OHHHH. i understand.

really spent a good while trying to tell if this was a limbus company joke. fuck my life

well-- i always figured it was "photon readings negative" not as in "negative on any photons" but as in "there is a negative amount of photons", it being somehow darker than just dark, but the rest of it is just him being a bit of a loser yeah.

love seeing you fuck with a post so much you make it in a slightly different way on bluesky a little while after making it on tumblr

Just Be Precise is fucking *boring.* there's no skill expression for it, and one game can't do "be precise" from another. but something like movement? look at the differences between the two TF2s, titanfall's movement system and team fortress' rocket jumping are still looked back on fondly

i feel like where a lot of other genres have, FPSes just haven't gotten any popular attempts at really shaking up the core principles of the genre- it'd be so much fun to have something that focuses more on movement and map knowledge than on landing hits, or on some kind of Other skill expression-

no this is so fucking true actually. i haven't thought about this from a disability perspective and it's actually very interesting to hear that side of it, but it also just generally sucks for Being Fun that every single fps these days is funneling into hypercompetitive Who's Played More Aimlabs

that one was a joke but this is also true: combine units assign operating names to themselves and declare/report their actual attack tactics and approaches and general battlefield state dynamically on their radio

this is a subtle nod to the fact that the combine regime takes inspiration for how to run a brutal authoritarian police state from pre-war california

the combine overwatch and civil protection units actually communicate with eachother in real california police code, and during the start of half life 2, you can even hear the overwatch talking about a miscount in your sector- their systems pick up on gordon being out of place immediately