

Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

The Rot is also associated with *rebirth*, with new life springing from death, which is anathema to Marika's Golden Order because she's banished Death from existence. But there's at least one current culture that loves that stuff, the Ancestral Followers.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

It even accounts for Astel not currently being a carrier of the Rot today, because that's normal -- the Scarlet Rot has been suppressed for millennia, the Pests no longer carry it except when they're right next to the source, the insects are *just* a medium, not the essence of the thing itself.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

I don't have a slam dunk citation to prove it, but I think the Scarlet Rot arrived in the Lands Between with Astel. It would fit with the notion of the Rot being carried by insects, it's basically the same origin story as Dragonrot in Sekiro, and it explains why the Nox know how to suppress it.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

Calling the Rot worshipers "heretics" also suggests that they were going against the Greater Will. So we can place the temple and everything that goes with it somewhere post-Metyr's crippling but before Marika comes to power, certainly pre-Erdtree.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

So long before Malenia, Marika, or Romina encountered it, there was Scarlet Rot in the Lands Between, and it was known to and suppressed by the Eternal Cities. The punishment that sent the Eternal Cities underground was for going against the Greater Will, but the stuff with Astel happened later.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

There are also dead remnants of Nokstellan culture within the Lake of Rot itself, particularly the Dragonkin Soldier who rises from its depths.

"The Dragonkin were born in the Eternal City, where they knew no true sky, nor true lightning. Instead, ice lightning was their weapon."

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

Nokstella is built on an underground river, and the river's flowing water leads to the Lake of Rot. The Lake is probably a (relatively) recent development -- the giant ants in the river have been piling up corpses to block the flow of water, while Nokstella is full of aqueducts.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

Why would the Eternal Cities be intimately familiar with the spiritual practices necessary to suppress Rot?

Well, probably because (given the location of her temple) the ancient, original Rot Goddess was Nokstella's neighbor, and her worshipers considered "heretics."

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

The Flowing Curved Sword, Blue Dancer Charm, Blue Cloth Set, and Nox Curved Sword are the important item descriptions here. Malenia was taught to control her Scarlet Rot by her mentor, the blind swordsman or one of his descendants or successors. The "flowing sword" is a relic of the Eternal Cities.

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