"cancelled for our views on biological sex" is a code phrase that means "given extreme lenience for actual crimes while continuing to be treated as relevant experts despite our demonstrable lack of competence"

It's so, so weird to me when my friends are like "how do I find people". Bro it's social media! Finding people is all you do! Look up stuff you like, browse the tags, open some people's profiles. Fuck, look at the list of people who liked or reposted something. You know what you like!!!

TL;DR, design as product engineering and design as artistic analysis have been conflated for video games from the start, and almost all written, formal game design theory is really the former, which is why game designers interested in artistic expression all hate it

You ever try playing it with a different device, Dan? Keyboard feel any better?

Impressive. Very nice. Now jump rope 1000 times

ppl really do believe this, except they think the humours are dopamine serotonin endorphins and oxytocin

I think what is true is that like, a lot of gamers that 10-15 years ago would have had Irate Gamer brain and called things "dogshit" now have Video Essayist brain and call things "bad design"

Dorothy from Yu-Gi-Oh GX

I think it's immensely cool that from Final Fantasy I to II the guys at Square decided to make a world that is entirely walkable but also if you walk just a *little* too far you're going to fucking die. FFII is so awesome I love it so much

Anyways... The other thing is people tending to portray the """problem""" that open world games have of some areas being too hard or too easy depending on when you get there and... Dude .. THAT'S THE POINT. That's a feature, girl. That was YOUR journey and you remember it because of that