it’s also dodonpachi DoJ, blue revolver, zero ranger and now most recently birdcage

reading more general science books for the purposes of my MA thesis has me painfully aware of my own blind spots but can we stop pretending that the total lack of actually-giving-a-shit about *games* — on any level other than abstract theoretical posturing — is not An Issue in academia

1000% real

this literally happened last night when i talked two students through metroid prime remastered and a bunch of other metroidvanias you wouldn’t think would be a struggle LOL

people always think i’m exaggerating but game design students are literally “i know the five games i like and that’s it”

fire

you can look at pundits in every area of the field, even academia, & feel there’s no real appreciation for mechanical design. not trying to sound condescending but when most of your students don’t know what “press R1/the right bumper” means, i think it’s worth pushing them out of their comfort zone

jesus christ, i assume that was in the UK right? i took a semester of film classes in washington last year and while the study fees were insane compared to what i’m used to in germany, at least we had a pretty strong line-up for in-class viewing and rich discussions after

LOL

tbf it’s very unlikely they’ll get away with this before court, at minimum i expect everyone to be reinstated and paid damages for the many months they’ll have to survive without income. the union already had enough motion to be state-recognized and to make the firings blatantly illegal.

the former

we were in the FEXL VC earlier and collectively struggling to parse this

will have to dig into this

i’m looking at this latest new patch reduces combat encounters & lets you skip more sections on NG+… i’m baffled that on the one hand this game puts SO much emphasis on combat THIS poor while also treating its gameplay in general as a skippable formality on your way to download more plot exposition

it will already struggle to match PS5 and series x (five year old consoles btw) with *current* games, saying you can just turn down some settings is hopelessly optimistic

the other day jiikae was posting about how wild it is how valve heads seem to completely gloss over this sorta stuff, to the point where the lack of extremely basic conveniences like that is somehow not part of the general conversation around their products

when i had a steam deck, the gap in overall polish between it and the switch was honestly massive

they only JUST added the ability to download software with the screen off (which notably is still not a proper sleep mode, which by the way also is not very battery-efficient either LOL)