It's wild to me how many people seem to sincerely think that marketing and publicity are neutral, organic forces while criticism is some inorganic evil distorting our tastes.
@gunvalkyrie Pretty much. Ludologists hallucinated the conflict all on their own, cornering themselves into a narrow-minded framework for no good reason
In a Spanish 1987 game called "The Abbey of Crime" there are some sections where you need to attend a chant, it will play Schubert's "Ave Maria", but if the game is a pirated version, instead of Ave Maria playing it will play an on-loop audio of someone saying "pirata".
“Ideas come to us as the substitutes for griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure our heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy.”
— Proust, Time Regained
really tired of hearing all of this 'dying empire' stuff, pure wishful thinking that ultimately really just seems to mean that no one has to do anything to stop these crimes bc it's just symptomatic of some hidden crisis of hegemony. meanwhile the reich gets everything it wants
The whole discussion around good videogame writing:
a) "We actually have it in spades, as demonstrated by mass appeal at worst and vulgar narratology at best."
If you genuinely believe this, there is no hope for you.
c) "Videogames are uniquely disqualified from having good writing forever."
An incomprehensible position strictly driven by resentment—mind you, not of the aesthetic kind, as many gamers would love to believe, but of the "we lost the war on people's attention" kind.
this conversation has been driving me crazy because “porn addiction” isn’t recognized by psychology as a real condition, while porn CAN be addictive as a manifestation of other compulsions. what everyone is talking about is chauvenism and objectification, not porn addiction