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OmniaAAAAAAAAA A G-G-G-GHOstia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 11h

I mean you just wrote a Smiths lyric so I don't know what to tell you.

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, alright. I'm not foolish enough to cross Julia Roberts

WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 12h

But I never liked them anyway. Is it mandatory now?

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 12h

Obviously, Streets of Fortuna looms largely in my future. How could I not be looking forward to THAT one...

WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 13h

You posted this an hour ago, so I hope you got sufficient responses ;)

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 13h

I was born the year before Tolkien died. That's still slightly bizarre to me, that the man was drawing air at the same time as me

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 13h

I studied hard for that test

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair, while I can't say I /wouldn't/ loved to have seen the Beatles' version of Lord of the Rings, also starring them, and directed by Kubrick - It's probably also a good thing it didn't happen.

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 13h

The man certainly had many opinions, and didn't hesitate to send letters about them

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 14h

I'm just not that interested in linear narratives in games. Oh, it tells a story? What do I do when it's finished telling it?

I like games with endless stories. I like games that tell a different story every time you play. I like games that make you divine the story from the seething mass of ASCII.

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 16h

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 14h

JRR Tolkien had a low opinion of the Beatles. That doesn't sound right at all

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WereWolfechu 🐈‍⬛👻🐈 @wolfechu.bsky.social · 16h

All I want from games - colony sims, roguelikes, whatever - is for the game to be able to surprise me, even after extended play.

I want systems so complex, even the developer doesn't anticipate everything possible in the game.

See also: Dwarf Fortress

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