Sixfortyfive
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ATL retro game / FGC guy.
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Simply, an interactive medium needs to allow for experimentation, expression, and consequence. If your instinct as a designer is to reflexively sand off those edges then I'm not sure why you're making video games instead of movies.
friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Simply, an interactive medium needs to allow for experimentation, expression, and consequence. If your instinct as a designer is to reflexively sand off those edges then I'm not sure why you're making video games instead of movies.
One of my single biggest pet peeves in modern gaming discourse is seeing this act of exclusion framed as "accessibility."
If you're making a game for the players who absolutely need extremely high-frequency nagging barks from an NPC, you're kind of making a game for no one *but* those players
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
One of my single biggest pet peeves in modern gaming discourse is seeing this act of exclusion framed as "accessibility."
Sonic Origins has a bonus mode that removes all the rings and items from S3&K, and I figured I'd finally knock it off the bucket list because I'm a masochist who can no longer feel anything from this game unless I play it in the most painful way ever imagined.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - No Rings/Items Mode Longplay (Sonic Origins, Classic Mode)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Sonic Origins has a bonus mode that removes all the rings and items from S3&K, and I figured I'd finally knock it off the bucket list because I'm a masochist who can no longer feel anything from this game unless I play it in the most painful way ever imagined.
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kinda crazy to realize I practiced better op sec as a teenager yahoo searching for "big boobs" on the family desktop than rich people did while doing actual sex crimes
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
kinda crazy to realize I practiced better op sec as a teenager yahoo searching for "big boobs" on the family desktop than rich people did while doing actual sex crimes
The reason why the "30% cut!" quips against Valve (of which several replies to this post partake in) don't land with the general public is because consumers are not going to view it as a negative when that money is funneled back into products and services that are attractive to consumers.
I will say this for the Valve announcement: it is refreshing to see a product launch that is just "here's a product that you might want. here's what it is. here's what it does" with absolutely no mention of AI, mysterious future features that might arrive OTA, or some extractive business model.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The reason why the "30% cut!" quips against Valve (of which several replies to this post partake in) don't land with the general public is because consumers are not going to view it as a negative when that money is funneled back into products and services that are attractive to consumers.
Somebody once pointed out to me that Terminator 2 is shot in such a way that a blind viewer wouldn't actually know that Arnold is the good guy until he confronts the T-1000. In the work itself, this scene is treated like a twist.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
I feel like there's also this element of worshiping the creator's "intended experience" as if there's a truly meaningful element to when you see a trailer for something and it's not just decided by a marketing team
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Somebody once pointed out to me that Terminator 2 is shot in such a way that a blind viewer wouldn't actually know that Arnold is the good guy until he confronts the T-1000. In the work itself, this scene is treated like a twist.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.
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There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.
The average "games are art" person has traditionally put me off for the same reason the VGAs do: it comes across as an extremely hollow and insecure "please approve of my hobbies, dad" plea.
And their understanding of the "art" of game design almost never extends to mechanics/systems.
And their understanding of the "art" of game design almost never extends to mechanics/systems.
"are games art?" asinine question
"are games treated as art culturally?" not even a little bit, not even by the vast majority of people who care about proving that games are art
"are games treated as art culturally?" not even a little bit, not even by the vast majority of people who care about proving that games are art
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The average "games are art" person has traditionally put me off for the same reason the VGAs do: it comes across as an extremely hollow and insecure "please approve of my hobbies, dad" plea.
And their understanding of the "art" of game design almost never extends to mechanics/systems.
And their understanding of the "art" of game design almost never extends to mechanics/systems.
None of these losers are up for reelection next year. That's how you know that it's a coordinated party-wide effort and not just "a few bad apples." Not the first time this sort of thing has happened for a major, unpopular Senate vote recently either.
And they think you're too stupid to notice.
And they think you're too stupid to notice.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
None of these losers are up for reelection next year. That's how you know that it's a coordinated party-wide effort and not just "a few bad apples." Not the first time this sort of thing has happened for a major, unpopular Senate vote recently either.
And they think you're too stupid to notice.
And they think you're too stupid to notice.
Spent the past few days putting together a video that showcases a bunch of cut content from Segagaga (below) and also fleshed out its TCRF page: tcrf.net/Segagaga
Segagaga (セガガガ SGGG) - Unused/Hidden Content
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November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Spent the past few days putting together a video that showcases a bunch of cut content from Segagaga (below) and also fleshed out its TCRF page: tcrf.net/Segagaga
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peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going. www.wired.com/story/why-ar...
Why Are We All Still Carrying Around Car Keys?
Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.
www.wired.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.
