They want all of reality to be as sterilized as their imagination. ....and it's cheap

Can confirm. When you put them on they change the way you see the world. The steam becomes a path.

Accessible and pleasing system design is part of my work, games are interactive systems with highly constrained rules. They make really good thought experiments for making other types of interactive systems better. I LOVE trying to figure out why they do or do not work for people.

The leveling changes bothered me. In Oblivion you learn the skills you use. There is a limit to how much you can learn... Based on just this little bit - the first (and maybe second) "Gothic" game might be worth looking at. Little jankie, little old, but has the story and visual distinctiveness.

This is something I think about a lot. It's like going to the optometrist. "better... Or worse... Better... Or worse." The Oblivion - but not Skyrim is really interesting. Did you like the leveling system in Oblivion?

That was written by a man with a deep fear of inadequacy. He lives with the terror that an experienced partner will recognize how pathetic he is. He doesn't realize this, so, In an attempt to sooth himself he announces it to the world.

Cool! The Chicago river has a crazy history. Being reversed because we polluted it so badly and all that. Last year some chicagoriver.org people told me me that the city still has combined sanitary and storm sewers. So apparently when there is heavy rain it receives overflow raw sewage.

I am a standard cis white man in appearance. My house used to be owned by a republican. Thursday a door knocker came to my house to ask if I was going to vote for their local candidate. I told her I didn't know - because my wife makes all those decisions.

Screaming dude with megaphone is really the perfect image to have here. Some vigilante in my area writes "mute" on them with a permanent marker.

No reason to be sorry, it worked out. I remember how crazy it made me feel. Now I worry about other people whenever gaslight comes up. Everyone in your life can be telling you to run. Even professionals... And you still wont. Be careful out there.