The picture that shows up with that article makes it look like Alex has a little Keanu growing out of his shoulder, and *that* would make for a different interpretation of Godot... RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4346g…
Phillip Inman: Rising #inequality is turning #US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns. Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald #tRump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the #economy
"I think that what is happening now politically and socially is analogous to what happened around the world in the 1930-40 period."
OpenMedia and 60+ experts have called on Prime Minister Carney to act now to protect Canada’s digital sovereignty and stop Big Tech from tightening its grip.
1. Got a flu shot and the new Covid vaccine today 💪
2. Tried a new boba tea place that is just around the corner. I had a mix of regular chewy boba pearls and some mango popping bubbles which were strangely satisfying. 🫧
3. It's the first Friday in a long time where I don’t have a big work project hanging over my head. Happy Weekend, everyone!
G20 - #Krasnov l'organise dans une de ses propriétés privées
Un facho ça ose tout. C'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît :
"Donald Trump a aussi dit qu'il "aimerait" que le président russe Vladimir Poutine et le président chinois Xi Jinping participent à ce rassemblement l'an prochain."
Les américains se sont choisi pour 5 ans comme président un vieux psychopathe pédophile narcissique et sadique, complotiste quand ça le sert et cupide "à l'américaine". Le monde entier part à la dérive sur ses délires narcissiques et paranoïaques de sa dystopie et nous ne sommes qu'à peine un peu plus de 7 mois après son investiture.
La fin de l'humanité va être cauchemardesque et il y sera pour pas mal.
Donald Trump organisera le sommet des dirigeants du G20 en 2026 dans un complexe de golf que possède sa famille, malgré de possibles conflits d'intérêts.
> Teresa Youngblut, 21, pleaded not guilty on Friday to new charges, including murder, related to the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont earlier this year. If convicted, Youngblut could be sentenced to death.
Completed in 2024 in Tainan, Taiwan. Images by Yuchen Chao Photography. Solar Locus is the corporate headquarters of a solar energy company in Taiwan. Taking light as its point of departure, the project seeks a return to...
This is unacceptable. No person should be without a warm, dry, secure home. Especially in a country perfectly capable of building luxury homes for rich people's cars.
But when people working full-time are homeless, it's undeniable that NZ capitalism has reached USSR-in-1990 levels of broken.
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‘And now, with the Search deal intact, this makes all the sense in the world. Apple is viewing this updated Siri project as the future of search on their devices. Why not stick with the partner you’ve had since the iPhone was born? The one you can trust not to crash.’
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.
Read lots of weird text that makes you wonder (about the human condition if you're a teenager, about what the game writers were going through if you're much older than that)?
Player vs. Player is self explanatory. Player vs. Game - Soulslikes Player vs. Controller - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Player vs. Feels - Visual Novels. Narrative games. Etc.
@Longwing this framework doesn't explain why anything is fun though, but also there's a lot that can't be described with this framework because many forms of satisfying interaction in games are not fundamentally adversarial
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).
@oblomov the secret here is this list is really just rattling off "what does primate like to do" chimpanzees were the inspiration for the first few items theguardian.com/science/2010/d…
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
@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.
@elilla Likewise, you can go for min time etc., but I really think KD is sort of unique in that it's essentially purely a kind of physics sandbox where even ignoring all those external motivators (score, going for min time, etc.) there is a compelling gameplay loop there that, viewed from within the world it builds, has no rules, goals, etc. whatsoever.
@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.
"A game of strategy is not idle amusement. Instead, we cultivate foresight, circumspection, and learn caution. Let us build a nation together so that we may know how nations are built.
@megatronicthronbanks the magnificence of this is you can always just add another category. after all, if a game shows you something totally new, it's worthwhile to examine and write down what it did different
@dan613 sure. fruit can be many things and often is literally fruit, but conceptually fruit is a usually-colorful, usually-convex-ish object that is satisfying to interact with and often confers some kind of temporary benefit to the player. this is a diverse category with lots of interesting and varied examples, but here is one narrow example of fruit based gameplay that i understand is one of the more popular ones: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
@dan613 sometimes fruit is one of many interactive elements in the game (such as in the classic fps DOOM), and sometimes the game itself takes on the transcendent function of fruit (such as the game Rez)
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