For any Dreamcast owner from 20+ years who needs to hear this: don't click the "defragment" option in VMU Tool / Dream Explorer.
Pretty sure I just killed saves for Sonic Adventure and SouCalibur that I've had since 1999.
Oof.
Pretty sure I just killed saves for Sonic Adventure and SouCalibur that I've had since 1999.
Oof.
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For any Dreamcast owner from 20+ years who needs to hear this: don't click the "defragment" option in VMU Tool / Dream Explorer.
Pretty sure I just killed saves for Sonic Adventure and SouCalibur that I've had since 1999.
Oof.
Pretty sure I just killed saves for Sonic Adventure and SouCalibur that I've had since 1999.
Oof.
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You can set the date further into the future on a Sega Saturn than on Windows.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You can set the date further into the future on a Sega Saturn than on Windows.
Video game reviews that flat-out refuse to acknowledge, let alone understand, the material in question should be mocked just as much as movie reviews that do not understand symbolism or metaphor.
Wild opening paragraph, maybe you shouldn't be the one reviewing a Warriors game then
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Video game reviews that flat-out refuse to acknowledge, let alone understand, the material in question should be mocked just as much as movie reviews that do not understand symbolism or metaphor.
I honestly don't think there's a better way to demonstrate that the modern Democratic Party is an institution that believes in nothing.
Like, say whatever you want, but imo the democratic establishment’s comfortable embrace of Bush/Cheney administration figures is a far deeper betrayal of the country’s supposed virtue than three cycles of Trump being a clumsier, pettier version of said administration.
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I honestly don't think there's a better way to demonstrate that the modern Democratic Party is an institution that believes in nothing.
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
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Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article.
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article.
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
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it is very funny how much new graphics card tech has become "the card kind of guesses what resolution you should be running things at and, if you want, will invent some frames for you"
every time i go "no thank you i want to decide the game's resolution myself thanks" i feel disconnected from time
every time i go "no thank you i want to decide the game's resolution myself thanks" i feel disconnected from time
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it is very funny how much new graphics card tech has become "the card kind of guesses what resolution you should be running things at and, if you want, will invent some frames for you"
every time i go "no thank you i want to decide the game's resolution myself thanks" i feel disconnected from time
every time i go "no thank you i want to decide the game's resolution myself thanks" i feel disconnected from time
Much like "it's only cheating if you get caught," laws aren't actually real if nobody bothers to enforce them.
Hoping that the nominally left-leaning party in this country comes to grips with the fact that institutionalists are of no use in the face of corrupt institutions.
Hoping that the nominally left-leaning party in this country comes to grips with the fact that institutionalists are of no use in the face of corrupt institutions.
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Much like "it's only cheating if you get caught," laws aren't actually real if nobody bothers to enforce them.
Hoping that the nominally left-leaning party in this country comes to grips with the fact that institutionalists are of no use in the face of corrupt institutions.
Hoping that the nominally left-leaning party in this country comes to grips with the fact that institutionalists are of no use in the face of corrupt institutions.
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This feels like the expression of a culture content to see videogames exist as a curio preserved in a museum and not a living art form to be engaged with
The worst part is that certain sites will rank this an 8/10 when there's emulation issues, the input delay is a thing, and the online is so basic to the point that it's just
GO ONLINE
FIGHT A GUY
JUST FIGHT SOMEONE
NO RANKED, CASUAL, OR LOBBIES OR ANYTHING
FIGHT A SHAOLIN MONK FROM ECUADOR
GO ONLINE
FIGHT A GUY
JUST FIGHT SOMEONE
NO RANKED, CASUAL, OR LOBBIES OR ANYTHING
FIGHT A SHAOLIN MONK FROM ECUADOR
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This feels like the expression of a culture content to see videogames exist as a curio preserved in a museum and not a living art form to be engaged with
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Digital Eclipse is a really funny dev because people into gaming history and behind-the-scenes looks and stuff see them as this excellent studio doing incredible work and then anybody who plays fighting games is like "UUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH" whenever they hear their name
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Digital Eclipse is a really funny dev because people into gaming history and behind-the-scenes looks and stuff see them as this excellent studio doing incredible work and then anybody who plays fighting games is like "UUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH" whenever they hear their name
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The strength of Platner's fundraising and his polling even after all this came out should speak to the electoral potential of attacking billionaires and advocating for strong social programs.
an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"
an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The strength of Platner's fundraising and his polling even after all this came out should speak to the electoral potential of attacking billionaires and advocating for strong social programs.
an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"
an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"
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Trying not to be dulled to the horror of this headline
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Trying not to be dulled to the horror of this headline