Poria

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Poria @djpor2000]

@wdieljpg The continuation is hitting new lows with each episode and it boggles my mind how people still have faith in it or use the flimsy excuse of "they just want to depict what Miura told them" after several episodes of shit happening that goes directly against facts Miura established

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

"In Vietnam, I didn't want the US to win. I don't want the US to win in Iran. I'm not America First, I'm Justice First. If it were switched and the Palestinians were doing to the Israelis what the Israelis are doing to them, I'm not pro-Palestinian". —Professor Norman Finkelstein

[Poria @djpor2000]

@Icy_Shack27 @imagesaicouldnt zilgzong

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

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[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1985 Soviet New Wave.

[Poria @djpor2000]

@maarfeg @jackiesturka Yeah right, they have all the brains to write the greatest literature in the world but what's the point when every idea has already been shared? There's no one to write for, there's no point in writing anything.

[Smug | edtwt @Smug_Shark]

For some reason this has impacted me deeply

[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.

[Poria @djpor2000]

@laceydrakenier @Alison_is_lost Hm, true. I still haven't finished the game because it plays so ASS but I am addicted to the story so I'll finish it eventually.

[Poria @djpor2000]

@laceydrakenier @Alison_is_lost Yeah I just didn't get why it would count as punishment

[Poria @djpor2000]

@laceydrakenier @Alison_is_lost Aren't you supposed to mow down thousands of enemies to get to the final ending of Drakengard?

[乾燥機 @nan3s8m]

#今年も残りわずかなので今年一番伸びた絵を貼る

[Rocky @viperwave]

We really did underestimate how much people want Persona But For 30 Year Olds.

[Poria @djpor2000]

@Chaoxfhy @thysss50227967 @Alison_is_lost It's not *just* computational costs, really high res hair textures can look pretty shite in 3D graphics in general and the dithering *kinda* tries to make it better but imo it makes it shite in its own unique way rather than improving, unless masked by TAA.

[Poria @djpor2000]

@thysss50227967 @Alison_is_lost I've played this game in 1440p on high settings and the hair still looks like shit. A lot of modern games have this kind of hair graphics.

[Poria @djpor2000]

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