i've been working on a list of the fundamental archetypes of video-games. literature is primarily concerned with men causing drama, so all works of literature can concisely be boiled down to a man opposing something. video-games on the other hand are primarily concerned with our instinctual desires for interaction, so our archetypes are fundamentally different.
so far i've got:
1. make a little doll
2. make nest for doll
3. protect doll
4. fruit
5. climb
6. block puzzles
7. follow deer
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@sunumbral You’ve hooked me on this channel. I’m mesmerized by the outdoor wood fire cooking, y tambien me está ayudando a practicar mi español. 😊
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America's First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations - Slashdot
Grady Martin writes: Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, including its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan, and plans to build a $1.4 billion "gigafactory" in North Carolina.hardware.slashdot.org
College Sports Commission reveals it mistakenly overstated worth of approved NIL deals by $40M-plus
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Rift over Palestinian statehood deepens tension between U.S., France
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Trump administration sanctions Palestinian #humanRights groups
The State Department has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights organizations for supporting the ICC’s probe of US-Israeli atrocities.
#ICC #crimesAgainstHumanity #warCrimes #romeStatute #holocaust #holocaust2025 #shoah #genocide #imposedFamine #forcedMassMigration #erasure #ethnicCleansing #accountability #tribunal
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Trump administration sanctions Palestinian human rights groups
The State Department has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights organizations for supporting the ICC’s Israel probe.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
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Good grief. Japan effectively paid a half-trillion-dollar bribe to Trump for the privilege of punishing its own industries with vastly higher tariffs. Don't be fooled by misdirection re "lower" tariffs. They went up, a lot.
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Japan's $550bn US investment pledge subject to Trump's whims
President could raise tariffs if the investments are not to his satisfactionStaff Writer (Nikkei Asia)
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Make a con man US President and he'll rob the world.
Love this #solarpunk essay by @eruditelijah.bsky.social!
I keep saying #solarpunk is robust: people keep finding their way to it from all different paths. It's co-created. It's meta.
As Elijah says, even if you don't understand it, you still end up doing good.
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In response to misinformed criticism of solarpunk ⋆ BrightFlame
Some dismiss solarpunk as unrealistic, sappy, etc. Here's TechnoShaman and Black anarchist Elijah Claude’s excellent response.BrightFlame
This is an excellent breakdown of #Solarpunk and aligns with my understanding of the movement. I enjoyed the pushback on the common criticism that utopia can’t be punk.
This quote stood out to me:
“The entire idea of solarpunk is that hope itself can be punk. That in a world where you are constantly being ground down to depression and anxiety and nihilism and pessimism and apathy and doomerism… that actually believing that we can do better and then DOING that is punk af.”
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#DropSea: Il villaggio dei maiali
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Il villaggio dei maiali
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Serbische Polizei geht gegen Demonstranten vor
Seit zehn Monaten protestieren in Serbien fast täglich Menschen gegen die Regierung von Präsident Vucic. Nun kam es erneut zu Zusammenstößen mit der Polizei, die Tränengas und Schlagstöcke gegen die Demonstranten einsetzte.
Break up with Big Tech today 🚯🎵
Cancel your Spotify,
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Break out the hold
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Cause I listened to the
power that was hidden in my system.
Rise up,
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@catmisgivings Their new album is so good, but my favorite song from Bloodywood is still Dana Dan.
I highly recommend watching the music video (on Youtube) if you haven't seen it yet, and if this isn't too triggering for you: bloodywood.bandcamp.com/track/…
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Thank you Massachusetts for making sure it's available to all residents and that insurance has to pay for it!
