♱°·.·°GAEL:

videogame critic, university student, serious web design aficionado — "nothing human is alien to me" ♱

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

You know what to do. We'll see what happens but I'm considering moving to bsky so follow me there

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

https://t.co/CETqmqkgle

[Hilltop 🍉 @HilltopWorks]

Our English patch for Kowloon's Gate, the surrealist Asian-gothic cyberpunk PS1 adventure game arrives June 9th.

[Brianna Lei 🪽NEW GAME ON KICKSTARTER NOW!!! @brii_u]

HEY EVERYONE we're $2251 away from being able to make this! 🙇‍♀️

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

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.

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

@gunvalkyrie Pretty much. Ludologists hallucinated the conflict all on their own, cornering themselves into a narrow-minded framework for no good reason

[SurrealMediaFacts @SurreMediaFacts]

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".

[Happy Mantis Shrimp 🦐 @HappyMantShrimp]

It's easy to call AAA soulless, but are you brave enough to call most indies soulless as well?

[Vanse @vansianism]

They are calling it the most on the nose imperial boomerang in the history of imperial boomerangs ever

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“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

[glitch 🇵🇸 @glitchpoke]

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

[alaska r.c.h. @145k4]

new years thinking about

rothko - no.4, no.6, no.8 , 1964

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

What all of these arguments share in common is the defense of bad videogame writing as the only possible state of affairs. It's genuinely alienating

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

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.

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

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.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

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

[♱°·.·°GAEL: @UnderRealLife]

@Tomgradep chat is this true

[Belle @plainwhiteclaw]

i'm not going to a website where the hall monitors can apply a "rude" tag to your profile for calling a 79 year old senate candidate old