This What

[This What @EstoqueMas14]

Yo queria haber ido a la mani hoy

[reyna cervantes @Jfcdoomblade]

“You’re gonna punch me?”
“Yeah”
“Then you’re gonna in trouble for that”
“Okay”

Followed by this frame is one of the hardest things I’ve seen on the internet this week.

[jaMEs ꩜ @lakeaphrodites]

gay person: im gay
society: okay
that one lesbian friend you try to ignore: you need to read the locked tomb by tamsyn muir

[i @navgesimus]

naomistares my life is yours

[MsLee🌷 (miyazaki’s LEGIT chosen prophet) @All_Lee24]

This stupid discord message does psychic damage to me whenever situations like this happen

[rynjamin @oliveflesh]

#griddlehark #tlt

[dani @sollitaire_]

no this is how you lose the time war

[CSAURAGEUL @csaurageul]

Video games will never be taken seriously as an art form because neither the industry nor the audience treats them as art, and the audience is the larger part of the problem. Games are treated as products to be made fast, sold loud, consumed, discarded, and replaced. That is why Call of Duty and FIFA sell in the billions, not because they endure, but because they are disposable and familiar.

This has nothing to do with graphical fidelity, art style, music, voice acting, or budget, even though players insist otherwise. For most people, “artistic merit” means how flashy, pretty, and expensive a game looks. Spectacle is mistaken for depth, and production value is confused with meaning.

Games are not built to be evergreen because the audience does not want evergreen. The people who revisit old titles, engage deeply with systems, or approach games patiently are a minority. Most want the new release, the hype cycle, and the spectacle, then move on as soon as something shinier appears. This is the same reason Avatar makes a billion dollars per film yet leaves almost no cultural footprint. Audiences want stimulation for a few hours, then the exit.

Art requires patience and trust, and games demand both. They ask players to learn systems, accept friction, and think. The audience rejects this. Anything slow, strange, or uncomfortable is dismissed as boring or pretentious, so risk is punished not just by publishers, but by players themselves.

Because of this, metrics replace meaning. Engagement time, retention, and monetisation become the measure of success, because that is what the audience rewards. Art asks what something is saying. Products ask how long you stayed logged in. Games suffer most here because their greatest strength, player agency, is treated as an inconvenience rather than an opportunity.

Legacy is impossible without permission to fail, and the audience does not allow failure. A bad novel does not kill literature. A bad film does not kill cinema. A bad game can kill a studio, because players demand perfection, constant novelty, and infinite support while rejecting experimentation.

So the ceiling stays low by choice. Not because games cannot be art, but because an audience trained on disposability, spectacle, and instant gratification will not tolerate sincerity, patience, or risk. What survives is not what lasts, but what sells loudly and disappears quietly.

[This What @EstoqueMas14]

@alvaroplrty Tú como tenga que pagar 30 euros el abono joven me puedo morir

[Yelenhol ☘️COMMISSIONS OPEN🍀 @Yelenhulyahel]

Clair Obscur

[nari @reksqvzi]

PEENISS IS BACKK PEENISS IS BACK PEENISS IS BACK PEENISS IS BACK

[Libby, FORMER strongest preygirl @Luver_26]

If you give a trans girl an outfit, she’ll dress for a day. If you teach a trans girl to thrift, she’ll run out of money extremely quickly

[friday | harrow marrow soup | @TelekineticBlue]

trans person: i'm trans

society: okay

your gay friend you try to ignore: you should read the locked tomb by tamsyn muir

[Aki🏳️‍⚧️ @aki_st4rz3]

might as well post this again :3

[Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Presidenta cuqui fake ⚪ @Idiazaquso]

Gran Vía ahora mismo.

Esto nos ha traído @sanchezcastejon

[inhuman resources @inhumandept_vp]

Had a call with a strong engineering candidate today

He was two minutes late and looked apologetic.

“I’m so sorry for being late!”

I said, “That’s okay. Everything alright?”

He replied, “Yeah, I was just helping my girlfriend with some errands.”

I paused.

“You… have a girlfriend?”

He nodded. “Yeah, we’ve been together for three years.”

I sighed.

Red flag.

“I’m sorry. I don’t think this will be a good fit. Wish you all the best.”

I ended the call immediately.

If your software engineer can talk to women, that's not a good sign.

The best male engineers can barely make eye contact with one.

If your male engineer is in a relationship (or God forbid, married), he’s at best a B-player

Always hire A-players

[Cugu00 - Wishlist my game!!! @Cugu00]

My #Cyberpunk2077 experience.