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Non si ferma la solidarietà internazionale. A Bergamo, sabato 6 settembre la città tornerà in piazza con un corteo che chiede la fine del genocidio, la rottura delle complicità italiane con l’occupazione israeliana e rivoluzioneanarchica.it/bergam…
Bergamo: corteo per l’autodeterminazione del popolo palestinese, contro il genocidio e la complcitÀ italiana
Non si ferma la solidarietà internazionale. A Bergamo, sabato 6 settembre la città tornerà in piazza con un corteo che chiede la fine del genocidio, la rottura delle complicità italiane con l’occupazione israeliana e l’apartheid, e azioni concrete da…Radio Onda D'Urto (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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Trump Exempts Gold, Tungsten and Uranium From Global Tariffs
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Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad
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Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts: Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad
In all the kingdom of nature, does any creature threaten us less than the gentle rabbit?Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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in reply to aeva • • •Player vs. Game
Player vs. Controller
Player vs. Feels
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in reply to Longwing • • •Player vs. Game - Soulslikes
Player vs. Controller - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Player vs. Feels - Visual Novels. Narrative games. Etc.
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in reply to aeva • • •I mean the same can be said of literature. Not all fiction can be distilled to “Man vs. X” either. Cozy fiction breaks the mold unless we get liberal with what “vs.” really entails.
A cozy story where someone finally gets a soufflé right is still X vs. soufflé (environment).
Stardew Vally has you maintain a garden. Want a nice garden? Gotta do the steps. (Player vs. game).
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in reply to aeva • • •8. find a really nice stick
9. poke things with stick to see what happens
10. enhance stick
11. fire?!
12. FIRE!!!!!! D:
13. FIRE!!!!!! >:3
14. make soup
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in reply to aeva • • •oh, almost forgot an important one:
15. trains
EDIT: although, thinking on it further, trains are a subcategory of block puzzles, so maybe they don't need their own archetype
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in reply to aeva • • •oh! i got another important one:
16. dog!!!
Oblomov
in reply to aeva • • •honestly I think you should shift the whole list down and start with
1. hit thing with other thing
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in reply to aeva • • •As a counterpoint to the endless monomyth variations, I like Le Guin's "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror…
anyway,
15. gather things to help you gather more things
16. keep the ball going
17. just move, but that's hard
18. move things around to make path which breaks other path
19. pretend real life
20. na nananananana nana katamari damacy
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Fabian Giesen
in reply to Fabian Giesen • • •For why 20 is in its own distinct category, I bring this argument: KD is fairly unique among games in that there is basically just one mechanic and a completely flat ontology.
Other games have multiple mechanics, background and foreground, player characters and NPC, items and goals and what not
KD has a game world with an ontology that, at any given point in time, has just two categories
1. small enough to be part of katamari
2. will eventually be small enough to be part of katamari
Fabian Giesen
in reply to Fabian Giesen • • •I realize this may sound like I'm doing a bit, and I mean I _am_ enjoying this, but I can't overstate just how radical a notion that is
this game says: no, there is exactly one rule that governs interactions, and there are _no exceptions_
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in reply to Irenes (many) • • •elilla&: back to weebiness arc
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in reply to Fabian Giesen • • •@elilla there is a sequence, but in the end, all is ball.
compare and contrast say basketball or soccer or pong, where there's a playfield and players and rules and...
katamari damacy is "no playfield! no players! no rules! only ball"
Fabian Giesen
in reply to Fabian Giesen • • •@elilla There is a distinction here in that of course Katamari Damacy, the computer game you can put into a PS2, is of course a simulation of some virtual world, and that simulation implements rules (broadly: physics).
But they are not really part of the "game rules" of KD any more than say "if you kick the ball it'll fall down eventually" is a part of soccer rules. They are part of the world and the game is an emergent property of the way that world works.
Fabian Giesen
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in reply to Fabian Giesen • • •@elilla When you strip away scoring and timing etc., there's still something there that's inherently fun. Every interaction in that game that you can trigger at any given point is valid. You don't need fouls, lives, fancy rules, failure states, nothing. Some interactions get you closer to an end state and others don't, but that's really it.
There's a remarkable elegance to it.
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N+1. fish
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