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Folks who read everything in a hostile manner are fucking stupid

You basically just said "hey, if you think about it, the way that we do this is kinda weird, isn't it? I wonder if there's a less awkward way we can solve this problem".

I just read the damn thing.

I've seen like 200 people insisting you said every video game except yours sucks.

Man what.

This is a relaxed and curious exploration of the way that interaction layers can abstract the player from the narrative by mechanizing conversation as dry index menuing.

However I'm going to go ahead and pick a fight with a bunch of other stuff that I imagined you said instead, for reasons unclear.

Basically, Phil, Kevin, and I, created a space to take all our nerd shit and obsessions (I have art and film degrees, Kevin and Phil are also in film, Phil also has a lit degree) and we've created a world that is so fuckin' weird and cool.. It's not like anything else. I can't wait to show it.

Oh I agree
But also Bloodborne is amazing dark comedy mixed in with the horror.
The entire concept of "Insight" leading to EYBALLS LITERALLY GROWING INSIDE YOU is funny

in a game *outside of the TTRPG context*

Insanity meters in games was good in its two original incarnations
Eternal Darkness which is meant to be funny and add chaos to the game
and Dark Corners of the earth because it was the first time trying to do that in a game

Most of what we think of Cyberpunk comes from Book Covers and TTRPGs. The biggest books of the era (and I hold to the belief of the cyberpunk writers that the genre is dead, we are in post Post POST cyberpunk now imo) are very much not THAT in its literary content

But when people start just... say... turning what is a deliberate attempt to make paint by numbers guide for you to freestyle on as the be all end all of a genre, it starts damaging that genre because the the creative thread of history has been supplanted by the template

This is not to invalidate TTRPGs but to say that a lot of modern cliches come from them.
Attempts to make lore concrete & everything understandable & trackable sands the edges off everything.
They are generic versions of what the original creators did. Its designed to be generic for you to fill in

why did I type outside lmao